Archive for September, 2009
To The Powers That Be: After 5 months of building the suspense, teasing us with commercial break glimpses between Lost episodes during Spring sweeps weeks, you finally unveiled the first full Flash Forward hour on Thursday night with resounding success as seen in the ratings: handily winning the timeslot shared with a new Survivor, a [...]
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Tags: ABC, Dominic Monaghan, Flash Forward, Lost, Survivor
We’re halfway through a heady premiere week and Wednesday brings almost as many series premieres as season premieres. ABC, the network that continued to give us According to Jim even after we kept repeatedly screaming “Uncle!” tries to get back into the comedy game with two new laffers (one I’ve got more faith in than the other, even with the [...]
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Tags: ABC, Arrested Development, CBS, Cougar Town, Eastwick, Ed O'Neill, Modern Family, NBC, Rebecca Romijn
Hopefully we’ve all gotten enough rest this weekend, TV lovers, and cleared schedules and a large amount of digital space because tonight begins a veritable onslaught of premieres. So pace yourselves, kiddies, this is a marathon not a sprint. COMEDY? ON CBS? Not to be a snob…oh who am I kidding, let the judgment commence! CBS’s Monday line-up [...]
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Tags: ABC, Big Bang Theory, Castle, CBS, Dancing with the Stars, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, NBC, Neil Patrick Harris, Prison Break, Robert Knepper, Two and a Half Men
Oh, awards shows. You and I need to have a serious discussion because I can’t stand being the submissive in this kinky little relationship of ours anymore. Finding myself continually coming back to you each time with a deluded excitement that maybe this will be the year you surprise and thrill me, and after half an hour I cannot [...]
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Tags: 30 Rock, ABC, Alec Baldwin, AMC, American Idol, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Grey Gardens, HBO, Jessica Lange, Jon Stewart, Kristin Chenoweth, Lost, Mad Men, Michael Emerson, NBC, Pushing Daisies, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Office, Toni Collette, United States of Tara
