TV Right Now: The good, the bad and the totally sucky

[doodler]

Tony, no Grimm comments?
I can hardly wait for NEXT week!

[bubba]

I don't know a single (or married) person who watches it and it seldom gets any mention on the tv sites I frequent. I gave it up years ago. I did hear... on the View, I think... that one of the lesbian couple is going to die. Always liked them.

Pretty much everyone I know is still watching..


Nearly tripling its lead-in at 9pm in Adults 18-49 (+191%), ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy finished as the highest-rated series in its hour for the 4th week in a row to once again register as Thursday’s #1 drama. Winning the 9 o’clock hour by wide margins, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy defeated CBS’ Person Of Interest by 28%, Fox’s Idol-inflated Touch by 52% and NBC’s comedy block by 60% (The Office/Parks and Recreation). Additionally, Grey’s qualified as Thursday’s top-rated TV series with Women 18-49 and Women 18-34 (5th straight week).



I know they are going to kill off a regular - if it is one of the girls, so be it.........as long as it isn't her...


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0708381/

[Passion]

Maybe Doodler's friends are closet watchers!

[doodler]

No, I don't think so. We generally talk about all the very different shows we watch... I even admit to The Bachelor the seasons I watch. One of my friend is very high on Supernatural. And another doesn't seem to be able to get enough of the Kardashwhomevers. Of course, few of us are in that 18-49 group which might explain it. Somehow McDreamy becomes McPutasockinit after age 50.

[Tony_]

Tony, no Grimm comments?
I can hardly wait for NEXT week!

  Nothing much last night, better than the usual.  This time, Bat people who kill by screeching.  At the end, I fully expected the guy married to the pretty bat lady, and who was the ultimate financial beneficiary of all the mayhem, to be a critter of his own kind.  But they didn't go there.

[doodler]

I had the same thought!
My dogs were not bothered by the bat screeching but did NOT like the bat-killing machine at all.

And no comments on the surprise in the previews?

[doodler]

Re: The Voice,  Gil, I didn't see that attitude, but then, I miss a lot of stuff.

Highlight of the evening, for me, Cyndi Lauper and last season's Beverly McFarlan doing a wild duet.  I wish they'd get Annie Lennox on the show as a guest.  She's my hero  !

The Kansas opera guy survived to mangle another song, next week.  He'll probably do another of my favorites, "Hallelujah", in faux Italian accents.  I think Doodler stayed up all night voting for him, just to be  Doodler-ish.

Cee Lo's two were the worst to go up against each other.  Both were on line for winning the season, IMO.

Tony,
I saw Chris' performance on E this evening and just don't get what your problem with him is. He was terrific. Since Dancing/Stars is no biggie this week, I may watch the Voice. During the auditions, Chris was the ONLY one I liked or would have voted for or could remember after the closing credits. I think I even posted that here. THIS time I mean it...
GO CHRIS

[Tony_]

Tony,
I saw Chris' performance on E this evening and just don't get what your problem with him is. He was terrific. Since Dancing/Stars is no biggie this week, I may watch the Voice. During the auditions, Chris was the ONLY one I liked or would have voted for or could remember after the closing credits. I think I even posted that here. THIS time I mean it...
GO CHRIS

    Well, my problem is that he's one-dimensional and that dimension absurd.  Can a Lithuanian do rap music?  Possibly.  But must every performance be faux rap?  The guy is from KANSAS.  He does Italian opera very well.  But when he transfers to U.S. music, he does it all, in Kansas-Italian. To be the Voice, he ought to use the power he projects, in American.

  As for the previews of next week's Grimm, I don't remember anything much.

Your dogs.  Didn't their reaction to the machine seem, well, a little strange?  First, how could it actually reach the dog-level pitch (which we can't hear, but they can) over the tv ? Does the machine work?  And, if so, weren't you, well, wondering?

Consider trying this: check their fangs ( I always checked my dogs teeth; it's not a biggie, even if they did find it embarrassing, since they all believe they are people).  If they don't suddenly morph, there's the end of it.  You are in no danger.  Or, hmmmm....your neighbors, either.

[doodler]

T, Chris sang Ave Maria this week and I've not heard him sing anything else (except the first night which was an aria, I think.) So perhaps you have a point.

