NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Last Man Standing | Cristela | Shark Tank | 20/20 | ||
CBS | Undercover Boss | Hawaii Five-0 | Blue Bloods | |||
CW | Hart of Dixie | Whose Line… (R) | Masters of Illusion | |||
FOX | World’s Funniest Fails | Glee | ||||
NBC | Constantine | Grimm | Dateline NBC | |||
MISC | I Do, I Do, I Do (Hallmark) | 12 Monkeys (Syfy) King of Nerds (TBS) | Helix (Syfy) Banshee (Cinemax) Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) |
Archives for February 2015
Breaking TV News: NBC Renews THE BLACKLIST, CHICAGO FIRE, CHICAGO P.D., LAW & ORDER: SVU and GRIMM for 2015-16 Season
Press Release: NBC has announced it’s renewing dramas “The Blacklist” (season 3), “Chicago Fire” (season 4), “Chicago P.D.” (season 3), “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (season 17) and “Grimm” (season 5) for the 2015-16 season. [Read more…]
AMERICAN IDOL Recap: Hollywood “Weak”
It was a night without heartbreak on Wednesday’s ‘Idol’. A night scarcely worthy of the moniker “Hollywood Week”.
Instead of what used to be a gloriously trashy bit reality show drama – the series’ one indulgence into that realm each season – ‘Idol’ has now turned Hollywood Week into a chance for us to build a relationship with who will surely be our best singing friends for the next three months. Instead of shouting and cursing, we get another chance to hear the beautiful melodies and rapturous tones of the next crop of superstars.
Spare me. [Read more…]
THE MENTALIST Shocker: Our Top 5 Favorite Moments From “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Brace yourselves, everyone. Here are your Mentalist Top Five Moments!
Vacation Time!
Jane wants to go to a “rustic” cabin, and I’m with Lisbon when she equates that word with no running water. She was hoping to go to a place where they leave a mint on the pillow. Jane later gets Lisbon mints and agrees to her luxurious terms. Let’s see if it happens.
The Suspects!
Jane knows how to win friends and influence enemies, when he walks into the bank where there was an armored car heist and asks who the accomplice was. While the bank manager yells about how outrageous it all is (Cho: Not yet), Jane shakes everyone’s hands and discovers one sweaty-palmed guy named Ken with a burner phone who passes out under Cho’s intense questioning. I also want to fall into Cho’s arms, so I don’t blame ya, sweaty guy. Ken got himself a lawyer and swears he fainted from hypoglycemia. He’s let go.
The case!
Abbott puts Cho in charge of the case as a test run for his new position. Vega tries to get Cho excited about his new position, but he’s like “This is my excited face” which is the same as his unhappy face and his I don’t give a crap face.
Lisbon and Jane study the security tape. They figure out two of the robbers are brothers, and they don’t trust the third guy. The reason Jane knows they’re brothers is because they both have the one leg shorter than the other. When Cho and Vega go into a diner, Vega catches something weird about the boot of one of the customers. Cho calls for backup.
But everything goes totally fubar. The two guys try to leave, and Cho blocks their way. He asks where the third guy is, and that’s when he comes out shooting. The original two guys escape. Vega stays with the third guy, so Cho can pursue them. Cho finds one in the kitchen and gets him to drop his gun and get on the ground. Then he hears gunshots coming from the diner, and he’s distracted for a split second. The robber picks up the gun, but Cho is faster and shoots him. Then his brother comes out, shoots at Cho, and drags his brother away. They get into a car. Cho shoots out the back window, but they get away.
Vega is shot!
Dang, I wanted to fast-forward through this. Cho tries to stem the flow of blood, and it’s so hard to hear Vega struggle to breathe. But it’s even worse when she STOPS.
When Jane and Lisbon get to the hospital, Abbott leads them into a room where Vega is lying in a bed, and it’s not good, because she has absolutely no tubes or anything attached to her. It’s horrible, but I’m kind of glad they got this out of the way early, otherwise I would have just been waiting for the hammer to fall. But Wylie? He breaks my heart all over again as he stares at her desk.
