Smash [NBC, Mondays, 10/9C] is a risky oddball of a series that was developed for cable before winding up on NBC. The story of the mounting of a Broadway play, Marilyn: The Musical, it is a big budget swing for the fences that knocks it out of the park.
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NBC’s “SMASH” Hits All the Right Notes!
It is extremely refreshing to see a series where a courtroom, a hospital, or a crime scene are nowhere in sight. Networks don’t often take chances on a series without one of those popular and successful staples as its foundation. And let’s also get another thing straight – with the exception of the inclusion of […]
Spartacus: Vengeance – More Blood! More Sex! More Strife!
The long-awaited second season of Spartacus – Spartacus: Vengeance [Starz, Fridays, 10/9C] – finds two former champions of Capua struggling between the demands of promised leadership and personal quests: Spartacus to avenge his wife; Crixus to find his lost love.
Chuck Goes Out With A Song And A Hug – But No Bang!
Over five completely unexpected seasons – the show was always on the bubble – NBC’s little show that could, did! Chuck [Friday, 8/7C], wraps up its fifth and final season with a two-hour finale that will make you laugh, cry and laugh some more [before you cry some more]. If any other show wraps its […]
Touch Is Fresh And Ambitious And Entertaining!
Tim Kring’s new series, Touch, marks Kiefer Sutherland’s return to primetime television. In it, he plays Martin Bohm, single parent to Jake – a remarkable ten-year old boy who has been misdiagnosed as autistic, but is something… more.
Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune –American Masters Looks At The Life And Death Of An American Original!
Phil Ochs was a protest singer’s protest singer. He wrote what he saw, and what he saw was injustice. Unlike more famous and more lauded protest singers, he didn’t couch his songs in metaphor – he was incisive and disturbing. On American Masters [PBS, 10/9C], Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune follows Ochs’ life and […]
Michelle Likes SyFy’s Being Human Season Two Premiere! But wishes they stop Moping!
Michelle Likes SyFy’s Lost Girl!
Alcatraz: This Island Is Not Lost!
‘On March 21st, 1963, Alcatraz officially closed. All the prisoners were off the island. Only that’s not what happened. Not at all,’ is Sam Neill’s opening narration for Alcatraz [two-hour premiere, FOX, Monday, Jan. 16th, 8/7C] as FBI Agent Emerson Hauser.
Being Human Sets Out On Its Own For Season Two!
Being Human [Syfy, Mondays, 9/8C] returns with one big change – the series is no longer tied to the continuity of its UK progenitor. Although it continues to share its basic mythology, the U.S. version has struck out on its own – with intriguing results.
Lost Girl’s Succubus Heroine Breaks The Rules!
When I heard that Syfy had picked up the first two season of Lost Girl [Mondays, 10/9C], I was tickled pink. This is a series that has a fresh take on the supernatural world of the Fae – and a lead character/Chosen One who could’ve been the villain on any other show.