By fred | August 31, 2008
* Tonight is not really the calm before the storm, cause the storm isn’t really there yet, but it’s pretty darn calm anyways.
* So much that if it wasn’t for a new Mad Men at 10.00 on AMC, there wouldn’t be anything on…
* Get ready though, because tomorrow B & S heads up to the Hamptons, and Michael will find out that Sara didn’t loose her head after all!
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Shows: Mad Men
By fred | August 31, 2008
It’s happening… fall season is around the corner, some series are already returning, so let’s use this week to have yet again a look at our future fall schedule. Sunday night is usually a big night, and there’s no reason to change that. We still need to get ready for the huge Monday night that follows…
* At 8.00 The CW launches Valentine on September 21st; and of course Homer and his family returns on The Simpsons starting September 28th on Fox.
* At 8.30 King Of The Hill is back on the same September 28th, on Fox of course.
* At 9.00 the much talked-about True Blood (from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball) premieres on HBO September 7th; there’ll also be another new series on The CW, Easy Money, premiering September 21st; and it’s of course the return of ABC hit Desperate Housewives, CBS drama Cold Case and the crazy folks of Family Guy on Fox, all back September 28th.
* As expected, American Dad will be back at 9.30 starting September 28th.
* At 10.00 the boys of Entourage will finally be back after being away for too long, kicking off the fifth season on September 7th; Brothers & Sisters will be back on ABC starting September 28th, while The Unit is moving to Sundays on the same September 28th.
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Shows: American Dad, Brothers & Sisters, Cold Case, Desperate Housewives, Easy Money, Entourage, Family Guy, King Of The Hill, The Simpsons, The Unit, True Blood, Valentine Inc
By fred | August 31, 2008
Gossip Girl often doesn’t look like what one might expect it to. A simple look at the way The CW promotes the show, pushing the OMFG campaign much further and trying to pass the show as quite racy and loaded with sexual content, using PTC’s (and others) non-dorsement such as “Mind-Blowingly Inappropriate” or “Every Parent’s Nightmare“.
Surely those are fun ads, but they couldn’t be further from what the show actually is/looks like. That said, within the show itself sometimes things aren’t what they seem to be at first… remember that huge secret, how nothing could be said or done, because, drum rolls please, Serena killed someone!
Yeah, that didn’t really turn out to be that much of a shocker after all, to say the least. But here’s the original ending of that episode, what the big revelation should have been, and that might just be a much better one.
At least, it’s both more shocking and pretty darn funny!
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Shows: Gossip Girl
By fred | August 31, 2008
100% spoiler free. And awesome.
Supernatural returns Thursday, September 18th at 9.00 on The CW.
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Shows: Supernatural
By fred | August 29, 2008
* Once again, not much on TV tonight. Starting with the lack of Monk and more importantly Psych on USA, due to the U.S. Open
* But at least there’s something on CBS, with a new episode of Swingtown at 10.00
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Shows: Swingtown
By fred | August 29, 2008
It’s something that probably isn’t new, but it is here, and when you’re a TVoholic or just happen to love good television, even in small doses, it’s a disgusting thing to see. Yet it’s here, everywhere, and it is more and more frequent every day : Networks think they know better.
Always, in every network, you will find some stupid execs who love their very expensive suits, and think that if they got here, it means they know better. They know better than the creative minds behind a show what the show should be like and where it should go, they know better than you, viewers, what it is you want to watch. And it’s a funny thing, because those guys do their job in a TV network like they would an airplane company, or selling cars.
That it to say, they have no idea what good television is (and let’s be honest, they probably don’t even care), they don’t know how to write compelling stories, or create interesting characters, those things that will attract millions of people week after week and have us come back each week for more. But because they work for, because they are the network, they know better.
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Shows: Army Wives, Bionic Woman, Brothers & Sisters, CSI, Damages, Dirty Sexy Money, Jericho, Life, Life On Mars, Lost, Mad Men, Moonlight, My Own Worst Enemy, Smallville, The Philanthropist
By fred | August 28, 2008
Nope, it’s not a joke. We might be Thursday, but that doesn’t change the fact that, tonight, there’s nothing on.
* Because most networks have the Democratic National Convention, starting with CBS – hence no Flashpoint
* And if USA doesn’t go there, they do air the U.S. Open all night, thus no Burn Notice either…
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By fred | August 28, 2008
Excitement is in the air for fans of NBC series Chuck. Last year, the show did well and received a full season pick up, but of course the writers’ strike came in the way the show couldn’t deliver all of the 22 episodes ordered. And while fans are waiting for the sophomore season to return, the people at NBC have already seen the (six) first episodes, and they like what they’re seeing so far.
So much, that they already gave the show a back-nine order, bringing the second season to a full season order of 22 episodes (so far, only 13 had been ordered). NBC’s head of development and current programs Teri Weinberg said that they “couldn’t be more excited with the creative direction Josh [Schwartz] and his team are executing on Chuck. This show has really hit its stride and deserves a full-season commitment to carry out the producers’ vision for this unique series.”
Of course executive producer Josh Schwartz has all the reason in the world to be happy about the news, as he called the pickup “unexpected” and added that it was “an incredible show of faith by NBC and so amazingly nice to get based on the work alone“.
Chuck returns on NBC Monday, September 29th at 8.00
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Shows: Chuck
By fred | August 27, 2008
* It’s Wednesday again, and again there’s not much on TV. But don’t worry, because if there’s one thing you don’t want to miss, it’s tonight at 10.30 on Comedy Central : a brand new episode of Lewis Black’s Root Of All Evil !
This time, we venture in a somewhat different fight as the question is about red states vs blue states…
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By fred | August 27, 2008
The world as we know it might be coming to an end, and according to a recent study published recently in Britain the source of all troubles has finally been localized: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
That’s right, that silly little TV shows that ran for years and years on television obscured the minds of its viewers – at least its female viewers – and now we’re doomed. Because as Dr. Kristin Aune, sociologist at the University of Derby, noted, teenage vampire slayer Buffy is the reason about 50,000 women are quitting church every year !!
No kidding, but that’s not even the worst part of it, because listen to this : It is “because of its focus on female empowerment” that young women who have been exposed to the cult TV show are now abandoning the church.
Well sure, who the Hell came up with that concept!?? So in other words, those women are now starting to think they could be fully independent and capable individuals who could actually exists on their own and do anything else but clean the house and cook a nice meal for their men ! Oh Lord…
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Shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
