I hope everyone had fun celebrating Earth Day this week!

We have volunteers who have direct access to our site via Frontpage...they are all pretty diligent about updating our what's new page so you can see they've put up this week. The others either put up their updates, recaps and best lines up via a form on the web, or they send their articles, etc. in to Gisele or me to put up. All of the work is on there, one way or the other.

We are hoping to move from Frontpage to a Content Management System (CMS) at some point so that it will be easier to put new info up on the site. Right now we are looking at Drupal and Webgui to figure out which one will work best for us. Several people have suggested Joomla, among others, but they will not work for our particular needs.

The recession has not really hurt our site, at least not in any direct way. Maybe we would have made more money on ads if the economy was better, but I don't really know that for sure. We had a partner that was helping us financially, and he is not doing that for now, but that is only partly due to the economy and partly due to his own personal misfortunes. I am still proceeding with the same plans we had for the site: getting a new design, putting the site in CMS, and improving it, and possibly selling it somewhere down the line. We'll see if it works out!

We do have a new volunteer, Daniel, who is working on helping us with the redesign and move to a CMS. This site would be nothing with all of the volunteers!

I have not been very good at doing all the soap opera updates I'm supposed to do...I was doing ok until we went out of town, then I have had a hard time getting back into it. I'm supposed to do Y&R and Guiding Light daily, plus B&B Tues.-Thurs. We might have a new Y&R volunteer, so that would help a lot. One less for me to write. We might have a new volunteer manager as well. We have a fairly new GH update writer, so that is great.

Our site is now on Twitter, so check it out! http://twitter.com/tvmeg

"Dollhouse" on FOX was awesome on Friday. It's such a good show. If you haven't watched it yet, probably best to catch it on DVD so you can know what's going on. I still miss Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. I hope they bring it back next year! What a thrilling show, and such great characters. My guess, btw, about Dollhouse is that Paul Ballard is Alpha. That's just a guess, not a spoiler. I have no prior knowledge or anything. It could also be a few other people. Just have to wait and see, I guess! Next week's episode has Alan Tudyk (who played Wash in Firefly/Serenity), so that will be a treat.

I still miss ER...but I do enjoy Southland a bit. It's kind of like the old Adam 12 or Dragnet, very realistic about day to day police work. But it's the 21st century, so it's grittier while also being more soap-opera-like. I really loved the actor who plays Ben (Ben McKenzie, from The O.C.).

Thursday is really the best night of TV for me. I still love Smallville, even though I really don't enjoy the current Lois-and-Clark relationship that much, and it's clearly on his downward spiral toward the end of the show. I like when they bring in more DC comics characters, like this season they have had Doomsday, Zatanna, the Justice League, the Legion of Superheroes et al. Of course Supernatural is always wonderful. This week's was so sad when they found out their brother was dead, and they never got to meet him. Not that they played it all sad, which in some ways made it worse. CSI is always a great show to watch. The one the previous week, which was all based on Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, was awesome. Anyone who's a Star Trek fan should watch it. So far I am enjoying the new show "Harper's Island", too. And as I mentioned, Southland. Just a great night of TV. I also still like My Name Is Earl and Ugly Betty, but I can only watch so much TV! Not enough room for everything. Oh, and lest I forget, there's Bones on FOX, although between the reruns and moving it around on other nights, who knows? But I always love that one.

The nice thing about having a DVR is that you don't have to remember when a show is on or look at a guide, it finds it for you and records it anyway, even when it's on a different day and time! That is so cool. So now the only time I miss a show is when I am out of town or if I somehow mess up the recording myself.

I am also enjoying Mondays quite a lot. I just wish Castle, Medium, and CSI Miami were not on at the same time. Fridays are still good, but without Terminator and BSG, not as good as they were.

I am still watching the soaps...every time we travel, I fall behind. I spent all week catching up on Bold & Beautiful. I have mostly caught up on AMC, and I'm starting to catch up on OLTL. If only there were more hours in the day! :)

Hope you are all having a great weekend...

I stupidly forgot last time that Yahoo doesn't make the web site addresses automatically clickable...of course, any real site would do that...anyway, they are fixed now if you want to read my last blog entry again.

Our site's pages mostly say "new content every day!" and that is no lie. We work tirelessly. Our writers write every day during the week and sometimes on the weekend, for both daytime and primetime.

See all of our new content up on our site at http://tvmegasite.net/whatsnew.shtml !!!

Our primary need for new volunteers is for writers to summarize the soaps!!

I can't believe that it's almost April, which means most primetime TV shows are almost over for the season. Only a month or two left. So sad!

I will really miss Kyle XY, which has been canceled. It is a good scifi and family show. I have enjoyed this season with Kyle doing things he normally didn't do before, somewhat turning to his "dark side".

