Dancing With the Stars for the 11th season has been pretty good. This review is for the Week 5 Results show. One thing that I like this year is that they are changing things up, starting with instant results sometimes and sometimes opening with a guest or …

The performance show for the 11th season of Dancing With the Stars, Week 5, was again given too much time. The network is milking this show, and if they aren’t careful, they’ll overdo it and viewers will go away. We’re smart, and we’ll tire of being toyed …

This review centers around the Week 4 results for the 11th season of Dancing With the Stars, which for the most part has been a pretty exciting season. I must admit that has been a surprise. I hadn’t expected all that much from the series this year. …

Dancing With the Stars, Week 4 of the 11th season, was another entertaining show. I’m not really that crazy about all of the celebrities performing on the show this season, but they have been better than anticipated. This show was different, too, because it was performed in …

Where Were You When…? is the latest episode from Patricia Arquette’s spirit oriented drama, Medium. This show is close to being cancelled now that CBS has reduced its series order to just 13 shows. I still enjoy the show, but there are redundant parts and with …

Medium: Talk to the Hand had a very different beginning. The opening teaser has Alison with Mr. Bill about safety. Mr. Bill was such a contemporary figure a couple of decades back. I was never that amused with him, but once you see him, it’s hard …

Medium: How to Kill a Good Guy is a bit of a transitional show, which is sad really. That’s because it’s the episode where Ariel DuBois is about to head off to college. This is a huge loss, not just for the family, but for we the …

Helen Slater has come a long way since the beginning of her career, something that is evident from her strong guest starring performance in CSI: New York: Do Not Pass Go. She’s the mom of a missing older teenager whose desperation to find him has her eager to …

CSI: New York: Out of the Sky was just a so so outing in my opinion. I wasn’t particularly captivated by the hour or even intrigued. What was disappointing is that the opening teaser had some promise, but then once it was done, it just droned on …

CSI: New York: Sangre por Sangra just isn’t my kind of show. These gang stories are a dime a dozen, and there rarely is any kind of new spin to them. For me, the hour was drudgery. Basically, a gang leader is murdered and the CSI …

I love the opening teaser for this sixth season show of Have Gun - Will Travel which is entitled Sweet Lady of the Moon. What happens is that our hero, Paladin (Richard Boone), is apparently dating a feminist and it leads to some antagonistic responses. I thought …

From February 1963, Have Gun - Will Travel: Caravan is the 24th outing of this western’s sixth and final season on television. It’s a combination of action, drama, and romance, all crushed into a thirty minute format. The long and short of it is that Paladin hires …

This review will cover the December 1962 show, Have Gun - Will Travel: Man in an Hourglass. It was the 12th episode of the western’s sixth season, and it does have some very interesting elements to it. As always, Richard Boone stars as Paladin, the sometimes poetic …

From December 1962, the 13th show of the sixth season, Have Gun - Will Travel: Penelope was an average episode in my opinion.
This particular program opened in San Francisco with Col. Oliver Lacey as played by Lawrence Dobkin studying Paladin who is engaged in a solo game of chess.
Lacey …

The second part of the finale for this season’s edition of Project Runway was both boring and exciting. It entertained and blahed. The reason? Well, in my opinion, I think it had too much time allotted to it. It was a full 2 hours and just …

Parking Wars continued its fourth TV season with this episode that focused on events in Detroit as well as Philadelphia.
The lure of this series is just seeing how dumb people can be. It’s actually a sad sign of our culture, that people don’t take responsibility for themselves and …

The third episode of Parking Wars for season four had a lot going on in Philadelphia. One of the fun bits is getting to see the different personalities of those who work as the ticketing agents. There are all kinds. Some come across flamboyantly and even …

Outlaw: In Re: Tyler Banks was another good episode for this sadly now-canceled TV series that stars Jimmy Smits as ex Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza. Garza grew tired of looking at the big picture at the expense of the individual, so he resigned from the Court and …

This hour of The Good Wife, titled VIP Treatment, was interesting because it was self contained in many ways, which honestly surprised me. There was actually not all that much of Julianna Margulies in my opinion. I felt like the concentration of the camera was more on …

The Good Wife: Cleaning House is a pretty good hour of drama in many ways. Below are a few things that stood out to me about this particular episode.
–There are some really good moments with Alicia’s former co-worker, Cary Argos (Matt Czuchry) questioning her over something that has …

Auto Press, which aired in May 1959, was the 33rd episode of Highway Patrol’s four TV season. I can’t really say that there was anything unique about the plot, but I do love the way this series took us all over Los Angeles and to different sites. …

Sea Hunt concluded four years on television on September 23, 1961. The half hour adventure series aired 38 episode in this year, this last one being called Round Up. In many ways, it was an appropriate ending, and I say that for a few reasons.
First, the show …

When Cougars Attack is the latest outing from the soon to be defunct series, The Whole Truth, which stars Rob Morrow and Maura Tierney. I like the way the drama is presented, by giving us the prosecution side of the story and then the defense side. The …

Undercovers: Not Without My Daughter aired in October 2010 as part of this spy series first season on NBC TV. On the whole, I’m liking the concept of the show, but there are parts of it that need to be energized and varied or it risks becoming far …

The United States version of Undercover Boss recently aired an episode that focused on NASCAR. As a NASCAR fan, I was curious how this would work, mainly because NASCAR is more of a governing body than an employer; at least in the sense of how they portrayed it …

Undercover Boss Australia featured the top man at the Veloia company. This was the 2nd show of the first season for the down under edition and it features Peter Murray, Director of Operations for this waste management and environmental services company.
One thing I noticed in the premier and …

