If Britney was in a musical, would I go see it? I'm sad to admit that I just might.

An FAQ about what those Nielsen rating numbers really mean

Harry Potter the 4

Here's my quick review of the new HP movie, Harry Pottah and the Goblet of Fire.
I attended an early screening of this thanks to my pal the guitar-playing quad-saber-wielding EA employee, and I have to admit that this was the biggest let-down in the series thus far.
Most of the characters got very little screen time, the students from the visiting schools were way over the top for their respective cliques, and the action in the various Triwizard events seemed very truncated. There wasn't enough Snape or basically any character not named Harry.

The biggest problem, I suppose, is that if movie5 is going to be anything like book5, it will consist of a lot of Harry angst/whining and I was hoping movie4 would be good enough to at least tie me over until 6 hits (what, 2008?).

I suppose the biggest points of this movie were Cho Chang's interesting accent and the beginnings of Harry's angst at being the 'chosen one.' Sucks to be the protagonist. Then again, even with all my complaining, it was still pretty entertaining and a requirement for anyone keeping up with this series.

To conclude, please replace all Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff with Emma Watson.

Also, I want you to know that I have finally cut the cord with Lost, and revoked its season pass. It's just too much like Alias, in terms of slow/non-existent resolution of plot points/twists, and without Marshall or the random funny stuff. Reading recaps will suffice. Veronica Mars, you have my Wednesday 9 pm time slot!

As my first post in forever, and as an addundum to nyanko's previous two posts (she always beats me to these things of course), I'd like to add that the SFgate link below also contains news of TivoToGo on PSP. A reference to this story on slashdot mentions real-time transcoding, which suddenly makes this so much more appealing.

PSP > iPod Video.

The number of people using TiVo2Go surprised the TiVo company

Ooh, Tivo + video iPod! Yay! I wonder how long the battery will last when playing video... How long a flight can I take, and watch video for much of the flight?

Oh dear. Penguins don't deserve this.

There won't be any new episodes of Lost between Nov 31st and Jan 11th.

Alias moves to Wednesday 10 pm for two weeks, starting Dec 7

Julian Sands, he of A Room with a View swooniness, is going to be joining the cast of 24. Don't read the blurb (fourth item) if you don't want to see small spoilers about the characters they will play.

Sigh. One of the drawbacks of business travel is that you end up flipping through USA Today. It's not as informative as the New York Times, nor as campy/funny/blatantly untrue as the NY Post. But it does give us random features, such as the fact that American focus groups are idiots, and thus we have a different, longer, more craptacular ending for the newly released remake of Pride & Prejudice.

Oh no. NBC has no taste. They have a script commitment to a show called 5-0, a comedy about a 5 foot tall rookie cop who takes on jobs that take advantage of his short stature.

AOL will have a bunch of old TV episodes as video on demand (from tvattle)

Lost is expanding to overtake the universe, or at least the neighboring time slots.

Reviews seem decent for Keira Knightley's Pride and Prejudice.

And an article about Colin Firth v. Matthew MacFayden as Mr. Darcy.

I was totally going to swear off watching any more ABC Family movies, and then they do this! Joshua Jackson is in Shadow in the Sun, which premieres this Sunday. The downside is that Claire Forlani is also in the movie, and she never seems particularly emotive. I was wondering what happened to Pacey's career.

BTW, have you noticed that it's Dawson's Creek baby season? Joey (Katie Holmes) is (duh!) expecting and Jenn (Michelle Williams) just had her baby. Maybe Dawson will have a baby soon.

I'm in denial, but TV Guide is saying that the reduction of episodes for Arrested Development pretty much means that the show is canceled.

Arrested Development has been cut back to 13 episodes. I'm so sad.

Dude, Mandy Moore is going to be on Scrubs.