Sweeps Month hasn't even started, but for the kinds of shows I enjoy on broadcast/cable TV, it's getting exciting. Doctor Who Season 4 just started on Sci-Fi channel, along with some Sarah Jane Adventures. It's a tall order to come up with as great a story arc like Doctor Who Season 3, but hey, self-contained episodes are fine too. Lost also resumes, and no matter how often I miss of the show, whatever few minutes I do watch, I always seem to get pulled right back in. My sister and her friends are really into BSG, even sharing the seemingly popular "What the frak" youtube video at a recent gathering. On the video world, we just finished Torchwood Season 1 on DVD, a decent season finale that seemed at times to pull some threads from the sci-fi anime world. I had been informed about the sexual orientation of one of the actors, just in time for one of the episodes to seal the deal. I can't wait for season 2 to come out on DVD. If only I could order BBC America and Disney a la carte, and toss out all the other cable channels, that would be so worth it. And of course, PBS. Thinking back and watching some of those old Britcoms still has me belly laughing. I'm also done with season 4 of Dragonball Z, whose theme song lyric graces my title this week. I watched this mostly fast-forward style; I also attempted to do that on a drama series, like Death Note, but it didn't work at all; too many words spoken and things to think about. But for something like DBZ with lots of fighting and combat, it seems to work fine. That kind of leaves a gap in my "what to watch next" block. It was only a month ago that I had about eight anime shows I was watching at the same time, and now it's down to two, and now one: Rumbling Hearts, which is the first anime I've seen where teens have actually slept together. Guess they have been watching Smallville or something. It reminds me a lot of St. Elmo's Fire; not the "girlfriend in a coma" premise, but the whole "we're no longer in high school anymore" feeling. I know some of the pre-tagging duplicates have been driving many of my Union buddies nuts, so I'm continuing on cleaning up those entries first. My hot list for pre-tagged ones is at: 12 foreground ones (announced at the union) and 22 background ones, not counting the big ones for Rockman, Yakitate, or Super Sentai. Although it doesn't help that MovieTome recently turned off Editing Cast/Crew for some unknown reason. Jump to the TV.com Actor and Show Duplicate Assimilation Union On the vaguely TV-related front, I am having a blast reading those Pigeon books (Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus) by Mo Willems. If his writing for the TV series Codename: Kids Next Door is anything like that series, there is hope for US cartoons after all. Hope you enjoy sweeps month and find a series you can cheer for. If not, there are always sports teams, politics, and the Olympics. Oh wait, I'm being redundant. Question: Do you, or would you, buy boxsets for reality shows?