Posted by Dustin on 01.06.2009 at 10:19 pm

So 90210 returned tonight. I’ve been watching it all along, and I do think it’s been getting better. Tonight’s episode was pretty good. The main story centered around Harry’s supposed son with Tracy, who of course was too good to be true. Long story short, he was scamming the family and working with the PI to get money. He ended up getting it from Tracy and running with it. Harry’s family was spared, but Tracy was taken for a ride. of course Naomi blamed this all on Annie.

I really was starting to love Naomi, now they’ve just turned her into the show’s mega-bitch who you can’t even love to hate. Something tells me Naomi is soon going to be down and out with her mom though and experience a whole other side of life. I’d say she could always go live with daddy, but that would cramp his lady lovin lifestyle and probably won’t happen.

Christina introduced Dixon the black side of Beverly Hills. He was afraid to tell Silver partly because he didn’t know how to explain this was a part of his culture and heritage he wanted to get to know, part because he wasn’t sure what Christina was after. He soon found out nothing, she has a girlfriend! I thought that was a pretty good twist myself.

Meanwhile Brenda got some life changing news at the beginning of the show from a doctor. They made it sound like she had cancer as she wanted to start treatments, but was told nothing could be done. Adriana at the same time invited Brenda to her AA meeting in place of her mom. Kelly was afraid Brenda wouldn’t show and went with Adriana. Brenda did show though. Later Adriana found out that Hank, the dealer and part time “fun” buddy was HIV+. She had to get a test. She was negative, but pregnant! She freaked, as she apparently had a whole lot of fun with a whole lot of people while using. She didn’t know what to do, or how Naveed would respond.

Brenda meanwhile took the news just as hard. It turns out she had some fibroids removed recently and now can’t have kids. She and Kelly seemed to make up, with Brenda talking about adopting.

I was SO happy to see Brenda back. I was equally glad they weren’t killing her off! That would probably make me turn off the show. I stopped watching the original 90210 shortly after her character left. However I give her and Kelly two weeks before they are fighting again, probably over Ryan.

I also can’t help to think Harry’s “son” isn’t really gone. When he confronted Annie before skipping out of the house to get the money from Tracey, before skipping town, he was creepy. I could see him coming back simply to put Annie’s life in danger somehow.

Posted by Dustin on 01.06.2009 at 6:30 pm

A quick spoiler blurb for “Ghost Whisperer” follows, which includes the introduction of Terri Polo playing Sam/Jim’s girlfriend he was going to propose to . . . .

MELINDA AND SAM GO ON A ROAD TRIP INTO HIS PAST AND END UP IN ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE, FROM BAR FIGHTS TO DISRUPTIVE GHOSTS, ON “GHOST WHISPERER,” FRIDAY, JAN. 16

Terri Polo (”Meet the Parent’s”) and Dan Castellenata (”The Simpsons”) Guest Star

“This Joint’s Haunted” - Melinda and Sam go on a road trip into his past and end up in trouble, from bar fights to disruptive ghosts, and Melinda comes face to face with the biggest threat yet to her romantic hopes, on GHOST WHISPERER, Friday, Jan. 16 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Posted by Dustin on 01.05.2009 at 10:18 pm

So last night’s “Brothers and Sisters” started with Justin going to his nephew’s first grade class to speak, as he was his hero. Unfortunately it wasn’t because of Justin’s war record, but because he still got to live at home with his mom and play videogames all day. Oops! Justin felt humiliated. I felt so bad for him. The teacher though, she seemed to be giving him the eye. I have been feeling problems coming for him and Rebecca for awhile, so could we see the teacher again at some point perhaps? Even Sarah tried to make Justin feel better by saying the teacher really liked him, which of course she seemed to be making up just to make him feel better.

Kevin meanwhile was recuperating at Nora’s, where Nora was smothering him and taking charge while Scotty did everything wrong, according to Nora. Kevin couldn’t deal with it or the bizarre dreams he was having under the pain meds. He even had a sex dream about Tommy’s wife! Yes, those previews back in December were just a hallucination and not the real deal. No shocker there as ABC is sneaky like that.

Kevin asked Justin to help break him out, which he did. They fled to some shore house, where Tommy and Sarah showed up for an intervention for Justin. They all realized that Justin was stuck in the void of Nora, and he had to move out of the house and move on with his life. Later on though, he admitted to Sarah that he was afraid to move out as he could start using again. I really hope they DON’T go down that road with Justin again, but I just fear if he and Rebecca have issues at some point that it could happen.

