If you’re in NYC  looking for something to do – why not watch a live TV show being taped?

The Daily Show
Tapes every Monday through Thursday at 5:45pm. To request free studio audience tickets to attend a live taping, please visit: www.thedailyshow.com. You must be 18 or over to attend.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Following the promotion of Conan O’Brien to the host of the Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live alum Jimmy Fallon took over as host of Late Night, which O’Brien hosted for sixteen years after replacing David Letterman. Tickets are available by calling the ticket office at 212-664-3056. Up to four tickets may be requested. For standby tickets, arrive no later than 9am on the morning of the taping

Live with Regis and Kelly
Although the studio’s official address is 7 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023, the easiest way to locate the studio is to find the corner of West 67th and Columbus Ave. Arrive as early as 7am for a standby number. After ticket holders are seated, standbys are seated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Executive produced by Micheal Slezak this web series is funny, irreverent and says everything you think but don’t say about reality TV.

If you want a lunchtime laugh, or an after dinner chuckle, tune in to Réalité

The original series ‘Dexter” had a record breaking 4th season premiere on SHOWTIME.   With so many viewers riveted to the vigilante serial killer why not give the people more?   The network will launch an exclusive  animated webisode series entitled Dexter: Early Cuts. The twelve-part series told in four, one to two minute chapters, will premiere on Sunday, October 25 on www.sho.com.

“NASA 360,” produced by NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in partnership with the National Institute of Aerospace, has just release a “webisode” in 3-D. The two and a half minute segment that is available on YouTube and Facebook takes viewers to the Arizona desert so they can see the testing of moon rover concepts up close and personal.

NASA web site
YouTube  Video

Guess who’s spending the long winter nights in a neighborhood gym in Anchorage?  None other than Levi Johnston.   Who’s Levi Johnston you ask?  Think for a minute — you saw his face plastered on media outlets across the country during the Republican National Convention. Does that bring him closer to mind?  No, well, he’s the father of Sarah Palin’s daughter’s child.  Complicated?  Not yet it isn’t.  Apparently he’s decided he didn’t quite get enough of the spotlight, now he’s training three hours a day, six nights a week in preparation for his photo shoot with Playgirl Magazine.  In the nude no less.    What some people will do to stay in the spotlight.

Need I say more?  I didn’t think so.

Remember the TV series Green Acres starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor? You don’t? Well, apparently Planet Green does because they’ve created a new show that seems to me to be a reality version of the popular 60’s sitcom.

Green Acres appeared somewhat unbelievable by taking a wealthy Park Avenue attorney and his socialite wife and transplanting them to a rundown farm in the fictional town of Hottersville. But hey it was the mid 60’s and ridiculous premise sitcoms were all the rage. Fifty years later, viewers are more apt to turn to reality TV – so why not take a popular sitcom premise and marry it with a genre that has become all the rage. That’s exactly what Planet Green has done with their latest original series Beekman Farm.

Former Martha Stewart Vice President, a drag queen turned ad exec and New York Times bestselling author, are now living in an farm in upstate New York farm, with quirky neighbors, goats, pigs and a llama.

The press release certainly doesn’t compare the two shows, but that was my first thought – didn’t Green Acres have quirky neighbors? Wasn’t Eva Gabor always shouting about their pig Arnold? I’m just saying – it smells to me like we’re on the same farm… but here’s what the release says:

Beekman Farm is a funny and irreverent peek into the world of Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, a fish-out-of-water couple who are reviving a farm in upstate NY in order to create a new organic lifestyle brand, ‘Beekman 1802′. The series, produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s World of Wonder, uncovers how the couple’s city slicker skill-set doesn’t mean much when it comes to wrangling pigs and making goat’s milk cheese. They’ve green lit a 10 episode deal.

Beekman Farm is executive produced by Planet Green’s SVP of Production & Development, Jeff Hasler and Executive Producer Lynn Sadofsky. Executive Producers from World of Wonder are Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey and Tom Campbell and Angela Berg is the supervising producer