Hannibal is back tonight!!!

Up at 8:00 on ABC it's a Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night followed by the NBA Countdown at 8:31 & the NBA Finals, game one at 9:00.  Also up at 9:00 on CNN it's the 2nd season finale of Somebody's Gotta Do It.

At 10:00 on Food it's the 5th season premiere of Beat Bobby Flay, NBC has the 3rd season premiere of Hannibal and then on SyFy it's the 5th season summer finale of Lost Girl.

Videos for new shows!!

Here are some videos showing you all of the fun to come this summer & then some on TV!

ABC Family:



ABC Upfront...check out previews for everything that's upcoming later this year.



NBC - Aquarius:



Hannibal:



FOX:



CW:

Hannibal season finale tonight!

Last night at 12:01 Tumble Leaf premiered on Amazon.  Tonight at 8:00 on Lifetime it's the return of Betty White's Off Their Rockers and CW has part 2 of 2 of Labyrinth.

On Discovery at 10:00 it's the series premiere of Chrome Underground and then on NGC it's the 1st season finale of Showdown of the Unbeatables.  At 10:01 on NBC it's the 2nd season finale of Hannibal.

Final TV renewals released

ABC - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Castle, Grey's Anatomy, Last Man Standing, Modern Family, Nashville, Once Upon a Time, Resurrection, Revenge, Scandal, The Goldbergs, The Middle


CBS - 2 Broke Girls, Blue Bloods, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, CSI, Elementary, Hawaii Five-0, Mike & Molly, Mom, NCIS, NCIS:LA, Person of Interest, The Big Bang Theory, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, The Millers, Two and a Half Men (renewed for final season)
  

CW - Arrow, Beauty & The Beast, Hart of Dixie, Reign, Supernatural, The 100, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries


FOX - Bob's Burgers, Bones, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Family Guy, Glee, New Girl, Sleepy Hollow, The Following, The Mindy Project, The Simpsons


NBC - About a Boy, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Grimm, Hannibal, Law & Order: SVU, Parenthood (renewed for final season), Parks and Recreation, The Blacklist 

Ramblings about TV shows, most of which I'm sick of

As we’re moving through the spring season I have to take a moment to talk some TV.  I don't know if it's me or what but shows just really don't hold my interest as much as they used to...probably because they aren't Breaking Bad & nothing compares to that.  First up, I’ve dumped Bates Motel…the show just plain sucks.  The first season was good, we got to see where it all started with Norman & his mother except it’s in current times not when it should be & that has always bothered me.  Anyway, I watched the first episode & the after show & I recorded the 2^nd but by the time the 3^rd aired the 2^nd was still hanging out on the DVR which tells me…you’re just not that into this show.

The next show I’m noticing that’s starting to spend more and more time on the DVR & less and less time pouring into my eyeballs is Revenge.  The first season of that show was so good but now it’s just getting more & more soap opera like with too many story lines to follow & it’s just plain dumb.  I find myself reading magazines or playing with my phone when it is on because I don’t really care…just kill the entire Grayson family (or Emily) & be done with it.  Half of the plot twists are just so unbelievable & unrealistic that I’m no longer entertained I’m just always saying things like “oh come on” or “as if” at my TV when I’m watching.  This brings me to my next thing…The People’s Couch.

The People’s Couch is freaking awesome & I want to be on it…sure, I live alone BUT I am always talking to the TV & or my dog.  The dog doesn’t offer much feedback but she’s still someone to talk to.  Long before this show started I said I was going to set up a webcam & let people watch me watch TV & then said “like anyone would, how dumb” and like 3 years later this show pops up!  My only peeve about the show is that you have to live in CA to be on it…not sure why though as that makes no sense to me at all.  The old ladies that were added this season crack me up as does the family who watches in bed, they are a trip.

Chrisley…dude…that guy is gay, annoying, controlling & funny…I hate this show; I watched the first 2 episodes & felt so bad for the family I couldn’t keep watching.  His one liners are not enough to keep me tuned in!

