
Considering it's the Sunday before a major holiday, tonight's a pretty big one for TV. In addition to the
Stephen Colbert Christmas special, Fox is pulling out all the stops for a special 24 event, and HBO bids a first-season farewell to a new hit drama.
24's movie,
24: Redemption, has been a long time coming.

As you know, the vampire love tale
Twilight will hit theaters next Friday Nov. 21 and Variety points out the obvious (especially judging by the, um,
enthusiastic crowd that gathered to see Robert Pattinson in San Francisco this week):
Twilight will bring out the female viewers in droves. The article continues:[Twilight author Stephenie] Meyer's dark, young alpha male Edward is likened to the Byronic heroes so popular in romantic literature through the ages.

I don't think it will be a revolutionary statement that how one feels about Alan Ball's new HBO series,
True Blood, will have a lot to do with how one generally feels about vampires. Me, they've never really been my thing; they're OK and all, but the mere mention of fangs wouldn't necessarily get me to tune in. This review, then, is for (and by) the vampire-agnostic.

This weekend, writer/director Alan Ball of
Six Feet Under fame returns to HBO with
True Blood. The vampire saga, based on the
novels of Charlaine Harris, follows Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a waitress who can read minds — except for the one of Bill, a vampire who's new to town.
I've checked out the first two episodes of the show and will give you my reaction before Sunday's premiere.