NBC Season, Peabody Winners, Recession and Doogie

NBC Announces Next Season Plans - The network has released its plans for the next season through the summer including its schedule. The general plan is to have an 8PM family hour, 9PM blockbuster hour and 10PM adult themes hour. This replaces the previous announcement of having mostly reality shows at 8pm. In addition Las Vegas showrunner has been assigned to Knight Rider. I enjoyed Las Vegas so please but the show not being granted a finale still annoys me and generates a lot of distrust for NBC endeavors at this point. Also Chuck has been renewed something I wasn't aware of. Click the link to get the full schedule and presentation.

Peabody Award Winners Announced - The winners of the 2007 Peabody from the University of Georgia (I am an alumni) has been announced. Lots of great talent won awards but the key one is another victory lap for The Colbert Report for "bombastic and self-serving in cable-news bloviasion, has come into his own as one of electronic media`s sharpest satirists."

Depression vs Recession - A brief 101 introduction to the two economic concepts. Essentially a recession is 6 months of negative business growth; currently we are at 3 which are why Bush can claim this is a "slowdown". A depression is basically a longer version of a recession, probably a year or more of negative growth. Suffice it to say Bush's anything for big business policies have not had the trickle down effect he thought they would. Duh, business is greedy to the point of self-destruction, why don't republicans get that.

Doogie Howser Returns - Via the man himself, Neil Patrick Harris sends up his ages old Doogie Howser role complete with theme, large text over blue screen and thoughtful pause. Hilarious. If you’re not watching How I Met Your Mother, you really should be.