I’m still recording & watching Hannibal but it’s so gross I don’t know if I can keep it up…I spend so much time covering my eyes it’s getting a little pointless to watch not to mention that it confuses the shit out of me, I have no clue what’s going on half the time.

How I Met Your Mother…only 2 episodes left until I am free of this Godforsaken shitty excuse for entertainment.  Last season I watched every episode thinking “I can’t do this next season, this has run its course” and then they said this would be the last season so I opted to finish what I started & every week is like torture.  The show hasn’t been funny in many years, the story falters all the time as various points don’t connect in relation to the outcome & all in all, the only thing funny on this show is NPH.  Then in the last episode there was 1 funny joke & it warranted no laughs from the “audience”…when Lily made the remark about not wanting Marshall to have to look at her tattoo every year on his birthday.  Hello…she’s talking about him getting anal for his birthday as the tattoo was on her back…that’s the funniest joke the show has ever had & it fell completely flat which just tells me that the editors don’t even find it funny anymore!

Is anyone else shocked that Married to Medicine is coming back to Bravo? I sure am & I’m surprised any of those women are still doctors…you couldn’t pay me to see any of them & I would think that the show would ruin their careers.  This also reminds me that I'm glad to see Blood Sweat & Heels go...that one was awful but then again so was Married to Medicine so maybe it will be renewed but I hope not.

Hannibal is back tonight

Tonight at 9:00 on Spike it's the 10th season premiere of Bellator MMA Live, TNT has the series premiere of Inside Job and on We it's Marriage Boot Camp: Where are they Now?  On Lifetime at 10:00 it's the 3rd season premiere of Betty White's off Their Rockers, A&E has the 5th season premiere of Beyond Scared Straight, Discovery has the series premiere of Game of Stones, H2 has the series premiere of Hangar 1 and on TNT it's the series premiere of Save our Business.

Hannibal is back for it's 2nd season on NBC at 10:01 and then at 11:59 it's Joe Rogan: Live from the Tabernacle on Comedy.

Season and series premieres in February

Here's a lineup of what's to come this February in primetime, new shows are marked with an * and linked to a trailer for the show.   

Saturday, February 8th on NBC & other networks, the winter Olympics from Sochi begin at 8:00

Sunday, February 9th on AMC it's The Walking Dead at 9:00, Talking Dead at 10:00 then Comic Book Men is at Midnight

Tuesday, February 11th it's Twisted on ABCF at 9:00

Friday, February 14th it's House of Cards on Netflix at Midnight

Monday, February 17th it's Star-Crossed* on CW at 9:00 & Jimmy Fallon begins his new job on The Tonight Show at 11:35

Tuesday, February 18th it's Tosh.0 on Comedy at 10:00

Saturday, February 22nd it's Ripper Street on BBCA at 9:00 & a sneak peak of About a Boy* at 11:00 on NBC

Sunday, February 23rd it's The Amazing Race at 8:00 and a sneak peak of Growing up Fisher* is on NBC at 10:30

Monday, February 24th it's The Voice on NBC at 8:00, at 9:00 on TNT it's Dallas & on Logo it's RuPaul's Drag Race, at 12:35 Seth Meyers begins his new job on Late Night

Tuesday, February 25th it's Rizzoli & Isles at 9:00 on TNT, About a Boy is on NBC, at 9:30 Growing up Fisher is on NBC, at 10:00 on ABC it's Mind Games* and TNT has Perception

Wednesday, February 26th it's The Amazing RAce at 8:00 on CBS, Mixology* on ABC at 9:30, on FX at 10:00 it's The Americans, FXX has Legit and on FXX at 10:30 it's Ali G. Rezurection

Thursday, February 27th it's The Red Road* on Sundance at 9:00, at 10:00 on History it's Vikings, and IFC has Portlandia

Friday, February 28th it's Betty White's Off Their Rockers on Lifetime at 8:00, Hannibal is on NBC at 10:00

Wilfred is back tonight

Tonight at 8:00  on ABC it's the Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night followed by the Kia NBA Countdown at 8:31 and then the game 7 at 9:00.

