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Lost Returns

(ABC, re-cap starts at 8 PM/EST, the 2 Hour Season Premier starts at 9 PM/EST)

Well, it's been a good long time, but Lost is finally starting again tonight, Wednesday January 21st and by the way, it's going to be awesome. The producers have already announced that this will be the second last season, so pretty much, you know they're not just leading you on and jerking you around. This is the beginning of the end. And if you ask me that's a good feeling. Lost has somehow managed to dodge the pitfalls of so many other long-running ensemble series (ER, Law & Order, Two & A Half Men) in that at no point has it slowed down. Even Season 3, widely considered to be the weakest of all the Seasons is still some of the best TV you'll see in a good long time. If you don't believe me, I'm pretty sure that Duggy has the season on DVD and is always happy to lend it out for extended periods of time, ain't that right Duggy?

Now I could go into all the philosophy and science (or FRINGE science!!) of Lost, but I'll let people discover that on their own - just know that EW and Lostpedia are heads above the rest for siiiick theories. In the meantime I'll just post this little re-cap of Seasons 1-4 in honor of the start of Season 5 tonight.

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As the presidential debates took over every single station in existence, or at least 5 major US networks (there's a Canadian network!?) there isn't much to report in terms of actual shows. Which is too bad, because there are few things I would have loved more than writing about Knight Rider for you all.

Actually, Pushing Daisies (ABC 8 PM/ET) did replay the season premier and if you like the show, it was a pleasant return. Now in it's 2nd season, the entire cast seems more comfortable with the speaking rhythms and melodramatic queues. And the shows creators seem more comfortable doing whatever the hell they want. The tagline for the show was "forensic fairy tale" and as anyone who watches it knows, the forensics play a very small part and the fairy tale a much larger one. Even more so now that it's been picked up. The real question though: will people actually watch it now that it has a strike-free season ahead of it? (knock on wood... don't fuck me over gaffers!!)

• So in actually Tittie Pipe news, David E. Kelly (creator of Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Legal and every other Legal dramedy ever made) is going to give TV a crack with a new show that centers around the crazy question of what happens when a father and daughter BOTH practice law? All I know is that zaniness and/or heartfelt moments ensue.

• Will Arnett of  dearly departed Arrested Development has been offered a seven-figure deal with FOX to make a new show. Early reports suggest the sitcom will revolve around a man who was incredibly funny in his freshman TV effort and then got sucked into a string of terrible movies. He's so method!!

• And speaking of method! in a slightly different kind of Tittie Pipe news, Steven Soderberg has tapped Sasha Grey (not like that...) as the lead role in his gritty new film about high class prostitutes who fuck for money. Take out the "high", "class" and "prostitute" and you can see how Grey would fit right in!! Of course this is a huge break for the adult film actress. The Girlfriend Experience will be Soderberg's follow-up to the four hour historical epic Che and Grey's follow-up to the 90-minute epic Four Massive Black Cocks In My Ass.