So Much to Do, So Little Time

Wow! What a weekend I had and what a busy few weeks I will have upcoming.

I attended the annual Paley Festival this past Saturday, getting to participate in their salute to the ABC series Lost. I will have more coverage on that event in a separate article to be posted here at NiceGirlsTV very soon; but I can say it was great fun to see Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, Nester Carbonell and Zuleikha Robinson in attendance along with Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse as well as producers/writers Elizabeth Sarnoff, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis and director Jack Bender.

As for this week, it started off with attending the Paley Festival’s salute to the number one rated dramatic series on TV: NCIS – which was featured last night at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. I will also have coverage of last night’s panel very soon here at NiceGirlsTV. In addition, a new episode of Chuck aired last night for which I hope to catch up on very soon so I don’t get too spoiled by all the talk over at our sister site ChuckTV.net.

Tonight’s main event on TV- besides new episodes of Lost, NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles as well as another new episode of White Collar – will be the premiere of the new family drama Parenthood on NBC at 10 PM. This series boasts an impressive cast including Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Lauren Graham, Peter Krause, Monica Potter, Dax Shepard, Sam Jaeger and Erika Christensen and comes from Ron Howard and Brian Grazer with Jason Katims (the man behind Roswell and Friday Night Lights just to name a few) as Executive Producer. I have high hopes for this new series and hope the viewing audience will tune in for the show.

Then, this coming weekend I will be attending the Paley Festival’s salute to the new CW series The Vampire Diaries, which is to include Executive Producers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec and lead actors Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder as well as hopefully some of the other cast members and crew. Given the ever-growing popularity of this series, the crowd outside the Saban Theatre will be big and very anticipatory of a great panel.

As I look toward next week, there are the finale episodes of Psych, White Collar and Burn Notice over on the USA Network to look forward to as well as the move of the new CW series Life Unexpected to its new timeslot of 8 PM on Mondays. Oh, and there is also a little thing called the Oscars that will take place on Sunday, March 7.

As March progresses, I will be attending more of the Paley Festival, as it salutes both the ABC series FlashForward and ends with the panel honoring the critic- and audience-favorite FOX series Glee. There will, of course, be countless shows to watch during those weeks as well, given the fact the Olympics are now over and the television season ramps back up with all new episodes of their shows.

I will end the month of March with a fan convention, coordinated by Creation Entertainment, in honor of the series Supernatural. The convention is to include appearances by stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as well as cast members Misha Collins and Jim Beaver and guest stars AJ Buckley and Travis Wester (who are part of the Ghost Facers) and Rob Benedict (who plays the “prophet” and Supernatural novelist Chuck), Kurt Fuller (who plays Angel Zachariah) and Richard Speight, Jr. (who plays the Trickster).

When all is said and done between my daily 9 to 5 job, all my TV viewing – which can be anywhere between 20 to 30 hour-long shows a week – and all the events to attend, I’m going to be one busy NiceGirl. In fact, I won’t have a free weekend until April 3; but don’t get me started on all the activities in April because that month is nearly becoming as busy as March.

But, it’s all good, as variety is the spice of life, right? As long as you can get enough sleep in between all that variety, of course.

If any of our readers are going to be at any of these events, I hope you have a wonderful time and if you can find me in the crowd, please stop by to say hello.