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  • New Season: CBS’ Moonlight

    Moonlight is the new show about a vampire, living in LA and fighting crime. Don’t confuse it with Angel. Don’t confuse it with Forever Knight. Both of those shows are infinitely superior. Sure, Moonlight has a brooding vampire in it, but Mick St. John has only been around for 90 or so years. He’s painfully…

  • New Season: ABC’s Big Shots

    With yet another high-powered (though oddly mixed) cast, ABC’s Big Shots could have been fantastic. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. It lacked everything that made Dirty Sexy Money fun. Things weren’t over the top enough. In fact, they were decidedly typical. Even worse, of the four main characters, only one (played by Michael Vartan) is really likable.…

  • Get outta my car

    According to an article in Variety, there is serious talk of bringing back Knight Rider. Now, Knight Rider was one of my favorite shows in the 80s. Since I got my driver’s license, it’s held even more appeal because, hey, who wouldn’t like to have a car that could drive itself–let alone one that is…

  • On Air Tonight: Friday

    Friday is one of those nights that very often gets away from people. They go out and do things, their weekend starts and they’re just not going to sit in front of the toob for anything too heavy. A lot of shows over the years have either started in a Friday slot and miraculously survived…

  • New Season: ABC’s Private Practice

    From the makers of Grey’s Anatomy comes… a show that feels exactly like Grey’s Anatomy. Not that that’s an entirely bad thing. I happen to like Grey’s. And I’m sure there will be plenty of people who like Private Practice just as much. But unless they differentiate themselves, unless they get a more distinct feel,…

  • New Season: ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money

    My first thought, as I rolled my eyes at the show descriptoion was, “Great, another lawyer show with quirky characters.” And so it was with great trepidation that I tuned in to the first episode of Dirty Sexy Money. Now that it’s over, I can honestly say that not only was I pleasantly surprised, but…

  • New Season: NBC’s Bionic Woman

    Of all the networks, NBC seems to be a bit ahead of this technology curve. At least for the upcoming fall season. They’ve made three of the pilots for new shows available in a few different ways. I watched them on my cable system’s On Demand system the other day. We see remakes all the…

  • New Season: The CW’s Reaper

    It’s rare to see a comedy that has both high production values and an oxymoronic high-class flavor of lowbrow humor. Reaper is one of those rare shows. Granted, when I first started seeing stuff on it, I thought it would be a cold day in Hell before it turned out to be worthwhile. Seems that…

  • News Season: CBS’ The Big Bang Theory

    In theory, the show could be funny. In practice, it’s not even close. The story of two total geeks (or, perhaps more accurately, nerds) living together in a vaguely run-down apartment building who get a new neighbor–a totally hot girl. The Big Bang Theory misses on every possible note it can. Well, that’s not entirely…

  • Heroes – Season 2

    Picking up four months after the events that closed out the first season, Heroes has returned with just as much style and bite as ever. For most of the world, not much has changed. Most knew nothing of the disaster that had been diverted–or the price that was paid–by those special few. Most of the…

  • On Air Tonight: Monday

    Tonight you’ll be able to catch the broadcast premieres of Chuck and Journeyman on NBC. More importantly, there’s the second season premiere of Heroes, my personal favorite show of last season. Chuck is already losing me to Prison Break over on Fox, in it’s third season, the show just keeps the action up and the…

  • New Season: Fox’s Back to You

    One of the big-deal sitcoms hitting the small screen this season is Fox’s Back to You, a newsroom comedy starring long-time heavy hitters Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton. Grammer plays Chuck Darling, an ego-centric news anchor who finds himself back at the station he left ten years ago. That, of course, happens after he made…