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Tell Me What You Don’t Like About Yourself.
And now for TV News Time!, with your host, Spyder!

Dudes and dudettes! Do you know what today is? Today is September 5th, 2006. It’s Tuesday. And do you know what that means?

It means the season premiere of Nip/Tuck is tonight! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!! Every Tuesday through Christmas now I’ll get me my Nip/Tuck goodness. I managed to rewatch all of Season 3 in four days (it’s a very addicting show), to prep myself for the new stuff that starts tonight. Huzzah!

Now I just have to wait until October for new Veronica Mars (yay!) and then new Aqua Teen Hunger Force (squee!) and I will be all set to finish out this year with a bang! Venture Brothers continues to be great, and Metalocalypse has been more entertaining every time I watch it. Oh, and new Birdman coming too. Sweet.

Also! Since we’re sort of on an Adult Swim kick here, the ridiculously surreal and often times brilliant Perfect Hair Forever has been granted 10 more episodes, to appear on the adult swim website. Back in March or something, the show was cancelled officially after six episodes. I don’t know how Perfect Hair was cancelled after six episodes and yet the generally horrid Tom Goes to the Mayor is well into season two. Grrr!! But salvation has come for the imperiled show that brought us Uncle Grandfather. Hopefully these new episodes will be enough to bring, if not more episodes on TV, at least a DVD of the show. Here’s hoping.

And, lest you think all I ever watch is cartoons (as accurate as that statement may occasionally be), CBS has announced that it will soon be re-broadcasting the original Star Trek series, with new digital backgrounds, space ships, and other effects. I’m not sure how I feel about this. While the original series had amazingly crude effects, certainly, I’m a bit wary of the idea of Star Trek: Special Edition (Kirk Shot First?). Star Trek has been in a steady decline into an abysmal pit of unhappiness since Deep Space Nine ended (some would argue First Contact, but they just don’t like shows where continuity between episodes is actually extremely important), and I really just can’t believe that this will somehow rescue it. The creative team responsible for Star Trek has barely changed in 20 years. Is it possible that they’ve become so shortsighted and tunnel-visioned that they fail to understand what made the show interesting and popular in the first place? Can it be, that -*gasp!*- a change in guard is needed, and some new blood- willing to push the show’s self-created status quo out the window- might make a successful revival of the franchise possible?

Not that I would have any ideas how to bring Star Trek back and make it cool again. Of course not. *shifty glance*