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I was pleased with this week’s episode of Medium, “Being Joey Carmichael.”  I’m always happy to see Miguel Ferrer.  He’s a great actor.  As expected, he did a fine job playing Joey/Teddy Carmichael.

I’m not sure what it says about my psychological profile, but my favorite scene is when the shy kid with the lunchbox just one scene later bashes the older bully in the head with it (we find out later it’s Teddy instead of Joey).  At this point in the episode, I knew the theme would either be twins or multiple personalities.  And, as things turned out, I guess I was right on both counts.  Not an incredibly surprising twist, but a least not an outrageous tale like the past two episodes.

Speaking of multiple personalities, that Meghan Doyle sure is nutty.  I am so happy that Joe took the high road and shoved her away during her drunken advances.  The following day she seemed so needy and approval seeking.  It was so important to her to make it up to Joe by working harder.  She seems to be doing pretty well at her attempt to do just that.  And at the end of the show, she sends a $2,200 robe as a gift to Joe.  I don’t know what to say about that.  I hope that the Allison and Joe can just work through this somehow, because the money issues are getting kind of old.

Something that I just realized is that the music hasn’t stood out for me recently.  Last year I really enjoyed the songs added to the show, especially the classic rock selections.  Hmmm.

If I’m not mistaken, next weeks Medium is the last of the season.  At this point, I’ve seen six more episodes than I originally thought I would.  This is good.  The title of the finale is “Drowned World.”  I’ve been having a difficult time finding a synopsis of the upcoming episode.  I wonder if it will have anything to do with the subject of the 1962 science fiction novel, The Drowned World, by J. G. Ballard.  The novel features a central character who, rather than being disturbed by the end of the old world, is enraptured by the chaotic reality that has come to replace it.  That’s just a guess.  I guess we’ll just have to tune in on Monday.

by ESBaker

“The Shape of Things to Come” was such an emotionally intensive story that I still cannot formulate my views in paper. I was mesmerized by Michael Emerson’s brilliant performance. If he doesn’t get an Emmy, there will be a lot of irate fans knocking at the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences’ door. (In this article, I am enclosing links to the screencaps that best fit the description of the subheads.)—ESBaker

At the Beach

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Let me begin by saying that the first scene of this episode was just absolutely ludicrous. Why has Kate take off her bras strap? What was the purpose? Was it to lure men to watch LOST? It’s too late in the game. The people who are watching faithfully will continue to watch it. For anybody else, this show is way above their heads at this stage of the came.

Will we ever learn anything from Daniel (Faraday)? He is a scientist, and yes, there are those scientists who are a bit absent minded. I am married to one. But this guy is beginning to give a bad connotation to the word “scientist.” The man is a bumbling fool. I am not sure whether it is the actor’s or the writer’s fault here. Is it that Jeremy Davies is not able to properly portray what the writers’ are trying to convey or whether the writers’ are not aware of how exactly a very eccentric scientist would behave. I am hoping that the story line will soon clear why Daniel is such a fool. I really would not want him ending up like Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro).

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A dead body is seen floating to the shore. No one knows who he is but Charlotte and Daniel. Charlotte keeps quiet about the man, Daniel tries to hide what he knows, but we can see through his lies. Why does he have the need to lie? Frankly, it seems as if the people stuck at the beach are continuing with the old LOST saga: Give no answers, keep the audience guessing, give nothing away, and just shove mysteries continuously at them.

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I’m finding it hard for the show to make me happy.  This week’s episode of Medium, “Car Trouble,” had another elaborate murder scheme.  The killer, which was the husband again, creates a wife-murdering shooting machine in his garage using a tennis ball hanging from the ceiling as a trigger.  Last week five strangers that meet due to a flight delay agreed to kill his/her loved-one/partner at the same time in the future, in the same way – with poisoned pain-killers.  While I’m sure some murderers come up with these inventive schemes, I think it’s highly unlikely that they happen with the frequency we’ve been experiencing them on Medium.  But on the other hand, if the murders were all run-of-the-mill, then I’d probably be unhappy as well.  That’s why I said, “I’m finding it hard for the show to make me happy.”

