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Archives for April 2009
ER Series Finale: The Good, Bad & Ugly
The Good: By starting off the night’s “final ER event” with a retrospective featuring interviews from cast members both new and old, NBC did a remarkable job of ensuring that this TV Addict was in the proper frame of mind for my long awaited return to County General. So much so that by the time the opening notes of the show’s now iconic theme song played, I was pretty much in full-blown nostalgia mode, fighting off the urge during commercial breaks to order seasons 1 thru 10 on Amazon.
Much like the show’s groundbreaking series premiere, the John Wells penned finale offered up a frantic day-in-the-life in the “ER”, which provided every cast member, from stars like Dr. Gates (John Stamos), Sam Taggert (Linda Cardellini) and Dr. Morris (Scott Grimes) to familiar bit players such as Chuney (Laura Ceron), Haleh (Yvette Freeman), Frank (Troy Evans) and Jerry (Abraham Benrubi) with a moment to shine. Especially Frank, who quite possibly had the night’s most memorable moment upon realizing that the young girl standing before him was none other than Dr. Greene’s grown up daughter Rachel who had dropped by the “ER” to apply for a medical internship.
Adding to the nostalgia factor were the return of original series stars Peter Benton (Eriq La Salle), Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes), Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) and Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston) who were all on hand to witness John Carter (Noah Wyle) opening the doors of the Joshua Carter Center for Medicine.
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Tonight’s TV Addictions: April 2, 2009
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
ER Retrospective (8PM NBC)
A look back at the dizzying highs (Dr. Ross rescues a boy caught in a storm drain) and ludicrous lows (anytime one of the Doc’s ventured off on a very special road trip) from ER’s 15 seasons.
ER (9PM NBC, CTV in Canada)
Old friends from County show up to support Carter as he opens a new medical facility for Chicago’s less fortunate. Which is kinda funny when you consider that when ER premiered 15 years ago, County General was the hospital for Chicago’s less fortunate, with anyone who had any money going to CHICAGO HOPE.
SUPERNATURAL (9PM CW)
If Sam and Dean are surprised to discover that their lives as demon hunters are accurately detailed in a series of “Supernatural comic books,” just imagine what their reaction will be when they stumble upon what the online community affectionally calls “Wincest.”
What I’ll Miss About ER
Although I have not been a regular watcher of ER for quite some time now (or to be more specific, since the moment a helicopter landed on Dr. Romano), I have found myself spending a inordinate amount of time today reminiscing about NBC’s game-changer of a medical drama.
But rather than wax poetically about my favorite couples, best (Love’s Labor Lost) and worst (Africa story-lines, snooze) moments, and the ways in which ER changed television forever, I thought I would take this opportunity to share the the one reason ER was the very definition of “Must See TV” for me.
Download Your April 2009 TV Calendar
If there’s one good thing to come out of the major networks’ decision to delay February sweeps until March as a result of the Digital TV Transition — it’s that April is no longer home to a vast wasteland of repeats as the networks to their darnedest to save all of the excitement for May. In fact, April 2009 will mark the bow of some fairly high profiles series include Amy Poehler’s new comedy PARKS & RECREATION from the brains behind THE OFFICE, CBS’s mystery/thriller hybrid HARPER’S ISLAND and the return of PRISON BREAK. And to ensure you don’t miss a moment, theTVaddict.com is proud to offer up our April TV 2009 downloadable calendar.
To download, simply click on either of the following links: High Quality PDF or JPG and enjoy.
TV Ratings: Wednesday April 1, 2009
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
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8PM | CBS | I Get That a Lot | 10.34 | 3.4/11 |
FOX | Lie to Me | 8.98 | 2.6/8 | |
NBC | Law & Order: CI (R) | 5.06 | 1.3/4 | |
ABC | Scrubs | 5.04 | 1.9/6 | |
CW | America’s Next Top Model | 3.94 | 1.7/5 | |
8:30PM | ABC | Better Off Ted | 4.71 | 1.8/5 |
9PM | FOX | American Idol | 23.71 | 8.1/21 |
CBS | Criminal Minds (R) | 9.95 | 2.4/6 | |
ABC | Lost | 9.35 | 4.2/11 | |
NBC | Life | 5.57 | 1.5/4 | |
CW | 90210 (R) | 1.23 | 0.6/2 | |
10PM | CBS | CSI (R) | 9.98 | 2.3/6 |
NBC | Law & Order (R) | 6.32 | 1.7/5 | |
ABC | Life on Mars | 5.86 | 2.1/6 |
A LIFE ON MARS Post-mortem with Executive Producers Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg
In what is sure to go down as one of the most literal endings in television history, Sam Tyler and Co. ended their seventeen episode journey known as LIFE ON MARS last night, doing just that. And whether you loved it, loathed it, or are still scratching your head over it — this TV Addict can’t help but feel that in this era of cancel-happy-television-executives — serious kudos must be paid to executive producers Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg for providing fans with any ending at all.
Clearly, Appelbaum and Rosenberg get it. As evidence by the fact that not only did they make good on their promise to write and produce a fifteen minute ending to their prematurely canceled series OCTOBER ROAD (which will be included on the second season DVD coming out in MAY), they took the time out of their insanely busy schedule while up in Toronto shooting their new two-hour pilot HAPPY TOWN for ABC to provide a little insight as to what went wrong with LIFE ON MARS and what it’s like developing and creating shows in this increasingly challenging and constantly changing television landscape.
To start us off, I just wanted to take a moment to say how impressed I am with your level of commitment to your fans. It’s not everyday that showrunners will take the time to promote a show that has already been cancelled.
Scott Rosenberg: We are those guys who will just continue to kick a dead horse. We love our dead horses so much that we still believe.
Josh Appelbaum: We’ve also been fans of so many shows that we’ve been in that position where you’re watching something, it gets cancelled and there is no resolution and it’s so f*cking frustrating. Fans have been so great with this show, as they were with OCTOBER ROAD and to not have given them some conclusion would be ridiculous.
Scott Rosenberg: The one thing that I really truly believe with all my heart, the one thing that all of our fans have in common is that they have impeccable, impeccable f*cking taste and they need to be rewarded for that taste!
Josh Appelbaum: Yeah the show’s gone but with all these things [such as DVD, iTunes etc.] they’ll live on forever.
AMERICAN IDOL Season 8 Results: Who Went Home
Dying to know which contestant America sent home packing tonight, but not enough to actually sit through the commercial-filled, over-produced, hour-long borefest that was tonight’s AMERICAN IDOL results show? No problem, that’s what theTVaddict.com is here for!
Tonight’s TV Addictions: April 1, 2009
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
SCRUBS (8PM ABC, CityTV in Canada)
Elliot (Sarah Chalke) questions her future career plans now that SCRUBS is coming to an end and that whole ‘mother gig’ on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER didn’t exactly work out as planned.
AMERICAN IDOL (9PM FOX, CTV in Canada)
Our prediction: It’s not a good night to have the letter “M” in your name with Megan Joy, Matt Giraud and Scott MacIntyre being our odds on favorites to end up in the bottom three.
LOST (9PM ABC, “A” in Canada)
In an effort to help save twelve-year-old Ben’s life, Kate beings to reveal the truth to Jack about the lie she told in order to protect Aaron. No wonder they call it lost.
LIFE ON MARS (10PM ABC, GlobalTV in Canada)
In the series finale, a mysterious caller offers Sam a chance to return to 2008, but a confusing set of circumstances makes him wonder whether he even wants to do it. Not the least of which being… it’s now 2009!