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.
Let thee be warned! The following casting news may contain slight spoilers about the roles the actors will play. If you are highly allergic to spoilers avoid this post.
This week, we have casting news for: Lily, Dancing With the Stars, CSI, ER, and many others. Read the rest of this entry »
Casting Clack – Taylor Swift on CSI, LL Cool J on NCIS spin-off
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.
Be warned, the casting news after the jump may contain slight spoilers about the roles the actors will play.
This week, we have casting news for: Criminal Minds, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Gossip Girl spin-off, Greek, Heroes, Life, NCIS spin-off, Supernatural and Ugly Betty.
Ratings Clack – It’s all about CBS
(12/14 – 12/21)
This week, the other networks just made it easy for CBS. After taking second on Sunday night, to NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the Tiffany network went on to win the next five nights in viewers and the demo. Granted, there were more repeats than usual, but even the CBS repeats were in on the game, as replays of CSI and Eleventh Hour more than doubled the viewers of their repeat competition. For the rest of the networks, the news was not quite as bright. Read the rest of this entry »
Things that didn’t suck this week – healthy ovums, holiday songs and violence
“All I need is a healthy ovum and I can grow my own Leonard Nimoy!” –Sheldon gets the perfect gift on The Big Bang Theory
There were a couple of episodes in a row of The Big Bang Theory that really underwhelmed me. They were just kind of awkward and didn’t completely work. I didn’t understand exactly what was going on, but now I do. They were simply saving it all up for this episode. Not only was the episode probably the best episode of this show that I’ve ever seen, but the end, in which Penny gives Sheldon a signed napkin used by Leonard Nimoy, is one of my favorite TV moments of the year. Leonard’s unabashed, twitchy joy at getting the best present ever, and his cry of, “it’s not enough!” when he gives her hundreds of dollars worth of bath items still cracks me up, even after watching it half a dozen times.
Quotation Marks – Holiday songs, transvestites and drinking
(Week of Dec. 20, 2008)
Since it’s the week before Christmas and most shows are in reruns, we’re kind of light on quotes this week. Nevertheless, we still managed to get some gems. Check out some of our favorite quotes from this past week and add your own to the comments.
How I Met Your Mother:
Barney made up several Holiday songs to extol the virtues of Ted’s little sister.
(to the tune of “Jingle Bells”)
Pulling down her pants, yanking off my own
Underneath the mistletoe, I’ll make your sister moan!
Oh, Heather’s hot, Heather’s hot, we’ll go all the way ….
Ratings Clack – CSI scores big. Biggest Loser NBC’s best hope?
(12/7 – 12/13)
I work with a guy that has the barest of the bare bones cable packages. Thirteen channels. It amounts to the networks, Discovery, PBS, and shopping. It was a tough week of television for him. There were a lot of repeats. The CW only managed 3½ hours of original programming for the week, for example. Add in a host of Christmas specials and the pickings were a little thin. Taking advantage of all of that, CBS had great numbers for the introduction of Laurence Fishburne on CSI. Some of the other shows that did manage to air originals were not so lucky.
Where are you going with yourself, Pushing Daisies?
You remember Chuck’s dad, right? Poor guy took a dirt nap when Chuck inadvertently brought his mother back to life, only to lose her again that night to a kiss on the forehead. With Dwight Dixon in the picture, snooping around Vivian and digging up caskets to get a locket, the idea was hatched to unearth him (after twenty years no less!) and ask him what he might know about everything.
Now I’m no expert on human decomposition (I usually don’t stick around long enough at the crime scene – badumpBUMP!), but I would think twenty years on a dead body, no matter the embalming technique, wouldn’t be nearly as generous as the writers and makeup artists gave us here. And that’s not all they gave us on that front either. Chuck got thirty seconds to have her last hellos and goodbyes with the man she loved and lost so suddenly so long ago, but is thirty seconds really long enough? How can it be, right?
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