Homicide: Life on Repeat

At first, I was thrilled to see Andre Braugher would be getting a six-episode arc on ER next season (the perfect length to still qualify for a Guest Actor in a Drama Emmy). But then I read on:

Braugher ("Homicide: Life on the Street") will appear in a six-episode arc as a carpenter who arrives in the emergency room with a simple cough. But he suffers a stroke while waiting to be seen, and his life eventually falls apart as a result of his paralysis.

Uh, hasn't he already done that storyline? As always, he was amazing, but I'd rather see him show us something new. However, any Braugher is better than no Braugher at all (unless it's in Poseidon), so this is still enough to get me to tune into ER again.

Will & Restraint

I'd like to nominate Will & Grace for a special Emmy for doing an entire episode about a gay cowboy bar without a single reference to Brokeback Mountain (not even a "Just Jack? Just Jack Nasty!"). Pretty impressive.

Also impressive - NBC apparently ran something of a Shohreh Aghdashloo theme night, featuring the brilliant actress on both Will & Grace and ER. Sadly, I didn't learn of her stint in the ER until it was too late, and I'm afraid she's not quite as adept at comedy as she is at heart-breaking drama (to be fair, it wasn't the best written special guest role ever on the show), but still... bravo, NBC.

Now if only 24 could stop killing characters off long enough to bring Dina Araz back from the dead.