As many people know, Medium is one of my favorite shows. There’s very little on TV that I’m passionate about these days but Medium is one of those few of the dying breed that I will be upset about when it reaches cancellation. There was a short scare a few months ago when the fledgling excuse for a network NBC decided to cancel it after five seasons. Ben Silverman claimed there was no fan outcry, no one writing in begging them to keep it on air, but at the TCA press tour, star of the show Patricia Arquette put my thoughts about that comment perfectly.

“I just want to say that the same way that we were sort of led to believe we were going to get picked up, I think our audience was also led to believe that to some extent,” she said. “And I know on all of the bloggings and all of the fan sites, that was early stories that they had picked up and then ran with that. So I don’t think our audience ever felt we were in jeopardy of not getting picked up.”

Either way, now the show has been picked up by CBS, who already owned the rights to the program anyway because CBS studios produced it. Funnily enough, in the short time that CBS has had Medium on the fall schedule, they’ve run more promos for the show than NBC has in the five year history of the program.

Creator Glenn Gordon Caron had more to say about what would be coming on Medium this fall.

“There’s so many of you here, I guess I can let the cat out of the bag: she comes out of the coma,” he revealed, with a grin. “And she’s on a different network. It’s the damnedest thing!”

“When I was doing ‘Moonlighting,’ we had bought the rights to this old AIP drive-in movie, ‘Mothra vs. Godzilla,’ and we were going to mat Bruce and Cybill into it, but it was one of those ideas I just never got around to doing. So this year we’ve actually gotten the rights to the original ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ and we’re going to insert Patricia into it. It’s going to be sort of the landscape of her dreams during that particular episode. That’s one of the things that we have going on.

He also reveals that Marc Webb, the director of the Zooey Deschanel/Joseph Gordon Levitt flick 500 Days of Summer begged him to let him direct an episode, so the Night of the Living Dead episode is the one he’ll be doing.

I’m incredibly excited for the sixth season to begin and since they’ve paired the show with Ghost Whisperer it might finally get the ratings it deserves. NBC’s passed the show around to a crapload of different nights with horrible lead-ins and it’s barely ever had a chance to grow its audience. Allison Dubois is one of my favorite television heroines and according to a recent TV Guide article Ms. Arquette makes a whole crapload of money per episode. For my sake at least, I hope the show stays on for another five seasons.

These people truly are delusional. If I believed in God I’d pray for them.

This story is a few months old but nonetheless is still astounded me.  A California couple actually had to sue the city in order to get the groom’s last name changed to that of the bride.  Michael Buday wanted to change his last name to his wife’s partly because he felt closer to his wife’s family than his own.

He discovered it would take a $US350 fee, court appearances, a public announcement and mounds of paperwork to make a change on his driving license that is routine for women who marry.

After months of frustration, the Los Angeles computer programmer and his ER nurse wife Diana [Bijon], 29, took their problem to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

A double barrel name would have been no problem, nor would Diana and Michael deciding to each keep their birth names. But California and some 40 other US states provided no place on the marriage license application, and driving license, for the groom to choose the bride’s surname.

I suppose there’s probably not a huge demand for husbands that want their wives names, so I get that it’s not an option on the license application (although it should be), but when someone specifically requests it, it makes no sense to me that request wouldn’t be fulfilled.  I mean what difference does it make?  Or are we only okay with women being the ones to give up part of their identities?