Tommy meanwhile, upon learning Keven was having dreams about Elizabeth being his daughter, freaked and stormed out on him. What a jerk, he didn’t even bother to stick around and hear him out! Kevin has been on pain killers and hallucinating, he wasn’t able to explain it to Tommy. No Tommy just flipped and stormed off. Later he returned with a legal document for Kevin to sign saying he would never disclose to Elizabeth the truth of her paternity. Did anyone find it weird he was presenting a legal document to a lawyer and just expecting him to sign it? Kevin did, because he wanted to do what was right for Elizabeth. I don’t know though, this thing is seriously eating Tommy alive. I think in the end Tommy will screw things up all on his own regarding Elizabeth without the help from anyone else. With talk of the actor being let go, who knows where they may go with this story.

Nora was looking for an architect to help rebuild her center house, and some blast from the past who helped design Ojai showed up. Nora seemed to not like the guy at all, thinking he was full of himself. It took Saul to tell her that he likes her and has been trying to impress her for years! Looks like Nora has a new love interest, but so far I’m not feeling this guy that much to be honest. Nora meanwhile found out from Justin that Saul has a boyfriend. Justin used it to distract her while helping Kevin escape. We should be meeting him soon. Can’t wait! I just hope Nora doesn’t insist on making a family dinner.

Finally Kitty filled in for Kevin at Robert’s work, which reignited “Hot Brain Sex” for the two, i.e. getting hot and bothered over discussing politics and then doing it in the office. However Kitty had to quit, as she had tons of press functions lined up for her book promotion, including “The View.”

Posted by Dustin on 01.05.2009 at 7:23 pm

TV Guide has a handy list of all your favorite TV shows and when they return Right Here!

Thanks to Typer for this!

Posted by Dustin on 01.05.2009 at 2:33 pm

Last night’s “Housewives” was so good, possibly the best all season. First up, with Carlos seeing again, he decided he wanted to get a job doing good, volunteering helping the blind. He quit his job at the health club, as now that he can see he doesn’t like touching the wrinkled and moley old people’s bodies! Of course this wouldn’t do for Gabby, who set him up with a nice cushy paying job . . . . which Carlos hated and didn’t want to take. IT was like his old job, which was long work hours and stressful. However what Gabby wants, Gabby gets! She made him realize over the past five years she did a lot she didn’t want to do in order to support him and this family, now it was his turn. In a way I felt Gabby had a point, but at the same time you just know she wants that money back. You could tell by how she pulled a “Carrie Bradshaw” and went to hang up a pair of nice shoes in the closet on the barren rack. The wheels in her brain were saying “Soon you will be full of shoes again!” I have to say I’ll be selfish along with Gabby, I want the old Gabby back.

Susan and Lee striked up an odd friendship in this episode. Susan’s always wanted him to like her, he was always annoyed by her. However Susan was in the dumps as Jackson was off at a school reunion (Gale Harold still injured obviously). Jackson got a job offer to teach from an old art school professor, which would mean Susan moving to be with him. She thought she should, but Lee gave her advise to make her see perhaps she shouldn’t settle for Jackson if she wasn’t yet sure if he was the one. Lee meanwhile was upset that Bob was always acting like the big provider and Lee was his kept woman (I thought Lee had a job?). They decided to hit the clubs together for fun, and by clubs I mean the gay clubs. Lee invited her to tag along with him, which Susan accepted cause “the gays” love her as she put it. The clubs scenes with them were hysterical, especially when Lee tried to throw a scary guy off his trail by grabbing Susan’s boobs! Of course they got drunk and woke up in bed together, with Susan thinking they did the nasty. This was probably THE best part of the episode, when Susan was explaining to Gabby what happened (not saying with who) and Bob came over worried about Lee not coming home and she figured it out. Gabby’s laughter had me in stitches when she started cracking up as a worried Bob said “When Lee gets drunk, he’ll bang anything with a pulse and facial hair.” Of course in the end it turned out she and Lee didn’t do the nasty. What I loved was that Lee and her actually became friends in this episode, and I hope that continues. I would love to see Lee actually join the circle of housewives and not be (one of) the token gay(s) on the show.

Tom found out Lynette mortgaged the restaurant for Porter, and Bob found out Porter skipped bail. He was obligated to tell the courts, but gave Tom and Lynette two days to find him and he wouldn’t say anything. Preston had been talking to him over the phone, but wouldn’t help Lynette find him. He rightly pointed out she was more concerned about her Pizza Parlor that her own son, who was afraid Warren Schilling was going to kill him. Go Preston! Lynette’s parenting skills have been irking me all season. I know she’s never been the best mom, heck none of them are and that’s what makes the show fun always somewhat comical. She has always been the sneaky parent. However lately I just haven’t been feeling her actions. She in turn told Preston she’d never let Warren kill Porter, she’d run him over first! She took him to where she’d do it, outside his favorite bar, to make her point. Preston let his mom talk to Porter, who didn’t seem to believe she could keep him safe or out of jail. Someone was talking in his ear saying not to listen to her mother . . . Grandma! Yup Porter ran away to stay with his Grandma. Hmmm, shouldn’t Lynette have figured that one out? That’s where all kids run away too! Honestly, I was worried he would be with Anne Schilling somehow. From the previews next week, it looks like Lynette might keep her promise/bluff to Preston and run over Warren! Somehow I think it won’t happen and is a case of deceptive previews.

