In honor of me heading to New York next week to see the wonderfully talented Kristin Chenoweth perform in Promises, Promises and my very first Broadway experience I decided I will take this week to share some awesome Cheno clips with everyone. And because in a prior trip to New York I was able to be in the audience for a taping of Live with Regis and Kelly (although Regis wasn't there that day) I thought I'd start the week off with a clip of Kristin co-hosting LIVE with Regis from June of this year! Also she will be making a guest appearance on the show this Wednesday Sept 22 I'm sure to promote her new movie "You Again" staring Kristin Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sugorney Weaver, Betty White (how awesome is that cast?)! I hope you enjoy a little fun with Kristin and Regis and tomorrow I will find another wonderful Cheno clip to share with all of you and then of course I will make a post after my trip to see my very first Broadway show...I still can't believe my first show and I get to sit front row and watch this amazing woman sing live (of course I wish I would have gone to NY to see her perform in Wicked but alas I was late to the party on that one)! Check out the clip from June on LIVE
September 20, 2010
September 15, 2010
OTH and LUX Return along with Parenthood!
Hello Fellow TV addicts. More shows have begun and that just makes me happy. Last night we were able to watch Season 8 of One Tree Hill (the little show that could) and Season 2 of Life Unexpected and Parenthood. OK, Say what you want about the CW but here's a BIG reason why I enjoy watching shows on this network - THE MUSIC! The WB started it with shows like Buffy and Charmed and One Tree Hill and Gilmore Girls and the CW has continued with this tradition, shows on this network always get great new bands to lend their music to the shows and that's a really awesome part of this network. I mean where would my life be had I not been introduced to my hometown (Cleveland) girl Kate Voegele on OTH two seasons back?
OK but on to the actual episode. Is this a dream or a nightmare? After the HUGE cliffhanger at the end of season 7 of OTH everyone was left to wonder if Clay and Quinn would survive and after last night's premiere I am now wondering HOW they have not died yet. I mean the were shot and no one has found them and it has been several hours...they have lost a LOT of blood by now so the question is how are they not dead? The fact that both of them have been made full time cast members as seen in the return of the opening credits (thank you by the way for bringing back "I don't wanna be" can't wait to hear all the different artists renditions of it each week) so they are obviously NOT going to die unless they are going to spend the entire season in this "limbo" state and then die at the end of the season. I'm not sure how I feel about this whole situation. At the very beginning when they made it seem like it was all a dream that Clay had I was so mad because I couldn't believe that Mark would commit to it being a cop-out. But the further into the episode it got the more I got the feeling like they were in some sort of subconscious state - which they were - but I don't know logically how this is going to work out but I guess we shall see. Brooke and Julian are FINALLY back together, and one would think for good since they are engaged - let me just say I am so happy to see Brooke finally getting the guy she deserves. However new drama is afoot for Brooke and Clothes over Bros as it seems Victoria was lying to investors about the company's profits (how seriously close to the economy does this hit?). Hayley and Nathan seem a little too perfect right now, Haley over her depression and pregnant, Nathan off to start another season with the Bobcats - 1 of the 2 of them has something wrong with them (both of them were at the doctor at one point in the episode) my guess is Nathan. Mia is back - LOVE Kate Voegele so happy to see her back on the show. Very Little Millie face time and non Mouth, and Alex is the girl you wanna hate and then there's Chase (who I guess is still not a regular after 2 turns on the show). I love Jamie but I'm not a huge fan of his haircut but I did enjoy the awkwardness of Nathan and Haley trying to explain where babies come from to him.
I have high hopes for this season. Mark Schwan has said the show is going to "go back to the way it was" so that makes me feel good. I love that the opening credits are back, like I said. I would love it if they could get Peyton and Lucas to make a guest appearance at some point. Here's to high hopes for the new season.
Life Unexpected started it's second season off in a good way. I know some people were a little wishy-washy about it's debut season but it seems to me that this season is going to be much better. Ryan has a secret named Julia and a sister who has now slept with Baze. Kate lost her job and has to struggle with the decision to marry Ryan vs. if she loves Baze. L turned down an engagement from Bug causing him to leave town and falls for a new guy who happens to be a teacher at her school (wait didn't that story line happen on Pretty Little Liars already? oh well let's see how it plays out on this show). Oh yeah and it seems like Baze and his dad are getting along for once and the bar has been destroyed thanks to Ryan's sister Paige (who was formerly Dean's wife Lindsay on Gilmore Girls) spending the night with Baze and throwing a cigarette out in the bar after Baze warned her about smoking in there. All in all I think this season is going to be a good one.
Parenthood also started it's second season last night. A little time has passed since we last saw the Bravermans. Zeke and Camille have started marriage counseling. Haddie is learning how to drive. Crosby has been commuting to New York to spend time with Jasmine and Jabar...