Of course I will also miss Battlestar Galactica, which just finished. It was a great show, and it had a very good ending. As a big fan of Starbuck and Apollo's romance, I was disappointed that she just vanished, POOF! without even a kiss goodbye.

I just watched CSI NY and it was awesome. That is fast becoming my favorite of the CSI shows. I really like the characters. I think that CSI is fine, and Laurence Fishburne is doing a great job, but it's not the same without Grissom, and I don't think the stories are as good as they used to be. CSI Miami is always a bit too violent for me and it is more of a cop show than a scientist show like the others. I like David Caruso, but his character crosses the line a bit too much for me. I like cops to follow the rules in most cases, whether in real life or in TV.

I also loved seeing the old faces in ER...it's very sad to see that show end. It's still great drama after all these years. Seeing Susan Sarandon was a great treat, too! Did you know that her husband Tim Robbins was on the very first episode of "St. Elsewhere"? So in a way, it's come full circle.

Terminator and Dollhouse were awesome last week. I can't wait until the next episodes. That may be the best Terminator episode they've had in a long while. Dollhouse was superb. It took them a long while to get there, but they finally made it really compelling. I was surprised that his girlfriend was a doll...hints given by TV Guide made me think something different. I thought Paul was Alpha. The previews for the next episode look great. I was sorry to see Kevin Kilner as a bad guy, though. At least he seems like a good guy on "Damages" (for now!).

Heroes was fabulous this week. One of the best episodes ever. I still wonder why they feel they have to keep killing off the blonde ladies! That makes five now. I guess Claire and her mom are the only ones allowed to live on the show. They even made me like that witch Angela.

Medium was much better this week. Last week I felt it was stupid and predictable...they used a plot right out of "24" so it was totally predictable. This week was way better, and it had a great ending as well.

We were out of town last week, so I had a friend tape some shows, waiting for those tapes. Especially House!

My husband and I always enjoy watching Family Guy and American Dad on Sundays. This week's should be extra-special because they are doing a Star Trek spoof on Family Guy, featuring the Next Gen cast. I was thrilled to be able to talk to the FG show runner David A. Goodman this week and wrote up my interview for the site.

A few weeks ago, my DISH Network DVR died, so I lost 90 plus hours of programming, mostly soaps. This is the second time this happened. Now I have a new box and it has 350 hours, so that is fabulous. You can also back it up on an external hard drive. So hopefully I won't lose any more stuff.

I definitely watch too much TV and do too much on the computer, so I'm deciding for now to give up watching ABC soaps. I do like them a lot, especially OLTL, but my site needs more people to write CBS soap summaries, so that's what I'll have to concentrate on for now, and it's just too much to watch both. I will keep recording the others and perhaps someday catch up again...also, I will still read about them all in the soap mags and online. I hate having to give up watching any show that I like, but that's the way it goes sometimes. If only they put the soaps on iTunes, I would watch them sometimes on my iPod when I was away from home. Their loss, I guess.

Speaking of watching soaps online, I hate cbs.com! I used to be able to watch the soaps on there without too much problems, but they changed something and now it is so annoying. I have to first turn off my pop-up blockers, then I have to sit through the annoying ads, and they usually only have two or three ads that repeat over and over...and often, it stalls out so I have to reload the page again and start over! Why would anyone put themselves through that? Or my other alternative is to download it via torrents, which has no commercials, but takes forever and you can get crappy quality, and let's face it, it's not legal. Or worse, try to find it on iTunes, where again it's crappy quality and broken up into 5 or 6 parts. Yuk.

OK, that's enough for now, have a great week!!

One thing that I've learned about running this site is that you can't expect anything, good or bad, because life will throw you for a loop! We've had several key volunteers quit, but we also had some great ones start...hopefully things will still go smoothly on the site. I've been happy about all of the work we've gotten done lately.

I am planning on posting for a lot more volunteers, especially for our primetime site. I don't know yet if it will work out...but we really need more help. If I can get more help in the primetime area, then I can do more work in the daytime section. I can do either, but I feel like I have been spending too much time in the primetime area. Well, we'll see how it goes!

Every day is a life lesson, that's for sure! I have to thank all of the people associated with my site for teaching me that ;) Both the good and the bad. I'm just grateful that we can still keep the site up.

You can go to this page http://tvmegasite.net/whatsnew.shtml to see all of the work we do every day! It's very cool.

We have a bunch of new proofreaders, and our volunteer Jacques is now updating the Lost section as well as the Heroes section, yay!! I have been doing as much as I can to update things like spoilers on our current primetime pages.

It's no secret that I watch a lot of TV. I post it all the time on my Facebook page, so check it out at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503050336

Right now I am catching up with "As The World Turns" from January. I just love Jon Lindstrom, the actor who plays Craig now. I wish they would reform Craig somewhat. I find it hard to believe that a man of his age would keep acting like an idiot, so self-destructively, and never even get any professional help or grow up.

