TV Moves

Great Idea: Finally release the new Doctor Who on DVD on Valentine's Day, only shortly after its UK release. It's about time, and it's nice to see the BBC acknowledge that they're losing potential ratings and sales across the pond to file downloads. Duh.

Greater Idea: NBC moving "My Name Is Earl" to Thursdays (along with "The Office", but I refuse to watch that.) I'll now get to actually see my current second-favorite show on the night it airs instead of waiting for a Saturday marathon, thanks to the previously-bitched-about conflict with "House".

Very Bad Idea: NBC not moving "Scrubs" to Thursdays at the same time. NBC-Universal produces "House", dammit. Shouldn't they not try to leech viewers from one of its highest-rated properties by putting another snarky show that's had trouble keeping an audience up against it? Not to mention that it's going to be hard to pull a lot of us "House"-addicts out of our obsessions mid-season to watch a show that hasn't been on in forever. Luckily for us, that's why the DVD was invented.