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Posted Dec 5th 2007 10:19PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Private Practice
(S01E09) "He's fighting for her." - Dell about SamWhat could be the last
Private Practice episode in a long while (this was the last episode completed before the writers' strike) finally gave Dell a good amount of screen time. However, it felt like it was too little too late.
Continue reading Private Practice: In Which Dell Finds His Fight
Posted Nov 22nd 2007 12:38AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Private Practice
(S01E08) "If they talk about us, we should talk about them." - Sam to Pete and CooperI'm not sure I like the port Cooper found in his storm and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone thinking this (let your voice be heard in our poll). It's clear they are trying to make Charlotte more meaningful but for me, it's too little too late. The character was almost as poorly introduced and as useful as Nikki and Paulo were on
Lost. Let's hope that the
Private Practice writers know where they are going with this because it could ruin the show's best character: Cooper.
Continue reading Private Practice: In Which Cooper Finds a Port In His Storm
Posted Oct 31st 2007 10:21PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Private Practice
(S01E06) "Don't wake the tiger." - Pete about CharlotteAnd down the rabbit hole Charlotte went. (For those who didn't get the title twist, it refers to
Alice in Wonderland in which Alice goes down a rabbit hole and ends up in a fantasy/dream world.) Per our
poll in last week's review, out of the 306 people who voted by the time I typed this line only 1 said they liked Charlotte the best. I'm not sure that this somewhat Charlotte-centric
Private Practice episode will have viewers relate more with the character.
Continue reading Private Practice: In Which Charlotte Goes Down The Rabbit Hole
Posted Oct 24th 2007 11:20PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Private Practice
(S01E05) "You guys are so not friends. You are like a corporation." - Violet to Sam In case you didn't know,
Private Practice was
picked up for a full 22-episode season. That means more Pete and Addison flirting, Cooper and Violet circling around one another, and, sadly, more of angry Naomi! Even if
reviews of the first episodes were not stellar, the show has been improving. Most importantly,
Private Practice has been strong in ratings, which led to its pick up.
Continue reading Private Practice: In Which Addison Finds A Showerhead
Posted Oct 18th 2007 8:42PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Private Practice
Kristin from E! Online reports that ABC has picked up
Grey's Anatomy spin-off
Private Practice for a full season. Even if fan comments (
including my own) about the first episodes were not all positive towards the writing and acting of the show, enough of viewers watched the series (that's 12 million viewers just last Wednesday) to grant the show a pick up.
Yep, that means we are stuck with angry Naomi for a complete season! It also means that Addison will not go back to Seattle Grace, something a good number of
Grey's Anatomy fans wanted to see happen.
Continue reading Private Practice gets a full season order
Posted Oct 10th 2007 11:44PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Private Practice
(
S01E03) "I don't fit here." - Addison
In my last
Private Practice review, I mentioned that I didn't like Naomi much, mostly because she is always angry and rarely smiles. A little over 40% of the TV Squad readers who participated in our
Naomi poll agreed that the character needed to lighten up while about 31% doesn't care for her at all. That's over 70% not liking her! I hoped that in time, I would start to at least tolerate her. But this week's episode didn't help me achieve that goal. She is just not an enjoyable character and I really don't relate to her. I'm starting to wonder if changing the actress to play Naomi was a mistake. This whole Naomi situation worries... especially when I add it to the other flaws the show has.
Continue reading Private Practice: In Which Addison Finds The Magic
Posted Oct 3rd 2007 11:17PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Private Practice
(
S01E02) Even if
Private Practice had fair ratings for its premiere,
the reviews for the first official installment of the
Grey's Anatomy spin-off were not stellar. Actually, at the time I write these lines, out of the 733 readers who voted in our "Will
Private Practice be part of your weekly watch list?"
poll only 146 (19.9%) said they would definitely watch the series while 398 (54.2%) said they would give it a few more weeks but weren't sure about the show yet. The remainder, that's 25.7%, said they would not watch more episodes. I fall in the second category.
So did this week's episode of
Practice delivered the goods to have some of the undecided stick with the show?
Continue reading Private Practice: In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor
Posted May 7th 2007 10:22AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Watercooler Talk
The
Grey's Anatomy boards and blogs, and even some of our articles here at TV Squad, have been experiencing a surge in negative comments and posts. Those comments are directed at solely one thing: the
potential spin-off featuring the character of Addison.
Why are fans so unhappy with the end result? Will fan comments have ABC not pick up
Private Practice?
Let's analyze a few of the negative comments left by the TV Squad visitors in our "
Grey's Anatomy vs. the spin-off -- Part 2" post.
Continue reading Why Grey's Anatomy's fans hate the spin-off
Posted Jan 22nd 2007 2:01PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Programming, Video, Web, Day Break
Before you go jumping for joy Day Break is not returning to the ABC schedule. So, please sit down on the couch before you hurt yourself!. The good news we are talking about is that previously aired episodes, as well as three new ones, will be streaming from ABC.com very soon.
I know you're scratching your head on this one, since you already thought that Day Break was already streaming on that site. Well, not quite. They were supposed to air on the website but never showed up. The excuse reason given was that there were online music right issues that needed to be resolved. Shortly after that news the entire Day Break site was taken down, which ticked off fans even more.
