SPOTTED:ATWT CREW MEMBER!

Approximately 50 minutes into today's episode is an ATWT crew member, of indeterminate sex but wearing either a Yankees cap or shirt, clearly seen under Dusty's elbow. It is astonishing that no one caught this! I realize there is no time for retakes but really -- that footage is unbroadcastable.

On a more positive note, GOSSIP GIRL kicked ass tonight. Fashion, bitchery and Dan Humphreys being eyed up by 2 leather daddies in jail! As melodramatic as GG is, I can't help but love the current Blair storyline because I also never, ever forgive a friend who has betrayed me. Granted, I am not as machiavellian as Blair but I can be just as much a raving loon. But as to my antics -- I'll never tell.

xoxo

BILLY ABBOTT AND BREAST MILK

Having Amber's not-so-imaginary boyfriend Liam turn out to be Billy Abbott on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS is inspired and clever. I sense that whoever on the writing staff (I'm guessing Hogan Sheffer) thought up the reveal that Chloe is Kate thought this one up too. My only qualm is that post-David Tom, I have no memory of what Billy got up to or why anyone would be mad to see him. Let the infodump commence!

I watched most of NIGHT SHIFT tonight and I can not wait for Chad Allen to show up so that Kyle can have stuff to do besides being Comedy Gay. This week we got to see a gay man deal with milking breasts! Larks! Almost as sidesplitting as when Kyle talked to senior citizens about venereal disease! Woohoo! In other NIGHT SHIFT business, I am just not feeling the Antonio Sabato Jr love. I am a child of the '80s, not the '90s, so Jagger means nada por mi. And Jason Thompson is acting Antonio off the screen! If you don't believe me, watch any scene between Patrick and Jagger and tell me, honestly -- who comes off better?

SHIRTLESS GUYS AND JANET'S PIES

Oakdale is strictly dullsville nowadays. It's taken me until tonight to watch last Tuesday's episode!!! It is hard to get motivated to watch AS THE WORLD TURNS, but there are still points of interest:
1) Dylan Bruce and his pecs.
2) Billy Magnusson and that little growl he made before he sexed up Emily.
3) Juicy Janet and her odd sounding Apple Chipotle Pecan pie. Hmmmm....well, better than Grace's Tomato Soup Cake on the late, unlamented PASSIONS.
Otherwise, Grayson McCouch's Dusty can not return soon enough.

THE ONLY DOCTOR I WANT TO SEE IS DOCTOR WHO

In between rewatching the final episodes of Series 4 of DOCTOR WHO (TURN LEFT has a funny CORONATION STREET reference, by the way), I took a little break to see some of NIGHT SHIFT. I saw just enough to convince me to cancel my future DVR recording of this week's episode! Claire and someone else you don't care about were exchanging amateur dramatics, Robin and Patrick were being miserable and Jagger and Leo were being boring. I'd write more about this underwhelming GH spinoff but I have to go see Gita from EASTENDERS get killed killed by Daleks in JOURNEY'S END, the DW Series 4 finale!

TRUE MEGAN

In the pre-credits sequence of TRUE BLOOD tonight I was surprised and delighted to see Jessica Tuck, in a small but important role. Jessica and her ONE LIFE TO LIVE character, Megan, were sorely missed on the recent 40th anniversary episodes of OLTL. We got one vintage clip but I would really have liked to see Jessica at the point in OLTL where she was playing Megan, Megan's split personality Ruby and the two roles Megan was playing in OLTL's soap within a soap -- all at THE SAME TIME. (IIRC!!!) Hopefully there'll be more Jessica Tuck goodness in TRUE BLOOD; I rather watch her in this than in any iteration of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!

SLIVERS OF SOAP

I only watched the last ten minutes of ONE LIFE TO LIVE and the first ten minutes of GENERAL HOSPITAL today. If I watched any more I would have been in danger of doing nothing else but watching SoapNet tonight, and I really wanted to watch a movie with The Unemployed Boyfriend and eat pizza. (THE HOURS and pepperoni, respectively.) Anyhoo, the Todd/Marty story is unlike anything I've ever seen on daytime. How far will they go? And will Marty kill Todd when (or if?!) she gets her memories back?

GH had the welcome spectacle of Maxie sticking up for Spinelli's right to orange soda and BBQ potato chips. I also liked the way Kate repeated back to Clarice her unwelcome Sonny/Carly news just to make sure Kate understood. Poor Clarice. She's like Rosencrantz or Guildenstern in HAMLET -- a side character privy to the maelstrom of a larger than life character. (Notice how literary I've become after rewatching THE HOURS???)