Friday, March 17, 2006

TV Once Again Adds to National Education Dialogue

On Tuesday, March 28th, NBC will be debuting a new mid-season replacement sitcom called Teachers. Here's a plot summary of the pilot:

"In an attempt to make Alice (Sarah Alexander) jealous, Jeff (Justin Bartha) hits on the new substitute teacher, Tina (Sarah Shahi). Meanwhile, Calvin (Deon Richmond) and Dick (Phil Hendrie) try to thwart Alice's attempt to run for faculty chair. Kali Rocha and Matt Winston also star. TV-14"

Fantastic. At last, the honest, interesting portrayal of the working lives of American educators for which we have all been waiting.

The only upside here is that one of the teachers is played by Kali Rocha, who also played Halfrek the vengeance demon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You know, the one who was burned alive by D'Hoffryn at the end of that great Season Seven episode, Selfless, where we see Anya's origin back in 15th Century Poland or something where she's married to Olaf, who was first seen playing a troll in the Season Five episode Triangle, and who was played by the guy who played the nurse on E.R., back when E.R. was good? No? What's that? Oh, okay. I'll stop now.

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