BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Return Tonight

Dear NBC/Universal,
See, this is why The Peacock is a fourth-place network and why you will be purchased by the Sheinhardt Wig Company someday. Two of the most acclaimed shows in what passes for your stable these days (since you own the Sci Fi Network, too), Friday Night Lights and Battlestar Galactica, return with new seasons [...]

Aloha, Pineapple! PSYCH Returns Tonight

The winter premiere season continues tonight with new episodes of Flashpoint, Lipstick Jungle, Monk, and our favorite goofy detective show, Psych.  Tonight finds the dynamic duo investigating the death of Shabby the Sea Lion. Which sounds like a name that won Young Shawn a contest back in the day–wait, scratch that; from what we’ve seen of [...]

Golden Globe Television Nominees Offer Few Surprises

The 66th annual Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Although the televised ceremony (AKA the drinky Oscars) is generally a rip-roaring good time due to the mingling of film and television stars and the copious amounts of alcohol consumed by attendees, the awards themselves are invariably somewhat dubious, [...]

Labor Day is Made for Marathons

Forget barbecuing. Why battle bugs, heat prostration and burned burgers when you can spend your Labor Day in air conditioned comfort, racked out on the couch in front of the TV?
That’s what the cable networks seem to expect you do anyway, since they’ve planned a whole slew of TV marathons to help you wile away [...]

Bacon Bits: OFFICE Spin-off, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and More

- NBC boss Ben Silverman says Office producers Greg Daniels and Mike Schur are creating a new show for Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler, but they’re also still pursuing the Office spin-off.
- The “final, final” season of Battlestar Galactica will start in January. Meanwhile, Ron Moore dishes on the Caprica back-door pilot.
- In other [...]

Welcome Back, Ovaltine: PSYCH Season Premiere Tonight

But were his dreams his ticket out? When Gus’ day job demands he stop engaging in psychic detectivery, will our dynamic duo finally be separated? We’d normally say no, but with Shawn distracted by the arrival of his mysterious mother (Cybill Shepherd. I know!), it’s a dangerous time for the boys of summer.  To get [...]

Squee! It’s…

Squee! It’s John Hawkes on a rerun of Without a Trace tonight! Hawkes is one of those delightful stories of a great character actor who you know you’ve seen before (in this case, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X Files, ER, The Practice, 24, Monk, Profit…) getting a couple of big breaks at the [...]

2007 SAG Television Nominees

Ugly Betty, The Sopranos and 30 Rock lead the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the television categories with three nominations each. The winners will be announced on Jan. 27 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles at a ceremony broadcast by TNT and TBS
Unlike the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, SAG has already [...]

MONK and PSYCH Cross Over to NBC

NBC Universal is continuing to repurpose its cable and network content in order to beef up its post-strike schedule. Episodes of the USA Network shows Monk and Psych will be rebroadcast on NBC starting in March of next year. Six new episodes the popular series will premiere on USA starting Jan. 11, and then will [...]