According to the Official ABC Description: Dr. Catherine Black, world famous neurologist, is at the top of her game. Each week, this beautiful and brilliant doctor will attempt to unravel the mysteries of the brain while hiding her own secret: she’s bipolar. The medical stories are moving, bizarre and a visual feast. The personal stories are riveting. It’s a brand new, cutting edge ABC drama series, “Black Box,” premiering on THURSDAY, APRIL 24 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. [Read more…]
Archives for April 2014
BAD TEACHER Review: A Hilarious New Comedy Starring Ari Graynor and Ryan Hansen
With so many stellar comedy series on television right now, it is hard to stand out in the crowd. So CBS was smart to cast Ari Graynor and Ryan Hansen as its comedic leads for its new series BAD TEACHER.
Taken from the concept of the movie that starred Cameron Diaz, BAD TEACHER looks at the life of a rich socialite, Meredith Davis (Ari Graynor), as it disintegrates around her upon her divorce. Destitute and desperate for money, as well as the opportunity to meet eligible young, wealthy men, Meredith talks her way into a teaching job.
Confident that her luck must be changing, Meredith just knows that the right man with the right bank account will fall right into her lap if she just makes herself available and puts herself in his path. The “right place, right time” strategy is fairly fool-proof. Yet, interestingly, Meredith discovers that there is more to life than marrying a rich man.
Inspired by the kids around her, she finds herself a champion of the school under-dogs. Unable to just stand by and abide the bullying prevalent in the school, Meredith is soon mentoring in the art of “fake it ‘til you make it” and teaching how confidence is all you need to get exactly what you want out of life.
It is a plucky, poignant tale of a young woman inspired to be more than she ever dreamed she could be; and how that courage and can-do attitude inspires the kids to do the same. [Read more…]
GREY’S ANATOMY Scoop: Jason George Dishes on Ben and Miranda, the End of the Season and Cristina Yang’s Exit
Jason George portrays the passionate and lovable intern, Dr. Ben Warren on the ABC hospital drama GREY’S ANATOMY. I spoke with Jason about Ben and Miranda’s (Chandra Wilson) relationship, the cast’s last days on set, and Cristina’s (Sandra Oh) exit from the show. [Read more…]
Trailer Park: TNT’s THE LAST SHIP
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Preview: “Man On Fire” (Twins, Travelers and Torture, Oh My!)
Fans of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES know that the show likes to flirt with the darkness. But this week’s episode goes a bit darker than most. It reveals a dark secret and some even darker motives at play. Fortunately, it allows for our heroes to be heroes and the villains to be villains and everyone gets a chance to play with fire in this episode — some more literally than others. Those Travelers, as we have seen, are quite fond of fire. But this time, it will be someone else who says, “Shall we burn together, you and I?” Fire is employed both literally and metaphysically in this week’s episode “Man On Fire.”
As discovered in last week’s episode, the wall between the Otherside and our world is crumbling and it is causing supernatural spirits to disappear into the void. It is also pulling on Bonnie (Kat Graham), who serves as the anchor and if the Otherside continues to crumble, it could take down Bonnie in the process. [Read more…]
ARROW Spoiler Alert: EP Andrew Kreisberg Dishes on Wednesday’s Bloody Shocking Final Scene (“Seeing Red,” Indeed!)
This week’s episode was a tear-jerker on many levels. It was bad enough seeing Roy all zombified and hurting everyone he cares about. But the death of Moira Queen tops everything. As the matriarch of the Queen Empire it was a devastating loss. Thea and Oliver are bereft and nearly unfunctional after losing their mother, and in such a brutal, heartless fashion right before their eyes. It is now apparent that Slade Wilson’s revenge this season may have initially felt agonizing and relentless, but never more so diabolically evil that with that thrust of his sword claiming Moira’s life. It did not help that Moira chose to sacrifice her life so that her children could live and that Oliver would not be forced to chose. In the end, she is still dead and Slade is the one responsible. What did he achieve in killing Moira? It only demonstrated how far gone his humanity is. There is no saving him. There is only the time remaining on the clock in how many more minutes and seconds Oliver lets him live.