Detective Portis of Austin Homicide is taking over the Vega case, since the dept. can’t investigate a case involving their own people. They’ve identified the suspects. Aaron Brunell, aka “Ace,” his bro who got shot, Tommy, and Steve Sellers. Abbott makes it clear Portis can have the collar, but the suspects belong to them.
Cho’s got Vega’s blood all over his white shirt as Portis interviews him. Then Cho runs into Abbott, who’s about to call Vega’s aunt, her only living relative. Cho insists on doing it. He uses Abbott’s office, where Vega’s application and picture are on the screen. Cho breaks down then I break down. This is not the way I wanted to see Cho have an expression. I much prefer the dimples from last episode when he found out about his promotion. Damn, this episode is hard to get through.
They do find the robbers, but while Portis wants a dragnet and helicopters, Jane suggests they remove all of the police presence and make the bad guys feel safe. Since the bad guys are trying to find a place to get bandages, Lisbon suggests putting their people in drug stores and letting the guys come to them. Abbott agrees, OF COURSE.
But when one stupid officer rides up the the drug store with his siren on, Ace gets a hostage, shoots at Abbott, then throws the hostage in a minivan and gets away. The team gives chase.
It seems they have the bad guys cornered in the hostage’s house. She’s an older diabetic woman who lives with her nephew. Jane suggests driving a wedge between the brothers and the Sellers. They send Cho to the door with pizza. Cho tells Ace he can have a doc for his brother when he surrenders. I don’t think Ace is thrilled with that answer.
The plan seems to be working, as the team listens in on the mic they placed in the round pizza thingie. Sellers thinks Ace was making a deal with Cho when he asked about the doc.
Jane has a plan, but for once, Cho isn’t on board. He got a look inside, and he thinks they can take the robbers. Abbott wants to know if this is revenge, and Cho cops to it. Abbott wants to give Jane’s plan a shot first, but I’m looking at Cho’s face, and I’m seeing a “HELL, NO!”
Jane’s plan is to tell a reporter that a bad guy has started negotiations for surrender. Sellers buys it. Tommy just lies dying on the couch. But the team feels the situation is escalating, since Sellers attacked the nephew. Even though Jane begs for more time, it’s no-go. Unsurprisingly, Jane pleads with Lisbon not to go in. He insists Abbott and Cho just want to kill these guys, and he’s not wrong. Lisbon is not swayed.
Desperate Jane goes to the door as the team freaks out. He negotiates him for one of the other hostages. He says he can help the brothers. The nephew goes free, and Jane goes in. Lisbon encourages them to let Jane go through with his wedge plan, which is to hypnotize the diabetic lady, who was totally fine when Jane walked in, and make her have a panic attack, so he can convince the robbers she’s gonna go into a diabetic coma.
Ace takes the lady, while Sellers stays with Jane, who immediately tells Sellers there was more money than he thinks they took. Sellers doesn’t believe him, so Abbott tells the same reporter to say it was 800K. Bickering ensues. When sellers steps out for a pee break, Jane lies and tells Ace that Sellers said he didn’t want to die in prison. This freaks out Ace who runs to the car to find Sellers going through the cash. Sellers shoots Ace. The team comes in, and Cho gets to shoot Sellers, who is the one who shot Vega. I counted seven shots, but it looks like he lives. Jane appears shell-shocked.
The funeral. I can’t handle it when I see Wylie’s face. Cho and Abbott carry the casket. Cho presents the flag to the aunt. My heart is BREAKING. Have I mentioned how difficult this episode is to get through?
Jane Leaves!