Not much of Sarah's kids were seen in the first episode, other than giving her the idea for a show low-jack. I love Lauren Graham! We are introduced to Adam's boss - Billy Baldwin who we already know will start a fling with Sarah sometime this season. They will be seeing a lot of each other since Adam offered her a job in the design dept. to work on her show low-jack idea. Joel gets roped into helping Zeke fix his leaky roof. And then there was the highlight of the episode Joel and Julia getting to explain sex to Sidney who can't be older than 5! Oh what kids hear on the playground.
I really enjoy this family dramedy one of the few GREAT shows to come out of NBC in the last few years. No new shows for me tonight just catching up on Mad Men and Rubicon from this weekend along with watching the last 2 episodes EVER of My Boys - which has been officially canceled by TBS :(
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia comes back Thursday and next week brings in a whole slew of new seasons, most importantly GLEE and Modern Family!
I have high hopes for this season. Mark Schwan has said the show is going to "go back to the way it was" so that makes me feel good. I love that the opening credits are back, like I said. I would love it if they could get Peyton and Lucas to make a guest appearance at some point. Here's to high hopes for the new season.
Life Unexpected started it's second season off in a good way. I know some people were a little wishy-washy about it's debut season but it seems to me that this season is going to be much better. Ryan has a secret named Julia and a sister who has now slept with Baze. Kate lost her job and has to struggle with the decision to marry Ryan vs. if she loves Baze. L turned down an engagement from Bug causing him to leave town and falls for a new guy who happens to be a teacher at her school (wait didn't that story line happen on Pretty Little Liars already? oh well let's see how it plays out on this show). Oh yeah and it seems like Baze and his dad are getting along for once and the bar has been destroyed thanks to Ryan's sister Paige (who was formerly Dean's wife Lindsay on Gilmore Girls) spending the night with Baze and throwing a cigarette out in the bar after Baze warned her about smoking in there. All in all I think this season is going to be a good one.
Parenthood also started it's second season last night. A little time has passed since we last saw the Bravermans. Zeke and Camille have started marriage counseling. Haddie is learning how to drive. Crosby has been commuting to New York to spend time with Jasmine and Jabar...
Not much of Sarah's kids were seen in the first episode, other than giving her the idea for a show low-jack. I love Lauren Graham! We are introduced to Adam's boss - Billy Baldwin who we already know will start a fling with Sarah sometime this season. They will be seeing a lot of each other since Adam offered her a job in the design dept. to work on her show low-jack idea. Joel gets roped into helping Zeke fix his leaky roof. And then there was the highlight of the episode Joel and Julia getting to explain sex to Sidney who can't be older than 5! Oh what kids hear on the playground.
I really enjoy this family dramedy one of the few GREAT shows to come out of NBC in the last few years. No new shows for me tonight just catching up on Mad Men and Rubicon from this weekend along with watching the last 2 episodes EVER of My Boys - which has been officially canceled by TBS :(
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia comes back Thursday and next week brings in a whole slew of new seasons, most importantly GLEE and Modern Family!
September 14, 2010
Let the New Seasons Begin!
Last night kicked off the first of many season premieres in my realm of television viewing for the fall, 90210(the remake) and Gossip Girl. The CW is the first to launch their shows - 1 week before the other networks. I think that's smart, you want to get people before they get involved in the other shows granted most of the shows premiering this week are in their 3rd season or higher you can still get new viewers hooked and make them want to go back and watch the previous seasons. I have started many a show several seasons in, went back and watched the DVDs or re-runs in syndication and then was totally wrapped up in the show as if I had been watching since day one. Here's a list of several shows I started watching part way through the series or even after it ended and then wished I had watched it when it was actually on - Gossip Girl, Gilmore Girls, Charmed, Mad Men, One Tree Hill, Pushing Daisies, Beverly Hills 90210, LOST...I have several other shows that are over that I want to go back and see such as The West Wing and 24 and I will get to them eventually I'm sure.
Right now I'm just excited to start watching some new shows and see some of my favorites kick off another season. I'm sad that the summer shows are ending but soon enough they will be back. So those of you that watch these CW shows like myself. What did you think of the season premieres?
90210 started off with some big drama. Teddy blowing out his knee, Adrianna in that car crash that killed Javier and then using songs she didn't write to get her music career going again. Annie is finally looking to settle things down after her being completely annoying last season. Dixon has some Ivy drama with her old friend Oscar moving in from Australia. And of course there's the big Naomi rape issue from the finale...how do you think the season will play out? We already know that Teddy is the guy on the show who will be switching to playing the gay character so that should be interesting to see progress and how it affects Silver. I see major drama for the Dixon/Ivy/Oscar love triangle about to form. Adriana is going to regret her decision to steal that music. Annie and Liam's sexual tension will be big this season and Naomi carrying out this rape charge could be interesting. The interesting thing about 90210 is that some of the stories are things that happened in the original series and others are brand new issues or issues played out in a completely different fashion. I mean Dixon did the whole Brandon gambling thing. Kelly was raped in the original series but they didn't go into it as much as they are with Naomi.
