Two Tivos To Paradise 01.27.12: Chuck, Fringe, The Office, Ben Stiller, The River, Archer

Posted by Al Norton on 01.27.2012

News and thoughts on a Dwight-centric spinoff of The Office, Ben Stiller's new HBO series, the Chuck series finale, the future of Fringe, this week's episode of Shark Tank and more!



Hello friends. In the midst of the craziest winter weather I have ever seen came a four day period where we went from 4-5 inches of snow that fell over an eight hour period on day one to near 60 degree temperatures on day four. The twins were thrilled with day one – there has been snow three times this winter but this was the first time they actually got to see it snow instead of waking up to find a coating on the ground – and not so thrilled as it all disappeared. They also got their first fine dining experience when my incredibly generous brother held a family dinner at Morton's Steak House. Mmmm, meat.

Here's a look at ABC's The River, premiering next month…





NBC has picked up its game the last few months, putting together all sorts of fun, ready for posting montages for your viewing pleasure…





We've had a slew of giveaways so far in 2012 and this week is no different – we have season one of The League on DVD as a prize!!! Go to our Facebook page (found HERE), click like if you have not already, and then post "TTTP is out of my League" on our wall and you will be entered to win. Our standard rules apply; one entry per person, only people with a US or Canadian mailing address and who haven't won anything from us in the last six months are eligible. Hey, you should check out our FB even if you don't want to win as it's the best way to keep up to date on all the latest TV news plus you get to interact with your fellow TV lovers in a forum that encourages thoughtful discussion.


Army Wives returns for its sixth (and final?) season this March…





Just shoot for the news if it feels right.

Can You Picture What Will Be, So Limitless And Free, Desperately In Need Of Some Stranger's Hand, In A Desperate Land
Chuck's improbable 5 season, 89 episode run comes to a close tonight with back-to-back hours starting at 8pm. While there have been numerous times over the years where the creative forces behind the show thought it was coming to an end, NBC declared this to be the final season last spring, giving the writers plenty of time to come up with resolutions to any/all plot strands as well as giving fans the emotional payoff they've earned with this long an investment.

Chuck has never been a big ratings hit and over the last two seasons seems to be dropping to new lows on an all-too-regular basis, but it has also generated a legion of fans with a passion for the show that just about every other series on TV is at least a little jealous of.

I've written many times of the years that I think the biggest issue with Chuck is that the network didn't know how to promote it, in many ways because it did so many things well; do they push the underdog story, where the nerdy guy with the big heart tries to get the girl? Is it purely an action adventure series? Is it a comedy? A workplace comedy? Should the romantic aspects of the show be front and center? The answer is the show should have been promoted on all of these aspects, that it was so many things blended into a tasty treat instead of an easily pigeonholed hour of TV, but that would have required a level of creativity in marketing NBC hasn't shown as of late.

I have often wondered how Chuck would have done if it landed at USA instead of NBC, where quirky TV that combines comedy and action seems to flourish like no other network on TV; I can see it as a perfect fit as a signature series for them right next to Burn Notice, PSYCH, and White Collar.





We caught up with Ryan McPartlin, who has played Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb for Chuck's entire run, to discuss tonight's series finale as well as the show's legacy.

TTTP: When you got the script for the series finale delivered do you tear it open to see how it ends or wait until the very last minute possible to read it?

Ryan McPartlin: I put it off and read it at the last possible minute. Knowing it was the last one, I knew I was going to be emotional about it, and I was; it hit me right at the part where those writers are so good at hitting you, at tugging at your heart strings. I was just like how I think the rest of the audience will be watching it; I knew what part was going to break my heart and it did. I tried to shake it off, go do my job, and then get on with life.

It was tough; tough saying goodbye, tough shooting the last episode, and I remember when we wrapped it was tough to not shed tears during that last scene, let alone after we were done. I'm just as big of a sissy as anybody out there (laughing) and I am a true and loyal Chuck fan.

TTTP: Over the course of the show's run had you thought about what a series finale would be and how did what you filmed measure up to your expectations?

