Late Week In Review

Damn the immigrants(all non-NYers) in the subway, they spread their diseases and got me sick.
But I'm back and will do a quick run through of last weeks events starting withe best show on TV SURFACE.

Surface: Episode 14
This was a great episode. Rich is having some odd nightmares that make him the bad guy.
Meanwhile the creatures are off the coast of Puerto Rico at the Caribbean Plate digging and cracking through the Earths mantle.
[ Let me drop some science here. One of the deepest trenches in the world is the Puerto Rican trench and it is highly unstable, for years scientist said if a major earthquake ever hit Puerto Rico the entire island could fall into the trench. Also Puerto Rico is part of the United States.]
Rich and Laura set up a trap for Agent Lee and tell him that he is a clone of the original "Lee". Lee doesn't seem to be all clued in so Rich knocks some sense into him, all Leee reveals is that the release of the creatures is not an accident.
Laura leaves Rich to see her kid and gets taken by Lee but not killed. Rich bust into Iderex, a company that Lee deals with. Rich finds canisters containing two of every animal on Earth and a huge facility that is preparing for something big.
Miles sister calls her boyfriend an asshole but it comes out butt wipe. Miles frys the boyfriend during a fight. The police come to get Miles but a mob of parents take him instead. Right before the mob lynches Miles the sheriff informs them a tsunami is heading there way and it already killed 10,000 people in San Jaun, Puerto Rico.
Great episode in everyway. Just one more to go.

TV Guide: Jan. 30-Feb. 5
On the cover Grey's Anatomy and stars Justin Chambers & Katherine Heigl. A four page article talks about their after Superbowl episode. Chambers, Alex on the show, has five kids with his wife Keisha. Heigl is dating singer Josh Kelley.
As usual the subscription copy is slightly different from the on stand issue.
Good Things To Read Inside:

• Eamonn Walker of Oz fame will be on ER.
• A new Superman: The Animated Series special is being made.
• Faison and Braff are as close in real life.
• Arrested Development's last 4 episodes will be back to back against the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on February 10.
• I hate Rochell D. Thomas' column Is It Just Me? but then again it could just be me.
  

Oprah: Dave Chappelle Interview
What Dave said: I was stressed and getting bad advice.
What Dave meant: The white man is working to destroy me and all other rich black people.
What Oprah said: You sound like at the time you were crazy.
What Oprah meant: You are still crazy and you will be back on my show when you realize there is no conspiracy.

On a side note Ben Stiller and Robin Williams just finished filming scenes of A Night at the Museum in the American Museum of Natural History, unfortunately I could not get pictures of the set. Apparently they are using CGI not puppets to make the animals come to life.

TV Guide: Jan. 23-29

TV has been okay but I'm much more busy then last semester so unless something extra special happens on TV I'll be slowing down on the blog.
By "special" I mean a boob popping out or some really shocking plot twist. Maybe if someone besides Chloe dies on Smallville I'll rant about it.

Back to TV Guide. On the cover Marg Helgenberger and CSI. 4-pages of Marg and her show that I don't watch.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• The 24 writers killed off Palmer & Michelle because there was nothing left to right about them.
• Scrubs nearly lost their hospital set to a old folks home.
• Juliette Lewis will be on My Name Is Earl.
• Pics of Ashley Williams on How I Met Your Mother.
• Elisha Cuthbert(Kim Bauer) will be back on 24 mid-season, eck.
• Roush raves about sitcoms yet half of his picks have been canceled, haha.
• An A to Z guide to Smallville plus a sum of the next episode.
• Emily Deschanel loves her job on Bones.
• Gavin Mcleod and Mary Tyler Moore will be on That 70's Show.
• Neil Patrick Harris on How I Met Your Mother, basically he's a cool pig.
  
• NBC lied during an ER promo, which I mentioned here before, and some one in TV Guide also noticed.

TV Guide: Jan. 16-22

On the cover Matthew Fox and the title Lost. Yet once again my issue is different from the official version. In the newsstand version you receive one of four Sci-Fi collectors cards but not in the subscription issue. They don't even mention the cards. They are constantly sending renewal forms but what is the point with only half the content.
The article inside is all about Matthew Fox or as everyone calls him "Foxy". The 39 year-old actor and photographer is married with two kids. There are plenty of ppicture Foxy took on the set included in the article.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• The "Lost numbers" have appeared in Veronica Mars and on the cover of DC Comics Catwoman.
• Pics of Patrick Dempsey's trailer are better then my apartment.
• Gillian Anderson in Bleak House on PBS.
• Are Scrubs' Turk and J.D. TV's cutest couple?
• Did you know Maisa Tomei is 41.
  

