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3 Reasons Why FRINGE Has Us Rooting for the Other Side

In a recent interview with FRINGE executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman, the talented twosome stated that one of the goals in deciding to alternate episodes between the two universes at the start of the show’s third season was to “really get people invested in the alternate universe with someone at the heart of [...]

5 Posted in Fringe

You Be The Critic: Thursday Night Premieres

1) Did you wake up this morning wishing U.S. Customs and Immigration would outsource the job of whichever NBC network executive greenlit OUTSOURCED? 2) Was $#*! MY DAD SAYS the crime against comedy that the majority of TV critics led you to believe? 3) Raise you hand if you bothered to tune into MY GENERATION [...]

9 Posted in You Be the Critic

Must Read TV: MODERN FAMILY, VERONICA MARS, THE OFFICE & More!

• From the department of life isn’t fair, MODERN FAMILY kids get a shot at our dream job! (See Video Above) • An Open Letter to fans of quality television, from LONE STAR creator Kyle Killen. • Just when you don’t think she could get any cooler, Kristen Bell reveals she’d finance VERONICA MARS movie [...]

1 Posted in Morning Static

Random Musings: LONE STAR, THE EVENT, and the SHEER STUPIDITY that is launching all of ones new fall shows up against one another!

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While we’re the first to admit that we never would have predicted just how poorly LONE STAR performed in its initial outing on Monday, more shocking still is the perverse amount pleasure certain members of the media seem to be getting from reporting on Fox’s failure. Now — putting aside for the moment how Fox [...]

10 Posted in Featured, Fox, Lonestar, Random Musings, The Event

Reviewapalooza! MY GENERATION & $#*! MY DAD SAYS

MY GENERATION Premieres Sept. 23 at 8PM on ABC Eight high school seniors (“the jock,” “the nerd,” “the wallflower”) in Austin, Texas are rejoined 10 years later by a documentary film crew to see who’ve they become. Shot in faux-documentary style, it frustrates what could have been a rich soap, made even more infuriating by [...]

2 Posted in $#*! My Dad Says

SURVIVOR NICARAGUA Recap: The Biggest Bachelor In Nicaragua

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By: Josh Wigler Shoes Fly: If you thought Wendy Jo was a whackjob, clearly you haven’t met Holly Hoffman. After voting her ally out at the first tribal council of SURVIVOR: NICARAGUA, the 44-year-old swim coach took a swan dive straight into the deep end by stealing a boiling pot of food and sinking real [...]

2 Posted in Featured, Survivor

Watch, PVR, Pass: Thursday September 23, 2010

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Double the Astrid, Double the Fun! We Preview FRINGE Season 3 with Star Jasika Nicole

This just in: Fame and fortune are not the only things that separate the acting profession from us desk jockeys and office drones. No really. Did you know that acting may in fact be the only ‘job’ where one welcomes double the work load for exactly the same amount of pay. At least that’s the [...]

0 Posted in Fringe

TV Ratings: Wednesday September 22, 2010 (MODERN FAMILY laughing all the way to the bank)

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM CBS Survivor: Nicaragua 12.47 4.0/12 ABC The Middle 8.81 2.6/8 NBC Undercovers 8.57 2.0/6 FOX Hell’s Kitchen 5.95 2.6/8 CW America’s Next Top Model 2.82 1.3/4 8:30PM ABC Better With You 7.97 2.5/7 9PM CBS Criminal Minds 14.08 4.0/11 ABC Modern Family 12.61 5.0/14 [...]

3 Posted in Nielsen Overnight TV Show Ratings

You Be The Critic: Wednesday Night Premieres

1) Did J.J. Abrams’ UNDERCOVERS live up to the hype? 2) Are you better off with, or without, BETTER WITH YOU? 3) Was the surprisingly shocking final reveal coupled with the overall awesomeness that is Maura Tierney enough of an incentive to get you to tune into THE WHOLE TRUTH on a semi-regular basis? And [...]

15 Posted in Random Musings