The way Allison was acting, in relationship to the cars in the episode, made me want to reach into the screen and slap her myself.  Maybe I’m just extra crabby right now, but if my husband brought home a like-new SUV, I’d be driving it – no matter what “ghosts” inhabited the vehicle.  It seemed like Allison was more irrational than normal.

The episode ends with “to be continued.” We resolve the murder, but we still don’t know if Joe will cheat on his wife with his new invention partner.  But we do know that she will put the moves on him.  It was very suspicious that Joe’s whole purpose for working late was supposed to be the fact that he was waiting for the call for the results of the patent search, and then his partner, Meghan, receives the call on her cell phone and drops by the office to give him the good news.  I just hope he takes the high road.  I’ve already seen Jake Weber play a character that cheats on his wife in the movie, 100 Mile Rule.  I don’t need to see it again.

At long last, Jennifer Smith and Michael Hickerson are back from their writer’s strike enforced hiatus. Showing no signs of a “post hiatus” slump, they discuss whether or not several comedies are in a post hiatus slump and then debate if they should consider themselves sitcom snobs. Next up is general gushing over Lost and Battlestar Galactica followed by a lament on Reaper. Finally, Jennifer threatens to go all X-Files, all the time as she counts down seconds until the new movie and the duo threaten/promise a six hour, dear heavens we loved us some X-Files until David Duchovny left and Chris Carter got convinced he was a bigger genius than he really is show later this summer.

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I have always been a Conan O’Brien Fan. Whether it was when he took on the show in the beginning in the 90’s or when I catch a great quirky interview with _insert star power promoting a movie, whatever_, I’ve always had a good snicker and guffaw via the conduit that is Conan The Grammarian.

Recently a news particle popped up on ABCNews.Com that caught my eye. JIMMY FALLON to succeed Conan?

While there are many things that Fallon has crafted that make me giggle, am I missing something here?

Taxi was one of the few movies that I actually turned off while it was spinning in my DVD player.

Does he have enough quirky energy to take what a writing staff provides him to hold people’s interest for years as a host of something as big as Late Nite? Tell me more about his comical skill set and help me understand the move to include Fallon in place of O’Brien as he ascends to the Leno podium. Wait a tick - he’s a fellow RED SOX Fan - hmmm. Insurrection from within perhaps!

I await your input! -Mike2GuysTalking

Jimmy Fallon to succeed Conan on NBC talk show
By Steve Gorman
Apr 24, 2008

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - “Saturday Night Live” veteran Jimmy Fallon will take Conan O’Brien’s place on NBC next year when O’Brien succeeds Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show, a person familiar with the deal said on Thursday.

The two leading showbiz trade magazines, Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, both reported that a formal announcement of plans to install Fallon in O’Brien’s place as host of NBC’s “Late Night” show would likely come next month.

Fallon, long considered a leading contender for the 12:35 a.m. slot, will complete an NBC talent shuffle set in motion when the network announced in 2004 that Leno would retire from “Tonight” in 2009 and that O’Brien would replace him.

Fallon’s publicist had no comment. Nor did NBC, the flagship broadcast company of the General Electric Co-controlled NBC Universal.

But network executive Rick Ludwin said last year that the former “Saturday Night Live” writer-performer was a front-runner to succeed O’Brien.

Do You Remember When The Last “Big Network” Came Out?

I know I’ll get a ton of Email telling me about every new, obscure cable and dish “network” that has come around in the last year, but I’m talking about a REAL, money-push television network when I ask “Do You Remember When The Last “Big Network” Came Out. I supposed “The WB” could fall into the category I’m talking about, but I’ve always seen that as an independant network like I see “vintage” foreign films in comparison to today’s modern day studio films.

Something I caught on my usual surfing radar escapade this week was a “new Network” that was being compiled by - you’ll never guess so don’t try - a bunch of movie studios. Hmmm, I say, hmmm. So how will this work? Read on below and be sure to tell me YOUR thoughts. I have very high hopes, but often and lately they’ve been dashed by either the all-mighty dollar, or perceived ratings that squash interest and zeal like a bug.

