• Lifetime plans a dating game show, titled Gay, Straight or Taken, in each episode a woman meets three men — with one man already in a relationship and another being gay. If she finds the guy who’s heterosexual and available, she wins a dream date to share with the guy. While the idea of turning the cliche of “All the good ones are married, dead or gay.” into a series is funny, am I the only one thinking this is the newest Three’s a Crowd or Playing it Straight?

• Oh, lovely, are we seeing the kind of sexist double-standard typical to superheroes in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood? I was really excited about this series, but the negative buzz is killing that anticipation. It’s too bad, TV could really use a series where John Barrowman gets to be all handsome and charming… hm, have they done the Captain Jack meets the new Doctor episode, yet? That’d be a bit of a handsome and charming overload, wouldn’t it?

• Okay, why does it feel reassuring to hear of Masi Oka visiting a Kinokuniya Book Store and talking about his appreciation for Naoki Uraawa? It’s not like we’re gonna geek out together with me warning him not to spoil Monster for me.

• Here’s a little irony, the same-sex partner of an Enron employee convicted in illegal manipulation of the company’s stock will get to keep some of his ill-gotten fortune, unlike the married spouses of others convicted in the Enron scandal, since they are not legally married. As much as I want to chuckle at the irony, I just get angry.

• Blog@Newsarama’s list of Ten Really Good Series That Ended Way Too Soon, includes two of my top picks — Chase and Young Heroes in Love — so I’m happy. My top choice for a series that didn’t last long enough, though, would be Adam Warren’s run on Gen-13.

Supplemental tags: Torchwood, Gay, Straight or Taken?