Now, according to ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson, Day Break episodes will begin streaming on the network's website starting on Monday, January 29th and continue each Monday afterward until all 13 episodes are released online. The series finale is scheduled to be available on February 19th. Whether or not old episodes of the show will be pulled to make way for new ones is unknown at this time.
Posted Jan 17th 2007 4:29PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Web, Day Break
People have been wondering for some time now just what ABC is going to do with all those extra Day Break episodes that they paid for. All traces of the show disappeared from their website recently, leading many to believe that DVD was the only option for getting to the rest of the story.
We might not have to wait that long though. As
Joel reported yesterday
, ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson announced that remaining episodes will be available online by the end of February. There weren't any details about how the release is going to go. I would prefer just dumping them all on the site for a marathon viewing, but at this point even one a week would be just fine. They are sticking to the 'music clearance' issue as the reason for the delay. And of course, this comes with all the foibles usually associated with TV on the internet. But hey, it's better than nothing.
[thanks Matt ] Posted Dec 16th 2006 10:02AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Cancellations, Ratings, Day Break
Sadly, that's the case over at ABC. Try as they might, and for reasons I don't quite get, people just don't want to watch this show. I've posted about the
slide in the ratings before, and it continued this week. After garnering their lowest 18-49 numbers yet, ABC has
pulled the show, with plans for the remaining episodes to be shown on ABC.com. Or, on DVD for those of you that are going to be screwed by that whole geography thing. To add insult to injury, the Wednesday schedule will be filled with repeats of
George Lopez and
According to Jim until the new schedule starts in January.
I think this has to signal a change at the networks. The big serial drama experiment is now officially a failure. With
Surface and
Invasion failing to get a second season, and now
Smith, Kidnapped, The Nine, Six Degrees, and
Day Break all failing to finish one, I think we can look for the networks to try something different next season. And hey, if Diggs really wants to be on a hit show, they're still casting for the next
Dancing with the Stars, right?... Too soon?
Posted Dec 13th 2006 11:31PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Day Break
(S01E06) Unlike
24, which is another fine, fast-paced, thrilling drama,
Day Break has a good sense of humor. I am still laughing about seeing Damien, Hopper, and Damien's driver in the Skinheads' van listening to
Journey Asia's "Heat of the Moment" (
Thanks to Chris for the correction!). As if that wasn't good enough, it was great when they threw the CD out the window at Hopper after kicking him out.
I love how the show is editing sequences now, so that instead of seeing every detail, we see what is relevant. On the other hand, if we miss something (my husband ran out to get our son from swim practice) they will show you enough of what has happened that you can pick it up again pretty easily.
Continue reading Day Break: What If They Find Him?
Posted Dec 6th 2006 3:24PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Industry, Programming, Watercooler Talk, Day Break
ABC unveiled their new Wednesday night schedule yesterday, as Anna
reported here. The big news is, of course,
Lost moving to 10PM to duck
American Idol and
Criminal Minds. Gideon wins the
Wednesday night slugfest by forfeit, I think. Crazy island adventure aside, aren't you wondering where
Day Break went?
When
Knights of Prosperity and
In Case Of Emergency kick off on January 3rd at 9PM there will still be five more episodes of Brett Hopper's bad day. Could it be that the
terrible ratings have finally caught up with the show and ABC is going to quit while they're behind? The other option is moving the show, but at this point I'm not sure the numbers will even allow them to do that.
They could stick a repeat
Grey's Anatomy in any of the slots and easily get twice the audience. Added to that, there are still episodes of
The Nine and
Six Degrees in the can that are just as, if not more, deserving of any open slot. Day Break may be destined for the internet, and a complete series DVD set.
[ via
Variety.com ]
Posted Nov 23rd 2006 7:31AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Day Break
(
S01E03) Well, the good news is that Hopper is healing. The bad news is that his life still sucks. Last week, I had to agree with commenter Mrs. Eldubya, who said basically that the show wasn't as good as she had expected, but it was still worth tuning in for. Well, this week? The show got
better.
This show hinges on the details-- and boy, do they get that right. Hopper is talking to his partner, Andrea, and she says, "How do you know I won't just take this into them?" (The Internal Affairs people who have offered her a deal if she brings in Hopper-- this being the hourglass that was in the package). The scene briefly shifts to her taking a bullet in a previous incarnation of the day in which she took a bullet for him so he could get away.
Continue reading Day Break: What If He Lets Her Go?
Posted Nov 9th 2006 10:05AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Programming
Ok, cancelled may be a little strong. Maybe changed to a limited run would be better. I ask because, if you watched
Lost last night, you must have caught the
Daybreak previews. There was an interesting bit at the end of the first one. "Every question will have an answer. And in 13 weeks, the mystery will be solved." Given the complaints about answers with
Lost, and the performance of
The Nine, I can understand why the network would want to assure viewers that they are not about to be jerked around and strung along again. But you could also take it that they are going to tell this story in 13 episodes and be done with it, moving on to whatever next season's hot formula is.
That's all just speculation, of course. If it turns out to be the case though, I like it. Some ideas are just not compatible with an open ended, we don't know how long it's going to go, format. There's something to be said for knowing how much story you have to tell, getting to it, and stopping when you're done.
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