What’s interesting on TV?
My list of interesting current TV series to check out. I’ll probably won’t have the time to see all of them, but at least there is online watching and DVDs! There are probably more nice TV series that I’d miss because there is too much!
Click on the picture or after the cut for the show descriptions.
24 (8th season)
24 will return for a two-night premiere of the 8th season on January 17th and January 18th on Fox or Global. Normal schedule will be the Mondays on Fox or Global.
Set in Washington, DC, “Day 7″ opens four years after Season Six with CTU dismantled and Bauer on trial. Bauer’s day takes an unexpected turn when former colleague TONY ALMEIDA (Carlos Bernard) returns. Meanwhile, newly elected President ALLISON TAYLOR (Cherry Jones) leads the country alongside White House Chief of Staff ETHAN KANIN (Bob Gunton) and First Gentleman HENRY TAYLOR (Colm Feore).
A national security crisis prompts an investigation by a team of FBI agents including JANIS GOLD (Janeane Garofalo), RENEE WALKER (Annie Wersching), LARRY MOSS (Jeffrey Nordling) and SEAN HILLINGER (Rhys Coiro). Although CTU is no longer, CHLOE O’BRIAN (Mary Lynn Rajskub) and BILL BUCHANAN (James Morrison) are back for another momentous day of shocking events.
Bones (5th season)
New episodes return January 14th, Tuesdays on Fox or Global.
DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN (Emily Deschanel) is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, DC, and writes novels as a sideline. When the standard methods of identifying a body are useless – when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that CSI gives up – law enforcement calls in Brennan for her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in the victim’s bones.
Most law enforcement can’t handle Brennan’s intelligence, her drive for the truth, or the way she flings herself headlong into every investigation. SPECIAL AGENT SEELEY BOOTH (David Boreanaz) of the FBI’s Homicide Investigations Unit is the exception. A former Army sniper, Booth mistrusts science and scientists – the “squints,” as he calls them — who pore over the physical evidence of a crime. But even he cannot deny that the combination of his people-smarts and Brennan’s scientific acumen makes them a formidable team.
As Season Five begins, Booth and Brennan contend with the emotional fallout resulting from the sea-change in their relationship brought about by events at the end of last season: Brennan’s request to have Booth father her child, as well as the strange, profound – almost psychic – link they shared during Booth’s coma, which left both of them wondering what thoughts and emotions the other is experiencing. While Booth endeavors to come to grips with these unleashed emotions, Brennan insists the two of them focus their attention and energy on their main job: catching murderers that no one else can catch.
Chuck (3rd season)
Two-hours season premier Sunday January 10th on NBC.
No More Mr. Nice Spy. Our favorite secret agent is back in the one-hour action-comedy series. Chuck Bartowski returns as a regular guy, working at a Buy More electronics store, who becomes the government’s most vital secret agent.
Chuck is transformed into the Intersect 2.0 after another data download into his brain. This time around, he not only knows government secrets, but he also is well equipped with deadly fight skills. Chuck has the potential to become a real agent, but he has one problem — his emotions. Now he faces the battle of keeping his emotions in check in order to protect himself and the people around him.
The ever stoic Colonel John Caseyreturns with partner Sarah Walker, one of the CIA’s top agents and Chuck’s dream girl. As Chuck assumes his new role as the Intersect 2.0, Casey and Sarah need to protect him but also help him become the agent he is destined to be.
Desperate Housewives (2nd season)
Desperate Housewives, where catfights, seduction and murder are all part of the average day. You have your perfect home, perfect family and perfect neighborhood. But is the suburban fantasy of the white picket fence and cozy cul-de-sac as perfect as it seems?
In our ho-hum neighborhoods, there’s never really anything interesting to look at unless there’s a garage sale next door. In Wisteria Lane, there’s a lot to look at. Or gawk at.
Wisteria Lane must be the place where they coined the phrase, “there goes the neighborhood.” If you lived there, you’d be peeking through your curtains to spy on hapless Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), who just can’t seem to keep a man unless he’s in a coma. You’d seek advice from Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), the supermom who can survive cancer but can barely keep up with her house full of kids. You’d definitely want to schmooze your way into a party thrown by Bree Hodge (Marcia Cross), who’s like Martha Stewart crossed with Jack Daniels. And keep your men away from Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria Parker), the former model who’s slumming it in the ‘burbs, and Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), the singleton who’s had better luck with guns than men.
