Today the first Heroes Webisode premiered on NBC's website, and it's about a mailman. Excited yet? Well, what if I told you that this mailman could yell really loud -- so loud that dogs don't want to mess with him and shadowy government organizations do want to mess with him? And that said organization dispatches some sort of snake man, who looks like the Conundrum from The X-Files if he had all of his tattoos removed, along with most of his skin's pigmentation? Now you're interested.

I was one of the lucky people (depending on your perspective) who actually got to see Ian McKellen live in King Lear last year. It was a fine production, highlighted by the fact that Magneto drops trou (well actually he doesn't drop it, he more like pulls off his nightshirty costume over his head in a fit). It got quite a bit of attention at the time and it's run at BAM (The Brooklyn Academy of Music) was sold out. I actually had to go to one of the boroughs in order to see a very long play.

For those of you who A.) are sad that the Office season is over and B.) can't get enough Kevin on the show, your wishes are both granted. Yesterday NBC released the first in a new series of webisodes starring Brian Baumgartner as the dopey Kevin, who could conceivably appear to be mentally handicapped to people who just met him. In this series, Kevin tries to get a bank loan to pay off his gambling debts. New episodes will appear every Thursday for the rest of the month on Hulu. Check out the first installment after the jump.

So there's a company that's making a Knight Rider-themed global positioning system for your car. It's black, with flashing red lights, and it speaks in the voice of the original KITT, William Daniels (not the new KITT, Val Kilmer, thank god). And while this sounds pretty damn cool and totally worth the $300, we can see some problems with it.

Move over, Hulk Hogan, and make way for...Hulk Hogan? For the past 13 years, toymaker JAKKS Pacific has made action figures of the Superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment, and now the two companies are finally preparing to part ways, with Mattel (makers of the Dark Knight toys) taking over the license in 2010. But now JAKKS has two new tag-team partners, both of whom are big names in the world of combat entertainment, except these guys do it for reals.

FX has announced that since it will be another ten months before we get a new season of Rescue Me, they've kindly gone ahead and filmed 10 five minute episodes to air start airing June 24th. Really? You think that's going to make it all better? Hardly. I know the writer's strike took a toll on the industry and these cable network shows with oddly scheduled seasons, but five minute episodes are almost worse than no episodes at all. Unless you have ADD, in which case this may be the greatest invention ever. I get that they are trying to placate the masses who are chomping at the bit for the new season (though after last season's bizarre twists and turns, I'd rather the writers take their time. Seriously. Take three years off if you need it.) but five minute episodes don't cut it. You can't create story arc and character development in five minutes. That short amount of time is essentially a commercial or a trailer, not an episode. I think the folks over at FX would have been wiser to take the cash they are spending to create these ten installments and hiring the cast/crew of Rescue Me to do an hour-long movie. It would have been the same amount of screen time, and would actually be enough to add something to the plot of the show, instead of these minisodes. I honestly feel wrong complaining about any chance to see more of Daniel Sunjata and I presume that Denis Leary and Co. will have a good time hamming it up in this short format but this just seems like a lame way to keep the fires smoldering during the nearly two-year lag between seasons.

It is official. There are no new ideas for television shows. TBS (which I have heretofore only tuned into for My Boys and Seinfeld) is debuting a "microseries" about commuting. I was subjected to the horror that is Carpoolers and that was not funny. Watching people do what I'm forced to do for an hour each day is not entertainment. Apparently this teeny tiny show (which starts tonight during Sex and the City) that is basically in place of commercials, will focus on four women who chat while going back and forth to work together each day. If this is anything like the conversations I overhear on the bus (people need to quit it with the cell phones in enclosed public places), I imagine it will be completely riveting and involve a lot of discussion about bad boyfriends who forget to call them late at night, what kind of foods give them gas (awkward when you are sitting next to them) and what color they should make their bridesmaids wear for their upcoming dream wedding that they are planning really quickly because their bitchy frenemy just announced that her wedding was going to have the color scheme they originally wanted. These are actual subjects I've heard girls gabbing about in just the last three weeks while riding back and forth from NY to NJ. Like I said, fascinating stuff. Better still, Commuter Confidential is being sponsored by Match.com and Revlon, so it will probably involve the girls applying eyeshadow while driving and talking about how they've met their soulmate on the internet. I almost feel bad for the poor writer who sold out their ambitions to write these presumably lame minisodes. Almost.