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I don’t think I’ve ever been so thrilled to not have any series’ to watch. Finally, I can just sit here, be oblivious and churn out some good ol’ fashion links. This is truly a blessed day for Grid Effect. For the past week we’ve felt more like an automaton programmed to write absurd TV reviews as quickly as possible rather than an actual living, breathing human being.

Entourage is reportedly sparing no expense in its online marketing campaign, which is odd because this is the first I’ve ever heard about it. Then again, I’m probably not the standard Entourage viewer, so anywhere I might see this campaign is not somewhere I would normally be. If I had to guess it is probably on something like Perez Hilton’s website, and as “hilarious” as it is to crack jokes about starlets multiple public indiscretions, we have yet to ever mosey on over an see what that freak of nature is actually devotes his efforts towards.

As you’ve probably all heard by now, McCain snubbed David Letterman out of an interview in favor of Katie Couric. Yes, it was a shitty thing to do, but does Letterman think he was the first show host to ever be denied an interview from an in demand politician? I mean, McCain basically canceled an appearance on Letterman’s entertainment show in preference of a news show on the same network. So what? How entitled and out of touch does one have to be to actually like a petulant child about this? Either way, Craig Ferguson rushed to his mentor’s defense.

We’ve marveled in the past about ER still being on the air and now, as if someone actually reads this site, they’ve managed to even astonish themselves. Yes, this is the final season of the acclaimed medical drama. A series that has spawned such hits as 3 LBS. and Chicago Hope is finally closing the curtain on its 100 year run. I, for one, am going to miss those promos during The Office the few times that I actually watch commercials.

ER's contribution to television is unparalleled.

If you’re wondering what Sarah Michelle Gellar has been doing as of late, the answer is trying to finagle her way into a TV deal with HBO. For you Buffy fans, you will be happy to know that it worked. She will be part of an ensemble cast for a series called The Wonderful Maladys’ . Unfortunately the show is about three young adults who lost their parents at an early age. So not to be too superficial, but unless the character has severe daddy issues, we probably won’t be seeing her naked. Sorry ladies, but a guy hears “Sarah Michelle Gellar” and “HBO” in the same sentence, and that caveat is the first thing that comes to mind. Anyhow, I’d bet 10 to 1 that she got the job by promising to make a True Blood appearance should the series make it past its first season.

Good news, people. Jeff Probst is blogging about Survivor for Entertainment Weekly, meaning you have no reason to read one of our Survivor posts ever again. But still, he won’t provide the irreverent wit and brutal honesty that we do. Sure, he will be tough on the contestants, but this is a man who once called China, “one of the greatest seasons in the history of Survivor“. If you want to avoid that kind of hyperbole, stick to Grid Effect. Your move, Probst.

I haven’t read his book, or any of his books for that matter. But we tend to think Bill O’Reilly gets a bad rap as the ultra-conservative fascist that no one left of center seems to like. He is a conservative, but he isn’t Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh, those are the republican equivalents to Keith Olbermann. We tend to think he is just entirely too abrasive, and he gets the “fascist” moniker for being the headline act on FOX News.

That said, O’Reilly doesn’t do himself any favors when he blames the liberal media for the shortcomings of the Seinfeld finale. Again, we haven’t read his latest memoir, but according to this post, Bill O’Reilly stated in “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity” that the creators of Seinfeld, as well as the creators of The Sopranos, intentionally made a dud to end their respective series’. It is kind of an incomplete blog post (or incomplete book), because it doesn’t state why or how O’Reilly believes this to be true or why the showrunners would intentionally sabotage their own work, but either way, assuming the blogger isn’t taking O’Reilly out of context (which is entirely possible), this is about the most random shit I’ve ever heard.

Back with more later.