TV on DVD: October 6, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, BBC, CBS, FX, FOX, MTV, NBC, PBS, Medium, Nip/Tuck, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Ally McBeal (Season 1, Complete Series)
• Blood Ties (Season 2)
• Bones (Season 4)
• A Charlie Brown Christmas  **Blu-ray**
• The F Word (Series 3)
• Get Smart (Season 4)
• The Hills (Season 5, Part 1)
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas  **Blu-ray**
• Ken Burns: The National Parks - America’s Best Idea
• Lark Rise to Candleford (Season 1)
• Man v. Food (Season 1)
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Season 5)

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (5/18)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Comedy, Drama, Late Night, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Talk Shows, ABC, Cable, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, House, Scrubs, So You Think You Can Dance, Cancellations, Renewals

Here’s an update on the shows you will and won’t be seeing in the months to come. Several shockers in this edition!!

RENEWALS

• Better Off Ted (ABC) - Season 2
• Bones (FOX) - Seasons 5 & 6
• Castle (ABC) - Season 2
• Chuck (NBC) - Season 3
• Cold Case (CBS) - Season 7
• Criss Angel: Mindfreak (A&E) - Season 5
• Dog the Bounty Hunter (A&E) - Season 7
• Dollhouse (FOX) - Season 2

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TV on DVD: January 20, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, BBC, Cable, CBS, NBC

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday:

• Criss Angel: Mindfreak (Season 4)
• Emergency! (Season 5)
• Johnathan Creek (Season 3)
• Jurassic Fight Club (Season 1)
• The Last Detective (Complete Series)
• MI-5 (Volume 6)
• MonsterQuest (Season 2)
• Moonlight (Complete Series)
• My Three Sons (Season 1, Vol. 2)
• Paranormal State (Season 2)
• The Powerpuff Girls: 10th Anniversary Collection (Complete Series)
• The Rockford Files (Season 6)
• This American Life (Season 2)
• Waking the Dead (Season 3)

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This Week on TV (1/19-1/25)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, Cable, FOX, MTV, NBC, The CW, TNT-HD, House, Lost, The Office

(You can view TV Envy’s Midseason Programming Schedule here.)

MONDAY 1/19)

• The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family, 8pm):  “Ricky’s dad arrives in town with a proposal for how Ricky should handle impending fatherhood.” Apparently leaving town is an option?
• House (FOX, 8pm):  “Cuddy discovers that caring for her newly adopted baby leaves her little time to run the hospital.” Taking care of House and a baby is an impossible feat.
• Bromance (MTV, 9pm):  “The guys embark on a camping trip, but before reaching their destination, they stop at a biker bar where each must face off against a huge biker in the parking lot.” The reality is, many people want to kick Brody Jenner‘s ass. It’s time to hone their defense skills now.
• Paranormal State (A&E, 10pm):  Season premiere. “A family believes their new home in suburban New Jersey is haunted. The team’s investigation leads them to dig in the yard for possible answers.” Haunting or no haunting, buried things in my yard is reason enough to move.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (12/21)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Bravo, Cable

Here’s an update on the shows you’ll be seeing more of in the months to come:

RENEWALS

• Dog the Bounty Hunter (A&E) - Season 6
• Ghost Hunters (Sci Fi) - Season 6
• Ghost Hunters International (Sci Fi) - Season 2
• My Big Redneck Wedding (CMT) - Season 3
• My Boys (TBS) - Season 3
• Paranormal State (A&E) - Season 3
• The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo) - Season 2

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This Week on TV (8/18-8/24)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Food & Home, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Sports, Bravo, Cable, MTV, NBC

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)
(You can navigate NBC’s Olympics schedule here.)

MONDAY (8/18)

• I Want to Work for Diddy (VH1, 9pm):  “Two members from each team must go to Paris and convince a model that Diddy saw in a magazine to come back to NYC with them and pose for Sean John.” If you want to flatter a girl, don’t send one assistant - send four.
• The Hills (MTV, 10pm): Season 4 premiere. I’m ashamed to say that I know what a ‘Lo’ is.
• Paranormal State (A&E, 10pm):  “A family in Shrewsbury, Mass., claims to have been living with a spirit for 40 years, and all but one family member believe the spirit is malicious.” If they’ve managed to live with it for 40 years, how bad could this spirit possibly be?
• Date My Ex: Jo & Slade (Bravo, 10pm):  “Juvenile tomfoolery back at he house irks Slade and may mean the expulsion of a suitor.” Had this been simply adult tomfoolery, things would have been fine.

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This Week on TV (7/28-8/3)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Food & Home, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Bravo, Cable, FOX, MTV, NBC, Showtime

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)

MONDAY (7/28)

• Wanna Bet? (ABC,9pm):  “Corbin Bernsen, Tom Bergeron, Rip Hamilton and Melissa Peterman are the celebs placing the wagers. Stunts include a man trying to kick himself in the head 45 times in one minute.” Wanna bet people only know who half these ‘celebrities’ are?
• Paranormal State (A&E, 10pm):  Season Two premiere. “The team investigates supposed activity at a home, including the mysterious destruction of religious objects and the unexplained appearance of dead animals near the home.” Dead animals? Should they be looking for ghosts or a serial killer?
• Make a Move (DIY, 10pm):  “Amy Wynn Pastor helps newlyweds with their eco-conscious home, including projects like a compost heap, a kitchen upgrade and a wall demolition.” Ah, newlyweds. Always so annoyingly optimistic.
• Weeds (Showtime, 10pm):  “In Mexico, Celia discovers the joys of discounted medicine at local pharmacies.” If only she had known about the $4 generics at her local Wal-Mart.

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TV on DVD: April 29, 2008

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, CBS, FOX, NBC, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Beverly Hills, 90210 (Season 4)
• The Big Gay Sketch Show (Seasons 1-2)
• Burke’s Law (Season 1)
• Cheers (Season 9)
• Dark Shadows: The Beginning (Collection 4)
• History Channel: Human Weapon (Season 1)
• I Spy (Seasons 1-3)
• Paranormal State (Season 1)
• A Touch of Frost (Season 13)
• The Waltons (Season 7)
• Witchblade (anime) (Volume 6)
  
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Don’t Put Yourself in a ‘Paranormal State’

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cable, Editorial

Turn to the SciFi network, even the Travel Channel, and you’ll find shows that take you behind the world of plain reality TV and into the unknown. Sure, it’s easy to be skeptical. It’s easy to be a cynic. What’s it not easy to do is believe – not when you’re dealing with television, a vehicle concerned with big ratings and special effects. But A&E’s Paranormal State has already turned some non-believers into paranormal investigators…whether they wanted it that way or not.

Executives and show producers involved with the documentary series have said they’ve witnessed paranormal activity for themselves by virtue of their involvement with the show. Reports include EVP (electronic voice phenomenon), otherworldly mists, and cold chills. The series debuted last week, becoming the most-watched premiere for the cable channel in the last 3 years. Undoubtedly some of those numbers arrive from an overall lack of television choices, the result of the ongoing writers’ strike.

The entire crew wore St. Benedict medals (which were dipped in “holy water”) while shooting. Good thinking. If a ghost comes after me with a glint in its eye, I’m going to reach right for the nearest talisman. That oughtta help. One person tied to the series calls it “emotional and compelling and real.” Pardon my cynicism, but we are still talking about a TV show here. Like the news, reality TV has to worry about ratings, too.

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