I will be Jonesing for Jones but only for the summer!

Upfronts were yesterday for the Travel Channel. An upfront is a meeting hosted at the start of important advertising sales periods by television network executives, attended by the press and major advertisers. It is so named because of its main purpose, to allow marketers to buy commercial airtime "up front", or several months before the television season begins.

Seems the Cox communications owned Travel Channel did very well this past season with 13 months of consecutive growth. For those not versed in televisionese, more folks were watching more often.

While I enjoy the Travel Channel as a whole the stand out of course has been for me and my friends the freshman show “Dhani Tackles the Globe” featuring Bengals linebacker Dhani Jones. I am very happy to see that he will be returning for a second season.

On a much more geek personal note Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerman will also be coming back. As more and more “reality” finds its way on the boob tube I find myself less enamored with flipping channels or even turning the TV box on at all. But it is good to know I have some stuff to look forward to next season; I hope Dhani does some more beach type sports….

Full Lid

Happy belated Birthday to my favorite empathy and Gargoyles Villian Marina Sirtis and my second favorite Warrior princess Lucy Lawless of Xena. Who both celebrated over the weekend.

Also Very Happy birthday to multi platinum and four time grammy award winning singer Tracy Chapman

Monday night watching for the family. Dhani Jones tackles the globe.

Andy Hallett the actor who played Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan or Lorne for short, on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin off Angel passed away today from heart disease, he was 30 years old.

A man was caught cheating on his wife in the UK thanks to Google maps street view. He told his wife he was out of town but his car with unique hubcaps was parked outside his wife’s friends house.

And that ladies and gentlemen is a full lid. Tomorrow is Tuesday invites… +!