CBS’ 2012-13 season begins its conclusion on April 28th, with the fourth season finale of The Good Wife and ends with a two-hour Criminal Minds on May 22nd. The popular and critically lauded reality competition series The Amazing Race and standout freshman mystery series Elementary also get two-hour finales; the former on May 5th […]
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CBS’s Golden Boy and NBC’s Do No Harm TV Reviews – Just Seen It
Golden Boy, follows the successful, meteoric rise of a cop from his days as an officer to detective to the youngest police commissioner ever. In Do No Harm, after five years of peace, a brilliant surgeon must deal with his troublesome […]
CBS Announces Summer Schedule; Sets Premiere Dates for Stephen King’s Under The Dome and Season Two of Unforgettable!
CBS has announced its 2013 Summer Schedule which includes two original scripted shows, a new unscripted series and an expanded season of Big Brother. CBS kicks off its summer schedule with the Wednesday, May 28th premiere of its take on the U”K”’s The Great British Bake-off in the 8/7C timeslot; Stephen King’s Under the Dome […]
Hawaii Five-0–You Choose The Bad Guy!
When Hawaii Five-0 returns on Monday, January 14th (11/10C), the big mystery will be the identity of the person who kills an O’ahu State University professor. There will be three main suspects – his boss, his teaching assistant and one of his students. The big kicker is that – for the first time on primetime […]
CBS Announces Golden Boy and Rules of Engagement As Part of Winter Premieres!
Except for new cop show Golden Boy (pictured above) and the returning Rules of Engagement, CBS’ winter/spring schedule remains untouched. The network announced today that Golden Boy, about the challenges facing the youngest police commissioner in the history of New York City, will have ‘special previews’ on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 and March following NCIS: […]
Solving Twisted Murder Mysteries? It’s Elementary!
CBS’ new Sherlock Holmes series, Elementary (Thursdays, 10/9C), shares a few things with the BBC series, Sherlock: it’s a series that plants Holmes firmly in the 21st Century; there are novel mysteries to be solved, and there is a Watson. There as many differences: Elementary’s Watson is an Asian-American woman; the mysteries are not based […]
Person of Interest: Is The Machine Alive?
The Contingency, the second season premiere of Person of Interest (CBS, Thursdays, 9/8C) finds the mysterious Root keeping Harold Finch close by unusual means and Reese trying to keep an Asian-American accountant from being killed by his employers – the money laundering, corporate operation of a white supremacist group – while trying to rescue Finch.
NCIS: What’s a Four-Letter Word for Surviving a Terrorist Attack?
The ninth-season finale of NCIS (CBS, Tuesdays, 9/8C) ending with the explosion of a car bomb at NCIS headquarters, left the fates of Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ team, NCIS Director Leon Vance and forensics expert Abby Scuitto up in the air – and precipitated a heart attack that left Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard lying, seemingly […]
CBS Packs Its New Season Premieres Into One Week!
While the other networks are trying different strategies for their fall 2012 schedules, CBS is going the other way. With the exception of Survivor – which opens with a ninety-minute premiere on September 19th – all of CBS’ shows will premiere the week of September 24th. The only major program shifts will be moving Two […]
Person of Interest: CBS’ Crime Prevention Procedural Is The Fall’s Best New Drama!
Person of Interest [Thursdays, 10/9C] is produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot [Alias, Lost, Fringe] and created by Jonathan Nolan [Memento, The Dark Knight]. What could possibly go wrong? As it turns out, very little.
Poppy Montgomery is Unforgettable!
It hasn’t taken Poppy Montgomery [Without a Trace] too terribly long to return to series television. Unforgettable [CBS, Tuesdays, 10/9C] finds Montgomery playing Carrie Wells, former detective with a medical condition that makes it impossible for her to forget anything – except for the details that might solve her sister’s murder.