Back again, after a week of dealing with some minor medical problems. Nothing life-threatening, just a bit time-consuming and exhausting.

Among the stuff to come in the next few days: The final new TV shows premiere; I may actually finish a book, after what feels like weeks of picking things up and finding them all too dull to finish; and I'm delighted to have been invited by StinkyLulu to join in another of his monthly Supporting Actress Smackdowns. We're covering 1940 this month, so you can look forward to comments on that year's nominees:

• Judith Anderson, Rebecca
• Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
• Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story
• Barbara O'Neil, All This, and Heaven Too
• Marjorie Rambeau, Primrose Path

(Nope, I'd never even heard of that last one, either.)