Below The Beltway

I’ve recently been making my way through a recap of what remains, notwithstanding political bias issues, one of my favorite television dramas of all time — The West Wing.
And I came upon an episode from the first season titled In Excelsis Deo.
I will leave to either your memory of the episode or this Wikipedia entry [...]

Not only did the New Orleans Saints win their first Super Bowl last night, they apparently also helped break a record that many thought would stand forever:
NEW YORK – The New Orleans Saints’ victory over Indianapolis in the Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of “M-A-S-H” to [...]

Proof of the alien conspiracy found on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page.

Better than Beck does, actually:

Gee what metaphor do you think they’re going for here ?

Given the ratings they’ve gotten this season it does not come as a surprise, but still this sucks:
The fall television season is winding down, which means that broadcast networks are beginning to clear out shows that have failed to attract audiences this year and scheduling some that they hope will do better.
Fox notified Joss Whedon, [...]

If you grew up in the 1970s, this one will sound familiar:

It took a long enough time, but it seems that television executives are figuring out that time-delay recording devices like TiVo are the best thing they ever happened to television:
In what may seem a media business version of the Stockholm syndrome, television network executives have fallen in love with a former tormentor: the digital video [...]

Yep, Charles Logan is coming back:
It’s official: 24’s upcoming eighth season is going to be craaaazy (the bat-you-know-what kind).
Gregory Itzin is returning to 24 as lunatic ex-prez Charlies Logan for a multi-episode arc. Logan will resurface towards the end of Day 8 when Cherry Jones’ President Taylor reluctantly enlists her disgraced predecessor to assist with [...]