It’s that time of the year that you watch old reruns and I stumbled across te Startrek Voyager episode featuring comedienne Sarah Silverman not so great first steps into the spotlights. I’m glad she turned to comedy….

(she’s only in the final segment of the trailer, alas)
More Startrek fun: bloopers!

Harry & Derrick

In 1998 millions of people tuned in for Das Abscheidsgeschenk, (the farewell gift), the final episode of Aus der Reihe Derrick. The show was well known for its non violent content and lack of bloodshed. Generally, the bad guys would simply confess their crimes to the warm listening ear of Stefan Derrick. Still, people around the globe wanted to know whether Derrick would also survive the final episode or whether maybe, finally, one of the many criminals he’d put away over the years would try to get their revenge. In the episode, Derrick lives to run Interpol.

281 episodes of Aus der Reihe Derrick turned Tappert into a cult figure. The slightly stooping, polite police inspector and his trusted sidekick Harry solved crime like gentlemen. The fact that in later years Tappert had to wear more and more elaborate toupets and a girdle that made it impossible for him to even sit down naturally only added to his charms.

The only German actor to have fanclubs throughout the world and recently a discoteque named after him in The Netherlands, Tappert made tv history.

Last weekend, Horst Tappert died at the age of 85. Luckily, this is not really the end, because the series has been in reruns for years and even today for instance in France In France L’inspecteur Derrick and Harry are still solving crimes. Harry, hol schon mal den Wagen!

Ugly Betty

Betty tries to get into an editorial writing program and comes up against Mark. Both have to present concepts for a magazine, and only one of them can get in. Wilhelmina tries to get Connor in the sack, while Daniel has the hots for Connors fiance, Molly, the kindergarten teacher. Justin gets into trouble with his best friend.

I really like Hilda as a mom. For all her trashy talk and low cut dresses, she’s a model mom who always puts her kid first. Betty is an IDIOT for giving up on the stupid writing program just because she may have gotten special treatment. Why the hellll would she give it up just so Mark (!) could get in???? Other than that it is the usual Daniel screws up, Daniel fixes things in the end story line, but it was a feelgood episode.

More on Betty here: Ugly Betty vs Gossip Girl

Jessica Biel in Louis Vuitton

Looks like someone’s missing rather a large, elaborate table cloth!

What is it with gorgeous actresses and terrible, unflattering dresses? Jessica Biel has one of the finest bodies in the universe and yet she wears THIS? When they say she is so cute she can wear a potato sack and still look good you’ll know it’s a lie from now on. Obviously Louis Vuitton should stick to making overpriced bags and stay out of the realm of stuff that’s supposed to fit like a glove!

Chuck & Blair

No HIMYM alas last night! Because of the world series? I don’t care about the world series!!!!! I want my weekly fix of Marshall and Barney! Anyway, there was Gossip Girl though, apparently Manhattan’s too chique to be bothered by a little thing like the world series and it was actually pretty good!

Serena and Dan attend Rufus art opening as nauseating friends, but Serena kills the mood by hooking up with budding artist Aaron Rose (those glasses. Yikes. I know, I know, they are the latest in eyewear and chic, still he looks like an idiot) Little J has to deal with Eleanor Waldorf, who is attempting to “borrow” Jenny’s designs. Sighing, saw that one coming a mile away. Also: she’s been working there for what? A week? Already the daggers come out?  Blair attempts to seduce Chuck, why?, who doesn’t want to sleep with her. Reaaaally? A 17 year old boy doesn’t want to sleep with a nubile young girl until she tells him she loves him?

GG hasn’t been my favorite this season, but I liked tonight’s unlikely teaming up of Dan and Blair, trying to seduce Chuck.

What’s with the hair though? ‘Shorter, blonder’? She looks like a druggie.

Best quote of the week? There were a lot of them, but this one really cracked me up:
Sorry J., but in the real world you can’t take a note to the principle when a drunken model eats your homework

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Yes, we hate you!

I LOVE lists. Favorite teen idols, where are they now? Worst celebrity divorces, ugliest Oscar dresses: I love that kind of stuff. Now EW.com did one of the 24 tv characters that just turn you off. Why 24? Probably because they couldn’t think of any more?

