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Not only am I down with the whole "new rerun" concept instead of new reality crap, I wouldn't mind if they replaced 99% of the new programming with it.

Yes, it's that bad.

Thanks for the "DVD Folk" warning, as I'm still in the middle of season 2 of The Greatest Cop Show Ever.

I would be all for reruns of Burn Notice. Excellent idea, Whore!

What is going on with "Lost"? Also, I am patiently waiting for a review of "Big Shots".

While I rarely have anything to say about TV, I just want to share my love for The Wire. Not only is it probably the best cop show ever made, it's one of the best tv shows, period, ever made. It's the only TV I watch right now.

At least I am not the only one watching "Beauty and the Geek" anymore. Thank you for absolving me of my guilt.

I agree, NBC should use their other channels for rerun fodder. If it works for Conan and Chuck Norris, it can work for them.

The Office has been hilarious this season! I mean, they kidnapped a pizza boy over a coupon. Dwight mercy-kills Angela's cat and thinks the Dunder-Mifflin website is alive. Ryan reveals himself to be the total douche I knew he was. Hilarity.

I guess I am finally going to have to break down and get caught up on The Wire. I never really had time to watch it before and now I need a reason to keep my HBO. No Rome or The Sopranos, so I need a new reason.

Also, Fox blows! Just how bad is 24 going to suck this season? It was horrendous last year.

Heh. the only people who ever talk about diabetes "acting up" are people who aren't actually diabetic. and who know nothing at all about it.

they're the ones who, every time someone who is diabetic eats anything, ask if their diabetes is acting up, or is going to act up. i hate those people.

sorry, this has nothing to do with the vast majority of the round up.

Oh boy....who went and upset the powerful diabetic lobby?

Not quite, Liz. My ex is a diabetic, and when he wants a "pre-excuse" to act like a dick, he starts dropping hints that his diabetes might be "acting up." It's also his way to try to cover up a good long drunk. "Hey, I'm not shit-faced, I'm a diabetic!"

Some people will work any angle, and I suspect the star of a reality show fits that bill quite nicely.

Over the last few months, the rumor-mongers have been at it again

Question: Is the word mong only used paired together with rumor or can it be used separately, like this:
"He is monging rumors all around town that Cavemen will get a full season pick up
or
She hit him with her purse after she found out he mongged a rumor online that she was caught doing blow with 'She Who Must Not Be Named'"

Melody, I hate to break it to you, but I believe the current season of The Wire will be the final one.

And then there will be nothing left on TV.

Before this turns into a Blood Glucose Flame War, I would just like to point out that so far this season "Heroes" has completely and utterly sucked.

Hehe...Brian, is your diabetes acting up? Speaking of "She who must not be named", she's going to Rwanda. I'm from Rwanda. We don't want her there, we have enough problems! Can you (Americans) do something? Stop her? Distract her with a penis?

This has nothing to do with The Daily Trade Round-Up, but I just heard... Colbert for President! Whooo hooo.

Yeah, Whore, the Colbert news really should have been included in the Roundup. It would at least have been some halfway-decent cheerful news. We are in painful need of cheerful entertainment news these days.

I know, but I hope by then HBO will give me a new show to love. I of course mean after the end of The Wire. It is the final season.

Scully, he did it on Daily Show/Colbert Report. He is wanting to be President of South Carolina, his home state. Pretty funny actually.

joker, the mental image I just got from your request was both hilarious and disturbing.

"I'm so not shallow or sluty, Honest! I mean, like, I'm totally gonna like, go to that scary place they told me about, and like, give 'em like, tons of Juicy pants and Louis Vui...ohhhhh....it's shiny!! His dick's, like, totally blinged out. Gimme, gimme!! Screw the scary place!!"

Joker - Perhaps you aren't seeing the plethoria of oppertunity that is She Who Must Not Be Named's visit to Rwanda. It's still a shaky place...it'd be easy for her to be kidnapped or killed while out visiting 'refugee' camps...that is if your fellow country men are willing to provide her with 'special' maps. Said maps could also point her directly into the DRC instead and whatever area is being hit by ebola worst at the present time. So cheer up there's hope still that something good can come of the whole stunt.

