There is now less than a month left before GUIDING LIGHT is extinguished, and while the soap is going out with a flourish in some ways (Brava, Otalia!), the soap is dropping the ball in one significant way: Kim Zimmer does not have story worthy of her tremendous talent.

MAD MEN opened its third season by diving headlong into Don Draper's past, revealing that he was the offspring of a prostitute who died in childbirth. Young Dick was unofficially adopted by a woman whose own children were stillborn.

Michael Westen really got himself worked into a soapy lather in the "summer finale" of BURN NOTICE. Just when things seemed to be coming together for him, it all fell apart.

GENERAL HOSPITAL is riding a bit of a hot streak lately, thanks to some unlikely pairings that have unexpectedly clicked.

It's such a shame that GUIDING LIGHT is going off the air next month. Then what will my colleague Mala and I trade IMs about at 10 o'clock in the morning?

One might say TORCHWOOD creator Russell T Davies took the name of his show literally when he essentially burned the sci-fi series to the ground with the just-completed five-part CHILDREN OF EARTH miniseries.

MERLIN touched upon that old question, "Would you kill Hitler as a child?" when Merlin and Morgana sheltered a druid child.

"If something seems too good to be true, it's best to shoot it, just to be sure." — Fiona, BURN NOTICE

No one who saw this week's episode of ROYAL PAINS will ever look at breast implants the same way again. Roselyn Sanchez (ex-Pilar, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Elena, WITHOUT A TRACE) played Sofia, whose insanely jealous husband had a GPS tracker implanted inside her body when she underwent breast-augmentation.

RESCUE ME's Tommy Gavin has turned the corner from being merely a self-destructive guy who causes a lot of collateral damage to a self-destructive guy who takes others down with him. This week's episode culminated in Tommy leading (most of) his family back to drinking.

I find it very intriguing that GENERAL HOSPITAL's Olivia chose to tell Dante that she did not know who his father is. She could easily have told him his father died, but she didn't.