Watched the first ep of Committed that I recorded yesterday and really liked it. That now makes 3 1/2 hours of TV to record between the hours of 9 and 10 on Tuesday. Amazing Race, Veronica Mars, House and now Committed. Would it kill the TV execs to move just a couple of those to one of the dozens of hours throughout the week when there's nothing at all on? I'm using 3 DVRs to handle it.

Craig Ferguson was decent. It certainly had its rough spots but it's almost certainly better than Conan did in his first week. He's got potential.

And now on to weather alerts...

Tonight was insane. First off, we've got the scrolling school closings along the bottom of the screen. There's a fifth of the screen gone right there with everybody on screen squished down to midget size.

And then we have the horrible watch/warning graphics...

I don't say horrible because I don't want them there at all but because they're just badly executed. There are warnings for Winter Storms, Floods, and Flash Floods and watches for Floods and Winter Weather. That's 5 different categories. You really don't need all 5 of those up on screen at once. The words take up huge amounts of the screen, especially with the school closings scrolling. Craig Ferguson has "Flood Watch" stamped in yellow on his forehead. Just put "Winter Storm Warning" up there with its color, and then switch that to "Flood Warning" with its color and so on...

And please people, remember that if you actually want people to be able to read your map YOU MUST ASSIGN DIFFERENT COLORS TO DIFFERENT ITEMS! The Flood Warning and Winter Storm Warning can’t both be pink!

And a note to Fox 45, a water drop icon and county name next to the word "Warning" is not a proper graphic for "Flood Warning". It can just as easily be interpreted as "Rain Warning" or even "Sad Person Crying Warning". How about a little lapping water icon? And then ABC 22 is scrolling its bad, blue logo on a blue background, thinking people will actually be able to read it. Of course this is just one more example of how Fox 45 and ABC 22 come nowhere close to putting a quality local product onscreen. How hard can it be to make your local content look better than cable access?