A new sketch-comedy show, "Portlandia", has just finished its first season in the US, but has already been commissioned for a second. It's a very deadpan show and I loved it, spoofing the supposedly hipper-than-thou lifestyle of Portland, Oregon, "a city where young people go to retire." The cool guest list included Steve Buscemi, Kyle McLachlan, Colin Meloy (Decemberists), and in one very funny running gag, Aimee Mann as a cleaner who's employees suddenly realise she's, well, Aimee Mann. Lots of it is on YouTube, but here's the great sketch/song which opened the series:

So as you'll see, it's co-written by and co-stars Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein - who could have seen that career-progression coming? Well, its seems TV is now the go-to for ex-indie girls - Lauren Laverne is never off TV or radio, Brix Smith is Gok Wan's gal-pal in "Gok's Fashion Fix", and even Stiff Records' Akron mascot Rachel Sweet is now a TV producer, with sitcoms "Dharma & Greg" and new hit "Hot In Cleveland" on her CV. Are there any more out there? Is Miki Berenyi reading the news on some channel, or Tracy Tracy doing the weather...?