TV update.

I enjoyed Skin, the new program from Fox. Okay, it's really Romeo and Juliet, set in LA, and the fathers of the respective families are a D.A. up for reelection and the head of a pornography empire. Good acting, very rich production values - the first episode seemed more like a film than a TV show - and executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, no stranger to successful TV shows and movies. The first episode was great fun, and I think it will continue to be fun to watch - but only for the length of a mini-series, covering the material in Shakespeare's play. But if the pair of star-cross'd lovers fail to take their lives at the appointed hour, or even if they do, how will they be able to maintain the level of drama and interest over the length of an entire season? Or multiple seasons? I'd suggest that you watch it now, while it's good and while it's on the air - the overnight ratings were awfully low, so it might not be around for long.

I've stopped watching The Lyon's Den. Two episodes were enough. I actually tuned into the third episode, went off to check my email during the opening credits, and never went back. But that was one episode more than I've seen of K Street, which could have been interesting but that first episode was so muddled, I had no great interest in watching more of it.