TV Squad's Bob Sassone had an interview with Jay R. Ferguson, Rich on Surface, here.
Basically Ferguson tells Bob that he is working on episode 11 and fallen behind quickly that, that they are working in North Carolina because of their small budget and that it's not fair that people keep writing about Invasion and Threshold while ignoring Surface, whether or not it's to talk good or bad about the new shows.
Surface, Mondays 8pm/ET NBC.
Night Stalker was not given today so everyone waiting for part two will have to wait a while for the DVD or mid-season reruns. Instead they gave a cool Primetime about college crimes.
Smallville: Solitude
Mrs. Kent becomes sick and Milton Fine tells Clark it’s Jor-El’s fault. Clark goes to destroy the Fortress of Solitude and finds out Fine is not who he claimed to be and instead is working with General Zod to free Zod from prison.
Chloe comes to rescue Clark and Clark seemingly kills Fine.
Either way Jor-El still tells Clark someone close to him will die. Cough…Chloe…Cough.
ER: Two Ships
Abby makes an old mistake by sleeping with Dr. Kovac.
While Dr. Pratt is on the roof saying goodbye to someone we see two planes behind him crashing into each other while the pieces rain down over the city. The nurse who was fired a few weeks back is rehired for the plane emergency. When an Italian guy, played by Paolo Seganti of As The World Turns and a recent Freddie episode, is mortally wounded Pratt must keep him alive until his family gets there. He does and the guy tells Pratt to give up pumping his heart for him.
The final scene has a depressed Neela coming home to see Dr. Gallant coming in a taxi as the embrace in the middle of the street. Next week is their wedding.
Gilmore Girls: The Prodigal Daughter Returns
The Gilmores are in chaos because Rory and Emily are missing. Rory is in a newspaper office being super annoying to get a job, which she does. Rory now gets her life together and returns home to Lorelai, while Emily is found but spiritually lost.
Luke finds out he’s the father of a nerdy girl and doesn’t tell Lorelai.
That 70's Show: Misfire
Kelso needs to grow up and decides to marry Jackie, but then gets an offer from a shady Playboy Lounge manager, played by Bruce Willis, and decides to do that instead. Donna and Eric's long distance relationship seems to be on the rocks.
This was Ashton Kutcher final regular appearance.
Freddie: The Italian Job
Freddie falls for a girl who already has a guy.
While this show isn't funny it was the only thong on besides the tribute to Johnny Cash, Walk The Line, I flipped back and forth.
Lost: The Other 48 Days
We see how the back of the plane survivors lived for the first 47 days. Mister Eko killed two of the others and Goodwin was one of the others. Eko took a forty day vow of silence and Ana finally cried after forty days. They quickly moved the story all the way to the point Shannon was shot. We learned from Goodwin that the abductees may not be dead especially the kids. We assume that they are killed or hurt Goodwin suggests that they may be taken to help.
Invasion: The Cradle
Mariel is feeling weird and she goes to the lagoon and sees her old dead carcass in the water to the stun of her and her hubby. It's getting a bit more interesting.
Crap I missed Veronica Mars I have start TiVoeing this show, oh well at least they repeat it on Sundays.
Bones: Man In The Wall
During a ridiculous fight in a club Bones discovers a mummified DJ and must find out what happened. During one creepy stomach turning scene Bones strips the flesh off of the dead mans hand and wears it as a glove to get fingerprints. To counter this scene we later see a plaster cast made by the boy at age 5 to give him more of a soul.
Of course the killer is found at the end but we see how insensitive Bones really is.
House: Spin
After last week’s great but depressing episode we get more cheery in this one. Sela Ward is back and House gets all jealous and snippy with her recovering husband. I fell asleep through a part of it but woke up in time to see the team cure their patient.
Oh for those Tom Lenk fans he was in this episode as a guy who got chronic diarrhea from chewing too much sugarless gum.