On E! at 10:00 it's a special Brooke Burke-Charvet, OWN has the special Our America with Lisa Ling and on FX it's the 3rd season premiere of Wilfred and then at 10:01 on NBC it's the 1st season finale of Hannibal.

The 4th season finale of Gigolos is on Showtime at 11:00 and on FX it's the 2nd season finale of Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.

The Office comes to an end today

On FOX at 8:00 it's the two hour plus 12th season finale of American Idol, CBS has the 6th season finale of Big Bang Theory, NBC has the special The Office: Retrospective, and on CW it's the 4th season finale of The Vampire Diaries.

At 9:00 on CW it's the 1st season finale of Beauty and the Beast, Discovery has the special Zombie Preppers, ABC has the 9th season finale of Grey's Anatomy and then on NBC it's the seventy-five minute finale of The Office.  Then at 9:01 on CBS it's the two hour 1st season finale of Elementary.

The 1st season finale of American's Worst Tattoos is on TLC at 10:00, at 10:02 on ABC it's the 2nd season finale of Scandal, at 10:15 it's a forty-five minute episode of Hannibal and then at 10:30 on ID it's the 1st season finale of Karma's a Bitch.

Hannibal & How to Live With Your Parents...I watched them

First up new this week was How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) which I recorded & was expecting to not like.  I'm not the biggest fan of Sarah Chalke to begin with but I do like Brad Garrett & Elizabeth Perkins so I figured I'd check it out.  I'm happy I did record this because I really enjoyed it...I even liked the kid which is just unheard of for me.  There were a couple things that I thought were stupid or confusing like at the beginning Polly (Chalke) and her kid arrive at the home of her mom & step-dad because Polly left her husband Julian so they need a place to stay.  They are in an old beat up VW Bug & both look a mess & they happen to catch the fun loving, always drinking, never serious parents in the middle of some one on one time.  The show flashes to 6 months later & Polly has a job at a smoothie place & a brand new VW Bug, the parents are exactly the same & the ex Julian is always at the house.  

If she can afford a brand new car then whey are they still living with the parents?  If she was leaving her husband then why he is always at the house?  It's only been 6 months & she's already divorced & dating...this was confusing to me because we all know that's never the case & if she is still so chummy with her recent ex-husband then why did they divorce?  It's pretty clear from the first episode that Julian still loves her & that she still has feelings for him too...not just because he's the father of her kid but because she always has.  All in all, this show is funny, the parents are the best part & I plan to continue watching it but it has the possibility of getting really old really fast.  I also wish the name were about 10 words shorter!

Next up is Hannibal...this show was beyond confusing for the first 20 minutes & well I guess was confusing all the way through.  First off I can't tell when this show is supposed to take place...theoretically it should take place in the 80's but I believe I saw a smart phone involved at one point so this must take place in current times.  I don't like these shows that are made from movies (which in this case were based on books to begin with) & change the time frame of things like Bates Motel...Norman Bates & Hannibal Lecter wouldn't have had iPhones...period.  So anyway, I thought this show was about Hannibal Lecter but really it's not, it's about a special agent/teacher named Will who has the ability to empathize with serial killers & put himself in their mind frame to figure out why/what they are doing.  This is the most confusing part because you think something is happening but really it's not, he's just thinking it so then the next time something awful happens you think he's just thinking it but it's really happening.  