Dollhouse (2nd season)
CAROLINE (Eliza Dushku) – code name “Echo” – is an “Active,” a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Hired by the wealthy, powerful and connected, the Actives don’t just perform their hired roles, they wholly become – with mind, personality and physiology – whomever the client wants or needs them to be. Whether imprinted to be a lover, an assassin, a corporate negotiator or a best friend, the Actives know no other life than the specific engagements they are in at that time.
Confined between missions to a secret facility known as the “Dollhouse,” Echo and the other Actives, including SIERRA (Dichen Lachman) and VICTOR (Enver Gjokaj), are assigned engagements by ADELLE DEWITT (Olivia Williams), one of the Dollhouse’s leaders. After each scenario, Echo, always under the watchful eye of her handler-turned-head-of-security, BOYD LANGTON (Harry Lennix), returns to the mysterious Dollhouse where her thoughts, feelings, experiences and knowledge are erased by TOPHER BRINK (Fran Kranz), the Dollhouse’s genius programmer. Echo then enters the next scenario with no memory of before – or does she?
Fringe (2nd season)
FRINGE returns for a second thrilling season that will continue to explore the unexplained phenomena and terrifying occurrences linked throughout the world – known simply as “The Pattern” – in pursuit of a larger, more shocking truth.
Set in Boston, the FBI’s Fringe Division formed when Special Agent OLIVIA DUNHAM (Anna Torv) enlisted the help of institutionalized “fringe” scientist WALTER BISHOP (John Noble) and his son, PETER (Joshua Jackson), to save her partner and lover from a mind-bending death. Through unconventional and unorthodox methods, the FRINGE team imagines and tests the impossibilities while investigating unbelievable events, macabre crimes, and mystifying cases involving pyrokinesis, neuroscience, cryonics, genetic engineering, astral projection, and other fantastical theories. When the unimaginable happens, it’s their job to stop it.
Agent PHILLIP BROYLES (Lance Reddick) guides the group, while by-the-book Agent CHARLIE FRANCIS (Kirk Acevedo) and Junior Agent ASTRID FARNSWORTH (Jasika Nicole) provide support and depth to the team. Underscoring the unfolding mysteries, enigmatic Massive Dynamic executive NINA SHARP (Blair Brown) asserts that the advancement of technology is changing the world of science, and conversely, the science of the world.
Gossip Girl (3rd season)
Spotted: Our beloved Upper East Siders, all grown up and graduated. Though high school may be behind them, a future of love, scandal and, of course, secrets awaits.
Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) spent her summer in Europe. But it wasn’t her shopping sprees that made her the new darling of the paparazzi. As the first day of Brown approaches, Serena will have to decide whether she’s ready to give up her new life as a celebutante to begin another as a college freshman. And a visit from bad boy Carter Baizen (guest star Sebastian Stan) will uncover the real reason for her transformation.
Meanwhile, Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) and Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) finally declared their love for each other. But this isn’t a couple that would ever be content spending their summer holding hands at the movies. And how they spent their summer may be the thing that saves them or the wedge that drives them apart.
Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) traded in her Brooklyn loft for an Upper East Side penthouse when her dad, Rufus (Matthew Settle), got engaged to Lily van der Woodsen Bass (Kelly Rutherford). It’s the perfect address for the new Queen Bee of Constance Billard. But just because Blair gave Jenny that title doesn’t mean the other girls at school aren’t going to fight for it. And will Jenny be willing to pay the price it takes to be queen?
Things are looking up for Dan (Penn Badgley). NYU is the perfect place for this high school geek to redefine himself. But a return visit from “friend” Georgina Sparks (guest star Michelle Trachtenberg) will make things more than a little bit complicated.
Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford) has found a new flame, southern belle Bree Buckley (guest star JoAnna Garcia). Unfortunately, her family and Nate’s family despise each other. Will they be able to conquer their family rivalries? Were Romeo and Juliet?
Brooklynite and NYU freshman Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr) has been spending a lot of time with a mysterious stranger. But this stranger may be more of an insider than anyone can guess.
Heroes (4th season)
New episodes January 4th with a 2hr special, Mondays on NBC or Global.
