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Glee is an ensemble show that's only as strong as its weakest link…and trust me, there are no chinks in this armor. Even the four supporting characters originally brought in to provide vocal background and dance credibility to the club—Santana (Naya Rivera), Brittany (Heather Morris), Mike (Harry Shum Jr.), and Matt (Dijon Talton)—have surprised the audience and the writers with how endearing their presence has become. In fact, Naya and Heather become so integral to the Season One storylines that both actors are being bumped up to series regulars for Season Two, and deservedly so. Naya exhibits a magnetic presence in every scene she's a part of, and Heather offers up the show's most killer dead-pan line reads. She is to Glee's short-form comedy what Jane Lynch is to its long-form, and that's saying a lot. Lynch is the cornerstone of the show's enigmatic success. Long considered one of the finest working character actors today, she has now cemented herself among the legendary funny women of all time. Jane's commitment to this character is unparalleled, riffing off golden moments with nearly every actor she shares a two shot with, not the least of which is Matthew Morrison's Will Schuester. You cannot help but be drawn into this legendary battle of good and evil. The amazing thing is that these epic confrontations only serve to fuel the plot, where in less capable hands they would dominate or overshadow it. Credit Ryan Murphy's team for figuring out how to pull it off.

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Incredibly, for a show that's not even two seasons old, The Big Bang Theory is already shown in over 40 countries around the world - seemingly the language of 'geek' is gobal. It would also seem that the simple tale of the guy (or guys), who can't get the girl, and the hot stuff next door is also universal.

If you haven't seen it, the show revolves around Leonard and Sheldon, a pair of Ph.D. geniuses, who work together at the California Institute of Techonology (referred to as "Caltech") and also share a flat (filled with geek ephemera) across the corridor from aspiring actresses but actual waitress, Penny. Throw in a couple more geeks, Howard Wolowitz and Rajesh Koothrappali, and that's pretty much The Big Bang Theory.

At first glance the show can seem like a tired, formulaic, studio-based (gasp!) sitcom. And this was certainly how I initially viewed Big Bang, a sort of cheaper, not-as-good version of The IT Crowd, but after just a few episodes I began to get sucked in by this character based gag-a-thon.

There's no re-inventing of the wheel going on here, it's just a straightforward sitcom that, on the surface, is aimed at the nerdoid contingent of our planet. Yet, its appeal has crossed that boundary as audience figures will attest (unless there are more geeks on this planet than I thought), mainly, I would argue, down to the superb cast.

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