Meet the new boss

Not a whole lot to say about Amy and Daniel bailing on the next and presumably final season of "Gilmore Girls," except to note that, for all the ups and downs of the last few years, the show isn't going to improve with the loss of its creative voice. Uneven as the last couple of David Milch-run years of "NYPD Blue" were, or the last year and a half or so of Sorkin's tenure on "West Wing," the best those shows could hope for after the people who wrote most of the words went away was competency, and even that was a struggle at times.

On the plus side, the new showrunner, David Rosenthal is... umm... eccentric. An excerpt from a 2001 profile of him in the New York Observer (the full story is behind a paywall):

Today, some people think David Rosenthal is crazy. It has been nearly a year since Mr. Rosenthal, 33, left his marriage and abandoned Hollywood, leaving barely a trace. He estranged himself from close friends and colleagues, moved into posh hotels and gave away a million dollars to young women, some of whom he barely knew. He wrote an angry play called Love, which contains an extraordinary amount of cursing. Love also details Mr. Rosenthal's feelings about faith, monogamy and his desire to have intercourse with the supermodel Heidi Klum. Mr. Rosenthal said that after he sent a copy of the play to his father, his father took him to a mental hospital, where Mr. Rosenthal was kept for 48 hours.

So this may skip past comptence altogether and go someplace very bizarre. Who knows?