Two Tivos To Paradise 10.14.11: The Walking Dead, The Simpsons, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, Ringer, The League, and more!

Posted by Al Norton on 10.14.2011

News and thoughts on The Walking Dead making its return this weekend, The Simpsons gets two more seasons, HBO renewing Boardwalk Empire, how DVR viewing effects ratings, raves for The League and more!



Hello friends. I hope all of you enjoyed the long weekend and had some semblance of the beautiful weather we got here in Boston, with temperatures in the mid 80's. We took the twins on their first apple picking expedition on Sunday, which they loved, and there were multiple extended-family meals out at restaurants as well.

Not sure I could be more excited for a documentary special than I am this one…





Here's a look at the upcoming Fox animated comedy Allen Gregory…





We've given you tracks from Official Singer/Songwriter of TTTP Will Dailey's last album the last two weeks so as a change of pace, here's his cover of Beyonce's Best Thing I Never Had…





What you gonna do? You wanna get news?

Mom And Dad Went To A Show, They Dropped Me Off At Grandpa Joe's, I Kicked And Screamed, Said Please Don't Go
After several days of much publicized contract negotiations between 20th Century TV and the cast of the show, Fox renewed The Simpsons for 24th and 25th seasons on Friday night, meaning the show will air through at least the 2013-2014 season and its total run will be no less than 559 episodes.

Well, that didn't take long. The cast agreed to roughly a 30-35% pay cut shortly after the producers took less money as well, and the two season renewal magically appeared. There are many that think the show will end with that 25th season after a publicity push by Fox the likes of which may never have been seen before, but my best guess is that if you go back and check reports of the show's 20th season being picked up there was much of the same speculation. The episodes themselves may not make a ton of money when they air the first time on Fox, the reruns and DVD sales bring in a LOT of money, as does merchandising, and there is no question that those will slow down at least somewhat when the show goes off the air.

I actually think if their eyes were truly all about dollar signs they would do a whole line of merchandise for the 25th season and THEN have a 26th and final season, where they can make people pay again for The Simpsons: The Final Season memorabilia.

Speaking of money, what came out last week is that 20th Century TV stands to make a fortune when the show ends as it means they are no longer contractually forbidden from selling the reruns to cable networks (currently they only air in local markets, as opposed to say How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men, which air on FX as well as your local stations) or internet sites; it was estimated that the value of those deals could be in the $750 million range, and two more seasons could put it over $800 million, so at some point 20th TV will want to cash that check.

Baby When I Think About You, All I Want To Do, Be By Your Side, Take A Little Ride
It obviously takes longer for the Live+ 7 numbers to come in (this represents the total audience for a show over the course of the week it aired, combining those who watched it live with those who viewed using DVR technology within 7 days) but the numbers from the first week of the season are in and show just how much this may change the perception of a show's popularity. Here is a breakdown of which shows had the largest gains from their original live numbers.

Top 15 Biggest Gains in Total Viewers
Modern Family, 4.7 million
Modern Family, 4.6 million
Two and a Half Men, 4.09 million
Hawaii 5-0, 3.60 million
Grey's Anatomy, 3.54 million
CSI, 3.50 million
The Mentalist, 3.43 million
NCIS, 3.34 million
Criminal Minds, 3.04 million
Glee, 3.00 million
Body of Proof, 2.87 million
Blue Bloods, 2.85 million
The Big Bang Theory, 2.83 million
New Girl, 2.80 million
Unforgettable, 2.79 million

Top 15 Biggest Gains in Demo Viewers
Modern Family, 2.4 million
Modern Family, 2.3 million
Two and a Half Men, 1.8 million
Grey's Anatomy, 1.7 million
The Office, 1.5 million
New Girl, 1.5 million
The Big Bang Theory, 1.4 million
The Big Bang Theory, 1.4 million
CSI, 1.3 million
Glee, 1.3 million
NCIS, 1.2 million
Hawaii 5-0, 1.2 million
Criminal Minds, 1.1 million
Up All Night, 1.1 million
How I Met Your Mother, 1.1 million

