Below The Beltway

Well, it was inevitable I suppose, but Sarah Palin will be on Saturday Night Live tomorrow night:

You betcha! Gov. Sarah Palin is set to appear tomorrow night on “Saturday Night Live,” the popular entertainment show that has featured Tina Fey’s parodies of the Alaska governor’s down-home style and colloquialisms.
The McCain campaign is confirming the appearance [...]

The final half of the final season of Battlestar Galactica will start on January 16th:
The final 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica have been wrapped up and sitting in a can somewhere for months now, and still we’ve been forced to wait for the Sci Fi Channel to announce when they’ll air on television.  The show’s [...]

For SciFi geeks like myself this is nothing but good news:
“V,” the 1980s miniseries about alien lizards visiting Earth, will invade primetime once again.
ABC is developing a new adaptation of the franchise — which spawned a second mini and TV spinoff — written by “The 4400″ co-creator/exec producer Scott Peters.
Warner Bros. TV, which was behind [...]

Which movie (or television) President was best in a crisis?
It was a tough choice, but in the end I had to go with David Palmer over Laura Roslin.

Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live again to spoof Sarah Palin and Thursday’s VP debate:
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president.
Fey again returned to “Saturday Night Live” to play Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as the sketch comedy show continued to pull out all [...]

Last night’s Vice-Presidential debate had the best ratings for a political debate since 1992:
Thursday’s highly anticipated face-off between Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Delaware senator Joe Biden may be the most-watched debate in 16 years.
Last night’s event totaled a 45.0 overnight meter-market household rating, according to Nielsen Media Research.
That’s 42% higher than Friday’s presidential debate [...]

Those darn Diebold machines !

That’s how many people watched Friday’s debate:
According to data from across 11 networks, the first presidential debate on September 26 between John McCain and Barack Obama drew 52.4 million viewers.
The TV audience for the first presidential debate of the 2008 election was roughly 16% smaller than the audience for the first debate between President Bush [...]

MSNBC has finally figured out that giving the news anchor chair to two political commentators who have been in the tank for Barack Obama since January isn’t really a good idea:
MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the [...]

First it was Hugo Chavez going after The Simpsons.
Now, we learn that there’s no room in Vladimir Putin’s Russia for satire:
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon South Park, calling the series “extremist” after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
South Park, a cartoon aimed at adults [...]