Archive for the 'TV Drama' Category

“House:” The Thinking Woman’s Medical Show

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I love the TV show “House.”  It has all the elements of an excellent medical show with the added bonus of the fabulous Hugh Laurie in the title role of the unpleasant, yet brilliant, impossible, yet tortured Dr. Gregory House.
Every week there’s a medical mystery to be solved:  an artist who doesn’t see what he [...]

Tonight’s “The Closer” Directed By Kevin Bacon

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Tonight’s episode of “The Closer” is a family affair.  Star Kyra Sedgwick’s real life husband, Kevin Bacon directed the episode “Sudden Death” which find’s Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson and her squad hunting for the killer of Det. Julio Sanchez’s brother.
Emmy nominee Sedgwick gets to shine as does Raymond Cruz who plays Det. Sanchez in [...]

Emmys’ Top Ten Finalists

Monday, June 30th, 2008

The 60th Annual Emmy Awards will be held on September 21st at 8pm on ABC, but before then, we have to have some nominees.
Those won’t be announced until July 17th, but the Academy did announce the top ten drama and comedy finalists.
The top ten comedies are:  “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Entourage,” “Family Guy,” “The Office,” “Pushing [...]

Catch The “Sarah Connor Chronicles” Marathon In August On Fox

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Fox is going to rerun the entire first season of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chornicles” in August over four consecutive nights.
Starring Lena Headey as Sarah Connor, the show did well during its freshman season and though I wasn’t able to keep up with every episode, the ones I saw, I liked.  I’ll be able to [...]

Jimmy Smits Joins The Cast Of “Dexter”

Monday, June 9th, 2008

When the third season of the serial killer drama “Dexter” kicks off on Showtime, veteran TV actor Jimmy Smits will join the cast.  Smits is newly available since his CBS drama “Cane” was cancelled.
“Dexter” stars Michael C. Hall as a blood spatter expert for the Miami police department who also happens to be a serial [...]

Turner Classic Movies: Asians In Hollywood

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

This week Turner Classic Movies began a film festival which will air Tuesdays and Thursdays through June: Asian Images On Film. This film festival will include films from the earliest days of filmmaking like “Shanghai Express” to more contemporary films like “The Killing Fields” and “The Joy Luck Club.”
As Joanne Ostrow of the [...]

Anne Boleyn Gets The Chop On “The Tudors”

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

If you didn’t cut history class when they covered Henry VIII in high school, you knew what was coming last night during the finale of “The Tudors.” Poor Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, the woman he changed the history of England for, was executed on his order.
Yes she played a dangerous political game, yes [...]

Michael Emerson Of “Lost” On Hulu

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Just in time for the “Lost” two hour season finale tonight, here’s an interview with Benjamin Linus himself, Michael Emerson on Hulu.
Don’t expect Emerson to give away any plot points, because I’m sure he knows Benjamin Linus would come to a swift and ugly death in next year’s season premiere if he did. What [...]

The Daytime Emmys Love “Y&R”

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The Daytime Emmy Award nominations were announced last week and CBS cleaned up with the most (56) nominations.
As far as soaps “The Young and The Restless” had the most nominations with 17 and though “Y&R” is the only soap I watch on a steady basis, 17 seems a bit much. For example, in the [...]

“Lost” Fans Need To Just Chill

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Simon Reynolds wrote an article the other day at Digital Spy about how Damon Lindelof, one of the showrunners of “Lost” thinks fans of the show can be a bit over the top. The article said, among other things:

Lost showrunner Damon Lindelof has admitted that fans of the show don’t give it the credit [...]