It’s a sad few months for viewers of quality television, as FX’s original programming is on hiatus. It’s actually an opportune time to take a break, as “Mad Men” and “Game of Thrones” fill the gaps between “Justified” and “Louie.” Original programming will return on June 28th, and FX has two new shows, and two returning shows, toplined by the return of “Louie.” The first promo from season three doesn’t offer anything substantive, nor does it add to Louis CK’s 20 Commandments to Live By, but there is a cool nod to Woody Allen’s Manhattan. It’s not nearly enough to get us to June, but it’s something.

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Remember when the “Frat Pack” was a thing? It was a term first used by USA Today in 2004 to describe the then new group of deadpan male comedians who weren’t above telling d*ck jokes and often worked together. The cadre included Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and, um, Vince Vaughn, who has fallen way behind his buddies. His last good movie came out seven years ago. In an attempt to become relevant again, he’s doing what America loves best: peddling smut.

According to Vulture:

We hear exclusively that Fox’s FX Network is partnering with Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show Productions to develop Shawna Kenney’s memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix.

While a cash-strapped undergrad at American University in Washington, D.C., during the early nineties, Keeney answered an ad in the local alternative paper that promised, “Get paid for being a bitch!” Soon enough, Keeney was rolling in enough greenery to make her tuition payments, courtesy of the many politicos and elected officials she was regularly flogging into submission in her dungeon. (Via)

If picked up, the series will be renamed “Whipped,” because of course it will, and former “Californication” and “Gilmore Girls” co-executive producer Gina Fattore will act as showrunner. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? If it’s “Owen Wilson would make for a great early 1990s North Carolina Senator Lauch Faircloth,” then yes.

Jimmy Smits, one of those guys that seems to eventually land in every other heavy drama at some point (though he can’t carry is own show), is joining FX’s “Sons of Anarchy” next season. In the season-long arc, according to Deadline, Smits will play “play Neron ‘Nero’ Padilla, a Latino gangbanger with an exit strategy who becomes a dangerous mentor for Jax.”

I like Smits. He was great in the final season of “West Wing,” allowing that drama a post-Sorkin bounce-back year that let it to go out on a high note. However, the results were not as good in Smits’ season-long arc on “Dexter,” one of the worst seasons of that show (through no fault of Smits; it was the bad plotting that cratered that season).

I’m more interested in how a “dangerous mentor for Jax” will play in the upcoming season. Why does Jax have a mentor? He’s the President of SAMCRO now. Presidents do not need mentors. I hope this is not another effort by showrunner Kurt Sutter to distract us from the ongoing feud between Jax and Clay. I get the feeling that if Jax goes down the wrong path, it will create an opening for Clay to reclaim his spot at the head of the table, when the season should be about Jax somehow finding a way to put a bullet in Clay’s temple in every. single. episode.

Whatever. As long as someone finally kills of Tara, the fifth season can’t be anything but a success. Make it happen, Sutter. She’s the Lori Grimes of “Sons of Anarchy.”

I’m not even sure how you’d pull it off, but word is that the FX Network — the most consistently good network on television — is in preliminary talks with the Coen Brothers to turn their black comedy, Fargo, into a television series. The film itself was fairly self-contained, but I suppose one could build a television series around Marge Gunderson’s character: Think a female, North Dakotan version of “Justified”s Raylan Givens.

In fact, it sounds kind of great, and I trust that FX wouldn’t sully the reputation of the Oscar-winning film. Truth is, it’s not the first time someone has attempted to turn Fargo into a television series. Back in 2003, Edie Falco filmed a Fargo pilot that was not picked up for series. Falco is kind of perfect for the role made famous by Frances McDormand, but she wouldn’t be available now (she’s committed to “Nurse Jackie”).

There’s no telling if the series will actually make it to air, but it would be fun to dreamcast the major characters (even if they weren’t ultimately included in the series). I think FX should stick with their regulars, and cast a “Fargo” series to look something like this:

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Instead of a normal TV GIFs of the Week, today we’re running the Best “Archer” GIFs of Season Three, to commemorate another fantastic year and OMG WHEN’S IT BACK ON? We chose two GIFs from each episode, beginning with “The Man from Jupiter,” many of which were provided by commenter Chet Manley. Next time you’re in the Internet Bar, which looks like the Boom Boom Bar from Super Mario Bros., I’m buying you a round.

Now, to quote my favorite Burt Reynolds’ movie title: All Dogs Go to Heaven! I mean: this is The End. Enjoy.

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