Law & Order: SVU: Starved
Dean Cain played a manipulative rapist with a wussy wife. This episode was filled with stars from dead TV shows, some of them are Who’s The Boss, Six Feet Under, Lois & Clark, and Grace Under Fire. Nice to see actors don’t die they just go to Law & Order. Back to the story line at the end the wussy wife dies and the rapist is going to go free and get millions from her insurance.
My Name Is Earl: Joy’s Wedding
Funny episode. Joy is getting married, white trash style, and Earl shows up drunk and ruins it. He tries to make it up to her and ends up sleeping with her. Now he has to make it up to Darnell. After a quick pep talk Earl shows Darnell that Joy is a skank but one that is in love with Darnell. The wedding was cool but the music was great. Just Bust A Move.
I will watch Gilmore Girls and Supernatural later.
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:
BREAKING NEWS: Night Stalker canceled...
Yes after sitting through six or so episodes of this crap it's finally gone.
"It is with regret that I confirm 'Night Stalker' has been canceled. While I’m disappointed the series has come to an end, I am enormously grateful for the experience and the opportunity given me by the network and Touchstone Television. I would like to thank our amazingly talented cast, wonderful crew, killer post-production department, terrific writing staff, producers and partners in crime Daniel Sackheim and John Peter Kousakis, the incredible Jana Fain, and all of you who watched and enjoyed the show. It was a blast."Executive producer Frank Spotnitz on his production company's blog, Big Light Productions.
Surface: Episode 8
Miles has to serve community service after his father pulled some strings to help his son. Initially he does trash pick-up on the highway but after a plea from his sister he gets to work at an aquarium instead, he discovers that more eggs are found.
Laura and Rich build a sub with Jackson and rush with the parts and set off to the sea-hole to find proof. Something happen on the surface while Jackson sinks the two and the line is cut. The last scene has the sub free-sinking into the hole while leaking water.
Davis Lee the government agent in charge of covering up is seen at home with his mute-sign language enabled wife. When he was asked about his job he tells her not to ask, when she sees the picture of the Sea Orchid he tells her, “It’s not a flower it’s the future.”.
Prison Break: And Then They Were 7
Scofield gets a visit from his wife to obtain a prison ID badge disguised as a credit card. One of the C.O.s finds out about his green card wife and the credit card.
Meanwhile Veronica and the rest of her little group was taken hostage by the government goon but they turn the tables and trap him in a well. When the lesser goons come to find him they decide to let him rot in the hole.
In prison Charles Westmoreland confess that he is D.B. Cooper and wants in on the escape but now there is only time for six escapes but there are seven members of this cabal.
First in TV news the Aquaman guest appearance on Smallville was so popular that a pilot has been ordered. I’m not completely excited because I remember the crap that Birds Of Prey was on the WB.
Also I learned while Oprah was on a date with Roger Ebert, twenty years ago, he basically guided her into the career she has now.
Just checked my TiVo and now they are offering a six week subscription to CNET Download Product Reviews. A 15-minute video of reviews of tech products for broadband customers. Let's see if this screws up my computer like most TiVo downloads does. I love my TiVo and I like my computer but the two of them don't seem to get along well.
Desperate Housewives: Color and Light
Blah, blah, blah…sleeping with exes…blah, blah, blah…creepy actor Page Kennedy’s last episode…blah, blah, blah…ridiculous marriage proposal…blah, blah, blah.
Grey’s Anatomy: Let It Be
Great episode. A woman comes in with a gene that may lead to cancer and wants all of her woman parts removed as a preemptive strike. Once again the medical side of the show is a little on the soft side but the drama is strong.
Dr. Grey is still whining pining over “McDreamy”(their word not mine). George avoided a near death experience and tries to help a suicidal patient but fails. Cristina and Burke have an awkward date, and Bailey is pregnant.
One reason I like this show is that half of the characters are people of color and all of them have rich and deep storylines, unlike ER that still can’t right a storyline for a black character without making them angry.
Rome: The Spoils
Pullo gets into deep problems after becoming an assassin but in a gory and violently cool scene resurrects his spirit and his friendship. Meanwhile Brutus has a choice to make with Caeser…hmm I wonder what he’ll do.
