Posts with tag Numbers
Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:01PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at
(775) 640-8479 - your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother , Numb3rs, Smallville and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Feb 15th 2008 4:20PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming, CSI, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Pickups and Renewals, Shark, Ratings, NCIS, Cane, Moonlight
Fans of the Tiffany network can do the happy dance.
CBS has renewed 11 scripted shows for the 2008-2009 TV season. The lucky 11 are:
CSI; CSI: Miami; CSI: New York; NCIS; Criminal Minds; Cold Case; Without a Trace; Ghost Whisperer; Numb3rs; Two and a Half Men; and
The Big Bang Theory.
There are not a lot of surprises in this bunch, although it's great news that
The Big Bang Theory, CBS's rookie Monday-night sitcom from Chuck Lorre's stable, made the cut. Still in limbo, however, are three other Monday-night comedies from the network:
How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, and
The New Adventures of Old Christine. The story speculates that
Mother will get the greenlight for a fourth season soon, but
Rules and
Christine seem to be in competition for the 9:30-10:00 half-hour slot.
Continue reading Update - CBS renews a slew of shows
Posted Oct 19th 2007 10:40AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, Numb3rs, Contests and Giveaways
If you haven't entered our latest three giveaways yet (
Ghost Whisperer season two,
Numb3rs season three and
The Kids in the Hall Megaset), you've got until 5PM Eastern today to enter. Just head on over to the posts linked above, read through the rules and make the applicable comment there (not here!) We'll notify the winners next week.
Two more next week! Good luck!
Posted Oct 15th 2007 10:05AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: TV on DVD, Numb3rs, Contests and Giveaways
The giveaways continue today! Not only are we giving away
three copies of The Kids in the Hall Complete Series Megaset, we've also got
ten copies of Numb3rs season three on DVD for ten lucky, random commenters. The set is already available in stores.
To enter, simply leave a comment below before 5:00PM Eastern, Friday, October 19, simply telling us your favorite episode from the series. As always, we'll randomly choose ten winners amongst the eligible entries. Some other details:
- To enter, leave a confirmed comment below stating your favorite episode of Numb3rs.
- The comment must be left before October 19, 2007 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
- You may enter only once.
- Ten winners will be selected in a random drawing.
- Ten winners will receive a copy of Numb3rs Season 3 DVDs (valued at $48.99).
Click here for complete Official Rules.
Posted Sep 26th 2007 10:19AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: TV on DVD, Numb3rs
Tonight at 7:30PM, David Krumholtz of
Numb3rs will be signing copies of the recently released season three set of the aforementioned show. Just head on over to the Borders on
Sunset & Vine in Hollywood, CA tonight and say hi to David for us. Then marvel at how he kids at not knowing who in the hell we are. Oh, David.
Oh, and get this: By showing up you may get a chance to win a walk-on role on
Numb3rs. That is pretty damn cool.
Not able to make the trip out to Hollywood? Fear not, as we'll be getting a few sets of signed copies to give away in the next couple of weeks! We've got some
awesome giveaways coming up the next couple of months and likely beyond, so keep checking back.
Posted Apr 25th 2007 12:22PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at
917-421-9477 (NY) - your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Lost, Numb3rs, and Smallville. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Feb 10th 2007 3:03PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, CBS, Industry, Celebrities
I mentioned the other day that
Harold Perrineau had joined the CBS pilot
Demons. They've now cast the main character, Gus, and the winner is Ron Eldard. If you were paying attention, you might have seen him in the short-lived
Men Behaving Badly or
Blind Justice. Otherwise, think of him as the paramedic with issues that was dating Carol early in the
ER run. It's not the best piece of casting I've ever seen. Eldard has never proven that he can be the dramatic lead for a show, but stranger things have happened.
Meanwhile, over at CBS, Hugh Jackman (
Wolverine!) is producing something called
Viva Laughlin. Lloyd Owen (
Miss Potter) will star as a family man trying to open a casino in Laughlin, NV. Word is that Jackman will appear in the pilot and may have a recurring role on the series. Given just that bit of knowledge, I'm intrigued by the possibilities.
Continue reading ABC and CBS reveal more pilot casting news
Posted Feb 6th 2007 2:21PM by Brett Love
Filed under: CBS, Programming, OpEd, Criminal Minds, Ratings, Super Bowl
The numbers are in and Super Bowl XLI was huge. Coming in at 93.1 million viewers, it was the third most watched program in history, and the second most watched Super Bowl. Having the lead-in to end all lead-ins also helped
Criminal Minds put up the best numbers ever for the series. The special episode following the game averaged 26.2 million viewers.
Is that a disappointment? Last year, the post Super Bowl episode of
Grey's Anatomy drew a considerably larger 38.1 million viewers. We can chalk part of that difference up to the fact that
Grey's was more of a hit show going in, but I think more of it has to do with the subject matter.
Criminal Minds is never a touchy-feely, happy bunnies on clouds kind of show, but the post Super Bowl episode was dark even by their standards. Come on, Dawson chaining up a woman and setting the dogs loose on her? That's asking a lot from the family friendly Super Bowl audience.
