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Summer TV Reminder: What’s Back On TV This Week

Posted in Reminder, Television, TV Calendar on June 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Mark your calendars TV viewers!

Summer TV is back and with that comes not only the debuts of new TV shows, but also the return of summer TV shows on the cable networks.

Here is what to expect in returning shows this week (June 20 to June 26):

Burn Notice will be back with all-new episodes on the USA Network at 9 PM on Thursday, June 23.

The Canadian drama Rookie Blue will be back on ABC with its 2nd season at 10 PM also on Thursday, June 23.

Then, the TNT series Leverage will be back with new episodes at 9 PM on Sunday, June 26.

While True Blood will be back on HBO for its 4th season at 9 PM also on Sunday, June 26.

Mark your calendars!

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TV Recommendations: Monday, June 20

Posted in Television, TV Calendar on June 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:

NOTE: Check your local listings for a potential marathon of episodes of Sanctuary on Syfy, leading up to the finale tonight.

7 PM:
Home Alone on HBO Family

7:25 PM:
The Scorpion King movie on Starz

8 PM:
Teen Wolf on MTV (Reair)
Sanctuary on Syfy (Reair)
The Perfect Storm movie on AMC
Tombstone movie on CMT
The Proposal movie on Encore

8:30 PM:
The Big C on Showtime (Reair)

8:45 PM:
How to Train Your Dragon (animated) movie on HBO Family

9 PM:
Switched at Birth on ABC Family (NEW)
Game of Thrones on HBO2 (Reair)
Teen Wolf on MTV (Reair)
Sanctuary on Syfy (Reair)
(500) Days of Summer movie on HBO Signature

9:30 PM:
The Big C on Showtime (Reair)

10 PM:
Sanctuary on Syfy (Finale)
Teen Wolf on MTV (NEW)
The Closer on TNT (Reair)

Enjoy!

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TV Recommendations: Sunday, June 19

Posted in Television, TV Calendar on June 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:

4:45 PM
Tombstone movie on CMT

5 PM:
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie on BBC America
Ray movie on BET

5:45 PM:
Avatar movie on Cinemax

6 PM:
Transformers movie on TNT

7 PM:
Eureka on Syfy
Cars (animated) movie on ABC Family
The Shawshank Redemption movie on AMC
Nora Roberts’ Carnal Innocence movie on Lifetime (Reair)

7:30 PM:
Letters to Juliet movie on Showtime 2

8 PM:
The Clinic movie on Lifetime Movie Network (DEBUT)
Knight and Day movie on HBO2
My Best Friend’s Wedding movie on TMC

8:03 PM:
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie on Starz

8:45 PM:
Nanny McPhee Returns movie on HBO Family

9 PM:
Falling Skies on TNT (Two-Hour DEBUT)
Game of Thrones on HBO (FINALE)
Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime (Season Premiere)
Three Act Tragedy (Poirot Masterpiece Mystery) movie on PBS
Castle on ABC (Reair)
Miss Congeniality movie on TBS

10 PM:
The Glades on A&E (NEW)
The Killing on AMC (FINALE
The Protector on Lifetime (NEW)
In Plain Sight on USA Network (NEW)
Body of Proof on ABC (Reair)
Sherlock Holmes movie on Cinemax

10:30 PM:
Teen Wolf on MTV (Reair)

Enjoy!

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New Show Introduction: Falling Skies

Posted in News, Television, TV Calendar, Video on June 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Falling Skies

The new TNT series Falling Skies will have a two-hour debut at 9 PM on June 19. The series will then move to its regular timeslot on Sundays at 10 PM the following week.

This is a Steven Spielberg sci-fi drama about the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force. The cast includes Noah Wyle (ER), who plays Tom Mason, a Boston history professor, Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation) as Anne Glass, a pediatrician who works with the surviving children to help them cope with the traumatic upheaval in their lives, Will Patton (Armageddon) who plays Weaver, a fierce leader of the resistance.

