AMC Announces 2012 Premiere Dates

AMC announced today, from the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California, premiere dates for new and returning original series, including the critically acclaimed dramas “Mad Men,” “The Killing” and “The Walking Dead,” as well as its unscripted series “Talking Dead” and “Comic Book Men.”

The critically acclaimed second season of “The Walking Dead” returns at 9pm ET/PT with the new episode, “Nebraska” on February 12, which also marks the return of AMC’s live after show, “Talking Dead,” at midnight ET.

CSI:NY – Recap & Review – Who’s There?

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CSI:NY
Who’s There?

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2012

Maria – Sr. Reviewer
maria@thetwocentscorp.com

The opening scene consists of a wealthy couple (The Fergusons) dining, spliced with them being badly beaten right at their own dinner table. Beaten, bound and gagged, Elizabeth was able to dial 911. Her husband, Ron, was murdered. It’s up to the CSI team to figure out what happened in between.

Supernatural – Recap & Review – Time After Time After Time

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Supernatural
Time After Time After Time

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2012

Anne – Associate Editor
anne@thetwocentscorp.com

While still mourning Bobby, the brothers are back to work facing the baddie of the week. Dean is still focusing on Dick Roman, but his heart is much more into the case at hand this week than he was last episode. And what a great case it is! With guest stars Jason Dohring and Nicolas Lea, we’re in for a great night!

Who would you like to meet if you could go back in time? For me it would be Princess Diana or someone who survived the Titanic disaster. I am addicted to learning about both. Well, Dean gets to meet one of his idols tonight…

Chuck – Recap & Review – Chuck Versus Bo

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Chuck
Chuck Versus Bo

Original Air Date: Jan 6, 2012

Jeff L – Staff Writer
JeffL@thetwocentscorp.com

Last week’s episode ended with Jeff and Lester stumbling onto the spy operation going on beneath the Spy More. This week, we see the Men in Black I predicted are actually Morgan and Casey. They take the unconscious Jeffster! out on the edge of the desert on the way to Vegas and stage a car accident — — deploying some memory erasing gas that will make the bumbling duo forget the last 24 hours.

The new Jeff is too smart to fall for the elaborate staging, despite the underwear, booze bottles and casino chips splayed around their crashed apparently stolen vehicle. He notices his HinJew friend’s breath doesn’t smell of booze – only gefilte fish and curry as usual.

Fringe – Recap & Review – Back to Where You’ve Never Been

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Fringe
Back to Where You’ve Never Been

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2012

Rachel – Sr. Managing Editor
rachel@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s been a long time since we’ve had a new episode (too long, if you ask me, but I’ll take it where I can). If you can’t remember back that far, Peter had decided that he was indeed in the wrong timeline and that he needed to study the Machine to find a way back home.

Peter really misses ‘his’ timeline. In fact, he dreams about it. Being with Olivia, having Walter cook him pancakes in the buff, a place where everything is fine. He knows the only person that can help him get to that place is Walter, since he actually built the Machine. Too bad Walter isn’t talking to him.

Blue Bloods – Recap & Review – The Uniform

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Blue Bloods
The Uniform

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2012

FK – Sr. Editor
farrah@thetwocentscorp.com

I’m in mourning as the long-time ABC soap opera One Life to Live came to an end. So many television actors got their start on daytime soaps and it’s a shame these shows are getting axed for talk shows where you can learn to make a bean dip or put make up on.

So how wonderful of a surprise was it when one of the former characters from OLTL showed up on tonight’s Blue Bloods working for the mayor’s PR firm fighting with Frank for a new NYPD campaign. If good ol’ Eli (OLTL fans will understand…) thought Todd Manning was bad, he hasn’t met Frank Reagan.

Merlin – Recap & Review – The Darkest Hour Pt 2

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Merlin
The Darkest Hour Pt. 2

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2012

Melanie – TwoCents Reviewer
melanie@thetwocents.com

When we left our heroes last week, Merlin had just flung himself into an attacking dorocha to save Arthur. Camelot was left in the hands of Arthur’s uncle, Lord Agravaine, and Arthur was planning to sacrifice himself to close the void and banish the dorocha.

So how will Merlin survive an attack that no one else has? Who will end up as the sacrifice to close the void?

Grimm – Recap & Review – Game Ogre

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Grimm
Game Ogre

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2012

Wyner C – TwoCents Reviewer
wyner@thetwocentscorp.com

“Fee fi fo fum… I smell the blood of an Englishman…”

Gree Gri Gro Grum… Grimm gets dark and I’m stunned… (Hey, I tried but my rhyming skills – or lack thereof – doesn’t go beyond “roses are red.”) In this episode, we get to see what an Ogre looks like without the Disney-fication of this literary character. It’s not green and doesn’t have a talking donkey as a best friend. I like Portland’s Ogre better – even though it’s a killer.

A Gifted Man – Recap & Review – In Case of (Re)Birth

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A Gifted Man
In Case of (Re)Birth

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2012

Dennis – TwoCents Reviewer
dennis@thetwocentscorp.com

On tonight’s episode, Michael celebrates his birthday by helping a homeless girl deliver her baby and treating an artist’s tumor. You know, just another day for the amazing Dr. Holt. Also, no one besides Rita and his sister Christina know that it’s his birthday.

This episode also features the return of Eric La Selle’s psychiatrist character, E-Mo. So what brings him back to Holt Neuro? Read on for tonight’s recap.

The Mentalist – Recap & Review – Always Bet on Red

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The Mentalist
Always Bet on Red

Original Air Date: Jan 12, 2011

Kym – TwoCents Reviewer
kym@thetwocentscorp.com

We’re back after the winter hiatus and Cho, Lisbon and Jane are off to meet with divorce attorney Alton Creek, a former client of Cho’s new CI, Summer. He’s worried that someone’s trying to kill him and wants the CBI’s protection. Based on his attitude as they’re walking down the pier towards him, I couldn’t imagine why. He sounds like he thinks he’s entitled to CBI protection, just for being the big shot that he perceives himself to be. I’d want to kill him myself.

Turns out he’s right too. When his boat explodes right in front of the team, Cho and Lisbon run towards the explosion, but Jane falls back – what was he hoping to see? The culprit?