I am sure there is some sort of clever stupid title I could have used like Lights Burning Bright or something equally witty but the important info is Friday Night Lights has been picked up for the full season.

Good news, good show.

Channel 10 have picked up a few shows off 9 and will be screening them from next year.

Shows include: Dr Phil, American 60 Minutes stories and most importantly LETTERMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More details in this week’s podcast.

At the risk of exposing my monumentally daggy side. . . (please be gentle with me, fellow boxcutters) Peter Casey, co-creator of Frasier and also writer/producer of Cheers and Wings, was interviewed this morning on ABC Classic FM. The audio is available online for a fortnight.

(Help, Brett, help! Every time I paste the YouTube embed code to just above “Did you notice”, the post updates, but the embed code vanishes! Is it cos I’m not admin?)

In case you missed it, the video of the one-minute-and-forty-seconds (not five minutes!) Simpsons Movie preview is here.

Did you notice:

• It was rated G - surely the animal cruelty warranted at least a PG?
• The truck Homer tried to destroy was stopped at a Homer-created “SOP” sign?

In a short statement on his website, Rove McManus has announced that the remaining three episodes of the 2006 season of Rove Live have been cancelled, as he continues to mourn the passing of his wife Belinda Emmett on Saturday from cancer:

At the moment I have no plans for Rove Live for the rest of 2006. This is a very difficult period for all of us and some time away is the best thing for me right now.

In the meantime I want to extend my sincerest thanks for all of your heartfelt messages and condolences. That Belinda meant so much to so many people, genuinely means a lot to me.

-Rove

According to eBroadcast, this week’s episode would have featured Toni Collette, Borat plugging his new movie, house band Burn the City and the latest voted-out Idol finalist. In the programme’s place is a repeat of the special Seriously Funny: The Best Of The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, hosted by Tripod (and produced by confetti cannon lovers GNWTV Productions). TV3 in New Zealand has put an episode of House in its vacant Friday 9:30 slot.

Belinda’s family has requested donations to the McGrath Foundation, via NAB branches or online, instead of sending flowers.

And while I’m at the Rove Live website, somebody should take that banner for Toyota Hilux’s “48 Hours To Live” promotion down: it’s coincidentally inappropriate… The promotion’s been cancelled, too.

Apparently Channel is Ten is airing a 5 minute preview for the upcoming Simpsons movie tonight (Monday) at 7:30.

Be interesting.

Thanks to MoBo for the heads up.

The title really says it all.

Loyal Listener Lyndal pointed us to this news item on the E! website.

This is very exciting news for a show that everybody hoped would stay on the air but nobody really thought it would.

I think they’re going to do some wonderful things.

Very, very sad to hear Belinda Emmett has died.

Our condolences to Rove and all their respective families and friends.

10 big reasons to love this week’s show:

Number 10: The best pork in town
Number 9: A great quote from The Office (get on board NOW!!)
Number 8: The second part of the I Don’t Buy It featuring Jericho’s identity crisis
Number 7: All the week’s news
Number 6: The first part of the I Don’t Buy It about gloves and cereals and beaches
Number 5: A review of the Fall Lineup thus far
Number 4: Josh’s Skeet/Giant Ant joke
Number 3: A look at the surprisingly good Friday Night Lights in the Fall Lineup
Number 2: The return of our European correspondant James Talia and an incredible televisual virtual connection
And the Number 1 reason to love this weeks show: Cause it’s rockin’.

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Showtime has given the green light to a second season of crime drama Dexter, just five weeks into its initial run. The second season of twelve episodes goes into production next Spring for premiere later in 2007.

This is good news. I have been thoroughly enjoying Dexter, its unusual and rather dark; yet it is genually intriguing. If you have not caught an episode I highliy recommend it.