After a total eclipse casts its shadow across the globe, seemingly calling forth a multitude of everyday men and women with special powers, Dr. Mohinder Suresh , a genetics professor from India, continues to champion his father’s theory that there are people with extraordinary abilities living among us. Claire Bennet, an indestructible high school cheerleader, must hide her ability from her peers while working to maintain her relationship with her father, a man of mystery who has a keen interest in people like her. Niki Sanders, a Las Vegas single mother with astonishing strength – and a dangerous, amoral mirror image (Jessica Sanders) – struggles to support and protect her young son Micah, a genius who can interact with electronic machinery through touch. Matt Parkman, a police detective from Los Angeles, attempts to put his ability to hear the thoughts of others to good use. In Japan, Hiro Nakamura’s ability to pierce the space-time continuum and manipulate time has empowered him to change the future, as he embarks on wild adventures with his best friend Ando Masahashi. Nathan Petrelli, a congressional hopeful with the ability to fly, has his dreams dashed after failing to stop his younger brother Peter , a nurse with the ability to absorb the powers of others, from exploding over the New York City skyline. And after this violent clash in New York, the fate of Sylar, a manipulative serial killer dedicated to violently collecting the extraordinary talents of special people, is unknown. Meanwhile, in the Dominican Republic, a young woman named Maya Herrera and her twin brother, plagued by her threatening ability, attempt to make the dangerous crossing to the United States in search of help. And Monica Dawson, another young woman with newfound special abilities, would give up everything to help the people around her. Their ultimate destiny is nothing less than saving the world…
House (6th season)
HOUSE is an innovative take on the medical drama in which the villain is a medical malady and the hero is an irreverent, controversial doctor who trusts no one, least of all his patients.
Season Six will explore House’s long road to recovery. Can he find some version of sanity and normalcy? Can he stay away from the workplace that arguably drove him to mental instability but is also the only stable foundation in his life? Can Princeton-Plainsboro continue its celebrated Department of Diagnostics without him? How will Cuddy’s relationship with House change, now that their imagined affair is out in the open?
Lie To Me (2nd season)
Entering its intriguing second season, LIE TO ME is the compelling drama series inspired by the scientific discoveries of a real-life psychologist who can read clues embedded in the human face, body and voice to expose the truth and lies in criminal investigations.
Season Two continues with new lies and life-changing situations for The Lightman Group as they encounter new cases, including a woman with multiple-personality disorder (Erika Christensen, “Traffic”) whose lies as one personality may be true for another personality. Additionally, Lightman will work to solve a homicide while held at gunpoint during a hostage situation. He will also struggle with his rival, who stirs up trouble and creates tension among Lightman’s employees. These cases require the team to look further and search deeper, not only to determine who is lying but why. In their personal lives, after Foster’s marriage collapses, she explores the possibilities of life as a single woman, while Lightman tries to come to terms with his own mysterious past.
Life Unexpected (Series premier)
This new series will premier Monday January 18th on The CW.
After spending her life bouncing from one foster family to another, 15-year-old Lux has decided to become an emancipated minor. Her journey through the legal maze leads Lux to her biological father, 30-something Nate “Baze” Bazile, who lives like an aging frat-boy and is astonished to learn he has a daughter. Lux is equally astonished to learn that her mother is Cate Cassidy, a star on local radio, along with her boyfriend, Ryan Thomas. When a judge grants temporary custody of Lux to Baze and Cate, they agree to make a belated attempt to give Lux the family she deserves.
Lost (6th and last season)>
Premiere event on February 2nd on ABC or CTV.
The latest season of LOST definitely ended with a bang. Like, literally. A nuclear bang.
The show has always been teasing us with mysteries, but we do know some things. The island is always moving and it contains a pocket of powerful electromagnetic energy. That energy caused Oceanic 815 to crash. Fate, or maybe Jacob, seems to have brought all the passengers together. But then they all got separated, either by getting rescued from the island or by traveling through time or maybe it was a little of both. And now Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) is rallying the survivors to rewrite their fates by preventing their plane from crashing in the first place. Oh, and we also know that a lot of you prefer Sawyer (Josh Holloway) to wear only his trademark sneer rather than a shirt.
Some of you were also probably thinking that LOST exec producers/masterminds Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were making everything up as they went along. But after five seasons, everything is coming together into a grand master plan. And since Season 6 is the final season, start preparing for your mind to be blown because they’re gonna have to tie up all those loose ends and pay things off with some answers. Pretty monumental, right? Or, to quote Hurley (Jorge Garcia),”Duuuude.”
Supernatural (5th season)
Thursdays on The CW.
Twenty-six years ago, Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, “Watchmen”) raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America…and he taught them how to kill it.
Sam and Dean spent their lives on the road, cruising America’s highways in their 1967 Chevy Impala, battling supernatural threats and searching for the demon that killed their mother. Together with their father, they finally closed in on that demon. Ultimately, they brought the demon down, but they paid dearly for it. Their father lost his life. And then Sam, too, was killed in the fight. Unable to go on without his brother, Dean made the ultimate sacrifice. He summoned a deal-making Crossroads Demon and exchanged his soul for the life of his brother. The deal brought Sam back to life ─ but left Dean with a single year to live. At the end of that year… Dean was dragged to Hell.
