Hopefully, you all have recovered from the excitement of the weekend: Friday night's Battlestar Galactica finale, the brain-melting episode of Dollhouse that preceded it, and Sunday night's electrocution of Edie Williams on Desperate Housewives. If you need cheering up from any of these events, or if you just want to maintain your current high, read on for a bunch of amazingly awesome casting news, in which several A-list TV stars (including one BSG alum) are joining new shows and shows in progress. It's pretty impressive. Also, you might as well tattoo Gordon Ramsay to your eyeballs now.

Starz debuted their new comedy series Party Down tonight. It's got an incredible pedigree. It's from Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas, Mars writers John Enbom and Dan Etheridge and genuinely all-around funny guy Paul Rudd. Not too shabby. And the cast is chockablock full of former Mars stars. It's a veritable reunion of sorts. And it is a show about cater-waiters living in LA, biding their time until they get their big breaks. Which means that every week we get a different party with more wacky guests. Seems like the makings of a laugh riot, right?

What constitutes news, you might ask? An awesome celeb hosting an awards show we've never watched? That's news. Two fallen 1980s movie stars being cast in TV shows? That's news. A TV show set in the 1970s getting dropped like a bad habit? That's news. A 1990s TV star being cast in a remake of a 1980s TV show, due to appear on TV in 2010? That's a math problem, but it's also news. All those decades and more on today's... TwoP News! (Cue American Idol theme music.)

With Obama's landmark inauguration happening Tuesday, we're hoping that after he gets around to fixing all of America's problems, he'll be able to inspire some much needed changes on the TV landscape. We've taken a page from his list of campaign promises and come up with our own changes that we could really get behind.

Personally I've been over here humming the tune of "Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead" in my head since I read the news that pseudo-lesbian Sadie was checking out of Seattle Grace after a very short stint on the show. That Ausiello knows how to make a girl happy. OK, well Melissa George probably isn't particularly happy about it (even if it was her choice), but I sure as heck am. I realize I've been biased against her character, long before Hahn's unceremonious ouster and long before she ever showed up looking for her pal "death," because I really don't like Melissa George as an actress. I've held a grudge against her ever since she and her annoying character basically ruined Alias for me. With that in mind, here are the four reasons we're glad that Ms. George chose (if you choose to believe that) to get the hell out of dodge.

If you are a Time Warner Cable customer and were planning on watching their Miley-filled New Year's Eve special (and I sincerely hope it was either because you wanted to mock it, or because you have a tween in your house that you wanted to appease) you may be out of luck. At 12:01 am, Time Warner's deal with Viacom goes kaput, and talks aren't looking so good. There's like money and that kind of crap involved (Variety has the specifics) but basically it comes down to the customers getting screwed over. Happy New Year!

So come this fall I have absolutely no reason to watch NBC at 10 PM. This comes on the heels of me having less and less reason to watch NBC in general (thanks to disappointing dreck like Knight Rider, Crusoe and Kath & Kim... don't even get me started on my love/hate of Heroes). Come this fall Jay Leno will be back and more primetimey than ever. In a bid to keep the current Tonight Show host on their network, once Conan heads west and takes over the long-running talkfest, NBC decided to give Leno and his chin a spot on their primetime lineup. Five. Nights. A. Week.

Something is totally up this week. Maybe it was a tryptophan overdose from Turkey day or another bad bout of TV sickness brought on by House hostages and Heroes eclipses, but news that's coming out this week that should get me all irrationally exuberant and have me talking Mindy's ear off, really has just been met with a shrug.

For instance today they announced that they have greenlit episodes of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel. Well, that's fabulous, but I'm still waiting for the two-hour pilot that they filmed. I need my Eric Stoltz and Cylon fix. Do you hear me? Plus, TPTB mentioned that Caprica likely wouldn't hit the airwaves until 2010, and that is sofar off in the distance, and so much could happen before then, that I find it hard be enthusiastic yet.