Melissa’s Musings

I booked my flights for Comic Con today. It’s becoming an annual ritual. Obsessively search for the best rates beginning in April. Hem and haw around debating whether or not to book that early. External factors make me wait. External factors get resolved. Search for best rates again. Gulp over increase since April. Wrangle my schedule to match the airlines’ …

No, Firefly isn’t returning to our screens and (so far) there isn’t a formal Firefly reunion happening at Comic Con this year, but advance leaks for the networks’ panels indicates that several alumni of one of my all-time favorite shows will be in San Diego in July. Nathan Fillion (Captain Malcolm Reynolds) will be there with ABC’s Castle; Morena Baccarin …

It’s been a quiet couple of weeks in TV land for this Nice Girl. With my regular season shows finishing up and the summer premieres holding off until this week, I’ve been able to catch up on some movies (don’t hate me, but I thought The Hangover was hilarious) and some reading plus watch some screeners for summer and fall …

When I was just a young TV watcher in the ’80s, Pound Puppies was one of my favorite cartoons. My brothers and I would watch the show on Saturday mornings, and “icky poo” is still a catchphrase we use. I even had a couple of the stuffed animals, rescued from “the pound”! Now, more years later than I care to …

This week the networks unveil their Fall 2010 schedules for advertisers, giving them and us eager television viewers a look at what we’ll be watching in a few months. There are always some surprises during this week, whether it’s a show unexpectedly getting axed, a bubble show getting picked up, or that totally buzzed about pilot getting passed over. So …

I have so many things running through my head right now that coming up with a single topic for today’s column has been impossible. After several false starts over the course of the past few hours, I’ve decided to just bullet point what’s on my mind. Robin Hood‘s Lara Pulver has been cast as Claudine on True Blood. One of …

It’s been a busy couple of weeks around Chez Melissa. In addition to writing about various shows here on NGTV, Liz and I also run ChuckTV.net, a fansite dedicated to NBC’s Chuck (watch it live tonight at 8/7c!). Chuck is on the bubble for renewal this year, so once again fans are taking it to the streets to show their …

I have some thoughts, about TV, and fortunately I have a column where I can post them. Last week served up some thought-provoking episodes of some of my favorite shows; not, like, really deep thoughts, but thoughts nonetheless. Castle – Was anyone else a little squicked that Castle slept with the actress who looked and acted enough like Nikki Heat …

This weekend I caught up on several hours of television that had accumulated while I was traveling over the past couple of weeks, including the last 2 weeks of Ugly Betty. It’s been bittersweet these past few weeks, watching a show that I loved, then wasn’t sure about, then loved again, then knew was going to end soon. When Betty …

We’re all girls here, right? So I can talk about Kotex commercials without making y’all uncomfortable? Here’s the thing: I watch a lot of TV. That’s no secret. As a result, I see a lot of ads. A. Lot. Couple that with the hundreds of online, print, and radio ads I’m exposed to on a daily basis and I’ve pretty …