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Season Finales Sunday 5/13/12
Survivor: One World – CBS 8/7c – 2 hour season finale. The first ever all female final five battle for the Survivor crown. Someone breaks down and there are plenty of tears. A reunion follows the crowning of the winner.
Once Upon A Time – ABC 8/7c – Season 1 finale. Love this show. I need to catch up on a couple of episodes but great show. Emma and Regina have to work together to save Henry, Charming tries to escape to get to Snow White but she has already taken the poison apple from the queen.
Desperate Housewives – ABC 9/8c – 2 hour Series finale. Eight seasons and countless deaths, divorces, affairs and secrets and the end has come for our ladies in Wisteria Lane. I watched maybe 3 out of 8 seasons of this show. It was good at one point and then just got ridiculous. It was a good run. Many shows are barely trying to survive a season let alone run for 8 years. On tonight’s finale, Trip pleads with Bree to tell him about the night of Alejandro’s murder; Gaby tries to find a way to save Bree; Susan tries to keep the sale of her house private until she can tell her friends; Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany) returns with a job opportunity for Lynette; the women agree to take care of Mrs. McCluskey when they learn she wants to die at home; and Renee discovers that Ben has been thrown in jail.
American Dad – FOX 9:30/8:30c – Season 7 finale (How has this been on for that long?) Stan takes Steve to Mexico to help him grow up but when they are kidnapped by a drug cartel only Steve can free them.
Saturday Night Live Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell hosted last night’s SNL with musical guest Usher and it was pretty great. This was on of the funniest of the season, give or take a few sketches. The episode started off with some great Obama and Biden stuff with Ferrell reprising his classic George W. Bush impersonation. The episode also featured many guest stars (Ana Gasteyer, Liam Neeson, Will Forte). One of the best parts was when they rolled out the 100th digital short. It featured all the faves from past shorts like Shy Ronnie, Natalie Portman, Michael Bolton, etc. So funny. Check it out.
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Season Finales Thursday 05/10/12
Finales Finales and more finales. Many of our favorites shows air their final episodes of the season tonight. What are you going to be watching?
The Big Bang Theory – CBS 8/7c – Season 5 finale. The gang rushes to put a wedding together when Howard and Bernadette decide they want to be married before he goes on his NASA launch. We also get to see Howard’s reaction to learning Leonard proposed to Penny.
The Vampire Diaries – CW 8/7c – Season 3 finale. Tonight a wonderful season of one of the best shows comes to an end. In this episode, Elena reminisces on simpler times when her parents were still alive. Elsewhere Stefan and Damon go on a mission and Caroline and Tyler have to make a decision that is life altering.
The Office – NBC 9/8c – Season 8 finale. This season has truly been the worst. I wish this finale was the series finale. There was maybe one episode where I laughed consistently throughout. James Spader’s character is out after this season and they want to do a Dwight spinoff. Why?? I hope NBC renews it for a 13 episode 9th and final season. On tonight’s finale, Andy returns to Dunder Mifflin as a janitor, with a secret plan to stage a coup. Dwight goes to some crazier than usual lengths to steal a DNA sample from Angela’s baby in order to prove his paternity.
The Secret Circle – CW 9/8c – Season 1 concludes with Jake, Melissa and Adam try to save Faye from the witch hunters; Cassie and Diana must use their dark magic to unleash the crystal skull; Dawn and Charles discover a new way to get their power back. I hope this show doesn’t get cancelled because it started really slow but got really good. I think it fits well with its sister show, The Vampire Diaries.
Parks and Recreation – NBC 9:30/8:30c – Season 4 finale. Everyone is waiting for the election results. Paul Rudd continues his guest role as Bobby Newport.Saturday Night Live: SNL Promo: Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell is back this Saturday as host on an all-new SNL with musical guest Usher. Here is hoping its a funny one and that they do some of Ferrell’s classic SNL skits. I need a Celebrity Jeopardy or a Spartan cheerleaders skit. Here is the promo for Saturday’s show
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Check out some of Ferrell’s old sketches.
Watch Ferrell on SNL this Saturday on NBC at 11:30pm/10:30c
Summer 2012 Shows and Premiere Dates
Summer, Summer, Summer Time!!!! Wooo it’s summer time or at least starting to feel like it. That means all of our fav fall and spring shows are coming to an end. Well what am I going to watch this summer? Well glad you asked. There is a ton coming this summer for everyone. Whatever you want from dramas, comedies, sketch shows, and reality shows (soooooooo much reality). Below you can find calendars of all the premieres happening this summer from the month of May to August.
May is coming up and many of our favorite shows are about to take their summer hiatus. I was going to do this myself but TVLine has put together a nice calender of when they all end so in the spirit of laziness check it out. I will be doing a post on all the renewals and cancellations as well as one on when all the debut dates for summer shows are.
