April showers bring May flowers bring a (prescription)-drugged-up Angry Puppy. In between sneezes, Marc and Lee talk about the upcoming NewNowNext Awards, Matt Damon's quaint ideas regarding gaming and the last words you ever wanted to hear from John Barrowman.

Find out where to start reading about everyone's favorite bisexual, blue-collar warlock and where to see two early gay vampires in film. Also, Lee and Marc cover their usual geek shows: Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Doctor Who and Reaper.

Check it out after the break!

The Tyra Banks Show (syndicated) Check local listings
Tyra chats with TV judges including the gay Judge David Young. Tyra and TV judges together on the same stage? What are the chances it'll be all over the weekend clip shows?

Beauty and the Geek (CW) 8:00 PM EDT
Think Greg's elimination last week was the last you need to see of this season? Hold on for one more week as The CW airs a "deleted footage" special tonight which will include audition videos and other unaired scenes. Hopefully, we'll get to see some of the great footage of Greg we missed out on the first time around.

Reaper (CW) 9:00 PM EDT
Michael Ian Black and Ken Marino return as two fallen angels (demons) who hope to use Sam (Bret Harrison) and his relationship with the Devil (Ray Wise) for their cause. As I mentioned earlier, with Torchwood's season over, Black and Marino are now the gay sci-fi couple, so why not turn to them in your Janto withdrawal?

Law & Order: SVU (NBC) 10:00 PM EDT
As Michael told you in the latest "Best Gay Week Ever", tonight's episode focuses on a closeted quarterback (played by Bailey Chase, above) whose boyfriend/business manager is found murdered.

Work Out (Bravo) 10:00 PM EDT
Gay masseur JD Jordan starts working at the gym in tonight's episode. You can check out a clip of JD after the break ... Jackie's matchmaking gets on my nerves a bit, considering she finally met Jesse's boyfriend in the last episode.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) 11:00 PM EDT
Camp indie film legend John Waters is scheduled to talk with Jon on tonight's show (coincidentally, his birthday). I cannot wait to see these two chat.

The CW series Reaper follows Sam Oliver (Bret Harrison), a young man who learns that his parents sold his soul to the Devil (Ray Wise), who now expects Sam to be his bounty hunter, capturing damned souls that have escaped from hell. These souls return to earth with special powers based on the skills they possessed and the evil deeds they committed as a mortal and Sam is regularly armed with an everyday household object/product placement opportunity that will help him capture the soul.

When the fall season started, Reaper was a show generating a lot of buzz. Its Kevin Smith-directed pilot had a witty sense of humor and a promising cast. While I didn't love the pilot as much as some critics did, I thought the series had potential. Unfortunately, follow-up episodes didn't really work for me. I found the stories a bit repetitive, with Sam having to be convinced to accept his duties as a hunter of lost souls every week. Seeing the lead character make the same emotional journey again and again made this show pretty tiring.

To some degree, that's my way of warning you that there are some aspects of the Reaper universe that I don't understand -- and we'll get into that later. However, I also wanted to note that Reaper has broken out of the trap that initially lost me as a viewer. Sam has matured a little since I stopped watching. He didn't spend half the episode refusing to hunt escaped souls and, instead, Sam is now fighting for more independence in how he handles those assignments.

Sam still is a bit immature and in last week's episode it takes a bit of trickery and forgery by his friend "Sock" (Tyler Labine) to get him to move out of his parents house and into a fabulous and spacious loft apartment. Eventually, an electrical short brings Sam and his new roommates, Sock and Ben (Rick Gonzalez), to meet their new neighbors, Steve (Michael Ian Black) and Tony (Ken Marino).

The guys wince a little at the realization that their neighbors are a gay couple but they quickly check themselves. Overall, Sock ends up displaying a small amount of gay panic -- he feels the need to declare his heterosexuality before commenting on how much he enjoys having them as neighbors. Steve and Tony quickly become a full-service pair of assistants to Sam and his roommates. They invite Sam and his roommates over for dinner, help them do their laundry, take them clothes shopping and fix electrical problems. Sock says it's like living next door to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Sam comments that they've made Steve and Tony into a substitute for their parents.

I have to add that Black and Marino are totally adorable as Steve and Tony. The characters are smart and witty, traits that Black and Marino personally have in spades and nicely channel into their characters. They also have plenty of chemistry together and are helped by a script that captures the little touches that make them seem like a couple who have been together for a while, like when Steve notes Tony's tendencies to get food stains on his clothes.

Going into the fall television season, Reaper was one of the most buzzed about shows on any network’s lineup. The Kevin Smith-directed pilot about Sam, a young slacker forced (due to a deal his parents made with Satan before Sam was born) into collecting souls that have escaped from Hell, was met with much geeky enthusiasm by the fanboys (and girls) when it was screened earlier this year at Comic-Con International in San Diego. It seemed that The CW had a surefire hit on their hands.

Subsequent episodes have slightly lessened the enthusiasm; everyone seems to agree that Reaper is a decent show, but nothing has quite lived up to the brilliance shown in the pilot.

Possibly hoping that a dose of gayness will liven things up a bit (and really, when has it ever hurt?), an upcoming episode features a gay-centered plotline.

The (somewhat mystifying) summary, courtesy of Spoilerfix.com:

Sock and Sam move into a condo together and when their electricity goes out, they go next door to ask for help locating the breaker box. They meet their neighbors, a gay couple named Steve and Tony, who not only come over and flip the breakers but offer to get light bulbs to replace the dead ones in the kitchen, notice the empty fridge and say they are going to fill it up with great food, they then ask the guys over to dinner that night. Sock and Sam find a vessel in the living room later that evening and open it to find a cane, but decide to go to dinner first. They hear a sander running when they go next door. Sock is offered some expensive scotch that he notices inside. During dinner when Sam spills something on his shirt and when Steve takes him into the bathroom to use a stain removing pen on it, Sam notices two belt sanders hanging in the bathroom.

I’m not entirely sure what those last few sentences mean; I know that for each soul he must collect, Sam is provided a "vessel" which is specifically designed to help him complete his task (it was a Dirt Devil in the pilot), so are the sanders the vessels? Or is it the cane? What’s up with the scotch? Are the gay guys the souls who’ve escaped from hell? If so, I’m assuming that they weren’t in Hell simply for being gay.

Regardless of how much the synopsis left me scratching my head, the episode sounds like it should be fun. Though if anyone can elaborate and explain what exactly it all means, I’d be much obliged.

The episode is entitled "Unseen" and is set to air in January.