In the first case they are on the trail of a cannibal & we see Hannibal cutting up lungs (which was unsettling & disgusting) & assume they are looking for him but no they aren't...they actually use Hannibal to assist with the case.  I"m assuming that he's not yet "Hannibal the Cannibal" or he would be in prison & not still seeing patients.  Apparently he's also being used to keep an eye on Will as a patient but it seemed to me like Will wasn't aware of this & neither were we.  As I sit here thinking about the episode I'm even more confused than I was watching it...I don't know why Hannibal is even on the show because it's not really about him, it's about Will.  Laurence Fishburne plays Agent Jack Crawford who in Silence of the Lambs was white & middle aged...now he's black & older than middle aged & it's 20+ years later?  Honestly, the time frame is the most difficult of all of this...they have taken characters we know & muddled them all together to make some TV show that doesn't relate to all of the other stories that we already read/watched decades ago!!  For instance, in Silence of the Lambs, Crawford was younger than Lecter and in this TV Show he's older...Silence was made in 1991...it's now 2013 & as I said the show seems to take place in current times.  

I think I might just be too much of a realist for this TV Show...I will give it 3 episodes like I do every show I try but based on just the 1 I'm not much of a fan yet.  The show is full of creepy & gross & some scary too but overall it's just full of confusion.

Hannibal premieres tonight

On TLC at 8:00 it's the series premiere of Casino Confidential and then at 9:00 it's the series premiere of America's Worst Tattoos and on FOX it's a special episode of New Girl.

At 9:30 on AMC it's the 1st season finale of Freakshow and on FOX it's a special episode of The Mindy Project then at 9:31 on NBC Go On moves to a new time slot.

The 1st season finale of Big Rig Bounty Hunters is on History at 10:00, on AMC it's the 2nd season finale of Comic Book Men, ID has the 5th season finale of Disappeared, TBS has the 2nd season premiere of Men at Work, on Animal Planet it's the 2nd season finale of North Woods Law, TLC has the 3rd season premiere of NY Ink, Discovery airs the 2nd season finale of Property Wars, on Bravo it's the 5th season premiere of Tabatha Takes Over and on DIY it's the 2nd season premiere of Yardcore.

Hannibal premieres on NBC at 10:01 and at 11:00 on AMC it's the 1st season finale of Immortalized.

What's New in April

I missed the first two days but here's your premieres going forward through the rest of the month & there are a lot of them!!

3rd - 9:00 Rogue on DirecTV, The Spies of Warsaw on BBCA
        9:30 How to Live With Your Parents ABC
        10:00 Forever Young on TV Land, Pot Cops on Discovery

4th - 8:00 Casino Confidential on TLC
        9:00 American's Worst Tattoos on TLC
        10:01 Hannibal on NBC

5th - 11:00 Vice on HBO

6th - 7:00 Garage Gold on DIY

7th - 10:00 The Sheards on BET

9th - 9:00 Find me my Man on Oxygen
        9:01 Ready for Love on NBC
        10:00 The Kandi Factory on Bravo

10th - 10:00 Deep South Paranormal on SyFy

11th - 10:00 Chasing Tail on History, The Killer Speaks on A&E

12th - 8:00 Eve of Destruction on Reelz, Swamp'd on Animal Planet
          9:00 Yu-Gi-Oh!: Zexal on Nicktoons
          10:00 Da Vinci's Demons on Starz

13th - 8:00 Bet on Your Baby on ABC
          9:00 Murder in Paradise on ID
          10:30 Life with La Toya on OWN

14th - 8:00 The 80's on NGC

15th - 9:00 Defiance on SyFy
          10:00 Burger Land on Travel, Scam City on Science

16th - 10:00 Who Gets the Last Laugh on TBS

17th - 10:00 Off Pitch on VH1

18th - 11:59 Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell on Adult Swim

20th - 9:00 Spoiled Rotten Pets on Nat Geo Wild
          10:00 Raising Whitley on OWN

21st - 9:30 Guntucky on CMT
           10:00 The Bletchley Circle on PBS, Ice Cold Gold on Animal Planet, I'm Married to a...on VH1, What Would Ryan Lochte Do? on E!

