David Brent: "Loser"

While I'm off enjoying a glorious (if infernally hot) Fourth of July weekend, some of you unlucky office worker types might be stuck inside. To that end, here's a little something to perk up your Monday morning: namely a video montage of The Office's David Brent (Ricky Gervais), set to Beck's classic tune, "Loser."

I think it speaks for itself.

What's On Tonight

8 pm: The King of Queens/How I Met Your Mother (CBS); Treasure Hunters (NBC); 7th Heaven (WB); Wife Swap (ABC); Mr. Deeds (FOX; 8-10 pm); Major League Baseball (UPN)

9 pm: Two and a Half Men/The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS); Treasure Hunters (NBC); 7th Heaven (WB); Supernanny (ABC)

10 pm: CSI: Miami (CBS); Medium (NBC); How to Get the Guy (ABC)

What I'll Be Watching

8 pm: Spaced on BBC America.

If you missed Friday's Stateside airing of the hilarious and surreal 1999 sitcom Spaced (starring Shaun of the Dead's Simon Pegg), here's your chance to catch the third episode before another episode airs Friday. On tonight's episode ("Art"), Daisy's world is turned upside down when she goes on a job interview.

8:30 pm: Peep Show on BBC America.

A second chance to catch the second season premiere before a new episode on Friday. On tonight's episode, Mark believes that true love means hacking into would-be lover Sophie's email account, while Jeremy deals with an American girlfriend (guest star Rachel Blanchard) with a fetish for breaking taboos.

10 pm: Anthony Bourdain: Decoding Ferran Adria on the Travel Channel.

While No Reservations might be in repeats, here's a chance to catch a brand-new special with that sarcastic celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain, as he visits the research laboratory of chef Ferran Adria, Catalan gourmand, culinary innovator and a mad scientist rolled into one. He's the type of chef who might serve up something like a "frozen gin with hot lemon fizz," "soft-boiled quail egg with a crispy caramel crust," or "almond ice cream on a swirl of garlic oil and balsamic vinegar." Yum.

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JacquelineC said…

Thought you might enjoy my post on the Bourdain/Adria show. Stop by and have a look...

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7/09/2006

Have a Burning Question for Team Darlton, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, or Michael Emerson?

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What's Done is Done: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil on the Season Finale of "Lost"

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In Defense of Downton Abbey (Or, Don't Believe Everything You Read)

The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. Which means, if I can get on my soapbox for a minute, that in order to judge something, one ought to experience it first hand. One can't know how the pudding has turned out until one actually tastes it. I was asked last week--while I was on vacation with my wife--for an interview by a journalist from The Daily Mail, who got in touch to talk to me about PBS' upcoming launch of ITV's period drama Downton Abbey , which stars Hugh Bonneville, Dame Maggie Smith, Dan Stevens, Elizabeth McGovern, and a host of others. (It launches on Sunday evening as part of PBS' Masterpiece Classic ; my advance review of the first season can be read here , while my interview with Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and stars Dan Stevens and Hugh Bonneville can be read here .) Normally, I would have refused, just based on the fact that I was traveling and wasn't working, but I love Downton Abbey and am so enchanted with the proj

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