Last Lost tonight!

2 hours of it. I hope it's good.

I watched The Andromeda Strain on A&E this week. I wish I hadn't bothered. It was a little bit boring, and the writers tried too hard to make it more contemporary- in the original Michael Crichton novel, all of the doctors were white men. In the miniseries, two are women, one is black, one is Asian, one is gay. They tried to get a little bit of everything in there....other attempts to make it more "2008"- references to Homeland Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction. It really doesn't work too well. Plus there's a tacked on relationship between two of the doctors that falls flat. Finally, the whole subplot of the reporter trying to break the story was useless and could have been cut with no effect on the story. Bleah. Stick with the book, or the original 1971 movie!

Other T.V. news- Actor/comedian Harvey Korman, best known for The Carol Burnett Show, died today at 81. Damn. I loved watching that show as a kid. :( Also, Alexander Courage, who wrote the theme for the original Star Trek series, died May 15 at age 88. Even people who never watched Star Trek knows that iconic theme!