He says he can’t watch Lisbon do this work. He can’t go through that again. Lisbon points out that Jane walked into the house, but of course it’s so she wouldn’t. And when she says he could have died, he says that wouldn’t have hurt HIM. Oh, Jane. After Lisbon says he can’t keep pulling her from the path of oncoming trains, he tells her he’s leaving and gives her the choice to come with him. He doesn’t wait for an answer and just tells her he’s going someplace nice before he kisses her on the cheek and leaves.
THANK GOODNESS THAT’S OVER! I’m sure Jane comes back next week, since there’s only a few episodes left, but still. Nothing happy in this episode except Vega at the beginning. Lisbon, I’m sure you’re right and there’s an afterlife where Vega gets to be with her dad.
Morning Static: SNL, THE MENTALIST, SHARK TANK & More!
• I’m So Excited: Jimmy Fallon Went to Bayside High with “Saved By The Bell” Cast
• TV Review: ‘Allegiance’
• The Business of Show: ‘Being Mary Jane’ Renewed For Season 3 By BET
• SNL’s’ Five-Timers Club: Justin Timberlake, Alec Baldwin Celebrate 40 Years of Funny
• Lorne Michaels on 40 Years of ‘SNL’: Being “‘Feared’ Was Never My Goal”
• Nashville Post Mortem: Rayna’s Men React to Her Choice, Dish Lowdown on the Deacon-Luke Brawl (‘It Hurts!’)
• Pilot Watch: Jenna Elfman to Lead Fox Comedy from Friends’ Dana Klein
• The Mentalist Post Mortem: A Tragic Twist Dredges Up Jane’s Dark Past — Plus: The Series Finale in Four Words
• Funny Business: The Mindy Project Pages Laverne Cox for Season 3 Guest Role
• Spotlight: Fresh Off the Boat’s Randall Park on Always Being Cast as the ‘Lab Technician,’ and Seeing a Family Like His on TV
• Scoop: NBC’s ‘Chicago Medical’ Spinoff Taking Shape
• Seconded: How “Shameless” Built TV’s Most Wonderfully Unique Gay Relationship
• Analysis: A ‘Shark Tank’ fan analyzed every episode to determine who gets the investors’ money
• Global Domination: Netflix is heading to Asia with a launch set for Japan
• iWant: Apple in Talks (Again) to Offer TV Channels
• From Mork to Saul: The highs and lows of TV spin-offs
• There’s A ‘Star Trek’ Sex Van For Sale, And You Only Have To Go To Canada To Get It
• Newsworthy: Brian Williams Admits He Wasn’t On Attacked Helicopter
• Who Wants? Lego approves fan’s suggestion for first ‘Doctor Who’ set
• Important: ABC Family’s Campus Rape Storyline Goes Where Scripted Television Hasn’t Gone Before
On TV Tonight: Thursday February 5, 2015
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Grey’s Anatomy | Scandal | How to Get Away with Murder | |||
CBS | The Big Bang Theory | Mom | Two and a Half Men | The Big Bang Theory (R) | Elementary | |
CW | The Vampire Diaries | Reign | ||||
FOX | American Idol | Backstrom | Archer (FX) | |||
NBC | The Blacklist (R) | The Blacklist | Allegiance | |||
MISC | Fortitude (Pivot) Babylon (SundanceTV) Portlandia (IFC) |
Breaking TV News: An Ogre Is Coming to GOTHAM with Milo Ventimiglia Set for Recurring Guest Star Role
Former GILMORE GIRLS bad boy, turned NBC HERO is going back to the dark side. Yes, Warner Bros. Television has just announced that Milo Ventimiglia has signed on to guest star on GOTHAM. According to sources, Ventimiglia will play Jason Lennon, aka the Ogre (Editor’s Note: While this Ogre shares a nickname with a character from the DC Comics, it is a different character, not from the DC canon.). “Handsome, wealthy and seductive, the Ogre is a serial killer who has been preying on the young women of Gotham for nearly a decade, luring them into his web and confronting them with a series of “tests” as he searches for his perfect mate. When the women fail to live up to his impossible standard, Lennon disposes of them quickly and viciously. His obsessions, combined with Gordon’s determination to bring him down, send both Gordon and Lennon — and those around them — on a course toward tragedy.