Obviously nothing will ever take the place of BH90210 but this reboot is pretty good for the new generation. Unlike the Melrose place reboot which I thought was terrible (and I didn't even see the original series) and I've seen the pilot of Nikita and I'm not into it (again didn't see the original). The "cool" thing to do these days is to remake popular shows from the past. This season we get reboots of Hawaii Five-O and The Defenders as well Nikita. Well we all saw how Knight Rider and Melrose Place went so far 90210 is the only remake that made it. I guess we shall see how this fall's remakes fair.
The other season premiere last night was Gossip Girl. Serena and Blair are at each other's throats again! When will Blair stop being jealous of Serena! It's so high school and these are girls are almost sophomores in college (well in the show at least). Nate's sex rampage has turned against him, did he really think he could be Chuck? Dan is so stupid to believe that Milo is actually his son. Georgina is totally playing him and I knew as soon as she got him to sign the birth certificate she was going to dump the kid with him and run. The thing that interests me the most is how Chuck is still alive and yet his body washed up in Paris? I guess when Serena and Blair go to identify the body we will see who it really is, maybe he has a twin and it'll be like the crazy daytime soap operas haha!
Tonight we have some more premiers, One Tree Hill, Life Unexpected and Parenthood. I hope to be able to give a little insight into those tomorrow.
Right now I'm just excited to start watching some new shows and see some of my favorites kick off another season. I'm sad that the summer shows are ending but soon enough they will be back. So those of you that watch these CW shows like myself. What did you think of the season premieres?
90210 started off with some big drama. Teddy blowing out his knee, Adrianna in that car crash that killed Javier and then using songs she didn't write to get her music career going again. Annie is finally looking to settle things down after her being completely annoying last season. Dixon has some Ivy drama with her old friend Oscar moving in from Australia. And of course there's the big Naomi rape issue from the finale...how do you think the season will play out? We already know that Teddy is the guy on the show who will be switching to playing the gay character so that should be interesting to see progress and how it affects Silver. I see major drama for the Dixon/Ivy/Oscar love triangle about to form. Adriana is going to regret her decision to steal that music. Annie and Liam's sexual tension will be big this season and Naomi carrying out this rape charge could be interesting. The interesting thing about 90210 is that some of the stories are things that happened in the original series and others are brand new issues or issues played out in a completely different fashion. I mean Dixon did the whole Brandon gambling thing. Kelly was raped in the original series but they didn't go into it as much as they are with Naomi.
Obviously nothing will ever take the place of BH90210 but this reboot is pretty good for the new generation. Unlike the Melrose place reboot which I thought was terrible (and I didn't even see the original series) and I've seen the pilot of Nikita and I'm not into it (again didn't see the original). The "cool" thing to do these days is to remake popular shows from the past. This season we get reboots of Hawaii Five-O and The Defenders as well Nikita. Well we all saw how Knight Rider and Melrose Place went so far 90210 is the only remake that made it. I guess we shall see how this fall's remakes fair.
The other season premiere last night was Gossip Girl. Serena and Blair are at each other's throats again! When will Blair stop being jealous of Serena! It's so high school and these are girls are almost sophomores in college (well in the show at least). Nate's sex rampage has turned against him, did he really think he could be Chuck? Dan is so stupid to believe that Milo is actually his son. Georgina is totally playing him and I knew as soon as she got him to sign the birth certificate she was going to dump the kid with him and run. The thing that interests me the most is how Chuck is still alive and yet his body washed up in Paris? I guess when Serena and Blair go to identify the body we will see who it really is, maybe he has a twin and it'll be like the crazy daytime soap operas haha!
Tonight we have some more premiers, One Tree Hill, Life Unexpected and Parenthood. I hope to be able to give a little insight into those tomorrow.
August 30, 2010
Emmys Red Carpet Reaction
You get Ryan Seacrest on E! (not a huge fan but he knows his way around the red carpet) and Billy Bush on NBC (not particularly impressed with him) not to mention the NBC side crew including Nate Burkus (who by the way is getting his own show this fall) and let me just say that Nate's questions about everyone's bathroom floor and what they looked like was getting old after the 1st person. Not a big fan of that question, I don't care what someone's bathroom looks like I mean you can ask them how many dresses they tried on before they decided on this one but geez that's about all I care to know.
NBC also had horrible graphics. That little wipe screen of their horribly designed Emmy Red carpet logo between Billy and Nate just way too plain, someone could have and should have designed something with some animation, better colors and the logo itself was just horrendous. (I hate that I'm bashing my own affiliate but this red carpet show could have been much better and also as for the E! had a whole extra hour of coverage on them, I could have handled not having to do the 6pm news yesterday for more red carpet coverage!). And someone could have let Billy know that there were still 30 seconds left when he threw to the Emmy's the audience could see the clock why couldn't someone tell him in his earpiece to stretch?