Ryan McPartlin: I never had any preconceived idea about how things would end. It's always easy for people to play Monday Morning Quarterback and talk about how they would have done it but I think our writers have done a great job, especially not knowing each season if they were coming back. I think that actually helped our show in a way in that we never left much on the table. I felt bad seeing all the writers strung out when we'd get picked up as they'd have to figure out how to do this one (laughing).

When I saw the way it came to an end I thought it was very good. Even though everybody knows Chuck is a spy now, it feels like there would be life afterwards, there would be more stories to tell, and you see that in the finale. I've got to give credit to our writers; they're amazing and do a heck of a job. Under Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz' guidance they really created a show that could ever be replicated.

TTTP: Do you keep any props from the set?

Ryan McPartlin: No, I didn't. Well, I did; I kept my Captain Awesome director's chair. To be honest, I'll probably regret it later in life but having the DVD's and knowing that the body of work exists is my memory, my prop. Hopefully it will be syndicated soon enough and we can just turn on the TV and watch it.

TTTP: If I had told you at the start of Chuck that it would be a roller coaster but end up as 5 seasons and 89 episodes…

Ryan McPartlin: I've said before that after the pilot I thought it was an unbelievable and ambitious pilot but that like most unbelievable and ambitious pilots, we wouldn't see many more episodes because they can never sustain that quality level. I called me agent and said, "you need to get me another job, fast." Five seasons later I've gotten so adjusted to coming back that it's strange to think that we won't. Who knows, maybe there will be life for Chuck down the road; hopefully it just won't be something like Bradley Cooper playing me in the movie version (laughing).

I would have never imagined it would have lasted this long. I hoped it would, and I thought it had all the elements, but I didn't know how capable our writing staff was until I saw each week what they came up with. I really can't say enough about how great they are.

TTTP: Are you going to be ok if 5, 10, 20 years from now people see you in an airport and yell, "Awesome!"?

Ryan McPartlin: I'm not gonna melt down in a comedy club if that's what you mean (laughing). I'm ok with that. I'm working on CSI: Miami right now and I've played other characters along the way. The good thing for me is that the schedule of Chuck has allowed me to take other roles; I did a Lifetime movie with Gina Gershon, I did J Edgar with Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio. I've been able to go outside the box of Captain Awesome. It's been a blessing because I've had my home on Chuck and then been able to go on vacation on other people's sets.

I hope that it's around 10-20 years from now and still in syndication. I hope I can get some of that syndication money (laughing). Who knows? John Schneider played my Dad on Living with Fran and I thought it was the coolest thing ever to have Bo Duke there, so I think it's ok to be remembered for a role.

TTTP: What can longtime fans of Chuck expect from the finale?

Ryan McPartlin: I think they are going to be really, really pleased with the way that it wraps up. Awesome and Elly have some big life decisions to make and whether those will include Chuck and the family in Los Angeles or if they will move on and take advantage of some other opportunities. Also, they are there for Chuck, to support him and get him through this trying time he's having with Sarah. It's a great farewell.

The final two hours of Chuck air tonight starting at 8pm on NBC.






Oh Brother I Can't, I Can't Get Through, I've Been Trying So Hard To Reach You Cause I Don't Know What To Do
Ben Stiller will executive produce, star in, and direct the HBO comedy pilot All Talk, written by Jonathan Safran Foer. The show will focus on a family living in Washington D.C. and TV legend Alan Alda is said to be very close to signing on to co-star. Big time Hollywood producer Scott Rudin is also an executive producer on the project.

Wow. While some may debate the quality of some of Stiller's films, there is no doubt that he is a big time movie star and getting him to do a series is a pretty major feather in HBO's development cap. He's also a much better actor than many of his movies would lead you to believe; check out his work in The Royal Tennenbaums, Your Friends and Neighbors, and Permanent Midnight as examples.

Foer's work as a writer includes the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as well as the non-fiction work Eating Animals. This would be his first foray into television.

