Don't Touch Pete's Piece: Last night TNN replayed the first six episodes of a legendary, but short-lived, old TV series called The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. This was a western in the vain of the Wild Wild West (the cool TV show, not the lame movie), but the writer's must have been gagging from keeping their tongues wedged so deeply in their cheeks. Clever scripts, a good balance of campy action and comedy, excellent timing, and killer pacing (you know how I am about pacing) - it could be considered as a pre-cursor to all the hyper-ironic magic-realism that's so popular now, e.g. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed.

A perfect example of what is wrong with TV. We can get 100 knock-offs of Everybody Loves Raymond, all the dire and bloated drama of West Wing or The Practice, and reality shows, well, don't get me started. Brisco lasted 27 episodes. Feh!