As for the stars and the fashion I have these as my best and worst dressed (I love that no matter what they thought of their fashion Billy or Ryan or Nate or anyone always says how great they look because they have to - hehe)
January Jones is definitely a WORST dressed in my opinion. That dress was horrendous especially considering how great she looked last year. And her hair had that bed head look which E! commented on as well at the end of their red carpet coverage. Judge for yourself
As for the Best Dressed I have a few favorites Glee's Lea Michelle looked great in the Oscar De La Renta Navy strapless gown. Clare Danes looked stunning as did Modern Family's Sophia Vergara
What did everyone else think of the Red Carpet? Who had the best coverage of the red carpet? (I didn't get to see TV Guide Channel's coverage cause I don't get that channel but if anyone saw that coverage and thought it was awesome please share) Sound off in the comments - Jimmy Fallon did an excellent job as the host, especially his opening number and tribute to shows that are no longer with us. Overall the Emmys were pretty fun!
August 26, 2010
Summer Recap
Hello out there to all my blog readers (I know I'm kidding myself to think that more than 3 people actually read this thing). It's been a while since I posted something and my posts have been scarce this summer but I have been watching a lot of summer shows but I've just been trying to enjoy the weather while I can and therefore haven't taken the time to sit down and post anything.
I started watching a few new shows this summer and several shows that were on last summer so I don't have a lack of shows to talk about but let's talk about some of the new hit shows I've been watching and then talk about some of the returning ones (despite the fact that most of the shows are ending for the summer by now and it's about time to gear up for the new fall season!)
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family) was a great new show this summer based on yet another book series (ala Gossip girl) it mixes that high school drama with a little murder mystery and who doesn't love a mystery. I know I'm 27 years old and probably should still want to watch these high school shows but I'm drawn to them for reason maybe it's because my high school experience really was nothing like these shows and I kinda wish it was...anyways...Pretty Little Liars has had its summer finale already but I think it's run this summer was great and worth picking up if you like the high school shows and like a good mystery. It kind of has a little "Twin Peaks" feel to it because the premise of TP was who killed Laura Palmer (although they rushed right through and answered it fairly early in TP) but this show has yet to give us an answer to who killed Allison DiLaurentis (the uber popular girl who had a lot of secrets)? Not only does it give us a high school murder mystery but we get to see Holly Marie Combs back on the little screen!
ABC Family also began airing a new showed called HUGE this summer about a group of kids at a camp to lose weight. Of course "Hairspray" star Niki Blonsky was a big reason I started to watch but the show has a lot of heart and is pretty funny in parts. The kids are relateable because they have real problems, unlike the kids on Gossip Girl or similar shows (don't get me wrong I still love Gossip Girl and those types of shows) but there are a lot of kids out there who are self conscious of their weight and this show deals with not only their weight but other teenage issues. Next week is the finale and it will be interesting to see how this show plays out beyond this season because it may be weird to have a show on in the winter about kids at a summer camp so ABC Family may have to stick to this being only on in the summer unlike their other programming.
Finally ABC Family has just started a new half hour comedy called Melissa & Joey. It's kind of a revamped "Who's the Boss". We get 2 90s child stars getting a crack at their own show here although the feel is that this show could have been made in the 90s so it draws me in because in my opinion the 90s were the peak of television in my era. Melissa is a successful woman in government who is taking care of her niece and nephew and needs to hire someone to help out around the house - enter Joey the new Tony Danza aka male nanny. The show hasn't hit a stride but I'm going to give it a chance. I really just want to watch Clarrissa Explains it All instead haha. I love the house which has a very 90s sitcom feel with the two sets of stairs (no house has two sets of stairs leading to the second floor in it does it?) and parts of it are funny but I could do without the "live studio audience" laugh track and the kids in the show haven't impressed me yet.
Moving on to USA network which already has one hit summer show that I love in Royal Pains (but we'll come back to that) and it can now add another hit show - which has been picked up for a second season already - Covert Affairs starring Piper Perabo and the hottie Christopher Gorham as well as Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes) Kari Matchette and Peter Gallagher is about a girl who joins the CIA after her boyfriend skips town (who also happens to be a spy but she doesn't realize it). The CIA calls her up out of training relatively early to work in the field. Piper Perabo plays Annie Walker the young CIA agent who works with Gorham the hottie blind tech guy as a spy but what she doesn't know is that the heads of the CIA are using her to get to her ex-bf spy. All in all an entertaining hour of television and getting to look at Christopher Gorham isn't half bad either!
