Agreed. If it weren't for its four stars, would this trifle of a show have made it to a third season? (Or, conversely, if it had been cast with lesser known actors, would they have made something more of it than a look-at-me, I'm-still-working showcase?) And yet ... I'll keep watching.
He needs to go back to being Jed Bartlett. And take over running the country. (When I have needed some political alt-reality lately, I have re-watched episodes of The West Wing. Now there was a president!)
I have never thought all that much of her acting -- probably due to the memory of seeing her (with John Travolta as her love interest) in Moment by Moment, one of the certifiably worst movies ever made -- but she's an engaging personality and almost always fun to watch, and especially so in this show because she's inhabiting a real character and the other actors are not much more than cardboard cutouts.