The Good Wife 4.19

In which we find out what the penalty for writing fanfiction is on this show, and it is dire.

( Also, the only sexy Republican is back, and so is Colin Sweeney )

Doctor Who 7.07

So, depending on how you count, the mid season episode or the season opener. Anyway: the one where Jenna-Louise Coleman becomes a regular.

( Three times is the charm... )

and in news of Doctor Who past

I just came across this excerpt of a conversation between Katy Manning and Russell T. Davies which is from an upcoming dvd audio commentary on The Green Death, in which they discuss Jo Grant. Observe me going awwwww.

When I started to get into Doctor Who and watched old and new episodes, Jo was a companion who kept getting bad references; she was held up for ridicule and described as the "screamer", the useless one, etc.,, contrasted to her disadvantage with the two other Third Doctor companions, Liz Shaw and Sarah Jane Smith, not to mention later companions like Romana or Ace. It therefore caught be by (very pleasant) surprise how completely I fell for Jo when I actually watched her episodes. I fell in love so completely that the most exciting thing about the Sarah Jane Adventures two parter "Death of the Doctor" (spoiler: he doesn't die) wasn't that Eleven would guest star in SJA (Ten had already done so), but that Jo would, and we'd get a meeting between her and Sarah Jane. And what made me even more excited was that our former Welsh overlord, RTD, said that he disliked that Jo in the DW tie in media, the books, had gotten a divorce and cancer, that this was not the fate of Jo, and he would change that. Which he did con brio. As of SJA tv canon, Jo had a splendid adventurous post Doctor life, and a family of world saving hippies, and is still full of joie de vivre. (And the occasional klutziness.) (While he was at it, our Rusty also gave a happy ending to a dozen other Old Who companions as indicated in Sarah Jane's closing monologue as to what had become of them.) Just when I was feeling a bit blasé and jaded and DW, this interview excerpt brought back not only the Jo containing SJA two parter but a wave of program love. In conclusion: Jo Grant: still groovy. Also: awwwwww.