Summer Surprises

Gonna just do a "off the top of my head" list of things I'm really digging this summer:

Middleman; Monday, 7 pm CST, ABC Family. This show wasn't on my radar at all, but I heard a few good things right before it debuted, so I checked it out. Low budget cool. Funny, a bit silly, and an all-around good time. Check it out.

Wipeout; Tuesday, 7 pm CST, ABC. There is nothing about this show I'd like enough to watch more than once, but my six-year-old loves it. The fact that he and I can laugh at these people getting brutalized on those stupid obstacle courses makes it worth "wasting" an hour on something I wouldn't come near normally. It's a sad comment on the state of TV and entertainment in general that my kids and I can't watch TV together, for the most part. This show is safe enough. Any risque jokes go way over his head. And what guy isn't going to like the fact that he can say "big balls" during the show without it meaning anything other than the Big Balls area of the course?

I checked out Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog at drhorrible.com, and it's another low budget, fun project. Ep One went online yesterday (and completely crashed their server; which is not fixed), Ep Two is due tomorrow, and Ep Three goes up on Saturday. All three are free to stream until Sunday. You can also download each ep (or the entire 3 ep season) on iTunes (where it immediately became the #1 download yesterday). It start Neil Patrick Harris as a mad scientist/villain wannabe.

Finally, I was checking out G4 TV's coverage of E3, and I realized that I had forgotten that I love Morgan Webb. I don't know how I could forget such a thing, and go more than a year without watching the channel, but I remember now: I love Morgan Webb. Better put XPlay on the DVR "to record" list, so I don't chance forgetting that again...