Sorry I didn’t get this out until today. I’m afraid this means I am too late to tell you about the new Creature Comforts on CBS last night. Luckily a lot of the pieces are online — check them out.

Tonight marks the season premiere of My Life on the D-List. This is a show that’s much, much better than it has any right to be, as Dan has let us know. It’s also the last ever episode of Punk’d. Celebrities can finally rest easy renting cars or eating in restaurants or yelling at their assistants.

Top Chef starts another season on Wednesday. I might watch if I didn’t think it was going to make me crave even more rich deliciousness.

Apparently a lot of ladies watched The Starter Wife last week, which continues on Thursday. I was too busy with Studio 60 and the Spelling Bee. Speaking of, Studio 60 keeps hurtling toward the end.

Calling all theater nerds! The Tonys air on Sunday! I am proud to say that I have seen at least one show in every single category. And honestly, I have to bring that up whenever I can, because opportunities to brag about how many Broadway shows you’ve seen don’t come up all that often. I’m rooting for Spring Awakening and Billy Crudup in their respective categories.

John from Cincinnati, from Deadwood’s David Milch, starts on Sunday. Which reminds me it’s not too late to order HBO in time to watch. I am so excited about this show; everyone who’s seen it is blown away. And the third season of Deadwood comes out on DVD on the 12th! Finally!

So, Shear Genius came and went.

Hair was cut, some dude won and, I swear to God, I didn’t watch it at all. Okay, well that’s kind of a lie because I walked into the room while it was on once (only once) and caught the end of one of the first few episodes. All I was really able to glean about the show as that there was:

• an Australian woman who looked like she was from space
• a gay boy with labradoodle hair
• some guy who called himself Dr. Boogie and was everything you would expect him would be
• a cast that was made of not-Heidi Klum, not-Michael Kors and sure-as-hell-not-Tim Gunn.

I find the fact that I didn’t get on board with Shear Genius troubling. I mean, I really didn’t even give it the old college ‘I’ll just TiFaux the first episode and see if its any good’ try. I was even a fan of Top Design, which, although it was a pale imitator of Project Runway, had its moments and was generally watchable. So what was it about Shear Genius that just left me cold? I’m normally enthusiastic about all of this crap, but now that I’ve found out the season finale came and went I’m embroiled in an identity crisis.

What have I become?

Shear Genius — what have you done to me?

The way I see it, there could be a few reasons why I never got into it:

1. I’m getting old. As the sands of time keep slipping through my fingers, I’m afraid I’m less drawn to shit-TV and more drawn to investing and/or racquetball. Looking at Theodore (the aforementioned curly-haired gay boy), I found that I wasn’t so much attracted to him. A fresh-faced early twenty-something, I didn’t want to make out with him — I just wanted to lick a paper napkin and wipe some schmutz off his face like he was a seven-year-old messily eating McDonald’s French fries.
2. Perhaps my cultural palette is getting just a bit more sophisticated. Normally, I pride myself on being able to slum it with the best of them. Whereas some enjoy fine dining and $30 plates of organically-grown whatever, I always relish my ability to say “Whatever, man. I’m going to Crapplebees to get an assembly line burger and I’m going to love it!” So, maybe I’m out of the stage of my life where I can watch absolutely anything (case in point: my disavowing of the entire Real World/Road Rules Challenge oeuvre).
3. Maybe I — perish the thought — am just not gay enough to watch a reality show about hair stylists.

I’ve promised myself I won’t worry about it.

I mean, I’m still me — there’s a lot that hasn’t changed. As it is, I’m kind of soiling myself over Bravo’s programming this week — Kathy Griffin starting season three of her reality show plus a new stand-up special. In addition, the new season of Top Chef starts this week. And, yes, I think I’m going to recap it — we’ll see how this goes (I did it once and it seemed to work out okay).

Some spicy news for you.  Actually, very little of it is very interesting.  Enjoy!

• Anderson Cooper’s reality show past will come back to haunt him as Fox Reality begins to re-air The Mole.
• Even more chatter on the end of Battlestar.
• Victoria Beckham’s planned reality show is now a special.
• Canadian Idol 5 allows contestants to play instruments.
• Debra Messing is enjoying being done with Will and Grace.
• Bright Eyes is on Craig Ferguson tomorrow and Grizzly Bear’s on Carson Daly on Thursday. More indie TV news at Pitchfork.
• Amazon’s got some good deals on TV DVD box sets.  Gilmore Girls seasons for $30 a pop, Will and Grace seasons for $20 and the Anna Nicole Show for $12 (includes a free ticket straight to hell).
• B.J. Novak: tourguide extraordinaire.