Fox Fall, 2012 Premiere Dates

…And we might even watch a few. (BONES, for sure. But…THE MOB DOCTOR? That’s going to need the best execution ever to make it through half a season, don’t cha think?)

Fall TV: Fox Sets Premiere Dates Leading Off WithX Factor and Glee, Touch Gets Late Start

On the heels of NBC revealing its own roll-out schedule for the 2012-13 TV season, Fox has now come forth to detail its own game plan.

A two-night launch for the revamped X Factor (now with Britney Spears and Demi Lovato) kicks things off on Sept. 12, while Touch brings up the rear, holding its sophomore premiere until just before Halloween.

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Nikki and the Gang Love on a Guy Whose Work Truly Deserves It

Deadline.Com gets it very, very right. (And wait’ll you get to the really cool part about Louis C.K. writing all the episodes.)

‘Louie’s Louis C.K.

It would be an understatement to credit Louis C.K. as another stand-up who has redefined situation comedy like Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. C.K. isn’t just making funny TV every week in Louie as a single New York City father. He’s revolutionizing it with an anthology of exceptional short films. After pushing the boundaries of multi-camera comedy onHBO with Lucky Louie, C.K.’s latest show on FX serves as an evolution to the festival and Showtime short films he created throughout the ’90s: The black-and-white jazz mockumentary The Legend of Willie Brown, the Elia Kazan-esque Ice Cream and the Depression-era talkie sendup Hello There to name a few. These bellwethers laid out the themes that C.K. harps on in Louie: Man’s challenge to conform to socially acceptable roles (i.e. not asking 19-year-olds out on dates as C.K. did in the episode ‘Duckling’) and the absurdity of urban life gone awry (accidentally tossing a lunatic vagrant into oncoming traffic in ‘Bummer/Blueberries’). The TV Academy is already more than OK with C.K. having lauded Louie last year with Emmy noms for comedy writing and lead actor.

A Genuine Robin Reed Cartoon

Robin Reed, Cartoonist Supreme (among other things – check out Robin’s Kindle goodies) has come through with this televisiony comment from her archives.

And, as she way too modestly adds, it “was also in National Lampoon’s Best Cartoons of the 21st Century.

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Hey, It’s the Doctor Who Puppet

…What else can we say?

I’m back! I had a busy week of traveling around New York, including a visit to the Eastern tip of Long Island. I explored the beach and met some of the local wildlife. Crabs are lovely creatures, though they do get cross when you pick them up. I may have been pinched a few times.