Two Tivos To Paradise 04.22.11: Bones, The Voice, Game of Thrones,

Posted by Al Norton on 04.22.2011

News on HBO's early renewal for Game of Thrones, The Voice's premiere, Bones' future being up in the air, Chuck's chances of renewal still hurting, the trailer for The Governator and more!



Hello friends. While the Red Sox early season struggles continue I know I have done my part as they are 3-0 in the games I have attended at Fenway in 2011. I even managed to get serious sunburn at Monday's Patriot's Day game, famous for its 11am start.

Fun celebrity story – I can't say if she'll come find us here at 411mania but I do know for sure that thanks to a conversation she had with my brother at a gym in LA, Alyson Hannigan knows of Two Tivos To Paradise's existence. Speaking of celebs, the announcement email about our upcoming 250th column goes out to the PR folks next week so we should be able to start letting you know who is taking part. I can tease that I have it on good authority that a certain Oscar winner will be back for his second go round with us.

Here's a peek at HBO's upcoming Luck…




I'll be damned, Franklin & Bash looks decent (especially when compared to Raising the Bar)…





Lots of buzz recently about Arnold's new animated series and here is your first look…





Please use the comments section at the bottom to let me know what you thought of Game of Thrones, and make sure and add if you had read the books first as I am curious how that effected they eyes with which you watched.

But I will hold on hope and I won't let you choke on the news around your neck.

THIS JUST IN
Late Thursday EW.com reported that Jim Carrey will join Ray Romano, James Spader, Will Arnett, Ricky Gervais, and Catherine Tate as interviewees for the branch manager position on the season finale of The Office.

Where Have You Gone, My Darling One? Are You On Your Own? Are You Having Fun?
NBC's The Voice, a new reality competition series that is the biggest challenge yet to American Idol's supremacy in the genre, launches this Tuesday at 9pm with a two hour audition episode. Based on a hit Dutch show and executive produced by Mark Burnett, the twist of this show is that the four judges' backs are turned when they first hear the contestants and they must decide then if they want them on their teams. From there each judge narrows his/her team down to four finalists that go up against each other, with the audience voting on eliminations when the show gets to the final 16.

One of the reasons this show stands a chance of making a real ratings impact is the resume of its judges; Adam Levine (his band Maroon 5 has sold more than 15 million records across the world), Blake Shelton (19 top 40 country songs, 8 of which got to #1), Christina Aguilera (four time Grammy winner), and Cee Lo Green (currently red hot on the charts with Forget You and also a very successful writer and producer) represent the single best, and most diverse, collective resume ever amassed on an American reality competition show. And one could argue that even back when Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman had the same career path, Carson Daly was doing his thing and doing it better.

I know multiple people who aren't Idol fans who have told me they plan on watching because the "judges can't see the contestants" hook has, well, hooked them in, and if you watch Idol now – and it is THE # 1 show on TV for 10 years running – why wouldn't you want to see what this show has to offer? Fox is clearly paying attention; it's no accident that Tuesday night's Glee is a special Lady Gaga themed episode that runs 90 minutes, ending 30 minutes after The Voice begins.

Let's take a moment and think of how vocals heavy television will be the next six months; you've got the premiere of The Voice, the finals of this season's Idol, the first season of CMT's Next Superstar coming to a close, Bravo's Platinum Hit (focusing on singer-songwriters and featuring Idol alum Kara DioGuardi as a judge), NBC's America's Got Talent (always features a lot of singers), and then the much anticipated debut of Fox's The X Factor, which brings Simon Cowell back to American TV. While there are certainly a lot of hours to fill in the infinite space that is the current television landscape, there is clearly going to be a saturation point where America says, "there really not that many undiscovered superstars out there."

Why doesn't a network do a show called Second Chance Superstar, where they take folks who made strong impressions but didn't win on their season of Idol or AGT or Nashville Star and give them a shot at finally getting the brass ring? America loves a redemption story and they'd already be familiar with the contestants, making them more likely to tune in. Get Les Moonves on the line, stat!

She Said Why? Why Don't We Drive Through The Night, And We'll Wake Up Down In Mexico
Last week we told you about the issues standing in the way of Fox renewing House and this week the network is seemingly far apart with another of its hit series; Bones, which received a two season pick up in early 2009, has yet to get any episodes ordered for the 2011-2012 season. Showrunner and series creator Hart Hanson has expressed confidence in a deal getting done to multiple media outlets but one of the issues is 20th Century Fox, which makes the show, is looking for another two season order, while Fox wants to go one at a time.