Last season, Dean made a shocking return from the grave ─ raised from Hell by the Angel Castiel (Misha Collins, “24″). Sam and Dean discovered that while in Hell, Dean had been tricked into breaking the First of the Sixty-Six Seals of Lucifer; seals that kept the Devil himself locked in his cage in Hell. Now, a fierce army of Angels was scrambling to keep the powerful demon Lilith from breaking the rest and setting Lucifer free. As the year wore on and Seals continued to break, Sam worked with double-agent demon Ruby to become strong enough to kill Lilith-by drinking increasing quantities of her blood. Sam’s psychic demon-fighting abilities increased, but he also became addicted to the blood, and his relationship with Dean frayed to the breaking point. Ultimately, Sam severed ties with Dean and went with Ruby to kill Lilith. He succeeded-and only then did he discover that Ruby had been secretly working on the side of the demons all along. Ruby’s task: to manipulate Sam into killing Lilith-because Lilith’s death was the final Seal. And with her fall, Lucifer’s cage opened. Though Sam and Dean reunited and together killed Ruby, they were unable to stop what Sam had set into motion.
Now, Lucifer is free. The Apocalypse is here. Angels with hidden agendas are applying pressure on Dean to take his special place in a spectacular battle to slay Lucifer and bring Paradise in a battle sure to kill millions. Dean refuses to help at the expense of so many human lives. And so, against a landscape of escalating celestial violence, natural disasters foretold in the Book of Revelation, and a rising human death toll, Sam and Dean scramble for a way to do the impossible: Kill the Devil. Their only ally: Castiel, now Fallen and a fugitive from the armies of Heaven. Along the way, they face the type of supernatural threat that has become the show’s signature- demons, vampires, the Trickster, cursed objects, wicked gods, disturbed sprits-as well as James Dean’s death car, the ghosts of Lincoln, Gandhi and Jerry Garcia, a bloodthirsty creature in the form of Paris Hilton… and a menacing, unshaven, six-foot-two Tooth Fairy out to take every last one of your teeth. Not to mention the Antichrist.
Vampire Diaries (1st season)
New episodes return January 21st, Thursdays on The CW or CTV.
Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev, “DeGrassi: The Next Generation”) and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen, “Everwood”), are still adjusting to their new reality. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her grief from the world. Elena and Jeremy are now living with their cool-but-overwhelmed Aunt Jenna (Sara Canning, “Smallville”), who is doing her best to be a surrogate parent.
Elena manages to find some comfort with her familiar social circle – best friend Bonnie (Katerina Graham, “17 Again”), frenemy Caroline (Candice Accola, “Juno”), and former boyfriend Matt (Zach Roerig, “Friday Night Lights”), but Jeremy is on a more dangerous path, hanging out with the stoners and using drugs to hide his pain. Jeremy is also trying to figure out why Matt’s sister, Vicki (Kayla Ewell, “The Bold and The Beautiful”), is suddenly rejecting him and hanging out with Jeremy’s rival, Tyler (Michael Trevino, “Cane”).
As the school year begins at Mystic Falls High, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley, “Fallen”). Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, although Elena is puzzled by Stefan’s increasingly bizarre behavior when he appears suddenly at the cemetery where her parents are buried. What she doesn’t realize is that Stefan is hiding a dark, deadly secret of his own – the fact that he’s a vampire. At a bonfire party the next night, Elena and Stefan are just getting to know each other when chaos erupts after Vicki is attacked and left bleeding from a savage bite to the neck.
Fearing that he knows who is responsible for the attack, Stefan returns home and finds his older brother, Damon (Ian Somerhalder, “Lost”), whom he hasn’t seen for 15 years. Damon is also a vampire, and the two brothers have a long and bitter history. Damon ridicules Stefan for rejecting their legacy of violence and brutality, but he understands his brother’s obsession with Elena, since she looks exactly like a woman Stefan loved more than a century ago; a woman that Damon tried to make his own. Now these two vampire brothers – one good, one evil – are at war for Elena’s soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of Mystic Falls, Virginia.
May 23rd, 2010 at 11:15 pm
I am really bummed that Lost is over. I can’t believe everyone is watching the final show tonight. What are we going to do now that it’s gone. Daniel Dae Kim is so hot! Where can I see him in the next show? What will J.J. Abrams cook up next?