Top 15 Biggest % Gains in Demo Viewers
Supernatural, +63%
ANTM, + 57%
Fringe, +53%
Nikita, +50%
Up All Night, + 46%
Ringer, + 44%
The Secret Circle, +44%
90210, +43%
Law & Order: SVU, + 42%
Harry's Law, + 42%
The Vampire Diaries, + 42%
Grey's Anatomy, +41%
Community, +41%
CSI, + 41%
Modern Family, +39%

A few things to take away; first off, clearly the younger a show's target audience, the more likely they are to watch after it airs, with 8 of the top 11 % gains being on shows from The CW. Second, if one continues to judge the viewership of a TV show based solely on the overnight ratings they are in no way getting the full picture of that show's audience. Finally, until there is a way for commercials to not be fast forwarded through, advertisers won't really care about these numbers. If advertisers don't care, networks won't care that much more, since it is a business and if those numbers don't translate into dollars than they won't be viewed as anything more than interesting side data.

Unless the network's own studio created the show, the network doesn't reap huge profits on DVD sales, so that kind of popularity is nice in terms of buzz but, again, don't translate into advertising revenue, which is what makes the TV world go round.

Well My Friends, The Time Has Come, To Raise The Roof And Have Some Fun
TNBC's new comedy Up All Night has received a full season pickup and is producing solid numbers for the network, not great overall but considerably better than what they were doing in that timeslot last year. The show stars Christina Applegate and Will Arnett as new parents, and Maya Rudolph as the host of the talk show that Applegate produces. It was created by Emily Spivey, whose resume includes an Emmy for working on the Saturday Night Live writing staff, producing and writing on Parks and Recreation, and a stint writing for MadTV. Lorne Michaels also produces.

This isn't so much a news item as a critical analysis about what is wrong with Up All Night and why it's just not as good a show as it clearly should be. Let's start with what works, namely Applegate and Arnett. Each is an incredibly talented comedic actor with timing that is as good as it gets, and they are totally believable as a married couple. It's been a revelation to see Arnett playing a regular person instead of one of the wonderfully over-the-top characters that made him famous as he was shown he can get laughs in any number of ways. What also works for the show is the stories that take place in and around the family and the situations that arise from being first time parents. Adults struggling to adjust to their new identities as Mommies and Daddies is rich comic material and UAN mines it well.

Which brings us to the problem with the show, namely the workplace based humor. I love Maya Rudolph and actually think I would watch an entire show with her playing crazy Ava, with her sane staff struggling to keep her from going off the deep end. For that show I would make her be totally flaky in her real life but brilliant the minute the cameras start rolling. Actually that show exists already and it's called 30 Rock, and that's the issue as it seems like there was a great idea for a show about first time parents and they shoehorned in this SNL sketch level parody of talks shows and it just doesn't fit.

The original pilot of the show had Applegate working for Rudolph's Ava at a PR firm, so there was some gentle mocking of celebrity culture but Ava was more of a wacky boss than anything else. Somewhere between the show getting picked up last spring and its premiere in the fall a change was made to put Ava more in the spotlight and use her Oprah impression from her SNL days as a starting off point. She would work great as a supporting character on the aforementioned 30 Rock but on this show the difference in comedy styles in jarring.

Why we see so much of Applegate at work with Rudolph and so little of Arnett at home with the baby is beyond me considering how many more people could relate to latter as opposed to the former. Just about everything the show has done outside of the workplace has been funny, while a very, very small percentage of the workplace based humor has scored on any level.

The solution is simple; have Ava be a true supporting character, with her role in the show being to impact the family stories instead of being the focus/semi-focus of a given episode. As an example, her trying to find the baby a gift works but half an episode dedicated to her meeting up with an ex-boyfriend who may or may not have changed his stripes does not. Ava is an effective comedic change of pace but in order for that to work the tone has to be clearly established and right now she is too much in the forefront.

There is lots of great material in the idea of new parents finding their way, from one going back to work to the other as a stay-at-home to when they find time for each other, and as the kid gets older it only increases the material. This is universal stuff and NBC has nothing like it on the air so they need to give up trying to be hip, or at least realize that Up All Night's greatest chance at success comes from knowing that it's hip to be square. And yes, I was being ironic.

