From the TV listings

My local Sunday paper's TV magazine shows that 7th Heaven will have its final episode of the series tomorrow night. The same day, (just after midnight tonight, actually) another station is running an old movie also starring Catherine Hicks. The synopsis of the movie reads, "Woman buys killer Chucky doll for son." Now why didn't the 7th Heaven writers think of that? It would have saved so many years of sappy, sanctimonious, political correctness, not to mention endless annoying hours of saxophone wailing into and out of commercial breaks. It's hard to believe that 7th Heaven and Buffy were on the same night and network till Buffy was run off Mondays by Alley McBeal (Anyone even remember Alley McBeal any more?). 7th Heaven started out so light and cute, before things got out of hand. Though I would have liked to have seen a crossover in the first year where Buffy staked Simon on general principles. After the first year it wouldn't have helped. She could have staked all of them and they'd have come back as even more annoying politically-correct zombies. Yeah, it could have been worse.

I'm losing my taste for Desperate Housewives although for far different reasons. I never cared for Linette much. Susan and Gabrielle have developed so little, and Bree becoming an alcoholic didn't do anything for me. I accidentally missed an ep then two and I realized I didn't care much anymore. I don't hate the show, just don't need to see it every week anymore.