Seeing Alda's name attached made me go check his IMDB page so I could use numbers to demonstrate just how incredible his career has been…

*One Oscar nomination

*4 DGA nominations, 3 wins

*7 People's Choice Awards

*16 Golden Globe nominations, 6 wins

*33 Emmy nominations, 5 wins

That's right, the man has THIRTY THREE Emmy nominations over four consecutive decades, and his five wins include statues for comedic acting, dramatic acting, writing, and directing. The guy has had, without a doubt, one of the most successful and impressive careers in the history of the medium and is a unanimous first ballot hall of famer. Based on his track record I'd say if he is doing a television project of any kind, I am season passing it, and yes, that includes his hosting gig on PBS' The Human Spark a couple of years ago.

HBO has some high profile projects in development – see the notes section below for more casting info about The Corrections – but to me this jumps to the head of the pack, not just for HBO but for any series in development at any network right now.

They Told Him Don't You Ever Come Around Here, Don't Wanna See Your Face, You Better Disappear
NBC is working on a spinoff of The Office that would focus on Dwight running the Schrute family beet farm and bed & breakfast. The show, created by Rainn Wilson (who plays Dwight) and Paul Lieberstein (showrunner for The Office and also the guy who plays Toby), is being looked at for a possible early 2013 launch and an episode of The Office later this season would be used to fully launch this new series. This would not guarantee that The Office is ending this spring, although none of the key cast members are signed beyond the current season.

Two seasons ago I would have said that while Dwight was funny, I don't think he's a character deep enough to base a series around, but I think I've come around a bit as of late. If I had to pinpoint a moment where it hit me I'd have to say when, in the middle of a fight with Pam and Jim in a pharmacy, he reminded them they needed to get a toothbrush for their daughter. There have been other instances since but there was something about the way it was kind of sweet while still being entirely true to Dwight that made me seem him a little differently. I almost compare it to the scene at the end of the Cheers episode where Frazier, dressed as a clown but not wearing any underwear, lets his manners get the best of him and offers a woman his handkerchief even though his suit is gimmick for his pants to drop when the handkerchief comes out of his pocket. It's the little things that make you see how much there is to a character and how funny he/she can be in different situations.

I also think the choice of setting will be what makes or breaks this new show; we've seen Dwight be the crazy one playing off of Jim at work, the normal one, but what if in the home setting Dwight's actually the normal one?!?! Based on what we've seen of cousin Mose and others, I assume this to be true, and to me that's where the comedy comes from; at work people think he's nuts and at home he thinks everyone else is nuts, and from the level of tension that creates in him comes laughter.

I know the temptation is to say that spinoffs usually are quite bad but I think you have to look at each project individually and in this instance, the people involved have done some pretty good work up till now, so why not give them the benefit of the doubt, or at least suspend the urge to attach the "epic fail" label until we've seen at least an episode.

Like A Coin In Your Mint, I's Dented And I'm Spent With High Treason
Normally I don't bust out the separate pilot notes section until at least February but with NBC ordering TEN pilots this week, I thought it time to dust this off…

ABC
ABC ordered a pilot for 666 Park Ave, an adaptation of a book series about a young couple who take over managing an apartment building only to find out that all of the tenants are people who sold their souls to the devil. David Wilcox (Fringe) is writing the pilot…Beauty and the Beast is a fantasy series based on the fairy tale that the network may be thinking of pairing up with Once Upon a Time. Jon Steinberg (Human Target, Jericho) is writing the pilot and executive producing…

CBS
Greg Berlanti has three pilots with three different networks this season, with the latest being Golden Boy, a drama following a young cop's incredible rise from officer to Commissioner…Jerry Bruckheimer will executive produce the pilot Trooper, about a Mom who becomes a State Trooper…

Fox
The network ordered a pilot for Like Father, a semi-autobiographical comedy from Bill Lawrence (Cougar Town, Scrubs)…