Bree met her soon to be In-Law, Andrew’s doctor boyfriend’s (I can’t remember his name!) mother Merlene (I think that was her name? Merlinda?). She was a controlling mother just like Bree, but came off as a trashy version of Bree, red hair and all. She was determined to win over Andrew and convince her son to move back to Oakland, where she lived, 5 hours away! They wanted to buy a house, she convinced them they were too expensive here and they could get a much bigger one there. Then she arranged for her son to take over a retiring doctor’s practice. Bree could see that the look on Andrew’s face was “Let’s talk about this, this is moving too quickly.” Bree blurted out her wedding present was going to be to buy them a house in the neighborhood that just went on sale, she didn’t want to ruin it but Merlene had forced her hand. So Andrew and his guy moved in there, with Bree victorious. I have to say Merlene was a pain in the ass, she was not funny controlling like Bree usually is. She was doing everything she could to hang onto her little boy it seemed. I loved that Bree came out on top, but worry we haven’t seen the last of her. I could see her suddenly moving in with the boys and onto Wisteria Lane.

Finally Mrs. McClausky and her sister continued to pry into Dave’s past, but weren’t getting very far. Edie caught him in a crazy spell, talking to dead people one night. She confronted him the next morning about his behavior and he admitted he was married before, she died, sometimes he gets that way. Edie threw him out, which is good for Edie, but very very bad for Dave and Mike. I bet this will really force Dave to go loco and exact his revenge.

Posted by Dustin on 01.05.2009 at 11:14 am

Official ABC spoilers for some late January shows, includes “Samantha Who” as well as the whole new “Thursday Night Line-Up.”

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Posted by Dustin on 01.03.2009 at 8:31 pm

First up, I hope everyone had a Happy New Year! Can you believe it’s 2009?

Television FINALLY begins returning this week. Sunday sees the return of ABC shows with “Housewives” and “Brothers and Sisters.” Also don’t forget “Private Practice” moves to Thursdays after “Grey’s” (Oy a three hour block on Thursdays with “Betty” as well!).

“American Idol” begins the 13th, can’t miss those auditions! With other shows I’ve watched in the can or on hiatus, as well as other shows moving (PP) I should be able to follow this, unlike “DWTS” which just had too much interference. Of course who knows what the talent will be like too, that as well as the rumored format changes could be a turn-off.

Some shows like “Heroes” and Medium” don’t come back till February, and April sees new mid-season shows like “Harper’s Island” on CBS. Then there are the return of shows I don’t cover like “Lost” and “Battle Star” Sorry Islanders and Cylon Wannabes! They are watched in my house, I just don’t have the history to either of them (they are too complex if you don’t remember the tiniest thing from season 1). Feel free to chat on the forums and post your own blogs/thoughts.

Finally, as luck would have it, my annual vacation happens to be this coming week right when shows are returning. This week I’ll be okay with seeing almost everything and I WILL do my best not to get too far behind. Thursday will be an issue, but I will have access to everything online and can watch on and off Friday. The week of the 12th I’ll be on a cruise ship, so whether I’m able to see the shows and when will depend on lots of things. They’ll all be on Tivo and I’m going to try my best to catch them on the ship as much as possible, but it will depend on the time they air them (which can be at wacky times) and if dinner interferes or anything else. Online watching the next day on a ship is of course out. Yet again I can see Thursday being the day that is going to kill me this week as well as this spring!

Posted by Dustin on 12.31.2008 at 12:51 pm

Here is the official spoiler snip-it for the first new Ghost Whisperer since before Christmas. The show will guest star Sharon Lawrence of “NYPD Blue” fame!” Read on for the spoiler . . . . .

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Posted by Dustin on 12.31.2008 at 12:46 pm

Despite the show having been officially canceled, and in spite of co-star Billy Baldwin’s (Patrick Darlin) public attempts to reach the masses to save the show, Blaire Underwood (Simon Elder) is saying the show is gone.

He (Underwood) tells E Online, “As far as I’m concerned, we’re not doing any more shows.

“ABC officially doesn’t want to use the C-word, canceled, but we’re not on the schedule. I would pretty much say we’re canceled.”

Source: Yahoo News and several other reporting sites.

Posted by Dustin on 12.30.2008 at 11:23 am

Actress Chyler Leigh, who plays Lexi Grey on “Grey’s Anatomy,” is expecting her third child with her husband Nathan West.

This of course leads to the question, will they make Lexi pregnant on the show or pull the “hide the baby bump” routine by placing her behind folders, large purses and patients? ABC is currently stating that there is no plans to write in the pregnancy . . . . yeah you know that could change though!

Source: TV Guide