Vermillion--I'm with you. This season has not gone down in quality. The Office is still awesome! I'm loving cat-mercy-killing-sad Dwight.

Also: you people better be watching 30 Rock! They have been putting together really solid comedy.

I miss the old days when the networks showed reruns during the summer. When they stopped doing that, I stopped watching once the season ended. It usually takes two viewings of something to get it stuck in my head, and the reruns also let me get re-caught up with the season finale before the new season started. I definitely noticed this year how I needed the reminder. I don't want to watch some insipid parking lot pirate show just to satisfy my TV pie hole. Didn't that pirate reality show have something to do with parking lots? See how much I pay attention the first time around? But since the networks don't do it for me anymore I've found a way to get my viewings without them. And they wonder why their ratings are consistently lower each year.

To further the diabetic debate, the only people I've heard talk about theirs acting up are old people looking to be martyrs in their family. But I think they're talking about the complications that have arisen from their condition, due to ignorance in caring for their health, and/or the desire to be the family martyr.

rumors basically confirmed when the network stepped in and did a major overhaul of the whole thing

Not that I'm defensive or anything but I do so hope smart people watch New Amsterdam when Fox finally buries it on friday nights so I'm compelled to speak up and say the overhaul of the pilot wasn't that major and was instigated and executed by the showrunner. It's quite good. I'd love to go into all kinds of behind the scenes details but I like my job which, thank god, is one of about a dozen not affected by the reduction of our order.

Well, that's a very good idea Ms.Parker, but we've sort of got a reputation to live down y'know...and getting Her Royal Slutness killed wouldn't help. Although, there's a lot of AIDS at the moment and she's bound to fall onto a penis or two while she's there. Who knows...slow painful death...hmm, something good might come out of this after all.

Unfortunately for everyone I doubt Ms. 'I have Black Friends So I Can't be Racist' would sleep with any of the native population...Actually maybe that's a plus for Rwanda Joker.

Any country that can stir the kind of love despite all the horrible things that have happened there that I've heard in Romeo Dallire's voice when he talks about Rwanda can't be all bad.

Brian-
Well, monger is also connected with words such as fish (fishmonger) or war (warmonger) but as a verb, not so much. Which doesn't mean that you can't start a new language/grammar trend. Turning nouns into verbs is nothing new in this country...

Tamatha - I'll keep that in mind. So then the rumormonger works the stall between the fishmonger and the warmonger in the local farmers market?

By the way I didn't mean She Who Must Be Named But Is Going To Rawanda but She Who Must Be Named But Is Out of Rehab and Drinking Again but I guess either works

Thanks Parker, it isn't all bad definitely, but I'm afraid the love might disappear with the visit of You-know-who.

Oh and Brian, it's Rwanda, no extra "a". I've seen this spelling with many Americans. Why is that? I'd blame your geography teachers if I actually thought you learned about Rwanda in school. Inaccurate maps? No, according to that girl from South Carolina, you don't have any maps at all. The media? Oh who am I kidding. I'm at a loss.

My bad, Joker

Totally disagree about the part about the hour long Office's being underwhelming. I'd love to see them stick with hour long ep's.

Yup. The Office, while it is still chuck full of hilariously awkward moments, lacks the energy and tension that made the second season so bloody awesome. So much of the show relied on Pam and Jim, their sexual tension and conflict. [Correction: the entire show revolved around it.] Now that the central conflict of the show is resolved, the series seems to be carried by the minor characters. And while the minor characters have always perfectly complemented the show, we'll have to see if they can keep the show going strong. But I still love The Office, and it continues to be the only show that I'll watch religiously when it airs.

As of now, and after watching that clip from The Office, I love Andy (and Ed Helms)...I shouldn't have missed last week's episode...I was dissapointed with the first two but after this week's one, I assume the series will go back to normal (the hour long episodes are killing it...)

Pam and Jim only carried the office if you wanted them to.