I've been really bummed since I found out a few days ago about Kidnapped being cancelled. It was the first new show I'd being looking forward to in five years. (I didn't start watching House till after the second season had finished; it sounded interesting, and I recorded some, but I just didn't get around to watching till this summer). Some of my favorite actors, and a couple of new ones to enjoy, too. Dammit dammit dammit. At least they're going to film and air 13 episodes, so that's something, and at least I've been recording them. I'll just have to get my Hutton and Sisto fixes elsewhere. Dammit. It's all the network's fault for putting it opposite CSI and something else really popular, and after a show that has practically no common audience denominator with it -- Biggest Loser. Ugh. That show is just wrong on so many levels, but I don't feel like getting into a political rant about fat rights and the way the media and society brainwashes us.

I love Sisto with a beard, too. Damn.

I used to be a huge huge huge baseball fan. Watched on TV almost everyday, even when my favorite teams (Giants, Red Sox, Cubs, and Mariners) weren't playing. Listened on the radio. Drove a few hours a few times a year to go to a game. Watched the standings every day. Then a few years ago, other things started taking up more and more of my time, so now I really don't pay attention at all -- except that House won't be on for a month because FOX is airing post-season baseball. Sigh. Thank goodness I have 30 episodes (every one that has aired so far) on DVD to watch over and over, two with executive producer commentary, the House board here to keep me busy, and maybe some other things, too.

I have my third editorship now: the Person Stephen Fry, who is the half opposite Hugh Laurie of the British sketch comedy show A Bit of Fry and Laurie, which I'm also editor of. Whee!!

I might even watch Veronica Mars tomorrow night. A friend and fellow House fan has recommended it to me, saying that Veronica is much like a younger, female House. I also noticed in someone's sig on the fora rave reviews about it from my favorite author (Stephen King) and one of my favorite writer directors (Kevin Smith). I can hardly imagine liking a show about a wealthy high schooler, but... well, my friend watched Kidnapped on my recommendation, so I feel like I should reciprocate and watch what she suggested. I can record it, at least.

I haven't been doing well this week with reading other people's blogs because I've been *gasp* doing some actual writing (i.e. besides stuff here). What a concept!

Today's stats:
Level 9 / 39% / Door Number 2 (man, I loved that show!)
Accepted 181 / Pending 0 / Total 199 / Acceptance 91%
Forum posts 73 / Reviews: Episodes 1; People 1
Editorships: Shows 1; People 2
Blog entries 10 / Friends 25

I need to start keeping count of how many blog entries have been autocensored. This is #2. It's PG.

This list was a LOT tougher to make than I expected. I'm actually making two separate top 10 lists, one for before I turned 18, the other is after. I'm not just using 18 as an arbitrary child/adult divider. My TV watching habits changed greatly when I turned 18, because I went away to college. Back in those days (heh), not too many kids had TVs in their dorm rooms; I only knew three people who did. There was one TV in the lobby of our dorm, which housed about 200 students. I was outvoted during the General Hospital time slot. So...

Top 10 Favorites, pre-18
1. One Day at a Time I wanted to be Valerie Bertinelli, not her character (the younger daughter), but the actress.
2. Eight Is Enough Yum, Willie Aames! (the one with curly sandy hair)
3. Charlie's Angels Jaclyn Smith was my favorite.
4. Laverne & Shirley I wanted to be like Laverne.
5. Happy Days
6. Partridge Family Yum, Danny! (the smartassed redhead)
7. Captain Kangaroo I thought it was so cool that I had the same birthday as Captain Kangaroo. I loved the ping pong ball thing. I probably still would.
8. Alice Yum, Alice's son!
9. Starsky & Hutch Yum, Starsky! (Paul Michael Glaser, the dark haired one)
10. General Hospital
I'm not sure if I'd like any of the above shows now, except Captain Kangaroo.

