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Okay, I can't lie: I actually think the trailer for Going The Distance, a romantic comedy with Justin Long and Drew Barrymore, looks sort of ... good. Christina Applegate! Jim Gaffigan! Jason Sudeikis! I've certainly seen worse, I'll say that much.

This reflection on 20 seasons of Law & Order does a pretty good job of summing up the show's appeal, although I think it shortchanges the non-AARP (as the piece puts it) segment of the audience. There were people younger than AARP age who watched it. ...What? There were.

Hard as it is to believe, some movie theaters are raising some ticket prices again, already. Shrek Forever After at $20 per ticket. Twenty dollars per ticket, for a movie intended to draw families, before you pay for concessions. Good luck with that.

It's not terribly surprising that the Parents Television Council is already upset about the new CBS show, $#*! My Dad Says. As I mentioned the other day, using asterisks and exclamation points and pronouncing it "bleep" seems preposterously overcomplicated to me, because honestly, the show stars William Shatner and is going to be on after The Big Bang Theory. It's going to get sampled; if they think the show will be good, trying to attract attention with an unwieldy title just to hang on to the tone of the Twitter feed it's based on, when the bleeping kills that tone anyway, seems highly unnecessary.

Last night's Grey's Anatomy was an awfully harrowing two hours. It's one of the oddities of Grey's that the writers blog extensively about their work, and creator Shonda Rhimes has already put out a lengthy blog entry, which (as is typical) includes both a lot of interesting insight and a lot of very uncomfortable talk about how unbelievably amazing her own script is.

Yesterday's press release about the release of the first full season of Glee on DVD confirms what we had heard: There will be new special features to entice those who already bought the first half of the season to buy the full season as well, but if you bought the first season, you are eligible for a ten-dollar [ahem] "Gleebate." So it's still kind of a rip-off (the entirely fair thing to do would be to release the second half of the season as a standalone with all the features included), but they're trying to soften the blow at least a little.

The Los Angeles Times has a nice rundown of some of the news coming out of network upfronts week. It's often hard to know what to make of the upfronts, I find, since it's a lot of smoke-blowing, but between now and the beginning of the fall season, we'll learn more about what you're actually going to see.

And The New York Times is asking its readers, "What Is Stieg Larsson's Secret?" Of course, even though it wasn't the question, some readers are taking the opportunity to explain that they are far too good to read Stieg Larsson and his "Girl With" trilogy. As of this writing, the McDonalds analogy has already been made, and there have only been six comments. It's safe to assume it will get worse.