The Summer Season Begins part 1

The 4400:
The two hour season 2 opener started with a recap of season 1. We learned at the end of last season that the returnees weren't dropped off by aliens instead they were taken by future humans who are facing a crisis of an unknown size and dimension that will end the human race. The 4400 people have not been physically changed but now have"super powers" of different sorts. Then one year later we start season two.
This episode included a young psychotic woman taken in 1955 and returned with an image in her head and the power to make people build this thing for her. After the tower of crap is built it's turned on and wakes up a fellow psycho making him normal, the twist is that he is a scientist researching waking up dormant mental functions.
Other backstories had agent Tom Baldwin dealing with his son. Diana Skouris trying to trust her adopted 4400 daughter. And Richard, Lily, and the baby running from apparently everyone and dealing with their adorable-killer baby.


The Tony Awards:
This show should be the standard for all award shows. It started with Billy Crystal doing some funny jokes. Next the real host Hugh Jackman comes on and trades witty banter with Crystal. First winner Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Liev Schreiber for Glengarry Glen Ross was funny and looked scared. Other highlights were Jackman joke about grab happy Christian Slater, Christina Applegate taking a pitfall on stage, Jeff Goldblum just talking mormally made everyone laugh and Al Sharpton in a The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee skit was great.
Short list of Winners;

• Best Play
• Doubt

• Best Musical
• Monty Python's Spamalot

• Best Special Theatrical Event
• Billy Crystal 700 Sundays

• Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
• Bill Irwin for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
• Cherry Jones for Doubt

Mystery Woman:
Kellie Martin and a cast of B-level TV celebs are on a spa vaction when affairs and intrigue lead to murder. The made lots of jokes during this murder investigation none of which were funny. The women in the spa were being drugged, their symptoms were gigglyness, a happy feeling and then intense hunger, hmmm sounds familiar.
Spoiler: The evil doctor who drugged everyone and preformed illegal surgeries was not the killer instead he was being used by a more evil nurse who was stealing his money.


The Comeback:
Lisa Kudrow as "over-the-hill-actress" Valerie. Kim Voynar's review at TV Squad was better than the actual show. I want to see the show Kim Voynar saw, what I saw was an Hollywood-insiders show with flat jokes and only good serious moments between Valerie and her husband. I hate pilot episodes so I'll wait 'til episode 2 but Lisa Kudrow may win an Emmy but the show is no comedy.

There They Go

Wondering where certain TV actors will pop-up next, well three of these constant poppers are back again this week on the Hallmark Channel.


Kellie Martin, John Larroquette, Lea Thompson
You've seen them appear on ER and Law and Order over the years. Now they are all reprising their detective roles on Hallmark Channel Mysteries Movies staring June 5.
Kellie Martin plays, on June 5,

"Samantha lands a job photographing a new spa in Southern California for their brochure. When one of the guests staying at the upscale retreat turns up dead, Samantha is once again on the trail of a murderer."

John Larroquette plays, on June 12,

"McBride is representing his friend Harry Evans in a custody case until Harry's therapist turns up dead and the Harry is blamed for the murder."

Lea Thompson plays, on June 19,

"a soccer mom with a mind for mystery."

It's good to see faces from the recent past are still working on quality shows but if the three of them can work together, I smell a network show.