Get Up And Shake The Glitter Off Your Clothes Now
Cross the huge success of Bridesmaids on the big screen earlier this year with reality TV's pension for filming at the Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas (Real World, Celebrity Poker Showdown, Sunset Tan, Girls Next Door) and you end up with Oxygen's new Bachelorette Party: Las Vegas, a new reality show about the crazy bride sendoffs that the hotel's VIP team plans and executes. We caught up with Jon Gray, an executive at the Palms Casino and Resort, to discuss the show…

TTTP: Have hotels been in the bachelorette party planning business for some time or is this a new trend?

JG: There are constantly bachelorette parties in Las Vegas. A lot of hotels have begun to create some packages specifically for Bachelorette Parties. However, none have focused on creating the over-the-top experiences my team creates.

TTTP: How did this go from being a part of your job to a TV series?

JG: I received a call from PB&J stating they would like to meet me. I met with them and the original idea was to have me work at another property. I explained to them we had a team in place that does this all the time. They met the team and the rest is history...

TTTP: What are some of the more common things women want as part of the festivities? What's the craziest thing someone's asked for?

JG: The common things are: suite, nightlife, spa, dinner. There's been a lot of crazy requests...I guess the craziest was to be the last "experience" of the bachelorette's final night of being single if you know what I mean...that was one request I had to politely decline.

TTTP: Are their clear differences you've found in what men are looking for out of their bachelor parties and what women want from their bachelorette parties?

JG: The main basic difference is women seem to want to be more public about their bachelorette party...wild costumes, interactive events (like scavenger hunts), more photographic evidence...women typically have more wild parties when it comes to comparing bachelor vs. bachelorette

TTTP: Do you think the huge success of the movie Bridesmaids is putting a bigger spotlight on bachelorette parties, and will that translate to more business for you?

JG: Absolutely! The movie was great at highlighting what each woman goes through in the wedding process, from the bride to the maid of honor, to the rest of the wedding party. Although the bachelorette party component of the movie never really got a chance to expose that element of the bridal process, it certainly put the idea in women's minds to come to Vegas to celebrate.

TTTP: What is it about the Palms Casino and Resort that makes it such a go-to location for reality TV?

JG: We really were the first hotel/casino in Las Vegas to open up our doors to reality TV when we shot the Real World here. That truly started an influx of reality shows that were Las Vegas-based. We have an owner with an eye on pop culture and who understands the importance of reality shows and PR. Put that together with an amazing pr team that can facilitate any request...TV magic just happens here

TTTP: Pitch my readers as to why they would want to tune in to Bachelorette Party: Las Vegas.

JG: Bachelorette Party: Las Vegas is not just your typical Las Vegas or party girl show. We connect with each group of girls to provide them with extraordinary experiences you wouldn't even think were possible. Each week is a new crazy experience and each group of girl brings a new story, drama, humor, and excitement. Throw in three really really ridiculously good looking hosts and you've got yourself something your TiVo can't refuse!

Don't miss Bachelorette Party: Las Vegas, premiering Monday at 10pm on Oxygen.

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
The Big Bang Theory won the night in both totals and demos…Overall this was a very bad night for ratings, with big demo losses for Charlie's Angels (-20%), The Secret Circle (-20%), Grey's Anatomy (-17% to a new series low), Community (-17%), The Office (-11% to their lowest numbers since 2005), Parks and Recreation (-10%), and Whitney (-8%)…The Mentalist won 10pm in totals and demos, with Private Practice finishing second in each and Prime Suspect a distant third, although, to be fair, PS did match last week's demos…Game 5 of the Tigers-Yankees series was the most watched divisional round of an playoff game in cable history…Jersey Shore still tops ALL of TV in the Thursday at 10pm demos and finishes second on the night in that category, behind only Big Bang and X-Factor…

FRIDAY
Fringe rebounded from a series low to post an ever-so-slight improvement…Blue Bloods won the night in demos and totals for the third week in a row…CSI: NY was the demo and viewer champ at 9pm…Kitchen Nightmares topped in the demos at 8pm, with A Gifted Man pulling in the most pairs of eyes… 8.4 million watched game 5 of the Phillies – Cardinals series, making it the most watched NLDS game ever on cable…

