Nice Girls Talk

Growing up on the East Coast, I experienced “the good, the bad and the ugly” of the ever-changing weather patterns. In springtime, my little hometown of Apollo (Pennsylvania) was much like a caterpillar escaping from its cocoon, turning into a beautiful butterfly after a long spell of the winter doldrums (i.e., the “bad”). Then nearly as soon as spring arrived, …

It’s the beginning of Thanksgiving week, a time when it’s considered cool and hip to show your gratitude. In the spirit of the season, here is a list of things that I, a person who watches too much TV, am thankful for. My DVR: how did I call myself a TV watcher before I had a DVR? The freedom to …

This is the time of year when we remember all the things we are, and have been, thankful for throughout the year. I love this time of year, because I always have so much to be thankful for. I hope you won’t mind indulging me for a little while as I pull my Thankful List out of my head and …

My weekly blogs for the last couple of weeks have been about the events, activities or movies I have attended or seen over those weeks; and this week’s blog isn’t much different. Living in Los Angeles affords the residents many special opportunities to participate in a wide variety of events like conventions, free movie screenings and Paley Center panels (just …

Warning: possible spoilers ahead! There’s no shortage of twists, turns, major reveals on our shows, and this season the flashback emerged as a favorite way to show us those big secrets. It also gives the cast and creative team a chance to mix things up with new sets, costumes, and even actors. The Vampire Diaries: In “Lost Girls” Stefan agrees …

I had no idea what I was going to write about until I watched tonight’s episode of The Vampire Diaries, History Repeating. Here’s the CW synopsis: Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) gets a break from the mysterious new history teacher, Alaric Saltzman (guest star Matt Davis, ‘Legally Blonde’) and introduces Alaric to Jenna (Sara Canning). Bonnie (Katerina Graham) is having terrifying …

This past Saturday I had the chance to see the indie hit and potential Oscar contender movie An Education with some friends. This movie is a coming-of-age story set in 1960’s England centered around Jenny Miller (Carey Mulligan, Pride and Prejudice), a very bright 16-year-old girl attending secondary school, trying to get admittance to Oxford University. NOTE: Spoilers ahead. Jenny …

A recent Nielsen report on DVR viewing habits, discussed in this New York Times article, shows that 46 percent of the coveted 18-49 demographic still sits through ads when watching shows on DVR. Wait, what? Wasn’t DVR supposed to kill network television because viewers could skip the ads? That was the cry from the networks when DVR usage really took …

No, this isn’t a post about Friday Night Lights and now much I love it–no questions asked no matter the number of tears shed by the end of the episode. Instead, this post is about how for a little while, I can’t focus on TV for too long each day without frying my brain function. Sadly, one part of my …

This past week I had the chance to attend two unique and fun events very much in line with the ‘celebration’ of Halloween. On Wednesday, I attended the Paley Center for Media’s look Inside the Writers’ Room of the fan favorite HBO series True Blood. You can see my full write-up on the panel itself at both True-Blood.net and SciFiTVZone.com …