A key reason this negotiation needs to get done sooner than later is the recently announced pregnancy of Bones' lead Emily Deschanel. It's been rumored they may do less than the standard 22 episode run and/or work into the summer making episodes so they can start next season on time. Another option would be to launch the new season later, say January, and then continue through to the spring with no reruns.

Any longer-than-usual delay will be especially painful for all the Bones-Booth shippers out there as most folks seem to think the season finale will finally be the start of a relationship between the two. I checked out of Bones a couple of years ago because the once endearing gap between the title character's intellectual knowledge and her basic human communication skill set became more and more annoying; I get that she is really smart but if she was really that smart she be able to adapt more than she has. I know, I know, it's just a TV show, but I need to see some growth to keep me hooked. On the other hand I have found David Boreanaz' work on the show to be fantastic, with Booth showing growth over the years and Boreanaz showing a range I did not know he had.

To be fair, some of my issues with the show aren't really with the show itself but rather with the tired formula of "team solves mystery every week." I mean, are there THAT many murders in the Greater D.C. area? Ok, wait, let me rephrase; are there that many murders in the Greater D.C. area that require the talents of brilliant scientists to get them solved?

I am essentially 100% sure a deal gets worked out – Bones does too well, both with its Fox run and its TNT reruns to not come to an agreement – but it must be a little stressful around the Fox programming offices these days as they try to select new series in the fall and where they will go in the lineup without knowing for sure that two of their lynchpins will be in place.

Restless Eyes Close, Maybe It'll Go Away, Please Rest Tomorrow, Bring A Satisfying Day
A round up of big 5 and cable network programming info…

FOX
*The network released the season finale dates for their current lineup; Fringe – 5/6, The Cleveland Show – 5/15, Raising Hope & Traffic Light – 5/17, Breaking In – 5/18, Bones – 5/19, Kitchen Nightmares – 5/20, American Dad/The Simpsons/ Bob's Burgers/Family Guy – 5/22, House & The Chicago Code -5/23, Glee – 5/24, American Idol – 5/25,

FX
*The season and/or series premieres of Wilfred (Thursday, 6/22, 10pm), Louie (Thursday, 6/22, 10:30pm), and Rescue Me (Tuesday, July 12, 10pm) were announced.

SYFY
*New series Haunted Collector premiere on June 1 at 9pm, followed at 10pm by the return of Hollywood Treasure.

*July 11th is a big night for the network as Eureka returns at 8pm, Warehouse 13 at 9pm, and then the series premiere of the new drama Alphas follows at 10pm.

*Season two of Ghost Hunters International kicks off on July 13th, followed two days later by the sophomore season premiere of Haven.

LOGO
*Renewed RuPaul's Drag Race, Untucked: RuPaul's Drag Race, and The A-List. Ordered another NewNowNext Awards special as well.

*Picked up first seasons of The A List: Dallas and Sex Rx (reality show about sex addicts).

FUEL
*Picked up new seasons of Thrillbillies (4th, 10 episodes), The Adventures of Danny and Dingo (5th, 14 episodes), Built to Shred (4th, 14 episodes), and The Standard Snowboard Show (8th, 8 episodes)

OWN
*Oprah Presents: Master Class, Ask Oprah All Stars, In The Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman, and Enough Already! with Peter Walsh were renewed for second seasons.

*A 60 episode first season of Oprah's Encore will premiere later this year, with the host looking back at her 25 year run as a daytime talk show host. New interviews with Oprah and her various guests from over the years will be mixed with footage from those original outings.

*New shows set to premiere later in 2011 include I Owe You My Life (a look at real life heroes), Louis Spence Dance Project (renowned choreographer takes job running the show at Broadway Dance Center), My Mom and Me (mother-daughter relationships outside of the traditional mode), Sweetie Pies (former 60's backup singer opens soul food restaurant), Unfaithful: Stories of Betrayal (couples work with a therapist to get through one of them cheating).

