No Showtime or HBO? You Fail.

I think summer is where the geniuses at Showtime and HBO pull off their great strategy of getting the masses to watch the poo they fling at the public. You can't go wrong with True Blood, Weeds, and the unheralded Nurse Jackie filling the summer watching slate. And this particular summer makes me regret that I have to cut costs and not get premium cable, no less a DVR box. I swear, getting premium in the past and not having it is when a rich junky gets exposed to the "stuff," gets off it because of low funding, then regrets spending all that money on getting a "rush" just because he wants that rush now. I have no idea how the picture could have been painted but let's just say I want Showtime and HBO pushed through my veins now.

With that said, two prominent shows are making their return to the summer slate -- Californication and Entourage. Guess which show I badly need to watch more.

Here's the preview for Californication:

And here's the preview for Entourage, if you're into that kinda thing:

Pacino as Kevorkian? Hoo-ah!

Assisted deaths. I'm all over it. Hoo-AH!

Hoping to atone for the steamy brown coily piece of crap known as Simone, Al Pacino is in talks to bring Dr. Jack Kevorkian, aka the man who assisted his patients' suicides, in an HBO made-for-TV movie.

Al Pacino is in talks to play Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the upcoming HBO telepic You Don't Know Jack, according to Variety.

Based on an authorized biography of the famed "suicide doctor" by his assistant Neal Nicol and his lifelong friend Harry Wylie, the movie will be about Kevorkian's creation of the "Mercy Machine" and his role in helping his patients commit suicide.

[EW via Variety]

So he's going from being the devil to being a modern day vessel of death. I'm so waiting to see what he wants to do next. Maybe a mild-mannered satanist who has uptight, neat freak roommate? How about a gritty look at the life of the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz with him attached as the wise but drug-addicted scarecrow?

Who knows? All I know is he shot up dudes in his own home and snorted a mountain of coke on a desk in Scarface. You know, all rappers watch Scarface.