SUNDAY
NBC's Sunday Night Football was up 20% from week 5 last season and posted the best week 5 numbers in the show's six year history…Desperate Housewives was down 10% from last week to tie a series low in the demos…Pan Am was down 27% to a new series low and is entering the "can't last through October with these numbers" zone…The Good Wife was even with last week despite lead-in The Amazing Race being down a bit…The Breaking Bad season finale was up 19% in total viewers from last year and was the most watched finale in series history in the demos, up 24% from last year…

MONDAY
Kim's Fairytale Wedding set records for E!, with the combined audience for the two part special being 10.5 million, and the special also hit all-time demo highs for the network. It also led lead-outs Kendra (Sunday) and Chelsea Lately (Monday) to hit series highs in total viewers…CBS entire lineup hit season lows, with Hawaii 5-0 suffering the largest decline with 13%, although still good enough to win the hour in demos…Castle won 10pm in total viewers…

TUESDAY
Last Man Standing opened very well, with the best total audience numbers for an 8pm comedy series premiere in 7 years and the best demos in 5…NCIS won the night in total viewers (again) with 18.9 million and thanks to the absence of New Girl it won the night in demos, too…Ringer was up 15% in total viewers and 33% in demos…Game 3 of the Rangers-Tigers ALCS gave Fox its best Tuesday night numbers in 12 weeks…

WEDNESDAY
Last Wednesday's season finale of Dance Moms on Lifetime hit a series high in total viewers…Happy Endings was up 14%...Revenge was up 9% to win 10pm in the demos…A rerun of the previous night's Ringer was up 33% from the demos a new episode of H8R put up last week…On the same note, a rerun of Whitney was up roughly 30% in the demos from what Free Agents did…Harry's Law and SVU ran even with last week…

All The Young Dudes, Carry The News
Industry News, Notes, and Hot Rumors…The CW picked up full seasons of Ringer, Hart of Dixie, and The Secret Circle…ABC picked up full seasons of Suburgatory and Revenge while ordering six more scripts for Happy Endings...HBO renewed Boardwalk Empire for a third season…CBS cancelled How to Be a Gentleman, shutting down production after 9 episodes and moving the show to Saturdays at 8pm as of this week. Rules of Engagement, which was going to occupy that timeslot, has been moved to the prime post-Big Bang Theory slot as of October 20th. Gentleman is now the fourth new show of the 2010-2011 season to be cancelled, along with H8R, The Playboy Club, and Free Agents…The October 24th episode of How I Met Your Mother will feature returning guest stars Chris Elliot, Wayne Brady, Francis Conroy, and Bill Fagerbakke…Scouted is a new reality show on E! set to premiere in November that follows 8 aspiring young models from their first meeting with talent scouts to a make-it-or-break-it audition in NYC…Marisa Tomei, Martin Sheen, and Blair Underwood are among those taking part in season three of Who Do You Think You Are?...NBC has ordered a pilot that will serve as Rosanne Barr's return to network TV comedy; Downwardly Mobile is about a blue collar family has former Rosanne executive producer Eric Gilliand on board…Randy Jackson has another show coming to air; VH-1 will premiere Aptitude Test next year, with each episode featuring a celebrity taking a career aptitude test given to high school students and then going and spending some time doing that job before telling their co-workers who they really are. It's like Undercover Boss meets Dancing with the Stars…Guest judges on the upcoming season of RuPaul's Drag Race include Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Loretta Devine, Kelly Osbourne, Rose McGowan, and Amber Riley…HBO is making Behind the Candelabra, a TV movie about Liberace's volatile relationship with his much young boyfriend Scot Thurson. Originally conceived as a big screen feature film, the cast is top notch, with Oscar winner Michael Douglas as Liberace and Oscar winner Matt Damon as Thurson. Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh is directing…W. Merrit Johnson, who won an Emmy for writing the HBO movie Temple Grandin, and Lee Daniels, nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for directing Precious, are developing a series for Showtime set in the Ball subculture populated by LGTB youth that was featured in the documentary Paris is Burning…ABC is adapting the Teresa Strasser's book Exploiting My Baby into the comedy Mother Teresa, about a working Mom who's hippy Mom comes back into her life to help her raise a child…NBC's The Meadows is one of the more interesting sounding pilots I've heard about this season, with duel timelines allowing us to see a newly single Mom recovering from an abusive relationship to start a new life for her and her 12 year old son in 1960's Las Vegas and also at the same time look at the casino owning Vegas power broker that boy grew up to be in present day. The show was created by Liz Garcia and Josh Harto, the husband and wife team that did Memphis Beat for TNT…NBC ordered six more scripts of both Harry's Law and Prime Suspect, not exactly a full season renewal for each but a step in that direction…Lifetime is remaking Steel Magnolias with an all African-American cast…History airs its new Vietnam in HD six hour, three part documentary mini-series on November 8th, 9th, and 10th…Season six of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood premieres on November 29th while season two of Swamp Wars debuts November 6th…Neal McDonough and Mykelti Williamson have been cast as the big bads on the upcoming season of Justified…Chef Hunter is a new Food Network reality competition series premiering on November 10th where unemployed chefs compete for Executive Chef positions at high quality restaurants…Ashley Tisdale is executive producing and starring in the ABC comedy pilot Under Construction, about a young woman whose life gets taken over by her Dad, who steps in to help renovate her new house and her love life…Renee Zelwigger is co-creator and executive producer of the Lifetime drama pilot Cinnamon Girl, set in the LA world of music and movies in the late 60's/early 70's…Katherine Heigl is executive producing The CW pilot Trending, an adaptation of the Cynthia Langston novel Bi-Costal Babe…Tricia Helfer landed the lead in the TNT pilot Scent of the Missing, a drama about a woman who leads search and rescue missions with her dog. Gerald McRaney co-stars…Holly Robinson Peete has signed on for multiple episodes of Mike and Molly…Ted Koppel will be a special correspondent on NBC's upcoming news magazine Rock Center with Brian Williams…