NBC
The network had a VERY busy Monday, ordering pilots on the following 10 projects; County (medical drama from Friday Night Lights/Parenthood guru Jason Katims and starring Jason Ritter), Chicago Fire (firemen drama from Law & Order guru Dick Wolfe), Downwardly Mobile (sitcom starring Rosanne Barr), Go On (comedy about a sportscaster trying to get over an emotional tragedy, written by former Friends' writer Scott Silveri), Animal Kingdom (comedy, think House but as a veterinarian), Friday Night Dinner (adaptation of a BBC comedy from Greg Daniels, who knows a thing or two about BBC adaptations from his work as The Office guru), Next Caller Please (comedy about a radio shock jock and his new female sidekick – Howard and Robin, The Early Years?!?!), Daddy's Girls (comedy about a women who return from a trip abroad to find her Dad is dating the girl who tortured her in high school), Untitled Jimmy Fallon Project (comedy executive produced by Fallon about a group of guys who are Dads but aren't particularly grown up themselves), and Untitled Hilary Winston Project (comedy from the Community writer about a woman scorned who plots revenge on her ex while learning to be her own person)…Anne Heche will star in the comedy pilot Save Me, about a woman who, after an accident, believes God is talking to her…

The CW
First Cut is an hour long medical dramedy about a female doctor that is written by former Gilmore Girls producer/writer Jennie Snyder Urman and she and Dan Jinks (Pushing Daisies) will executive produce…

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 21 days…

THURSDAY
How bad is The Firm doing for NBC? It finished 8th in the demos at 10pm, behind CBS, ABC, Jersey Shore, a basketball game on TNT, a Big Bang Theory rerun on TBS, Univision, and A&E's Beyond Scared Straight…Speaking of Jersey Shore, it won demos at 10pm for all of TV, so while the buzz may not be there anymore, every network on TV would kill for those numbers…The Big Bang Theory topped American Idol in the demos for the 30 minutes they went head to head, the first time Idol has been topped in that measure since season two. To be fair, Idol did win the night – and week – in total viewers and it dominated everything else in the demos…The Finder jumped up 29% with Idol as a lead-in, although it barely held on to 1/3 of that lead-in…Person of Interest is on a serious role, winning 9pm for scripted shows and hitting a season/series high in demos…30 Rock hit a season low in demos while Parks and Recreation was up 5%...Grey's Anatomy was down 11% but still won 9pm in demos…The Mentalist was the top total viewer and demo performer at 10pm…

FRIDAY
Shark Tank had a very strong season premiere, up 42% in the demos and 35% in totals from season two's debut and winning 8pm in demos…Chuck was up 22% in the demos, with lead-out Grimm up 29% in the demos to tie 20/20 for the night's win in that measure. Grimm was also up 27% in total viewers…CBS had all reruns but still won every hour in total viewers…

SATURDAY
The 5.8 million who tuned into Drew Peterson: Untouchable on Lifetime made it the most watched original cable movie in two years…

SUNDAY
The Giants – 49'ers game average of 57.6 million viewers made it the third most watched conference championship game in NFL history…The lead-in audience helped American Idol jump 40% in the demos from last Thursday's hour…Despite the huge audience for football, ABC's dramas held strong, with Once Upon a Time and Desperate Housewives down just a smidge while the likely Pan Am series finale was up in both totals and demos…Undercover Boss was the single biggest loser of the night, down more than 20% in totals and demos from last week…The Ravens-Patriots game was the most watched AFC Championship game in 18 years

MONDAY
House was up 19% with its first new episode of 2012, giving the show its best demos since October…Alcatraz was down only 10% in week two, a not-too-bad drop at all…A two hour Republican Debate focused edition of Rock Center with Brian Williams hit a series high in total viewers, as did lead-in Who's Still Standing…Gossip Girl was up double digits in totals and demos…The Bachelor was up 11%...Castle was up 7% in total viewers but down a smidge in the demos…

TUESDAY
The 37.75 million who watched the State of the Union represented a 12% drop from the 2011 audience for the speech…Reruns ruled the night, with NCIS posting the best total audience numbers (12+ million for a RERUN) and the replay of Sunday's American Idol easily outdistancing everything in the demos…

WEDNESDAY
Touch benefited from a strong American Idol lead-in to have the second most watched drama series premiere of the season, behind only Once Upon a Time…CSI hit season highs in totals and demos to dominate 10pm and be the most watched scripted show of the night…Criminal Minds won 9pm in total viewers…Are You There Chelsea was down 18%, meaning at this point it's simply a matter of time…American Idol crushed all comers in totals and demos for the night but was still down 11% from its season average so far…

