Gary Unmarried – Recap & Review – Gary Feels Tom Slipping Away

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Gary Unmarried
Gary Feels Tom Slipping Away

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2010

Farrah Kaye – Associate Editor
Farrah@thetwocentscorp.com

During the winter hiatus, two Gary-related things happened to me. First, I realized why I love Uncle Mitch so much. He’s one of the Old School / Will Ferrell / Jeremy Piven guys. He was even in The Hangover. I kept thinking he looked so familiar and there was his list of my favorite movies on his imdb.com profile. And he also did a stint on Saturday Night Live. Heyo! The second thing was the Gary Unmarried episodes they aired. A throwback to the times when Dennis was Gary’s best friend instead of Curtis. I have to admit, I like Curtis better but I would love to see the three of them together. I also had never one of the the episodes (Gary and the Trophy) so that was fun, too. It made me really appreciate the Gary we have today. And on that note, on to the newest episode.

Ugly Betty – Recap & Review – Back In Her Place

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Ugly Betty
Back In Her Place

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2010

Karen- Sr. Staff Writer
Karen@thetwocentscorp.com

This week Betty is given an assignment of fashion and stiletto heels, but she wants to turn it into a human interest story about the many shoes people work in. But good ‘ol Wilhelmina, will have no part of it. So to get back at Betty, Willie makes her wear the stilettos and walk a mile. That’s just crazy, no woman could do that! Willie gives her multiple products to try and thus, Betty has her worst week….ever!

Leno Back On Tonight Show?

think they're still this close?

UPDATE: Sources at NBC are denying a TMZ report claiming NBC and the talk show host have worked out an agreement that restores “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” to run from 11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m.

TMZ is reporting that Leno and NBC have agreed to a deal giving him an hour long show at 11:35pm on NBC.

Looks like the guys at I’m With COCO better start finding a new home for Conan!

P.S. – Has anyone seen Jimmy Fallon? The world wants some quotes Jimmy!

The Good Wife and NCIS: LA Coming Back For Season 2

psst - we're coming back next season

I know a lot of people love The Good Wife, but haven’t heard the love for NCIS: LA. How about you guys. Happy one or both of these shows are back?

CBS’s NCIS: LOS ANGELES and THE GOOD WIFE, the season’s top two freshman series, have been renewed for the 2010-2011 broadcast season.

NCIS: LOS ANGELES is the number one new program of the season with an average audience of 16.8 million viewers. The show is averaging a 5.3/12 in adults 25-54 and 3.8/10 in adults 18-49. Shane Brennan and R. Scott Gemmill are executive producers of NCIS: LOS ANGELES for CBS Television Studios.

NBC Announces Post-Leno 10PM Shows

parenthood fills a 10pm vacancy

The body of The Jay Leno is barely cold, but we already know who shall replace it in our lives. Now, is Jay replacing Conan? What happens to Jimmy Fallon? That’s all unknown. But here is the list of 10pm shows NBC will be using after the Olympics. What do you guys think? Will this work better than Jay did?

The new post-Olympics program schedule grid follows (all times ET); new series are in upper case.

MONDAYS
8-9 p.m. – “Chuck”
9-10 p.m. – “Trauma” (beginning March 8 )
10-11 p.m. -“Law & Order” (returns March 1 with two-hour episode, 9-11 p.m. (ET); resumes in regular time slot March 8 )

TUESDAYS
8-10 p.m. – “The Biggest Loser”
10-11 p.m. – “PARENTHOOD” (premieres March 2)

HBO Brings Us All To “The Pacific”

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The epic ten-part miniseries event THE PACIFIC, based on the true stories of World War II Marines, debuts with Part One on SUNDAY, MARCH 14 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), followed by other parts debuting on consecutive Sundays at the same time through May 16.

The HBO Miniseries presentation of a Playtone and DreamWorks production is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the producing team behind the Emmy® Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning 2001 HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers.” Hanks and Goetzman also executive produced the HBO miniseries “John Adams,” which won a record-breaking 13 Emmys® in 2008.

HBO Launches New Drama – Treme

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The one-hour drama series TREME will launch its ten-episode first season on HBO in April, it was announced today by Sue Naegle, president, HBO Entertainment. From David Simon (“The Wire,” “Generation Kill,” “The Corner”) and Eric Overmyer (“Homicide,” “The Wire”), the show follows musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians and ordinary New Orleanians as they try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane and levee failure that caused the near-death of an American city.

“New Orleans is a city which lives in the imagination of the whole world,” says Overmyer. “We wanted to capture something authentic about it, as its people struggle with the after effects of the greatest calamity to befall an American city in the history of this country.”

Simon adds, “What happens in New Orleans matters. An ascendant society rebuilds its great cities.”

TNT Re-signs Men Of A Certain Age For Another Year

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In the world of TV Free Agency, Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula are all taken.

TNT has renewed its critically acclaimed hit series Men of a Certain Age for a second season. The wry drama stars Emmy® winner Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond), Emmy winner Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street, TNT’s Salem’s Lot) and Golden Globe® winner Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise). Men of a Certain Age currently airs Mondays at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). TNT has ordered 10 episodes for the second season.

TheTwoCents Exclusive Set Visit – Mercy

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PG Ignacio – Senior Editor
pg@thetwocentscorp.com
Event Date: Jan 13, 2010

TheTwoCents.com was invited along with other entertainment news sites to take a set tour and participate in a Q&A with the cast of NBC’s medical drama, “Mercy”. The set tour took place in a building/warehouse converted to a studio in Secaucus, NJ.

The event began with a catered meal, a set tour, and concluded with the cast Q&A. There will be a special web video of the event on NBC, but I will give a highlight of the day’s events…

Leverage – Recap & Review – The Runway Job

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Leverage
The Runway Job

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2010

Brittany Frederick – Staff Writer
brittanyfrederick @thetwocentscorp.com

It amuses me that when I first started writing about Leverage, no one had heard of it. Now here we are halfway through the second season, and every other commercial on TNT is for the show (the other half may be for Southland) and it’s become a huge hit. I must have good taste… but I still watch Masterpiece Theatre on PBS, so maybe it’s just that this is a really, really good show.