The Future of Television is Something I’m Already Trying to Erase from My Memory

Amy Sherman-Palladino is no doubt currently scratching her head over Fox’s abrupt yanking of her show “The Return of Jezebel James” after only three episodes: “Over on The CW, three million viewers is considered a megahit!” she’s opining.

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The stuntcasting of Britney Spears on “How I Met Your Mother” (gee, what a nothing-burger role, as this cut-down proves) did the trick, earning the sitcom 10.6 million viewers (meaning it got about 2 million people who otherwise would’ve been doing something, anything else to tune in) and its best 18-49 demographic showing in a long time.

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Fox, surveying the miserable numbers for its midseason shows “New Amsterdam,” “Canterbury’s Law” and the aforementioned “Jezebel James,” has no choice but to renew “Prison Break” for a fourth season. I forget: Is there anyone left in prison that anyone cares about to break out? Or will Michael just get himself thrown into a local pokey just for grins so he can pull off a hat trick?

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Did Sinbad of all people torpedo Hillary Clinton’s campaign over her comments on sniper fire when she went to Bosnia?

It gets worse: Your Mayor has does some investigative journalism of his own, and has discovered that that phone call in that TV commercial in fact did not come at 3 p.m., but at the far more reasonable hour of 10 p.m.