Windfall

Windfall: Changing Partners
Just as the episode title said the married couples are all swapping partners.
Meanwhile Zoes' sister is about to collect her money when they find out someone else has been using it.

The show doesn't get better but it doesn't get worse. What I find disappointing is that Kimberly George(Malinda Williams) the most interesting winner is hardly used.


I can get older Daytime Dollars code if they are needed.
Today July, 18 2006
Guiding Light
3ZLUIJ
One of the blondes. I think Stephanie Gatschett
"Tammy Lane Winslow"

As The World Turns
OU1HRM
"Mike Casnoff"

Stephen King Batting .500

Nightmares and Dreamscapes: Umney's Last Case
Usually William H. Macy is strong in his preformances but this one was beyond saving. A writer of bad 1930s detective novels loses his son and escapes into his own book. Stphen King did the same in the Dark Tower. His charcter then enters the real world and traps the writer in his own work.

Not the best I fell asleep.

Nightmares and Dreamscapes: The End of the Whole Mess
This one is much better. A documentary film maker in November 25, 2011 documents his last hour and what led to a massive catastrophe. He relives his life and explains how his brother lived his. After 9/11 the the younger brother played by Henry Thomas gets inspired to cure meaness. He finds a town with zero anger and uses its healing waters to drop in a volcano and bring on world peace. He succeeds with his older brothers help. The world is fine for a while then early Alzheimer's sets in. The world is turning silly and nothing can stop it. Feeling the guilt the brothers agree to a suicide pack leaving only the tape for some unknown survivor, if any, to find.

This episode was brilliant and well acted.



I can get older Daytime Dollars code if they are needed.
Today July, 18 2006
Guiding Light
E9SDPZ
Mandy Bruno
"Marina Cooper"

As The World Turns
L4ZLBF
"Jack Synder"

Eureka, No Gold Struck

Eureka: Pilot
Cartoonish show about a town full of geniuses working for the government. A US Marshall escorts his criminal daughter to her mother when they crash and get caught up in a small town drama. The town of Eureka is kept hidden by the government and the people there work on wacky experiments. There is a guiding dog who helps people.
In this pilot the big threat is time holes popping up everywhere and the Marshall must figure out who is doing and who can stop it.
Of course his lack of smarts comes in handy and he saves the world and gets promoted to new town sheriff.

I doubt I'll watch this show again. It's awful.

Kathy Griffin: Life on the D-list
Kathy is busy whoring herself in Vegas. She also gets silly with her dogs.
But the best part is watching her husband who stole her money and now they're gatting divorced. He has some underlying rage at the "gays" but it could easily be toward her, the cameras and the dogs.

Rescue Me: Satisfaction
Tommy gets some from his ex then from Marisa Tomei and the gets date-raped by Sheila. Honestly this guy has some huge sexual issues all stemming from the death of his kid but being in AA is ruining his chance for real recovery.

Attack of the Show: July 19, 2006
Olivia Munn the new co-host of this show has verbal diarrhea I noticed this a while back. She tells us about her first time, her boyfriend with the small weiner that she dumped and every hole that she allows guys to fill. Not to mention allowing her co-host to remove her bra and dump raw eggs in her mouth.

Today she shared how her Asian mother used to beat her.
I think I need to start posting her quotes because they are hilarious.
Today's quote: "Beat your kids like you're a small Asian woman like my mother."

Someone asked me to post these Daytime Dollars code, I don't have the older codes but I'll start putting the new ones starting...
Today July, 17 2006
Guiding Light
8WE8EF
Frank Dicopoulos
"Frank Cooper"


As The World Turns
93LZES
Terry Colombino
"Katie Peretti"

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Kyle "SEX"-Y

Kyle XY: Diving In
They finally started this show with a disclaimer about mature content. It was rated TV-14 SVU or something like that.

Kyle likes a girl and it shows. He gets an erection and his fake dad must teach him about the birds and the bees but Josh teaches him to be a master of his own domain. Josh pulls out his dirty-nudie mags and tells Kyle how to relieve an erection.

Yes this is on ABC Fanily and it is supposed to be a kid's show, I think. Oh well I find it entertaining.

Kyle's love Amanda finds him weird but still he learns art from her and then has his heart broken when he sees she has a boyfriend.

