[Televisionary]

Hello there Televisionary readers. Christine Fortune here filling in for Jace while he’s jet setting in London (lucky dog). Not to worry, I am equally as obsessed with Project Runway and there certainly was a lot to talk about in this week’s episode, so let’s get to it! It was down to the final five…that is, until my runway nightmares became a reality as both Vincent and Angela returned to the catwalk. In a frightening twist, these two fashion failures were allowed to compete in this week’s challenge as an extra bonus for having won previous challenges. And, because of this, three people would be going home. The other designers received the bad news while attending a L’Oreal “party” (they were the only ones there) and were not happy when confronted with Vincent and Angela’s smiling faces. As Kayne so delicately put it, “It’s like cockroaches. You step on them once and they still keep crawling around.” Cockroaches or not, all designers were given the task of creating a cocktail party...

Sitcoms are tricky things nowadays, what with the push-and-pull between single-camera and traditional multi-camera, lowbrow yet commercially successful fare like According to Jim versus nearly serialized cerebral comedies like Arrested Development . It's an odd time for traditional situation comedies, which many have said are clinging on for dear life. Enter CBS' answer to that ongoing dilemma in the form of The Class , the new sitcom created by Friends creator David Crane and Mad About You 's Jeffrey Klarik, which seems a blend of both new, modern comedy storytelling and traditional sitcom setup, along with a 30-minute advertisement for Classmates.com thrown in for good measure. While CBS was generous enough to send me the first three episodes of The Class , I have to admit that I was only able to get through the pilot (and barely at that). The Class seems a throwback to the mid-90s where comedies about twenty-somethings were all the rage. In this case, they might not b...

Just when you thought that things couldn't get any worse in Agrestic... they do. Well, at least for just about everyone other than poor Isabelly and a suddenly very happy Shane. In last night's episode of Weeds ("Mrs. Botwin's Neighborhood"), Nancy (Mary Louise Parker) has to contend with attacks on the home front from a number of directions, the most upsetting of which is eldest son Silas' (Hunter Parrish), um, reaction to the news that pregnant girlfriend Megan (Shoshannah Stern) won't be keeping their child after all. While Silas keeps texting her with thousands of potential baby names, Megan has shut herself in her bedroom and her father is none to pleased with Silas when he attempts to try and see her. (Nor should he be when Silas breaks through Megan's bedroom window and stabs--yes, STABS--Megan's dad with a piece of broken glass. Nancy's reaction to the entire bloody scene is a classic momma bear action; she gets right up in to the guy...

Time travel is a funny thing. Especially when the traveler in question has gone backwards in time, rather than forward. Can you change the future by altering the past? Can you save yourself? Such questions have been plaguing Detective Sam Tyler (John Simms) for the last eight episodes of the superbly twisted British import Life on Mars . For those of you who have heretofore avoided the trippy time-travel/cop drama and weren't lucky enough to get a DVD box set from BBC America (it's already in a prized spot on my living room bookshelves), here's a quick primer on the story so far. In 2006, Sam is on the hunt for a twisted serial killer abducting young women. After his own girlfriend, a police colleague, is abducted, Sam is hit by a car in a near-fatal accident. When he wakes up, he finds himself in 1973, still assigned to the Manchester police force, on the hunt for a serial killer abducting young women... But is Sam mad? Or in a coma? Or has he traveled back in time? It app...

Just in time for the start of the fall season, NBC's The Office (now an Emmy-winning comedy, no less) has wrapped up its summer-time webisode series, "The Accountants," and the crack sleuthing team of Dunder-Mifflin accountants Oscar (Oscar Nunez), Kevin (Brian Baumgartner), and Angela (Angela Kinsey) has finally located that missing $3000. Okay, so maybe they're not such a crack sleuthing team, after all. In the web series' final installment ("The Best Day of My Life"), Dwight (Rainn Wilson) makes a rare appearance as he and Angela confer in the break room about how to proceed with the investigation. Causing a little but of a rift between our two secretive lovers, Angela suspects Michael of some corporate malfeasance and Dwight naturally defends Michael against any financial impropriety. What about that waterbed that Michael's been bragging about lately? Dwight is quick to counter that Michael bought it on his Discover card and got cash back. He...

Was I the only one whooping and hollering last night? I swear I could hear similar cries of excitement emanating from other houses in my neighborhood around 11 pm last night. For those of you who failed to catch Runway last night, what I've been praying for has finally happened. Just when I had begun to lose faith in Project Runway (shock, horror!), Heidi and the other judges finally auf wiedersehen' d Vincent last night. It was about time that this 401K-cashing space cadet be punished for his sartorial crimes, even if it should have happened a few weeks back . I'm still smarting over the fact that uber-talented Allison was booted and Vincent managed to make it this far, despite landing in the bottom 3 nearly every week... I may have cried foul, but I'm happy to see that the judges have finally snapped out of whatever hypnotic trance they've been under to cut the unfashionable chaff from the wheat. This week found the contestants still in Paris, operating out of t...

While the third season of Sci Fi's Battlestar Galactica might not launch until next month (October 6th, to be precise), I hope that fans of BSG will check out the 10-installment webisode series "The Resistance" currently airing on SciFi.com . (Installments will be posted every Tuesday and Thursday leading up to the series' third season premiere.) While I've been lucky enough (thank the Lords of Kobol) to watch the first six episodes of Battlestar Galactica 's next season (and seriously, WOW, they pack quite a wollop), I can already tell that the webisodes will fill in the blanks a little bit between that fantastic one-year later second season finale and the two-hour third season premiere ("Occupation"/"Precipice"). The first webisode installment went live yesterday and follows the Human Resistance movement on New Caprica. A scruffily bearded Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglass)--look for that beard to mysteriously disappear a few episodes in wi...