Welcome to May - the month where TV and movies collide. Yep, May brings the end of the television season and the beginning of the summer movie season - which means that we get both small-screen cliffhangers and big-budget popcorn flicks.

I've been pretty disappointed with this TV season, to tell you the truth. The only new show we've watched with any frequency is The Mentalist. You know, the a crime procedural with Simon Baker as an ex-fake psychic. It's amusing, nothing revolutionary, but amusing.

The other new show I've tried to watch, and actually had high-hopes for, was J.J. Abram's Fringe - a/k/a X-Files: The Next Generation. So far, it ain't much. I miss Mulder.

So hopefully this year's crop of movies will be better. On Friday we hit the ground running with Wolverine (well, technically X-Men Origins: Wolverine but that's the worst title ever).

But then something struck me - all three of these projects have Australian leads.

Anna Torv who plays Olivia Dunham on Fringe, the aforementioned Simon Baker on The Mentalist, and Huge Jackman are all from Down Under.

Weird.

Throw in Isla Fisher from Confessions of a Shopaholic, Without a Trace's Anthony LaPaglia and Poppy Montgomery as well as Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Eric Bana, Heath Ledger, Toni Collette, and you have lots of Australians in Hollywood.

But the weirdest thing of all is that the one Australian who actually plays an Australian - Emilie de Ravin, Claire from Lost - has been totally missing in action this season.

Weird.