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I had to throw that "kinda" in there because really good news would be that the show is coming back for a second season, but that ain't happening. However, starting on Sunday, September 3, Adult Swim is putting the original thirteen episodes back in rotation. One episode will air, in order, every Sunday at 1:30 am. That's Sunday evening, by the way, so I guess technically it would be Monday morning. I didn't get into the show until a friend of mine pointed it out to me, and I must say I enjoyed it quite a bit. I was rather sad to see it didn't quite gain the audience it needed to stick around, but I guess that's how this crazy TV game is played sometimes. A pity.

(S04E05) Maybe I have some kind of chemical imbalance, or I just wasn't in a comedy kind of mood, but I didn't think this episode was that great. Normally I love this show, but this episode just kind of left me cold.

Fans might recall that in the first season there was a two-part episode where some officials from Home Land Security came to Reno to teach the deputies about terrorist training. It turns out they were actually con artists and they wound up stealing a bunch of stuff from the evidence lockers. In this episode, one of the con artists, "Spanish Mike" Alvarez, is placed in custody in the Reno jail where he tries to get inside the heads of each of the deputies. My favorite scene was with Junior, who he convinces to hand over his gun, but little does he know that Junior took the bullets out of the gun first. Junior taunts him: "Now who's in whose head?" That was pretty funny.

The first season of Prison Break was filmed in Chicago at the Joliet Correctional Center, as well as various locations around the city. However, come next season, the show will no longer be taped in Chicago. The producers state that it has nothing to do with the city itself, but that the story calls for the move. I suppose, given the name of the series, that they would have to move to locations beyond the prison at some point. Officials in Chicago were aware of this, but there was hope that at least part of the second season would still be done in the Windy City. As it turns out, Chicago won't be part of the second season at all.

The season finale of Prison Break airs tonight at 8 p.m.

Next Tuesday, the Shout Factory will be releasing a five-disc set of the first season of That Girl, the 1960s series featuring Marlo Thomas as a struggling actress trying to make her way in New York City. In the final season, she marries Phil Donahue. Wait, that actually happened in real life. My bad. Besides the thirty first season episodes, the set will also include the original pilot, as well as promos and two documentaries about the making of the television series, each featuring Marlo Thomas.

The first season of The Boondocks, the Adult Swim series based on Aaron McGruder's comic strip about a black kid and his younger brother moving out of Chicago's inner city to live with their grandpa in the suburbs, is coming out on DVD on June 13. The fifteen episodes of the season will be shown uncut and uncensored. Also, the disc will include French subtitles, an addition I felt was sorely missing from the original airings. How do you say "white people are crazy" in French, anyway? I've forgotten all the French I learned in high school. Seriously, though, this new set sounds pretty cool, and I like the idea of seeing these episodes in all their raw, uncensored glory, which means I'll probably buy the set despite not always watching the show.

McGruder may provide audio commentary on some episodes, though if I'm reading TVSODVD's piece correctly, that's not official just yet.

You learned it here first: Chris Rock is a liar.

Okay, not really. He's just saying that the show based on his life as a teenager in Brooklyn, Everybody Hates Chris, isn't always one hundred percent accurate. Rock says it's more important that the show is funny, though he does say that much of what happened in the first season is taken from his real life. This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, since exaggeration is usually essential to comedy. Meanwhile, the show is still garnering the highest ratings of any show on UPN, which will hopefully mean it'll be making the trek to The CW when the new network begins. Nothing official has been announced just yet, however.