Meanwhile Lori loses her virginity to her on and off again boyfriend/friend in the bushes. Then is called a slut but her best slutty friend.

If that wasn't enough then young Josh goes skinny dipping with a big breasted girl his own age. He then gets busted but there is no punishment.. but the naked young girl gets wrapped in a towel by some old guy. Which I found strange.

As for Kyle stalker Russ, Thomas is a guy who worked in "The Company" with a secret agenda. He retires but his boss keeps bugging him about a secret Kyle file then Thomas kills his boss.

Treasure Hunter: Teams Face a Dilemma
This one was very physical and that is not good for the Browns. Our favorite fat family gets eliminated far from the next clue.


Someone asked me to post these Daytime Dollars code, I don't have the older codes but I'll start putting the new ones starting...
Today July, 17 2006
Guiding Light
ULTRG4
John Driscoll
"Henry 'Coop' Bradshaw"

As The World Turns
RXO17Z
Maura West
"Carly Snyder"

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Cable vs. Boredom

Since I do have a partial life I record shows on TiVo all day long and watch them late nights when I'm home. All these shows have been on cable but are they worth the space on my Tivo.
Monk, The 4400 and The Dead Zone are all coming in with a whimper.

When these shows first started they were exciting and different but quickly they reduse to resolve anything and just drag out. Monk has all but forgotten his dead wife. They should have a good three or four episode arc solving his wifes murder, then have him deal with it for next season.

Oh well I must keep watching. For now cable is winning.

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike
Funnier then normal Monk has to deal with a garbage strike in his area. The union boss gets murder and Monk is at a lost to who killed the guy. The smell of the rotting city has thrown off Monks crime solving skills. Eventually the captain takes Monk to a clean room and he solves the case.

Psych: Spellingg Bee
Shawn and Gus try to solve a murder at a spelling bee and I guess they do because I drifted away from the TV and didn't really pay attention that closely. This maybe the last time I see this show.

The 4400: The Home Front
Alana is taken in as a member of the Nova group. So her hubby works out a trade and gets her free but on the run with that dead guy from ER.

The Dead Zone: The Inside Man
Nazis, Jesus Christ and a museum robbery are all things Johnny must piece together to solve a museum robbery. Nice episode about faith.

Today's episode reminded me that he is a psychic, why not go to museum and get paid to verify art or bones? Why not look into the past and see Jesus Christ and Moses, go to the museum and touch dinosaurs bones and mammoths to see how the really look and how they lived? Imagine the possibilities. Yes I know Johnny is above that petty stuff but come on.

Sci-Fi Is Back. Ho-Hum.

Stragate SG-1 True Science
This was a promotional documentary of Stargate hosted by Amanda Tapping and including scientist explaining what was possible from the show. It was a one sided documentary but still nice enough.

Stargate SG-1: Flesh and Blood
Vala gives birth to a girl infused with Ori badness. Meanwhile the rest of the crew is battling the best special effects in years and losing. Everyone survives butVala leaves her daughter behind.

Typical of sci-fi these days they outgrew the kid from newborn to teenager in one episode about 12 hours.

Stargate: Atlantis
Earth is the target of The Wraith and they only hope is the crew of Atlantis. While stopping the ship they lose their own but decide to transform the Wraith ship to something more human friendly.

The effects on both episodes were great, space fighting is always cool but the storylines are falling short.

A Celebration Of Aussies

Happy Birthday Luisa!

I just noticed I know little about Australia, I don't who's your leader, what your political system or what you did to to the natives of your land.

But why learn all that I do know of certain actors born in Australia and working in American TV. Yes there are plenty of big screen actors but I'm focusing on the small screen. All the actor of Australian birth currently on television.

Rachel Griffiths, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, of Six Feet Under fame has a new show on ABC this fall called Brothers & Sisters co-starring fellow Aussie Jonathan LaPaglia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, and John Pyper-Ferguson, Mordiallic, Australia. The series is an hour long drama. The show is also rumored to star Sally Field.

Then we have Emilie de Ravin, Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia, of Lost and Roswell fame. One of the hottest Aussies in this hemisphere.

Claudia Black, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, formerly of Farscape and now on Stargate: SG 1.


Jacqueline McKenzie, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia of The 4400 and Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (episode: "Umney's Last Case").

