Letter to "This American Life" (OK, I know it's radio)

Dear Starlee,
I thoroughly enjoyed your piece on TV reruns broadcast on this weekend’s “This American Life.” I, too, find television comforting as well as entertaining, and so does my dear friend and fellow writer Sandra Beckwith. In fact, we got so tired of having to hide our affection for TV, we started a blog where we can freely voice our opinions on whatever TV shows we choose with no fear of triggering one of those “What a plebian” looks from self-righteous “I only watch PBS” friends and associates. I invite you and Ira to visit our blog, Telebitchin, at http://telebitchin.blogspot.com.

Yours from Newton Minnow’s vast wasteland,

Jane

P.S. I like watching TV reruns so much I even order them from Netflix. Think “Judging Amy.”

A Night Before Christmas

Studio 60 was outstanding tonight -- tight story lines, compelling themes, funny and poignant. The takeoff off on Dateline's child-predator stings -- using Santa coming down the chimney as the unwitting pedofile ("Young children write you letters. . .") -- was hysterical. But I was slammed right back to reality by the "All I Want for Christmas Is My City Back" number performed by homeless horn players from New Orleans.

She's Baaaaack

Kyra Sedgwick's back in The Closer tonight with a two-hour episode beginning at 8 ET. I would have missed this if a TV buddy hadn't sent me a note. I need a service that lets me sign up to receive schedule updates -- season debuts, rerun alerts, etc. -- via e-mail. The disjointed TV scheduling is too much for my peabrain.