TV Guide: Jan. 9-15

You cheating bastards. No, not you. TV Guide cheated me out of a chance to win fabulous prizes. Look at the cover picture it says 'WIN CASH IN OUR NCIS GIVEAWAY SWEEPSTAKES' but my subscription cover says 'SURPRISING PASSIONS REVEALED! 10 THINGS ALL FANS SHOULD KNOW'. How dare they not give me a chance to play, is it because I get TV Guide for free or is because I won one of their contest last year or is it because of racism. Hmmmm.

On the cover is Mark Harmon and NCIS. 4 pages about a show I don't watch.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Mr. Eko's backstory this Wednesday.
• ER's Noah Wyle and Mekhi Phifer go to Africa for the show.
• Christina Ricci on Grey's Anatomy.
• Smallville has cast Lee Thompson Young as Cyborg.
• The psuedo-gay guy on Four Kings was suppose to be gay but they rewrote it to straight guy.
• Lorelai has a wedding dress for Gilmore Girls.
• Anything To Win a documentary about cheating in sports Tuesday on GSN.
• Monk starts Friday.
• James Marsters returns to Smallville toward the end of the season.
• Charmed beats Laverne & Shirley as the longest running female lead show in history.
• A 24 catch-up-guide.
• Sunday Jennifer Love Hewitt will be in an ABCFamilymovie.

New York Magazine: Jan 9
Once again just reading through and read an interview with Eliza Dusku of Tru Calling and Buffy fame. Very enlightening interview. She basically says that she did not like playing Faith in Buffy or Angel and thought it was a disappointing role. This is why she turned down a spin-off.
She also says that the Maxim spread she did was forced on her by the studio.
She's now doing an Off Broadway play about the evil Peanuts gang called Dog Sees God where she plays a pryomaniac Lucy. She is also shopping around for a better faith, as in better then the Mormon one she grew up in.

TV Guide: Jan. 2-8

SURFACE IS BACK TONIGHT, EPISODE 11 ON NBC 8P.M./ET.
Same with Arrested Development.

On the cover Without A Trace with stars Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Anthony LaPaglia. There is a four page article but since I don't watch the show I can care less.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• The battle between The Simpsons and Family Guy will continue.
• David Boreanz doesn't have a TiVo and doesn't want one.
• Lost was about to be called Nowhere.
• Scrubs behind the scenes.
• Edward James Olmos want sthe last episode of Battlestar Galactica to have them land on Earth and then Prez. Bush nuke the "aliens".
• David Conrad of Ghost Whisperer doesn't buy the premise of his show.

TV Guide: Dec. 26-Jan.1

Damn the year is about over, my college pushed back registration to January 16 because of the strike and I just finished all my shopping and celebrations with friends yesterday.

Oh well at least I'll have two weeks before school starts calling.

On this TV Guide cover we have TV PREVIEW 25 new show and 14 returning favorites. The 8 page article starts off with 24 which I will not read because it's full of spoilers. Lots of the new shows sound crappy. For example: The Book of Daniel stars Aidan Quinn as a drug addict minister who talks to Jesus Christ...hmmm it's a cross between House and Joan of Arcadia.
There is What About Brian in the vain of Freddie or How I Met Your Mother has Barry Watson being single with hottie Sarah Lancaster.
Scrubs is back on Tuesday January 3rd.
John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn both have shows about being single, rich and beautiful.
Beauty and The Geek 2, 'nuff said.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Mariah Carey sings at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' 2006.
• Series Finale of Hot Properties...never saw one episode.
• The top 5 shows are on CBS and I've never seen any of them, CSI, Survivor, etc.
• Huge new behind the scenes pictures of Surface including some spoilers and a new character. January 2nd is the first new episode and there is tons of diving.
• Abby is preggers on ER because Tierney is in real life.
• Justine Bateman on Arrested Development.
• Jeers to the Jeers of the idiot who complained about Monday Night Football schedules, this is not a sitcom you can't pick the best teams and throw them up on any giving Monday.
• Joss Whedon jokes about TV.
• Soaps are getting worse with 24 episode in story commercials and Dancing tie ins.
• Some pretty pictures of the TV stars.
• In Memoriam with so many famous people who died this year.
• Their top ten holiday episodes are wrong, the have the Honeymooners and The O.C. on the same list.

