Hawaii Five-0: Ohana is the second episode of this reincarnation of the 1960’s classic police drama. Hipper and with more of an edge, this new version stars Alex O’Loughlin as Det. Steve McGarrett, Scott Caan as Det. Danny Williams, Daniel Dae Kim as Det. Chin Ho Kelly, and …

I am not sorry to admit that I am a fan of most reality shows. Although, lately the only shows I tend to watch is American Idol, Supernanny and sometimes Deal or no Deal. Last year Jennifer Hudson and Fantasia was and still is my favourite finalists. …

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The City Beneath the Sea, episode two of season one, had the Seaview trying to unearth the mystery about two ships that have disappeared in the waters of Greece. Ultimately, Captain Lee Crane (David Hedison) does a bit of sleuthing, skin …

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 49 begins with Ed and Ling/Greed continuing their battle with Pride, who has decided to capture Ed in order to lure out Hohenheim. Meanwhile Colonel Mustang has kidnapped Mrs. Bradley to give him an advantage and he is seen at Maes’ grave preparing for …

The name of the show, Criminal Minds had shied me away from watching it. Mostly because I thought it would be scary and I wouldn’t like it. One day at Wal-mart I was looking for something new to watch and I saw the box set and figured, what the …

My favorite TV series of all time, NCIS is on its seventh season this fall 2009. I discovered this show while watching re-runs of American shows in a government-owned television channel in the Philippines. I was hooked from the first time I watched it, and from then I …

Highway Patrol: Hot Dust, a third season episode from 1957, was quite interesting to watch. It concerned a young man named Harry Wells. He accidentally spills a container of radioactive material and then he panics. While he picks up the canister and places it in a …

One of my favourite comedy sitcoms to watch back in the nineteen nineties when I was still a child was one called “The Nanny”, because I thought that it was both funny and interesting to watch. I remember at the time that there were still one or two jokes …

I love Glee! I have always loved watching musicals and when something like this came out, I immediately saw to it that I watch the first TV show they aired.
I have been watching it ever since and has really enjoyed watching the Glee cast being introduced to the public. …

Robot Chicken is a sketch comedy show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim lineup. It’s animated, but not in the traditional moving pictures manner. It’s actually the product of stop-motion animation, making heavy use of action figures and dolls.
A lot of the humor is of the shock or …

Murder Is a Parlor Game is the second episode of Mrs. Columbo, a well intended but misguided attempt to capitalize on the Columbo crime drama. While Peter Falk was nowhere to be found, his car is in the opening credits and his basset hound is present in an …

Spongebob finds a wig one day in the trash and decides to put it on. But the funny thing about it is that he looks ridiculous, and everyone is laughing at him behind his back. He walks down the street and sees people pointing at him, but he thinks …

Shark stars James Woods.
Any show with James Woods is okay with me. I truly feel that he is the country’s finest actor and can carry a show by himself. In this case he does, as the show is not special in any way. The writers need …

I’m going to say up front that I really thought I was going to enjoy Probe: Metamorphic Anthropoidic Prototype Over You, and I did, except that I don’t like the ending, which is too melancholy for me. I have concerns about what will happen to subject of the …

So You Think You Can Dance, a “reality tv show” created by the minds behind American Idol and shown on Fox, is by far the most entertaining show in the new millennium. Aside from the not-so-quality entertainment acts sometimes brought in for elimination night, this show is family friendly …

The second episode of Orchestra United was a little slow for me somehow. I can’t really put my finger on it, but there was something that didn’t keep me as hooked as I had been. Still, the hour long episode from the United Kingdom had some solid …

Person of Interest is a crime drama television series that was introduced to me by a friend of mine. I remember that when the person first described it to me, the premise of the series seemed interesting enough to the point where I was very eager to watch it. Then …

As we flee from the threat of our identities of being revealed, we must question the nature of this fear in the first place. Does it exist to torment us, or is it an foolish illusion wrought by man’s own hands? These questions may not have an answer at …

MacGyver becomes a GT Cup race driver when the Phoenix Foundation develops a new environmental engine in this fourth season entry of MacGyver called Collision Course.
One thing I have to mention first that is bugging me in the last two episodes is Richard Dean Anderson’s hair. It’s just …

The 2010 America’s Got Talent finale was fairly entertaining. The final four were pretty good. There was the colorful Prince Poppycock, the everyday singer Michael Grimm, the variety act Fighting Gravity, and the young operatic star Jackie Evancho. In my mind, it was down to Grimm and …

Filipinos love music. I guess everyone else does. But music is the most closest to every Filipinos heart compared to other mediums of art. Because of this, videoke (video karaoke) and magic sing microphones sells like rice congee. And television networks have invested in this opportunity by staging singing …

The New Gidget was the second television series for the Gidget character. The first time around it was a teenage Sally Field in the role, with Don Porter as her father. Gidget is all grown up now and married to her longtime sweetheart. First seen the …

The beginning of the episode was, for no better choice of words, plain cool. It was so unexpected that it grabbed my attention right from the beginning. They did a really good job with this one. It was potentially a really tricky subject, but they handled it quite well, …

Jim Davis, perhaps best known as the patriarch on the nighttime soap opera Dallas, guest starred in the Trail Drive episode of the western Laramie. This first season episode has always been a favorite. The show opens with an impressive gun duel between Davis’ character of Hake …

Talk about mood whiplash, after the very dark, very creepy “Puppetmaster” episode we have what is probably one of the funniest episodes in the entire series.
The plot is simple enough, the invasion is coming up and Aang is extremely nervous about it. This causes him to have nightmares …