REVENGE IS BACK. Do You Even Care Anymore??
ABC’s Revenge is back again after a 6 week hiatus. Yeah 6 weeks. Does anyone really care anymore? The way people’s attention spans go, a show can’t take that many breaks in between and expect the audience to come back to it. Luckily the show is back for the rest of the season (6 more episodes) until the finale which airs May 23rd. If you have forgotten what has been happening check out this episode on ABC that recaps the whole season so far as well as the Huffington Post that did a nice little, if not slightly complicated roadmap to the show. Revenge is back tonight on ABC at 10/9c. Watch the promo and some sneak peeks at Episode 17, “Doubt.”
Weekly TV Wrap up
I watched a lot of great tv this past week. Here are some shows that you should give a try.
Happy Endings – This show had it’s season finale this past Wednesday and it was one of the funniest episodes of the season. I just love this show. The whole cast is just sooooo funny. If you haven’t watched this show, GET ON IT. I I don’t know how many times I have to tell you. I literally laugh out loud to every episode. Here is a clip from the finale where Jane (Eliza Coupe) finally gets asked to be in the wedding.
Between this show and New Girl, I get a pretty good ab workout from all the laughing. Speaking of…
New Girl – This past Tuesday’s episode of the show was hilarious. Everyone finds out about Cece (Hannah Simone) and Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and it is the greatest thing that could have happened. Was was dying this whole episode. There was a line by Schmidt after everyone finds out that just about killed me. He says, “I am so sorry you had to hear about it like this. But can we take a minute to celebrate me? It’s like I’m having Indian every night!” Really!!! It’s just so funny. This is another ensemble comedy that has only gotten funnier as the season goes by. Can’t wait to see what’s up next for the gang. Watch the episode where Winston (Larmone Morris) finds out about Schmidt and Cece as well as other episodes of New Girl on Hulu. Be sure to catch new episodes on Tuesdays at 9/8c on FOX.
Scandal – Shonda Rhimes new show that premiered this past Thursday was good. I thought the premiere was pretty solid. There were a couple of things that bothered me a little here and there like Columbus Short’s (Stomp The Yard, This Christmas, Ex-Britney Spears choreographer) acting but I can get over that because he’s nice to look at. I don’t watch any Rhimes shows currently on air just because I never really tried to. Once I missed the first season of those shows I never tried to. So I wanted to give this one a try. Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn make the show for me. Washington was great. She pretty much carried the show and Goldwyn, I have liked from several of his movies (The Pelican Brief, Kiss The Girls) and guest stints on stuff like The Good Wife and Law And Order: Criminal Intent. The show was a little slow but picked up and it has potential. The ratings weren’t as great as they hoped but they were solid. I look forward to watching some more. Watch new episodes Thursdays at 10/9c on ABC.
Bent – This was a show that NBC premiered 3 or 4 weeks ago with no promotion and put in a really terrible time slot with a really bad lead in. You would think that the show was something awful that they were trying to get rid of. Turns out not so. The show while not anything groundbreaking or the absolute best show on tv, was pretty solid. It starred Amanda Peete (The Whole Nine Yards, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip) as Alex, a recently divorced woman who downsizes into a smaller house and hires Pete (David Walton; Perfect Couples, Burlesque), a free-spirited ladies man and recovering gambling addict who desperately needs this gig with Alex to jumpstart his life and prove that he is no longer a screw-up. The show got great reviews; some of the best reviews NBC had received for any of their new comedies. NBC needs to get with the fact that they are a 4th place network and publicize their shows for people to watch. I’ll stop ranting and just say check out all 6 episodes of the show on Hulu.
The Voice – It’s only season 2 of this show and something is off already. It just isn’t that good anymore. I can’t exactly pinpoint what it is but it probably could be that the singers aren’t great at all this season. I think there might be two or three good singers out of the bunch and that is sad when last season most of the voices were pretty great and that kept the show really interesting. I’m losing the victory on this one and it just might get cut from the dvr soon. Watch new episodes every Monday at 8pm/7c and Tuesday at 9pm/8c. Here is one of the better singers Jamar Rogers from this season.
Saturday Night Live: Bein’ Quirky With Zooey Deschanel
Sofia Vergara hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend and one of the better skits was the Bein’ Quirky bit with Abby Elliot as Zooey Deschanel. Her impersonation of Deschanel is pretty spot on. Vergara plays The Nanny’s Fran Drescher in an ok impersonation. Kristen Wiig is also in this skit as Zooey’s best friend, Drew Barrymore. It’s hilarious.
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Also check out this other skit they did spoofing Andy Cohen and his Watch What Happens Live show on Bravo. It’s hilarious because its so true.
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