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Review: OFF THE MAP

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You’ve got to hand it to Shonda Rhimes: she goes for thematic, tonal, and soapy consistency between her shows. You get the sense that she has a very clear idea of what she wants her shows to look and feel like. Her latest project with Jenna Bans (who created the show with Rhimes serving as [...]

5 Posted in Featured, Off the Map

Morning Static: FRINGE, TERRA NOVA, RAISING HOPE & More!

• Bad News for SMALLVILLE Fans? The creators of FOX’s new comedy BREAKING IN have big plans for Michael Rosenbaum. • The Chance Family finally catches a break, with FOX renews RAISING HOPE for a second season. • FOX Exec to FRINGE fans: “I beg you not to write the eulogy prematurely” • Will FOX’s [...]

2 Posted in Morning Static

On TV Tonight: Tuesday January 11, 2011

NET 8PM 8:30PM 9PM 9:30PM 10PM 10:30PM ABC No Ordinary Family V Detroit 1-8-7 CBS NCIS NCIS: Los Angeles The Good Wife CW One Tree Hill (R) Life Unexpected (R) FOX Glee (R) Million DollarMoney Drop (R) Lights Out (FX) NBC Biggest Loser: Couples Parenthood MISC Southland (TNT) Tosh.0 (Comedy) Teen Mom 2 (MTV) Glory [...]

2 Posted in on tv tonight

No Ordinary Guest Star! Rebecca Mader Reflects on Her Incredible Journey Thus Far

What’s luck got to do with it? When it comes to the trajectory of Rebecca Mader’s career — who will follow up succumbing to the most notable nosebleed in the history of the television with a three episode guest stint on NO ORDINARY FAMILY starting night — very little. Or at least that’s what we [...]

1 Posted in Lost, NO ORDINARY FAMILY

Laugh Break: Nuthin’ But A Glee Thang with Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison & Sofia Vergara

1 Posted in Glee

When Television Advertising Fails to Consider Its Audience

  There are times when I watch television commercials and I am shocked by the lack of strategic programming. One of the best examples of this was seen this holiday season when Lifetime Television’s chose to advertise its upcoming made-for-television movie THE CRAIGSLIST KILLER during the 4-hour mini-series event MARRY ME starring Lucy Liu. If [...]

8 Posted in Lifetime, Random Musings

TV Ratings: Monday January 10, 2011

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM ABC The Bachelor 8.42 2.7/7 CBS How I Met Your Mother (R) 7.41 2.4/6 FOX Lie to Me 5.50 1.6/4 NBC Chuck (R) 3.03 0.8/2 CW 90210 (R) 950,000 0.4/1 8:30PM CBS Rules of Engagement (R) 6.71 2.0/5 9PM CBS Two and a Half [...]

0 Posted in Nielsen Overnight TV Show Ratings

First Look: The Cast of TERRA NOVA

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The year is 2149. Earth, which has been both overdeveloped and overpopulated is on the brink of destruction. Our planets only hope for survival? Steven Spielberg (!) who alongside executive producers Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria and Aaron Kaplan have concocted an epic family adventure that will send the Shannon Family back in time [...]

6 Posted in Featured, Stuff That's Awesome!, Terra Nova

Review: SOUTHLAND

When I first reviewed this LA cop drama from ER vet John Wells, I thought that it would be better suited for cable. It made the leap to TNT (under rather unfortunate circumstances), but hasn’t made much of it — somewhere along the way, it has devolved from promising SHIELD-in-training to a meat and potatoes [...]

0 Posted in Southland, TNT

Morning Static: FRINGE, SHAMELESS, SKINS & More!

• Trailer Park: Starz’s CAMELOT. • FRINGE-tastic First Look! Doc Bishop meets Doc Brown. • FYI:

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