In a press interview, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg gave some candid and cryptic answers to the more pressing questions about why this tragic event came to pass and what lies ahead for the ARROW heroes. [Read more…]
Morning Static: THE SIMPSONS, HOW I MET YOUR DAD, PARKS AND RECREATION & More!
• Rumor Patrol: Did Tori Spelling fake a cheating scandal to land a new reality show?
• This Week in Tech: HBO Just Made a Brilliant Move to Hook Younger Viewers.
• SIMPSONS Promo: Homer Falls to Pieces in Special LEGO Episode.
• The Author Diaries: ‘Vampire Diaries’ Writer Bites Back.
• Pawnee Today: Parks and Rec’s Amy Poehler & Mike Schur on the Season Finale (‘Big Things Happen’), Baby Mania
• Legendary Casting: ‘How I Met Your Mother’ spin-off casts Meg Ryan.
• Mark Your Calendars: May’s Going To Be Awesome!
• Trend Watch: J.K. Rowling, HBO, BBC Team for ‘Casual Vacancy’ Miniseries.
• Scoop: Laura Prepon on Alex Vause’s extended stay on ‘Orange Is the New Black’
• Mark Your Calendars: USA Reveals Return Dates for Suits, Covert Affairs, Royal Pains and More.
• Scheduling Snafu: Fox Pushes ‘MasterChef’ Premiere By Week.
• Deal of the Day: Huge savings off CSI on DVD.
On TV Tonight: Thursday April 24, 2014
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Jimmy Kimmel Live: Behind the Scandalabra (R) | Grey’s Anatomy | Black Bos | |||
CBS | The Big Bang Theory | The Millers | Two and a Half Men | Bad Teacher | Elementary | |
CW | The Vampire Diaries | Reign | ||||
FOX | Hell’s Kitchen | American Idol | Surviving Jack | |||
NBC | Parks and Recreation | SNL Shorts | ||||
MISC | /td> | Vikings (History) |
In the Mix: Vanessa Lengies Talks MIXOLOGY
Kacey and Dominic have a lot to learn about life and love in tonight’s episode of MIXOLOGY! I spoke with Lengies about Kacey and Dominic’s relationship, why he goes to Tom for advice, and what we can look forward to in the last couple of episodes this season. [Read more…]
WonderCon 2014: THE 100 Cast Dishes on Love Triangles and the Struggle for Power
In the CW series THE 100, there are two worlds that are slowly colliding — the vibrant and lethal world of Earth, where the teens were sent to see if it is inhabitable; and the dying and decaying world of the Ark up in space.
In recent episodes, those worlds began to collide when Clarke’s mother Abby (Paige Turco) sent Raven (Lindsey Morgan) down in a space pod to find out what is going on after they lost communication with the teens’ ship after it land on Earth and their life-support wrist monitors began to go dark. After being forced to kill another 320 people in order to extend the last remaining oxygen supply for those still trapped up on the Ark, it is vital to find out if Earth can be a safe refuge for those who will die without another oxygen source.
In last week’s episode, Raven reach Earth and was reunited with the teens, but was left without any way of communicating back with the Ark. Bellamy (Bob Morley) fearing that the others would find out that he shot Chancellor Jaha (Isaiah Washington), destroyed the space pod radio while Raven was unconscious – a hasty act which he soon regretted after finding out that the Chancellor had survived the gun-shot wound.
In one last desperate attempt to catch someone on the Ark’s attention, Raven, Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and Bellamy worked together to send up rocket flares. Alas, while seen by Abby on the Ark, Abby had no idea what to make of the streaking flashes of light in the sky.
Simultaneously, the headstrong Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) had wandered off alone in the woods and got captured by the Grounders.
So this week’s episode “His Sister’s Keeper” is all about the rescue of Octavia and the continuing efforts to find a way to contact the Ark.
While at WonderCon this past weekend, stars Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Devon Bostick, Lindsey Morgan and executive producer Jason Rothenberg talked about the various developing love triangles, the tug-of-war for power between the factions on Earth, and the challenges of filming such an intense post-apocalyptic series. [Read more…]