With the June 28th deadline to return Emmy nominee ballots fast approaching, many of your favorite television web sites have begun to make their case for a handful of worthy 2012 nominees. Not to be outdone, we here at theTVaddict.com have decided — as we are wont to do — to take things one step further. Which is to say, in a completely altruistic effort to simplify things for the voting body that is the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, your friendly neighborhood TV Addict has decided to save those lucky enough to call themselves “Emmy Voters” from countless hours spent needlessly scrolling through a seemingly never ending PDF of worthy performers by presenting our “Emmy Nominations Made Easy!” With today’s focus being on our picks for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. [Read more…]
Archives for June 2012
Not Another Teen TV Star: Connor Jessup on Playing the Conflicted and Tormented Ben Mason on FALLING SKIES
An alien series would not be as spine-tinglingly intense and captivating if not for the one human survivor who has to fight against his own nature, and perhaps the enemy within, to survive. In the first season of FALLING SKIES, desperate father Tom Mason was driven to rescue and help his teenage son, Ben, who was one of the harnessed children abducted by the aliens. In portraying one of the harnessed abductees, stuck in captivity for months, young star Connor Jessup had a lot of heavy and complicated emotions to wrestle with and convey.
Yet, like Tom and Connor’s brothers Hal and Matt, as fans we became obsessed with how the rescue would be accomplished and whether it was really entirely possible for any of the harnessed children to return to some semblance of normalcy. Would they be able to fight off the powerful mind-control and compulsion instilled by the metal spikes driven into their spines? When it became apparent that Ben’s time in captivity and affixed to the harness had left residual physical effects, his father did the unthinkable and accepted the aliens’ invitation to come aboard and perhaps discover whether there was any hope for Ben. As seen in the second season premiere, Tom’s blind hopefulness was short-sighted and it made him a captive for a time aboard the mothership. Like father, like son, Tom and Ben’s time spent subject to alien torment has not left either unscathed. In an exclusive interview, Connor Jessup talked about the tough journey of Ben Mason and the emotional scars it has left the character with as he continues to retain his humanity. [Read more…]
On TV Tonight: Sunday June 24, 2012
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Secret Millionaire (R) | Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition (R) | ||||
CBS | Person of Interest (R) | The Good Wife (R) | The Mentalist (R) | |||
FOX | Fox 25th Anniversary Special (R) | |||||
HBO | True Blood | The Newsroom | ||||
NBC | Dateline NBC | America’s Got Talent (R) | ||||
A&E | The Glades | Longmire | ||||
MISC | The 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (8-10PM, HLN) | Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime) | Army Wives (Lifetime) | |||
TNT | Falling Skies | The Great Escape |
TV Outside the Box: FALLING SKIES is More Than Just an Alien Invasion Show, It’s a Mystery!
Like any master illusionist, the writers of FALLING SKIES have managed to catch our attention with a whole host of eerie aliens inhabiting a brand new apocalyptic world that barely resembles the world we know. They scared us silly with the unstoppable machine-like Mechs that trample all in their path in a hail of bullets and firepower. They terrified us with the introduction of the Skitters, the creepy bug crawlers that lurk in the darkness and who posses an uncanny intelligence that rivals our own. Then, at the end of the first season, they beguiled us and teased us with the introduction of the Overlords, mysterious beings that beckoned with their long fingers and silently promised to reveal the answers that Tom Mason desperately sought to save his son. But that promise was more an invitation to see why resistance was futile — and for a little personal payback for the recent attack which the survivors and 2nd Mass had struck against the aliens. So while Tom’s hopeful mission to find a cure for his son Ben did yield answers, they were not the ones he was searching for. [Read more…]
On TV Tonight: Friday June 22, 2012
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Shark Tank (R) | 20/20 | ||||
CBS | Undercover Boss (R) | CSI: NY (R) | Blue Bloods (R) | |||
CW | Nikita (R) | Supernatural (R) | ||||
FOX | House (R) | Bones (R) | ||||
HBO | The Ricky Gervias Show | The Fight Game | Real Time with Bill Maher | |||
NBC | Whitney (R) | Community (R) | Dateline NBC | |||
MISC | A.N.T. Farm (Disney) | Phineas and Ferb (Disney) | Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC) | Bunk (IFC) | ||
USA | Common Law |
Emmy Nominations Made Easy: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
With the June 28th deadline to return Emmy nominee ballots fast approaching, many of your favorite television web sites have begun to make their case for a handful of worthy 2012 nominees. Not to be outdone, we here at theTVaddict.com have decided — as we are wont to do — to take things one step further. Which is to say, in a completely altruistic effort to simplify things for the voting body that is the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, your friendly neighborhood TV Addict has decided to save those lucky enough to call themselves “Emmy Voters” from countless hours spent needlessly scrolling through a seemingly never ending PDF of worthy performers by presenting our “Emmy Nominations Made Easy!” With today’s focus being on our picks for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. [Read more…]
THE KILLING! GLEE! NBC! TODAY! The TV Addict Week in Rewind
Least Likely To Succeed: Petulant pundit Glenn Beck announced that he was working with a rapper — “I can’t say who yet!” — on a conservative version of GLEE designed to fight back against that show’s “horrifying” messages. You know, like tolerance and anti-bullying. Need a title, Mr. Beck? Might we suggest FLEE, which is what we suspect viewers will do?
Most Satisfying Conclusion Most People Never Saw: The reveal of Rosie’s murderer proved well worth the wait… not that many folks stayed with THE KILLING long enough to get closure.
Reason The Biebs Need Not Fret: Sure, less than 3.5 million people tuned in to see Justin Bieber’s NBC special, but that’s nearly 3 million more than watched the premiere of Bristol Palin’s new reality show. Plus, he has way better hair than her.
The Last To Know: Charlie Sheen said in a Playboy interview that his whole “winning” period was actually a “psychotic break”, prompting the rest of the known universe to respond, in unison, “Duh.” [Read more…]
Review: THE NEWSROOM
While we’re the first to admit that we’re having trouble containing our excitement surrounding Aaron Sorkin’s return to the medium where he belongs thanks to this weekend’s premiere of THE NEWSROOM on HBO, it’s safe to say that some of the nation’s most respected television critics don’t seem to share our enthusiasm.
What the Huffington Post’s Maureen Ryan will tell you is that, “Aaron Sorkin’s New HBO Show Gets Almost Everything Wrong,” The New York’s Emily Nussbaum calls it “Broken News,” while Hitflix Hitfix’s Alan Sepinwall says that “The Newsroom’ too sanctimonious for its own good.” Unfortunately, what they’re not telling you is that if you’re the type viewer that can’t get enough of Aaron Sorkin’s trademark walk-and-talks, adore his attempts to “edutain” and would give an arm and a leg to still see SPORTS NIGHT back on the air (Quo Vadimus FTW!), THE NEWSROOM is the TV Addict equivalent of a wet dream.
But before we get to why, let’s first start with our one negative. [Read more…]
DEXTER Season 7 Teaser: Truth Brings Light
Emmy Nominations Made Easy: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
With the June 28th deadline to return Emmy nominee ballots fast approaching, many of your favorite television web sites have begun to make their case for a handful of worthy 2012 nominees. Not to be outdone, we here at theTVaddict.com have decided — as we are wont to do — to take things one step further. Which is to say, in a completely altruistic effort to simplify things for the voting body that is the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, your friendly neighborhood TV Addict has decided to save those lucky enough to call themselves “Emmy Voters” from countless hours spent needlessly scrolling through a seemingly never ending PDF of worthy performers by presenting our “Emmy Nominations Made Easy!” With today’s focus being on our picks for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. [Read more…]