Sunny Day, Sweepin' The Clouds Away, On My Way To Where The Air Is Sweet
The Sesame Street video of the week…




But You Were Up To Your Old Tricks In Chapters Four Five And Six
All you need to know about the Nielsen's for the past 7 days…

THURSDAY
Nikita helped its renewal chances with a 22% increase in totals and a 17% jump in demos…Bones was up 16%...American Idol's 21 million total viewers and it's stellar demos topped everything by a wide margin, as usual…The Office was up 15%, Parks and Recreation 6%, 30 Rock 16%, and Outsourced 21%, while Community was down 22%...The Paul Reiser Show was down 48% from the demos the premiere of Perfect Couples posted in January – yes, FORTY EIGHT PERCENT – and it ranked as the lowest rated mid-season comedy premiere in network history…

FRIDAY
5.7 million viewers tuned in to Disney's Lemonade Mouth, making it the most watched cable movie of the 2011…American Restoration premiered strong for History, with 3.3 million total viewers, almost half of which were in the demos…Shark Tank was up 25% to hit a season high…Smallville was up 5% in totals and 11% in demos…Supernatural dropped a smidge in the demos while improving 5% in totals…Chaos was even with last week – not dropping is an improvement…Friday Night Lights season premiere was down 25% from last season's debut…

SUNDAY
The Killing was up 19% in the demos from week two; you don't see a lot of serialized dramas make that kind of jump in week three…Celebrity Apprentice dropped 17% in the demos to drop to a series low…Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was down 21% from its last new episode two months ago…Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters tied series lows in the demos…Everything on CBS was down but much of that can be attributed to the lack of an overrun by The Masters this week, although Undercover Boss' 39% drop in the demos is certainly notable…The 3.8 million who watched A&E's Storage Wars represented a series high…

MONDAY
NBC had a night for the ages, and not in a good way; Chuck tied last week's series demo lows while The Event and Law & Order: LA set new marks for demo futility. L&O:LA lost an astounding 27% of its demos from last week and is now drastically under the totals and demos put up by the Harry's Law season finale three weeks ago in the same timeslot…Much better news over at The CW where 90210 (+21% in totals & 43% in target demos) and Gossip Girl (+7% in totals & 25% in target demos) returned to major ratings spikes…House was even with last week while lead-out The Chicago Code was up 6%...How I Met Your Mother hit a series low in demos…Mike and Molly clearly likes 9:30 better as it was up double digits in total viewers from last week's stint at 9…Hawaii 5-0 was up 4% and won 10pm in totals and demos…Dancing with the Stars posted its lowest spring demos in series history…

TUESDAY
The Parenthood season finale was up 25% in totals and demos, majorly helping its chances for a third season…Dancing with the Stars hit a 2010-2011 season low…Body of Proof matched last week's numbers, meaning it climbed another notch up the renewal ladder…An NCIS rerun drew 13.3 million, making it the most watched scripted show of the night…Glee dominated the night in demos but was down 11% in totals in its return…

WEDNESDAY
American Idol was watched by slightly under 22 million people, with demos that dropped ever-so-slightly from last week…Breaking In was down 10% in week three…Modern Family hit a new season low for demos…Cougar Town was down from its last Wednesday night new episode but still outperformed Mr. Sunshine's demos by roughly 50%...Happy Endings was down more than 20% from last week but still outperformed the demos Off the Map had been putting up by 31%...