Turns Out Not Where But Who You're With That Really Matters
(The Best of What's Around aka The Best Thing I've Watched In The Last Seven Days)…
I had missed The League, although I didn't realize exactly how much until the season premiere aired last Thursday. Now in its third season, the FX comedy has the confidence to know you don't have to present characters that are in any way likeable, they just have to be funny, and that combo works out great here. The show really does remind me of a much darker Seinfeld in the way that people really only seem to exist in each other's lives, the character's obsessions with each other/level of self absorption, and the way the writers trust the audience's memory enough to bring things up from previous episodes/seasons without having to explain it.

Going off on a tangent, I think the reason so many people were disappointed with the Seinfeld finale was that it was an attempt to demonstrate that the four main characters of the show really were not good people, and the audience, having invested so much time with them, didn't react well. Now, of course, dark comedy is an easier sell to the networks and in the case of The League, they have dropped all pretense of the traditional good guy and gal sitcom leads. An audience doesn't have to like the characters in order to love the characters, and it's just as ok for people to watch and enjoy when bad things happen as it is for them to tune in hoping the characters find love and happiness.

Loved the Shiva Bowl Shuffle, loved Dirty Randy, loved everything about the porn shoot, as a fantasy sports fan I especially loved the auto-pick crisis. Can't wait to see the rest of the season.

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…





Ahh, the first Stefan sighting of the season. Easily my favorite recurring character of the last 5-10 years…I can't think of an episode of The Office I was less interested in than the lottery outing from last week. First off, it simply wasn't funny, which is kind of a bad thing for a comedy. Adding insult to injury was that it was also boring. One of the worst episodes in series history, in my opinion...The Breaking Bad season finale was remarkable in its ability to maintain an almost unbearable level of tension for 40+ minutes. While there is no doubt that Walter is not the same person he was at the start, the show's main conceit is the same; what lengths will someone go to to protect their family when placed in extreme situations? There are still plenty of things that can go wrong – people who may have seen Walt at the elderly housing complex, for instance – but the final season looks like it may come down to when Jesse will find out about the poisoning and what will he do. Well, that and Walt's cancer coming back, of course. That would really be the ultimate cosmic joke, isn't it – he finally makes everyone in his life safe and life has the opportunity to return to some level of normalcy, and his terminal cancer returns. I expect no less than five Norty nominations for Breaking Bad next summer…Community keeps chugging along, fully embracing its need to be the furthest thing possible from mainstream. The 30 second riff on Legos was more creative than lesser shows come up with during an entire season...Damn, those worm things on The Secret Circle are creepy...I did watch the final Free Agents in my TiVo and was entertained, as I had been for all four episodes. The two leads surely deserved a better fate...Two episodes of Raising Hope last week made me very happy, although I still find it odd that there have been so few – if any – scenes of Jimmy working at the store so far this season. Can't just be a coincidence...There may be a new showrunner and a several big cast changes but SVU is as over-the-top as ever. The show works so much better when it is smaller in scale, focusing on the effects these crimes have on the victims instead of convoluted plots with whodunit twists and turns...Ed O'Neill and Sofia Vergara were in top form in a VERY funny episode of Modern Family this week…I was just about ready to give up on Ringer but they've given me just enough to come back for more, with a final scene this week that really had me wanting to know what happens next (or rather, what just happened)…

