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Sex and the...carpool lane? That's what TBS is going for with their new microseries, Commuter Confidential, debuting Monday, June 2, during the sanitized Sex and the City at 11 p.m. EST.

But they're not fooling us. It's advertising, not a series, micro or otherwise. The 2-minute pods feature four women who, while trapped in a car together to and from work every day, yap about sex, death, bodily fluids, celebrities, politics, and their experiences with Match.com, all while applying Revlon makeup.

Daisy (Keri Lynn Pratt) is the aspiring artist, fresh out of college and ready to take on the world. Carmen (Idalis DeLeon, pictured) is an attorney who brings home the bacon while her loser hubby sits home and cracks open the brews. Former beauty queen Paula (Dorie Barton) is kvetching over the breakup of her marriage. And Sylvie (Dee Ryan) cares for her aging mom while running a Montessori school and wondering why the hell she ever gave up her investment banking job.

My prediction: It won't be long before this microseries is promoted to regular series, at which time it will slowly go the way of the Cavemen and, yes, Carpoolers.

On the other hand, maybe it's a brilliant move on the part of TBS, Match.com, and Revlon. Maybe putting a fresh spin on the advertising component might be just the ticket -- a better approach than jamming a bunch of ads into endless segments that send us screaming into the kitchen for snacks and vodka. Plus, it's been done before on TBS, The CW, and probably some other networks, so maybe they're onto something.

What say you, oh astute readers? Brilliant move or lame attempt at adver-serials?