The unthinkable has happened. After eight seasons, Law & Order: Criminal Intent will be without lead detective Robert Goren for the first time, as Vincent D'Onofrio will be leaving the show to do more film work. And he's not alone, either -- Kathryn Erbe (Det. Eames), Julianne Nicholson (Det. Wheeler) and Eric Bogosian (Capt. Ross) are all leaving the show, as well. Who does that leave? Pretty much just new hire Jeff Goldblum, who just finished his first season as Det. Nichols. While it can't feel good to have all of your fellow cast members quit on you, we're glad Goldblum is sticking around, because now he can be the lead detective in a show cast entirely by us! Well, almost -- they've already replaced Nicholson with Saffron Burrows, formerly of My Own Worst Enemy. But here's who we think should fill the rest of the vacant spots.

Wow. Some of the best TV shows on the air today (and one that got canceled, but is still pretty dope) come out on DVD this week, and we would totally run out and buy all of them and watch them back-to-back-to-back, but we have waaaayyy too much TV to watch tonight. There's just no time! Maybe next summer...

I'm going to be up front and admit that it has been a while since I regularly watched Curb Your Enthusiasm. I sort of lost interest around the time that Larry and Cheryl's relationship fell apart. However, the promise of a Seinfeld reunion this season suckered me back in. I know the Seinfeld cast spot doesn't happen for a few episodes, but figured it was worth watching from the start of this season, and I'm so delighted that I did. The first episode, in which Larry tries unsuccessfully to break up with his girlfriend Loretta (Vivica A. Fox) before her cancer diagnosis comes in, had me in stitches. I was completely reminded of what I liked about this show in the first place. Apparently, absence did make my heart grow fonder.

That's right, it's the good stuff. Plenty of quality series coming out this week, starting with one of our most anticipated series for this fall. No, not Mr. Belvedere, although a remake of that show would not be a bad idea.

I haven't written about this before, but I've been religiously watching the return of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire for the last two weeks. I'm a game show (especially trivia show) junkie and I just couldn't resist, and since the moronic celebrities (Patricia Heaton being the most idiotic of them all) were limited to the one question during the last ten minutes of each episode instead of overpowering an entire hour, I was OK with this show's return. It's perfect mindless summer fare.

Twenty-six whole episodes of He-Man's sister's spinoff are here to help you waste time at work today. Is the cartoon as awesome as it was when you were four? I wondered the same thing. That answer is no. It turns out the animation is slightly less advanced than that of Tale Spin or James Bond Jr., and the theme song wasn't nearly as awesome as He-Man's. And the voice work was so bad. I can't believe He-Man sounded like that. What a nerd. And you know what Battle Cat looked like before he put his saddle on? Like this, is what he looked like, but green.

I have mixed feelings about the Virtuality TV-movie (or pilot, according to Ron Moore) that aired on Friday night. On the one hand, it had an interesting take on what is and isn't real, all set in the world of deep space. I thought that had a great deal of potential. On the other hand, there was too much going on with the multiple virtual worlds, the crisis on earth, the computer virus, the reality show, the interpersonal relationships, the doctor's illness and the mission. All of these wild ideas, with too little attention focused on any of them to really make it all one cohesive story. The whole movie came across as kind of muddled and while I did think it got better in the second hour, the first sluggish hour almost caused me to turn off my TV.

If it's Tuesday, this must be TWoP News! There's a lot of moving and shaking going on this week, as shows change timeslots (or defiantly don't), shows get canceled (or surprisingly don't), and showrunners leave shows (that don't even have names yet). Also, someone is injuring our nation's celebrities, and it may be Michael Flatley. Let's begin!

The Law & Order franchise is not what it once was. The original series (plain old L&O) has gone through cast shake-up after shake-up, and just had one of its weakest seasons. Special Victims Unit is full of superstar talent -- America's sweethearts Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni, plus their cranky back-ups Ice-T and Richard Belzer -- but each episode of that show finds a way to ignore their special victims mandate. Only Criminal Intent, exiled to the USA Network, has continued to do what it does so well with the same two leads it's always had. It's the best show in the franchise, and it's only going to get better with this season's changes. If you didn't watch Sunday night's Season 8 premiere, here are our reasons for you to tune in for Episode 2.

The traditional television season is about to come to an end, so how does a network not know if they want to renew a TV show or not? Either the ratings are good, or they aren't. Either a show has potential, or it doesn't. Shit or get off the pot. Because tonight I'm going to watch the season finale of Life, and neither I nor the show's cast and crew know whether it's going to come back in the fall. Isn't that messed-up? How can anyone be expected to tell a story under those conditions? You're risking the possibility of either an unsatisfying series finale, thereby affecting DVD sales, or a lackluster season finale, thereby affecting next season's numbers. Rrrrraaaagge! ...Anyway, I sat in on a conference call with Life star Damian Lewis and show creator Rand Ravich and listened to them try to explain tonight's finale without spoiling it, and generally try to laugh away their worries. Man, I love Damian Lewis. If this show gets cancelled, someone better snatch him up before he starts doing plays again.