Holiday Gift Help: Own A Piece of "Buffy" History

Confession time: in my living room, above my entertainment center is a framed Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More with Feeling poster. It is, even after the years since this brutally smart cult series wrapped, one of my prized possessions.

A Televisionary reader send in this link to a current eBay auction for another hard-to-find piece of Buffy history: a matted and framed original limited edition piece of artwork created for the final wrap party on Buffy. It features the regular cast at the time, including Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Marsters, Nicholas Brendon, Emma Caulfield, Alyson Hannigan, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Anthony Stewart Head in a sort of hand-drawn pre-Jo Chen piece that any fan would love to have.

Auction ends December 3rd at 10 pm PT and the Buy It Now function is available at a cool $750.

And with the holiday season swifty approaching, the perfect gift for any Buffy fan looking to add to their collection.

What's On Tonight

8 pm: Kid Nation (CBS); Christmas in Rockefeller Center (NBC); America's Next Top Model (CW); Shrek the Halls/How the Grinch Stole Christmas (ABC); 'Til Death (FOX)

9 pm: Criminal Minds (CBS); Bionic Woman (NBC); Gossip Girl (CW); Pushing Daisies (ABC); Kitchen Nightmares

10 pm: CSI: New York (CBS); Life (NBC); Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)

What I'll Be Watching

8 pm: America's Next Top Model.

On tonight's episode ("The Girls Go on Go-See Adventures"), the five remaining contestants (thankfully including Heather!) visit designers in Shanghai; later, Nigel Barker shoots the girls in an amazing photo shoot that includes Chinese costume dragons and lions. It's getting down to the final few model wannabes and for many of these girls the claws are out.

9 pm: Pushing Daisies.

Catch Televisionary obsession Pushing Daisies at a special time tonight. On tonight's installment ("Bitter Sweets"), Ned and the Pie Hole crew find themselves embroiled in a turf war with a pair of taffy-shop owner siblings (guest stars Molly Shannon and Mike White) hell-bent on pushing them out of business.

10 pm: Dirty Sexy Money.

On tonight's episode of the highly addictive screwball soap ("The Watch"): it's flashback time as we learn about Letitia's affair with Dutch (that would be Nick's daddy); Karen flirts with Simon while at the hospital visiting Patrick (recovering from last week's gunshot wound at the hands of his wife); Brian is arrested after trying to bribe the arbitrator; and Jeremy turns to Lisa for help in keeping his identity secret from Sofia.

10 pm: Project Runway on Bravo.

Season Four of Bravo's Project Runway continues. On tonight's episode, the designers try to come out on top while working for a very different client. Hmmm.

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

Lost fans: you don't have to make your way to the island via Ajira Airways in order to ask a question of the creative team or the series' stars. Televisionary is taking questions from fans to put to Lost 's executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and stars Matthew Fox ("Jack Shephard"), Evangeline Lilly ("Kate Austen"), and Michael Emerson ("Benjamin Linus") for a series of on-camera interviews taking place this weekend. If you have a specific question for any of the above producers or actors from Lost , please leave it in the comments section below . I'll be accepting questions until midnight PT tonight and, while I can't promise I'll be able to ask any specific inquiry due to the brevity of these on-camera interviews, I am looking for some insightful and thought-provoking questions to add to the mix. So who knows: your burning question might get asked after all.

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

Every story begins with thread. It's up to the storyteller to determine just how much they need to parcel out, what pattern they're making, and when to cut it short and tie it off. With last night's penultimate season finale of Lost ("The Incident, Parts One and Two"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, we began to see the pattern that Lindelof and Cuse have been designing towards the last five seasons of this serpentine series. And it was only fitting that the two-hour finale, which pushes us on the road to the final season of Lost , should begin with thread, a loom, and a tapestry. Would Jack follow through on his plan to detonate the island and therefore reset their lives aboard Oceanic Flight 815 ? Why did Locke want to kill Jacob? What caused The Incident? What was in the box and just what lies in the shadow of the statue? We got the answers to these in a two-hour season finale that didn't quite pack the same emotional wallop of previous season

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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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