TNT debuted it's new cop drama Memphis Beat this summer staring Jason Lee (My Name is Earl) I have been watching it all summer and I can say it is fun to watch. It's not my favorite new show and I can't tell if it's a show that will get picked up again but I enjoy Jason Lee and the southern cop he plays not to mention he sings at the end of every episode and I really love when shows incorporate good music. That is one of the reasons the WB/CW shows are so great because they introduce new bands in or have a lot of opportunities for musical guests (I'll try to take a blog entry some time soon to talk about how music influences my choice in programming). Still the show is good but not great however worth continuing to DVR.
Of course I did post an article earlier this summer about NBCs miniseries Persons Unknown. I have been watching it but it has been struggling on air. NBC moved it from Mondays to Saturdays which is a death toll in itself but I think the show started off really well but it's been kind of dragging a little. Last Saturday NBC aired an episode and then on Sunday released the next episode online only (it's never good when episodes get released online only). Next week is the last 2 episodes of the show and then it's done. I don't know if NBC had planned from the beginning for this to be a 1 summer show or if it had the potential to be renewed, I personally was under the impression that it wouldn't be coming back again from the beginning but I could be wrong however I don't think it will be coming back again if it had the option to or not. As long as we get an answer as to why these people were taken, where they are and what the "program" is, I'll be happy.
AMC began it's new series Rubicon a few weeks back. It's basically a conspiracy thriller and so far it's really intriguing. I'm really behind in watching it, I've only watched the first 3 episodes but so far I like it. AMC hasn't done too bad for itself with Mad Men and Breaking Bad (I wish I had watched that show from the start but I haven't seen an episode so I doubt I can get into it now) now it has Rubicon and this fall it will premier a new show called The Walking Dead (kind of a zombie show). But if you like movies about conspiracy plots you'll love this show. It's only about 6 episodes in so you can still start watching if you find the episodes online and catch up, or maybe they'll run a marathon. But it airs at 9pm on Sunday's before Mad Men.
Since this entry is rather long I'm going to save my other summer viewing habits entry for another day but stay tuned in the coming days for that plus a fall preview I have already seen the pilot episodes of The Event and Nikita and will be seeing Outsourced tomorrow (I love that my job in news television is finally giving me some entertainment television perks). I'll try to get you a little insight into these new shows without telling you what happens.
Anyone who reads this tell your friends to read :) also feel free to comment on what you like or don't like about these new summer shows or any other summer shows you watched that maybe I didn't catch on to. I'm always listening for great things on TV!
I started watching a few new shows this summer and several shows that were on last summer so I don't have a lack of shows to talk about but let's talk about some of the new hit shows I've been watching and then talk about some of the returning ones (despite the fact that most of the shows are ending for the summer by now and it's about time to gear up for the new fall season!)
ABC Family also began airing a new showed called HUGE this summer about a group of kids at a camp to lose weight. Of course "Hairspray" star Niki Blonsky was a big reason I started to watch but the show has a lot of heart and is pretty funny in parts. The kids are relateable because they have real problems, unlike the kids on Gossip Girl or similar shows (don't get me wrong I still love Gossip Girl and those types of shows) but there are a lot of kids out there who are self conscious of their weight and this show deals with not only their weight but other teenage issues. Next week is the finale and it will be interesting to see how this show plays out beyond this season because it may be weird to have a show on in the winter about kids at a summer camp so ABC Family may have to stick to this being only on in the summer unlike their other programming.
Finally ABC Family has just started a new half hour comedy called Melissa & Joey. It's kind of a revamped "Who's the Boss". We get 2 90s child stars getting a crack at their own show here although the feel is that this show could have been made in the 90s so it draws me in because in my opinion the 90s were the peak of television in my era. Melissa is a successful woman in government who is taking care of her niece and nephew and needs to hire someone to help out around the house - enter Joey the new Tony Danza aka male nanny. The show hasn't hit a stride but I'm going to give it a chance. I really just want to watch Clarrissa Explains it All instead haha. I love the house which has a very 90s sitcom feel with the two sets of stairs (no house has two sets of stairs leading to the second floor in it does it?) and parts of it are funny but I could do without the "live studio audience" laugh track and the kids in the show haven't impressed me yet.
TNT debuted it's new cop drama Memphis Beat this summer staring Jason Lee (My Name is Earl) I have been watching it all summer and I can say it is fun to watch. It's not my favorite new show and I can't tell if it's a show that will get picked up again but I enjoy Jason Lee and the southern cop he plays not to mention he sings at the end of every episode and I really love when shows incorporate good music. That is one of the reasons the WB/CW shows are so great because they introduce new bands in or have a lot of opportunities for musical guests (I'll try to take a blog entry some time soon to talk about how music influences my choice in programming). Still the show is good but not great however worth continuing to DVR.
