Nice Girls Posts

As the first week of November winds down…HOLY CRAP! The first week of November is almost over! Here, read these blogs while I try not to have a panic attack that the holidays are just around the corner. Amrie at My Take on TV gave Hellcats a second viewing this week and thinks it has “a fun charm”. The TV …

Supernatural – the CW 9/8c “Family Matters” – Dean (Jensen Ackles) becomes suspicious of Samuel’s (guest star Mitch Pileggi) motives, but Sam isn’t sold on the idea that their grandfather is doing anything wrong. The brothers go along on a hunt with Samuel and the other Campbells, but things go terribly awry. Sanctuary – Syfy 10/9c “Trial of Blood” – …

After ordering two additional scripts just a couple of weeks ago, NBC has pulled the plug on Undercovers. Three more episodes will air over the next few weeks, but the other three episodes already filmed may or may not see the light of day on NBC. The spy-drama-romance-action series started off with a so-so pilot, a surprise coming from executive …

Bones – FOX 8/7c “The Bones That Weren’t” – After the skull of a promising young dancer is found lodged in concrete at a construction site, the team must first figure out what happened to the victim’s skeletal structure. After learning the victim quit ballet to pursue hip hop, Booth and Brennan uncover another layer of evidence that points them …

Undercovers – NBC 8/7c “Assassin” – Steven (Boris Kodjoe), Samantha (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Leo (Carter MacIntyre) get orders from Shaw (Gerald McRaney) to take on a mission in Lima, Peru where an assassination plot has been orchestrated against president-elect Alberto Loya (guest star Alex Fernandez, “Commander in Chief”). When Samantha gets too emotionally invested, she puts the whole mission at …

Election Coverage – ABC/CBS/NBC 8/7c Life Unexpected – the CW 9/8c “Camp Grounded” – Cate (Shiri Appleby), Baze (Kristoffer Polaha), Ryan (Kerr Smith) and Math (Austin Basis) volunteer to be chaperones on Lux’s (Britt Robertson) school camping trip.

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 …

“When will I ever use geometry after I graduate?” It’s a familiar refrain, coming from students who would rather play video games than find the hypotenuse of a triangle. Beyond knowing how to balance a checkbook and calculate a tip, when do we need math in every day life? Who cares about velocity and radius? No Ordinary Family, the new …

Chuck – NBC 8/7c “Chuck vs. the First Fight” – After their first real fight, Chuck (Zachary Levi) avoids confronting Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) by going on a rogue mission that leads him to his mom’s MI-6 handler, Gregory Tuttle (guest star Timothy Dalton), and a mysterious Russian agent (guest star Ana Gasteyer). Meanwhile, Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) is on her own …

Just a few months after the cancellation of The New Adventures of Old Christine, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is lining up her next project, Veep on HBO. From British comedian, writer and director Armando Iannucci, Veep is the story of a female Vice President of the United States who discovers that the job isn’t quite what she expected. The project has an …