I’ve always had a special place in my heart for House.  It was the first pilot I ever saw.  (One benefit my job has is that I get to see the pilots early.)  Last night was a very intriguing episode.  It felt like it could be a stand alone movie.  With a little bit more back story…  It was very good though.

House was in the asylum, battling against a man who could hold his own against him.  House tried to battle the powers that be…then he tried to rally his troops (the other mentally ill patients).  Then he needed to “fix” one of the patients, and that turned out disastrous.  In the end, House decides he really needs help.  I’m intrigued to see where they go from here.  I’m nervous that they are toeing the line…and may be jumping the shark soon.

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I just wanted to post something quickly about FOX 47′s new fall line up.

First thing first…House.  Last season ends with House checking himself into the insane asylum.  The promos for the fall are great…”House, is that you?…Yes, how many friends do you have in the nut house?”  And Lie to Me!  Tim Roth is great!

Then, So You Think You Can Dance? is coming back for a fall season.  How cool is that?  I’m curious as to how they’re going to pull that off.  Going straight from a summer season, into a fall season.

And Glee…if you saw my post yesterday, you can tell how excited I am!!!!!!!!!!!!  I have the second episode and I am so pumped to watch it.  I am not a person who is musical, but this is still a me type show.  I was always one of the underdogs in high school.

Then Bones and Fringe are back.  Thursdays are going to be GREAT!!!  And FOX must LOVE Bones, too.  They picked it up for two more seasons. 

Brothers seems good, but it’s not really my kind of show.  Til Death is back, and that’s cool.  They’re going back to the basics with the show.  Dollhouse is also on Fridays.  Should be interesting.

And then one last thing.  Human Target is greatt!

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Okay, so I went to Vegas last week for our annual FOX Promotions Executive Conference.  What fun!!!  Well, we are always given copies of the pilots before we go so we can watch them before we head on out to the conference.  That way, we can talk about them and learn what FOX is doing to promote them, and what they would like us, on a local level, to do.  Well, the entire conference was all about Glee, FOX’s newest show that previewed after American Idol this last May.  And FOX has been doing a great job of keeping it in the public’s mind.  So our people were trying to get us all revved up about Glee.  They were doing a great job.  (I have my own Glee t-shirt, hat, notebook, pen, pencil, pom-poms, and foam finger to prove it.)  Well, on Day 2 of the conference (my last day) they said they had a surprise and boy did they.  They brought out Jane Lynch & Matthew Morrison, two of the stars of Glee.  What fun!!!  They were extremely nice and great sports about standing around to meet each of us and get their pictures taken with us.  What a way to start ou a new show.  I know that I will be faithfully watching Glee from now on.  Thanks FOX!  And thanks Jane Lynch & Matthew Morrison!!! 

Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch & Me!!!

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Sorry for those who would read me on a faithful basis.  I am some personal issues, now I’m back at it.

It’s summer, and though it a sweeps month, there’s not much on.  Two shows I’ve been trying to watch are The Listener and The Philanthropist.  The Listener is good, but I don’t think it’s going to make it.  There have been so many shows like it…Quantum Leap, Journeyman and Early Edition to name a few.  It seems like it’s a good show, but I don’t think it’ll last.  Now The Philanthropist, on the other hand, is intriguing.  Right now, both episodes have had narrators.  I don’t really care for that, but I think it works in this case.  At any rate, both of those shows seem very interesting.  I can’t wait to see how they play out.

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I have had great respect for Donald Trump.  I have an even greater respect for him now.  Last week, there was an intervention for Dennis Rodman.  I am going to have to look it up what has happened with him since the start of the show.  This week, Donald Trump fired Khloe Kardashian because she had to miss time from the tasks because she had a DUI and he did not want someone like that working for him, even in this aspect.  He didn’t want Khloe’s charity to take the hit, so he donated $20,000 to her charity even though he fired her.  I really have a new respect for him.

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I was really excited for Celebrity Apprentice to start.  I mean really excited.  The first episode was great.  The guys team proved to be idiotic.  Andrew Dice Clay was quickly voted off.  The next week, my opinion changed.  One of the people I was excited to see among the list of celebrities was Scott Hamilton.  Great guy!  I LOVED to watch him skate.  Then suddenly I come to watch the episode where he was the project manager.  Scott Hamilton turned out to be an idiot.  He completely ignored pertinant advice from Tom Green.  Someone who I have never been a fan of.  Tom and Scott fought like you wouldn’t believe.  And I was taking Tom’s side.  I would never have guessed that.  Well, Scott was fired.  This week Tom was the PM.  Guess what?  He turned into a complete idiot.  Him and Dennis Rodman took off and got drunk.  Then Tom showed up late and Dennis just didn’t show up.  Tom was fired.  Dennis was given strict advice from Donald Trump to shape up or he’d be next.  And who’s turning out to be my favorite on the guy’s team?  Jesse James…Wow…wonder what next week will bring and if the guys will ever shape their act up.

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Heroes returned on Monday.  And what a return.  Before I get into talking about the show I want to explain a little something.  I am not into politics.  I am into art and creativity.  I will tell you however that I LOVE it when a television show or anything that isn’t considered strictly political (like your prime time viewing) sneaks in political statements and references.  I am even prouder when I actually catch them. 

I used to watch reruns of MASH all the time in high school.  It wasn’t until I got to college that I realized the political implications of the show though.  MASH was set during the Korean conflict, but was trying to make political statements about the Vietnam War. 

