In the closing minutes of last night's Grey's Anatomy I was distracted.   

Even though questions were being popped and Izzie was giving away her money, I was mostly excited about the fact that they were playing "Love Show" by Skye in the background.

Skye used to be the singer for a funky trip-hop band called Morcheeba, but she's sinced ditched them (wisely, I think) and released a solo record that is more in vein with the band's poppier stuff.  Love Show's the first single and, ahem, it made my list of the top songs of 2007.

The video's below. 

I'm watching The View right now.  Tina Fey's the guest host and they're petting alpacas. 

• Sounds like Isaiah Washington's job is safe.  Shonda, Shonda, Shonda.
• Sad news.  If you watched the BRAVO show Work Out you might remember trainer Doug — the middle-aged gay guy who trained Jody Watley.  He died of a brain tumor Jan. 22.
• Last Comic Standing will be searching Canada, England and Australia for English-speaking, sometimes-funny comedians.
• Eric Roberts is joining the cast of Heroes.  Seriously.
• A new Ask Ausiello thread is up and has spoilers for Lost, Gilmore Girls and Grey's. 

Pumps and bump, pumps and a bump, we like the girls with the pumps and a bump. 

• The Special Olympics thank American Idol for making fun of retarded people.
• Let's think long and hard about who this item would be of interest to.  CBS will have a pirate-themed reality show, tentatively entitled "Pirate Master." 
• Poor kid.  Some stupid girl hit Marcel from Top Chef in the face with a bottle, requiring 30 stitches and giving him an inch-long scar on his face.  Meanwhile Ilan is presumably feeling guilty for being a jerk and is calling Marcel all the time. 
• Not only is Jennifer Aniston going to do a guest spot on the boring-ass show Dirt, but she'll be gayin' it up as well.  In fact, she will give a big ole' smooch to Courteney Cox.
• Felicity got knocked up. 

For those of you who don't know and could possibly care (that is, admittedly, a small portion of you), TiFaux would like to offer an affectionate pat on the bum to former Survivor contestant and current Janice Dickinson Model Agency cast member J.P Calderon for his recent coming-out.

The professional volleyball player/shirtless wonder has made it official (after a few months of speculation that he was dating openly gay Survivor castmate Brad Virata — J.P and Brad were on Team Latino and Team Asian) in the pages of Instinct magazine.  It's all cross-promotion with his appearance on the JDMA show, since tomorrow night's episode will be all about his conflict with coming out.

I'm guessing J.P. is going to be the next Reichen (Lance Bass' boyfriend/Amazing Race winner).  That is, he'll continue to sustain a bit of notoriety because he is impossibly good-looking (so good-looking, in fact, it just pisses me off at this point) and castable in any number of reality projects. 

See also: Neil Patrick Harris  

Here's a tip from your friendly TiFaux editors: Watching Battlestar Galactica, 24, and Heroes in a row without pausing and without commercials may cause anxiety, heart palpitations, and/or mild panic attacks.

With Battlestar Galactica late on Sundays now, and 24 back from its nine-month hiatus, we were faced last night with an unprecedented block of television so apocalyptic and full of shocking revelations I feel like investing in a fallout bunker like President Palmer's. 

I'm a little shaken, a little jittery. They're such different shows — one's in space, one plays in "real time," one's about a bunch of genetic mutants — I guess it never occurred to me how high the stakes are in each of these shows. Where's a little Gilmore Girls to relieve the tension? We didn't even end up having time to watch the return of Studio 60, which might have lessened the emotional toll somewhat. 

(And now for the SPOILERS.) 

Talk about a night for surprises.

24: Jack's brother is the mastermind terrorist from last season! Shock, shock, shocking! So he clearly has a Jack Bauer inferiority complex (who doesn't?), and that's even before we knew his wife had a thing with Jack. Last season the terrorists were trying to prevent terrorism, or something equally crazy, if I remember correctly, so what I see happening is this: Graham Bauer, having lived all his life in Jack's enormous shadow, tried to be a hero in his own misguided way. He's not evil, he's just trying to live up to a ridiculous standard. Or he's evil. To be determined.

Also, I fully expect that when Philip Bauer shows up (James Cromwell), he'll be all "Hello, Boy-o" and then shoot someone in the gut. Because that's the kind of guy he is. 

Heroes: An invisible guy? Cool. The return of Zach? Nice. Isaac's vision of Hiro battling a dinosaur actually being a scene in a museum? Even better. Not cool, not cool at all, not cool even a tiny, little, insignificant bit? NBC's relentless attempts to make catchphrases out of this show. Stop trying to make me care who's on the list. I just don't care. Also, it makes me think of this. I realize that's also an NBC show, but I don't think that's the type of synergy they're going for.

