Ordinarily I wouldn't have anything to say about the New Yorker, because I'm not particularly interested in reading 12,000-word articles about opera in China.

I know a lot of you readers have probably already seen this on Uproxx's football blog Kissing Suzy Kolber, but in case you're only here for the TV stuff, I've got something special for you today: throughout the course of this week, I'm raising money for the Special Operations Warrior Fund through Fight Gone Bad, an annual ass-kicking CrossFit workout for charity.

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (IFC, Friday) -- Series premiere.

Four years after the show's cancellation, people still get excited at the slightest mention of "Arrested Development," so I figured I'd take some small news items tangentially related to the show, add exclamation points, and see what happens.

Back in December, the first couple minutes of "The Increasingly Bad Decisions of Todd Margaret" were leaked online.

Here's the first clip.

Yesterday in Brooklyn, television stars gambled for charity.

David Cross is one of those excellent acerbic comics who will never attain mainstream popularity in the United States unless he lowers himself to do crap projects like Alvin & the Chipmunks movies.