Okay I would add that the best Christmas episode in recent years had to be Popular: "Fall on Your Knees" the episode had mean bitch Nicole Julian(Tammy Lynn Michaels) in her own personal version of The Christmas Carol being visited by the 4 ghost and learning a lesson for a day. It was a great epiosde and soon after the show went to hell.

TV Guide: Dec. 19-25

Well I'll first say the Giants are 10 - 4 and doing great, let's not speak of the Jets.

Second the transit strike has been pushed back to midnight Tuesday. I still haven't shopped mostly because I got a whole bunch of free online coupons and discounts I may use..oh yeah and my overwhelming laziness.

Third I finally got FX on my cable, now let's see what all the hype is about.

Back to the TV Guide on the cover Patrick Dempsey and the title My Big Year. The accompanying article is 24 pages long. It's a look back of the biggest things on TV in 2005. Here's a partial list.

• Patrick Dempsey came from Maine seeking acting work and now has fame.
• Chris Rock reflects on his show and childhood.
• Jennifer Love Hewitt loves her new show and hopes it gets picked up for 3 more years, sorry Love unless the whole scary ghost storyline is good the show won't last.
• Wentworth Miller is so happy about his show.
• Jason Lee his shows best episodes, Stole a car from a one-legged girl, Ruined Joy's Wedding and Faked death to break up with a girl.
• Creatures from Surface and Invasion.
• Law & Order: SVU is grade A.
• Dr. House's bad attitude.
• Lorelai and Rory's long drawn out reunion.
• Neil Patrick Harris of course.
• Chloe and Edgar on 24 are so cool.

Matt Roush's Top ten shows:

1. Lost----Agree.
2. My Name Is Earl--Agree.
3. Battlestar Galactica--Agree.
4. Grey's Anatomy--Agree.
5. FX Dramas--I just got FX so I'll hold off judgement.
6. Veronica Mars-Agree.
7. 24--Agree.
8. HBO Historical Dramas, Rome, Deadwood--Half agree.
9. House--Agree.
10. Everybody Hates Chris--I've missed quite a few but he seems right on.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• A guide to buy a DVR.
• Best soap is As The World Turns.
  

TV Guide: Dec. 12-18

On the cover Matt & Katie celebrate 10 yearson top with Today. A 4 page article about the daytime show Today which I never watched.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• A Christmas Blessing a CBS movie with some of their stars.
• Bones stars take off their pants.
• A great group of Jennifer Garner pics of her many disguises.
• Malcolm David Kelley of Lost will be on L&O:SVU.
• Max Winkler looks just like his dad Henry.
• Claudia Black is now a permanent cast member of Stargate SG-1.
• Freddie Prinze Jr. is a comic book fan and would like to see a 55 year old superhero on the screen.
• An article on the lovely Jennifer Finnigan who is on The Dead Zone and Close To Home and the canceled show I liked Commited.

TV Guide: Dec. 5 - 11

On the cover 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments, the accompanying 8 page article gives a list of what TV Land thinks are the best. Starting December 5^th TV Land will show all these moments from 10 to 11pm/ET and again at 1am/ET.
The number one moment is The Newhart Finale when he wakes up as an old character from a past show. Most of the others are easy to remember Tyson-ear, Dallas-Shower, Janet-Nip, Jets-Heidi, The Who nearly dying on the Smothers Brothers, those were the top 6.
Among my favorites were ER and the doomed Dr. Romano, the St. Elsewhere Finale which turned out to be a sick boys dream, Nate dying on Six feet Under, The Price Is Right nip slip, Gimme a Break a kid in Blackface, Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Once More, with Feeling", Sharptons fight on The Morton Downey Jr. Show, Diana Ross+rain+Central Park, Sopranos Adriana dies, Larry Sanders and David Duchovny, Shatner sings Rocket Man, nudity on PBS, there are more and much more to add but that would be in a book.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Some 24 spoilers I didn't read.
• Dean Cain still wants to do Smallville and Desperate Housewives.
• The little girls from Medium keep using the actors real names while filming.
• Ellen in NYC.
• The ingredients to the wedding cake of My Name Is Earl...Twinkies and Hostess Cup Cakes.

