The Week in Entertainment

DVD: The rest of Kavanagh, Q.C., which I thoroughly enjoyed (except for one anvillicious and annoying episode where he goes to Florida.) The odd thing to me is how the barristers flip back and forth between prosecuting and defending. A few more eps of Judge John Deed, which is equally well-plotted and -acted, but features a thoroughly obnoxious main character. Still enjoyable, though at times a bit heavy-handed (as in the story arc about cell phones causing brain tumors, sheesh).

TV: Modern Family, still making me laugh out loud. The Jay-Phil coaching scenes were hilarious, and Cam and Mitchell's angst over the job situation was very, very funny as is Mitchell's new boss.

Read: The Prisoner of Zenda, again. Your Movie Sucks by Roger Ebert, a collection of reviews of movies he didn't like. The Riddles of Epsilon, a nice YA fantasy (contemporary). A brilliant novel called The Other Family by Joanna Trollope. Two books by James Shapiro, a niche study of Oberammergau and a brilliant look at the Shakespearen authorship question called Contested Will.