What's working for me this week....

1. Conan! The future — and not just in the year 3000 — looks bright for NBC in late night with the hilarious redhead now in charge. "The Tonight Show" is funnier, fresher and more interesting than it's been in years. Good luck with that bumping-Law-and-Order gig, Jay.

2. Neil Patrick Harris's show-stopper. With up-to-the-minute lyrics and such couplets as "This show could not be gayer/If Liza was named mayor," Doogie demonstrated why he should host the Tony Awards every year.

3. Edie Falco's "Nurse Jackie" on Showtime and "Royal Pains" on USA. "Grey's Anatomy" can stay in reruns as far as I'm concerned, now that summer — and this terrific tandem of doctor-and-nurse shows — has arrived.

... AND WHAT'S NOT

1. Laura Ling and Euna Lee in captivity. While making a documentary about female trafficking for Current TV, the woman were detained by North Korean military, then sentenced to 12 years in a kangaroo court for committing journalism.

2. Blaming the messengers. I'm appalled, though not terribly surprised, to find people saying it was Lee and Ling's own fault that they were anywhere near the North Korean border when they were arrested. It appears Kim Jong-Il is not the only one who believes the world only needs to get its North Korean news from Pyongyang's state-run television service.

3. "Raising the Bar." Not since "Jimmy Kimmel Live" has a TV show been so deceptively named.