TV Guide: Nov. 28 - Dec. 4

On the cover is Michelle Rodriguez with the title Lost. A five page accompanying article about the three new survivors even though there are four. Rose’s husband Bernard is not even mentioned. Cynthia Watros was not the original choice for Libby, Jennifer Jason Leigh was up for the role but the deal fell through.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Knots Landing Reunion Friday December 2 CBS 9pm/ET.
• Battlestar Galactica starts 10 new episodes on Jan. 6. Freddie gets a full season and Christine Taylor will be on My Name Is Earl.
• Jan. 10 Sherilyn Fenn stars on Gilmore Girls as Luke’s baby’s momma. Kirstie Alley will be on King Of Queens.
• Aol.com has free classic TV shows on internet channel In2TV, Ashley Williams joins the cast of How I Met Your Mother.
• Omar Epps loves House.
• Stacy Keach goes back to sitcoms after the break in Prison Break.
• Ray Romano tonight on King Of Queens.
• Monk and The Dead Zone are back this week.
• The real Bones speaks.
• Knockknock.biz sells a nice Personal Library kit.
• Juliet Mills, 64, celbrates her 25th anniversary of marriage with 46 year old Maxwell Caulfield.
• Linda Hamilton will guest on According To Jim.
• Kristen Bell doesn’t watch Lost.
• Rome is coming back in March 2007.

TV Guide: Nov. 21-27

On the cover Medium Goes 3-D! with Patricia Arquette & Jake Weber on the cover. The accompanying article is 3 pages long and has a cutout 3-D pair of glasses along with two 3-D pictures that when used with the glasses don’t look anymore special.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• In Gilmore Girls news Luke new daughter, Vanessa Marano, will be there for 10 episodes.
• James Woods will be on ER. Drawn Together gets renewed for a 3rd season.
• The explanation of why Shannon was killed, I didn’t read it because there’s a little spoiler and I hate spoilers.
• Matt Roush loves Veronica Mars.
• A holiday gift guide with nothing but crap.
• The 79th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is on Thursday at 9AM on NBC.

TV Guide: Nov. 14-20

On the cover Prison Break with Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller. The accompanying article is four pages long and the creator of the show who writes for feature films has got the story arced all the way through 44 episodes(2,200 pages). The creator, Scheuring, used 1963’s The Great Escape to plot out the second season.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• The Doc. Derek’s wife on Grey’s Anatomy will become more likeable.
• Esai Morales plays a bad dad again on an ABC show. Grey’s Anatomy gets the post Super Bowl time slot.
• Two and Half Men gets bigger ratings every week, good it’s funny and one of the last of the sitcoms on TV. Patricia Heaton signed a million dollar deal with ABC for a new sitcom.
• Gabrielle Union separated from her husband.
• Cool pictures of the ER plane crash.
• On Grey’s Anatomy Dr. Bailey was pregnant in real life so they added that to the show at the last minute, she had the baby boy on Oct. 30 with her hubby and two older girls.
• The Country Music Awards are on tonight in New York, ehhh not caring so much, but I do like the music.
• The Poseidon Adventure remake, ehhh.

TV Guide: Nov. 7-13

Super late for last week’s TV Guide but here’s the short of it. Grey’s Anatomy is the title and Patrick Dempsey & Ellen Pompeo share this cover. The accompanying five page article follows Dempsey around the set and shows off his happy playful attitude.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• A reality spoof on ABC starring Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppets.
• A main character is going to be killed Nov. 21 on Las Vegas.
• They wrongly predict that Sun would die on Lost. Star Jones’ husband was arrested.
• When 24 premieres it will be 4 hours in 2 days.
• Jennifer Love Hewitt is single and apparently waiting for me, I may have read into that a bit.
• A Lost book list.
• Rory’s Birkin makes another appearance.
• The alum’s of Buffy and their new roles.
• Loonatics Unleashed.
• The alum’s of thirtysomething and their new roles.
• Rick Springfield returns to General Hospital for 4 episodes but writers want more.

Well lets see if I can get to read the next TV Guide before Thanksgiving.

TV Guide: Oct. 31 - Nov. 6

Late again, on the cover Martha Stewart, Martha My Life Now, and the 4-page article talking about her schedule and current activities.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Treehouse of Horror XVI, even later then me.
• Ashton Kutcher’s company is making 30-Year-Old Grandpa a sitcom loosely based on his own life.
• Michael J. Fox will be on Boston Legal, Rick Springfield returns for a one time gig on General Hospital.
• Noah Wyle and Kevin Sorbo became daddies, not with each though.
• Mary Tyler Moore will be on That 70’s Show.
• Frankie Muniz is pictured with his fiancée, kinda creepy.
• An interview with Jason Lee, his son is named Pilot Inspektor.
• Matt Roush likes Bones.
• Finally the say where Charlie Sheen gets his cool threads. http://www.bowlinghirt.com/.
• Tom Wopat, Dukes of Hazzard, will be on Smallville.
• Sunday Category 7: The End of the World, a CBS sequel to Category 6 about a big ass hurricane.

