The highly-anticipated two-week run for Cirque Berzerk returns to the old "Not a Cornfield" state park beginning tonight. It’s a mixture of burlesque, the bizarre and circus tricks that you’ve probably never seen before. The shows are filled with “sinewy, breathtaking acrobatics, sensual aerialists, gothic stilt walkers, fetishy burlesque dancers, voluptuous contortionists and a host of punk rock clowns, none of whom know how to make cute balloon animals for the kiddies.” Get your tickets NOW. They’re $25-$80.
Pencil This In: Cirque Berzerk Opens Tonight, Penn & Teller Talk
TV Junkie: Thursday
Variety reports that last night Fox dominated the ratings with "So You Think You Can Dance". It's not that this is an achievement for Fox, considering what a copycat and sub-par program "So You Think You Can Dance" is - just look at what it's up against: "Baby Borrowers" and reruns. A halfway decent idea on several nights of the week would trounce the dreck that is dished up on network TV. TV is losing viewership year over year? How can it not? Get ready for another dose of "So You Think You Can Dance" tonight. Thank goodness for Shark Week. How about "So You Think You Can Dance Your Way Out of This Shark Infested Pool?"
TV Junkie: Thursday
Tomorrow the 10 day countdown of the SAG contract expiration begins. Reuters reports that the TV studios are already bracing for a strike even though the SAG has yet to vote to strike. Some TV shows have 2 or 3 shows for the upcoming season in the bag already but most do not. Even if the SAG chooses not to strike, because there is no contract signed as of today, there will be some effect on production which means the doldrums of summer will linger into fall to some point.

