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Channel Surfing with CT: SUPERNATURAL, COUNTDOWN & AMERICAN IDOL

Back when it first hit the airwaves, I don’t think anyone — including the people in charge — could have imagined that SUPERNATURAL would eventually develop into one of the most complex, nuanced, emotionally-satisfying shows on the airwaves while still managing to work the phrase “bag of dicks” into the dialogue. But last night’s episode [...]

7 Posted in Channel Surfing, Supernatural

Must Read TV: PARKS & RECREATION, LOST, TRUE BLOOD & More!

• Missing: William Thomas Compton. • Scoop: Megan Mullaly to return to PARKS AND RECREATION. • Go down the rabbit hole, with LOSTerminds Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse who explain all. • Mark your calendars: TNT sets premieres for THE CLOSER and RIZZOLI & ISLES. • ABC continues to supersize its LOST finale weekend, announces [...]

0 Posted in Morning Static

This Just In: Bad News for ONE TREE HILL and LIFE UNEXPECTED Fans?

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With apologies in advance to ONE TREE HILL and LIFE UNEXPECTED fans who most certainly don’t need another reason to fret about the future of their favorite shows as we inch closer to the CW’s Annual UpFront presentation in New York City, we couldn’t help but notice something peculiar about this “Save the Date” email [...]

8 Posted in CW News, Featured, Life Unexpected, One Tree Hill

Your TV Tech Fix: Why Are You Still Using Your Cable Company’s DVR?

While common US vernacular would have you believe otherwise, the fact of the matter is that most cable subscribers use a generic DVR (or PVR in Canada) provided by their cable company. TiVo, the stand-alone boxes that pioneered the time-shifting category make up a small relatively small fraction of the installed DVR base today. How [...]

11 Posted in Your TV Tech Fix

Watch, PVR, Pass: Thursday April 22, 2010

3 Posted in on tv tonight

Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Networks In Desperate Need Of A Name Change

There’s been a lot of talk amongst TV lovers who think that COUGAR TOWN, having developed into a show that is far more than it’s title implies, is in need of a new name. But why stop with the changing of a show name? Why not address a bigger problem that exists out there… namely, that [...]

7 Posted in TV Addict Top 5

First Look: Your Favorite [MODERN] FAMILY Goes to Hawaii

Still bummed about last night’s back-to-back repeats of MODERN FAMILY? Well, say “Ahola” to these first look photos of the Dunphey/Pritchett clan’s much-anticipated May 12th Hawaiian vacation that we guarantee will turn that frown upside-down. More first look photos of which can be found after the jump.

2 Posted in modern family

TV Ratings: Wednesday April 21, 2010 (IDOL gives… FOX an easy ratings win)

Source: MediaWeek, Viewers: in millions Time Network Show Viewers 18-49 8PM FOX American Idol: Idol Gives Back 15.73 5.0/16 CBS New Adventures of Old Christine 5.29 1.5/5 NBC Mercy 5.01 1.2/4 ABC The Middle (R) 4.44 1.4/4 CW America’s Next Top Model 2.96 1.4/4 8:30PM CBS Accidentally on Purpose 5.33 1.6/5

0 Posted in Nielsen Overnight TV Show Ratings

FRINGE Shocker! Why Lance Reddick Calls May’s Season Finale “Crazy”

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Worried that this upcoming second season finale of FRINGE can’t possibly top last May’s Oh-no-they-didn’t just reveal that Olivia and William Bell were perched atop a very-much-still-intact World Trade Center in the alternate universe jaw dropper? Don’t be. “It blew my mind when I read it,” revealed Lance Reddick of this May’s upcoming two-part season [...]

15 Posted in Featured, Fringe, Lance Reddick

Must Read TV: Maura Tierney, Hulu, Ricky Gervais & More!

• This just in: NBC to butcher another iconic British series. • Your Maura Tierney update, she’s back! • Fox sends Captain Jack packing, deciding not to develop a US version of the UK hit TORCHWOOD. • Hulu jumps the shark, announces plans to roll out a subscription services as soon as May 24. • [...]

1 Posted in Morning Static