Battlestar Galactica: Finally — Gaius, Caprica, and the rest of humankind together again like it should be. Maybe Gauis will shave! But Kara's a prophet now? Okay, you're going to have to work a little more to sell that one to me. An excellent episode, as always. Who did D'Anna see?

I have to go take a nap in my concrete bunker now. 

Now I know you “stopped watching 5 years ago,” but Jeremy Piven hosting SNL this weekend was really funny. Things started out well with Piven’s funny and sweet seduction of an elderly audience member who seemed to be enjoying herself. The rest of the episode was seriously solid with the exception of the “That’ll move the chains” sick-kid sketch, and the overlong Unicorn sketch. And the white rapper sketch (which I guess is a recurring character now) shocked the residents of TiFaux Brooklyn by ending on a punchline, something as rare on SNL as a positive diagnosis of lupus on “House.” If you have access to the Internets, I suggest you check it out.

Enough about Grey's Anatomy as a vice.  I know that's all I talk about: I hate Grey's Anatomy, but I still watch it, blah, blah, Project Runway, blah, Gyllenhaal.

Last week's episode kind of had some actually good moments: Christina's dead parent club bit and George's flip-out at Bailey and Webber come to mind.  Furthermore, I've found a character I have yet to be annoyed to death: Addison.

First of all, her storylines seem more grown up.  The whole McDreamy situation just reeked of Clearasil — infatuations straight out of junior high.  It was tiring and required patience to actually get past it.  Addison's plots are usually about something real.  They're about screwing up your life and not adjusting terribly well.  She's a flawed character, but she's not loudly self-pitying (Izzie, I'm looking at you) and rarely does she merit the eye-rolling that Meredith, Christina, etc. deserve on a regular basis.

What really drove it home for me this past episode was when she called out McSteamy on the fact that he'd be a terrible father.  That whole speech was pretty gutting — an adjective I would rarely use about Grey's.

Also, for my money she's the hottest female doc on the show.  I full embrace the Alex relationship, as I see her as the only woman on the cast capable of taming him (well, aside from Bailey, but she's off the market).

Oh, and a doff of the cap and a shake of the fist to Liz for scooping me on the Addison love. 

If you find yourself at home today (snowed in, perhaps?) and wanting to watch some daytime TV, tune into the Dr. Keith Ablow Show.  Why?  Because my celebrity sister-in-law Abby is going to be on, with her co-author Cathy.

Dr. Keith basically seems to be a balder, younger, marginally less annoying version of Dr. Phil.  Today's episode focuses on a guy who is living the dream — turning 30 while remaining an undergrad and accumulating majors.  Bonus: he's hot in a fratty, chinstrap-beard sort of way.

Abby will be there to reinforce the idea that having a 12 year undergrad career is not a good idea.  And to plug her book, available in soft cover wherever quality books are sold. 

Guess who's going to be on Veronica Mars later this season, according to this exhaustive TWOP interview with Rob Thomas?

Seriously. Guess. 

I'll give you a couple of hints. First, it's going to be awesome, because this guy is hilarious. Second, here is Rob's description of the character he plays:

"…it's going to be such a perfect role for him. He's gonna do it in a British accent, and play the singer/co-songwriter of a band that was big in the mid-'90s, and now he's out on the road solo, and sort of self-loathing."

(No, it is not the wee hobbit from Lost.) 

Also, he starred in a classic teen comedy of the mid-90s, and is pretty much the only person who's done that and managed to redeem himself later. 

For your final hint… um… once, in a movie, he broke up with a girl by saying "You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore."

Is that too many hints? 

Jump to the answer.

It's between the Lack and the Oppli.  Any thoughts? 

• Rosie's taking on American Idol, saying the show's gone too far with their mean-spirited opening episodes.  And she calls out Paula as a big drunkie.
• Lauren Ambrose, Claire from Six Feet Under, had a baby!  How weird is that? 
• Fallout from Isaiah Washington's behavior continues.  Neil Patrick Harris wags his finger.  GLAAD wants to have a heart-to-heart. 
• MSNBC gives Medium way too much credit. 
• Like commercials in front of movies and the current president, Rachael Ray is something we're just going to have to learn to live with. 
• Judge Tom on Top Chef says he wanted to disqualify all of the contestants except Marcel after their behavior on the last episode.  Shut up, Judge Tom.  He's so grumpy all the time.