If you kick around Defamer and so forth, you've probably already seen this, but the Kooky YouTube News Of The Day is that Chyler Leigh of Grey's Anatomy made out with her brother in some old junk movie. Truthfully, actors make out all the time with people they aren't really romantically involved with, and it's all acting, and it's all --

No, I'm just kidding. IT IS TOTALLY GROSS. Now I won't lie to you; the two dudes doing the presentation put me off my lunch so completely that I turned off the sound, so I have no idea whether their commentary is any good, but when you watch the thing, it is...uncomfortable. Enjoy!

Y'all will be excited to know that Bucky Covington is hosting CMT's new search for great undiscovered country talent. I don't know about you, but if there's one person I did not expect to see so much of after Idol was over, it's Bucky Covington. I mean, I give the kid credit, but...dude.

Bucky Covington?

REALLY?

Was there no job available for Kevin Covais? Nothing? Not the search for America's most compelling science-fair project?

It's increasingly looking like the hopeful news from Nikki Finke regarding the possible settlement of the writers' strike was wishful thinking, and things perhaps look bleaker than ever. I have long subscribed to the belief that there would either be a short strike settled by Christmas or a long strike not settled till summer, and I'm now anticipating the latter, which will make for a bleak time for the shows you love. According to United Hollywood, the AMPTP's latest is a rollback, and they don't seem to have any interest in it at all. Settle in, folks; I think it's going to summer. Once positions begin to harden like this, even more than they already were, you're not going in the direction you want to be going.

I've never seen the absolute vapidity of The Hills exposed quite as expertly as it is here. It's not until you hear people speak these lines on purpose that you appreciate the hilarity of the fact that people "spontaneously" saying the same things makes such weirdly addictive and awful TV. James Franco in a Justin-Bobby wig is also my favorite visual of the week. It seems intended as a sort of "reality television is all so horrible that we need to support the writers," which is not my favorite argument on the site of the strike, but it's still funny.

(Anyone else remember Patton Oswalt's bit about his TiVo? Go buy it off iTunes if you haven't. Trust me.)

Anyway: NBC Universal has hooked up with our old friend TiVo in a nefarious yet admittedly ingenious plan to figure out how to send you interactive commercials based on what you record. And dude, they own Oxygen now! Imagine the kind of filthy affinity marketing they're going to line up for fans of The Bad Girls Club! [Shudder.]

Headline: "Canadian writers take to streets to support striking U.S. colleagues."

WGA Member Reaction: "Aw, Canada. That is SO CUTE."

So there was the report that Carson Daly would be the first late-night talk-show host to return to work since the WGA strike. Which...I mean, when Jimmy Kimmel has more integrity than you do, maybe you need to hang it up and go open a cigar bar or something. But wait, there's more! Already knowing that he doesn't have enough material at his fingertips to wing it for however long his show is (half-hour? Hour? I don't watch it, and neither do you, if the forty-three posts in the show's thread are any indication), he's calling on his friends and loved ones to feed him material. It's almost worth tuning in to see what a horrible train wreck it's going to be. Also, dude? Eat a sandwich.

Not to crib half of today's blog entries from the headlines over at PopWatch or anything, but Marc Vera wondered today why nobody's watching Journeyman.  As the editorial staff's designated "So You Don't Watch Any Sitcoms, But You'll Watch Close To Home" Weirdo, I'd like to address that.

First of all, people do watch Journeyman.  I watch it, Sepinwall watches it, Deggans watches it.  But this is, perhaps, part of the issue -- because you'll see the common thread there is that we watch TV for a living; so does Marc Vera.  But the fact that critics watch a show doesn't necessarily translate into ratings, as we've all seen a hundred times.

Okay, after ELEVEN FREAKING BACHELORS (Alex, Aaron, Andrew, Bob, Jesse, Byron, Charlie, Travis, Lorenzo, Andy, and Brad -- I am telling you, there have been eleven) have failed to find love, can we just call this off? Please? The track record is zero. Zero! If you throw in The Bachelorette, you wind up with exactly one success in the bland-leading-the-bland union of Trista "More Peeeenk" Rehn and Ryan "Poetry Man" Sutter, but that gives you two more failures as well (Jen "I Choose Me" Schefft and Meredith "Who Remembers?" Phillips), and we can't not throw in good old Tick-Tock Mary, who was just arrested for punching the Bachelor in the face.

I mean, okay. Trista and Ryan. But that's out of fourteen attempts. You could throw fourteen emergency appendectomies on the F train, and you might get one marriage. This is no way to meet people. Can I experiment with fontifying?

The Bachelor is no way to meet people.

You have undoubtedly heard already about Brad, and how he's spent the last two weeks being called everything from a jerk to a sociopath (sociopath!) for choosing not to pursue a relationship with either of the two women he liked the most, out of 25 women he had no role in selecting. As has been fully explored over in our Bachelor thread to a point where we're all embarrassed to still care, you can certainly fault Brad for saying things he shouldn't have said, wanting to be the good guy, and so forth. But really, what Brad demonstrates is that there is no way for any relationship to start on this show except in stupidity.

If the guy likes the girl enough that it might actually work out between them, it's going to kill the relationship that (1) he has to date a gaggle of other girls at the same time; and (2) they're going to have to be separated for months during airing, during which time she gets to watch episodes in which he makes out with other women. If she doesn't care enough to be disturbed by that, she doesn't care.

But all this is beside the point, right? Don't the statistics prove it? If your dating service worked this well, you would be driven out of business in a state of abject shame. I call upon the producers of The Bachelor to quit. You are failures! You have failed! You are running a scam, and we are all onto you! We could do better setting up our friends, and we are no good at setting up our friends!

I'm just saying, if we were 0-for-11 at anything, we'd move on to another line of work. FOR SHAME.

It seemed like everyone was surprised by this when we discussed it over in Nuts and Bolts, but for those of you who like to use the TWoP forums (fora?), be aware that it is possible to sort the threads in any area by title, in addition to by the time of the latest post. In other words, if you like to see all the threads in "Dramas" in alphabetical order, you can do that. Just look toward the bottom of the page, and you'll see under the jump menu a little bar that says "Order: Last Post." You can use that dropdown to order alphabetically, if you'd like.

Because this seemed to make people so happy when it came up over in our help section, I thought I'd bring it over here. We're always happy to bring you good usability news, after all.