So, now back to Heroes…I hated season 2 of Heroes.  Hated, hated, hated it.  They’re superheroes I want them to be superheroes.  I don’t want them to try and give up their powers (and they collectively gave up their powers) and try to lead normal lives.  The first part of this season brought back hope though.  They had the company back and it heroes versus villians and I LOVED it.  Now we’re back for the final half of the season and what do all the heroes do?  They are trying to live normal lives, well some of them are.  For example, Parkman is trying to lead a normal life, but Daphne isn’t having an easy time at doing the same.  It had me scared to begin with, but lo and behold, the show ended on a good note (despite the fact that the plane was crashing.)  Good old Claire came to the rescue and led the other heroes to try and break free.  So I can’t wait to see next week’s episode.  If the heroes are on the run, this season might work.

Now, back to my ramblings at the  beginning.  When I watched the show, I didn’t think much of the orange jump suits they had the heroes wearing as they were carting them off in the plane, but it suddenly hit me when Nathan started pulling Claire’s bag off her head along with the head set and the black out goggles and the sedative.  I thought that it was a little too close to what I would imagine the prisoners at Guatanamo Bay would be going through when they were transferred.  So I had to watch the commentary they post online (I LOVE THOSE COMMENTARIES!!!).  And Milo Ventimiglia (Peter), Tim Kring (creator), and the episode director provided the commentary.  The episode director said that he was trying to go for a Guatanamo Bay look.  So, yeah, I love it when shows try and make political statements.  When main stream media does political statements right, they rock!!!  Over and out.  I’ll try and write about something tomorrow…

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I started watching Heroes because of a morbid curiosity with the commercials they had before the premiere.  A Japanese guy who sat at his office desk concentrating on a clock with Japanese characters…who then stands up shouts (in Japanese) "I DID IT!"  The other commercial was the one of a cheerleader standing on a bridge things of sorts and jumping off.  She stands up and says something like, "Attempt number 17…"  Talking about intriguing.  Who were these people? 

I am not a Superhero fanatic.  Although, I LOVED Lois and Clark…I am a romantic.  And I’ve seen all three Spiderman movies.  I just watched DareDevil for the first time a couple of weeks ago.  I haven’t seen Elektra.  I loved Ironman, but haven’t seen the new Incredible Hulk.  I really have no interest in seeing the new Punisher movie.  So I guess I’m kind of ho-hum, middle of the line when it comes to Superheroes. 

Now last night, Heroes finished Volume 3 "Villians".  Some people have said that Heroes is ready to jump the shark, but I’m still fascinated.  It may be the morbid curiosity.  I mean Volume 2 "Generations" just plain sucked.  Volume 4 "Fugitives" has me worried, but still VERY FASCINATED.  Are they just going to crash, or are the writers going to pull Heroes up again?  We can find out after the Superbowl I guess. 

Oh, and I also hope they bring Micah back.  He was one of my favorite characters.

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Law and Order:SVU has always been such a good show.  Except…it’s losing steam.  Stabler flies off the handle WAY too much.  Benson gets too involved.  In a real situation she would be forced to take time off.  She was raped.  And yet, she’s back to working with rapists and rape victims.  I know we’re supposed to suspend belief and all, but it’s almost a bit too much.

We’ll have to see how much longer they can keep going.  Law & Order and Law & Order:CI are both hanging on by a thread.  Maybe it’s time to bury one of the longest running series on TV.

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I know I’m a sap.  Happy endings are my thing.  I love sappy books, sappy movies, and sappy shows.  I’m more than willing to suspend my belief if there’s going to be a happy ending. 

That being said I can’t stand Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.  Those guys do a wonderful job, but they are giving people stuff, not hope, not changing attitudes.

Last night Secret Millionaire premiered.  That show is wonderful, WONDERFUL!  I am not one taken to crying for any reason, and yet I found myself in tears by the end of the episode.  Greg and Cole had a certain assureness when they went into this adventure.  (For those of you who don’t know, the show is about a millionaire who goes undercover and lives a week on welfare wages…$150.  They have to find a place to live and generally start making a life.  All they have is the clothes on their back and $150 in their pocket.)  Greg and Cole changed their tunes once they met Linda, a construction worker who had been homeless for over a year after breaking her back doing some home repair.  She gave them a job and then even invited them over for breakfast the next morning to give them pointers on how to make it when you were "down and out".  The pair then met a lady in the grocery store who spent all her social security money on feed 30+ people a night.  Anyone who came to her house hungry or cold was given a meal and a blanket.  The two followed her home and helped cook supper for the gang there.  A lot of whom were children.  Cole and Greg went to a convenience store to buy some food and saw that they were collecting money for a little girl who had bone cancer.  They asked to meet her and when they did they brought her a teddy bear.  The family was just going deeper and deeper into debt trying to save their little girl. 

Cole and Greg’s lives were turned around upon seeing what they did in that one week.  They ended up giving Linda $25,000 to giver her a leg up and catch up on bills.  They gave the lady $50,000 and a whole bunch of toys for the kids.  For the girl with bone cancer, they gave her parents $50,000 to help catch up on medical expenses.  I have a feeling that Cole and Greg are going to end up going back and visiting that little town they spent a week in.  Their lives were changed by what they did, along with the lives of those they met.  Secret Millionaire is just what the world needs right now.  I can’t wait for more!

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