TV Pick Of The Week
The Walking Dead was one of the best new shows of 2010, much better written and acted than I ever would have guessed a zombie series would ever be, with an incredibly high level of tension from start to finish as one might expect along with some laughs and romantic entanglements that you might not. I am not going for the obvious here when I say that Dead was a very human show and one very much along the same lines of AMC's Breaking Bad; the focus is on what we are capable of doing when trying to protect our family and ourselves in extraordinary circumstances.





Don't miss the season premiere of The Walking Dead, Sunday at 9pm on AMC.

Hope You Need My Love, Babe, Just Like I Need You
Other viewing options from the next seven days…

*Johnny Depp doesn't do a ton of interviews so his sitting down for an hour with Larry King for a CNN special this Sunday at 8pm is worth noting.

*Sing My Song (Monday, 9pm, HBO) is a two hour documentary about the life of singer, actor, and social activist Harry Belafonte that I urge anyone with an interest in politics and/or pop culture to check out.





*The new ABC comedy Man Up (Tuesday, 8:30pm) makes its Last Man Standing lead-in look like a Peabody Award winner.

*While the teams playing were not confirmed as of press time, Game one of the World Series is set for Wednesday at 7:30pm on Fox, with game two the following night at the same time.

Two Tivos To Paradise
24 Hour Restaurant Battle, 30 Rock, After the Catch, American Idol, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Antiques Roadshow, Archer, Auction Hunters, The Big C, Boardwalk Empire, Being Human, Bones, Bored To Death, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, Celebrity Apprentice, Cake Boss, Chopped, Chuck, The Closer, Community, Cougar Town, Crave, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Deadliest Catch, Desperate Housewives, Destination Truth, Entourage, Eureka, Fact or Faked, Falling Skies, Fairly Legal, Flipping Out, Food Feuds, Food Network Challenge, Food Network Star, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters Academy, Ghost Hunters International, Ghost Lab, Glee, Gossip Girl, Great Food Truck Race, Grey's Anatomy, Happy Endings, Haunted Treasure, 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, The Killing, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, Louie, Mad Men, Man v. Food Nation, The Middle, Mike and Molly, Modern Family, Necessary Roughness, New Girl, Next Great American Restaurant, Next Iron Chef, The Office, One Tree Hill, Outside the Lines, Parks & Recreation, Private Practice, Project Runway, Psych, Raising Hope, Real Time With Bill Maher, Restaurant Impossible, Revenge, Ringer, Rocco's Dinner Party, Royal Pains, Rules Of Engagement, Sanctuary, Saturday Night Live, The Secret Circle, Shear Genius, So You Think You Can Dance?, Sons of Anarchy, The Soup, Suits, Suburgatory, Supernatural, Table For 12, Terra Nova, Top Chef, Top Chef Just Desserts, Top Chef: Masters, Top Design, Torchwood, Tosh.0, True Blood, Up All Night, The Vampire Diaries, The Voice, The Walking Dead, Warehouse 13, Web Soup, Wilfred, 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 news from the last seven days. We'll have an interview with Private Practice star Paul Adelstein up on the site next Thursday. By the time we meet again Mrs. TiVo will be another year older so I'd like to wish her a very happy birthday…





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.