Veep/Girls (HBO, Sunday) - "Veep," the new political comedy created by Armando Iannucci and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is getting great reviews.

If you've never seen the BBC/Discovery specials "Planet Earth" or "Life" (the British versions with David Attenborough narrating, not the crappy Oprah one), then you're missing the apex of smoking weed and watching HD television.

Everyone I've talked to about Discovery's "Life" has two overriding about it: (1) "Wow, the footage is amazing.

Great news.