Continue reading Was the post Super Bowl Criminal Minds a mistake?
Posted Dec 4th 2006 8:01AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, PBS, Celebrities, Children
If you're a fan of comedian Todd Barry, you should check out
this clip from Sesame Street, which features the deadpan comedian playing the number 7 and being given the third degree by some detectives because apparently, "seven eight (ate) nine." Yeah, it's an old joke, but this is
Sesame Street, isn't it? The clip is over a year old, but since I don't watch
Sesame Street on a regular basis I didn't catch it until now. Barry has also appeared on
Comedy Central Presents,
Tom Goes to the Mayor and
Freak Show. His role on
TGTTM as Joy's ex-husband who paints pictures using cow diarrhea resulted in one of the funniest episodes of the season. If you want to see something a little more grown up than this Sesame Street clip, you should check out "
Borrowing Saffron" a short film directed by and starring Barry and comedian Jon Benjamin.
Posted Nov 30th 2006 2:07PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Lost
The designers who brought us the
Colbert Has Stones t-shirt after Stephen Colbert's
marvelous performance at the White House Correpondents Assoc. dinner, also have a couple of shirts for
Lost fanatics. They're simple.
One of them just has the numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42. With #23 circled. Or, you can show your allegiance with the evil overlord Hanso Foundation with
this t-shirt.
The company that designs the t-shirts is called Mule, and it's actually a web design company. They just happen to be really cool, too (Hey! They're also celebrating
Festivus!) They also made a
t-shirt and bumper sticker that says: George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People. It's quoting Kanye West, of course, from when he
hijacked the Katrina telethon on NBC.
Posted Nov 24th 2006 5:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, CBS has a new Ghost Whisperer, followed by new episodes of Close To Home and Numb3rs. - PBS has a new Nova at 8, then a new Washington Week.
- The CW has a new Friday Night Smackdown! at 8.
- HGTV has three specials tonight, starting at 8: Gift Show 2006, Toy Fair 2006, and Gift and Gear 2006.
- At 9, Discovery has a new Man vs. Wild, followed by a new I Shouldn't Be Alive.
- Spike has Goldfinger at 9.
- At 10, ABC has a new 20/20.
- Food Network has a new Paula's Party at 10.
- Also at 10: Lifetime has a new Monarch Cove.
- Biography is showing a Murder, She Wrote marathon all day and night.
Posted Aug 15th 2006 3:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, PBS, Children
Yeah, I know, it sounds like the idea for an SNL, Mad TV, or Conan O'Brien sketch, but it actually happened on yesterday's season premiere of Sesame Street. Here's the video.
Now, I'm all for edgy humor and irreverence, even on kids shows, but I think this is an odd choice. I mean, Law and Order: SVU is all about sex crimes, many of them involving children, and that's the show that Sesame Street decides to lampoon? Will kids even get it, or is this something more for parents (I assume the latter). It's called Special Letters Unit, but it's still a bit odd, though enjoyable. They even use the show's sound (they call it "chung chung"), and that's the original cast doing the voices for their puppets too.
Next on Zoom: a tribute to Deadwood.
Update: You might have trouble playing the video (not sure why, though I know YouTube is down right now). Here are some screen caps and more from the episode.
Posted Jul 26th 2006 9:27AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, ABC, Lost, Web
Have you been playing along with the
Lost Experience online game? If so, you're going to be one of the first to learn what the numbers (4-8-15-16-23-42) mean. The string of numbers, of course, appear everywhere and only Hurley seems to know exactly how bad they are. But, why are they bad? Hopefully that question will be answered by the time season three starts. At least, that's what producers are promising.
So far this summer,
Lost gamers have already learned what DHARMA stands for (Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications). Producers also promise more information about the Alvar Hanso Foundation.
Posted May 22nd 2006 5:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Industry, Lost, Games
ABC's
Lost is such a hit (one of those shows that's both a mainstream hit and a cult fetish) that it's doing everything it can to make it even more popular. There's the show you can watch on TV, there are the eps you can watch via iTunes, there's the interactive
online game and a tie-in
book, and now comes the news we all knew was coming,
a videogame. Ubisoft will make the game, and J.J. Abrams and other
Lost people will help with the storyline.
Can I make a suggestion? Make the numbers a part of the game. Players have to punch in the numbers every 108 minutes - no matter what else is going on elsewhere in the game - or the game ends! Ha!
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted May 12th 2006 10:44AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, Late Night, TV Royalty, Talent, Alias, Lost
He's had Quentin Tarantino do it, now late night host Jimmy Kimmel will have
Lost/
Alias/
MI:3 guy J.J. Abrams direct tonight's episode of his show.
Should be interesting. There's been a hatch on Kimmel's stage several times before, where funky celebs often pop up, so I'm sure that will be involved somehow. And maybe someone in the control room will have to punch in certain numbers or the show will go off the air.
Abrams himself will be on the show, along with
Lost cast member Dominic Monaghan and Ben Stiller. But will Tom Cruise or Jennifer Garner show up? Maybe Stiller will do his Cruise impression for the episode.
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