All The Young Dudes, Carry The News
Industry News, Notes, and Hot Rumors…HBO renewed Game of Thrones after the success of Sunday's series premiere. They did the same thing with Boardwalk Empire last fall…Glee's Chris Colfer is not only executive producing the Disney Channel pilot The Little Leftover Witch, based on the children's book of the same name, but he's also written the script…HBO has officially picked up Veep, a comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as the Vice President. Tony Hale (Chuck, Arrested Development), Anna Chlumsky, and Reid Scott (The Big C, My Boys) co-star…CBS has pulled Chaos after three episodes; CSI: NY reruns will air the Fridays at 8pm slot until Flashpoint premieres in early May…Demi Lovato announced she will not return to Sonny with a Chance, the Disney Channel series that made her a star. Lovato, who just finished a stint in rehab, said returning to the show would not be conducive to her recovery. The show is being reworked into So Random, a sketch comedy show (previously the show as about the behind the scenes activity on a sketch comedy show called So Random)…Alan Cumming will return as a regular for The Good Wife's (assumed) third season…Talk about your Cinderella stories: The Game went from being cancelled by The CW in 2009 to picked up by BET and premiering to an audience of 7.7 million late last year to getting renewed for a full 22 episode 5th season…As you read was going to happen in this space last week, AJ Cook signed a two year deal with CBS to return to Criminal Minds in the fall. Actually, her first reappearance will be in the season finale next month…NBC will premiere Love in the Wild (think The Dating Game meets Survivor) on June 1st…CBS picked up a first season of Same Name, a reality show where celebs and regular folks with the same name swap places for a day, and will run it this summer…The four unaired episodes of Running Wilde will air in a two hour block on Thursday April 28th starting at 10pm on FX…Justin Timberlake will host the May 21st season finale of SNL, with Lady Gaga as the musical guest…Cliff Curtis, seen recently on Off the Map and before that as one of the leads on Trauma, will star opposite Ashley Judd in ABC's action-drama Missing…Joe Pantoliano and Eriq La Salle will do multiple episodes on the new season of How to Make it in America… HBO has optioned A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, to adapt to a series. The book follows a group of characters from 1980's San Francisco through 30 years of interwoven lives…Andy Samberg has been named CSO (Chief Shark Officer) for Discovery's annual Shark Week event…VH-1 is working on Famous Food, a reality show where "famous" folks team up to open a restaurant. Those taking part include Heidi Montag, Danielle Staub, Jake Pavelka, DJ Paul, Juicy J, Ashley Dupree, and Vincent Pastore. The 10 episode run will premiere this fall…BET is getting in the dance competition series game with Born to Dance: Laurienn Gibson, where 20 dancers get put through their paces by the famed choreographer in the hopes of winning $50K…VH-1 is launching a live morning show next month; Big Morning Buzz Live is hosted by Carrie Keagan will air every weekday at 9:30 and cover current events and pop culture news…Griffin Dunne and John Goodman will be regulars on the new season of Damages…Julia Ormond will play Gorin's psychologist on the final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent…

Turns Out Not Where But Who You're With That Really Matters
The top thing I watched since the last column went to press aka The Best of What's Around…
Two new comedies premiered last week to lousy reviews and mixed ratings results but neither is anywhere near as bad as you may have read. Yes, this is the section where I usually talk about the best thing I watched but this week I'll take a more in-depth look atHappy Endings and The Paul Reiser Show.

Endings has the basis of a decent comedy inside, although you wouldn't know it from the pilot, one of the worst of the 2011-2011 season. Writers seem to be in a hurry to get to the point instead of letting things build; this was not the first time I felt the first 5 minutes of a series premiere should have been the last 5 minutes of that debut episode. In this case the show opened with a wedding being called off and it ended up making two of the lead characters look not only unlikable but also just plain stupid; Elisha Cuthbert's Alex calls off her wedding when Johnny Slash-meets-Ben Braddock rollerblades in and sweeps her away, which doesn't particularly endear her to the audience, and later we learn that Zachary Knighton's Dave really should have know there were issues, which takes away any sympathy we may have had for him. If the show opened with the day of the wedding, allowing us to see a little bit more of each of them and establishing them as characters, and then made the nuptials interruptus the final scene, the audience would have had the chance to get invested in the show and want to see what happens next. Instead we get people defined by silly, only-in-a-writers-head actions.

The real laughter generated by Happy Endings - and the second episode that aired last week really was pretty funny, although I don't blame you if you tuned out after the first 30 minutes - comes from the supporting cast. Eliza Coupe, so great on Scrubs, proves she is no one trick pony, SNL alum Casey Wilson is a riot in a stock role, and Damon Wayans Jr. does his best with limited material. The only real bit of comedy inspiration from the writer's room comes from Adam Pally's Max, a gay character who is, for a change, not a TV stereotype. Even better, the Quicksand Girlfriend episode used this as a plot point, with Max being told by a friend, "you're not gay, you're a dude who likes dudes." Shocking as it may seem, that's almost groundbreaking stuff for TV.

I like the friends WAY more than I do the lead couple- really couldn't care less if they ever get back together since I never saw them happy to appreciate their chemistry – and I was amused enough to keep watching Happy Endings.

