TV: Tuesday Edition

After the massive attack of shows on Monday, Tuesday is a great deal lighter. This works out for me, because I've got all those shows from Monday recorded that I still need to get through. Plus, it's even lighter now that I removed Reaper from the list (humor misses too often, and there's too little of a very cool premise). Let's discuss the remaining shows, while carefully avoiding GIANT SPOILERS like the one that Paul decided to shout out for Prison Break...

House (9PM Fox)

British comedy legend Hugh Laurie plays a doctor with a perfect American accent. Usually when actors are forced to hide their native accents, it's a disaster (I'm looking at you, Eddie Izzard). Are we not at the point where the American viewership can accept that some people talk differently? The thing is, Hugh does such an amazing job, you wouldn't know he was British unless I just told you. He really ruins it for everyone else. Remember the Pythons doing American accents in various sketches of Meaning of Life? No? Of course not, because they were so bad.

The fact that this isn't in Paul's top five and goddamn Survivor is could only be called a travesty. This season's use of teams and tribal councils seems to be specifically designed to change Paul's mind.

Boston Legal (10PM ABC)

Another of the best shows on TV, and it's a spinoff of The Practice, which sucked. How often are spinoffs better than the original? Well, there's Star Trek: The Next Generation (and its own spinoff, Deep Space Nine, which may have been better still), and... what? Frasier lasted longer than Cheers, but I don't know if you could call it more successful, and it certainly wasn't better. The Colbert Report is often funnier than the preceding Daily Show, but I don't know if that's really a spinoff in the purest sense, and that's the only sense that counts. And even though in the last few seasons of Friends Joey was the only one who was still allowed to be funny, when you take everyone else out, you're not left with much.

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And that's all for Tuesday. Not a whole lot, but the shows that are there are great, and it gives me a day to clear my DVR for Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday.