NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Dancing with the Stars | Castle | ||||
CBS | 2 Broke Girls | The Big Bang Theory (R) | Scorpion | NCIS: Los Angeles | ||
CW | The Originals | Jane the Virgin | ||||
FOX | Gotham | Sleepy Hollow | ||||
NBC | The Voice | State of Affairs | ||||
MISC | Major Crimes (TNT) American Dad (TBS) | Independent Lens (PBS) |
Archives for November 2014
On TV Tonight: Sunday November 23, 2014
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | 2014 American Music Awards | |||||
CBS | << 60 Minutes | Madam Secretary | The Good Wife | CSI >> | ||
FOX | The Simpsons | Brooklyn Nine | Family Guy (R) | Bob’s Burgers | ||
HBO | The Newsroom | The Comeback | Getting On | |||
NBC | Football Night in America | Sunday Night Football: Cowboys at Giants | ||||
MISC | The Walking Dead (AMC) | |||||
SHO | Homeland | The Affair |
SCANDAL! HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER! OUAT! Y&R! GREY’S ANATOMY! ONCE UPON A TIME! The TV Addict Week in Rewind
Lamest/Best Reveal: While unmasking Wes as Sam’s killer on HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER wasn’t particularly shocking, the fact that Annalise has known from the beginning sent our jaws dropping to the floor!
Saddest Scandal: Remember when the name Bill Cosby made you think of sweater collections and Jell-O?
Worst Procrastinator: THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS’ Jack has put off telling girlfriend Kelly that he’s engaged to another woman. Given that the other woman once ran down a romantic rival, this seems like a situation he might wanna handle… pronto!
Best Public Service Announcement: The Parents TV Council — aka the self-proclaimed guardians of morality — called a SONS OF ANARCHY scene “the most sexually explicit content [we have] ever documented on basic cable.” In response, horndogs everywhere said, “Thanks, I have to check that out! Um, can I get on your mailing list so I don’t miss out next time something like this airs?”
Biggest Transformation: After being lied to by everyone he loves, GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Michael dumped his girlfriend, changed his last name and developed a helluva mean streak. Want proof? “Not only are you a liar,” he told his newly-dumped ex, “but you’re an idiot, too!” Ouch.
Line That Really Needs To Be On A T-Shirt: Who wouldn’t buy one bearing the GREY’S ANATOMY quote, “Stop stealing my orgasms!”
Biggest Hypocrite: It pains us to say this, but Jon Stewart, after spending so much time trash-talking CNN, it’s a major sell-out that you’ve run to them twice in the past few weeks to pimp your movie. [Read more…]
BONES Redux: Our Top 5 Moments From “ The Puzzler in the Pit”
It’s a sappy Bones this week, as Daisy is just about to pop. Here’s your Bones Top Five Moments!
Has Daisy gone mad?
After last week, I’m glad to see Daisy. Everyone is concerned about her condition, but she thinks Sweets would have wanted her back out in the world. And though she hasn’t even set up the baby’s room yet, she’s quite zen, because her Doula said the baby would let her know from the womb how to decorate it. She’s also getting Daisy to buy crystals for a painless delivery, despite her previous need for general anesthesia for a tooth-filling.
Everyone, even open-minded Hodgins, thinks Daisy is taking a ride on the crazy train. Angela is convinced Daisy is having a nervous breakdown and for once she wants Brennan to keep telling Daisy she’s ignorant. Ooh. The sweet, weird one who’s had some pretty wacky ideas of her own, wants Brennan to be mean to the recently widowed, pregnant woman? Whose hormones are probably doing The Macarena right now? Nice!
Hodgins takes a much kinder and gentler approach. Also, a more direct one. He thinks Daisy is pushing all of the science people away, because she’s afraid of losing someone else, but Daisy is adamant that is not the case.
Brennan tries the ignorant approach, and Daisy is rightly offended by it. Brennan once again cites her bad people skills, which isn’t in play here, since Angela told her to be horrible to Daisy on purpose.
Then to make this whole approach look even more nasty, Daisy comes clean to Brennan that she’s alone and is just trying to connect to the baby without Sweets there. Dang, people, she’s just trying to cope. Lighten up!
Angela takes Daisy to the real doctor, but Valentina, the Doula, does show up, and it’s Mindy Cohn! Oh, but she doesn’t endear herself to anyone when she’s kind of passive-aggressive and condescending. Then won’t allow Angela to come into the examining room because she’ll “mix up the energies.” Oh, Valentina, don’t make Angela look like the good one.
Also, all of the medical people aren’t alarmed when Daisy ignores contractions. It takes her water breaking for them to finally take it seriously. Daisy wants to solve the case, but she’s going to the hospital where she’ll be in a darkened room with bird sounds. That would scare the living hell out of me.
The room does look nice, and there’s a lovely bath with candles. Apparently everyone at the Jeffersonian can abandon their posts, because Brennan, Angela, and Cam are there. So is Valentina, who is being obnoxious and is telling everyone to leave. Daisy puts her foot down and says she wants her friends there, as well as the godfather, Booth. And Cam tells Valentina to shut the hell up when she tells Daisy she’s making the baby feel unwanted with all the screaming and to picture a forest. Amen to that, Cam.
Daisy has had it, as well. To hell with the bath. She wants shiny machines that beep, and she wants the lights on. Oh, yeah, and the epidural. Turns out real pain is a whole lot worse than imagined pain.
Booth shows up and just wants to shove the teddy bear at Daisy and leave, but he’s got a roomful of women, plus Hodgins who showed up at some point, guilt-tripping him, so it looks like he’ll be added to the list of spectators. And it gets worse, because Daisy had wanted to be on the “crystals for pain” plan, it’s too late to get the epidural. Instead, Brennan gets her to focus on the case, and she winds up solving it. Booth can’t get out of there fast enough to inform Aubrey.
Meanwhile, Booth and Brennan have amassed an entire baby store’s worth of stuff they’re giving to Daisy. The usually stoic Brennan is feeling quite sentimental about the whole thing, even if she’s not on board with Daisy’s baby speaking to her from inside the womb
The Corpse of the Week!
It’s all about the fracking. Apparently protestors found some bones at a fracking site, and to make matters worse, there’s a bunch of hydrochloric acid in the water, which is eating away at the tissue as well as the bone. But Hodgins to the rescue with the best cure-all, baking soda. That stuff has a million and one uses. Like duct tape.
It turns out he’s Lawrence Brooks. His skull surgery made national news, and geeky Cam knows him as “the puzzle master.” Crossword puzzles, to be exact. And he was a recluse, not a protestor. He lives close to the site, and his wife Emelia never reported him missing.
Lawrence was wearing a cast, and there’s puzzle clues on it. Cam can identify what is and isn’t his writing, due to her getting him to sign a completed puzzle. Oh, Cam. But the other way they can tell is that the clues not in his handwriting are easy to solve. And they all have a theme: attack, vendetta, payback, justice, punish, etc. Could they be from the killer? DUN DUN DUN!
And it seems Lawrence’s bones were deteriorating before the acid got to them. Turns out it was from medication for Alzheimer’s that he might have gotten after his head injury. But if he had Alzheimer’s, how was he able to write all of those awesome puzzles?
The suspects!
Alexis Sherman – Lawrence’s assistant. I guess on top of everything else, Lawrence was a control freak (wasn’t there one last week as well?) and never let her create a puzzle on her own. And though Lawrence promised to make her co-editor, Aubrey thinks she’d get impatient enough…to kill him? That’s a big leap there.
Yeah, sure she may have screamed and yelled, but she still feels she had the best job in the world working for Mr. Puzzle Man and seems genuinely upset he’s gone. Booth and Aubrey, forgetting the good cop/bad cop routine, both are openly hostile and insulting, and she calls them on it.
Booth does back off and asks for her help. She obliges by playing an answering machine message from a guy calling Lawrence a thief and a hack. And a couple of days before that, a guy had shown up saying he had an appointment with Lawrence, when he didn’t. Now that Booth has remembered to be pleasant, Alexis says she’ll be more than happy to sit with a forensic artist to get a picture of the stalking dude.
Emory Stewart – The stalker guy. He used to be highly intelligent and have his life together until a couple of years ago when his parents died in a car accident. Since then he’s been a drunken mess.
He doesn’t look like one when Booth interrogates him. He seems nice young boy who’s put together and sputtering and stuttering all over himself when Booth accuses him of murder. He’s no stalker. He views Lawrence as a god and is writing a book about him. That mean message wasn’t his. He was angry after his parents died but went to counseling and is fine now.
But he’s got another name for them. Donald McKeon, who was Lawrence’s roommate in college. He’s also a puzzler, but a lame one who only has his crosswords at car washes. Loser! Emory claims Donald is crazy-jealous of Lawrence.
Donald McKeon – He was the angry voice on the machine. They were able to trace the call to the Granville Hotel, where he’s been staying for the past week.
At first he’s all self-righteous, until he finds out Lawrence is dead. Did they go to the hotel, picked him up, drive him back to the FBI offices, and not tell him anything until they got him into the interrogation room?
He’s furious that they messed with his proof that Lawrence was stealing from him. He’d sent his own puzzle to Lawrence, who published it under his own name.
Emilia, the wife – She assumed he was off creating a puzzle. Where does one go to create a puzzle? We don’t get an answer to that, but it seems the poor woman led a very lonely existence. Lawrence’s puzzles were his children, so they never had any, and it seems he was away for long periods of time. At that point, you might as well be single.
She knew he had Alzheimer’s but kept it to herself. Even after he’s dead?
Also, her argument that she thought he was just away creating a puzzle doesn’t hold water because a) she knew he wasn’t creating them any more and b) when someone with Alzheimer’s wanders away, you contact the authorities immediately.
Anyway, Lawrence had a bunch of unpublished puzzles he didn’t think were good enough, but Emelia was the one publishing them. She also published McKeon’s puzzle, but it was by accident, since it was on Lawrence’s desk.
Lawrence couldn’t retire, because they were broke. He forgot where he put all of his money. I’m assuming it’s no place where they send statements.
Solving the case!
It turns out there were bank statements with clear clues, so wifey must not have looked very hard. There are e-payments to LPAK, LLC that started five months previous. It’s a front for an online gambling site. Lawrence had some broken fingers, and it turns out this gambling site is local. If you want to stay off the grid, you can meet with the bookie in person. Is this real? Because why leave yourself open to broken bones like that, when you can be anonymous? And how off the grid are you if your bets can easily be traced through your bank statements?
Booth is all hopped up and excited about placing a big bet and purposely losing. But of course nobody is letting him onto this particular playground, what with his gambling past, so Aubrey is the one who got the account and did it. He even shuts down Booth’s computer for him. Way to be subtle there, Aubrey. He gets less subtle, when he straight-up calls Booth an addict and says he doesn’t want Booth to jeopardize his sobriety. Gosh, I miss Sweets.
Booth takes it surprisingly well.
Aubrey meets with the bookie who cops right away to the broken fingers, but it was only to send a message through him to the actual person doing the gambling. Alexis. She took advantage of the Alzheimer’s and used Lawrence’s accounts to pay off her debts, but she’s no killer! However, she is arrested for stealing the dude’s money and probably won’t be able to pay it back with her snazzy new Lawrence job if she’s in jail.
Lawrence’s neck was broken. It looks like he might have been the attacker, and the killer pushed him in self defense. It wasn’t Lawrence’s blood at the crime scene. It was a partial match, which means it’s from a relative. Daisy is the one who figures out he has a son.
Aubrey found the answer in Emory’s book. Lawrence got his college girlfriend knocked up, but he had to give the baby away after the mom died during childbirth. Aubrey has already unlocked the adoption records.
To nobody’s surprise, the son is Emory. The book was a way for him to get close to Lawrence. When his parents died, he found the adoption papers. He told Lawrence he was his son. They made plans to meet at a diner, but when Lawrence didn’t show, Emory went to his house and followed Lawrence when he went on a walk. Of course, Lawrence had no recollection of the conversation and even attacked Emory, who did push him just to get him away. Lawrence just fell wrong.
When Emory finds out Lawrence had Alzheimer’s, he cries and said he would have been a good son and taken care of him. Then maybe you should have admitted to what happened, rather than throwing him in the pit and pouring acid all over him? Just saying.
Daisy gives birth!
To a bouncing two-month-old. Or that’s what it looked like to me. Booth and Hodgins were behind the curtain for the final stages but are there once the deed is done. Everyone agrees he looks like Sweets. As you’ll remember, Sweets wanted his son to be named Seeley, so his name is Seeley Lance Wicks-Sweets. Goodness. That’s a big name for such a little guy. Booth is the first to hold him. It’s all very bittersweet that Lance isn’t there to see his son, but everyone did their best to make Daisy and the baby feel loved.
Photo of the Day: Your First Look at PENNY DREADFUL Season 2
Press Release: SHOWTIME is giving viewers the first look photo from the highly anticipated second season of the network’s drama series, PENNY DREADFUL currently in production in Dublin, Ireland for a 2015 debut on the network.
