It really is. If you've never seen the original documentary, you're totally not going to get it, but if you have, and particularly if you're one of the crazies like myself (and Drew Barrymore, clearly) who has seen it a million times and does your own Little Edie dances on a daily basis, you're going to love it. It was like watching a really well done, high budget version of a YouTube fan tribute to the original. Everything the fans will want to see is pretty much in here, and it's all hilarious -- Little Edie's legendary "best costume for the day" monologue, all the raccoons, the "Tea for Two" scene, even Big Edie's famous boiled corn was included! There were some minor diversions, but one of them was for the better: the "that cat's going to the bathroom behind your portrait, Edie" line was said by Jackie fricking O (played marvelously by the lovely Jeanne Tripplehorn) instead of one of the filmmakers, as it was in the original. That, my friends, is a fabulous upgrade. I died.

Sure, it's great to go out and be festive or whatnot, but how nice would it be to snuggle up in front of the boob tube and just hang out in PJs? It's not a bad way to ring in the New Year. You don't have to worry about catching a cold from kissing a stranger. If you get really drunk, you don't have to find a taxi or a driver. And there's the extra bonus of not getting gussied up.

I don't know how this exciting piece of cult TV movie news slipped past me, but Cinematical says that David Hasselhoff's take on Marvel's original Nick Fury, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D (in case, you know, someone might confuse the character with a Nick Fury who works at the Costco hot dog stand) will be released exclusively through Best Buy next Tuesday, September 30th. And what's got two thumbs, loved that movie in the 9th grade despite its low production/artistic values and will be queued up at Best Buy at the crack of dawn before work on Tuesday to purchase it? This guy! And you too I bet, ya Hasselhoff-lovin' Hasselhoff-lovers!

Listen, webisodes are something that's been happening a lot lately, and I think we should all just get used to them. They're not going away any time soon, and while some of them may be terrible (The Heroes ones), others are actually pretty good (The Office ones). One web-only/minisode-only series I've come across that doesn't suck too bad is Gemini Division, which stars Rosario Dawson as a cop whose gay boyfriend's pacemaker programs him to kill. At least that's what I gathered from the first installment, which was released today. I could be proven wrong in subsequent episodes. It also may or may not be set in the future -- everyone in it wears current clothing (translation: no pointy shoulders or floor length robes, which defies Hollywood's strict vision of future fashion), but Dawson's character uses this webcam technology with all kinds of coding and activity on the sides like in The Matrix, so yeah, most likely the future. And to my knowledge, pacemakers do not currently program people to kill... yet, so there's another argument for the future setting.

Shut uuuuuuuuuuuup! The best thing since the Jolie-Pitt twins you guys: Amy Sedaris! And Christoper "Love of My Loins" Meloni! In a TV movie! Directed by Paul Dinello! About a gym teacher! On Nickelodeon! [Catches breath.]

Ok I'm better now. But seriously? Amy's triumphant return to the small screen was only a matter of time. (Her cameo on Sex and the City doesn't count because she played someone normal.) In Gym Teacher: The Movie, Ms. S plays a horny school principal who's all about the aforementioned gym teacher's (played by Meloni) cookies. Anyone who's seen Meloni's turn as the shell-shocked Vietnam vet-turned lunch lady in Wet Hot American Summer knows this dude has some seriously rad comedy chops. The movie also stars some pipsqueak from iCarly but I'm gonna try not to hold that against it, because under Dinello's outrageous direction, the film is sure to be juuuuuust this side of kid-friendly. Watch this clip and start getting friggin' stoked for the September 12th premiere.

The premiere episode of the excellent TNT drama The Closer is tonight. As I mentioned in today's GTC, it's kind of schlamazing. In a nutshell: Brenda and Fritz have moved in together and are still adjusting to cohabitation and its attendant maelstrom. A photojournalist is trailing Brenda -- and getting in the way of her investigation, which raises some interesting questions about voyeurism and the moral responsibilities of the press. At the center of the action is an arson crime that sees the return of season one's homicidal pyromaniac Billy Croelick, whose chemistry with Brenda is ... sizzling. In anticipation of the TV event of the, um, week (?), I had the opportunity to do a little round-table thingy with the show's star Kyra Sedgwick, whose no-BS New York gal personality stands in sharp contrast to the spitfire Southern sweetheart Brenda Johnson. I guess that's why they call it "acting." Here are the highlights:

Thanks to Videogum for hepping me to details of amazing forthcoming soap Sordid Lives, set to premiere in July on Logo. The gaystastic campfest, which is based on a cult play, will star Rue McClanahan, Beth "Sparkle Motion" Grant, Caroline Rhea, Olivia Newton-John (I know, right?!) and fag-hag par excellence Margaret Cho as a gaggle of trash-talkin', pill-,poppin', Tammy Wynette-lovin' Southern gals coming to terms with gayness all sorts. Based on the clip, I think VG has pegged the show perfectly as "Desperate Housewives meets Steel Magnolias meets a John Waters movie." In other words, pure perfection. Unlike the VG folk though, I am utterly confident that this show will completely and totally rule, despite the presence of Carson Kressly. Sordid Lives airs July 23rd on your Homo-Dial.