An explanation for the weirdness

You may have noticed that the previous blog entry felt, at best, violently unhinged. Well, there’s a – if not good, then at least understandable – reason for that: It’s the maiden posting at the Daily News’ new, TV-only blog, “Mayor of Television.� My TV ruminations will continue to appear here, but some of them will make a lot more sense – and, hopefully, be more amusing – in the context of the new blog site.

The Daily News is launching “Fresh TV� on Monday. It’s a brand-new, thankfully far more comprehensive TV-info page, debuting in tangent with the unofficial launch of the fall-TV season (as Fox debuts “Prison Break’s� second season and the premiere of its new series “Vanished�). It’ll offer TV grids for the broadcast networks’ new primetime schedules, links to all my reviews (cable and broadcast), a new podcast of the week’s best bets, multimedia presentations – they’ve really kicked out all the stops; they’re serious about getting you to rely on us for good TV information. Even if I, as “Mayor of Television� as a mere puppet dictator, may not be.