ABC has picked up Nathan Fillion’s CASTLE for a full 22-episode season! 
Archives for October 2009
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Reasons Why We Loved Last Night’s THE BIG BANG THEORY
Wil Wheaton: Because there is nothing this TV Addict enjoys more than an actor who doesn’t take himself too seriously, the actor earned his pips by hilariously skewing his real-life persona and offering up what was clearly a ‘Mirror Universe’ version of Wil Wheaton. (Incidentally, If you know what a pip is and caught our reference to STAR TREK’s mirror universe you are most definitely watching the right show.)
Jim Parsons: Further perpetuating HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’s some-what accurate assumption that all Canadians are hockey obsessed, Jim Parson (Sheldon) continues to prove that he is the Wayne Gretzky of THE BIG BANG THEORY. Raising the game of everyone around him, with Raj, for the second week in a row, benefitting greatly from the crazy that is Sheldon.
Watch, PVR, Pass: Tuesday October 20, 2009
TV Ratings: Monday October 19, 2009
| Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8PM | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 15.98 | 3.3/9 |
| FOX | MLB Baseball Playoffs (Overrun) | 14.00 | 4.8/13 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 8.76 | 3.5/10 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 5.67 | 2.5/7 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 2.29 | 1.1/3 | |
| 8:30PM | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose | 8.62 | 3.4/9 | 9PM | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 17.04 | 3.8/9 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 13.83 | 4.7/12 | |
| FOX | House | 10.17 | 4.1/10 | |
| NBC | Trauma | 5.52 | 1.8/4 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.93 | 1.0/2 | |
| 9:30PM | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 13.12 | 5.1/12 |
| FOX | House/Lie to Me | 9.33 | 3.5/8 | |
| 10PM | CBS | CSI: Miami | 12.65 | 3.8/10 |
| ABC | Castle | 9.88 | 2.4/6 | |
| FOX | Lie to Me | 7.45 | 2.6/7 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 4.74 | 1.4/4 |
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’s Duel Road Trip
THE GOOD: On the news that their favorite Chicago Pizza haunt is closing down, Marshall and Ted decide to acquire the joint’s old Frogger Machine re-live their college days (complete with HIMYM’s trademark flashbacks) fuelled solely on Tantrum! (the original Red Bull) by driving twenty-two hours from New York for one last slice. Both funny and relatable (okay, perhaps not that relatable, although I been known to wait for over an hour and a half for a hot dog from Pink’s (overrated!), a burger from New York’s hallowed Shake Shack (totally worth it!) and a succulent original glazed when Krispy Kreme first came to Canada) Ted and Marshall’s excellent adventure was surprisingly enough the highlight of the episode (Lily, not so much, but more on that later.)
Morning Static: GLEE, V, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
• Joss Whedon to direct an episode of GLEE: Begin fantasizing about your Neil Patrick Harris, Felecia Day, Nathan Fillion guest spots in 3… 2… 1…
• It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s a V? Look up in the sky starting Friday.
• IFC just blue our mind: Acquires ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT reruns.
• Not the B*tch of a living for one Spring Awakening Alum: Jonathan Groff will join co-star Lea Michele for five or six episodes of GLEE this spring, playing the lead of Vocal Adrenaline and potential love interest for Rachel Berry.
• Shameless Plug Alert! You very own TV Addict is named one of 20 TV Insiders to follow on twitter
Watch, PVR, Pass: Monday October 19, 2009
Advertising Anarchy: MELROSE PLACE
In our latest installment of Advertising Anarchy (Also known as our take on how networks might wish to consider promoting some of our favorite shows), this TV Addict wanted to take the opportunity to remind you all that if you aren’t watching the CW’s MELROSE PLACE re-boot — an increasingly addictive guilty pleasure that’s about to become even more so thanks to Heather Locklear’s upcoming return — Sydney Andrews will have totally died in vain, again! Think about it.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About ONE TREE HILL Star James Lafferty
He didn’t know what to expect going into this season.
Having lost two of their most valuable players in Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton at the end of last season, star James Lafferty didn’t know what to expect heading into ONE TREE HILL’s seventh season. More pressure? More work? All of the above? “Because we’re really an ensemble show, there hasn’t been a lot of added pressure, and really only a little more work,” explained Lafferty on a recent one-on-one with the TV Addict. “But we’ve worked really hard to make this season the best we possibly can and [the new cast additions of] Rob [Buckley] and Shantel [VanSanten] — who are so committed to creating the best possible characters they can — helped make things really easy on the rest of us.”
He’s firmly planted on Team ‘Naley.’
Although Lafferty wouldn’t spill on the veracity of the scandal that has rocked Tree Hill (Nathan may-or-may-not have cheated on Haley with a now three month pregnant Renee), Lafferty himself doesn’t believe the show would do anything to break up the show’s most beloved twosome, “The fans wouldn’t stand for it!” Adding, after we jokingly suggested that we’d love to see Nathan hook-up with Victoria, “Nathan’s been with everyone on the show, it’s not gonna happen!”
TV Ratings: Sunday October 18, 2009
| Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8PM | CBS | NFL Overrun/60 Minutes | 18.02 | 5.2/13 |
| NBC | Football Night in America | 10.89 | 4.1/10 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: HE | 9.52 | 2.7/7 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons | 8.58 | 4.1/11 | |
| 8:30PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 14.63 | 5.6/13 |
| FOX | Cleveland Show | 7.74 | 3.8/9 | |
| 9PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 15.97 | 6.1/14 |
| ABC | Desperate Housewives | 13.38 | 4.6/11 | |
| CBS | 60 Minutes/The Amazing Race | 12.01 | 3.1/7 | |
| FOX | Family Guy (R) | 8.23 | 4.2/10 | |
| 9:30PM | CBS | The Amazing Race | 9.40 | 2.8/7 |
| FOX | American Dad | 6.20 | 3.1/7 | |
| 10PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 15.53 | 6.4/17 |
| ABC | Brothers & Sisters | 9.24 | 3.4/8 | |
| CBS | Three Rivers | 6.87 | 1.7/5 |