TV Ramblings on a Monday Night

A few random TV thoughts:

• Finally no more Theismann on Sunday OR Monday Night Football. Yippeee! I'll be able to watch football without his inane ramblings to muck up the experience. Jaws is so much easier to listen to, and he usually has something mildly intelligent to say. Maybe they'll even let him have some sort of feature where he breaks down game film. There's nothing better than watching Jaws break down film. (See, I have many geeky tendancies ... they aren't just limited to school and serialized tv!)
• The Discovery Channel's new miniseries Planet Earth is good and worth watching ... if you have a 34 inch or larger HD tv. We watched the first episode last night in HD (which incidentally also means without commercials on Discovery's HD Theater channel) and then another episode tonight on our decidedly low-def TiVo. Even the three-and-a-half year old was more distracted during tonight's low-def episode. In general though, it's absolutely a nature show worth plopping down on the couch and watching with your preschooler. Well produced, well narrated (by Sigourney Weaver), well filmed.
  
• According to the Futon Critic, October Road gets good in the third episode. I'll be watching, but with no fresh Grey's as a lead-in will anyone else be watching?
• We'll be watching 24 in real-time again tonight for the HD viewing experience (and because it's the only thing my husband will agree to watch with me out of the whole week -- although he's starting to get hooked on The Amazing Race, of all things!) . . . but watching 24 this season feels a little bit like a chore to me. Not sure why.
• New episodes of One Tree Hill were advertised initially as returning this week. But the CW, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that re-running episodes of The Next Pussycat Doll (seriously?) sells more ads on Wednesday nights than fresh episodes of OTH, so Lucas, Peyton and friends won't return until the first week in MAY! Methinks this is not a good sign for the prospects of renewal. Gilmore's return was also pushed back, but only one week--meaning that fresh episodes will air throughout sweeps.