Veronica Mars: Rat Saw God
Joss Whedon made a small appearance in this episode as a rental-car agency manager. Also Harry Hamelin was back talking to his son in prison who was rearrested for the murder of some Mexican. The pieces of the bus crash and Veronica’s life seemed to be intertwined. Also we learned noting new about Wallace.
The “Rat Saw God” title has to do with a rat that Mr. Mars found taped to the bottom of the seat in the school bus after it was pulled from the water.
I miss Extras that was a funny show with a great last episode.
From Reuters...
As for the demise of "Arrested," it comes just as the acclaimed comedy came
back this week after a hiatus to make room for Fox's baseball coverage. The two
back-to-back episodes averaged a paltry 4 million viewers Monday, sending Fox to
fifth place in the 8 p.m. hour and putting a dent on the ratings of its
lead-out, the rookie drama "Prison Break."There is a possibility that the show will be shopped around, but its high cost is expected to be prohibitive for
a cable network.
Fox said Thursday that it will pull "Arrested Development"
and "Kitchen Confidential" off the schedule for the remaining three Mondays of
the November sweep, replacing them with a rerun of the previous episode of
"Prison Break" leading into an original episode of the serialized
drama.
"Arrested" and "Kitchen" are set to return to their time slots with
original episodes December 5, following the fall finale of "Prison Break" on
November 28.
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:
November sweeps are a period of time that TV people put on their best shows and episodes to show advertisers that they can bring in customers.
Yesterday on Lost we saw what writers due to boost ratings. Sawyer is mortally wounded and slipping fast but in the last couple of seconds when the back-of-the-plane people get close to our favorite survivors and we have a problem.
One of the back-ones just disappears and then in a panic Shannon is shot and falls into Sayid's arms.
Is she dead? We won't truthfully know until weeks from now because next week it will be starting from the beginning with the plight of the back ones and their stolen children.
The other cool scene in the show is when Shannon and her step-mother went to the hospital we see Jack walking behind the doctor and then moving him aside to walk on by.
Below is an email sent by ABC before the last episode.
Dear Frequent Flyer —
Greeting from the Writer's Room of Lost!
As we careen wildly toward the midpoint of season two, the Writer's Room
is working feverishly to continue to provide you with the kind of "Lost" thrills
and spills to which you, the viewer, have grown accustomed. Sometimes, that
includes changing things up a little bit...
...now, season two is
already rife with change - new series regulars in the form of the tail section
survivors (or "tailies" as we like to call them - as opposed to the "fusies" of
the fuselage section), new mysteries (the Dharma initiative, the elusive Alvar
Hanso, the mysterious Desmond), and new challenges - but some of our more daring
experiments will come your way not just in the stories, but also in the way we
choose to tell them.
During the November sweeps, you will not only be
seeing the death of a major character (and we're not telling who it is here!),
the tragedy will lead into one of the most unusual and compelling hours we have
yet to produce. We won't spoil too much, but let's just say that the intense
inside story of the tailies and their trials on the island will be told in a way
that will surprise you - and those of you who have gotten used to "Lost's"
method of telling stories in the present with flashbacks to the past are going
to be thrown for what we hope is a fantastic thrill-ride of a loop on this one.
Beyond the November sweeps, "Lost" is going to continue to find new and
exciting ways of telling stories on the island. One of the more thrilling
developments going on around here is that director Darren Aronofsky - the daring
visionary behind such films as "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream" - as well as the
upcoming Hugh Jackman/Rachel Weisz sci-fi drama "The Fountain" - has just signed
up to direct an episode of "Lost..." and you can bet that the blend of the
mystery and drama of "Lost" with the visually innovative style of this maverick
filmmaker is going to make for some truly awesome television.
Wanna know
more? Here are the confirmed titles and writers of some our upcoming episodes...
"Abandoned"
Written by Elizabeth Sarnoff
"The Other 48 Days"
Written By Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
"Collision"
Written
by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Leonard Dick
And there's a lot more where
those came from - as always, stay tuned, and thanks for getting Lost with
us!
Dear Frequent Flyer —