I hate Entourage. I also watch it every week. I used to think that maybe I was addicted to the hate, but I’ve realized that watching this horrible show about a self indulgent, talentless, rich douche bag and his varyingly loathsome cronies seems to be a cultural imperative for anyone working in or on the periphery of showbusiness. Unfortunately for me, a degree from film “school” and my current job place me quite definitely in this group.

At this point, I’ve accepted Entourage as my way to kill 22 minutes while 60 Minutes begins recording on my DVR (hooray for HBO’s east coast feed), so that I can fast forward through the 60 Minutes commercials. Jeremy Piven’s portrayal of Ari is still marginally amusing, and that helps to quell my tantrums whenever the rest of the idiots spontaneously jet-set off to Hawaii in a private plane full of models. Yes, that actually happened this season.

Anyway. The whole point of this was that I’m pretty sure they teased tonight’s episode with a cameo from Seth Green during last week’s preview. Seth will be playing the jerkoff version of himself that he’s played in past episodes of Entourage. For what it’s worth, I met Seth once years ago and he was really awesome, so I guess he’s even more awesome for being a good sport on this show. I’ve forgiven him for Robot Chicken.

So, tune in to HBO for tonight’s episode of Entourage at 10p eastern time. Or, you can do ANYTHING ELSE, which would probably be better way to spend your time.

Vince & Co are back for season five of “Entourage”. I wasn’t a big fan of this HBO comedy at first, but once the Medellin subplot arose, I was hooked!

Season five is supposed to focus on Drama coming to terms with his budding tv career, the failure of Medellin and lack of funds, and how Ari Gold is supposed to sorta all this crap out for Vince.

Catch the season premiere on HBO on September 7th, 10pm ET/PT.