Melissa

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ONCE UPON A TIME: “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” & Death Comes to Storybrooke

Once Upon a Time closed out the first part of it’s inaugural season with an outstanding episode that brought us closer to understanding why the Evil Queen has it in for Snow White, answered the burning question of Sheriff Graham’s Fairy Tale identity, and delivered a heartbreaking final scene. In Fairytale Land, we start out with Snow White mourning her father …

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NGTV Guide: Sunday, December 11

Once Upon a Time – 8/7c ABC “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” – One of the town’s residents begins to remember their fairytale past, and Storybrooke mourns the loss of one of their own. Meanwhile, in the fairytale world that was, the Evil Queen attempts to find a heartless assassin to murder Snow White. Boardwalk Empire – 9/8c HBO …

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NGTV Guide: Friday, December 9

Chuck – NBC 8/7c “Chuck vs. the Hack Off” – A mission to track down a computer super virus leads Chuck (Zachary Levi) to return to his roots as a hacker — and to call on his biggest competition, Gertrude Verbanksi (guest star Carrie-Anne Moss), for help. Elsewhere, a new Buy More employee (guest star Danny Pudi) complicates Jeff (Scott …

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PSYCH: “The Tao of Gus”

Psych - "The Tao of Gus"

Ever wonder why Gus just doesn’t get any love? He’s a nice guy. A little eccentric maybe, but a nice guy. This season he’s been making an effort, he wants to find his girl, but he couldn’t be much worse at selecting women. So far this season we’ve seen him trying to woo a killer’s daughter and a multiple-personality patient …

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SMASH: Katharine McPhee’s “Beautiful” FREE MP3!

NBC is giving us an early holiday present in the form of Katharine McPhee singing “Beautiful” from SMASH, the hotly anticipated new series launching February 6. To get your free MP3, go to the SMASH Facebook page, Like it, and download.

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NGTV Guide: Thursday, December 8

Community – NBC 8/7c “Regional Holiday Music” – When the Greendale Glee Club is unexpectedly sidelined, the school’s effervescent choir director Cory Radison (Taran Killam, “Saturday Night Live”) sets about recruiting the study group members to fill in. Skeptical at first, they eventually fall under his hypnotic spell – one-by-one – singing and dancing their way to the annual Christmas …

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NGTV Guide: Wednesday, December 7

Up All Night – NBC 8/7c “First Christmas” – Reagan will do anything to make Amy’s first Christmas perfect, even if it means getting help from an unlikely source, her mom (guest star Blythe Danner). In an effort to find Reagan the perfect gift, Chris faces a major obstacle…the mall. Meanwhile, Ava fears her relationship is in trouble when Kevin …

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Neve Campbell to Star in SWORN TO SILENCE for Lifetime

Lifetime Television is producing a movie that could turn into a TV series based on Linda Castillo’s [easyazon-link asin=”B002FDLOFU”]Sworn to Silence[/easyazon-link], the first novel in a mystery series that has me hooked. Neve Campbell will take the lead role as sheriff in the small Amish farming community where she grew up, and where she witnessed tragedy. In Sworn to Silence, the peaceful …

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ONCE UPON A TIME: Secrets from Mr. Gold’s Pawn Shop

Once Upon a Time - Secrets of Mr. Gold's Pawn Shop

In Once Upon a Time, the nefarious Rumpelstiltskin’s Storybrooke alter-ego is Mr. Gold, owner of quite a lot of the town, including a pawn shop. In the last few episodes, we’ve been taken inside Mr. Gold’s Pawn Shop for various reasons, giving us a glimpse of the treasures for sale within. As we saw at the end of “That Still …

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COVERT AFFAIRS: Winter Finale is a Sister Act

Tonight’s winter finale of Covert Affairs on USA is being heavily promoted as an Annie/Auggie episode, but it’s really more of an Annie/Danielle episode. Warning: minor spoilers ahead! The finale sees Annie headed to Stockholm for some R&R. She takes newly single sister Danielle along for some girl time, but things quickly become complicated. You know, the usual. Danielle has …

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