As for Grimm, dogs hear as much as people do. They hear MORE than people do. Mine didn't like the bat-killing machine sound when it started out... it was a pitch I heard as well and I didn't like it much either. But I also didn't like the bat sounds and that didn't seem to bother them. The bat only made noise once (on camera) but the machine was on several times and the dogs reacted every time. The two didn't seem all that different to me, but....
The previews showed Monroe telling Grimmy that his partner... Hank?... recognised him as a blutbad. How did you miss that? And what does that make Hank? Unless he's one of them.. Which makes me wonder if he knows about the Chief of Ds or whatever the head them is. Don't the beasties recognise each other?

[doodler]

zap2it has a long list of cancelled and in trouble shows. I picked the ones I remember we've discussed here.
Definitely done: Terra Nova and The Firm (bummer for me as I like both)
On the bubble: Cougar Town, The River, Missing and both the bitch shows (ABC)
A Gifted Man, CSI Miami and NY, Unforgettable (CBS)
Alcatraz and Touch (Fox)
Awake, Harry's Law (NBC)

[Tony_]

....The previews showed Monroe telling Grimmy that his partner... Hank?... recognised him as a blutbad. How did you miss that?

  Didn't miss it, but they always have some way to make things normal again.  Officer Wu never got life-paralyzed by that cookie-potion, nor even questioned it very much, so, maybe the people of Portland are not remarking on the unusual, which characteristic may explain the Vessen cheerfully moving in and settling down.

 Sherlock, Season II, is on PBS tonight, and supposedly is new.  I can't remember.  I hope the listing is right.

[Marz]

Letitia Dean (Sharon) starts filming again this month at Eastenders, Sharon should be on screen at the start of July, I cant wait, favourite soap character ever

some info on Sharon from her wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Watts

plus she was married to the most gorgeous man in soap Dennis, may he rest in peace!

[Lyle (Mooska)]

zap2it has a long list of cancelled and in trouble shows. I picked the ones I remember we've discussed here.
Definitely done: Terra Nova and The Firm (bummer for me as I like both)
On the bubble: Cougar Town, The River, Missing and both the bitch shows (ABC)
A Gifted Man, CSI Miami and NY, Unforgettable (CBS)
Alcatraz and Touch (Fox)
Awake, Harry's Law (NBC)

A few weeks ago Fox already renewed their Tuesday night lineup: Glee, New Girl and Raising Hope

Of the above, I stopped watching CSI Miami when it moved to Sunday night.
I'd still watch it on another night.  I watched most every Unforgettable episode
this season.  It's uneven, but it's gotten better.  It deserves to keep getting
better.  I love Alacatraz.

Anyone who watches Unforgettable:  One thing that bugs me and I'm not sure why,
is the clothes the lead woman wears.  It just doesn't seem that's what a person with
her job would wear, does it?  And she always wears the same thing.

[jack]

there is NOTHING i enjoy more than stumbling onto a marathon of a series new to me, and that it turns out that i really enjoy.  i find that much more enjoyable than watching a show in one hour driblets.  i rarely remember when and where a particular show can be found, and being totally male i never look anything up, so its a fractured experience at best.  i have been known to devote 10 hours to a good marathon.

today nothing so severe was required of me, and best of all, the episode i stumbled in one was the FIRST.    our PBS, if not all, ran a 3 episode stretch of SHERLOCK, culminating in a cliffhanger featuring a wicked version of moriarty.  and tonight, the 4th episode will air, so i don't have to wait for, and likely miss, the 4th episode, hopefully concluding this particular encounter with the twisted genius.

i an enjoying the interplay of sherlock and watson, including the psychosexual codependence as they are playing it.  its kind of hilarious how regularly and without raised eyebrows people assume they are a couple, including usually dismissing their protestations as residual closetedness.

i am also enjoying the PBS version of geneology, finding your roots.  it is intriguingly presented, and not an hourlong commercial for the mormon archives, admittedly the most complete, but operated as a for profit enterprise benefiting the mormon church.

i have perused THE VOICE, but found the talent this year to be well below par as achingly illustrated by the return of last years talent, particularly vicci martinez & ceelo, and beverly macfarland & cyndi lauper.  both of them knocked it out of the park, and coincidentally both lesbians.  team gay was well represented that year.

i often mention shows from other countries that i find posted on the web, sometimes by the producers, and sometimes sub rosa.  there is a british and australian voice, likewise brit and aussie got talents.  this year the british voice has got a deep talent bench, i favor a wild child named vince kidd, and australia has an equally deep talent pool.  i can't understand how such relatively small countries can regularly outshine the US, in all but dancing, and there, canada and australia have held their own.

i will be at my tv on PBS for quite a while longer tonight.

[doodler]

Has anyone noticed the commercials for the new singing cometition, Duets? Blah.