SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Sopranos yet, barricade yourself in a safehouse until you have.

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So, it turns out that everyone predicting a high body count was right. Last night’s episode, The Blue Comet, was not only plot-packed–it was a rare Sopranos episode that seemed like, if anything, it …

Of course the penultimate Sopranos is on deck, but let’s not forget the season 3 finale of Entourage. Which is kind of weird, since season 4 of Entourage starts again two weeks immediately afterward. But that’s HBO, I guess. There are no rules.

I’ve been a little frustrated with this show. I mean, I never regret watching it, exactly. I …

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File this under Can’t Exactly Call it Surprising, but reports are out that Sci Fi will announce officially today that Battlestar Galactica’s fourth season will be its last. After 22 more episodes, the fleet will come to a stop, one way or another.

Unlike the ending-date decision for Lost, this isn’t …

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Our readers (well, Keith, anyway) want to know:

I made the mistake of watching Pirate Master last night. Have you caught it? Thoughts?[Ed: Spoilers deleted, as if anyone on the planet was going to go through the trouble of time-shifting this dud.]

Arrrrr, Keith, I did watch it! My thoughts: I …

Competing at the 2006 bee, Finola Hackett and winner Katharine Close (seated). ESPN Photo: Mark Bowen

The 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee, baby! I can’t even do this event justice in a small blog post. American kids of far-flung nationalities puzzling over the etymologies of the same dead languages. The dissonance of the ding! of …

The people have spoken, and the people want something to do for eight months until we get another Lost. The first suggestion I’m taking from the Memorial Day robo-poll is for a weekly Lost discussion. Think of it as a Lost Summer Seminar, with me as the lazy professor who delivers the phoned-in lecture, and Chaddogg as the diligent, …

Hidden Palms, on The CW. Because it’s Kevin Williamson, because Dawson’s Creek gave me such pleasure for its first few years, and because I have subsequently felt obligated to give a chance to Wasteland and Glory Days. Because even though I saw the first episode months ago and didn’t like it, and even though the May 30 debut screams …

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Here’s one thing I love about blogging. I post a question. You write stuff for me. My employer considers this “work,” and continues to issue me paychecks. To the extent that you buy our advertisers’ products or watch TV programming produced or delivered by Time Warner, you are literally

Can Friday Night Lights survive the loss of its friend in the front office? NBC Photo: Bill Records

NBC’s entertainment president Kevin Reilly–the man who programmed Heroes and pushed to keep 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights on the air–is leaving his job. (Technically, but only technically, he quit.) Replacing him, sort of, is Ben …

Charles Nelson Reilly, who introduced schoolchildren of a certain age to the art of the brilliant double entendre on Match Game, died Friday. In the lull between his death and my re-opening the blog for business post-holiday, the comments on my Price Is Right post became a sort of impromptu shrine to Reilly, and commenter LB offered …