Posts with tag brothers and sisters
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 9:03AM 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
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This week we have:
Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Damages, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, Prison Break, Pushing Daisies, Reaper and Smallville. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Jun 11th 2008 4:23PM 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
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This week we have:
Big Love, Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Lipstick Jungle, Nip/Tuck, Pushing Daisies and Weeds. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Jun 10th 2008 8:40AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Psych, Casting, Reality-Free
Shawn Spencer's family is growing. First, there's his mother, Madeline, coming to Santa Barbara for a visit, in the personage of
Cybill Shepherd. And now comes news that another major television star is coming on board for a guest role.
Steven Weber will be appearing in an episode of Psych as Shawn's Uncle Jack. Jack is Henry's brother, although I don't see a big resemblance between Corbin Bernsen and Steven Weber. However, if the character is more like Shawn, that will give Weber a chance to play it wild and wacky. Maybe he'll be like his Brian Hackett incarnation on
Wings.
According the
TV Guide, this
Psych episode sounds sort of like a
Raiders of the Lost Ark/National Treasure adventure. Uncle Jack comes to town in search of a treasure. He has a map to a hidden Spanish cache of goodies and enlists Shawn and Gus in his search. Now you just know that James Roday will be pulling out a bullwhip and Fedora.
Weber, by the way, is expected back on
Brothers and Sisters next season as Sarah's part-time lover. When the show wrapped, their romance was still humming.
Posted May 21st 2008 4:24PM 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
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This week we have:
Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Heroes, Lost, NCIS, Prison Break, Samantha Who?, Stargate Atlantis, and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted May 13th 2008 9:07AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Cancellations, Pickups and Renewals, Upfronts, Reality-Free
ABC released its 2008-09 prime-time schedule this morning during a press conference call conducted by Steve McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment. I listened in and got the rundown:
Returning: Boston Legal, Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, Grey's Anatomy, Lost (Midseason)
, Private Practice, Pushing Daisies, Ugly Betty, According to Jim (Midseason)
, Samantha Who?, America's Funniest Home Videos, The Bachelor (Midseason)
, Dancing With The Stars, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Supernanny, Wife Swap, Saturday Night College Football, Primetime: What Would You Do? Out: October Road, Notes from the Underbelly, Men in Trees, Big Shots, Carpoolers, Cashmere Mafia, Cavemen, Miss/Guided, Women's Murder Club, Oprah's Big Give
New: Life on Mars, The Goode Family (Midseason)
, Scrubs (Midseason)
, Opportunity Knocks, Untitled Ashton Kutcher/Tyra Banks Project (Midseason)
Continue reading The Upfronts: ABC
Posted May 12th 2008 8:41AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, Brothers and Sisters, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E16) Rebecca: "I don't know what to do next."
Justin: "Me neither."
I cried twice during this episode. Maybe more. I cried when Nora told Kevin he deserved to have a beautiful wedding just as much as anybody else. And I also cried at two more points, but I'll talk about them below the jump. This was a beautiful episode of television. Even though I don't know that I have written about the music used in episodes, I thought the use of "Can't Find My Way Home" for the last two scenes was profoundly moving. Last year, I thought the season finale was a disaster because it ended with grand hijinks and everybody jumping into a pool. This year's season ended quietly on a beautiful sunny hillside, and it just about broke my heart. I am going to go out on a limb here and hope that this show wins an Emmy, because when they do it well, they really nail it.
Continue reading Brothers and Sisters: Prior Commitments (season finale)
Posted May 6th 2008 6:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free
Here are the weekly TV ratings, by number of viewers.
Last week I mentioned that Lost had dropped a lot in the ratings. This week they're not even in the top 20.
Looking over this list, it becomes apparent what it takes to get on it. If you're FOX, keep pumping out reality shows and reality competitions shows. If you're ABC, it's dancing and doctors. And if you're CBS, the answer is clear: create another police procedural show. It doesn't matter who's in it or where it's set, just make sure it's about a team of investigators who investigate something that needs investigation.
1. American Idol - Tues (FOX)
2. American Idol - Weds (FOX)
Continue reading Nielsen ratings for the week ending May 4
Posted May 6th 2008 10:19AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Web, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Last year, the train-wreck-fascinating TMZ.com grew into a 30-minute TV series, aiming its lens at troubled pop tarts and clueless drunks stumbling around Hollywood. And try as we might, some of us were unable to divert our eyes.
Now another website might be morphing onto the small screen. MomLogic.com, a site aimed at moms of all ages, is being eyed to
grace the airwaves as a talk show in the fall of 2009, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The Telepictures-created site was launched by Warner Bros. Television Group in November.
