Weeds

Japanese knotweed is in nearly all our provinces. And the threat is real: it can lower house prices, threaten our bridges, and drive men to madness.

Field studies are under way to see if a foreign weed—a dandelion—could become a source of rubber and cash

So if the great ratings for the season premiere of Weeds hold up, will that make this a case of a show that was retooled and revamped successfully? This season of Weeds has a new setting, new cast members (including some well-known ones like Albert Brooks) and will drop the theme song “Little Boxes” because, as creator Jenji Kohan explains, she’s no longer in a little box. Basically the show has undergone a classic, textbook, Laverne-and-Shirley-move-to-L.A.  re-tool, and it seems to be working out OK.