TV news and notes.....

good afternoon and welcome to today's New Episode Guide...

Battlestar Galactica - Jan. 6 (yep - this friday!)
Scrubs - Jan. 3 (yep - TONIGHT!)
24 - Jan. 15
Lost - Jan. 11
Invasion - Jan. 11
Grey's Anatomy - Jan. 8 (may be a "re-cap" episode)
Alias - sometime in March *boo* *hiss*
Threshold - GONE.....
Entourage - SUMMER
The O.C. - Jan. 12 (at 9pm instead of 8pm)
Surface - Jan. 2 (last night....sorry. check sci-fi for replay)
Dead Zone - SUMMER (June 11)


Lastly - for anyone out there that likes a bit of controversy to go with their TV watching...NBC premieres its new show The Book of Daniel on friday night, Jan. 6th.

The premise -

Emmy nominee Aidan Quinn (“An Early Frost,” “Plainsong,” “Legends of the Fall”) stars as Reverend Daniel Webster, an unconventional Episcopalian minister who not only believes in Jesus - he actually sees him and discusses life with him. Webster is challenged on many levels as he struggles to be a good husband, father and minister, while trying to control a nagging addiction to prescription painkillers, and an often rocky relationship with the church hierarchy, led by Bishop Beatrice Congreve (Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, “Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,” “Requiem of a Dream”), Roger Paxton, a senior warden of the parish and stalwart churchgoer (Dylan Baker, “Kinsey,” “Happiness”).

The reverend also has loving, but challenging relationships with his three children: Peter (Christian Campbell, “Trick”), his 23-year-old gay son, who struggles with the loss of his twin brother; Grace (Alison Pill, “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”), his 16-year-old daughter who doesn't try to push her father's buttons but succeeds at it nonetheless; and Adam (Ivan Shaw, “All My Children”), his 16-year-old adopted Chinese son, a handsome and cocky high school jock with a wicked sense of humor. Keeping Webster grounded is his strong and loving wife Judith (Susanna Thompson, “Now and Again”), who is fighting her own fondness for mid-day martinis, as well as Jesus (Garret Dillahunt, “Deadwood”), whose frequent chats with Daniel serve to remind him of his strengths and weaknesses.

Sounds pretty interesting right??? Well - apparently Christian Fundimentalist groups aren't too thrilled about it. They are asking that people boycott their local NBC affiliates in protest. Hmmmmm......you think NBC is digging all the free pub?

Be sure to check it out!