I see that the MTV Division will be heralding the marketing of what’s going on with this new network - is that the death knell or have I got it all wrong?

Let me know what you think! - Mike2GuysTalking

Viacom, 5 Hollywood studios to create new TV channel
Paramount, MGM, United Artists, Lionsgate studios joining with Viacom to create TV channel
LOS ANGELES Apr 20, 2008 (AP)
The Associated Press

Viacom Inc. and five Hollywood studios are joining forces to create a television channel and video-on-demand service, the companies announced Sunday.

The venture, starting in fall 2009, will show movies and television series from Paramount, Paramount Vantage, MGM, United Artists and Lionsgate.

It could provide competition in both programming and viewers to Time Warner’s HBO and CBS Corp.’s Showtime.

“This venture has the potential to be a game changer for the industry,” Viacom president and CEO Philippe Dauman said in a statement. “We are building an innovative service that will use traditional and new digital distribution technologies to bring great film and television entertainment directly to the consumer.”Viewers will have pay-per-view access to big-budget releases from the studios, such as “Cloverfield,” “Iron Man” and “Star Trek.” Movies from the companies’ archive libraries and new TV series created by the studios also will be featured.

The combined companies have a collection of thousands of films and hundreds of TV shows. MGM owns the world’s largest modern film library, comprising titles from United Artists, Orion Pictures and other studios. Paramount has 3,500 motion pictures in its library, including recent blockbusters such as “Transformers” and “Beowulf” and Oscar winners “There Will Be Blood” and “No Country for Old Men.”

Viacom owns the content of more than 100 television channels, including MTV, VH1, CMT, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.

Viacom will provide marketing and other operational support through its MTV Networks division.

In the opening of the show, Allison wakes up suddenly after dreaming of a voyeur walking the streets at night who sees a woman undressing in an upstairs window. A man approaches the woman, breaks a glass bottle and holds it up to her, arguing about something.   I was completely confused by this opening dream sequence.  I guess the aim was to misdirect the audience into thinking that the Peeping Tom had something to do with something.  And why would a husband break a glass bottle and threaten his wife with it?   Isn’t this what you do in bars?  She died from taking poisoned pain reliever.  I don’t get the broken bottle thing either.

 “Allison has visions of a friend of Scanlon girlfriend (Lynn) dying in a home mishap. This causes her to struggle with connecting some recent “accidental” deaths, consequently putting her own health in jeopardy.”  In this blurb from the internet and in the previews of this week’s episode, “A Cure for What Ails You,” they were emphasizing the jeopardy of Allison’s health.  Well, I thought this was pretty gimmicky.  Allison passes out once, and wakes up perfectly fine.  Besides scaring the bejesus out of her husband, and consequently pissing him off because of the $500 emergency room visit, there was no jeopardy to her health.  I thought NBC saved up this misleading sensationalism for ER.

The story of the five strangers meeting in an airport, and devising a scheme to kill their loved-ones/partners with poisoned pain reliever was a stretch for me.  It was an interesting enough twist, but I don’t think it’s feasible.  I’ve seen people (who know each other) create evil schemes on reality shows and fail to follow through.  I really have a hard time believing that five strangers would all follow through on a life-or-death scheme like this one.  Well, at least they found a way to pass the time while they were snowed in at the airport.

Note to self:  If I am ever feeling dizzy, and I can’t see straight, and I’m parked on the top floor of a parking garage, remember not to try to drive.  This was hard to believe as well.  If you are that messed up that you can’t put the key in the ignition on the first attempt, why would any normal person continue to try to drive?  I guess the writers wanted a dramatic car-flying-off-the-top-of-a-parking-garage scene.

Besides all of the show’s faults, I was still entertained.  I appreciated Joe being angry at his wife after her dramatic passing out but technically asleep episode.  They did not need the unnecessary emergency room charges.  Real people aren’t always immediately understanding – and I appreciate the way Medium handles these types of issues.

