In the ultimate example of TV’s sweeps-month exploitation (a new word: sweepsploitation?), the Jessica Lynch movie and the Elizabeth Smart movie are currently going head-to-head on NBC and CBS, respectively. I’m not watching either. At the moment, all three of the TVs in our house are tuned to the Discovery Channel, which is airing a program about model-rocket nerds. :)

I liked Conan O’Brien’s satire of the sweeps silliness, which also, of course, included CBS’s controversial, now-cancelled Reagans movie. Conan’s TV-movie of choice showed Jessica Lynch, Elizabeth Smart, and Ronald Reagan getting trapped together in a Pennsylvania mine shaft… only to be rescued by Kobe Bryant. Hee hee. :)