All The Young Dudes, Carry The News
Industry News, Notes, and Hot Rumors… J.J. Abrams said that Fox and Warner Brothers are in talks for a licensing fee reduction for Fringe, the successful resolution of which would lead to a 5th season for the show…We told you a few months back about Banshee, the new series Alan Ball (True Blood, Six Feet Under) had in development with Cinemax, and now Deadline.com tells us it received a 10 episode first season order, with Emmy winning director Greg Yaitanes behind the camera for the pilot. The story follows an ex-con who takes over the identity of a just-arriving-to-town sheriff in the quaint Pennsylvania town of the title after the sheriff is murdered (before anyone in town meets him). The lead character does the job of sheriff while at the same time continuing with his criminal ways on the side, hoping his past doesn't catch up with him…Shawnee Smith, best known for her role on Becker and her work in the Saw films, will play Charlie Sheen's ex-wife on the FX comedy Anger Management...Maggie Gyllenhall, Rhys Ifans, and Bruce Norris are in talks to join Chris Cooper and Diane Wiest in the HBO pilot The Corrections…Discovery Channel has picked up a six episode first season of Unchained Reaction, a reality competition series hosted by Mythbusters' Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman… Victor Garber will guest on the new season of The Big C…Steve Buscemi will return to 30 Rock later this season…The first two seasons of Treme ran in the spring but the upcoming third season will run in the fall of 2012…Revenge continues to excel in its casting, with Courtney B Vance and Rome's James Purefoy signed for multi-episode stints…Last week we told you that Oxygen had renewed The Glee Project for a second season and now comes word that Lea Michelle will be the guest mentor on the season premiere…Madchen Amick will guest on an episode during In Plain Sight's final season…American Idol winner and future star of "Where Are They Now" segments Scotty McCreery will play himself on an episode of Hart of Dixie…Emily Maynard, who appeared on season 15 of The Bachelor and got the final rose and a proposal from Brad Womack, only to have that relationship end months later, will be The Bachelorette for ABC later this year…Kristin Chenoweth will guest on Hot in Cleveland…Summer Glau will be seen on Grey's Anatomy later this year…Morena Baccarin (Homeland) will guest on The Good Wife…Colin Hanks will play (a version of) himself on Happy Endings…Sebastian Stan (Gossip Girl) will appear on Once Upon a Time…USA has ordered a 9 episode first season of The Moment, a reality show hosted by Kurt Warner that gives people a second chance at their career dreams…Tia Carrere will do an episode of In Plain Sight…Margaret Colin (Gossip Girl) will play a love interest for Tom Selleck on Blue Bloods…What Not To Wear's Stacey London is executive producing a new TLC reality show set at a Brooklyn plus-sized clothing boutique…Simon Cowell is developing a reality competition show to find the next great DJ with Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith's production company…Fox will give Real Housewives' alum Bethenny Frankel's daytime talk show a six week trial run this summer, with stations in most of the major markets taking part…

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 usually try to avoid making the selection for this designation the same show I chose as TV Pick of the Week in the previous column but sometimes I am left no other options, as was the case this week when the season premiere of Shark Tank proved so great.

The first few segments were the same sort of fun, fast paced, and interesting because they are real life dreams being pursued entertainment we've come to expect over the first two season of the show but the final person to step in front of the sharks had a club VIP reservation company that led to what seemed like a pretty serious fight between Mark Cuban and Robert Herjavec that was more real than anything you're likely to see on "reality TV."

I frequently praise Shark Tank because of the simplicity of the premise and because it gives folks a real shot at making their dreams come true but last Friday also reminded me that one of the things that makes the show so good is that instead of a scenario where judges simply give their expert opinions on the contestants, here we've got people who are deciding whether or not to invest their own hard earned money, and we all know nothing raises the stakes like "skin in the game." Unlike other reality shows there was nothing contrived about this flare up, just a couple of business people who don't like to lose trying to top the other.

I was thrilled the ratings news for Shark Tank was so good as I am hoping it's around for a long, long time.