This review is for Undercover Boss Australia: Domino’s Pizza, which was the first episode of the series filmed for Australian television. In it, Don Meij, CEO of Dominos goes out and about. He runs the facility for Australia, New Zealand, France, and two other countries.
He starts out …

From October 1969, the 8th season of this long standing, 90 minute western series, The Virginian: Halfway Back from Hell reminds me of an episode of my favorite TV western, Laramie. It’s the ultimate goal of that episode, to start a ranch with gunfighters starting over with a …

The Virginian: The Long Ride Home was the first episode of this long running western’s 8th season on NBC. It aired in September 1969 and did facilitate another casting change. Out was David Hartman and in was Tim Matheson. I’m not convinced it was a …

Teach - Tony Danza: Solidarity is the fifth hour of this documentary. The premise has this performer known for Taxi and Who’s the Boss actually teaching English at Northeast High School in Philadelphia. It’s been a challenge for him, but I think he’s grown, and I continue …

Teach - Tony Danza: Homesick is the fourth effort into telling the story about this well known performer teaching for a year at a high school in Philadelphia. Danza had a lot of guts to take on this project, and I’m hoping that by the end of the …

Teach - Tony Danza: Just Say No is the third entry in this documentary series airing over on the A&E network. In this program, viewers get a glimpse into actor Tony Danza’s foray into the education field as he teaches English to a class of 10th grade students …

I really haven’t watched much of Smallville over the years. I saw a few shows in its premier season, back when Tom Welling looked more like a teenager than a grown man and when John Schneider was playing his father. I liked it, but it never hooked …

Outlaw: In Re: Tracy Vidalin gave Jimmy Smits’ character of ex Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza a bit of unexpected drama to tackle. This story includes a twist towards the end that some might see coming early on, but others will be surprised at. It is one …

No Ordinary Family: No Ordinary Earthquake deals with an earthquake that wasn’t and JJ Powell’s refusal to be honest with his parents about his powers.
This latter plot I’m sick of and have been for the last couple of shows. This character is turning me off because I just …

No Ordinary Family: No Ordinary Vigilante followed the Powell family, now possessive of unusual powers, has they continue to adjust to their situation. This is a show that is a little bit science fiction, a part comedy, and a tad of drama as well. For me, the …

I’m still trying out No Ordinary Family but I’m not sure that I’ll be sticking with the full season. There are elements of the show that I like. It’s different in that it’s not a family gaining super powers who then all become super heroes. Rather, …

Undercovers: Xerxes continued the spying adventures of Steven and Samantha Bloom, a husband and wife team who also own a catering business. However, this is now a sideline as the two have been recruited to go on missions yet again for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Below are a few …

No Ordinary Marriage is the second outing for this new series called No Ordinary Family. The series stars Michael Chiklis as Jim Powell, with Julie Benz as his wife, Stephanie Powell. Then there is ay Panabaker as daughter Daphne and Jimmy Bennett as son JJ. Both …

The Next Iron Chef continued its hunt with a show called Transformation. All of the episodes this season have had one word themes that are said to focus on the attributes an iron chef must possess, like innovation and resourcefulness. This hour sought to see which chefs …

Top Chef: Just Desserts: Dessert Wars was a fairly decent episode of this Bravo reality competition series that pits a variety of pastry chefs against one another. Hosted by Gail Simmons, it has proven to be an emotional season. Below are a few highs and lows from …

Run, Babushka, Run was the latest installment of the popular reality show, The Amazing Race. The two lady doctors, Nat and Kat, were the winners of the last leg, so they are the first to leave the pit stop. The ultimate destination was St. Petersburg, Russia, but …

IRT Deadliest Roads: Death is a Blind Corner Away was certainly a hold your breath hour. The thing is that we know nothing fatal is ever going to happen. I just don’t see this series or any version of Ice Road Truckers showing a catastrophe that involved …

Undercover Boss: Chiquita was another solid episode of this unique TV series where corporate heads get in the trenches with their unknowing employees. There was a bit of a new angle for the CEO, Fernando Aguirre, of the Chiquita Brands International, to use in his undercover assignment. …

In this 7th show from Black Gold’s third season, the action is more political than black oil. It begins with tool pusher Jerry being hired for the supervisor position, something that the other tool pusher on Big Dog Rig 28 isn’t happy about. He gets hard on …

I had to chuckle very early on The Next Iron Chef: Resourcefulness because after host Alton Brown informs them about the challenge and prepares to give them the ‘go’, the chefs all hunch down, like getting ready to run a marathon. Seriously, I don’t think I’ve seen that …

The Next Iron Chef: Innovation challenged the potential big power chefs to make 2 dishes using coffee and donuts. These were to put breakfast foods, of course.
Ultimately, Chef Chauhan won. It was interesting to see how they came up with these breakfast combinations. Ultimately, there were …

Framed Cop aired in Highway Patrol’s fourth season on television and was in fact the 21st episode. I actually enjoyed this February 1959 outing that showed us another side of the criminal system and how it can impact the police department.
In the course of getting revenge, Sergeant Ken …

What I loved about this fourth episode of The Amazing Race’s 17th season is that it showed the teams giving back a little by helping to renovate an elementary school. Survivor started giving back years ago, so why it’s taken The Amazing Race so long to realize that …

The 17th season rolls on with The Amazing Race: In Phil We Trust in which the teams are in the African nation of Ghana. There were several things I noted about this hour long episode and some of those are noted below:
–The teams had a challenge where they …