A Word or 47: Full disclosure - tonight I might watch the cultural trainwreck that is Idol and then it's on to Lost and then an evening culminating with LCD Soundsystem on Letterman, they will kick ass! And then, if I can find some Cialis, a bit of Tina Fey on Conan. Tonight - Wednesday - April 11th, 2007 Jericho/Criminal Minds/CSI: NY (CBS, 8-11:00 p.m.) From post-apocalypse to a dead New Yorker in medieval... more ›

Sanjaya Malakar must have his whole high school voting for him. Again and again. There's no reason why the kid is still on the show. Now Antonella Barba, embroiled in nudie pic scandal is the go-to girl on Votefortheworst.com, a site that tells American Idol haters who they must vote for, so we expected her to stay this week -- even though she can't sing. But Sanjaya? He's a geeky 17-year-old kid without much... more ›

The remaining 10 guys performed on American Idol last night, and thankfully, it wasn't two hours of excruciating torture like last week. First, it was only a 90-minute show to make room for Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader. (Hence, the shameless Jeff Foxworthy shots in the AI audience. He hosts the show, so you know it's gonna be redneck good.) And while the guys greatly improved from their first outing, they still... more ›

Tonight - Tuesday - February 27th, 2007 Wuthering Heights (TCM, 7:00 p.m.) Get Bronteed with the original '39 film. NCIS/The Unit (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) Pull on the Depends for 2 hours of non-stop CBS action. Dateline NBC/Law & Order: Criminal Intent/Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 8-11:00 p.m.) Perverted Justice/Poisoned journalist/A rape in Philadelphia Gilmore Girls (the CW, 8:00 p.m.) Rory gets offered an interview with the New York Times. Primetime (ABC, 9:00... more ›

LAist's heart is in LA, but some of us are travelling to visit family. To places where R&B and country stations prevail. And it is in the vein that I happened upon hearing Jeff Foxworthy's 12 Days of Christmas on the radio today. God I miss LA. more ›