John Logan, series creator and executive producer, says, “This season Vanessa (Eva Green) and Ethan (Josh Hartnett) face new challenges, and old enemies, and turn to each other for solace. Their intimacy grows as they are forced to confront their demons together.” [Read more…]
Morning Static: SCANDAL, COUGAR TOWN, PARKS AND RECREATION & More!
• RIP: ‘Sullivan & Son’ Cancelled By TBS After Three Seasons
• Funny Business: Cindy Crawford Is Headed for Cougar Town
• Interesting: ‘The Cosby Show’ Is Too Important to Erase From TV History
• ‘SNL’ Unveils December Hosts: James Franco, Martin Freeman and Amy Adams
• Parks and Rec: Rob Lowe, Rashida Jones Returning for Final Season
• Sorry, Netflix: Serial proves that the best shows shouldn’t be binged on
• Parenting Advice: Moving Beyond Screen Time.
• Spoiler Alert: ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ boss talks killer twist
• ‘Scandal’ postmortem: What’s next after the shocking disappearance?
• Stocking Stuffer Alert: Save BIG on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA on DVD and Blu-ray via Amazon.
On TV Tonight: Friday November 21, 2014
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Last Man Standing | Cristela | Shark Tank | 20/20 | ||
CBS | The Amazing Race 25 | Hawaii Five=0 | Blue Bloods | |||
CW | Whose Line Is It… (R) | America’s Next Top Model | ||||
FOX | MasterChef Junior (R) | Gotham (R) | ||||
NBC | Dateline NBC | Grimm | Constantine | |||
Misc | Girl Meets World (Disney) Lilyhammer (Netflix) | Great Performances: Cats (PBS) Deal With It (TBS) | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) |
We Shine the Spotlight on SCANDAL Star Joshua Malina
Major networks like ABC don’t give 3 hour block’s of television to just anyone, and they certainly don’t focus all of their airtime and marketing to advertise that three hour block. That is, unless, you’re Shonda Rhimes the powerhouse behind three of the most successful shows currently on the air. Rhimes has been a power player in the ratings game for many years now, even so, no show has commanded social media or generated as much buzz as her political drama SCANDAL has. Forget Kim Kardashian, SCANDAL has been breaking the Internet weekly since it’s premiere in April of 2012. While all of the shows stars have had their fair share of juicy roles and successful and acclaimed series/ films, Joshua Malina stands out among the rest. Beginning his career in A Few Good Men and eventually moving on to highly regarded series such as, TRACEY TAKES ON, SPORTS NIGHT, IN PLAIN SIGHT, and most notably THE WEST WING. Malina has had an outstanding career, but his most recent work on SCANDAL is what I believe helped America fall in love with him. Sure, most of the time we can’t stand David Rosen, the cutthroat, attorney general who is always testing Olivia. (Kerry Washington) But let’s be honest, he’s grown into one of the strongest and most intense characters on the show, and one of our favorite live-tweeters. He is crucial to the SCANDAL universe, having some of the most jaw dropping scenes (It’s still too soon to talk about Episode 313, “No Sun On The Horizon.”) Rosen is constantly overlooked; you could say he is the underdog of this addicting and wonderful show. Malina soars on the Thursday hit, his character is memorable and his presence is necessary. I had the privilege of interviewing the gifted actor about his work with Aaron Sorkin and about his work on SCANDAL. Don’t miss the mid-season finale of SCANDAL tonight!
What can you tell us about tonight’s episode?
Joshua Malina: Umm…it will be a heart-stopping, pulse-quickening melange of drama, romance, thrills, and chills. You’ll laugh until you cry. You’ll cry until you drink. How’s that?
Do you miss the constant fighting between Olivia and David? Will we see them butt heads over the law and how she tends to bend it?
I love doing battle with Olivia. Kerry’s a lot of fun to act with, and I relish the chance to go head-to-head with her. Sure, she tends to win our little arguments, but David occasionally gets in a good shot. I believe they will continue their frenemy ways. Sure hope so, anyway.
No one is ever safe in Shondaland! Last season when James was shot did you know that David would be spared? How do you think Abby would have dealt with it if it were David that was shot, rather than James?