TV Guide: Oct. 24-30

Late again so what, on the cover a heavily airbrushed Geena Davis with the Commander in Chief title. There is a 4 page story about her life and love.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Charlie and Martin Sheen are appearing together in Two and a Half Men. Nicolas Cage, a confirmed Sci-Fi geek is producing a series of fantasy novels from Jim Butcher on the Sci-Fi channel.
• Dana Delany will be on Related, Joss Whedon will be on Veronica Mars.
• Beau Bridges will play the dad on My Name Is Earl, Jon Stewart, Woody Harrelson will have new babies and Mo’Nique just had twins.
• An interview with David Krumholtz of Numbers.
• Richard Burgi talks about his TV career.
• How Ethan Suplee lost 250 pounds.
• Matt Roush’s blindness is getting worse as he rates scary shows and calls Surface awful and Invasion great.
• A Grey’s Anatomy review, it’s a good show.
• Pinky Tuscadero of Happy Days fame later became a demolition derby driver then a criminal after shooting up a neighborhood after a car-alarm went off.

TV Guide: Oct. 17-23

On the cover of this new large format TV Guide is Ty Pennington with a sledge hammer under the title, TV Guide’s Extreme Makeover. On page one we have Ian Birch, Editor-in-Chief, delivering a message to the readers. He basically says since we have mostly one-hour shows and thousands of channels they must focus on what’s hip instead of what’s on your TV. The cover story is about how TV Guide teamed up with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s two-hour special on 10/16. They offered up 10,000 TV Guide for a secret project on the show. In case you don’t watch the show the project was a wallpaper of TV Guides for a kids’ camp.

Good and new things inside this issue:

• A HOTList, 21 shows in 7 days, 3 per day, recommendation such as Lost and Charmed.
• BREAKING News, Bruce Willis on That ‘70s Show, Vaughn is back on Alias, the FCC on Family Guy, we meet basement guy on Desperate Housewives, Ron Livingston on House, and The 4400 is back next summer.
• There not recasting Walt on Lost because he didn’t grow much. CSI is the most watched show.
• Kevin James and his Filipina-supermodel wife had a child Sept.30.
• Lost questions & answers: The Dharma film was spliced by a previous resident and the missing scenes lead to something. Walt said “Push the button. Don’t push the button, bad.”. Although that encounter was a dream it means something for the 108 countdown. Desmond will be back. Time is never mentioned on the show, THEY NEVER SAID THE PLANE CRASHED IN 2004, NO ELECTIONS OR HISTORY IS EVER MENTIONED. In November we find out how all the Rutherfords are related. The two Helens of Locke are explained.
• Matt Roush likes My Name Is Earl.
• Veronica Cartwright’s history as a scream queen.
• Alfre Woodard interview.
• An A-Z guide to Desperate Housewives.
• Photo Booth: cool pics and cool trivia for each person.
• Radar a shopping guide for the crap on TV shows.
• Tyler James Williams interview.
• Kari Wuhrer was fired from General Hospital and Passions is going anime.
• The grid and listings section is replaced with This Week featuring recaps of top shows, a movie guide with only four or three star movies. A daytime guide, a prime time guide and highlights for each day and then a late night guide all in 39 glossy pages.
• They added the game SUDUKO to the crossword puzzle in the back.

Finally Judgment: The format is okay, I never used the grid since I got TiVo so no big loss, the per day highlights may become useful. The focus on only popular shows is somewhat disconcerting. The articles are better and long enough to be interesting. Also I didn’t lose this issue as I usually do with the small versions. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

TV Guide: Oct. 9-16 Goodbye?

The final small-size edition a true collectors edition and they milk it for all it's worth with 9 different covers. The cover I got has Reba McEntire and Lucille Ball in a two-page cover in identical poses. The other covers are..

1. Greg Gumbel & Dan Marino as Philip Michael Thomas & Don Johnson
2. The guys from Scrubs as the guys from M*A*S*H
3. John Cryer & Charlie Sheen as Tony Randall & Jack Klugman
4. Regis & Kelly as I dream of Jeannie stars
5. Reba McEntire as Lucille Ball
6. Conan O'Brian as Bob Smith
7. Jennifer Love Hewitt as Sally Fields
8. Homer Simpson as Fred Flintstone
9. The cast of The Bernie Mac Show as the cast of Good Times.