Of course I did post an article earlier this summer about NBCs miniseries Persons Unknown. I have been watching it but it has been struggling on air. NBC moved it from Mondays to Saturdays which is a death toll in itself but I think the show started off really well but it's been kind of dragging a little. Last Saturday NBC aired an episode and then on Sunday released the next episode online only (it's never good when episodes get released online only). Next week is the last 2 episodes of the show and then it's done. I don't know if NBC had planned from the beginning for this to be a 1 summer show or if it had the potential to be renewed, I personally was under the impression that it wouldn't be coming back again from the beginning but I could be wrong however I don't think it will be coming back again if it had the option to or not. As long as we get an answer as to why these people were taken, where they are and what the "program" is, I'll be happy.
AMC began it's new series Rubicon a few weeks back. It's basically a conspiracy thriller and so far it's really intriguing. I'm really behind in watching it, I've only watched the first 3 episodes but so far I like it. AMC hasn't done too bad for itself with Mad Men and Breaking Bad (I wish I had watched that show from the start but I haven't seen an episode so I doubt I can get into it now) now it has Rubicon and this fall it will premier a new show called The Walking Dead (kind of a zombie show). But if you like movies about conspiracy plots you'll love this show. It's only about 6 episodes in so you can still start watching if you find the episodes online and catch up, or maybe they'll run a marathon. But it airs at 9pm on Sunday's before Mad Men.
Since this entry is rather long I'm going to save my other summer viewing habits entry for another day but stay tuned in the coming days for that plus a fall preview I have already seen the pilot episodes of The Event and Nikita and will be seeing Outsourced tomorrow (I love that my job in news television is finally giving me some entertainment television perks). I'll try to get you a little insight into these new shows without telling you what happens.
Anyone who reads this tell your friends to read :) also feel free to comment on what you like or don't like about these new summer shows or any other summer shows you watched that maybe I didn't catch on to. I'm always listening for great things on TV!
August 10, 2010
OTH & Life Unexpected planning crossover episode?
According to Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly, the CW is planning a crossover between fan favorited One Tree Hill and the sophomore show Life Unexpected. Now that the two shows will be sharing Tuesday nights on the CW, the promotional staff is hoping that OTH fans will tune in to watch Life Unexpected when Haley (Bethany Joy Galleoti) and Mia (Kate Voegele) make a trip to Portland, Oregon (the setting of Life Unexpected) to perform at a concert sponsored by Life Unexpected's Cate's (Shiri Applby) radio station.
As a fan of both shows, I'm interested to see how this works out. I'm obviously more invested in the cliff hanger ending from last season of OTH but I am hopeful for more Mia this season and Life Unexpected was highly enjoyable during it's brief run in the winter of last season. If you haven't seen it, it was promoted at Gilmore Girls meets Juno. Basically Cate got pregnant in high school by the football star Baze and gave the child up for adoption, now 16 years later Cate is trying to start a life with her radio co-host Ryan when Lux (the daughter she put up for adoption) shows back up in her life trying to become emancipated form the foster system because she never got adopted. The court denies her request but places her in the joint custody of Cate and Baze which of course leads to mixed feelings between the two and messes with Cate and Ryan's relationship. As the season goes on Baze realizes he's in love with Cate who is set to wed Ryan.
What do you think? Will this crossover work out? OTH fans will you tune in to watch Haley and Mia perform on the show? Sound off in the comments...
As a fan of both shows, I'm interested to see how this works out. I'm obviously more invested in the cliff hanger ending from last season of OTH but I am hopeful for more Mia this season and Life Unexpected was highly enjoyable during it's brief run in the winter of last season. If you haven't seen it, it was promoted at Gilmore Girls meets Juno. Basically Cate got pregnant in high school by the football star Baze and gave the child up for adoption, now 16 years later Cate is trying to start a life with her radio co-host Ryan when Lux (the daughter she put up for adoption) shows back up in her life trying to become emancipated form the foster system because she never got adopted. The court denies her request but places her in the joint custody of Cate and Baze which of course leads to mixed feelings between the two and messes with Cate and Ryan's relationship. As the season goes on Baze realizes he's in love with Cate who is set to wed Ryan.
What do you think? Will this crossover work out? OTH fans will you tune in to watch Haley and Mia perform on the show? Sound off in the comments...
August 7, 2010
The Man in Black has a Name and it's....
Can you stand it anymore?
Are you sure you want to know what it is?
Are you ready...
Ok, his name is....
"Samuel"
picture courtesy of DocArztSo it's Jacob and Samuel. I'm going to take some days to do some research on the significance of this name and why they felt they shouldn't come out and just tell us his name.
So LOST fans, what do you think of this amazing revelation? What do you think it all means? The Complete 6th Season of LOST and LOST the Complete Series will be released on August 24th. Be sure to get your copy so you can see all the extras including and Epilogue showing Hurly and Ben's reign over the island, and hopefully some other mysteries will be answered as well...
Ryan Murphy Developing Comedy for Kristin Chenoweth
I've been wondering how many musical shows are going to be created in the coming years due to the success of Glee. I hope this is a great show because I really like Chenoweth, she has an amazing voice and is funny to boot!
