Catch-up Time

Just a brief update today, since I've been swamped doing stories about James Brown.

For some reason, The Telegraph tends to always send me out to do the story when somebody dies. I don't really know why that is. But put it this way: If I'm showing up on your doorstep to talk, odds are somebody somewhere is having a bad day.

May we all be as well-loved as James Brown was when our time comes.

WEDNESDAY'S BEST BETS: This is dedicated to Gina, one of the literally dozens of loyal readers to the blog.

A belated Christmas gift, with four episodes of "Heroes" running tonight (Sci-Fi, 7 p.m.) will give you the chance to catch up. Not only that, three more re-runs air Monday night on NBC, so this is a good chance to catch up.

Speaking of catching up, you can see the three most-recent episodes of "Friday Night Lights" (NBC, 8 p.m.) tonight, so here's a chance to see this excellent series once more.

A heads up to readers, "My Boys" (TBS, 10 p.m.) is wrapping up its freshman season this week with two more new episodes tonight and its finale on Thursday at 10 p.m.