Fans can expect their first glimpse of Ventimiglia in episode 19. GOTHAM airs Mondays at 8PM on FOX (CTV in Canada).
THE ORIGINALS Recap: “Sanctuary”
Everyone, this week’s episode of THE ORIGINALS was epic! It was the kind of epicness that sneaks up on you because all the knowledge and revelations that were dropped came out of nowhere. I’m still reeling from this episode. We meet Freya (who may be super crazy), were graced with more Rebekah, saw the Kalus we all love to hate again and Finn figured out about Hope! Let’s dig in (and this week we’re going to take it storyline by storyline)! [Read more…]
Morning Static: DAREDEVIL, BETTER CALL SAUL, MASTERCHEF JR & More!
• Teaser Trailer: Marvel’s Daredevil
• February Sweeps 2015: Print and Download Your Calendar Here!
• ‘The Flash’: John Wesley Shipp on Reuniting with Mark Hamill and Revisiting the Trickster
• Reddit Review: My bottom-line review thus far of SlingTV.
• Ouch! Netflix leads to record drops in US TV viewing
• Boy Meets Girl: the BBC’s trans sitcom is part of a quiet revolution
• Game of Thrones: The fun facts you never knew
• Yes, It’s Good: AMC’s Big ‘Better Call Saul’ Bet Pays Off
• FREE Trial: Watch all your favorite CBS shows online.
• Inside MSNBC’s Impending Shakeup: Cancellations, Reboots and Chief Phil Griffin
• Funny Business: Tone Bell to Co-Star in NBC’s ‘People Are Talking’
• Post Mortem: Jane the Virgin Boss on Sin Rostro Reveal, Rogelio’s Next Gig and Another ‘Shocking’ Ender
• Silly Stuff: 21 Signs You’re Hopelessly Hooked On “Law & Order: SVU”
• Pilot Watch: AMC Is Developing a Fast Food Comedy Called ‘Fast Boys’
• Trophy Wife? Malin Akerman to Co-Star Opposite Damian Lewis in Showtime’s ‘Billions’
• Must Read TV: Nick Hornby’s new novel, ‘Funny Girl,’ traces the rise of a sitcom star
• J.K. Rowling Novel To Be Adapted For TV: Watch The First Trailer
• Not So Funny Business: CBS Yanks ‘The McCarthys’ as It Shuffles Thursday Night Lineup
• On MasterChef Junior, Innate Biases Are Hard to Beat
• Profile: Being Mary Jane Creator Mara Brock Akil on Her Flawed Heroine, the Rise of Diverse TV, and Why She Hates Color-blind Casting
• Pilot Watch II: ‘Limitless’ Pilot Sets ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Helmer Marc Webb as Director
• Seriously? Ian Ziering Planned A ‘Beverly Hills, 90210′ Reunion, But No Network Wanted It
• Pilot Watch III: The CW Adds Cheerleader Death Squad, From Marc Cherry/Neal Baer
• Scoop: Naya Rivera Joins Devious Maids
• Cool Beans: AMC unveils ‘Better Call Saul’ digital comic book ahead of series premiere
On TV Tonight: Wednesday February 4, 2015
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | The Middle | Fresh Off the Boat | Modern Family | Fresh Off the Boat | Nashville | |
CBS | The Mentalist | Criminal Minds | Stalker | |||
CW | Arrow | The 100 | ||||
FOX | American Idol | Empire | The Americans (FX) | |||
NBC | The Mysteries of Laura | Law & Order: SVU | Chicago PD | |||
MISC | Melissa & Joey/Baby Daddy (ABC Family) | Suits (USA) It’s Always Sunny/Man Seeking Woman (FXX) Hot in Cleveland/The Exes (TV Land) |