Daily Bullets

• TV by the Numbers Overnight Nielsen Ratings: "The premiere of FOX’s New Amsterdam was the second most watched thing on television last night even though it lost more than half the lead-in from Idol and then lost even more in the second half hour."

• Alicia Silverstone is joining the cast of How I Met Your Mother and Ausiello thinks she's the mother. I love Alicia Silverstone (Just thought I'd throw that in).

• Podcast pitting The Wire vs. Deadwood vs. The Sopranos in the fight for television supremacy. Not really sure why you would need to waste your time listening to it though. It's very simple. It goes The Wire then Deadwood then about ten other shows before you get to The Sopranos.

• Who wants to guess how many interceptions you can fit into 30 hours worth of Brett Favre programming?

• Meanwhile, that fight over the NFL Network isn't getting any better.

• Former West Wing star Allison Janney will lend her voice to the upcoming Fox comedy The Pitts.
  

• Alan Ball's (Six Feet Under) upcoming HBO vampire-series True Blood has added Alexander Skarsgard (Generation Kill) to the cast.
  

• The Office is set to resume production tomorrow. Meanwhile, Give Me My Remote is reporting that next season will consist of 30 episodes.

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