So what do you think? Will this show be amazing or a flop? Sound off in the comments....
August 4, 2010
Carol Burnett headed to Glee
Ok I know it's been a really long time since I posted anything but there's the big scoop. Carol Burnett has been cast to play none other that Sue Sylvester's nazi-hunting mother on Glee this fall! Tell me this isn't the most genius casting. No word on an exact episode for her appearance but supposedly it will be in October or November. Sue's father, however, will not be making an appearance (at least not at this time).
So what do you think Gleeks...is this a perfect casting or what? sound off in the comments
So what do you think Gleeks...is this a perfect casting or what? sound off in the comments
July 2, 2010
Boycott ABC!
I'm fed up with ABC and their continual cancellation and lies. ABC has been at the hand of some great shows getting canceled. Let's begin about 2 years ago with Eli Stone...a great show about a lawyer who gets "visions" that help him take cases...he goes from being an overpaid hot shot helping big companies who don't care about anyone but themselves to helping the little guy fight the big companies. Anyway it was a great show that did however make it to a second season. But, in season 2 ABC pulled it off the air only to air it's remaining episodes during the summer. The exact same thing happened to another great show, this time a half-hour sitcom called Samantha Who staring Christina Applegate, about a girl who is recovering from a coma and has Amnesia and is re-learning about her life and realizes she used to be a horrible person and wants to change. This show was also pulled off the air in season 2 to have it's remaining episodes aired during the summer. The only problem with ABC airing these 2 shows final episodes during the summer is that they don't advertise it well and if you don't watch their channel regularly or have your DVR set to record the show and it picks it up, you would miss it!
Now on to another ABC show called Life on Mars. This show was a remake of a show that had 2 seasons in London (here's the deal though, in other countries shows are picked up and given a certain number of seasons - ala LOST when they negotiated an end date). Anyway the show was very good about a cop who gets in an accident and wakes up in the 70's where he must learn to be a cop in a different era, leading the audience through the wonder of is he dreaming or dead or what? Well luckily enough for those of us who watched it ABC allowed them to "end" the series after 1 season which means they canceled the show but they gave the show enough notice that they could give the show an end that tied things up. It did not end the same way the British version did and the ending was a little odd although cool.
Now this year ABC went through a big killing. This past fall ABC aired some new shows like Eastwick and FlashForward. They kept pulling Eastwick and bringing it back...they vowed to air it's final filmed episodes and then when it came back they skipped an episode and then just didn't air the episodes they said they would. Now they say they are going to burn off the final two episodes of Eastwick in the summer (july 10 to be exact) however my DVR now shows that they have replaced those episodes with their new summer series "The Gates" and "Scoundrels". Why do they continue to lie to us! The also say that another of their fall shows The Forgotten will air it's final episodes on Sat July 3...we shall see if that actually happens!
Flash Forward was a show that ABC really promoted. And it felt like this show could take over for LOST when it went of the air in May. However, ABC then pulled the show in November and gave it a 3+ month hiatus before bringing it back to air the rest of the season (which I'm sure helped them gain ratings). Then the canceled the show leaving us with a season ending cliff hanger! This is one of my biggest pet peeves about shows, and why I think the U.S. needs to start pitching shows for a certain number of seasons and signing shows to air for a set number of episodes this way the story can be told to those devout fans who watch every week. Now there is a big campaign out there to save Flash Forward and we shall see what comes of this.
ABC started a sitcom last fall called Better Off Ted and it was hilarious, but they were so wishy washy with a day of the week that the show kept moving days and times, it was so hard to track down, the first season aired episodes in the summer and then this fall they brought it back for a season 2 and the same thing happened, kept pulling it and moving it and they said they would air it's last two episodes if there was no game 7 of the NBA finals...that's stupid so the fate of a show is decided by a basketball game! NO...this is not how you run a network. So we shall see if Better Off Ted gets it's final 2 episodes aired at all...the show has also been canceled.
This brings me to the latest installment of ABC and their lies and horrible scheduling. During the final season of LOST ABC began promoting a new show called Happy Town. The promos made the show feel very much like another early cancellation show that the network forced to reveal mysteries before the creators had planned called Twin Peaks. (A great show despite the fact that they were not supposed to reveal Laura Palmer's killer at the finale of season 1 but ABC insisted they would lose viewers if they didn't). Happy Town was another mystery show about a town called Haplin in Minnesota where 7 people had disappeared several year's ago and the mystery was never solved. The town calls the person who took them "the magic man" because the people all disappeared in a crowd of people never to be seen again. The show starts with a murder and leads everyone to think the magic man is back and then a bunch of strange things start happening...anyway the show was very much like Twin Peaks in the fact that it was a mystery with magical type strange things happening. Well ABC promoted it a lot and then it aired and then after 3 weeks it got pulled for some reason for about 2 weeks, then it came back and aired 3 more episodes and it was supposed to take a week off and air the last 2 episodes of it's 8 episode first season. ABC then cancels the show and decides not to air it on Wednesdays at 10 anymore, they replaced it with repeats of Castle. So leaving 2 episodes left to air (see a pattern with this) they cancel it and then decide they will release the final 2 episodes of the season online only! So I watch the final 2 episodes and it leaves you with so many mysteries left to be solved! It would be like if LOST had gotten pulled at the end of Season 3.
