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Monk
Mr. Monk and the Foreign Man
Original Air Date: August 14, 2009
Jeff P. – Sr. Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com
Tonight’s episode kicks off with a Nigerian woman making a purchase at a market, disappointing the clerk telling him that she’s married. She goes outside to call her husband and a recklessly driving truck runs her down just after leaving the message.
jay and jerry
Leno moves from late night to primetime in his new comedy show premiering Monday, September 14 (10-11 p.m. ET).
“The Jay Leno Show” will be the first entertainment program to be stripped across primetime on broadcast network television and will showcase many of the features that have made Leno America’s late-night leader for more than a dozen years.
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“Since SAVING GRACE began in 2007, the series has both challenged and entertained viewers in ways few other shows on television ever dare,” said Michael Wright, executive vice president, head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). “The show’s continued success is thanks to the amazing talents of Holly Hunter and Nancy Miller, along with a tremendous ensemble cast and a highly skilled production team. They have taken us on a unique journey, and we look forward to seeing where it will ultimately lead.”
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Sports Night
The Quality of Mercy at 29K
Season 1, Episode 9
Brittany Frederick – Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com
In this episode, the team’s schedule is disrupted by ongoing coverage of an attempt to climb Mount Everest, and Dana’s attempt to spend time with her visiting niece, which only proves to her she is a little bit out of touch with life outside the CSC building. Jeremy tries to engage everyone’s interest in mountain climbing, to no avail. Dan makes one charitable contribution that sees him inundated with requests for others, which makes him question charitable causes and which, if any, should be the most important – until he meets someone who clues him in to what really matters most.
lewis black
Lewis Black will be playing the role of Professor Crawley, a university entomologist whose life is falling apart — his department’s being shut down because of budget cutbacks; his wife left him for someone who studies birds; and he’s moving in with his daughter in Oxnard … not Oxnard on the beach, Oxnard by the onion fields. But, none of that is as aggravating as Sheldon (Jim Parsons), who keeps pestering him to settle a bet with Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) about a cricket — hardly a worthy question for a man with a dung beetle named after him.
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Leverage
The Three Days of the Hunter Job
Original Air Date: August 12, 2009
Brittany Frederick – Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com
On this episode of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch…no, I’m kidding. But that’s Beth Broderick (aka one of Sabrina’s crazy aunts, don’t ask me which) and she’s playing a slightly overzealous TV news anchor who’s taking pot shots at a school bus driver for an accident, to the point where he’s tried to kill himself. Great person, huh?
His daughter turns to Nate and Sophie for help, explaining that he has post-traumatic stress and just wants to get her father his life back. Sophie wants to be in charge of the case and everyone kind of goes “What the…” Her idea is to totally destroy Monica Hunter’s (that’s her name) credibility by feeding her a fake story she’ll run with and be humiliated by. Although Nate keeps interrupting her briefing and taking the words out of her mouth. She then exits promptly into the closet.
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Man Vs. Wild
Arctic Circle
Original Air Date: August 12, 2009
Jeff P. – Sr. Staff Writer
jeffp@thetwocentscorp.com
Bear Grylls has seen cold before… but he hasn’t seen Arctic cold yet! He will now as the new season opens up tonight. I have to ask… why did they have to air this one when it’s still Summer?
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Keen Eddie
Who Wants to Be in a Club That Would Have Me as a Member?
Season 1, Episode 10
Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com
A truck pulls up, locked in back. It’s rather elaborate. By the time the masked men get it open, we have the distinct impression that they’re about to unleash a caged animal. But no. Just a teenage boy, almost naked and tied to a chair. You know, the usual. They tip the truck bed back and swing him off the edge of the bridge where he dangles by a rope until a double-decker pulls up.
alien trespass
Chances are, most of us remember the good old, campy, shaky-effects sci-fi movies of the 50’s, either having watched them in our youth or in my case, poking fun at them during late-night episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Whichever camp you fall into, you’ll enjoy Alien Trespass, a fun, good-hearted throwback to 1957 which arrives on DVD today.
A small town is rocked when a spaceship crashes into it, unleashing a strange one-eyed alien known as the Ghota, which likes to eat people and turn them into puddles of goo. Standing in its way is alien peacekeeper Urp, who takes over the body of local astronomer Ted Lewis (wonderfully played by Eric McCormack, here a million miles away from Will & Grace) in his attempt to stop the alien before it can eat the whole town and divide ad infinitum. Urp/Ted has one ally in all this, fiesty diner waitress Tammi (The 4400’s Jenni Baird). Mostly dumbfounded in all this is the local police force (a great group of actors – The Wonder Years’ Dan Lauria, The Unit’s Robert Patrick, and Psych’s Sage Brocklebank), Ted’s wife Lana (Jody Thompson), and all the not-so-innocent teenagers. What ensues is lighthearted fun reminiscent of movies they just don’t make any more.
It’s that time of year again – the back-to-school commercials are on TV, the kids are getting restless, the bus stop schedules are in the local paper and soon new programming shall return to television!
So, with the hundreds of programming decisions to make, the hours of DVR programming to endure, and the nightly viewing schedules to hash out – how does one know what’s going on?
That’s what were here to help with! The 2009 version of TheTwoCents’ Fall Preview Guide is in progress!
JUST ADDED: Daily Programming Grids (With Premiere Dates)
Sunday – Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday
Throughout the end of August and into September we will be sharing all the information we have on the shows coming to TV – new and old – all to make sure that our readers are as informed as possible. Interviews, show descriptions, day by day programming grids and of course our own TwoCents!
Keep checking back as more and more information is released here at TheTwoCents.com!
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