NBC and ABC come through - finally, sort of

The first review screener of NBC's fall season has arrived! And it's, uh - not for a new show. It's "Heroes"' season-three premiere. Well, it's a start.

Also, we have discussed here ABC's online screening service for critics - it saves a lot on disks and packaging, so it's environmentally friendly, but my screening experiences there had sucked. Someone at ABC actually saw this blog and contacted me about this and was extraordinarily nice and helpful about it all. I had to re-register at their super-secret website and watched a couple of "Wipeout" clips and it is much improved - not optimal in this big-screen HDTV world, perhaps, but eminently watchable.

And then, I got this Email:

"Recently you attempted to register onto [ABC's super-secret website] as a permanent user. Because of the heavy traffic, demand for the materials we provide and various licensing issues, we are forced to put some limits on the access to this site.

"Therefore, we have denied your application at this time."

Boy, if I'm getting rejected on a professional level like this, that explains volumes about my personal life. Looks like it might be time for one of those "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Mayor of Television!"-style outbursts.