I think Wendy Williams is a fabulous ball of fire, and for the past six months, watching her talk show has been my guilty pleasure. I watch it every evening during the week, and I’ll even stay glued to the tv if the episode is a rerun, because …

I have watched all of the episodes of Parenthood that have aired so far. I watched and enjoyed the movie when it came out and it is so hard for a tv show to live up to a well received movie but I think this show is …

The Cleveland Show episode “Once upon a tyne in new york” aired last night, 3/21/2010. The plot centers around Cleveland Brown whose new wife is complaining that he has let himself go since they got married 3 months ago. Cleveland talks to his friends at the …

I can’t wait until the premiere of Dancing With The Stars March 22, 2010, so I can see Pamela Anderson dance. I’m pretty sure a lot of people who usually wouldn’t watch the show will tune in this season just to see how skimpy Pamela’s costumes will be. …

John Doe: Past Imperfect is a little strange on the surface. While this series continues to hold my interest, elements of it aren’t as strong as I’d like. For one thing, star Dominic Purcell tends to overact, especially during intense scenes. For me, it feels like …

At the opening of John Doe: Doe Re: Me, the amnesiac John Doe actually tries psycho therapy to find out something about his past. I liked this segment and especially how it ended, which I won’t spoil. I thought it was a marvelous sign of the time …

John Doe: Blood Lines has our amnesiac center character still confused about his identity. Sometimes, it feels overplayed. Now I realize that being in his position, waking up naked with no clue who I was, would be insane and difficult, but for TV drama, it feels overacted.
One …

From September 2002, the pilot of John Doe, a new science fiction series, brings us the basic story of an amnesiac person adjusting to life without a past, only with the twist that this man seems to know almost everything, except for his identity.
Visually, one of the interesting things …

While not technically listed as a two-parter, that is in essence what John Doe: The Mourner is. In this first hour of a continuing drama, a serial killer dubbed The Mourner is on the loose. One of the kickers is that he’s using the symbol that is …

My first several minutes of John Doe: Manifest Destiny is pretty funny. You just have to feel for John’s fear of flying. We’ve learned the it’s possible that John and potentially others like him may have phobias, so his claustrophobia and fear of flying fits right in.
What’s …

John Doe: Idaho is probably my favorite episode of this science fiction show thus far. Actually, the plot device used here is pretty much an easy to guess one, but it’s nicely done and you really aren’t sure until the story progresses quite a bit. Logic tells you …

John Doe: Mind Games is a good little story that begins with a woman and a young boy showing up on John’s doorstep and announcing that he’s probably the boy’s father. It’s another variation of the sperm bank story, but a bit more complex than normal.
I was impressed …

John Doe: Low Art is fairly entertaining on the whole to watch. The story temporarily puts aside the issue of who John Doe really is and instead focuses on his new friends and John’s ability to interact without acting like a machine.
The catalyst for the mystery element of …

In October 2002, John Doe: John Deux aired and presented the unusual aspect of having yet a second amnesia victim pop up near Seattle in just about the same way that John Doe (Dominic Purcell) did. Naturally, that piques John’s interest.
One of the most memorable parts of this …

John Doe: John D.O.A. essentially picks up not long after The Mourner concludes. It has a very calm, unsuspecting opening with Jamie Avery (Jayne Brook) going to her apartment and being kidnapped by the serial killer.
One of the interesting facets of John Doe: John D.O.A. is the faux …

Gabrielle Anwar returns in John Doe: Tone Dead. After surviving their murderous plane flight to London, she decides to pay John Doe a visit, and things do heat up. However, it’s not just fun and games. Rachel ends up helping out on a case. It’s …

Much of the focus in John Doe: Family Man is on Detective Frank Hayes (John Marshall Jones) who is dealing with an impending divorce and custody issues. It’s that same old thing about a cop’s job interfering with family life. While I have sympathy, I also think …

Note: the big part of this show is revealed in this review. Some people don’t like to be spoiled, so I just want you to know in advance that I’m giving away the biggest part of the story.
John Doe: Ashes to Ashes is probably the most intense episode …

Lisa Jane Persky gets a chance to shine in Private Eye: High Heels and Silver Wings from 1987. Persky was a regular on this detective drama that didn’t last more than a half-season, and her part was that of the wacky, daffy, wannabe starlet that is very stereotypical …

Private Eye: Light and Shadows begins with a black female loan officer hiring Jack Cleary (Michael Woods) to protect her. She’s being followed and claims not to know why. The woman is Helen Burke, played strongly and capably by Lisa Wilkinson. What is funny to me …

John Doe: The Rising is the final episode of this one-year episode and it essentially picks up not all that long after the last show ended. The topic in it was remote viewing, and John Doe (Dominic Purcell) was the subject. It’s actually a little disturbing to …

John Doe: Remote Control has John (Dominic Purcell) helping Digger (William Forsythe) find out what happened to his blood brother, who supposedly died in an auto accident. There would seem to be more to it since John temporarily sees the brother in color, not to mention a Special Forces …

I do like the opening scene from John Doe: Shock to the System because it keeps the continuity alive of John wanting to be challenged. He doesn’t want to know everything, and like an earlier outing where he multi-tasked in a chaotic frenzy until there was something he …

Dominic Purcell continues on in the title role of John Doe in the episode called Save as… John Doe. The opening begins with a blonde woman named Paulette Chambers, who picks up a briefcase of some importance. With her is her German Shepherd dog. This sets …

Peter Wingfield is the standout guest star in John Doe: Doe or Die. Wingfield portrays Ken Rothman, who heads an assault team as they storm the Seattle police department where Jamie Avery and Frank Hayes work, though Hayes is not inside when the station is overtaken.
Rothman wants his …