Anthony LaPaglia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia along with Without A Trace co-star Poppy Montgomery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Quickly you notice two things. First most of the actors are women and hot women at that. Second most of these shows are science fiction. I think it is because it is cheaper to film sci-fi in Australia.

I'm sure I missed a few so let me know of any US-TV famous Australian actors I forgot.

Windfall

Windfall:White Knights

The Russian bride is not guilty but leaves her young hubby.
Peter starts a business with help from friends.
Beth finally figures out all her cheating hubby's secrets.


Last week was the lowest rated week in network TV history. This does not factor in cable.
Now why is this...hmmm...oh yes reality shows. Enough already real TV fans don't like reality they want escapism to a well scripted fantasy world.

The networks cancel shows like Surface and Invasion and Still Standing and then are mad when they have no loyal viewers.

Remember no one saw Seinfeld the first season. I'm forced to watch Rescue Me and Lucky Louie just to see some kind of comedy on TV.

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Week 1

NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES: FROM THE STORIES OF STEPHEN KING

Battleground
William Hurt plays an assassin who kills a toymaker and then gets some evil toys in return. Hurt gets the old fashioned plastic green men who spend the night trying to kill him. They after Hurt kills the troops he missed one commando carrying a nuclear device that blows him up. Great episode.

The best part of this episode is that not one word was spoken. No commercials, no dialogue and very little computer effects.

The episode was directed by Brian Henson , of Henson puppet fame. He used real men dressed in plastic costumes and it looked great. None of that computer-effects crap you see in the next episode.
This story was originally in Skeleton Crew.

Crouch End
Not as good as the first one. A couple go to England and end up in a town that is a crossway between dimensions. The husband is lost to monsters.

Lots of computer effects that looked fake.


Off Topic: I just heard that Raven-Symone will star in the remake of Adventures in Babysitting the original babysitter was Elizabeth Shue. That movie and book was one of my favorites of all my childhood and was near perfect in every way now this no talent Disney kid is going to remake it, without the original director Chris Columbus.

Nightmarish Shows

Remember tonight on TNT at 9pm EST is the premiere of NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES: FROM THE STORIES OF STEPHEN KING. It is the only show I've been waitng for this humid and sticky TV season.
Two episodes air tonight the first commercial free.
Wednesday, July 12, 9:00PM ET
Battleground TV-14-V
After murdering the owner of a toy company, a killer for hire played by William Hurt receives a package of toy soldiers in the mail, but these soldiers aren't just toying around.
Wednesday, July 12, 10:00PM ET
Crouch End TV-PG-V
Eion Bailey and Claire Forlani star in this story of a young American couple honeymooning in London who find themselves trapped in an alternate world.

The book I've been reading Dark Tower VII by Stephen King seems to be getting longer each time I pick it up. This 800+ page densly packed book is good but as some people know King can stretch a fart onto twelve pages.

Also I saw.
Rescue Me: Zombies
Zombies refers to one of the firemen who takes some sleeping pills and has a sleepwalking adventure in the city scaring and offending everyone he meets.
Tommy is stuck in four way love/lust triangle that includes Marisa Tomei.

While I still can't forgive the character Tommy after his "happy-rape" of his soon to be ex-wife you still see how he his haunted by images from his past.

Leary has made comments that he wants the show to end in a massacre , killing off most of the cast. That would be great as long as Tommy goes to because there should be some price to the way he lived his life, at least poetically.

TV Surfing Gone Bad

I've been watching such crap that I would never watch if I had a night time job or if the networks would start giving goood shows. The only reason I started watching the 3 shows below is because I accidently caught the first episode now I can't stop.

Kyle XY: The Lies That Bind
Kyle learns to lie from his family, at least that's the message I got. We also see a new ability he can leap from buildings in a single bound. The mom starts putting his puzzles together and knows he is somehow invovled in a murder.

Treasure Hunters: The teams seeks messages from the past.
The Brown family is down one man after a torn muscle, damn gravity. All the other teams are doing good but the Geniuses are about to leave one of their own behind because he his horribly out of shape.

Lucky Louie: Control
Louie's wife controls his eating habit and it stresses him until she sees him eat and that gives her worse stress.
Luckily there is no nudity this week.

One thing I noticed about this show is all the prices or money discussed is unrealistic. The show seems like it is stuck in the 1980s the apartment is too cheap and the grocery bills are low. I guess that was the last time Louie CK had to worry about money.