The Paul Reiser Show feels more than a little like Curb Your Enthusiasm-lite, and that's not the worst thing in the world. Somewhat curmudgeonly guy with huge sitcom success on his resume trying to figure out what to do next with his life is a decent pitch for a show, and Reiser doesn't shy away from any of the things that used to annoy people about himself on Mad About You. The problem, if anything, is that he's not annoying enough; similar to NBC's Perfect Couples, which felt like an FX comedy niced up by writers who watched Friends reruns, this isn't dark or edgy enough to do anything but fail miserably when brought up in the same sentence with the brilliant Curb. The scene with Larry David in the pilot was easily the highlight and showed the skill level between the two actors in that kind of situation and the kind of comedy that can be generate with a performer not in the slightest bit concerned with if the audience likes him.

This is not to say the show doesn't have its pleasures, in particular Paul's group of male friends who seem very unimpressed by his resume (in particular TTTP Fave Ben Shenkman, who you might recognize from his runs on Lights Out, Damages, Burn Notice, Grey's Anatomy, and Law & Order , and the great chemistry between Reiser and his TV wife, played by Amy Landecker. They also got a pretty damn funny turn by superstar reality producer Mark Burnett in the pilot as well.

Neither show is likely to get a second season, and Happy Endings is much funnier than The Paul Reiser Show, but both are nowhere near as bad as you may have been led to believe. Give them a shot and then let me know what you think.

People Say I'm Crazy Doing What I'm Doing. Well, They Give Me All Kinds Of Warnings To Save Me From Ruin
What's flashed before my eyes the last seven days …You know why I know Justified is so good? Because you could take out every action sequence and it will still be entertaining, thanks to scripts that get all the little things right and a cast that is almost always note perfect…Gary Busey left Celebrity Apprentice with a whimper, not a bang. I don't think he is half as clever as John Rich was giving him credit for, I think he just acts like he's in on the joke because he realizes it's the only way people will not think he's totally insane…A Veronica Mars shout out, a couple of great Caddyshack references, and Fiddler, Please were among the reasons that Community was the highlight of last Thursday's NBC comedy block…Will Ferrell had some solid lines but I think the script let him down in his debut on The Office. I mean, we've seen the "everybody tries to impress the new boss" episode done better, and it felt to me like they were writing for Ferrell (never a good thing to me when writers set out to write for a specific actor) instead of for a character that he happened to be playing…Love the slow build between Leslie and Ben on Parks and Recreation, and the creepy cousin was the best use of a family member making guests feel uncomfortable since Duane Hall freaked the crap out of Alvy Singer…John Lithgow has been fantastic as Barney's Dad on How I Met Your Mother and that was before he dropped a killer Footloose reference this past Monday. The one down point to the episode was the introduction of Michael Trucco's character. Don't get me wrong – I like Trucco quite a bit but the last thing the show needed was another, random recurring character who plays a role in one of the regular's romantic future; we have enough of that with Ted…I can't be surprised when a show that is pretty much a soap takes suddenly soapy plot twists but did Brothers & Sisters really need another "is this person (really) a Walker" story? And Kevin and Scotty may have a baby they didn't know about?!?! This all comes when I was really riding the high of Sally Field and Beau Bridges' scenes together, with Nora finally getting a truly adult love story. The ads for next week make it seem like the forced separation between her and Brody is short lived, so that's a plus…Cougar Town returned with two episodes that proved I had not built it up to unattainable standards in its absence; the show is among the handful of best comedies on TV by any reasonable assessment of quality…A rather pedestrian episode of Glee this week, much weaker than I would have expected them to return from a long break with…Game of Thrones was very well made, with solid acting and amazing visuals, but it didn't really speak to me on the emotional level I need to stick with such a complex web of stories. I will watch again, and am in no way saying it was not a quality piece of television, it just didn't grab me in the way I was expecting…

TV Pick Of The Week
Back in 1973, when the folks who created The Real World were still cutting their teeth in the entertainment industry, PBS launched what is now considered to be the first reality show ever. An American Family was a 12 episode series that looked at the lives of the Louds, a California couple with five kids and was a pop culture smash, making the cover of Newsweek, drawing a big audience (at least for PBS), and also is credited with television's first openly gay character in their son Lance. TV Guide named it one of the 50 Greatest Shows of All Time.

HBO's Cinema Verite is a look at the making of the show and the impact it had on everyone involved, starring James Gandolfini, Tim Robbins, Kathleen Quinlan, Diane Lane, Thomas Dekker, Lolita Davidovich, and Patrick Fugit. Considering the network's track record with their movies and with their eye to detail, this looks to be a wonderful glimpse at 1970's America.

