"Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch."
Stewie - The Family Guy

Television is both under and over rated. Underrated by people with (supposedly) high IQ's as the chosen art form for stupid people. Overrated by much of our celebrity obsessed society. As a whole, it's pretty bad (insert the obvious reference to "Baywatch" here), but it's not all a vast wasteland of the banal. Read through and discover what I think rocks on the idiot box.

Linda's Top Ten Current Shows

Grey's Anatomy Here's my secret: Burke is dreamier than McDreamy. Sorry, but it's true.

House Hugh Laurie rocks as Dr. House, but the whole cast is amazing. Neat factoid, the hospital it's supposed to talk place in is our local hospital.

Lost Amazing cast, mind blowing scripts.

The Office (US and UK) I loved the UK version, but the US version really is better. I know it's blasphemy to even suggest such a thing, but it's true. Outside of the main boss character (I love Steve Carrell, but he's too over the top, where as Ricky Gervais was genius as David Brent), all of the other characters are better.

My Name is Earl Jason Lee is the only Scientologist that doesn't skeeve me out. This show is brilliant and Jamie Priestly is a hoot!

Big Brother It's like crack to me. I know I shouldn't watch it, but I can't help it. Someone call for an intervention.

Stargate I swear I'm not a sci-fi nerd, but I really love this show. Great scripts and the cast is really quite good.

Hell's Kitchen/Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Is it weird that I find Gordon Ramsey sorta hot? It is, right? He's Simon Cowell in the kitchen. Love it.

The Daily Show with John Stewart I love satire and that's pretty much all this show is about. Picking apart everything in the news and in the media, The Daily Show points out how utterly stupid we are as a species. It also helps that I want to jump Jon Stewart.

Scrubs How do you not love a show that once featured the line, "What in the name of are you there, God, it's me Margaret are you talking about?" Scrubs is definitely one of the few really good sitcoms out there today.

Cancelled Shows that Never Should Have Been Cancelled

Mr. Show How the hell did HBO drop the ball on this one?

Tenacious D Probably the same way the dropped the ball here.

Arrested Development DAMN YOU, FOX!!

Linda's List of Shows I Hate

Anything on Fox News Anything featuring right winged pundits whose approach is to shout over everyone else. Fear Factor (it's just a lousy show that skeeves the crap out of me) Anything with the selling point "from the producers of..." Those shows always suck.