When I noticed that all 13 episodes of Kitchen Confidential had become available on Hulu, I immediately thought two things: 1) there goes the rest of my work day, and 2) I want to write about about that for Brilliant But Cancelled, but surely someone already has! But apparently no one has? Super weird. Anyway, if you didn't watch the show back in 2005 when Fox did that really great thing they do where they premiere a show, then take it off the air for a ridiculous amount of time, then expect viewers to miraculously find it again, then cancel it when they shockingly don't, I highly recommend falling in love with it now. Because it was truly a fantastic show.

What do today's kids really know about David Hasselhoff? They know him as a leather-jacket-wearing judge on America's Got Talent, as the German dodgeball coach in Dodgeball and as a hamburger-eating drunk on the Internet. But do they know what he did? What he accomplished? I'm not talking about the Baywatch franchise -- no, not even Baywatch Nights. I'm talkin' about Knight Rider. It was just a simple show about a guy and his car, solvin' crimes and jumping through moving trains, but Hasselhoff elevated the material, creating a hit, spawning numerous remakes and forging an American icon. Has he been given a medal yet? He should be. To celebrate the return of the Hoff to America's Got Talent, we thought we'd take a look at the rich history of Knight Rider, from 1982 to today.

Since The A-Team premiered in 1983, the show has become a classic, with its iconic black van and its four distinctive characters. Now, with a feature film in the works for release next summer, director Joe Carnahan (Smokin' Aces) is trying to find people to play those four legendary roles. The roles of B.A. Barachus and Howlin' Mad Murdock are still up in the air, but Bradley Cooper is reportedly under consideration to play Faceman, and Liam Neeson is in talks to play Hannibal Smith! We're already excited by the news, and it led us to remember the real-life celebrities who joined the A-Team at one point or another. Here are the five who stood out, and one who almost joined the team for good.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend, everybody! Summer is semi-officially here, and we thought we'd celebrate the start of beach season by looking at one of our favorite shows, Howard Stern's Baywatch parody Son of the Beach. Following a team of lifeguards as they make sexual puns and parody famous movies and TV shows, the show lived up to the high on-air standards set by Stern on his radio show. Plus, it starred TV's Tim Stack as pasty David Hasselhoff substitute Notch Johnson -- Stack pretty much wore his Notch outfit in all of his appearances playing himself on My Name is Earl. A moment of silence for Earl, and a moment of pure, unadulterated Stack in the pilot episode of SOB, embedded below.

There are four completely unrelated reasons for me to write about Andy Richter Controls the Universe today. 1.) The complete 19-episode series is finally coming out on DVD tomorrow. 2.) Andy Richter is re-teaming with Conan O'Brien on the new Tonight Show starting next month. 3.) Show creator Victor Fresco recently debuted his new office comedy, Better Off Ted. 4.) ARCTU may very well be the best TV show that has ever aired on television. Ever. Better than Airwolf, even! ARCTU is like a perfect storm in a bottle, if that's even a metaphor. This kind of magic could only have happened once, with all of the right factors in place, and of course, no one watched it. Fresco would go on to create the awful series Life on a Stick, and Andy Richter would go on to star in the execrable Quintuplets and the mediocre Andy Barker, P.I., the latter of which lasted all of four episodes before getting rightly canceled. But for one glorious moment, the two teamed up, and with a highly talented cast of regulars and guest stars, they created TV gold. Let's look at that cast, shall we?

The Season 2 premiere of AMC's award-winning drama Breaking Bad is fast approaching, and with it comes a remarkable amount of publicity about leading man Bryan Cranston. Last year he won an Emmy for his role of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and must turn to cooking and dealing methamphetamines in order to make big money for his young family before he dies, but Cranston's been gracing the small screen ever since he showed up on an episode of ChiPs in 1982. You probably know him as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle (for which he was nominated for multiple Emmys), or as Dr. Tim Whatley the questionable dentist from Seinfeld, or even as Buzz Aldrin on the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. But there's one series Cranston appeared on early in his career that may surprise you...

Buzz has been building about a possible Moonlighting movie starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. It seems the two former co-stars ran in to each other at a deli in Encino -- where all important Hollywood decisions are made, obviously -- and got misty talking about the good old days. Timely enough, since the '80s mystery-comedy-romance went off the air exactly twenty years ago this year. High time to capitalize on nostalgia.

Bye-bye, Christian Slater. His NBC actioner My Own Worst Enemy has just become the latest film star showcase to get axed fast.

Slater isn't alone, that's for sure. More movie stars than we can count have fumbled trying to play the TV series game.

When they say politics is a joke, they might be speaking literally in Minnesota. That's where comedy writer and sitcom star Al Franken is running for a U.S. Senate seat he may well win this week.

The Saturday Night Live veteran already had better luck there getting the Democratic nomination than he did in the Nielsen ratings, where his 1998 NBC sitcom Lateline failed to make the grade. Even when Franken means business about current events -- as in such bestselling books as Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot -- he doesn't take himself quite so seriously. The curly haired Minnesota native played slapstick lunkhead in Lateline, which is out on DVD and well worth another look as a rare satire of TV news and current events.

Not sure this series qualifies as "brilliant" per se, but it was a pretty clever concept and it sure was cancelled. Sid and Marty Krofft (the guys who concocted the trippy H.R. Pufnstuf) created D.C. Follies back in 1987, right before the presidential election. It was a satire of current events and politics but had puppets and Fred Willard. Oddly entertaining, it had potential to be a decent series if it had just been a little bit edgier or a little more biting. To me some of the then presumably lame jokes are kind of funnier in retrospect.