Michael Vartan was on Alias. Joshua Malina was on Sports Night and The West Wing. Dylan McDermott starred in The Practice; and Christopher Titus, in his underrated self-titled Fox sitcom. You could easily see these men leaving those shows and saying, “Well, that’s it. I’ll never do a series this good again.”
In ABC’s Big Shots, they set …
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It’s Thursday morning weigh-in time, with four count them four new network premieres to evaluate. Should Addison have stayed in Seattle? Should Starbuck have stayed in space? Who won the quirk-off between the eccentric rich folks on Dirty Sexy Money and the eccentric detective on Life?
Also interested in any …
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In today’s reviews, we’re taking on the big trends of fall 2007 one by one. Shows about people with superpowers: check. Shows about rich people: check. (Shows about nerds: already did that.) And now we come to NBC’s Life and the last, and most disturbing, trend of the fall: Shows with interesting premises that, …
My chief complaint about Dirty Sexy Money is that no one took my suggestion and changed that stupid title. However long it stays on the air, I will continue to think of this show as crazysexycool. (Abbreviating it DSM does me no good; my mind translates it as DMSR.)
I may just have to get used to the TLC/Prince allusions, though, because …
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Judging by the accumulated comments over the summer, Bionic Woman looks like the most anticipated show among the Tuned In community. A Battlestar Galactica producer taking another ’70s staple and putting a darker, modern, BSG-style spin on it? ’70s transistors upgraded to nanobots? How could it not rock?
All I can …
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The months of hype are over and the first Tuesday night of the new season is history–let’s have your reviews of Reaper, Cane, returning shows like House, the third night of The War, etc.
Previews of Bionic Woman, Dirty Sexy Money and Life coming up in this space. In the meantime, here’s what I thought …
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A reminder, to anyone who still needs one, to catch the season’s best comedy and best action show, Reaper, on The CW. If I have one complaint–and I always have one complaint–it’s that I don’t know if this sweet and hilarious show has the bigger themes and depth of characters to make it another Buffy. …
It’s fall premiere season, yet all I want to do is write about car commercials. (Maybe because I’m in the middle of buying one of these. Warning: does not actually transform.)
This morning I complained about Nissan using a Clash song to sell the new Rogue during Heroes (scroll down). So why did that bug me, while I find this Magnetic …
They’re not just kids; they’re human shields. Doug Hyun / HBO
What’s more destructive to a relationship? Is it infidelity? Is it children? Or could it be… TiVo?
If TV, after all, is the perfect tool for conversation-avoidance for a troubled couple, then TiVo promises to raise the medium to new heights of efficient, commercial-free, …
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“Sugar is the new oil,” says rum-family scion Alex (Jimmy Smits) on CBS’s Cane. Which is a not so subtle way of trying to tell the viewer, “Cane is the new Dallas.”
It’s not, but let’s indulge them for a minute and continue the parallel. It’s also a rich-family saga, but in this case, the family is the Duques, a …
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Big round of new-series and returning-shows premieres last night (see below for the Heroes thread). I reviewed some yesterday; now it’s your turn. Did Chuck suck? Should Journeyman… um… returneyman? I don’t have any rhymes for The Big Bang Theory or How I Met Your Mother, but you get the point.
Also, feel …
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Heroes–hey! Stop drinking that coffee and look at me when I’m talking to you!
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The downside to all that closure that Heroes bends over backwards to give you is that, once an arc ends, the show has to tap-dance pretty fast to set new stories in motion. Gotta get …
I would be remiss if I did not tell you that TV’s most awesomely weird children’s show (and not-children’s show), Nick Jr.’s Yo Gabba Gabba!, was airing new episodes this week.
And that–for those parents who are not ashamed of further obsessing over their kids’ obsessions–the show has a behind-the-scenes production blog.
And if I did …
