More panel discussions for you to sit through!

We’ve discussed the upcoming Paley Television Festival already, but The Museum of Television and Radio has a slew of other events in the coming weeks and months, concerning a number of topics as you will see as I regurgitate the contents of their press release.

The “Media as Mirror” series will feature the premiere of the Canadian series “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” about a Muslim family living in Saskatchewan, on April 4. No word whether the show’s a comedy or drama, but I’m guessing comedy, because you can’t really put the words “drama” and “Saskatchewan” in the same sentence.

“Media/Mirror” also will feature “Political Satire in the Digital Age: Salih Memecan and JibJab” on April 5. Memecan, a Turkish cartoonist, and the founders of the comedy site JibJab will discuss, uh, political satire in the digital age. I’m guessing they mean “now” more than the “digital age,” because current events dictate political satire more than the medium, but putting "digital age" in the title of any panel discussion makes it sound more cutting-edge.

Finally, “Arab and Muslim Characters on Prime-Time TV: The View from Hollywood,” on May 22, will feature a panel of producers from the shows “24,” “Lost,” “Sleeper Cell” and “Law & Order,” who will no doubt implore the Arab and Muslim worlds to assume new character tics they can stereotype.

But the Museum also realizes that media can provide entertainment, as well, and so, as part of its “Media as Entertainment” series, it will feature panels of shows that apparently weren’t quite prestigious enough to rate the Paley Festival: “Friday Night Lights” (April 13), “The New Adventures of Old Christine” (April 16) and a “Cagney and Lacey” reunion (April 30).

Mitzi Gaynor will chatter on April 10, the Turner Movie Classics documentary “Brando” will be screened and, afterwards, dissected by, of all people, Penelope Ann Miller on April 24 (OK, there’ll be other folks there, too). “Oswald’s Ghost,” an upcoming PBS documentary about the JFK assassination, will be presented and discussed June 12, and Morgan Spurlock will recall doing prison time and other antics enacted for his FX series “30 Days” on June 19.

And apparently, the Museum believes that someone out there is interested in “the role of the writer in the creation of video games,” because, verily, a panel discussion entitled “Video Games: The Writers Speak” is scheduled for May 9.

And former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will reminisce about her appearance on an episode of “Blossom” on a June date to be determined. Well, no, she won’t talk about “Blossom,” I gather; she’s part of this series because, um, well, she has been on TV.

The event Your Mayor is most interested in occurs on April 23, when epic documentarian Ken Burns will offer a sneak peak of his upcoming “The War” (that war in question being WWII). His film won’t air until September, so you’ll be able to say you were the first on your block to see at least some of it, and find out if he and PBS and those Draconian rascals at the FCC have determined whether or not he can allow members of the Greatest Generation drop some scatological epithets during the miniseries without the FCC fining PBS affiliates out of existence.

Tickets for events go on sale March 1 and range between $15-$25, less for members of the museum; ticket packages are also available. Call the Museum, which is at North Beverly Drive and Little Santa Monica in Beverly Hills, at 310-786-1000. Not necessarily for more information; just give them a call. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.