The cast also includes Drew Roy (Hannah Montana and Secretariat) as Tom’s oldest son, Maxim Knight (Brothers & Sisters) as Tom’s youngest son; Connor Jessup (The Saddle Club) as Tom’s son who was captured by aliens; and Seychelle Gabriel (Weeds and The Last Airbender) as an orphaned teenager who helps Anne in the group’s makeshift medical clinic. Colin Cunningham (Stargate SG-1) and Sarah Carter (Shark) also star.

Here is the official trailer for Falling Skies.

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TV Ratings: Spring TV (Friday, June 17)

Posted in Ratings, Television on June 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

It was mostly repeats last night, except for new episodes of Flashpoint and Friday Night Lights. Here is how the Friday night dramas fared in the overall ratings:

8 PM Shows:
Flashpoint (CBS) [NEW] – 5.7 million
Bones (FOX) [repeat] – 3.3 million
Friday Night Lights (NBC) [NEW] – 3 million
Smallville (The CW) [repeat] – 970,000 viewers

9 PM Shows:
CSI: NY (CBS) [repeat] – 6.1 million
House (FOX) [repeat] – 2.3 million
Supernatural (The CW) [repeat] – 854,000 viewers

10 PM Show:
Blue Bloods (CBS) [repeat] – 7.3 million

What did you watch last night? Please share.

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Support Your Fellow Blogger: ThinkWatchThink

Posted in Bloggers, Television on June 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

In this ongoing article series, I will be highlighting fellow bloggers who are working hard to provide news, reviews and coverage on entertainment and television.

This month’s spotlight is on Elizabeth “Liz” Randall, who runs the website ThinkWatchThink.

Liz first started out writing “episode guides” of her favorite shows back when she was hooked on the cult classic series Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. She eventually moved onto the Internet and her website ThinkWatchThink is what came out of ten years of “puttering around”.

Her love of serialized storytelling has gravitating her towards television over movies because she gets to watch the characters develop and change over time. She organizes her reviews into show guides, allowing her to go in and read the story from start to finish.

Her favorite genres are supernatural and science fiction with her all-time favorite shows being Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Farscape with her current favorite show being The Vampire Diaries. She is also a fan of Highlander, Firefly and a little known show called Roar that starred a then unknown (the late) Heath Ledger.

Currently she is covering Glee and The Vampire Diaries while attempting to put up coverage of five season of Stargate: SG-1. Her current guilty pleasure is Make It or Break It and she is anxious for the new Spartacus series to begin airing and looks forward to watching (and covering) The Secret Circle and Ringer this fall.

Liz has a lot of show guides at her site so if you’d like to relive shows like those mentioned over (among others), please visit ThinkWatchThink here.

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TV Recommendations: Saturday, June 18

Posted in Television, TV Calendar on June 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:

NOTE: There will be a marathon of season 2 episodes of Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime today from 11 AM to 5 PM (check local listings for more details).

5:30 PM:
Casino Royale movie on USA Network

6:35 PM:
The Losers movie on Cinemax

6:45 PM:
The Hurt Locker movie on TMC

7 PM:
Courage Under Fire movie on Fox Movie Network
Taken movie on FX

7:15 PM:
Salt movie on Starz

8 PM:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King movie on TNT
The Incredibles (animated) movie on ABC Family
Tombstone movie on CMT
James Patterson’s Sundays at Tiffany’s movie on Lifetime Movie Network
The Notebook movie on Oxygen

8:30 PM:
Quantum of Solace movie on USA Network

9 PM:
Outcasts on BBC America (DEBUT)
Rock the House movie on Hallmark (DEBUT)
Valentine’s Day movie on HBO Signature
Nora Roberts’ Carnal Innocence movie on Lifetime (Reair)

10 PM:
Ray movie on BE
Nights in Rodanthe movie on Lifetime Movie Network

10:05 PM:
True Blood on HBO 2

Enjoy!

