Welcome to The Power Rankings! for the week ending Feb. 19. Thanks to the glory of television, we expand to the Elite Eleven this week (and some weeks we shrink back to the Great Eight - and then when television is not so glorious, I just go on vacation and don't do the rankings). But hell, lots of blood on the ground this time around. We've got three new entries, two apologies and good shows left wanting. Not long from now, it's going to get even more brutal. But let's assess the change at hand.

It was telling that at the end of the The Simpsons 500th episode, the writers put in a title card thanking viewers and saying they should go outside for some fresh air before logging on to the internet to say the episode sucked. For years now, one of the interweb’s most enduring memes – more so than the Hitler reworkings – is complaining about how The Simpsons isn’t as funny as it used to be.

You can't stop The Power Rankings! You can only hope to contain them. Like, in March, when there are a ton of reruns to mess things up. Or kind of like now, when I'm sick. But no, this week we're all good. In fact, we have some interlopers, which always creates flux. And flux is what makes rankings go. And yet, you'll see in this edition that there wasn't much upset at the top. Perhaps next? In any case, welcome to The Power Rankings! for the week ending Feb.

Welcome to return of The Power Rankings! Yes, it's been a while. But hell, if the networks can pull shows off for weeks on end and the cable channels can let a year (or more, in Mad Men's case) go by without much comment, so too can I. A lot of great series have come and gone -- and a lot of crappy series have come and stayed -- but we're living in a 52 week television season, so we'll have plenty of time to root out brilliance in the coming weeks and months.

Give Netflix credit for not saying Lilyhammer, its first original-content drama streaming all eight episodes starting today, will be a revolution for the industry or even the future of the company.

Fine, so M.I.A flipped off the cameras discretely during the Super Bowl. That should get some ink. And then there was...there was....um, have you actually seen M.I.A.'s new video? Way more exciting than the Super Bowl.

Of course, if you're a New York Giants fan, everything is great so don't even bother with this. If you're a New England Patriots fan, you shouldn't even be reading stories about the Super Bowl.

Although HBO’s Luck received mostly favorable reviews, one of the biggest complaints tossed at its feet is that the series is difficult.

Now what?

On the one hand, Simon Cowell should be congratulated for moving swiftly and boldly to shake up The X Factor – putting blood on the floor Monday night with the firing of judges Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger and host Steve Jones. If you’re keeping track at home, that’s two people left standing from the original five.

A strange thing is on the screen virtually every time I turn on any television in my house.

Soccer. Or football -- futbol -- if you will.

Heading into this Sunday’s Super Bowl, that might seem like an odd thing. But despite following my beloved San Francisco 49ers on a magnificently unexpected race to within one game of said Super Bowl, nothing else has really changed.

Soccer -- it’s always on.

Specifically, GolTV is on. And when it’s on, soccer is on -- 24 hours a day.

When FX first launched the brilliant series Archer, it was going against conventional wisdom that you couldn’t put an animated series on the schedule all by itself and be successful. Animated series, like Fox’s Sunday block, had to be grouped. A random solo animated series was doomed.