Sun, June 22, 2003

Ah.... summer.

That time of year when there's so little on television that my TiVo can just keep on recording 2-hour episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 to its little heart's content. I can go months without watching Letterman and still have enough free space for it to record a few suggestions of Even Stevens despite the fact that I've only watched about five minutes of that show in my life. (Christy Romano is a babe, and she performed my favorite song on the Everyone Says I Love You soundtrack.)

It's also the time of year when there's so little going on that I'll actually dip my toe in the reality TV pool. I've been avoiding it pretty completely (okay, Trading Spaces doesn't count!) since making the mistake of checking out one more season of Survivor last year, but it's summer so why not? I've been keeping up with Last Comic Standing primarily because of friends' recommendations but also because I like host Jay Mohr and I'm flabbergasted that outspoken New York comic Rich Vos actually signed up for the thing. (So far, he's been moving forward in the competition which I assume is some sort of obligation that they have to real professional comedians.) I was also shocked to see erstwhile Daily Show correspondent Paul Michael Mercurio onstage and not at all shocked to see him bomb out at the semifinal level. For the most part the show is fairly forgettable, but in every hour there are one or two great lines and there's a funny guy from Minnesota which just goes to prove that that state only produces funny people. (Prince is an exception? Not if we expand "Funny Ha-ha" to also include "Funny Queer"!)

But (there's always a "but"), here's what happened to me. I was watching along and out of nowhere – bam! NBC is promoting one of their new shows for fall and it's called Las Vegas. It appears to be a sort of Ocean's Eleven from the Andy Garcia point of view (and possibly without the robbery, although I suspect at least one episode will take that approach). Kinda interested me, because it has that slick cinematic style that I like (and that makes shows too expensive to last more than three episodes; I'll go out on a limb and predict five before Las Vegas gets yanked). Also it features James Caan, which is an interesting thing for a television show to do. And it features Molly Sims. Aside from sounding like the best computer game ever, Molly Sims is the MTV host and Sports Illustrated model who captured my heart with those "only at Old Navy" ads back when Survivor: The Outback was on. Mmmmm. Molly Sims. I know where I'll be Friday nights this fall (or whenever it is that the thing ends up airing by the time the programmers get through shuffling their schedules around). Molly Sims, people!

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