I watch virtually no broadcast TV these days, preferring to wait till seasons wrap up enough for a DVD release. The Daily Show and Colbert Report on Comedy Central are so timely I try to watch them (the next day). And the one show I watch as it airs is Heroes.

So what happens? The only other broadcast show I want to watch this week is tonight's American Masters on PBS: a 90-minute episode titled "Good Ol' Charles Schulz." It goes on today at 8 p.m. Central Time. Which is precisely when Heroes Season Two Episode Six, "The Line," airs. The difference between these days and the torments of the 1960s is that I have multiple recorders and grim determination. But still ...