TV

Heroes seems to be all the rage. I gave up on it after a few weeks, but maybe I'll try to get caught up. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was rumored to be on the verge of cancellation. NBC says that, on the contrary, three additional episodes have been ordered...but it does seem like the show may be not long for this world. (All of this Studio 60 news via Slate's "Today's Blogs" column.)

Everyone by law is entitled to a trial with representation. Everyone. It is not an option to be discarded at the president's whim. - Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica

The Street on BBCAmerica is not exactly a collection of feel good stories...but it's a good show. This week's episode, "Bold Street: Football," was especially so. From the show's web site:

Set in the North of England, The Street lifts the lid on the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Each emotionally powerful episode concentrates on a different house on the same street, everyone linked to the other by a sense of community and shared experience.

From an AP article of the same title by Sandy Cohen on Yahoo News:

Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber always had a moral message in their long-running "VeggieTales" video series. But now that the vegetable stars have hit network television, they can't speak as freely as they once did, and that's got the Parents Television Council steamed. The conservative media-watchdog group issued a statement Wednesday blasting NBC, which airs "VeggieTales," for editing out some references to God from the children's animated show... "VeggieTales" creator Phil Vischer, who was responsible for readying episodes for network broadcast, said he didn't know until just weeks before the shows were to begin airing that non-historical references to God and the Bible would have to be removed. Had he known how much he'd have to change the show - including Bob and Larry's tagline, "Remember kids, God made you special and he loves you very much," that concludes each episode - Vischer said he wouldn't have signed on for the network deal. "I would have declined partly because I knew a lot of fans would feel like it was a sellout or it was done for money," he said, adding that "there weren't enough shows that could work well without those (religious) references."

I had seen a little bit of one of these episodes as the kids were watching it, and I wondered if the religious content had been toned down. It has.

Lost is back. There's a related quiz on beliefnet.