Picking Up the Pieces: What’s Left of the TV Season?

Assuming the outcome of today’s WGA vote is positive, we’re only hours away from an end to the strike. So, in the immortal words of President Josiah Bartlet, “What’s next?”
A number of showrunners have already gone back work, making plans for the remainder of the season and scrambling to figure out how many episodes they [...]

The 10 Best Musical Moments in Television of 2007

I am apparently extra-susceptible to being emotionally bludgeoned by well-placed music in my TV. Seeing me get a little teary-eyed over a musical montage, Susannah’s munchkin recently asked her mother in disbelief, “You’re not crying over this, are you?” as if to confirm only a crazy person would get misty over music. Maybe she’s right, [...]

JOURNEYMAN Times Out

NBC has let the option lapse on time-travel drama Journeyman, a move that essentially signals cancellation of the low-rated show. The network had until Tuesday to give a full-season pickup to the series, which performed particularly poorly this Monday without its usual Heroes lead-in.
Last week NBC gave fellow rookie Life a test run in Journeyman’s [...]

Full Season Orders for CHUCK and LIFE

NBC has finally started handing out back-nine orders, granting both Chuck and Life a full season. Lately, Chuck has been the highest rated of all of NBC’s new shows. Life, on the other hand, has been pulling in lukewarm numbers, but the critically acclaimed show is tops in its timeslot with the all-important 18-34 demographic.
“Both [...]

Squee! It’s …

Squee! It’s Garret Dillahunt on Life tonight. Although he had several small roles before his big TV breakthrough, I took notice of him when he played Deadwood’s ruthless, troubled, wrong Francis Wolcott, chief geologist and twisted John the Baptist figure to the corrupt George Hearst. You may also remember him as manipulative Matthew Ross on [...]