Friday’s 30 rocking news

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  • Gossip Girl girls to guest in 30 Rock
  • …and footage of Jennifer Aniston on-set
  • Mitch Hurwitz and Jason Biggs working on sitcom for CBS
  • Aliens land with Greg Berlanti and Rene Echevarria for The Return for ABC
  • Anthony Edwards and Noah Wylie to appear in ER‘s final season
  • Michael Rodrick to guest on 24 and Without a Trace
  • Jodie Foster to play Maggie in The Simpsons; Anne Hathaway also to appear
  • Swingtown creator to develop BiCoastal for Showtime
  • New Amsterdam‘s Zuleikha Robinson cast in Lost

Thursday’s record ratings news

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  • Sarah Lancashire and Neil Pearson to star in BBC1 choir drama
  • ITV3 acquires CTV/CBS’s Flashpoint

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Monday’s Labor Day news

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Friday’s “surprisingly un-Welsh wizard” news

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TV reviews

Season finales 2008

Normally, around this time of year, I’d be putting out copious reviews of all the US season finales. This year, I haven’t, although a few escaped earlier in the year and at the end of last year. There’s a list of reasons why I haven’t done so many this time around:

  1. With the writers’ strike messing with everything, most of the series haven’t been at their best, so it might be wrong to judge them too harshly
  2. I didn’t realise some series had ended
  3. Some series had ended permanently so there was no point
  4. There’s a great big backlog of episodes that we haven’t watched yet
  5. I’ve been busy

So no Scrubs, My Name is Earl, House, Moonlight, Aliens in America, Eli Stone, et al, coverage this year, I’m afraid. Lost is still to come next week, I think. But, after the break, I’ll give abbreviated rundowns on 30 Rock, Smallville, CSI, CSI: Miami, Numb3rs, Gossip Girl and Supernatural.

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