Mad Love [Mondays, 8:30/7:30C] is a bit different from the usual CBS sitcom in that while it features Ben and Kate – a couple who are beginning a romantic relationship, the new, wonderful relationship comes at the expense of their respective best friends, Larry and Connie, who despise each other at first encounter. I had […]
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A Navy Recruiter is Murdered and Ducky Welcomes His Predecessor Back in This Week’s NCIS!
Few television programs and boast of increased ratings over several seasons. NCIS [CBS, Tuesdays, 8/7C] recently hit a series high – in its eighth season! This week’s episode, Recruited, displays the balance of procedural and character that has enabled the series to flourish for so long.
Television: CSI Goes Swimming With the Sharks to Catch A Killer
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?
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 […]
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.
The Defenders: Thank You For Flying Tawnee!
The Defenders [CBS, Wednesdays, 10/9C] turns out not to be a re-imagining of a 1961 legal series about a couple of lawyers who didn’t always win [which was groundbreaking stuff in 1961]. Instead, it’s a fictionalization of a couple of Vegas lawyers with a reputation for trying anything to win, and partying like it’s 1999 […]
Hawaii Five-0 Reboot Is The Season’s Best New Procedural!
Hawaii Five-0 [CBS, Mondays, 10/9C] features characters whose names are familiar, and the setting that comes with the title, but it is not your father’s/grandfather’s Hawaii Five-0. It is a fast-paced, well written, fresh take on cop shows that has energy to burn and charisma to spare.