Adaptive behavior

"The Devil Wears Prada" is coming to Fox. They should call it "Pretty Elizabeth."

Two shows about the behind the scenes of a late sketch program being on simultaneously is unlikely, but two shows about unstylish girls working their way up an impossibly stylish New York City fashion magazine is just sort of, I don't know, lame.

Channel Surfing for Thursday, October 12

"I come tight with every rhyme
I built a kingdom down the street from pepperdine
This marijuana got me heavily sedated
Im Kevin Federline
America's most hated" - Kevin Federline, "America's Most Hated"

K-Fed makes his acting debut tonight on "CSI" - well, depending on what you classify "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic" as. All I know is that I most certainly could not handle their truth.

Also, based on consistent recommendations from folks, I will attempt to watch "Ugly Betty." I have said many times before that I would have no problem with the show if it were on ABC Family, but on actual ABC I find it hard to swallow. Does this make sense? Probably not. We'll see how it goes. In the immortal words of Bart Simpson, I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try.

This "Six Degrees" description also has me curious:

Six Degrees
9 p.m., ABC
This new episode of the expansive soap deals with a criminal called "the Puncher," who is terrorizing New York City by punching random people and then running away. They should have called him "the greatest criminal ever."

Beware the Puncher!

Read more about "CSI," an intriguing as always "Office" and other stuff here.

British invasion

It's been quite a week for Lucy Davis - not only did she say three words or so on "Studio 60," she also was on "Ugly Betty." Which features the hilarious Ashley Jensen, Maggie on "Extras," as part of the main cast. So it's kind of a female lead on Ricky Gervais sitcom bonanza over there. Maybe I should actually, you know, watch "Ugly Betty."

Speaking of "Extras," I finally caught the first episode of season 2, and it was, predictably, great. Orlando Bloom as the latest celebrity playing an exaggeratedly hilarious version of himself was a treat, especially the dogged pursual of Maggie and his disdain for Johnny Depp. People who were put off by the first season since it wasn't "The Office" or was kind of boring at times should find this go around a little more accessible, I think, especially with the running plot of Andy's sitcom and the various ways it's going wrong - which in turn is a kind of interesting play on how "The Office" could have gone wrong if it wasn't, you know, so great.

If you feel bad about using...less than legal...means to obtain the new season before it hits HBO (hopefully early next year), you can always support Mssrs. Gervais and Merchant by downloading some podcasts.

SHOW-WITHIN-A-SHOW RANKINGS:

1) "All My Circuits"
2) "Itchy and Scratchy"
3) "FYI"
4) "Jerry"
5) "Wrench"
6) "Terrance and Phillip"
7) "Scandalmakers"
8) "When the Whistle Blows"
9) "Wake Up San Francisco"
10) "30 Rock"
11) "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"
12) "Tool Time"