Before Tracy Pollan was the nice girl on Family Ties, she was doing something kind of mean in The Great Love Experiment. She looks the same now as she did when she was 23 in that 1984 Afterschool Special!
NBC announced their midseason schedule today and missing from the lineup is fan favorite Community. People are so unhappy about this they are signing up for classes at their local community colleges on Thursday nights hoping to make up for the loss of the cult comedy.
Things will be looking grim for Grimm when Chuck concludes it run on January 27th because it will be between a game show and a new show. Not a good fit for the chilling supernatural drama based on the stories we knew and loved. Hopefully it will get Harry’s Law’s old spot (the David E Kelly show moves to Sundays) when NBC finally gives up on Rock Center like everyone else in America.
Even though NBC is not a fan of the funny Community, they are sticking with the unfunny Whitney and moving her to Wednesday nights! All I have to say to that is go American Idol, Survivor and The Middle! You know the shows that people will be watching and enjoying instead.
Since I mentioned CBS they also announced their changes which are Undercover Boss will be back on January 15th and ¡Rob! will replace Rules of Engagement on January 12th. ¡Rob! is Rob Schneider’s new sitcom. I love Adam Sandler’s little friend but I really don’t like that Rules was sacrificed for it. The show has been really funny this year and I was hoping it would be around for the full year. Couldn’t they have pulled How I Met Your Mother and put it out of our misery?
Now back to NBC below is the lineup starting in the new year which does give us a Monday to sing about! Too bad that can’t be said about the other 6 days of the week.
MONDAYS
8-10 p.m. — “The Voice” (season premiere Sunday, February 5; series resumes February 6)
10-11 p.m. – “SMASH” (beginning February 6)
TUESDAYS
8-10 p.m. — “The Biggest Loser” (beginning January 3)
10-11 p.m. – “Parenthood” (through February 28)
10-11 p.m. – “FASHION STAR” (beginning Tuesday, March 13)
WEDNESDAYS
8-8:30 p.m. – “Whitney” (beginning January 11)
8:30-9 p.m. – “ARE YOU THERE, CHELSEA?” (beginning January 11)
9-10 p.m. – “Rock Center with Brian Williams” (beginning February 8)
10-11 p.m. – “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
THURSDAYS
8-8:30 p.m. – “30 Rock” (beginning January 12)
8:30-9 p.m. – “Parks and Recreation”
9-9:30 p.m. – “The Office”
9:30-10 p.m. – “Up All Night” (beginning January 12)
10-11 p.m. – “THE FIRM” (two-hour premiere Sunday January 8; Thursday time period premiere January 12)
FRIDAYS
8-9 p.m. – “Who Do You Think You Are?” (beginning February 3)
9-10 p.m. – “Grimm”
10-11 p.m. – “Dateline NBC”
SUNDAYS
7-9 p.m. – “Dateline NBC” (beginning January 8)
8-9 p.m. – “Harry’s Law” (beginning March 4)
9-11 p.m. – “The Celebrity Apprentice” (beginning February 12)
Just when you think that Christmas is somewhat sacred and could possibly be Jersey Shore free, I am here to break it to you that it won’t be because now you can get three ornaments of the MTV stars to hang on your Christmas tree. That’s right you can decorate your holiday pine tree with a plasticer Snooki, The Situation and Pauly D, if for some sick reason you want to do so? I don’t know what Kurt Adler was thinking when they came up with this idea for tree decorations and I hope Santa leaves some coal in their stocking because of it. I mean you have to feel for poor Saint Nick for having to look at the three of them hanging from so many trees.
Now having said that, I would totally get them if the strings that are used to hang them were around their necks and not on the top of their heads. I bet you Kurt Adler would sell a lot more of them if they did…
Oh wait I thought of another great reason to get them, you can smush them! That is what they mean when they say smush, right?
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Diane Franklin was in some of my favorite movies like Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Better Off Dead and The Last American Virgin and seeing the pics of her at the Chiller Theatre Expo it’s like she hasn’t aged a single day since all of those movies. Seriously isn’t the 49 year old actress just as cute as when we got to know her in the 1982 cult classic The Last American Virgin? I would love for her to do a sequel to Better Off Dead with John Cusack and the two of them are taking in a foreign exchange student while their son is making like their dad when he was a teen.
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Michael J Fox brought his family out for the A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s event and I can’t get over how much his son Sam looks like his pops. Seriously it is like going Back to the Future and seeing the 22 year as his dad in Family Ties, the show that introduce his father to his mother!
Not only is their son a chip off the old block, how beautiful are their 16 year old twins Aquinnah and Schuyler?