22nd - 10:00 Rectify on Sundance

23rd - 7:30 Teen Titans Go! on Cartoon
           9:00 Knife Fight on Esquire
           10:00 The Getaway on Esquire
           10:30 Girl Code on MTV
           11:00 Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life on MTV

24th - 10:00 I Was Murdered on ID

29th - 8:00 Betsey + Lulu on Style
           9:00 Resale Royalty on Style
          10:00 Red, White & New on Travel

30th - 10:30 Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy

    
     

NBC Fall Premieres

Matthew Perry is back with a new show called Go On which seems like a comedy to me...it's about a guy who's wife died & he is forced by his boss to join a support group before he can return to work. On his first day he ends up turning the group into a one up session of who has the best sob story & the show goes from there.  Personally I don't really see how this could keep going and going but from the preview it just kind of seems like Monica died & Chandler is moving on...the role is perfect for him. Special premiere after the Olympics on 8/8 & regular slot premiere at 9:00 on Sept. 11

Justin Bartha will be starring in his own sitcom The New Normal which also has cast Ellen Barkin who plays Goldie's mom.  Justin & his gay partner live in LA & want a baby...enter Goldie who has just moved there with her little girl to get away from her mom & she decides to be the surrogate for the guys.  After 9 months this show will kind of lose it's point right?  9:30 on Sept. 11

Animal Practice is another comedy starring Justin Kirk from Weeds & he plays an animal doctor who's animal hospital is being taken over by his ex.  He's terrible with people but great with animals & there's a capuchin monkey on the show too...not really sure what else to say about this one.  Special premiere after the Olympics on 8/12 & regular slot premiere at 8:00 on Sept. 26.

Guys with Kids is a sitcom about guys in their 30's who are now parents but are trying to hold on to their youth too.  Jimmy Fallon is the Executive Producer behind this one which stars Anthony Anderson so I'm sure it will be funny. Sneak peak 10:00 Sept. 12 & regular slot premeire at 8:30 on Sept. 26.

Anne Heche is a suburban wife who's husband cheats (not sure if she knows or not) in the new series Save Me. After Beth (Heche) has a near death experience she suddenly becomes a prophet with a direct line to God.  I think this one is a drama with a touch of humor so I'll be curious to see how this unfolds.  No premiere date/time yet announced.

1600 Penn is a new comedy starring Bill Pullman & Jenna Elfman & their family...they are the first family & Jenna is the step-mom to Bill's kids.  The kids are a handful to say the least (I know at least 1 is in college) so not only does dad need to keep the house together he also has to keep the country together.  No premiere date/time yet announced.

Next Caller is a series starring Dane Cook who plays a foulmouthed radio DJ...your Howard Stern type of character.  He is not happy when he finds out that he has to share his show "Booty Calls with Cam Dunne" with an NPR feminist co-host.  Hmm, I wonder if they will end up together?  Seems a bit predictable but I do like Dane Cook so I'll check it out.  No premiere date/time yet announced.

Revolution is the new series that we've been seeing previews of for quite some time, it's the one where all the power goes out so I'm not going to say any more about this one since I know you have already heard.  10:00 on Sept. 17th.

Another fire drama is coming to TV...now that Rescue Me is over someone has to try to take its place.  This is called Chicago Fire & it's about the drama of the department of firefighters, paramedics & the like who all work to get along & save lives. 10:00 on October 10th.

A new drama called Do No Harm is about a Neurosurgeon who has an alternate personality who goes out in the middle of the night & causes all kinds of havoc.  Waking up with a bunch of half naked women he doesn't know is the first sign that his alter ego has returned...he had been suppressed for some time due to an experimental serum that his body has now built up a resistance to.  His alter ego is now out to take him down!  Sounds a little like United States of Tara to me which I miss so I might have to try this one. No premiere date/time yet announced.

Infamous is kind of hard to explain in my own words...it's a drama about a socialite who dies of an overdose & her former BFF shows up at the funeral & the family takes her back into their fold. A detective thinks that the overdose was a murder and starts investigating the former BFF & so on.  No premiere date/time yet announced.

Hannibal...there's nothing more to say here except it is about what you think it's about...Dr. Hannibal Lecter & where it all began.  No premiere date/time yet announced.

For clips from all of these (except Hannibal, nothing is out yet) check out my YouTube channel's playlist!