Every year at this time Emmy nominations are announced (this year they will be announced on July 14) with the TV viewing audience as well as the makers and shakers in the industry waiting with bated breath to discover if the members of Academy of Television Arts and Sciences have made good selections on the nominees or if they went ... Read More »

Here is the second of a three-part series, covering the vast collection of books, dedicated to some of the most popular TV shows past and present, from Smart Pop Books. To review, Smart Pop Books have been published by Benbella Books since 2003, covering topics ranging from Star Wars to Gilmore Girls to the work of Joss Whedon. The writers ... Read More »

In the sci-fi series Fringe, John Noble plays the slightly befuddled, yet brilliant Dr. Walter Bishop. As this season has revealed, there is — not only a nearly identical alternate universe paralleling ours — there is also a battle looming on the horizon as to which universe will be allowed to survive as they appear to be colliding– and only ... Read More »

The New Year is a time for reflection on the year past and to hope for better things in the upcoming year. Here at NiceGirlsTV, we thought we would share a few hopes for some of our favorite shows for 2011. First, we are hoping that this is the year that such great shows as Being Erica and Lost Girl ... Read More »

Since the end of Fringe‘s second season, Anna Torv has been pulling double duty portraying two characters, both of whom are named Olivia Dunham. The rub is that the two women live in separate worlds; parallel universes. Although technically the same identity, there are subtle (and some not so subtle) ways in which they are set apart. Much credit is ... Read More »

Bones – FOX 8/7c “The Doctor in the Photo” – Brennan gets a glimpse into her own life when the body of a brilliant and career-driven surgeon is found in a rough neighborhood with multiple fractures in her skull and no indication as to how or why she was there. While the team investigates the case objectively, Brennan struggles to ... Read More »

Bones – FOX 8/7c “The Twisted Bones in the Melted Truck” – Booth and Brennan’s next case leads them to a crime scene where a human carcass has literally melted into the dashboard of a charred truck. As the team investigates the case, they discover a gunshot wound in the victim, but learn that neither the fire nor the bullet ... Read More »

Another excellent week of TV means another week of blog posts we don’t want you to miss. Whether it’s brainy broads or hygiene advice from a forensic anthropologist, we’ve got your Friday afternoon reading covered. CourtneyK at My Take On TV talks about brainy broads on TV, and why she loves them. She highlights Abby from NCIS and Penelope from ... Read More »

Bones – FOX 8/7c “The Babe in the Bar” – When human remains are discovered in the world’s largest chocolate bar, a “sweet” event for a candymaker (guest star Wayne Knight) quickly turns bitter. As eccentric chocolate factory owner Jimmy Walpert deals with the tragedy, the team soon discovers that the victim was a mysterious character whose past is full ... Read More »

Bones – FOX 8/7c “The Shallow in the Deep” – The past and present collide when human remains from a 150-year-old slave ship, the Amelia Rose, surface. The team is tasked to give the deceased a proper burial but make an unforeseen discovery linked to a recent murder. In the course of the investigation, Booth and Brennan are led to ... Read More »