• Are These the Top 11 Supporting Characters of 2011? Discuss.
• Interesting: The Most Pirated TV Shows of 2011.
• AMC’s Winning Streak Continues, with the cabler renewing HELL ON WHEELS for a second season.
• Spoiler Alert: ONCE UPON A TIME creators talk second half of the season (more deaths coming?)
• Get it before it’s taken down! The unaired pilot for Ronald D. Moore’s 17th PRECINCT.
Archives for December 2011
Happy Holidays from theTVaddict.com
We interrupt your regularly scheduled holiday proceedings to wish each and every one of you a safe, healthy and happy holiday season. May all of your [insert your holiday here] wishes come true.* Particularly if they happen to coincide with a few of ours (Which you can see after the jump). [Read more…]
DEXTER! WORK IT! ONE LIFE TO LIVE! COMMUNITY! The TV Addict Week in Rewind
Best Fan Shout-Out: Soon-to-end ONE LIFE TO LIVE used its soap-within-a-soap, FRATERNITY ROW, to do a story in which a fan (the fantastic Ilene Kristen as Roxy) tries to save her favorite doomed soap.
Oddest Move: So GLEE has cast REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA “star” NeNe Leakes? Huh. Anybody else think the casting couch over there reeks of desperation? And speaking of desperate measures…
Lamest Hail Mary: With the clock running out, Sunday’s DEXTER finale had the writer’s room doing their best Tim Tebow impersonation by delivering the single biggest twist longtime fans had been clamoring for. Too bad, what should have amounted to a moment of epically cool proportions came off as little more than a sad attempt to save what has universally been deemed as DEXTER’s most disappointing season to date.
Biggest No-Brainer: So scandal-ridden Alec Baldwin won’t be running for Mayor of New York City? Not since Donald Trump announced he wouldn’t be seeking the Republican Presidential Nomination have so many people said “Duh!” simultaneously. [Read more…]
On TV Tonight: Friday December 23, 2011
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Shrek the Halls (R) | Phineas and Ferb (R) | Prep & Landing 2 (R) | Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special (R) | 20/20 | |
CBS | A Gifted Man (R) | CSI: NY (R) | Blue Bloods (R) | |||
CW | Olive, the Other Reindeer (R) | Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (R) | ||||
FOX | Kitchen Nightmares (R) | Fringe (R) | ||||
NBC | Chuck | Grimm (R) | Dateline NBC (R) |
Morning Static: COMMUNITY, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, AMERICAN HORROR STORY & More!
• Save COMMUNITY, Occupy NBC.
• Being Budgetary Conscious? How BEING ERICA took product integration too far.
• Can HBO make a comedy comeback? Discuss.
• Must Read TV: 5 things GLEE could learn from PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.
• AMERICAN HORROR STORY Scoop: Second season will have new cast, locale (goodbye, Jessica Lange?)
• The Louis C.K. Project Update: Online Sales of Louis C. K. Special Cross $1 Million Mark.
We Preview the DOCTOR WHO Christmas Special: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe
Every since the return of DOCTOR WHO in 2005, we have been given a bright, gaily wrapped Christmas present in the form of a special DOCTOR WHO episode celebrating the holiday season. In 2005, there was “The Christmas Invasion”; in 2006, there was “The Runaway Bride”; in 2007, there was “Voyage of the Damned”; in 2008, there was “The Next Doctor”; in 2009 there was “The End of Time”; in 2010, there was “A Christmas Carol” and this year, it is “The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe.”
Just like last year’s whimsical look at the meaning of Christmas in “A Christmas Carol,” this year’s episode is another chance to travel back into our childhoods and revisit a time when life was simpler, more colorful and full of magic. [Read more…]
On TV Tonight: Thursday December 22, 2011
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Disney’s Prep & Landing | Disney’s Prep & Landing 2 | I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown | Grey’s Anatomy ® | ||
CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | Rules of Engagement (R) | Person of Interest (R) | The Mentalist (R) | ||
CW | The Vampire Diaries (R) | The Secret Circle (R) | ||||
FOX | The X Factor | The League (FX) | ||||
NBC | Who’s Still Standing? | The Office (R) | Whitney (R) | Prime Suspect |
Our 2011 TV Year in Review (Part I)
Favorite TV Trend: Suffice it to say, nothing puts a smile on our face like the proliferation of adorable television babies (See: RAISING HOPE’s Hope and DEXTER’s Harry)
Least Favorite TV Trend: The proliferation of the “T.B.D.” As in air dates for COUGAR TOWN, COMMUNITY, and AWAKE remain to be determined.
Trend That Has to Stop Now: Shows that deliver a series finale under the not-always-correct assumption that they’ll have life on another platform. (See: ENTOURAGE and ALL MY CHILDREN)
Best Excuse to Spend 3 Hours on a Couch: From THE MIDDLE to REVENGE and everything in between, there is nothing that makes us happier than Wednesday night’s on ABC.
Favorite New Bromance: What PERSON OF INTEREST’s Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson) lack in verbiage, they more than make up for in steely glances that say more than most pairings do in an entire episode’s worth of dialogue. [Read more…]
Morning Static: SPARTACUS, HOUSE OF LIES, GLEE & More!
• Trailer Park: SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE.
• Things That Make You Go Hmmmm, Fox affiliates pleased with the performance of THE X FACTOR.
• Kristen Bell Bares All… To promote her new Showtime series HOUSE OF LIES.
• Blue Your Mind… with ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT in Lego form.
• Stunt Casting of the Royal Variety, Oscar Winner Helen Mirren set to guest star on GLEE.
• Because There is Only So Much Time You Can Spend with your Family: A Guide to 81 Christmas Marathons and Specials.