‘Twas the night before upfronts, and to the set of House Came an unexpected visit, by the one Peter Krause “You think you’re so safe!” warned the unemployed actor “At FOX no one’s safe, when Kevin Reilly’s a factor!” The cast and the crew were confused by the warning Until now they’d felt sure they’d […]
(12/14 – 12/21) This week, the other networks just made it easy for CBS. After taking second on Sunday night, to NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the Tiffany network went on to win the next five nights in viewers and the demo. Granted, there were more repeats than usual, but even the CBS repeats were in on the […]
(Season 2, Episode 13 – “Earthlings Welcome Here”) In general, I’m a pretty snarky bastard, so during the opening scenes of the episode, when we were introduced to the Eileen character, I thought she totally sounded like a dude. I chided myself for being mean, and was going to let it go. Then, of course, […]
Spotlight Show of the Night Heroes (NBC, 9:00 p.m./8:00 p.m. Central, Fall Finale) – Tonight, it all comes down to this in the final chapter (I believe) of “Villains.” Arthur Petrelli may be dead, but you know how well death sticks on this show. Nevertheless, this chapter of Heroes comes to a close tonight and […]
(12/7 – 12/13) I work with a guy that has the barest of the bare bones cable packages. Thirteen channels. It amounts to the networks, Discovery, PBS, and shopping. It was a tough week of television for him. There were a lot of repeats. The CW only managed 3½ hours of original programming for the […]
… Either that, or something has snapped and he has actually gone insane. Over at the L.A. Times, they are quoting Whedon as saying he would have put Dollhouse on Friday too. I call shenanigans. This is Whedon being the good soldier, playing along with the network and trying to garner some much needed press […]
(Season 2, Episode 12 – “Alpine Fields”) I want to take a minute to congratulate the writers of this show. They have managed to do something that very few shows can pull off. They have successfully created a program that has fairly self-contained episodes, but still manages to have an overarching story. This isn’t a […]
