1. “P.O.V.” Tell me you created a season pass for this. Tell me you caught “Traces of the Trade” last week and will see “Election Day” this Tuesday and “The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez” next Tuesday on your PBS station.
2. HBO. It's bringing back “In Treatment.” The Polanski doc rocked. And on July 13, “Generation Kill” from the creators of “The Wire.” Showtime can only dream of being this good.
3. Digital TV converter boxes. You fill out a form at dtv2009.gov. A $40 gift card arrives in the mail. And that TV in the rec room doesn't go dark next February.
... AND WHAT'S NOT
1. “America's Got Talent.” An Elvis impersonator? A guy who breaks bricks? Tumblers? In prime time? What is this, 1980?
2. The Screen Actors Guild. When the writers struck last year, the Hollywood studios were cast as the heavy. Now SAG is threatening a strike and hoping to make the studios look bad again. Sorry, but that script got a rewrite.
3. George Carlin, RIP. Not just because he could still be brilliant. I was hoping he'd live to see the Supreme Court overturn the “Seven Dirty Words” ruling that got the feds into the “indecency” business.
