Nice Girls Talk

The most festive time of the year has a few special additions from the creative minds behind my favorite shows. This list avoids the episodes listed last year, mostly because what’s the fun in some holiday-themed episodes if there’s nothing new under the tree? “How Lily Stole Christmas” – How I Met Your Mother I’m all for having holiday episodes …

Last Christmas, I provided a gift guide full of 25 vampire-themed items to consider buying for your friends, family or even for yourself. And, for a little over a week now, NiceGirlsTV has been providing gift guides in a number of different categories. For my gift guide this year, though, I thought I would stick to a specific theme – …

Television is that wonderful invention that was created nearly 90 years ago when a Scottish engineer and inventor by the name of John Logie Baird unveiled the world’s first working television system in Hastings, England in 1923. The system was successful enough that it became commercialized with the BBC using this system and beginning the world’s first regular television broadcasts …

At this time of year everyone typically gives thanks for the important things in their lives. We here at NiceGirlsTV are no different, but we do have a slight slant to the things for which we are thankful. As you can imagine, those things tend to be TV related and the following list is just a small sample of the …

The current issue of TV Guide highlights the “2010 Hot List” – the shows, characters, themes and story ideas that were the hottest things to grace our TV screens this year. And, while there were countless categories to wade through as I flipped the pages of that issue, the thought occurred to me that I should come up with my …

What makes a web series a success? If the web series, now weekly TV series, Sanctuary is any example, its success lies in a devoted fan base, its creator Damian Kindler (the man behind Stargate SGI-1 and Stargate Atlantis), fantastical CGI-enhanced scenes and elaborate storylines and a cast that includes Amanda Tapping, Robin Dunne, Ryan Robbins and Christopher Heyerdahl. You …

For about eight years now, I have been a member of the Paley Center for Media (formerly known as the Museum of Television and Radio). Back in 1975, one of the most powerful men in the television industry, William S. Paley, founded an organization to collect, preserve and interpret television and radio programming and to make these programs available to …

What is up with fall TV this year? Or more to the point, what is up with the new programs this fall? Each of the major networks introduced their normal pre-requisite amount of new dramas over the course of the last month or so. But, have any of them performed well? Three of them have already been canceled after airing …

Every fall new TV shows debut on all of the major networks; some succeed, some fail and some fall in middle. This TV season very few new shows have succeeded so far – although the remake of Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods, both on CBS, have performed well enough that the network is touting them as the top two new …

In just a little over two weeks, Halloween will arrive with all its gore and horror; its tricks and treats. One specific treat for which I am anticipating is the Third Annual Halloween Screening of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and The Guild (Season Three) Charity Event conducted by Whedonopolis. What is Whedonopolis, you ask? They are a subsidiary of Fandom …