Phoo. This whole My Name Is Earl business isn't half dragging on. First, in this country, it was shunted around Channel 4's schedules and then put onto E4, and in its home country it was equally as shoddily dealt with. Its cancellation was, in many, ways inevitable. It was also fairly inevitable that many of its fans were up in arms at the show's shoddy treatment - there was certainly enough of them about. They started online petitions, Tweeted on behalf of the show and generally tried to stave off the show's death. Now news reaches my that they may just have succeeded...

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Channel 4 can be a bit rubbish when it comes to sitcoms nowadays. It used to be that Friday night was Awesome American Sitcom Night, but no more. Fraiser, incredibly, lost its Friday night slot soon after Niles and Daphne finally got it together, and Scrubs and My Name Is Earl have both suffered from being shunted from Channel 4 pillar to e4 post. It means that it's very easy to lose track of series, and you end up watching eveything out of sequence - as such I'm not really sure whether the quality trajectory of My Name Is Earl is generally downwards, but either way, it has just been canceled.

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Yesterday, I gave you the opportunity to have a good old look at Nadine Velasquez, the star of the very fine and funny My Name Is Earl. That was just a mere visual taster, as now we have the main course. Or something. Don't want to confuse metaphors or naffing. Nadine, who plays stripper/cleaner Catalina in the show, was flown over by aeroplane to the United British Isles to promote the release of a DVD. It's out now in all good DVD stores to buy for around £34.99 and spans four discs - the entire series three and loads of deleted scenes and cast interviews. So let's get going... this is what happened when I was holed up in posh hotel room, on couch with the attractive Nadine Velasquez (fear not, she later called the police to unhole the room and escort me from the premises).

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Why am I putting up loads of pictures of Nadine Velasquez from My Name Is Earl? Because I want to, ok? Well, that's not strictly true. Think of this as an informal introduction to the Latin starlet. Series three of My Name Is Earl is now out to buy on DVD, packed with extras (deleted scenes, featurettes and loads more). The four-disc set costs £34.99 from your local DVD store, and to celebrate the release, the good people over at Fox invited me to go to a posh hotel room in a posh London hotel to chat to Nadine, who stars as random but loveable cleaner/stripper Catalina. The interview will be up tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are some pictures of her. Click on the image below and get acquainted...

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Haven't you heard? The world is very close to capitulation. We're in the middle of a credit crunch so crunchy that all jobs are going to be lost, wars are kicking off all over the shop, kids are stabbing each other in the streets all the time, the planet is wheezing and heating up and melting because of US, and I stubbed my toe on the a skirting board the morning and it really hurt. Yes, everything is rubbish. More rubbisher than at any time I can remember. What is there to do? Take off your clothes, smear yourself in Utterly Butterly, run naked down the streets and jump off the nearest cliff? No, don't do that. Turn on your televisions. There are some shows that might just make you feel a bit happier.

Well, it's finally happened. I kinda knew it would. Channel 4 have managed to spoil My Name Is Earl for me. Thing is... I still love the show. You see, due to Channel 4's seemingly endless tinkering and moving of the show, from one time-slot to the next, I've now lost the will to keep up.

I see Channel 4 has been mucking about with My Name Is Earl again. It's on Thursdays now, at 10.45pm, and this chop and changing is a real shame - the show is always worth a watch and remains reliably amusing viewing. This week's episode looks like a real must-watch, guest starring as it does Napoleon Dynamite's John Heder as a supermarket worker who trains Earl for a bagging competition. Go over the jump to watch the trailer.

I'm rather pleases that Mr Earl Hickey is now out of prison. Man, I was beginning to feel cooped up in there. Anyway, now our Karmic hero is out of the clink, we can get on with some good ol' wholesome redneckery! On Thursday, to celebrate Earl's release, we get a nice double bill of My Name Is Earl (Channel 4, Thursday, 19 June, 10pm) which are ominously titled 'Bad Earl' and 'I Won't Die With a Little Help From My Friends, part 1'. Now, I'm not sure with they don't have a double bill next week, but I'm sure all will become clear... and I sure can't be bothered finding out.

When I sat down to watch My Name Is Earl (Channel 4, Thursday, May 15, 10pm) last night, I foolishly decided that I didn't really like the serial-style aspect of the new series. Surely, the whole point of 'the list' is that each show is different, short, sassy episodes with new and tumbling oddball comedic scenarios and... then it started and I was promptly aware of what a dumb-ass I'd been.

We're on to another week of top-notch My Name Is Earl action. You can't really go wrong with it, so enjoy this preview clip. It's on Channel 4 at 10pm... tonight!!

Every one seems trapped in tonight's episode of the always-wonderful My Name Is Earl (Channel 4, 10pm). Earl's in prison and Randy gets his hands trapped in a jar of gherkins. We've all been there.

After watching the sublime My Name Is Earl last night, it struck me that Randy Hickey might be the thickest person I've ever seen on the box. Then, something else struck me... is he thicker than Father Dougal from Father Ted? Of course, their bumbling ways are incredibly endearing and in their stupidity sometimes lies genius. However, I can't get it from my mind. Who is the dimmest of the two. There's a nice poll thing you can vote on... and if you need some help, there's some choice quotes from both over the jump.