Programming notes: If you set your VCR or TiVo to record An Evening With Mel Brooks — aka The Tony Awards — this Sunday, don't forget that the two hour ceremony on CBS is preceded by an hour show on PBS. (One thing I often find interesting about the Tony telecast is that it's just about the only live award show that is utterly forbidden to run over its allotted time. It gets cut off at the end of the two hours, no matter what's happening or what awards remain to be handed out. Some years, the presenters in the last half-hour sound like John Moschitta, Jr. on a sugar rush.)
Also note that, the following weekend, TV Land is running all 158 episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show in sequence. On my DSS satellite, the festivities commence at 3:00 AM, early the morning of June 9…however, if you ever watch that station, you should be aware of the following. At some point in June — they don't seem to be announcing just when — TV Land will begin offering both an East Coast feed and a West Coast feed. Right now, they just have one, so the show that runs at 6:00 AM on the eastern seaboard is on at 3:00 AM out here. Once they have the two feeds, many cable companies not on the East Coast will switch to the West Coast feed, probably without much advance notice to viewers. So you may wake up one morn and find the whole channel time-shifted on your TV.
Interesting article in The Washington Post today about all the Floridians — mainly folks likely to vote Democratic — who were wrongly denied the right to vote last November. No one has yet charged that this was planned and deliberate but I suspect it's just a matter of time before someone does. Here's the link.