But the cute story about Marie and her need for glasses was the saving grace of the episode.  This episode confirms that Marie, like her other sisters, has inherited her mother’s psychic abilities.  During her first visit to the eye doctor, she perfectly recites the animals on the eye chart by reading the doctor’s mind.  Joe had to go back a second time, put earphones on the doctor, and turn the doctor towards Marie, and not the chart, to get him to see her squinting, and her inability to really “see” the chart.

I originally heard that there would only be nine episodes this season, but this one makes thirteen.  I know of two more episodes coming.  The next is “Car Trouble.”Allison meets Meghan Doyle, Joe’s new business partner. Meanwhile, her old car stops working and Joe surprises her with a nice looking used car. The car ends up being the center of a horrible unsolved crime though (of course).  I heard that this Meghan Doyle is supposed to cause trouble in the DuBois marriage.  If it were my decision, I wouldn’t go down that path.  I guess time will tell if they made the correct decision.

As Desmond, Henry Ian Cusick Finds His Way on ‘Lost’

by Jen Chaney

Sunday, April 13, 2008; Page M03

When actor Henry Ian Cusick first joined TV’s “Lost,” he expected to stay for three episodes. But his character, Desmond Hume — who sometimes toggles through time and calls his fellow stranded islanders “brotha” with an endearing Scottish brogue — struck a chord with viewers, and in 2005 the producers made him a regular.

With new episodes set to begin April 24, Cusick, 40, called from his home in Hawaii — where “Lost” is shot and where he now lives with his wife, Annie, and their three sons — to flash-forward into his character’s future and reveal whether our Brotha Man might (no!) die.

Viewers really respond to your character. What makes Desmond so likable?

He’s a bit of an Everyman. He’s not particularly special, and I think people can identify with that. He can’t fix the helicopter, he can’t fix computers, he’s not a doctor. . . . He’s a survivor, and he just tries to do his best.

There is a lot of concern about “Lost” spoilers. Do you have to sign a confidentiality agreement every time you get a new script?

I’ve never signed anything, but there is an unwritten rule that you just don’t talk about it. Part of being on “Lost” is the enjoyment of your audience getting things. I want them to be surprised. I don’t want to spoil it for them.

I hear you don’t have a TV. Why?

When we lived in England, the kids would come home from school and sit down in front of the TV until dinnertime and it used to drive me bananas. When we got to Hawaii, I said, “That’s it. We’re not having a TV.” I thought, we live by the sea. There’s so much to do here, we don’t need a TV. The only thing I miss is the news and soccer, but I can get that online.

The “Lost” writers are not afraid to kill off characters. Do you worry Desmond could die?

I’d like to stay, but I’m not scared of [him dying]. People who have died have gotten great story lines. Dying is not a bad thing because on “Lost,” even if you do die, you may well come back.

Flash-forward into Henry Ian Cusick’s future. What will you do after “Lost” ends?

We talk about it, my family and I, because we don’t know whether we would leave Hawaii. We usually have just gone with the flow and gone where the work was, but now my kids are getting to a certain age where schooling is important and we want to settle down now. It’s difficult. That’s always the case for actors like me who don’t know what the next gig is. We just go with the flow.

SOURCE: The Washington Post

It’s official: Sources confirm to me exclusively that Steve McPherson has signed off on Lost’s extra-special 14th hour this season, which means Lost is getting a three-hour finale! The first hour airs May 15, the second and third hours will air May 29. (In between, on Thursday, May 22, Ugly Betty has an hour finale and Grey’s Anatomy airs a two-hour season finale of its own.)

Word is that there are so many big reveals that the producers wanted to deliver this season, that they felt like anything less than a full three-hour finale would have cheated the fans. In fact, I’m hearing that writers’ draft of the second half of the finale was 80 pages long, which led all parties involved to realize these stories had to be told now. Anything else would be a ripoff.

So, ABC made it happen, with the help of Shonda Rhimes and Grey’s Anatomy, who agreed to a two-hour finale on May 22. And bless McPherson and friends for taking the risk of letting the Lost finale air on May 29—that’s after the end of the critical ratings sweeps period. If you’re a Lost fan, but don’t usually watch Grey’s you might consider doing Team Alphabet a solid and just tuning your TV to their channel for the GA finale that night!

Source: E!Online