A 53-page article accompanies the front cover that is titled Then & Now, they've been publishing in small size for 53 years.

Some Then & Now highlights:

• Matt Roush learn to read and criticize with TV Guide.
• TV Guide as a collectable, the first national issue was April 3, 1953 with Lucille Ball & her baby is $2,000, the most valuable is the January 23, 1953 pre-national only for New York issue with Marilyn Monroe at $3,000. Rouger Hornberger a collector has 4,439 issues missing only 28.
• Interviews with all the cover stars of this issue.
• Fred and Barney were smokers.
• Quotes and pictures from every decade starting in the 50's.
• Cheers was to be set in a hotel.

Other Things inside:

• TV Guide Emmy after party picks.
• Wilmer Valderrama bumped into half a dozen exes at the party.
• Jorge Garcia lost some weight.Josh Hollway showed off his wife.
• Is Vaughn really dead?
• Kirsten Johnson, John Stamos and John Leguizamo will all be on ER, hmmmm, I see a "John" theme. Also about 50 charcters have left ER the most recent were Sara Gilbert and Sherry "I-need-a-break" Stringfield.
• Matt Roush likes Just Legal which was just caneclled.
• It's an 8-day issue
• To keep your TV Guides safe they are pushing a protective TV Guide Jacket for $2.95 each.

Well goodbye small TV Guide with your outdated listings that were never right it's been fun can't wait to see when your big issue fails.

TV Guide: Oct. 2-8

On the cover is a face shot of Wentworth Miller with the title PRISON BREAK EXCLUSIVE! Fall’s Sexiest New Star Wentworth Miller Speaks. The article within is only 4 pages long and deals with Miller and his fame, he’s in a Mariah Carey video and on the pilot of Ghost Whisperer. Miller was born in London and raised here in Brooklyn, he also graduated Princeton with an English Literature degree and he’s 33 now. Sidenote: He is of African-American, Jamaican, English, German, French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese descents. According to IMDB.
He auditioned for Brett Ratner’s Superman and was called back for this. He doesn’t care for the fact that he lost his toes on the show and the next week he was fine. He won’t do nudity. In The Human Stain he played a bi-racial person and admits he never tried to “pass” in real life.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• More behind the scenes photos of top shows.
  
• Dean Cain is in talks to be Lois Lanes’ new beau.
  
• Julia Sweeney joins the writing staff of Desperate Housewives.
  
• Aquaman will be on Smallville.
  
• Matt Roush loves SVU.
  
• Meet the cast of Invasion, Alexis Dziena was in Broken Flowers a good movie.
  
• Alyson Hannigan talks TV, Buffy and new shows.
  
• Pasadena a show cancelled 4 years ago is on SoapNet, 13 episodes only.
  
• All the soaps from all the networks will participate in an AIDS event starting on All My Children on Oct. 6 and ending on Oct. 21 on The Bold and The Beautiful.

TV Guide: Sept. 25 - Oct. 1

On the cover we have CSI Returns with four of the actors, I don’t watch the show so no big whoop. The accompanying article is 5-pages long.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Grey’s Anatomy is back Sunday.
• 4 pages of behind the scenes pictures of this falls shows.
• Hurricane Katrina coverage and the bad FX movie Oil Storm.
• Noah Wyle will be back on ER for an episode and Nov. 21 Medium will be in 3-D.
• Lost casting news which I did not read.
• Amanda Tapping of Stargate was pregnant last season and does a crossover episode with Atlantis next season.
• A small tribute to Bob Denver.
• How Joss Whedon to Firefly to the big screen. It was an under $50 million shoot, so any gross above that would call for a sequel.
• Hilary Duff turns 18 Barbara Walters turns 74, you can see Duffs future in Walters.
• The TV Guide people are preparing you for their change in format telling you to look for local listings on TV Guide Channel, TVGuide.com or TVGuide.com/movie.

TV Guide: Sep. 18-24

On the cover Returning Favorites and an accompanying 52-page article of all the returning crap, nothing that interesting although the pictures are nice.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Who will win, who should win; Insider opinions.


• Roush hopes season 2 of Lost doesn’t suck.


• Soap stars who are now real actors, Jensen Ackles, Molly Stanton, Shemar Moore and Jennifer Finnigan.