Below The Beltway

Geez, can we at least wait until after the funeral ?
Discussion has already turned to who should replace Tim Russert on Meet the Press
The sudden death of Tim Russert has left the management of NBC News, for the moment at least, at a loss to contemplate how to replace him.
Mr. Russert was not only the […]

Salon wraps up the last Battlestar Galactica until sometime in 2009:
While the teasers told us over and over again that “All will be revealed,” here we are on a radioactive landscape, with more questions than answers. How did this happen? Where is the final member of the final five, and was he or she somehow […]

I love you for giving us an episode tonight that brings the entire series into focus and answers all our questions.
Almost.
I hate you for the fact that you left us hanging for at least the next eight months.
It’s a plot by Brother Cavil to drive us all nuts, right ?

There’s still a movement out there to bring CBS’s twice-canceled post-apocalyptic Jericho back from the dead, and it’s started up again with a television had that will run in the Los Angeles, California area:

Details here.
Apparently, the aim is to get another network — USA or The SciFi Channel apparently being the top two targets […]

All those rumors about the ScFi Channel splitting up the final season of Battlestar Galactica into a “season” that spans two years are apparently true:
Battlestar Galactica fans are well-advised to sit back and savor this Friday’s midseason finale, because the balance of Season 4 — the series’ last, lest we forget — won’t be hitting […]

In the days before ESPN SportsCenter, this was one of the few all-sports programs on television

And it looks like it will be a Star Trek reunion as well:
NEW YORK, June 4 (UPI) — George Takei reportedly has invited several of his former “Star Trek” co-stars to his upcoming wedding to Brad Altman in California.
The New York Post said Altman dropped to one knee and proposed to his 71-year-old partner when […]

Word came today that Alexander Courage, composer of the theme to the original Star Trek series, died earlier this month in California:
Alexander (Sandy) Courage, composer of the original Star Trek theme and an Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated arranger for TV and movies, died May 15 at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 88 […]

The guy responsible for one of the best-known television theme songs of all time has passed away:
Earle H. Hagen, a onetime big-band trombonist who wrote some of the most famous theme songs in television history, died Monday in Rancho Mirage, Calif., near Palm Springs. He was 88 and lived in Rancho Mirage.
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He wrote the folksy, […]