Melissa’s Musings

When the networks started making noise about “52-week seasons” and “rerun-free scheduling” a couple of years ago, I thought that sounded great. No more 3-month hiatus during summer. No more endless stretch of reruns in December and January. Now that the networks are putting those plans into practice, is it such a great idea? Yes and no. The Good: The …

In this day and age where every aspect of a celebrity’s life is under constant surveillance and photos of celebs at the gas station are considered news, it’s shocking when something as big as a celeb wedding goes undetected. For 10 days. And they play siblings on TV. And yet, Dexter‘s Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter did just that, …

I read a MediaPost article yesterday about NBC head honcho Jeff Zucker’s comments at an advertising conference where he suggested that NBC might trim back the number hours they broadcast in order to compete. Citing examples like FOX which only airs 15 hours of original programming and the CW which only airs 10 (or are we back up to 12 …

As I lay in bed, griping about being sick while my 4-year-old nephew is here, I ran across this video of John Krasinski singing a duet of ‘Winter Wonderland’ with Aimee Mann. Now that’ll put me in a better mood! John Krasinski sings ‘Winter Wonderland’ with Aimee Mann And now back to surfing for Christmas videos while the nephew builds …

As I was watching The Mentalist last night, some of the guest stars really had me wracking my brains to figure out where I’d seen them before. It looks like we weren’t the only ones; our tracking software shows that several people have visited NGTV today looking for that same information. Because we’re nothing if not helpful (and nice!), here’s …

I was going to write about The Ex List and The Starter Wife, but after watching SNL last night – live for the first time in I don’t know how long – I feel compelled to instead celebrate the hilarity that is Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Gov. Sarah Palin. For the record, I’m still undecided about whose name I’ll …

As I was watching Privileged this week, actually forgoing Fringe “live” so I wouldn’t have to wait a week or whatever until the CW posted the full episode online, it occurred to me that this might actually be my favorite new show of the season. Seriously. It’s that good. But apparently very few people have realized this – the ratings …

As Louise predicted on last week’s NGTV radio show, recently available producer Diane Ruggiero (she left The Ex List a couple of weeks ago, citing irreconcible differences with CBS) has hooked up with Rob Thomas for his remake of Cupid. “She starts today for me,” Rob told Kristin at E! this morning. “I couldn’t be happier.” Ruggiero and Thomas were …

So the premiere of the much-hyped Fringe wasn’t as jaw-dropping as some other premiere episodes I’ve seen (including Abrams’ own Lost), but it was solid, it was entertaining, and it set us up for what should be an interesting ride. Roberto Orci has been comparing the show to The X-Files and I absolutely see the connection. Except this time Mulder …

I know, I know, we haven’t even started the regular season yet so why get excited for midseason? I’ll tell you why – Nathan Fillion’s new series, Castle, has been picked up, and so has Rob Thomas’s remake of his show Cupid! Nathan, of course, was Captain Tightpants Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly and, most recently, Captain Hammer in DOCTOR HORRIBLE’S …