So I officially am boycotting ABC. I will not watch any new shows on this network this fall. I currently only watch 2 shows on the network and they are Modern Family and Cougar Town which I may now settle for watching online so they don't get my viewership at all! I encourage everyone to boycott this network so that they see that they are pissing off their viewers with every cancellation and pulled episode!
Now on to another ABC show called Life on Mars. This show was a remake of a show that had 2 seasons in London (here's the deal though, in other countries shows are picked up and given a certain number of seasons - ala LOST when they negotiated an end date). Anyway the show was very good about a cop who gets in an accident and wakes up in the 70's where he must learn to be a cop in a different era, leading the audience through the wonder of is he dreaming or dead or what? Well luckily enough for those of us who watched it ABC allowed them to "end" the series after 1 season which means they canceled the show but they gave the show enough notice that they could give the show an end that tied things up. It did not end the same way the British version did and the ending was a little odd although cool.
Now this year ABC went through a big killing. This past fall ABC aired some new shows like Eastwick and FlashForward. They kept pulling Eastwick and bringing it back...they vowed to air it's final filmed episodes and then when it came back they skipped an episode and then just didn't air the episodes they said they would. Now they say they are going to burn off the final two episodes of Eastwick in the summer (july 10 to be exact) however my DVR now shows that they have replaced those episodes with their new summer series "The Gates" and "Scoundrels". Why do they continue to lie to us! The also say that another of their fall shows The Forgotten will air it's final episodes on Sat July 3...we shall see if that actually happens!
Flash Forward was a show that ABC really promoted. And it felt like this show could take over for LOST when it went of the air in May. However, ABC then pulled the show in November and gave it a 3+ month hiatus before bringing it back to air the rest of the season (which I'm sure helped them gain ratings). Then the canceled the show leaving us with a season ending cliff hanger! This is one of my biggest pet peeves about shows, and why I think the U.S. needs to start pitching shows for a certain number of seasons and signing shows to air for a set number of episodes this way the story can be told to those devout fans who watch every week. Now there is a big campaign out there to save Flash Forward and we shall see what comes of this.
ABC started a sitcom last fall called Better Off Ted and it was hilarious, but they were so wishy washy with a day of the week that the show kept moving days and times, it was so hard to track down, the first season aired episodes in the summer and then this fall they brought it back for a season 2 and the same thing happened, kept pulling it and moving it and they said they would air it's last two episodes if there was no game 7 of the NBA finals...that's stupid so the fate of a show is decided by a basketball game! NO...this is not how you run a network. So we shall see if Better Off Ted gets it's final 2 episodes aired at all...the show has also been canceled.
This brings me to the latest installment of ABC and their lies and horrible scheduling. During the final season of LOST ABC began promoting a new show called Happy Town. The promos made the show feel very much like another early cancellation show that the network forced to reveal mysteries before the creators had planned called Twin Peaks. (A great show despite the fact that they were not supposed to reveal Laura Palmer's killer at the finale of season 1 but ABC insisted they would lose viewers if they didn't). Happy Town was another mystery show about a town called Haplin in Minnesota where 7 people had disappeared several year's ago and the mystery was never solved. The town calls the person who took them "the magic man" because the people all disappeared in a crowd of people never to be seen again. The show starts with a murder and leads everyone to think the magic man is back and then a bunch of strange things start happening...anyway the show was very much like Twin Peaks in the fact that it was a mystery with magical type strange things happening. Well ABC promoted it a lot and then it aired and then after 3 weeks it got pulled for some reason for about 2 weeks, then it came back and aired 3 more episodes and it was supposed to take a week off and air the last 2 episodes of it's 8 episode first season. ABC then cancels the show and decides not to air it on Wednesdays at 10 anymore, they replaced it with repeats of Castle. So leaving 2 episodes left to air (see a pattern with this) they cancel it and then decide they will release the final 2 episodes of the season online only! So I watch the final 2 episodes and it leaves you with so many mysteries left to be solved! It would be like if LOST had gotten pulled at the end of Season 3.
So I officially am boycotting ABC. I will not watch any new shows on this network this fall. I currently only watch 2 shows on the network and they are Modern Family and Cougar Town which I may now settle for watching online so they don't get my viewership at all! I encourage everyone to boycott this network so that they see that they are pissing off their viewers with every cancellation and pulled episode!
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