My boi's mother died in November. So a few weeks spent in hospitals, preparing and attending a funeral, and helping her father regroup financially and emotionally left little time for writing about television. We gave up on taping and watching a few shows. We're still left with quite a number, though.

Over the weekend we got hooked on "Steven Spielberg presents Taken" on the SciFi channel. We're both bummed that there won't be a new episode of "Angel" until January. We trying to find the time to watch last week's episode of "John Doe" (which we did manage to get taped). And we're looking forward to the return of "Stargate: SG1" old episodes on SciFi channel (pre-empted for "Taken") as we're getting them taped in order for our personal library.

Tonight is the penultimate episode of "The Amazing Race 3" -- and I'm happy to know that CBS has committed to a TAR4. However, we were both happy to hear that "Birds of Prey" has been cancelled. It's the car wreck show of the season for us: we can't seem to stop watching even though we know how bad it is. Now we're just waiting for the last few unaired episodes and then we'll be out of our misery.