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No TV chat this Thursday!

Gail Pennington — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:42:51 +0000

Sorry for the short notice, but we won’t have our regular TV chat this Thursday. If you’ve already posted questions or comments, I’ll transfer them over to next week. The Nov. 12 chat is scheduled and should appear on the…

Martin and Baldwin, Oscars odd couple

Gail Pennington — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:54:58 +0000

Honestly, I was hoping for Neil Patrick Harris. But ABC’s choice of Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to co-host the show (set for March 7) still strikes me as odd. Martin, sure; he’s hosted twice before. Baldwin is a wild…

Gordon Ramsay hosts new cooking competition on Fox

Gail Pennington — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:39:35 +0000

“MasterChef” is the working title for a series picked up by Fox that will ”take wannabe chefs who merely cook as a hobby and have absolutely no experience in the food industry and attempt to turn them into master chefs.” The format…

‘V’: your verdict?

Gail Pennington — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:17:19 +0000

Aliens alarm Elizabeth Mitchell in "V."

ABC’s new spin on the ’80s miniseries “V” made its debut Tuesday night, and I like it even though I’m not a huge science fiction fan. The opening was riveting, I thought, and I’m interested…

CBS orders more ‘Accidentally on Purpose’

Gail Pennington — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:57:33 +0000

Good if not great news for Jenna Elfman’s “Accidentally on Purpose.” After Monday night’s broadcast — of an episode I hear was especially crude; true? – CBS ordered five more episodes, for a total of 18 for the season. That’s still…

Women are losers on ‘The Amazing Race’

Gail Pennington — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:06:53 +0000

Can we now say definitively that no female team will ever win “The Amazing Race”? Every time an all- female team has seemed competitive, the gods of “TAR” have stepped in to slap the women back with a potentially insurmountable physical…

‘Mad Men’ captures Kennedy assassination

Gail Pennington — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:47:03 +0000

Shocking news at Sterling Cooper on "Mad Men."

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Ever since “Mad Men” fans noted that Margaret Sterling, Roger’s daughter, was set to get married on Nov. 23, 1963, we’d been sure that creator Matthew Weiner planned to tackle the assassination…

‘Top Chef’ finale is Dec. 9, from Napa Valley

Gail Pennington — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:57:10 +0000

Enough Las Vegas. “Top Chef” will moves to California’s Napa Valley for the season finale, set for 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, on Bravo. The final four (I’ve been guessing Kevin, Jen and the Voltaggios, but unless Jen shapes up,…

President Logan lives! Gregory Itzen returns to ‘24′

Gail Pennington — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:19:56 +0000

President Charles Logan (the great Gregory Itzen) will be back on “24″ for Season 8, arriving Jan. 17-18, Fox says. The disgraced president was last seen being carted out on a stretcher after first lady Martha Logan (awesome Jean Smart) stabbed him with…

TNT picks up ‘Southland’

Gail Pennington — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:06:13 +0000

The canceled NBC cop drama will rise again Jan. 12 on TNT. The news isn’t as good as it might be; the cable network made a deal with John Wells Productions and Warner Bros. only to air the seven episodes seen…