Eh, not as cute as yesterday's kitties.

On Lost tonight, the flashbacks are Claire's. Pro: Jack's dad returns, which means we may answer the Jack/Claire sibling question. Con: More whiny Charlie. Don't get me wrong, I think Dominic Monaghan is terrific, I'm just sick to death of Charlie. Portents of his death have not caused any nail-biting around here, let's put it that way.

For those who watch Bones, Top Design, According to Jim, and Til Death, you have a busy night ahead of you. Just kidding! No one watches Til Death!

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming: TCM — otherwise known as the Greatest Basic Cable Channel in the World — has a Dick Tracy marathon. Not the Warren Beatty Dick, the classics (note the full name of the G.B.C.C.i.t.W.) from the 40s. I've never seen them but I'm sure they're worth a look. I heart TCM.

They announced the nominees for the Soap Opera Awards.  I mean, the Daytime Emmys.

There are lots of nominees for the daytime dramas, but I can't imagine anyone's curious (the nominees are here, if you are). I still think it's funny that Passions gets nominated for stuff (see pic of people lookin' sexy).

I'm scrolling through, trying to find something people might be interested in and coming up kind of dry.  There's the game show category, which this year features Jeopardy!, The Price is Right and Meredith Vieira's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Best game show host has the guy from Cash Cab, Alex Trebek, Bob Barker, Pat Sajak and Meredith Vieira.  It's kind of depressing — the game show categories.  Aside from Cash Cab and, to a lesser extent, Vieira's Millionaire, these people have been doing this since I was a cluster of cells.  Does anything really change?  Did Alex ask the questions particularly well this year, pronouncing the foreign words with a special grace?  Did Bob Barker keep his temper in check better than ever after being assaulted by the zillionth Boise housewife?

Aside from that, the best talk show nominees are Ellen's show, The View, Rachael Ray's show, Tyra Banks' show (who has been on the empowerment warpath ever since those swimsuit pictures came out) and Dr. Phill with his big, fat Texas head.

Fun fact: MTV's Made is up for an Emmy for "Special Class Series," which I'm guessing is a euphemism for "everything else."  It's up against Animal Rescue, A Baby Story, Judge Judy and Starting Over.

Butterscotch is disgusting.

• The Real World is trying find cast members that aren't drinking/fighting/fornicating machines.
• Serena Williams, Jewel and a bunch of other celebrities that are on your radar even less are going to be on an ABC celebrity racecar reality competition show. 
• TV Guide rates the mid-season replacements.  And, by the way, he gave it a 6 out of 10, but how awful does that Jeff Goldblum show look?
• The new Chiller network is going to show Twin Peaks, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and the great short-lived series American Gothic.  Well, it may not have been great.  I was like 14 and my taste was questionable.
• Bravo bought Television Without Pity. 
• In case you are lacking a reason to live, I have six words for you: High School Musical: The Ice Tour. 
• Court TV is getting a makeover, including a name change.  Consultants gone wild! 
• Law and Order might be toast.  Fun fact: Law and Order has been on the air since the roaring twenties. 
• Matt Groening says Futurama's not dead. 16 new episodes will make four direct-to-DVD movies.
• Tori Spelling had a bouncing, and apparently British, baby boy named Liam.  
• Tracy Morgan is a nut. Funnier than I probably realized, but a nut.