In truth, I didn’t think that James or David would be killed. I thought it’d turn out that there was someone else off-camera…a deer maybe? Or that someone would be wounded, but not killed. I just really didn’t believe that either of our characters would die. I spent days assuring Dan Bucatinsky that we were safe. “C’mon, dude. Us? No way. We’re great!” I was shocked when he later texted me the news. I have since given up guessing where Shonda’s going. I’m no good at it.
I guess that if David had died, Abby would have hopped over to Leo a little sooner.
Leo and Abby shared had a special moment in last week’s episode. Do you think he could be a threat to David?
Threat? Nah. Leo can have her. Time for David to look around….
I know you can’t tell us who she picks, but who would you like to see Olivia end up with, Jake or Fitz? Who do you think is better for her?
Well, I think we’re a long way off from any kind of romantic resolution for Ms. Olivia Pope, and as I’ve mentioned, I’m no good at predicting where Shonda’s fiendish imagination will take us, so who knows? I’m not sure either is too good of a choice…
What’s been your favorite scene or episode so far throughout SCANDAL’s run? Is there a specific scene you loved shooting?
Call me lazy, but I really enjoyed the run of episodes when David was falling apart, and he just hung around OPA, lounging and eating cereal. Mmmmm, cereal. Those were happy times.
If you could have David star in any other show on TV right now what would it be?
VEEP. He’d have to toughen up quick, though, or they’d tear him apart over there.
Your frequent collaborator Aaron Sorkin recently made headlines by proclaiming that he’s more than likely done with the weekly grind of hour long television shows. How do you feel about the news that Sorkin may stop giving us memorable TV characters like Will Bailey and Jeremy Goodman?
Just as Natalie Hurley once refused to accept Jeremy Goodwin’s breakup, I refuse to accept Aaron’s statement. As an ardent fan of his writing for television, and as an actor hopeful of once again performing in same, I say “No.”
NBC is in talks to do a live TV version of Sorkin’s Broadway Play turned hit movie A Few Good Men. Any chance you’ll make an appearance having starred in the original Broadway production?
As soon as I read of the potential project, I tweeted my interest in playing Sam Weinberg. Now, I’m not sure anyone’s combing through my Twitter feed, looking to see what roles I want to play, but if they’ll allow me to read for it, I shall do so.
You can watch Joshua in the mid-season finale of SCANDAL tonight at 9:00 on ABC.
Mark Your Calendars: AMC Announces Two-Night Premiere BETTER CALL SAUL Launch
Press Release: AMC announced today a two-night television event for the premiere of its next new drama series “Better Call Saul.” The prequel to the award-winning series “Breaking Bad,” “Saul” will debut on Sunday, February 8 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT with its second episode airing the next day, Monday, February 9 at 10:00 p.m. The series will then continue to air Mondays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on AMC. From “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan and “Breaking Bad” writer Peter Gould, “Better Call Saul” focuses on the evolution of the popular “Breaking Bad” character Saul Goodman, portrayed by Bob Odenkirk, before he ever became Walter White’s lawyer. The series is executive produced by Gilligan, Gould, Mark Johnson (“Breaking Bad,” Diner, Rain Man) and Melissa Bernstein (“Breaking Bad,” “Rectify,” “Halt and Catch Fire”) with “Breaking Bad” alums Thomas Schnauz and Stewart A. Lyons as co-executive producers for Sony Pictures Television. [Read more…]
ARROW Previewpalooza: “THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD” Crossover Sneak Peek!
This just in, new episode photos and previews from the Wednesday December 3rd episode of ARROW. Direct from The CW, “PART TWO OF THE ARROW AND FLASH CROSSOVER EVENT — Oliver (Stephen Amell), Arsenal (Colton Haynes) and Diggle (David Ramsey) track down the location of a boomerang-wielding killer named Digger Harkness (guest star Nick E. Tarabay) but are surprised when they come face to face with an A.R.G.U.S. team. Diggle asks Lyla (guest star Audrey Marie Anderson) why A.R.G.U.S. is involved, but she defers until Harkness attacks the building, killing several agents and targeting Lyla. The Arrow joins the fight and gets help from an old friend – The Flash (guest star Grant Gustin). Harkness manages to get away and Oliver teams up with Barry again to find him before he can get to Lyla. When Harkness plants five bombs in the city that are timed to explode at the same time, both teams must come together to save the city. Jesse Warn directed the episode with story by Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg, and teleplay by Marc Guggenheim & Grainne Godfree Schwartz (#308).” [Read more…]