Megan and Merv

TBS has been airing the new Megan Mullaly Show at 8 a.m., which I can watch a while as I get ready for work. Megan is great fun (of course we know her as the deliciously decadent Karen Walker from the late "Will and Grace") and she has created a talk show that hearkens back to the days of some of my favorite television viewing--Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, and David Frost. Light, funny, silly, celeb-laden talk (the kind Ellen DeGeneres has rekindled after far too many years of Phil Donahue clones). She even uses asterisks in the set design, like Mike Douglas used to. While the show airs on local stations usually during the afternoons, TBS has the cable rights and airs each program the day after it originally airs. Unfortunately, ratings have not been so hot.

Megan seems to have a lot of fun with her guests. Thursday morning was certainly no exception. Merv Griffin himself was the first guest! Merv is looking good for 81, although he was a bit overly-botoxed and a little Jabba-the-Huttish. But what a quick wit. It was great fun to watch them play off each other.

There's some video online at http://www.meganshow.tv/