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TV Round Up – Some Thoughts on What I’ve Watched this Week (9/23-9/27/12)
What a week of returns and debuts! Here's a brief rundown of my thoughts, when certain shows air and how I feel they faired: SUNDAY 8 PM Sun. MTV – Rehab with Dr. Drew – For ANYONE that has had a family member or a friend or a child or... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2012 at The Daily Pop
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Top 10 List for the Primetime Emmy Awards 2012 (Plus, a brief look at the Fall Lineup)
This year the Primetime Emmy Awards were hosted by late night funny man Jimmy Kimmel. Overall, I think he did an OK job, but on the red carpet, last year’s host Jimmy Fallon seemed to have a lot more topical material & I think he would have been a bit... Continue reading
Posted Sep 24, 2012 at The Daily Pop
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Where has all the “Love in the Afternoon” Gone?
So, Matt Lauer has just signed a new deal with the Today show that *may* make way for a fifth hour of the Today show. Are you KIDDING me? Four is plenty. Watching Hoda and Kathy Lee get loaded on martinis and wine at 10am is the PERFECT way to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2012 at The Daily Pop
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Fall Prime-Time TV Line-Up: What you should be watching, Part Three (Saturday, Sunday, and Nightly Shows)
In this final installment of “What you should be watching in prime-time,” I have included shows that air on Saturday and Sunday, in addition to shows that air nightly. This is but a microcosm of what is on, but these happened to grab my attention and my loyalty as a... Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2011 at The Daily Pop
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Fall Prime-Time TV Line-Up: What you should be watching, Part Two (Thursday & Friday)
On my last post, I suggested a few shows that I feel make for “Must See TV” on Monday through Wednesday. Here are my suggestions for Thursday and Friday. (It was going to be through the weekend, but it ended up being more than I had bargained for. I didn’t... Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2011 at The Daily Pop
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Fall Prime-Time TV Line-Up: What you should be watching, Part One-A (AKA, The One’s I Forgot…)
On my last post, I suggested a few shows that I feel make for “Must See TV” on Monday through Wednesday nights. However, I left off three of my FAVS: The new hit comedy, New Girl, Glee and Psych. Like I said, there is just a lot of great TV... Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2011 at The Daily Pop
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Fall Prime-Time TV Line-Up: What you should be watching, Part One (Monday-Wednesday).
This fall, there are so many great shows on TV that my DVR is working overtime just to keep up. There are a few shows that I miss from last season (Lie to Me, being one…) but plenty of others have entered the TV landscape and have made for great... Continue reading
Posted Oct 25, 2011 at The Daily Pop
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FRINGE: Where is Peter Bishop? The Season 4/ “Series” Premiere
Well, the wait is over – Season 4, episode 1 of Fringe, “Neither Here nor There,” started the season with a bang! (Just FYI: Spoilers ahead!) FOX has been billing this season’s premiere as a “series” premiere, as Peter has disappeared and both universes have built an uneasy alliance. In... Continue reading
Posted Sep 23, 2011 at The Daily Pop
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FRINGE: A recap to get you started for Season 4 — Where is Peter Bishop?
It’s finally back — FRINGE! I’ve been on the edge of my seat all summer long, watching the teasers by FOX, then the web-series, “Fringe: Past + Present + Future.” (If you haven’t seen these and are new, or even old, to Fringe, they are worth a watch.) If you... Continue reading
Posted Sep 23, 2011 at The Daily Pop
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Welcome Back, Castle!
I don’t know about you guys, but last week felt like “No Man’s Land” for TV shows! All of the summer hits were already on fall hiatus (I miss you, Burn Notice…), so I have been waiting (not so patiently) for the return of this week’s fall line-up. Tonight’s season... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2011 at The Daily Pop
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Private Practice: It Could Never Happen to Me…
It could never happen to ME, we think. It could never happen to MY fiancée, my daughter, my sister, my mother, my friend. But it does. And it is hard to see, to talk about, to deal with. These past few weeks, we have been watching the aftermath of Charlotte’s... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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Hannah Montana Forever: Time Flies When You're Growing Up…
A chapter ending, but the stories only just begun… I’ve always got the memories while I’m finding out who I’m gonna be… We might be apart, but I hope you always know, you’ll be with me…Wherever I go… My daughter and I had a lovely weekend recently. We had some... Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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Grey’s Anatomy: Without some “Yin,” there is no “Yang”
Relationships are the theme of this season. Mainly, how everyone is dealing with the aftermath of the shooting that killed many members of the staff at the hospital & nearly killed two main characters, Dr. Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) & Dr. Derrick Shephard, (the “McDreamy” Patrick Dempsey). This season has... Continue reading
Posted Nov 4, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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The Death of the Soap Opera, Vol. 2 — What about the Actors?
In my last post about the death of the soap opera (volume 1), I mentioned how the characters (and the actors who played them) had enriched and touched my life in so many ways. Yes, I know, some people think of soap operas as just being campy, over-the-top exaggerations of... Continue reading
Posted Nov 4, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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This is getting to be too much: Insert-Activity-Here with the Stars!
Well, I just finished watching Dancing with the Stars’ 200th episode, and it was quite the experience. Overall, I haven’t enjoyed watching this show since its 2nd season (we’re on the 11th) and they are really starting to scrape the bottom of the “star” barrel. Kate Gosselin… Really? Bristol Palin?... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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The Karate Kid: Then and Now
When I think back to my childhood, a very important memory is vivid in my mind: My unrequited love for Ralph Macchio. I fell HARD for him as Daniel Larusso in The Karate Kid (1984) and The Karate Kid II. (Not so much in the 3rd installment — what? No... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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When did “Reality” and “Fiction” become One and the Same?
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana Once upon a time, I was a drama teacher in a middle school. One of the things that I would do to break the ice at the beginning of each semester with my 6th-8th graders was to have them... Continue reading
Posted Oct 26, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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September 2009-September 2010; The Year of the Death of the Soap Opera, Vol. 1
When I was a young child growing up in Yorktown, (before cable, before MTV launched, before the Disney Channel, et al) I would come home from school, get my after-school snack and then sit down and watch Guiding Light. The soap opera. With BOTH my parents. It was great. All... Continue reading
Posted Oct 21, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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My New Guilty Pleasure – “Fashion Police” on E!
OK, so have you all checked out Joan Rivers and her crew (Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Osborne, and George Kotsiopoulos) yet on “Fashion Police?” It is the newest show to the E! franchise of guilty pleasure TV. It is great to have Joan back doing what she does best — making... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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10 Ways GLEE is Like Real Life
Have you ever watched Glee and thought, “I wonder if that happens in real life?” I know I have and would like to point out some real aspects of the show. Now, not all of the scenarios are true to life (As a choir director, I don’t know of a... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2010 at The Daily Pop
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