After being separated for a season when The CW Network moved Smallville to Friday nights, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) Winchester and Clark Kent (Tom Welling) are back in action together. For its sixth season, Supernatural was moved to the 9 PM Friday night time slot right after the tenth and final season […]
Category: Television
No Ordinary Family – Not The Incredibles So Much as The Fantastic Four!
In most of the promotional pieces for ABC’s No Ordinary Family [Tuesdays, 8/7C], the series has been called a live-action The Incredibles, but it far more closely resembles the earliest issues of The Fantastic Four – before the group started wearing costumes. No matter what might happen as a result of their new-found powers, they […]
Stargate Universe: Just Another Day in Outer Space!
Stargate Universe [Syfy, Tuesdays, 9/8C] makes its second season premiere on a new night – and that’s the only thing that’s changed. Intervention finds the inhabitants of the ancient Ancient starship Destiny in as precarious a position as the one in which they were when last we saw them – but we don’t actually find […]
The Good Wife – It’s All About Taking Control!
The Good Wife [CBS, Tuesdays, 11/10C] returns tonight, and it picks up right where it left off – with Peter Florrick [Chris Noth] announcing he’s running for State’s Attorney at the same moment that Alicia Florrick [Julianna Margulies] is on the phone having “the” conversation with Will [Josh Charles]. Whatever will happen next?
Sharktopus – Bio-Engineered Hybrid Goes Nuts!
The latest Syfy/Roger Corman collaboration, Sharktopus [Saturday, 9/8C], follows the trend of the last several Syfy Saturday evening movies – there’s literally no suspense regarding the creature being featured; the action is set somewhere warm enough for there to be hordes of bikini-worthy women… in bikinis, of course; the villain is a mad scientist, and […]
CSI: New York Welcomes Sela Ward’s Jo Danville With a Murder in the Lab!
CSI: New York [CBS, Fridays, 10/9C] enters its seventh season with a key personnel change. Gone is Detective Stella Bonasera [Melina Kanakaredes] and joining is former FBI Agent Jo Danville [Sela Ward]. On her first day, it’s her great good luck to walk into the empty lab [everybody’s gone to attend Lindsay’s [Anna Belknap] medal […]
Blue Bloods: Cop Show and Family Drama!
On Blue Bloods [CBS, Fridays, 10/9C], the police department is the Reagan family business. Frank Reagan [Tom Selleck] is the Chief of Police; his father Henry [Len Carious] was Chief before him; his eldest son Danny [Donny Wahlberg] is a homicide detective; his younger son has given up a potential career in lawyer and has […]
Nikita – a Terrific New Twist on an Old Story
I am always dubious of remakes, especially when an original was successful in its own right. After all, how can there ever be a MIAMI VICE without the original Crockett and Tubbs? Or a KNIGHT RIDER without the campy fun of the original Kitt and Michael Knight? Or a BIONIC WOMAN without the heart of […]
Television: Bieber Fever Invades the CBS Season Eleven Premiere of CSI
Justin Bieber (pronounced Bee-bar) is a Canadian born pop/R&B singing sensation who was discovered in 2008 after Scooter Braun saw videos of the fresh faced, talented teen on Youtube and later became his manager. Bieber’s debut single, “One Time“, was released worldwide during 2009, and charted within the top 30 in over ten countries. […]
The Big Bang Theory Is Funny! When Did That Happen?
For three seasons, whenever I’ve tried to watch an episode of The Big Bang Theory [CBS, Mondays, 8/7C], I’ve found it predictable and remarkably unfunny. I’ve even tried episodes that guest-starred the inimitable Christine Baranski. Nothing.
$#*! My Dad Says Is Not The $#*!!
Funny thing… When I received the first look screener of $#*! My Dad Says [CBS, Thursdays, 8:30/7:30C], I laughed. A lot. Then CBS recast the role of Ed Goodson’s [William Shatner] son, Henry, with Jonathan Sadowski. Now? Not so much with the funny. Weird but true.