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TV Review: BONES – Season 8 – “The Archaeologist in the Cocoon”

Brennan (Emily Deschanel) investigates the death of an archeologist in BONES | (c) 2013 Patrick McElhenney/FOX

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley, Eugene Byrd, Amy Yasbeck, Anya Manzikova, Zoran Korach, Gary Grubbs, Joseph Williamson Writers: Sanford Golden & Karen Wyscarver, series created by Hart Hanson, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs Director: Jeannot Swarcz Network: Fox, Mondays @ 8 PM Airdate: January 14, 2013 “The Archaeologist in the Cocoon,” the second half of the BONES two-hour event, finds the normally competitive Brennan (Emily Deschanel) going into overdrive when Dr. Clark Edison (Eugene Byrd), normally a lab assistant, is given the task of examining fossilized bones. The upshot […]Read On »


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Interview: NASHVILLE star Hayden Panettiere chats about singing her heart out

Hayden Panettiere stars in NASHVILLE | (c) 2013 ABC/Jon Lemay

In ABC’s NASHVILLE, which airs Wednesday nights at 10 PM, up-and-coming crossover country music star Juliette Barnes, played by Hayden Panettiere, is locked into a rivalry with more traditional and established country icon Rayna Jaymes, played by Connie Britton. Both actresses were nominated for Golden Globes for their work on the Callie Khouri-created series, still in its first season. Juliette represents something of a departure for Panettiere. Although the New York-born actress has been a thespian since her early childhood and has also cut an album as a singer/composer, she is usually known for playing kindly and selfless characters – […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: VEGAS Star Dennis Quaid talks going old school in his first TV series role

Dennis Quaid stars in VEGAS on CBS | (c) 2013 Ron P. Jaffe/CBS

In VEGAS, the freshman series that is doing very well for CBS in its Tuesday night 10 PM slot, it’s 1960. Dennis Quaid stars as real-life rancher turned sheriff Ralph Lamb, who becomes a lawman just as the Mob comes toLas Vegas, with Michael Chiklis as its primary representative, casino owner Vincent Savino. Houston, Texasnative Quaid has been a leading man in movies for decades, with his first major role as the dedicated cyclist in 1979’s BREAKING AWAY. Since then, a sampling of his major credits include real-life astronaut Gordon Cooper in THE RIGHT STUFF, fictional space explorer Willis Davidge […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Michele Lee looks back on her career on PIONEERS OF TELEVISION

Michelle Lee in KNOTS LANDING | (c) 2013 PBS/Pioneers of Television Archives

Nighttime soaps have made a roaring comeback – witness the success of GREY’S ANATOMY, REVENGE and SCANDAL – but this isn’t the first time the genre has been big. The late ‘70s and ‘80s were a heyday for the format, with KNOT’S LANDING starting its CBS run in 1979 and going fourteen seasons into 1993. Los Angeles native Michele Lee, who played Karen MacKenzie for an epic 344 episodes on KNOT’S LANDING, is famous for many other things, including two Tony-nominated Broadway musical performances (in SEESAW and THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE), and films that include the screen adaptation of HOW TO […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: WILD KRATTS hosts Martin and Chris Kratt go animal

WILD KRATTS | (c) 2013 PBS

With a host of wildlife shows aimed at younger viewers to their credit, nature documentary filmmakers and brothers Martin and Chris Kratt have become a combination of David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau for the pre- and elementary school audience. Their current series, WILD KRATTS, is now in its second season on PBS (check local listings for days and times), with a one-hour special, WILD KRATTS LOST AT SEA, that aired Monday Jan. 21 and is now available on DVD. Martin, wearing a blue shirt, designates himself as “the swimming one,” and Chris, in a green shirt, refers to himself as “the climbing […]Read On »


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TV Review: BONES – Season 8 – “The Diamond in the Rough”

Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz in BONES - Season 8 - "The Diamond in the Rough" | ©2013/Ray Mickshaw

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley, Michael Grant Terry, Dmitry Chaplin, Sara Scott, Marta DuBois, Vincent Corazza, Mary Murphy, Tyce Diorio Writer: Nkechi Okoro Carroll, series created by Hart Hanson, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs Director: Alex Chapple Network: Fox, Mondays @ 8 PM Airdate: January 14, 2013 BONES starts the second half of its eighth season with “Diamond in the Rough,” which takes its title from one of those interesting biochemical facts the show often presents to us. In this case, exposure to certain types of natural […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Emily Deschanel on BONES Season 8 and beyond

Emily Deschanel in BONES - Season 8 - "The Diamond in the Rough" | ©2013/Brian Bowen Smith

On the morning of Tuesday, January 8, Fox publicly announced it had picked up BONES for a ninth season. The series, currently in the midst of its eighth season at 8 PM on Mondays, concerns both the murder investigations by and personal relationships of Temperance “Bones” Brennan, played by Emily Deschanel, and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, played by David Boreanaz. After six seasons of will they/won’t they, Brennan and Booth finally got together romantically. In Season 7, their daughter Christine was born – Brennan’s onscreen pregnancy coincided with Deschanel’s real-life pregnancy with her husband – and Season 8 finds […]Read On »


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Interview: J.J. Abrams talks FRINGE finale and some STAR TREK

Peter (Josh Jackson, R) battles Windmark (guest star Michael Kospa, L) in the final and extraordinary battle | (c) 2013 Liane Hentscher/FOX

After five seasons of complicated familial bonds, inter-dimensional travel, suspended animation and a bunch of generally strange events, Walter (John Noble), Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia (Anna Torv) wrap up their story on the two-hour series FRINGE finale on Fox, Friday night at 8. Executive producer J.J. Abrams, who co-created FRINGE with fellow e.p.s Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, stopped by a party thrown by Fox for the Television Critics Association to give his thoughts on the show’s close – and answer a couple of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS questions while he was there. ASSIGNMENT X: After directing the second […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: HANSEL & GRETEL star Dee Wallace gets her witch on

Dee Wallace in HANSEL AND GRETEL | ©2012 The Asylum

With roughly 196 acting credits, Dee Wallace is an incredibly busy actress that’s always working. Just in the last two years she’s navigated from guest appearances on TV shows like BONES, WAREHOUSE 13 and SWITCHED AT BIRTH to such recent films. independent films like THE JAZZ FUNERAL, THE MARGARINE WARS and CRY OF THE BUTTERFLY. She has also played many iconic heroic characters in her career. She likely will forever be most identified with her role as the single mom in E.T. – THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL but she’s also famous for (among other characters) her intrepid reporter checking out werewolves in […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 3 – “It’s a Shame About Ray” – Season Premiere

Meaghan Rath, Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington in BEING HUMAN - Season 3 - "It's A Shame About Ray" | ©2013 Syfy/Philippe Bosse

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Kristen Hager, Mark Pellegrino, Amy Aquino, Susanna Fournier, Pat Kiely, Robert Naylor, Andreas Apergis, Ellen David, Kyle Gatehouse Writers: Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Stefan Pleszczynski Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: January 14, 2013 We shall begin this review with something that is both a rant and an apology. Season 2 saw the U.S. BEING HUMAN gang often making bad decisions, ignoring each other and generally being annoying. With “It’s a Shame About […]Read On »


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