Recent Posts

Archive for June, 2009

Tonight’s TV Addictions: June 3, 2009

NEW & NOTABLE: SMILE PINKI (7PM HBO) Proving it’s not TV, it’s HBO is far more than a simple marketing slogan comes this uplifting Oscar®-winning doc that highlights two wide-eyed protagonists born with cleft lips in one of the poorest regions of rural India and follows them on a journey from isolation to acceptance. CHOWDER [...]

1 Posted in Tonight's TV Addictions

Win DEXTER: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON on Blu-ray

In our continued two-pronged effort to (a) provide you with genuine entertainment amidst a summer television landscape that considers I’M A CELEBRITY… GET ME OUT OF HERE quality television and (b) save you money in these troubling economic times comes yet another fantastic giveaway from theTVaddict.com. DEXTER: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON is now available on [...]

22 Posted in Dexter, the TV addict Contests

A Second Opinion: Fall Shows We’re Undecided About

You’ve read his take on the most promising fall shows and least promising ones. Now, in what we promise is our final look back at the Network’s UpFront offerings comes our very own Ken Tucker in-training Aleks Chan, with a look at the shows that fall somewhere in-between. ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE (CBS) After the horridly [...]

11 Posted in Accidentally on Purpose, eastwick, Flash Forward, Human Target, mercy, Parenthood, Sons of Tucson, The Beautiful Life, The Cleveland Show, The Good Wife, upfront

Say What? Our TV Quote of the Day

“I don’t wanna get involved in an ideological debate because it’s just stupid.” – The never subtle Bill O’Reilly, THE O’REILLY FACTOR

1 Posted in Random Musings

Channel Surfing: LAW & ORDER, I’M A CELEBRITY, THE BIG BANG THEORY & MORE!

C.T. offers up some random musings from around the dial…   Kudos to you, LAW & ORDER: SVU! About two minutes into the season finale, I was all set to write a piece on how Dick Wolf had made a rare misstep with annoying tech Dale Stuckey, who first appeared earlier this season. I even [...]

4 Posted in Big Bang Theory, Channel Surfing, Law & Order

Tonight’s TV Addictions: June 2, 2009

INSIDE THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE (9PM NBC) Not exactly THE WEST WING re-boot we were hoping for, but pretty cool nonetheless as Brian Williams takes viewers behind-the-scenes of a day in the life at President Barack Obama’s White House. ABC NEWS SPECIAL: EARTH 2100 (9PM ABC) Watch Bob Woodruff explore the serious and devastating effects [...]

0 Posted in Tonight's TV Addictions

Say What? Our TV Quote of the Day

“That’s the first time you’re crying on TV that’s not fake.” — The equally ubiquitous and annoying Spencer confirms what we’ve known about wife Heidi all along, I’M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE

0 Posted in TV Quotes of the Day

JIM’s Last Stand

The end of an era that should never have begun. At 9PM eastern standard time, ACCORDING TO JIM will illicit its last laugh (or lack-their of) after eight years of refusing to die. And in honor of this momentous occasion, theTVaddict.com thought it might be fun (or as it turns out, incredibly depressing) to look [...]

5 Posted in ABC

Question of the Day: Ronald D. Moore’s VIRTUALITY Back From the Dead?

In a surprising move, FOX has quietly pushed up the premiere of VIRTUALITY, Ronald D. Moore’s two-hour movie (read: failed pilot) from July 4th to June 26. More peculiar still is that to coincide with said under-the-radar movie, an email found its way into theTVaddict.com’s inbox this morning asking if we’d be interested in interviewing [...]

4 Posted in Fox, virtuality

THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O’BRIEN: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The Good: Not that we really had any doubts, but last night Conan O’Brien assured fans and critics alike that the franchise Johnny built and Jay kept running smoothly over the past seventeen years will be in good hands for, oh say, the next seventeen. From the solid opening that had O’Brien pulling a Forrest [...]

27 Posted in Conan O'Brien