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Watch, PVR, Pass: Tuesday September 21, 2010

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THE EVENT Premieres and We’ve Got Your Good, Bad and Ugly

The GOOD: Heading into last night’s premiere with highly dubious expectations as a result of NBC’s recent track-record coupled with the immense disappointment we still feel after wasting more hours than we care to admit on FLASHFORWARD, we for one found ourselves pleasantly surprised by almost all of THE EVENT. Call us a complete sucker [...]

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TV Ratings: September 20, 2010 (Game On!)

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM ABC Dancing with the Stars 19.37 4.3/12 FOX House 10.92 4.3/11 CBS How I Met Your Mother 8.78 3.6/10 NBC Chuck 6.10 2.1/6 CW 90210 2.18 1.0/3 8:30PM CBS Rules of Engagement 8.32 3.1/8 9PM ABC Dancing with the Stars 21.41 5.1/13 CBS Two [...]

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The UNEXPECTEDly-Ugly Truth About LIFE As The Top Dog

life unexpected

What’s writing got to do with it? When you’re the showrunner of a major network television series, surprisingly little. “I always say the show is a coming of age story and I feel like the experience of running the show has been one for me,” revealed Liz Tigelaar, the talented creator/executive producer of the CW’s [...]

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Must Read TV: GLEE, COMMUNITY, COUGAR TOWN & More!

• 90210-Oh-Oh, as the show ignores continuity and moves into full-blown idiocy. • Men are from Mars Women are from Venus, and the COUGAR TOWN writer’s room wouldn’t have it any other way. • Gwyneth’s a GLEEK! Reportedly in negotiations to guest on GLEE. • Treat not Trick, COMMUNITY is planning an epic Halloween (Think: [...]

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You Be the Critic: Monday Night Premieres

1) Did THE EVENT deliver the necessary amount of mythology and mystery to pique your interest and more importantly entice you to tune in next week? 2) Have you already gone ahead and downloaded “Awake My Soul” from LONE STAR’s fantastic final minutes? 2) Was the eye-candy offered on HAWAII FIVE-0 — be it of [...]

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A Non-TV Addicts Perspective of the New Fall Season

There are three types of people in this world. There are TV Addicts, who are acutely aware that tonight marks the official start of the Fall TV season. There are Network Executives, who will be spending the next week or so collectively holding their breath as they anxiously wait to discover whether the hundreds of [...]

11 Posted in Random Musings

We Preview CHUCK 4.0 with Co-Creator Chris Fedak

Lost amidst the 23549 new television shows that are getting set to premiere mere hours from now are an entire slew of returning ones. And while we probably don’t have to alert the intensely-loyal CHUCK Army that their favorite nerd-herders are back at 8PM tonight on NBC, they might be interested to know what this [...]

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Watch, PVR, Pass: Monday September 20, 2010

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Is LONE STAR The Next DALLAS? 

You can’t set a primetime soap in Texas and not expect that it’s going to be compared to perhaps the greatest nighttime sudser of all time, DALLAS. So how does LONE STAR, the newbie premiering tonight at 9PM on FOX (Global TV in Canada) stack up? Well, that all depends on whether you’re looking at [...]

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