More summer programming kicks off tonight with premieres from HBO and TNT, plus a series finale on USA. True Blood – 9/8c HBO - SEASON PREMIERE “She’s Not There” - Sookie (Anna Paquin) journeys away from Bon Temps; Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and Bill (Stephen Moyer) try to win back the human public; Jason (Ryan Kwanten) learns that no good deed goes unpunished; ... Read More »

Some of my earlier columns this year have been about TV tie-in books or books that were made into TV shows. This time around I will be dedicating a number of columns to an interesting collection of books from Benbella Books known as “Smart Pop Books”. These books are (according to their official website) “a line of smart, fresh, funny ... Read More »

As I asked last week in the first of this three part series “From the Page to the Small Screen,” have you ever read a book and thought the story would be great if it were made into a TV show? The following are just a few more examples of books that have been made into TV shows. Let’s begin ... Read More »

Continuing with our fairy tales in modern television series, I couldn’t help but see a similarity between True Blood‘s Sookie Stackhouse and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. Sookie, of course, represents Goldilocks, but let’s take a look at the ‘three bears’. There are a couple variations of the story, with the three bears representing a family made up of Father, ... Read More »

The annual fete by the Paley Center for Media – the Paley Festival – will be held at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills from March 4 to 17. The two-week long celebration highlights chart-topping series as well as fan favorites each year, featuring the cast and creative teams for each show. The opening night of the festival will feature ... Read More »

On January 19, the Paley Center for Media will announce the full line-up for this year’s Paley Fest, the annual fete held by the illustrious center named after its founder William S. Paley, which celebrates television’s rich and diverse programming and the creative process behind the medium. The annual Paley Fest will be held from March 4 to 18 this ... 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 »

It’s been a busy week in TV land, but we’re here to help in case you missed some news or features. Take a look at what our TV blogger friends have been up to this week. Curt at Show Patrol has a report from the set of the new series The Chicago Code. Chicago native Nice Girl Bethanne should be ... Read More »

As I was trying to come up with this list of fictional veterans on TV, I was struck at how differently veterans are portrayed on television today even compared to a few years ago. Crotchety veterans have been a staple of sitcoms (think Red Foreman from That ’70s Show, Marty Crane on Frasier, Dr. Kelso on Scrubs) and even dramas ... Read More »

ABC is developing a remake of the 1998 movie Practical Magic, based on Alice Hoffman’s novel, for the small screen. Now I enjoyed the movie. Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest – what a cast! And it has an interesting premise – these women are from a line of witches, but their curse is that if they find ... Read More »