Normally, I tend to enjoy astronaut and space stories, and I do this one, but not as much as I hoping when I realized that somehow or another the space program would figure into this episode of John Doe which is called Illegal Alien.
>From March 2003, no one knows …

The gore sneaks in again during John Doe: Psychic Connection. The show isn’t as bloody as many of its contemporaries, but when they do decide to show it, they tend to linger, and that’s what they do here when John Doe (Dominic Purcell) jerks away from his violent …

From January 1988, Private Eye: Hollywood Confidential was very interesting story. The series stars Michael Woods as private eye, Jack Cleary, and Josh Brolin as his assistant, Johnny Betts. The exciting part for me, though, was with the guest star, Adam-12’s Kent McCord.
In Hollywood Confidential, McCord plays …

In Have Gun - Will Travel: The Pledge, Mike Brennan says the Indians have his wife and will kill her; he claims says he’s from New York and is in the furniture business and that he’s out west buying lumber. So, Paladin (Richard Boone) goes along to try …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Return to Fort Benjamin is a season three episode of Richard Boone’s half-hour show in which he stars as gun for hire, Paladin. In this case, Paladin is approached in San Francisco by two Indians. The Indian chief wants his son to …

Airing in September 1987, Max Headroom: Deities brings on the religious angle for those living in the Age of Video, which is when this series takes place. The set up is that the View Age church is getting too popular and will surpass catholics and 700 Club in …

The second season of Max Headroom began with a show called Academy. It begins with William Morgan Sheppard’s Blank Reg character being arrested and ultimately put on trial for broadcasting his signal which interferes with Network 23’s signal. That’s a big no no, but the kicker is …

I was quite surprised, and pleased, to see that Lisa Niemi returned as reporter Janie Crane in Max Headroom: The Blanks. After having virtually no lines in the prior show called War, in The Blanks she actually does get some decent dialog. I had no clue she …

The War episode of Max Headroom is actually one I’ve seen before and with added interest. The reason for that is because it featured Lisa Niemi as a news reporter named Janie Crane. I remember chuckling a bit, though, because while we see Niemi several times, she …

One of the more interesting episodes from the first season, Max Headroom: Security Systems (which aired April 21, 1987) has a really fun dynamic where the computer entity of Max Headroom having to elicit the assistance of a female computer. It’s all because Edison Carter’s life has been …

The Body Banks episode of Max Headroom, from 1987, is sadly not that hard to envision. Society is just such a crazy place that I certainly wouldn’t doubt it. We’ve seen fiction do crazier things, like Soylent Green did with its shocking revelation. Basically, it’s all …

Max Headroom: Rakers from April 1987 starts out with some curious dramatic angst when controller Theora Jones (Amanda Pays) can’t be found, causing Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) to become concerned. While others suggest he just not worry about her and hire a new assistant, Edison refuses and tracks …

A couple years before Max Headroom the TV series began, there was a short movie made of the subject matter that created a lot of industry buzz. Much of this Blipverts episode is derived from the plot and themes first scene in that attention-grabbing 1985 project.
The basic idea …

Robbie Coltrane is the big cheese as Dr. Eddie ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald in Cracker: True Romance Part 2. However, for me, his cheese is poisoned. I wasn’t impressed for one second with the acting or the character. He was a major turnoff.
The final scene makes me dislike …

Cracker is a British crime show that I just can’t get into. Of course, I’m watching a second season episode so I’m watching a show mid-stream, but it’s just boring and confusing to me. The main reason for that is that I just don’t get the main …

Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut: Finally, the Last Episode Ever (for Now) concludes a six part epic look at Monty Python, the group from Britain who rewrote British television history by pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable. For me, I’m not a fan …

Lust for Glory is the fifth piece of the six episode documentary about the very popular British comedy team, Monty Python. The documentary is entitled, Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut.
Much like part four, Lust for Glory is dealing with a topic I don’t believe …

The fourth episode of the six part documentary, Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut, is focused mostly on their movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The documentary program is referred to as The Ultimate Holy Grail Episode.
Now frankly, I’ve never seen this movie, mainly …

And Now, the Sordid Personal Bits is the third part of the six episode documentary called Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut. This show actually details a lot of the reasons why I don’t find Monty Python funny. I’m the traditional sort, and feel …

Just as the documentary title and episode title indicate, Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut: The Much Funnier Second Episode is the second of six episodes which chronicle the history of this British comedy group. I’ve never been a fan, so I like to be …

The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings is the beginning of a six-part documentary of the British comedy troupe, Monty Python. The overall title of the hours of recall is Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut. To be up front, I’ve never been a fan of this group …

Nash Bridges: Gun Play from 1997 had some good things about it that made it worth watching. First of all, there’s star, Don Johnson who plays Nash Bridges. He’s a cop again, just like on Miami Vice, only this time he’s in San Francisco and he’s an …

Have Gun - Will Travel: Jenny opened at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco where our hero, Paladin (Richard Boone), is coming to a lady’s aid once again. The lovely lady has the misfortune to have numerous $20 bills which, as it turned out, were distributed in Denver …

In 2009, the musical group created by American Idol’s Simon Cowell, Il Divo, performed a concert in Barcelona, Spain that featured songs from their album, The Promise, plus some other new numbers. Titled An Evening With Il Divo - Live In Barcelona, this special has been airing on …

Max Headroom: Grossberg’s Return is one of those scary episodes, not because of monsters and unseen horror, but because its fiction isn’t hard to envision happening in our very crazy world. This show often puts up questions of ‘what if’ for us to ponder by making it viable …