Star Trek: The Enterprise Incident is a story wherein the Enterprise crosses into the Neutral Zone to face off with the Romulans. It’s actually a secret mission that Kirk and Spock are on. It seems the Romulans now have a cloaking device, and Starfleet wants it.
The result …

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to see the show from last week. I really love watching this Australian version of Dancing with the Stars, even though I don’t know the celebrities. With the music, costumes, and setup of this series, it’s been fun to catch. I just …

Highway Patrol: : Christmas Story was the last show of the first season, airing in June, which seems odd, but that’s okay. Maybe the records are wrong about that, or maybe that is how early television was and I’m just too into what I consider to be normal.
In …

I never thought that I would one day be watching “Are You Smarter than Fifth Grader?” This show is quite clever. I like the concept. And truly the kids featured on this show are really smart. But then again, if they really are in the …

What isn’t new about Star Trek: The Savage Curtain is the crew of the Enterprise being forced to put on a show. What is new is that fighting with them are Abraham Lincoln and a Vulcan legend, Surak. The manipulation comes at the figurative hands of a …

Now here is a fun story, and I would guess that Gene Roddenberry would have loved to have produced something like this for live television. Star Trek: The Lorelei Signal, the fourth episode of the 1973 animated series, has a landing party from the Enterprise beaming down to …

This early morning, I chanced upon “Kapwa Ko, Mahal Ko” television program on GMA 7 and was surprised to know this show is still running. I remember it was originally aired way back 1975 by the now Philippine National Red Cross Governor, Ms. Rosa Rosal. I used to love …

Emerald Point N.A.S.: Episode 12 - The Rescue is what it says, the rescue of Glenn Matthews (Andrew Stevens) and Hilary Adams (Sela Ward) whose plane had gone down, stranding them on a beach somewhere where, yes, the ‘nasty’ happens. Glenn has no backbone, that’s for sure. …

I’m so glad I caught Attack of the Show on the G4 channel. What can I say? I’m a geek. I love playing video games, watching videos of Youtube, and reading manga. Attack of the Show happens to have all of that and then some. …

The Ghostbusters are experiencing a financial drought. There have been lulls in business before, but this seems to be one of the more serious cases as they are buried in debt and there don’t seem to be any new clients coming in. Egon speculates that there may …

Many cartoon programs on television right now are not the most educational for children of any age; especially toddlers. There is, of course, the tried and true Sesame Street that is always easy to rely on to help you teach your children their alphabet, numbers, etc. But, not all …

Numbers is one of many TV series about someone solving crimes. In numbers it is the mathematics professor Charlie Epps who are helping his brother, who works for the FBI. The father of the Epps brothers also helps them, as does Charlie’s more or less eccentric colleague, his fiancé …

Captain Planet is an ok cartoon show. I don’t love this show yet I don’t hate it. I think the show could have been much better. But I think that Captain American could mop the floor with Captain Planet any day of the week. Now I think that Captain Planet …

“The First Store” is an episode of “The Jeffersons”. It is one of the more emotionally-charged episodes of the series. By emotionally-charged, I mean the episode is designed to invoke a strong emotional response in the audience. It certainly had that affect on me. In this episode, George and …

Highway Patrol: Plane Crash deals with California Highway Patrol Chief Dan Mathews overseeing the discovery of a possible plane crash. The small plane is found, all in one piece, but nearby is the body of a dead forest ranger. Naturally, there are many questions that come up.
I …

A woman bounty hunter arrives at the Chicago Police Department right as a case of blue flu is beginning to go around. Janet Morse is after her man, bringing with her three children. She has an instant attraction to Canadian Mountie Benton Fraser (Paul Gross), and the …

Now as the end is upon us at last, Renton and Eureka must prepare to accept their destiny as those who will change this blood scared land for years to come. This is Eureka Seven episode 40 “Cosmic Trigger”, an exciting trip that will force us to embrace what …

This season of The Office has several hour-long episodes. I think they may be a mistake. I enjoy The Office but it is best in short chunks. At first, I just thought these longer episodes were just weaker writing, but the writing has been good, I just find myself …

The Prometheus finally goes on her shakedown cruise in Stargate SG-1: Memento. There are actually elements of this season six episode that I like, notably John Novak as Colonel William Ronson, the commander of the Prometheus. He and Jack clash in the opening scenes, and it’s pretty …

Greys Anatomy aired its new fall season premiere for 2009. The 2-hour event was not a let down to Grey fans. True to rumors, one of the beloved characters was indeed killed off the show. I will not spoil and say who but if you follow the show then …

The fifteenth episode of Adam-12 in Season 3 was called Log 26: LEMRAS. LEMRAS is an acronym for Law Enforcement Manpower Resource Allocation System, a computer program that predicts where crimes will occur at a certain point during the day. Adam-12 is one of the first teams …

Naruto is an anime series which revolves around the main character named Uzumaki Naruto and a world wherein ninjas rule and power is everywhere.
The first time I saw this anime, I was really enthralled by it. Shounen anime series such as Naruto really do interest me and the fact …

“The Tower of Terror” is an episode of the “Pokemon” television series. This is the second episode in a three episode story arc that’s focused on Ash claiming his third badge. In order to beat Sabrina, Ash and company travel to Lavender Town and the Pokemon Tower, where ghost …

This episode is where Law and Order Criminal Intent finally began to find its footing. Yet at the same time, it has a very familiar feel to it. As you’re watching the episode, you start to wonder if you’ve seen it before on one of the other Law and …

Mr. Howell takes center stage here which is like a breath of fresh airs so to speak, since Gilligan gets to take a step back from the main character. I was pleased with Howell’s acting skills in this episode despite the fact he ran around most of the show …