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…






Interesting piece from last Sunday's Outside the Lines…Last week's Suburgatory was the laugh-out-loud funniest of the series, with Chris Parnell and other recurring cast members getting their best chances to shine. Parnell was as funny as I've ever seen him and I very much like how they are establishing the Chatswin residents in a volume and quality way; all are entertaining and there are enough of them where you'll never get bored…Very strong episode of Grey's Anatomy, with Owen finally reaching the breaking point with Christina. As emotionally raw as some of the situations are, Grey's never creates plots for one episode and then drops them; whether it's Christina's abortion or Estelle's Alzheimer's, they are all part of the long term storytelling…The season premiere of Archer did an excellent job of mixing all the cool that Burt Reynolds brings to the table with everything that the show does so well and proved that you can both pay homage to someone while still making fun of them a little bit…I've known I had a television problem for some time now so I can't start a sentence about something I watched this week with, "I realized I had a problem with TV viewing when…" but suffice it to say when I found myself yelling at Taylor Dayne about putting more soy in her teriyaki sauce after Rachael Rae specifically told her not to, it dawned on me that I might be beyond help…Last week's Revenge was ice cold and proof that these writers really know what they are doing when it comes to pacing (i.e. when to twist the knife)…Tried to watch FX's new Unsupervised but there was really nothing about it that held my interest so I moved on…Mykelti Williamson got one of the best first scene character introductions in recent memory on Tuesday's Justified. Can't wait to see how he interacts with the regulars...

TV Pick Of The Week
The new HBO horseracing drama Luck has a cast that most series dream about - Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte, Dennis Farina, Kevin Dunn, Ian Hart, Richard Kind, Jill Hennessy, Kerry Condon, and Michael Gambon – not to mention a pretty serious pedigree (written by four time Emmy winner David Milch – NYPD Blue, Deadwood – and with Michael Mann as an executive producer), and I am here to say the show is quite good, albeit a bit slow. This is the definition of character driven drama, with the plot moving along really only to give the group of actors something to chew on.

One of my stock comments about TV is that I'd rather watch interesting people do nothing than see people I had no emotional investment in go through all sorts of plot twists and turns, and Luck is certainly closer to the former than the latter. By episodes three and four everyone has settled in to their parts and it's a real joy to see this master class in character acting while the plot strands start to come together.






Don't miss the series premier of Luck, Sunday at 10pm on HBO.

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

*Spartacus: Revenge premieres tonight at 10pm on Starz with a new lead actor but the same "wow" visual factor.






*The latest installment of PBS' Great Performances (tonight, 9pm) looks at the making of Tony Bennett's hit 2011 album Duets II.

*The NHL All-Star Game drops puck Sunday at 4pm on NBC, with the 2012 Molson Canadian NHL All-Star Skills Competition airing Saturday night at 7pm on the NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus).

*The 2012 NFL Pro Bowl (7pm, Sunday, NBC) is pretty meaningless but it serves as a way to give fans a little pigskin fix before next Sunday's Superbowl.

*The SAG Awards are on TBS and TNT on Sunday night at 8pm, with a red carpet pre-show airing on E! beforehand. Along with the standard statues handed to this year's top performers the ceremony will also honor Mary Tyler Moore with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

*It's the 100th episode of Gossip Girl (Monday, 8pm, The CW) – that's right, the ONE HUNDRETH EPISODE – and Blair's getting married. Or perhaps we should say, it's Blair's wedding day. What goes down on that day? I'll never tell. XOXO.

*Glee (Tuesday, 8pm, Fox) takes on the music of Michael Jackson.

*Comedy Central's Tosh.0 is back for another season this Tuesday at 10pm, followed by the series premiere of the new sketch comedy show Key & Peele




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*CBS gets an early start on Superbowl weekend hype with Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials (Wednesday, 8pm), updated this year to include standouts from last year as well as a look at which brands have produced the best ads over the years.

*Thursday's Grey's Anatomy (9pm, ABC) involves a look at an alternate reality and where all our Seattle Grace favorites would be in Ellis Grey had not developed Alzheimer's. Expect folks to look – and act – quite a bit different.

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, Family Guy, The Finder, 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, Hell on Wheels, 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 Iron Chef, The Office, One Tree Hill, Outside the Lines, Parks & Recreation, Private Practice, Project Accessory, 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, Texas Multi Mammas, 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 Friday with all the latest TV headlines! Have a great seven days!

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.