valentines day-related stories
Posted Feb 14th 2009 4:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown.- FOX has a new Cops at 8.
- HGTV has a new Divine Design at 8, followed by new episodes of Design on a Dime and Color Splash.
- At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
- Hallmark has the movie Before You Say I Do at 9.
- Also at 9: CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show.
- At 10, Food Network has a Valentine's Unwrapped.
- At 11, FOX has a new Talk Show with Spike Feresten, with Seth MacFarlane and Andy Richter.
- At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live, with Alec Baldwin and The Jonas Brothers.
- At 1am, Cartoon Network has a new Bleach, then a new Code Geass.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
Posted Feb 13th 2009 5:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Commercials, Reality-Free
One thing I can't stand is an illogical commercial. I'm not sure why I seem to notice inconsistency or silliness in commercials as I get older, but it bothers me a lot more than it did when I was a kid. For example, the new Valentine's Day commercial from
Hallmark. It shows a couple in a car going somewhere, and the woman gives her hubby one of those talking greeting cards. The card plays "I Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon, and the tune makes the couple think of the first time they met at a concert in the 80s.
But their meeting doesn't make any sense, as you'll see in the video after the jump (sorry for the the little piece of another commercial which airs at the start of the video).
Continue reading Brought To You By ... - VIDEOS
Posted Feb 10th 2009 10:03AM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: TV on DVD, The Office, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Valentine's Day is on a Saturday this year, so why not eschew the whole dinner and a night out routine for a day in from the cold watching TV boxed sets on DVD? What better gift is there than an entire day of laziness catching up on those boxed sets you got for Christmas and have had no time to watch? But choose carefully. No one can take a whole day of
Rock of Love or
Matlock.
Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series - A tolerable "chick flick" type series, you can probably get away with watching just the first two seasons, before Linda Hamilton left and her character was killed off. And once your significant other gets used to the idea of Ron Perlman in Beast make-up, maybe you can convince her to watch
Hellboy with you.
Continue reading Five boxed sets for Valentine's Day
Posted Jul 31st 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free, Mad Men
Part of the fascination with
Mad Men is the way it plunges the viewer into another time, another place. In the
second season premiere last week, the story of Don Draper picked up about a year and a half after the end of the first season. It was February 14, 1962, and while everyone was celebrating Valentine's Day, on the TV was a documentary special in which First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the newly redecorated White House.
Interest in those few clips shown on Mad Men has resulted in a response.
AMC is showing the entire Jackie documentary on their web site.
By the way, you might be interested to know that
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner didn't just arbitrarily choose to show this as a backdrop to the episode, even though it was the main thing on TV that night on February 14, 1962.
It was being shown on both NBC and CBS (like the first Super Bowl was broadcast on both networks!) and ABC got to rebroadcast it four nights later.
Continue reading Inspired by Mad Men, AMC showing Jackie Kennedy White House tour
Posted Feb 15th 2007 12:51PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Medium
(S03E12) Well, that came as quite a surprise, and I'm not talking about the double twists to the plot, which we'll get to in a moment. Rather, I'm referring to the fact that this was what I would call a Joe episode. The previews for the episode made it pretty clear that Allison would wake up thinking she was somebody else, but I had no idea that we would be following the whole story through how Joe was dealing with it.
It was a nice way to do it, and Jake Weber did a great job in the expanded role. From his character's perspective, it had to be terrifying. He's obviously bought in for the long haul where the dreams, visions, and other psychic bits and pieces of Allison are concerned. But a complete break, turning into another person. He had to be thinking on some level, "What if she doesn't come back?"
Continue reading Medium: The One Behind The Wheel
Posted Feb 15th 2007 10:42AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Friday Night Lights
(S01E16) After where we left off last week, it was pretty clear what direction we would be heading this week. Where we would end up, that was the mystery. The resolution to the "Blinders" cliff-hanger wasn't all that was on the agenda though. And as good as it was, it wasn't even my favorite part of the episode.
This week, that title goes to the Taylor family drama. While part of that plays off of the controversy surrounding the team, there were also a couple great scenes as a result of Eric and Tami's struggles with Julie. Her fall from grace has come about a little quickly, but I'm willing to chalk that up to the compressed time of the television season.
Continue reading Friday Night Lights: Black Eyes and Broken Hearts
Posted Feb 14th 2007 1:21PM by Tom Biro
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, House
(S03E14) Cuddy's got a boyfriend, Cuddy's got a boyfriend. Oh, wait, spoke too soon. Love was in the air this week during
House, but perhaps not in as positive a manner as one might expect. Well, then again, this is
House.
With Valentine's Day coming this week, we should have seen it coming that the creators of this show would take this opportunity to not only set up Cuddy on a blind date, but create a little drama between two one-time players and a climax of drama with two others. You asked for character development, and you got it. While this episode spent quite a bit of time focused on a young woman's medical condition, one that had House intrigued not because he likes solving cases, but because it could have some potential for "fixing" his little pain problem.
Continue reading House: Insensitive
Posted Feb 13th 2007 6:43PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Gilmore Girls, Lost, Nip/Tuck, Grey's Anatomy, The CW, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Heroes
It's that time of year again, where everything around you suddenly takes a heart shape. The stores around you are filled with waves of reds and pinks.
But darn it! Not everything is roses and overpriced candies. (Especially for the fellas who rush to the stores because you're told to.)
We've all been single and we've all been there with breakups... the question is
how well do you know your TV Breakups?
Perhaps you're in a tumultuous love triangle and not sure whose valentine is yours?
Well some of our favorite characters don't get that right either. Remember that even if you're with or without a valentine this year, that you can always find your remote control in your arms. (Because you can't snuggle and watch your TV at the same time. Duh.)
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