Don't miss Cinema Verite, Saturday at 9pm on HBO.

Hope You Need My Love, Babe, Just Like I Need You
Here is some other noteworthy programming of the next seven days…

*The opening round of the NBA postseason continues with four games on Saturday (4 & 6:30pm on TNT, 8 & 10:30 pm on ESPN), four games on Sunday (1 & 3:30 pm on ABC) and 7 & 9:30pm on TNT), and then doubleheaders every other night. The NHL playoffs have weekend doubleheaders on NBC and Versus as well.

*The latest season of Doctor Who premieres on BBC America this Saturday with the first of a two-parter that includes time travel to America in the late 60's and a visit to President Nixon's White House.

*Looking for another reality show about people who do crazy jobs? Check out the series premiere of Ice Pilots (yes, as the title suggests, this is about folks who fly planes in and out of some of the most remote parts of Canada), Friday at 10pm on National Geographic.

*HBO's Treme is back for season two on Sunday at 10pm with some great acting and even better music.

*Bio's primetime block this Monday is taken up by looks at the lives of Eric Clapton (8pm), Billy Joel (9pm), and Bruce Springsteen (10pm).

*The mid-season finale of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Monday, 9pm, Travel) takes place in Hokkaido, an island in Japan devastated by the recent earthquake. This episode was filmed before that happened, which promises to make the hour that much more heartbreaking.

*Harry Potter…err…Daniel Radcliffe stops by to visit with Jimmy Fallon on Monday's Late Night (12:35pm). Darius Rucker is the musical guest.

*Repo Games is a new Spike game show where folks about to have their cars stuff repossessed get the opportunity to answer trivia questions and keep their wheels. America, what a country.

*South Park is back for a new season this Wednesday at 10pm on Comedy Central.

*It may not have the same hype because there seems to be better-than-not odds that the season doesn't start on time this fall but the NFL Draft is still a four part event that begins with the first round this Thursday at 8pm with coverage on ESPN and NFL Network.

*Michael Scott graces Sabre's Scranton branch for the last time this Thursday on The Office (9pm, NBC).

Two Tivos To Paradise
30 Rock, After the Catch, American Idol, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Antiques Roadshow, Archer, Auction Hunters, The Big C, Big Love, Boardwalk Empire, Being Human, Bones, Bored To Death, Breaking Bad, Breaking In, Brothers & Sisters, Burn Notice, Celebrity Apprentice, Cake Boss, The Chicago Code, Chopped, Chuck, The Closer, Community, Cougar Town, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, The Deadliest Catch, Desperate Housewives, Destination Truth, The Dish, Entourage, Eureka, Fact or Faked, Fairly Legal, Flipping Out, Food Feuds, Food Network Challenge, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters Academy, Ghost Hunters International, Ghost Lab, Glee, Gossip Girl, Great Food Truck Race, Grey's Anatomy, The Hard Times of RJ Berger, Hawaii 5-0, Hollywood Treasure, House, How I Met Your Mother, How To Make It In America, Hung, If You Really Knew Me, Iron Chef America, Justified, Kate Plus 8, Last Comic Standing, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Law And Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: Los Angeles, Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, Mad Men, Man v. Food, Men of a Certain Age, The Middle, Mike and Molly, Mr. Sunshine, Modern Family, Next Food Network Star, Next Great American Restaurant, Next Iron Chef, The Office, One Tree Hill, Parks & Recreation, Private Practice, Project Runway, Psych, Raising Hope, Real Time With Bill Maher, Rescue Me, Restaurant Impossible, Royal Pains, Rules Of Engagement, Sanctuary, Saturday Night Live, Shear Genius, So You Think You Can Dance?, Sons of Anarchy, The Soup, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, Sports Soup, Supernatural, Table For 12, Top Chef, Top Chef Just Desserts, Top Chef: Masters, Top Design, Torchwood, Traffic Light, True Blood, V, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, Warehouse 13, Web Soup, Worst Cooks In America,

People Love You When They Know You're Leaving Soon
Here ends another Two Tivos To Paradise.





We'll be back next week with all the latest in TV headlines, thoughts on the premiere of The Voice, and some other random stuff.

Sources for this week's column include Daily Variety, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, and Hollywood Reporter (plus the web sites for those publications) as well as Aintit.cool.com, TVline.com & Deadline.com.