Alright! So it's been well...months...since I did this. Let's see if I can still remember how it works, eh?

I'm going to talk sports on the other blog some time soon, but right now I'm going to talk about a TV show that's airing here on Saturday nights, and it's called "Numb3rs".

The stars of the show are Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz and Sabrina Lloyd. The premise is that FBI agent (Morrow) enlists the help of his math-genius kid brother (Krumholtz).

Yes, on first glance it looks like it might just be a quirky-but-formulaic cop thriller. But under the surface it's actually pretty well written and the relationship between Morrow and Krumholtz is particularly well done (as a guy with a much smarter kid brother, I can identify with a lot of Morrow's motivations and neuroses). Lloyd turns in good performaces every week as the profiler in the group, but it's the way in which the solutions always come back to the numbers that is fascinating. Variously they track down a counterfeiting operation and a killer toxic agent using dispersal theories and crack a case of the murder of a corporate whistle blower with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal (that the act of observing something changes the behaviour of the thing being observed). It should be dull as any one of the Data Commuications classes I doodled through in college, but it's not. It's captivating, amusing, poignant and a little corny.

And it uses a loop from Once In A Lifetime y Talking Heads as its theme, so bonus points for that, too.

The US version of The Office begins next week so I might have to check that out, but since I a) hated the UK version and b) blog twice a year, I would not be holding my breath were I in your shoes.