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The TV series Brothers and Sisters has failed to interest me, though admittedly I’ve only ever given it a few minutes’ chance. But a very long and cathartic essay on The Huffington Post by the show’s ousted creator, Jon Robin Baitz, is another matter. It’s a two-parter, but the best stuff is in Part 2 (link via TV Tattle), in which he unloads on smarmy entertainment journalists (particularly one for TV Guide who has come to prominence "dishing" spoilers), depicts LA as "the world capital of loneliness," and details his understanding that, unfortunately, given Hollywood, the show could never have been the mold-breaker he wanted it to be, even if he had been a better show-runner.

Speaking of questionable TV reporting, Newsday notes tonight’s Comedy Central debut of Futurama, which it says "gets new life on cable." Gets new life? It’s been off cable for all of 44 hours, after previous contract-holder Adult Swim ran it down to very last minutes of the old year.

Gawker Media, whose sites Defamer and Consumerist have been applauded here before, has launched a sci-fi site, io9, with a cool-creepy banner. Oh io9, please, please, please keep me from ever having to resort to SyFy Portal again. All I ask is that you write about something other than Galactica at least two-thirds of the time, and that you keep the Who/Torchwood spoilers to a minimum for those of us who don’t want to exert the effort, to, um, "borrow" the British broadcasts off the Net.

Hey, maybe I’ll blog this year.