I am enjoying most of the other soaps, but GH is always annoying, and AMC is not too far behind. Both shows are too plot-driven. They have exciting stories, but they create excitement at the expense of the characters and their history, and also at the expense of common sense. People act like idiots and we're supposed to overlook all that, I guess. We're just supposed to enjoy the ride and ignore the stupidity. I have a real hard time with that. GH has been this way for years, but AMC has just recently started being this way. The new writer came in (from GH of course!) and he has broken every couple up and made people act like idiots. UGH. Why don't they follow the example of One Life to Live, where they somehow manage to have great stories AND good characters AND great dialogue? Is it really that hard? Oh, and Bold and the Beautiful, even though it's on another network, does similar things. The characters change so often, it gives you whiplash. And the drama is so over-the-top that you have to laugh. It's becoming like those telenovelas.

I'm just loving "Battlestar Galactica", it has been awesome. I am so sorry it has to end. Which reminds me, I made a new primetime poll - tell us which show you will miss the most. So many have been canceled already, and it's only February! Take the poll at http://tvmegasite.net/prime/games.shtml

There are just so many good shows on, it's hard to watch them all. I am really enjoying "Damages" on FX, and "Fringe" on FOX. Oh, speaking of which, the new FOX drama "Dollhouse" is great, too, and it's excellent paired with "Terminator" on Friday nights. I might build a page for "Dollhouse" if I ever get time.

If you like complex dramas that have great acting and writing, you should check out "Damages". It is fantastic.

I always watch "Heroes", but sometimes it is kind of annoying because they seem to contradict themselves a lot. You get the feeling that they really haven't thought everything through, or they don't mind things not making sense...it's a shame because the actors are good, and the show was so good first season.

Have a great week!

Wow, it's a been a rough year for everyone, especially with financial problems, lay offs, high gas prices, bad credit, etc. I hope everyone's new year 2009 is going to be much better!

Please help out our site by clicking on as much ads as you can at http://tvmegasite.net and as often as you can!

We have a lot of new proofreaders on our site! That is really great...we need all the help we can get! Sorry to sound so desperate. That has not changed since we started, really! :) We always need more volunteers, more money...it's a big site and we always to do a lot of things at once. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do!

I certainly could not do it alone, which is why more volunteers are needed. Gisele and Boo do a ton of work on the site - they really go above and beyond to get stuff done. We have many other volunteers who selflessly give their time so that our site can be great!! Thank you to all of them!!

I have been catching up on the daytime soaps from when I was gone over the holidays. Boo kindly recorded them all for me. It's amazing how fast it is to fall behind.

I am still enjoying One Life to Live quite a lot. The one where they played Carol of the Bells was awesome...most of the time I fast-forward through most soap opera musical montages. GH and AMC have been pretty depressing, so I hope they both get better. I so enjoyed Alexis' chat with Sonny....I always loved them together. I'm glad to see her back more, too. As The World Turns has been better. It's great to have Dusty back and I am liking all of the characters again. I love the stuff with Luke, Brian, Noah, and Lucinda...and I am so glad to have Craig back, especially since he is played by Jon Lindstrom, one of my favorite actors. I know a certain fan who is really glad to see him back, too.

I watched the past week or two of Y&R as well...I missed a lot of that one, but I have been keeping tabs on it. Bold & Beautiful, though, has been way too depressing, with Phoebe's death. I really chuckled to find out that the girl impersonating Donna is called Grace, since Jennifer Gareis played Grace on Y&R!

I'm glad Damages is back. It is a great show on FX if you haven't seen it. It just started its second season so make sure to watch it! It's a great suspense/thriller/drama with fabulous acting from Glenn Close and many others. I really miss Dexter, Mad Men, and True Blood, still (they all finished for the season). I'm looking forward to the return of Battlestar Galactica soon.

Even though Burn Notice doesn't return until the summer, I am already excited about that one. I might get to interview some of the actors, so that is very cool. I especially love Bruce Campbell, one of my favorite actors ever!!

I have been spending a lot of time on Facebook lately. I have added many actors as friends on there. Some of them are probably not the real actor, but someone pretending to be them. I do know that some of them are real, or at least the real actor is paying someone to do it for them, because they post regular photos, videos at home, information, etc. that a poser would not have. I will be getting some interviews soon, hopefully, with these people as well. Mostly it's just fun to see them post on Facebook, along with my real-life and internet friends, about what they are doing.

Don't forget to check out our "What's New" page to see what is put up new on our site!! We update it regularly. http://tvmegasite.net/whatsnew.shtml

I am looking into moving our site to a Content Management System. Right now we use Microsoft Frontpage. A CMS should be a lot easier. Everyone tells me Joomla is a good one, so that's my first stop. I am not all that knowledgeable about scripting etc. but I may have to learn some stuff.

Enter our monthly drawing, too! http://tvmegasite.net/contest.shtml