Big Brother, All-Star superstars replace repeats — Daily Rerun Roundup
The good news: a number of original series populate the schedule, providing a smaller amount of reruns. The bad news: Legally Blonde 3: Blonde Justice will not be shown due to the annual MLB All-Star Game. I know, you can’t stop crying.
- God bless CBS for keeping some scheduling normalcy with their weekly 8 pm repeat of NCIS. In this episode the team investigates a … wait for it … murder. This is not followed by The Mentalist at 9 pm. Instead, that slot is being taken by Big Brother.
- NBC (sixth place out of five networks) begins its schedule with a repeat of last Wednesday’s America’s Got Talent, followed by a new craptastic edition of the variety show. At 10 pm the network repeats the Law & Order: SVU episode guest-starring Carol Burnett. I could swear that I wrote about this repeat a few weeks ago.
- Only one rerun on ABC this week — the 9:30 broadcast of Scrubs. This episode (”My Full Moon”) featured only two of the original cast: Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison. And, according to Jason’s review, was somber, but good. I agree with Jason.
- Over at the CW (which, I believe, they are still considering a network) 90210 continues its repeat run. This week you have your typical ‘fake baby care for class assignment’ plot, your typical ‘friend makes bad choice about other friend’s out-of-control drug use’ plot, and your typical ‘high school collapses down Hellmouth’ plot. Oh, wait, that was from a different (and far more entertaining) show.
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Scrubs – An ensemble of two?
What a strange episode of Scrubs we got this week. More than any of the other ones, this felt like one of this in-series setups for a spin-off, kind of like Private Practice did to spin out of Grey’s Anatomy. Or to kick it old school, how Empty Nest was set up in The Golden Girls before spinning out. It’s been done a million times, you get the point.
Usually what happens is the episode focuses almost entirely on the cast of the spin-off show, offering token appearances by a few members of the show you’re actually meaning to watch. And that’s what Scrubs did this week. No point in listing the missing cast members. Only Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison were there. Now, out of respect for the writers, they handled this very well by having the two working an overnight shift together with the new interns. And it was a good, if a bit somber, episode.
Scrubs – On all things hands and love
Just one episode of Scrubs this week, and it feels right. The writers do such a good job of wrapping up their plotlines along a similar theme or common element, that it’s almost too much that we were getting those back-to-back installments. That and it was rushing us headlong to an early end for the show. And just when it’s really holding that great groove it’s found this season …
No sign of the interns this time, but who cares? Now that we’re pretty sure this is the swan song for the series, I’d rather be spending what little time we have left with the regulars rather than getting to know new people we won’t be getting to know by this time next year. And this was couples week.
Casting Clack – Simpson goes to Melrose Place, Nate Coddry goes to Buffy and a villain is cast for V
In “Casting Clack”, CliqueClack brings you a summary of the TV casting news released throughout the week, be it the addition of a series regular, a new recurring cast member, a guest star, or even someone making a cameo.
Spoiler Blinders On! Be warned that the casting news after the jump may contain slight spoilers about the roles the actors will play. Consult with your physician for any other questions.
This week, we have casting news for: the new Melrose Place, the new V, The Wonderful Maladys, 90210, and many more.
Scrubs – What’s love got to do with it?
ABC is definitely keeping the costs down. Last week, Turk was nowhere to be found in either episode, and this week the first episode went down with no janitor and J.D. only heard over a cell phone. But Percival Ulysses was in da house!
I liked the idea of Dr. Grumpy aka Denise hooking up with Dr. Giddy AKA Sunny. It’s a good dynamic. We’re finding out that Denise works as a character on this show; it’s too bad that it’s too late. I guess we could always root for a spin-off with the new interns and some of the principal cast members. Call it Sacred Heart and everything can essentially be the same. Or better yet, have Elliott get her own building and call it Private Practice. Then there’s a good reason to take that other Private Practice off the air!
Scrubs – The new Chief of Medicine and Sesame Street?
(Season 8, Episodes 5 & 6 – “My ABC’s” & “My Cookie Pants”)
Fun Fact: Janitor’s grandpa apparently called him Janitor, too.
In the first of our two-part Scrubs hour, we got to see J.D., Elliot and Perry all choose one of the new interns to mentor. J.D. hooked up with Denise/Jo, who’s the go-to “strong woman (cold-hearted psycho).” Perry went with Ed, who’s too manic and cool for his own good and Elliot went with Katie because … well, because they have the same hair. As we learned in earlier episodes, Katie is actually a manipulative, selfish and incredibly driven person.
Ed — I guess — is brilliant, but so brilliant that he’s lazy and absolutely doesn’t apply himself. Not enough yet to make these three worthy of holding a show of their own, but it was nice to get a little bit more face-time with these new … um … faces (*ahem*). Even if they did have to share it with various Muppets from Sesame Street. Was it just me or was it a little odd to see Elmo rubbing up against Denise’s chest like that?
Scrubs – Out with the new, and J.D. & Elliot … together again?
(Season 8, Episodes 3 & 4 – “My Saving Grace” 
& “My Happy Place” )
Dammit, they did it again. Another two solid episodes of Scrubs, and another week shaved off of the total run time of this season. Unfortunately, ABC currently has this entire 18 episode season scheduled in this back-to-back format, meaning that instead of 18 weeks of new Scrubs, we have barely more than two months. With the last episodes on the marquee for March 10, it seems they’re in a big hurry to burn through them. Or maybe they just don’t have any compatible comedies in their lineup. Certainly According to Jim is no good fit.
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