Top 10 Favorites, post-18
1. House #1 all-time favorite show. Seriously. By a lot. I've seen every episode at least three times, going on four. Some more. When I say addicted, I really mean addicted.
2. American Idol The first reality show I ever watched; I liked the idea that the audience could vote. I started watching from the first episode.
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Quark rocks. My Pug is named Garak, after the Cardassian tailor-maybe-spy.
4. Queer As Folk Guh. Drool. Swoon. Yep, **** here. F@gh@g, that is. Funny that it let me say smartassed (see Partridge Family).
5. Six Feet Under Peter Krause! Jeremy Sisto! Eric Balfour! Lauren Ambrose! More gay characters!
6. Jeff Corwin Experience Not quite as over the top as Steve Irwin, though I loved him too.
7. South Park Cartman is my hero.
8. MADtv Swan. Stuart. Yes.
9. M*A*S*H Mmm, B.J.
10. Jeopardy! If only I had the guts to go audition...

Depending on how they go, Kidnapped and My Name Is Earl might end up on this list later.

Today's stats, while I'm here:
Level 8 (Super Friend) 78 %
Contributions: Accepted 115; Pending 11; Total 184
Forum Posts: 64
Blog Entries: 9 autocensored: 2
Reviews: 1 person, 1 episode
Editorships: 1 person, 1 show
Friends: 22

Which reminds me!!! I keep forgetting to say thanks to everyone who added me to I can have the pretty little butterfly. Yay! I'm working on getting another Person editorship; I hope to get it in the next few days, depending on how much time I have to work on it and how fast the QoD goes. Last week when I was working toward getting A Bit of Fry and Laurie, I was working in the middle of the night once and got my submissions approved almost immediately. Someone in editorland really rocks.

Breaking out the champagne! Come and have a glass, there's plenty for everyone

A Bit of Fry and Laurie was a BBC comedy sketch show starring and written by Stephen Fry ("Who?!" Americans say) and Hugh Laurie ("Ooooh, House!!" the world says).

I can say that about Americans because I'm one of those (previously) ignorant Americans who had never heard of Fry or Fry & Laurie until becoming addicted to House and looking up everything Hugh Laurie did. The DVDs of seasons 1 and 2 ABoF&L just recently became available in the US, so I got them. I love them. They're like Monty Python, except starring only two men, rather than a handful.

Right now there's a thread on the House forums entitled "You know your [sic] obsessed with House when..." I guess I need to post there responding, "You go get the DVDs of Fry & Laurie and love them so much that you go for and get the editorship of the show on tv.com."

There's a ton of work still to be done there. Very few of the episodes have recaps or any notes, quotes, trivia, or allusions, even though there are plenty to submit. If you're not ready to invest in the DVDs, Netflix has them. Plus it's kind of cool to see baby-faced Hugh, clean shaven and in his early 30s rather than late 40s, even though I find Hugh at 47 (i.e. now) sexier than Hugh at 33 (then). Oh yes, and Hugh sometimes sings and plays piano. Stephen knits. It's awesome.

I am now a Super Friend, which is awesome -- I so loved that show when I was a kid. I probably won't go up tomorrow since I'm only at 5%, but that's all right. I can't go around thinking I'll go up every day, especially since it's going to get harder. I'm working on adopting some more poor editorless pages; there's one I'm hoping to pick up tomorrow, depending on the pendings, haha. Hey, cut me some slack, it's near my bedtime, I've been researching liek woah, and so I'm punchy

Sometime this week I'll probably do a list of my Top 20 TV shows, like jameswilson245 did. I might break it into two Top 10s, childhood and adulthood, because I'm sure that most of the shows I loved as a kid I wouldn't love now, but they're still important. Heck, some shows I loved ten years ago I can't stand now.

Yesterday I got on the top 10 contributor list of House, which I'm way jazzed about. I seriously think it's my #1 all time favorite TV show. Seriously. It's that awesome. The number of times I've seen each episode is quickly approaching a gazillion. Well, okay, four. But that's a lot.

EDIT: Misspelled Word Suggestions: jameswilson245: camisole's, capsulising, camisoles, Maxwell's, maxwell's, capsulizing, Maxwellian.
Yeah, I'm definitely punchy, because that's really funny right now.