There I said it.

Both are serialized, broadcast network action-dramas where an isolated likeable group of people struggle for survival following a catastrophe they don’t understand.

ABC’s “Lost” is the sexy one.

An attractive international cast that maintain perfectly white teeth after being stranded for months on an island. After three seasons, the show is beloved for its Big Twists and Sneaky Clues that jerk the narrative this way and that, like shiny fishing bait dangled in front of viewers with attention spans too short to remember that a couple ago what they’re now being told wouldn’t make any sense.

CBS’s “Jericho” is pure Midwest morality tale.

The group of scruffy small-town characters on last season’s “Jericho” debut have gradually devolved into desperate survivalists — shell-shocked and stunned at the humanity draining from their Kansas community following a nuclear terrorist attack.

So much unsaid in this NY Daily News article about TLC’s Paige Davis returning as host of “Trading Spaces.”

Let’s recap: TLC’s “Trading,” based on a UK reality format, launched in 2000 with host Alex McLeod. The show was popular from the start, but in the second season, McLeod was replaced by Davis.

By 2002, the show had become the most successful program TLC had ever aired. “Trading” launched a ton of knock offs across a slew of basic cable networks in two genre directions – shows about decorating/houses, and shows about makeovers.

TLC over-stuffed their schedule with as much “Trading” as they could produce and, like ABC over-airing “Who Wants to be a Millionaire,” the short-sighted strategy blew up in their faces.

The ratings for “Trading” crashed in 2004, dragging TLC down along with it.

That same year, Davis was photographed like this (NSFW), trading the space inside her panties for fistfuls of cash while stripping at a fundraiser.

Then she was fired in January, 2005.

Was that fair?

Well, it certainly wasn’t her fault the ratings crashed. Audiences weren’t rejecting Davis, they were weary of watching the same show every couple hours.

It was her fault that she got her thong stuffed by eager hordes of men in a New York club but, hey, it was for charity, and the network should have been more forgiving. We’re all grown ups here in the home improvement aisle, right?

Welcome back Paige.

The directors have concluded their negotiations with new union contract in hand like confident cats, stretching lazily in the sun and saying to writers, “See how easy that was? How fast and simple? Now why can’t you do that?”

It makes the guys holding picket signs look like ineffective chumps.

Writers are out there striking and chanting and denying the world any more new episodes of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” while the directors sauntered in and made a groundbreaking deal that got them a bunch of new media windings.

For those who have been missing “Deal or No Deal” this month, the NBC game show stalwart has been embarking on a “million dollar mission” to award a contestant $1 million. Each episode where a player fails to win the top prize, another $1 million suitcase is added to the board so that, sooner or later, even the gleeful, math-challenged chipmonk contestants of “Deal” will finally be able to stumble into big bucks.

Since this ratings-boosting stunt started, contestants have lined up to “No Deal Howie!” their way to record-setting six figure offers … then “No Deal Howie!” their way right back down to earn relative squat.

TV Squad has a rundown of what to expect in Season 4 of Lost.

Fanboys be warned: Thar be spoilers, proceed at ye owne peryl!

With only eight episodes in the can it will be interesting to see what Lost can pull of this season…

GeekToob’s predictions after the jump.

Coming soon rich people’s lofts near you… LASER TV!

Mitsubishi has apparently developed a new laser projection technology that promises to deliver the “most vivid color” & “midnight-dark blacks” ever seen on a TV.

Pornhounds everywhere rejoice, everyone else … meh.

The ratings for the second episode of Fox’s “Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles” dropped 45% in its second airing, but the ratings for the second Monday night episode of NBC’s “American Gladiators” basically held up.

Not a surprise.

The “Terminator” remake is about 10 years too early. Yes, I know the link in the previous sentence goes to a Metacritic rundown of reviews showing “Terminator” scored highly with the critics but I don’t care.. If I want to undermine my own arguments through text links, I’ll do it.

See, the problem is “Terminator” is aimed toward fans of the movies. But the fans of the three movies have already seen this stuff before. The series feels too familiar. Here’s the same premise as the films, but with a lower budget and unknown actors. It’s well executed (thus the reviews), but also tired before it even starts.

Fox should have waited a good 10 years before trying to make the small screen version of “Terminator.” Give storytelling techniques and special effects some more time to evolve so they could do something truly different. As is, this is like going back in time — to 1984, 1991 and 2003.

Yup, more spandex and cameltoes coming soon to NBC.

The renewal, for an unknown number of episodes, expands NBC’s stock of “Gladiators” beyond the initial nine hours ordered by the network.

All eyes will be on tonight’s airing to see if their initial huge ratings hold up for a second week.

At least the muscled up performers have tested negative for steroids — but what do you want to bet they tested positive for a ton of cranberry juice and goldenseal?

Like many of you, I watched the first season of Rock of Love and always wondered sort of wonders lay beneath that cowboy hat / bandanna combo Bret wears every time he appears on camera.

A stack of greasy motorcycle parts? A litter of puppies? THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE?!?

Turns out, it’s just hair…. bummer right?

The new season of Rock of Love premieres on VH1 this Sunday, more info at VH1’s official Rock of Love 2 site

The marginally rated FX series Dirt will return in March, according to FX executives.

The show stars Courtney Cox as tabloid maven Lucy Spiller, and pulled in around 5 million viewers per week in FX’s target demographic of adults 18-49. The seven episodes in the can before the strike will air Sunday nights beginning on March 2^nd.

FX will also air the new seasons of The Shield, 30 Days, and The Riches to keep your from the verge of suicide in the bleak days ahead.