Anyway, who do we hate? Ally McBeal! Of course. Dawson! (though wanting him to die….) Ross Geller! Lili from Cold Case: yes, that horrible hair! What the hell is up with the ‘do? I can never remember any of the plot lines because the hair is waaay too distracting!) Meredith Grey! Izzy Stevens! McDreamy!

Is it a coincidence that half the cast of Grey’s Anatomy is on this list? Shouldn’t someone tell the producers of this shamble of a show that they might as well pull the plug? Well, let it be me! Kill Grey’s  Anatomy, because it’s been on a respirator for years. Do it as a kindness.

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Dave Annable aka Justin Walker

I like Brothers and sisters, it’s sharp and funny and there’s some great acting. Not by Calista Flockhart, but Matthew Rhys, Rachel Griffiths and Sally Field rock. I hope I look half as good as Sally Field when I’m her age.

Anyway, the new storyline with yet another illegitimate child spawned by their dad? Really? How very As the world turns or Dallas even.

The thing that bugs me about this is why would anyone go looking for a half brother they never met? Why would they care at all? Sarah and Kevin jumped all over this, Kevin left his new husband on their wedding night to go and talk to Sarah about this new brother. Why?!!

My dad’s not the most, err, monogamous of people, and if any halfsiblings ever end up on my doorstep I’ll share a beer with them, sure. Maybe even mix ‘em a g&t. But getting all in a huff and loosing sleep over them? Heck no.

The Walkers already have family enough to satisfy a whole rack of Hallmark cards, and a not-so-related illegitimate sister, so why add to that? I know, the storyline, obviously, but why not let sleeping dogs lie? And why o why would Sarah and Kevin tell their mom before they even found this guy? Hasn’t she had enough to deal with? Must suck so badly that you find out all this stuff about your husband after he’s dead. You can’t yell, there’s no point egging his car or cutting up all his clothes….

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Brothers and Sisters Cast

I like B&S, in part for the clever writing and the great acting, but also because they’re old and still looking good. Calista Flockheart annoyed me in Ally McBeal and she’s still annoying. That whole flakey, trying to find myself stuff is getting very old, as she already did that as Ally. For what felt like decades. Every time she’s on the screen in B&S I hear Vonda Shepard - now there’s a blast from the past, whatever happened to Vonda?  On second thoughts, who cares? - singing some sad song about letting go. Yugh.

Anyway, liked the episode, bit much Ojai business, don’t really care, but Nora and Kevin had good story lines. I love Kevin, Matthew Rhys, love the way he’s developed over the years, I like that they portray a more or less realistic gay couple.
The whole Rebecca/Justin thing still has me creeped out though. Even if she’s not actually his sister, she was for a bit and yikes.

And for all you Sidereelers out there, here’s the link to watch online. Takes forever, but hey, it’s free.

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Loved last night’s episode. After all the excitement it was time for a quieter episode, give us a chance tyo catch up. Lucas went on his book tour, Nathan went to look at a new team who play Slamball, (it exists! I looked it up!) Peyton got to know her dad better, Brooke is picking up her life: good.

I liked the fact that Mouth finally came out as the cool guy! Being a bit of a hero, even if it is in Oklahoma, good for him! Lucas got taken a down a peg, which was high time. He basically wrote the same book twice and screwed his editor. Nathan playing slamball, well, I guess that’s a way forward. Looks like a bit of a ridiculous game. Brooke fostering the troubled teen, I predicted that, and I love being right, so that story line works for me! Dan sending flowers to Debs? Whaat? Like she’ll fall for that AGAIN? Well, she might. Stranger things have happened in the world of One Tree Hill.

All in all, a pleasant episode, but next week let’s get back to some action. Who can grandpa Dan shoot this time? Maybe Skills should watch his back……

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Aaah, I like it! People from different shows getting into a squabble!
Ugly Betty star America Ferrara started the cat fight by stating series like Gossip Girl, 90210 and the Hills set a bad example for teens in high school. “It conditions us to be mean” she said in a recent interview.

Also, at an interview she shared with GG’s Blake Lively, she didn’t exactly hide her feelings about Gossip Girl (hilarious video! Love it!)

Of course they are both stuck with contracts to do a part two for The Sisterhood of the travelling pants, a pic they probably both wish they hadn’t made to begin with. I think America should get off her high horse, like it or not, Ugly Betty is also about fashion: even though the lead star had braces and unbecoming glasses, she still works for MODE magazine, not National Geographic….

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