Weekend Offline

I'm offline and virtually TV-less for the weekend. How will I survive this nightmarish scenario? I'm not sure. But when I come back, I'll have to catch up on this stuff:

• Painkiller Jane premieres tonight at 10pm on SciFi. The reviews are generally crappy, but I want to give it a shot. Kritanna Loken is easy on the eyes, and if the dialogue/story aren't too clunky a good looking woman kicking some heads in can be pretty entertaining.


• A new Saturday Night Live with Shia Leboeuf hosting.


• Drive kicks off with a two hour premiere Sunday on Fox, followed by (I think) an hourlong episode Monday in Prison Break's timeslot.


• The Sopranos and Entourage have new episodes on Sunday as well.

A ton of movies come out this weekend too, though almost none of them look very good. I'm sorta interested in Pathfinder for mindless action fun, but that's about it. But still, an entire weekend of TV, plus I haven't watched the most recent Jericho yet, so I'll have plenty to catch up on when I get back.

On top of that, the The Venture Bros. Season Two DVDs come out on Wednesday. If you're not familliar with the show, it's partly a spoof of the boy adventurer genre (Johnny Quest, The Hardy Boys books), partly a comic book hero/villain spoof along the lines of The Tick, but mostly just plain awesome. Check out The season one if that sounds at all cool, though be warned that it's kind of slow starting. It starts off ok, but it's not until about the seventh episode of the first season that it really hits its stride. Click past the jump for my favorite Season 2 clip.