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Entertainment Update for June 17

Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on June 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Hey All,

Happy Friday Everybody! Hope everyone has some fun plans for this weekend, or at least have plans to sit back and just relax. Whatever you are going to be doing – enjoy. In the meantime, please check out the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor James Frain (The Cape and True Blood) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Burn Notice, which returns for a new season on June 23. Frain will play the powerful owner of a pharmaceutical company responsible for several medical breakthroughs who runs his business with extreme security, and is willing to go to great lengths to protect its secrets. (Entertainment Weekly)

Actors Kyle Howard (My Boys) and Wilmer Valderrama (That 70’s Show) will be showing up on episodes of Royal Pains, which returns for a new season starting on June 29. Howard will appear in multiple episodes playing Paul Van Dyke, a cocky doctor with whom Divya (Reshma Shetty) must contend once she begins her new (secret) job at Hamptons Heritage. Meanwhile, Valderrama will also have a multi-episode arc playing Eric, an art gallery owner who takes a liking to Paige’s (Brooke D’Orsay) work and quite possibly more. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

It looks like the three men behind Glee (Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan) are finally getting some help. They have hired some new staff, who will hopefully allow the show to return to a more creative completeness. The new staff includes Allison Adler (Chuck and No Ordinary Family) who will be a co-executive producer, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (the Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark musical) as co-producer, Marti Noxon (Buffy and Angel veteran ) and Michael Hitchcock will both be consulting producers and Matt Hodgson and Ross Maxwell as staff writers. (Deadline)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Laura Prepon (That 70’s Show) and country singer Naomi Judd will star in the Lifetime TV movie called The Killing Game, based on the best-seller by Iris Johansen. Prepon will play Eve Duncan, the popular heroine of the thriller, who 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, is contacted by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie’s case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her career as a forensic sculptor and works to close the case. Naomi Judd will co-star as Eve’s mother, Sandra Duncan. (The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Luke Evans (who will be seen in The Three Musketeers and this fall’s Immortals) will appear in the much-anticipated upcoming movie The Hobbit, playing Bard the Grim, who is a skilled archer and the heir of King Girion of Dale. (Deadline)

Actor Logan Lerman has signed on to reprise his role of Percy Jackson in the planned sequel to the film adaptation of the books by Rick Riordan. The sequel is to be called Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters, based on the book. It follows Percy and his group of friends as they set out to find the mythical Golden Fleece and free a friend who has been captured. (The LA Times and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Watch: Second ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ Trailer!

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a terrific weekend!

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UPDATE: Who Will (and Won’t) Be at Comic Con 2011

Posted in Comic Con, Geekdom, News, Television on June 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

More announcements have been made regarding the TV shows that will (and those that WILL NOT) be participating in Comic Con 2011.

The shows shown below in BOLD are the new additions:

July 21:

Covert Affairs and Psych

July 22:

Falling Skies, Spartacus: Vengeance and Torchwood: Miracle Day

July 23:

Teen Wolf

These shows will be there, but no date has been set for them as of yet:

The Big Bang Theory, Castle, Chuck, Game of Thrones, Once Upon a Time, Person of Interest, Sons of Anarchy, Terra Nova, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, The River, The Vampire Diaries and The Walking Dead

Now here is the bad news, here are the following shows that will NOT be at Comic Con this year:

Burn Notice, Camelot, Hawaii Five-0, In Plain Sight, Royal Pains and White Collar

NOTE:  Thanks to the folks at seat42f for the above details

UPDATE: The following are also shows that the folks at Entertainment Weekly (and other sources) are claiming are expected to be at Comic Con 2011:

Alphas, Awake, Being Human (Syfy), Bones, Castle, Eureka, Fringe, Glee, Grimm, Homeland, Sanctuary, The Secret Circle, True Blood and Warehouse 13

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TV Ratings: Spring TV (Thursday, June 16)

Posted in Ratings, Television on June 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

It was another full night of repeats, except for one drama on NBC. Here is how all of the Thursday night dramas fared in the overall ratings:

8 PM Show:
The Vampire Diaries (The CW) [repeat] – 1.1 million

9 PM Shows:
CSI (CBS) [repeat] – 7.4 million
Glee (FOX) [repeat] – 3.4 million
Nikita (The CW) [repeat] – 1.1 million

10 PM Shows:
The Mentalist (CBS) [repeat] – 8.1 million
Rookie Blue (ABC) [repeat] – 3.6 million
Love Bites (NBC) [NEW] – 2.4 million

What did you watch last night? Please share.

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