NBC dropped not one but two shows yesterday, but we can't help but think that the attention the cancellations got was bigger than the shows ever were. Why would that be...? PLUS: Monty Python's most famous bit is more historic-al than you think, Showtime and Stan Lee get together for... well, you'll just have to see, someone on 90210's days may be numbered, and finally, someone's starting to lay the blame on the new recession at the fatcats who really deserve it: fictional relatives on Must-See-TV.
-- Is it just us or did it seem like all the hubbub yesterday about NBC cancelling My Own Worst Enemy and Lipstick Jungle had less to do about the actual presence of either of those shows in the collective psychology -- and more to do with the collective schadenfreude that perpetually surrounds Ben Silverman these days.
-- Historians have located a jokebook from Ancient Greece that contains a gag that's sort of similar to Monty Python's legendary Dead Parrot Sketch. Number one: this is news? Number two: No, this doesn't make it OK, Mencia.
-- Showtime's gonna have a show about a gay superhero -- Whaaaa? -- and it's gonna be executive produced by Stan Lee -- WHAAAA??? We can only hope this Lee brings the same delicate sensibility to the plight of gays (super or no) that he did to that of strippers.
-- Rumor is the new 90210 is gonna accomplish something that the viewing audience has mostly wanted to do since 1992 -- get Jennie Garth naked kill Brenda Walsh.
-- TV Squad has a weird and wonderful -- if slightly overlong -- theory on what caused the economic downturn, and it ain't a credit crunch or inflated real estate values. They're blaming Ross and Monica's aunt for letting them have that amazing apartment. Hmmm... now it makes sense that their aunt was played by Alan Greenspan, huh?