Continue reading MomLogic.com delivers a TV show
Posted May 6th 2008 9:02AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Samantha Who?, Reality-Free
ABC offered a set of fun
Valentine's Day e-cards earlier this year, and they're at it again with a more extensive set of
Mother's Day e-cards. More of my favorite ABC shows were let in on the fun this time, including
Pushing Daisies,
Dirty Sexy Money, and
Samantha Who?. Show Mom your love with a clever message from
Lost's Claire, Susan from
Desperate Housewives, or Hilda from
Ugly Betty.
The cards are one part of a "Guide to Motherhood" page on ABC's website. You can watch clips from ABC's hit shows based on four motherhood themes: New Moms, Nesting, Words of Wisdom, and Letting Go. It's an amusing way to look back at some of the unconventional approaches to parenting taken in the last season.
Continue reading Send an ABC e-card for Mother's Day
Posted May 5th 2008 10:42AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, Brothers and Sisters, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E15) "We should ask ourselves: 'What's the right thing to do?'" Holly Harper to Tommy Walker
So, what are we to think of Holly? Is she a pathological liar and a scheming manipulator? A greedy opportunist? Or is she genuinely trying to do the right thing as she sees it, affair with William Walker not withstanding? Honestly, I can't make up my mind, but I am leaning toward seeing her as a flawed person who is doing her best. Lord knows, she could have taken her inheritance from William Walker and kissed the entire clan goodbye. Perhaps some see her as unable to let go, unable to stop until she has revenge on the Walkers for having William in ways she couldn't. But that seems a rather extreme pathology. It's much more interesting to view her as a complicated human being, which has certainly been supported on the show.
Continue reading Brothers and Sisters: Moral Hazard
Posted May 4th 2008 4:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, then a new Cold Case and two episodes of Dexter. - ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos, followed by new episodes of Extreme Makeover, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers & Sisters.
- NBC has a new Dateline at 7, then episodes of Monk and Psych.
- At 8, FOX has a new Simpsons, followed by a new King of the Hill, the season finale of Family Guy, and a new American Dad.
- There's a new Everybody Hates Chris on The CW at 8, then new episodes of Aliens in America and The Game.
- PBS has a new Nature at 8, followed by a new Masterpiece.
- Also at 8: TCM has the 1965 special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music.
- At 9, Showtime has a new episode of The Tudors, then the season premiere of This American Life.
- At 12:15am, Cartoon Network has a new Squidbillies, then a new Assy McGee.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Apr 30th 2008 3:21PM 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:
24, Bones, Brothers & Sisters, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Lost, Nip/Tuck, One Tree Hill and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Apr 28th 2008 12:34PM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, Awards
Ugly Betty, Brothers & Sisters, and Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List all received GLAAD Media awards in a ceremony held over the weekend. The award honors fair media portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. This is the second GLAAD award for both ABC shows, which won for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Drama Series. Kathy Griffin's show is a first-time winner in the Outstanding Reality Series category.
The event was attended by many TV personalities, including T.R. Knight, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Kimmel, and Sally Field. Bravo will air the ceremony at an undetermined date and time. It will be the first time the GLAAD awards have aired on a national cable network.
Continue reading GLAAD Media awards recognize outstanding TV series
Posted Apr 28th 2008 8:21AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, Brothers and Sisters, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
[S02E136 "That was weird, wasn't it?" Justin Walker
I am starting to feel like Siskel and Ebert every week. Oh, that was a great episode! Oh, that episode sucked! It doesn't seem like there is any in between with me. Does that mean I'm too picky?
You know, it's funny because sometimes I don't even know how I feel about an episode, really, until I start writing about it, so my actual experience with watching it isn't necessarily negative, even if I write up a critical review. But tonight, I am pretty sure I know how I feel about it: That was a great episode.
Lots of things going on this week: Things are definitely heating up and charging down the runway toward May Sweeps and the end of the season, but they are things that have been set up for so long and so well that their very inevitability feels natural, unhurried, unforced, like a cart careening down a hill, picking up momentum, and heading into rush-hour traffic. And I'm not going to talk about it before the jump, so let's get going, shall we?
Continue reading Brothers and Sisters: Double Negative
Posted Apr 27th 2008 1:17PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Brothers and Sisters, Reality-Free
Dear Nora,
I know it must be hard looking after all those
brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, friends and lovers. And while I truly do appreciate how you welcomed your dead husband's lover and their child into the Walker fold, I really think it's time you grew up and started making some decisions for yourself.
Ok, so maybe moving to Washington, D.C. with Isaac wasn't the right decision, but it seemed like the one thing that kept you in California were those four words uttered forlornly by Kitty: "I need you, Mom."
Kitty's a grown woman with a career and a husband. She can take care of herself, as can the rest of the Walker clan. OK, so I'm a little undecided as to whether I'd want my entire family there to watch me puke and get the shakes, as was the case when Justin was de-toxing. Then again, drug addiction isn't pretty any way you look at it, so ... go Walkers.
Continue reading Brothers & Sisters: Does Nora need to get a life?
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