ABC is changing up its lineup in 2013 and it will be interesting to see if they are making the right choices.
On Tuesday, January 22nd The Taste keeps the 8p spot warm until March when Celebrity Diving makes a huge splash on to our TVs. On February 5th Body of Proof is back in the departing Private Practice time slot. On Valentine’s Day Zero Hero will see if it is a show we will love. Then on March 3rd Red Window opens up the slot that was closed by 666 Park Avenue. Then in April we get stuck with two very unfunny comedies that should bomb big time even though How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life) will follow Modern Family. The last new show to air on ABC is it worst and that is Family Tools that needs a lot of fixing.
Now I am not bashing the comedies because ABC is pulling The Neighbors for them, I am knocking because they suck more than a Dyson.
ABC wasn’t the only one announcing when a midseason show will see the light of TV because The CW announced Cult will be our latest addiction starting on February 19th. I think Cult will surprise a lot of people just by how good it is, I know I was blown away. And I wasn’t brainwashed during the screening to tell you just how awesome it is…or was I?
There were three new shows from the fall season waiting to find out if their networks will ask for some additional episodes beyond their original order and today they found out. Over at Fox they finally confirmed that The Mob Doctor will be swimming with the fishes after it airs all of its episodes. The CW pulled the plug on Emily Owens, M.D., but all 13 episodes will air on the network. While The Mob Doctor deserved its fate, I am sad that Owens was cancelled because the show finally found its way in the last few weeks.
While it was a bad day for medical dramas the news was a little bit better for Malibu Country because ABC wants 5 more episodes from the sitcom starring Reba. The network also asked for the same of Last Man Standing. When it comes to LMS, tell me I am not the only one who wants them to bring back the original eldest daughter because the new one has ruined the show. I thought recasts were supposed to make the show better not worse.
Yesterday Stephen Amell Tweeeted, “I just banged my calf so hard. There’s nothing left to do but laugh, cry a little and maybe pee in my pants.” Then the Arrow star added, “My calf hurts so bad I just invented a six-syllable curse word and then proactively apologized to the crew. #CliffordTheCalf”. No word what it is, but I can’t wait to find out what it is so I can use it myself.
Well today he Tweeted the above picture and said, “It was worth it, but my leg definitely shouldn’t look like that.” I don’t know, but I think his calf looks more like a superheroes now that is all swollen like that. Granted the superheroes I am thinking of are the Hulk and the Thing.
Oh and Amell may play a tough guy on TV every Wednesday on The CW at 8p, but in real life he still has to answer to his mom. Because after he posted the picture he Tweeted, “Note to self: Don’t put pictures of your comically swollen leg on twitter without first explaining to your Mom you’re 100% ok.” Good idea! Hopefully you won’t hurt yourself like that again so you don’t have to worry her and all of your fans!
BTW no word when that episode will air so we can say how he did that, so I guess we will just have to watch Arrow every Wednesday until we see it.
Tonight at 9p on The CW Nikita is back with a new season and they are starting off with a new division led by Ryan. The first case will bring Nikita and Michael to China where they will have to try to catch one of the Dirty Thirty. He is on to them being after him, so he destroys their plan and someone will wind up in jail. Now the person who is free will try to have to rescue the other one even though the division cuts them off from all support. Will just as many as people who came to China leave it or will one of them be missing? You have tune into find out and make sure to watch it all the way through for not one but two surprising endings in this very engaging season premiere!
Tonight at 9p The CW has just what the doctor ordered by premiering Emily Owens, M.D. after Hart of Dixie.
Emily Owens (Mamie Gummer) has finally graduated medical school and she is ready to start over as in intern. She wants to erase her awkward school years and put her nickname Pits behind her. Only problem is her pre-college arch nemesis Casandra (Aja Naomi King) is also an intern at Denver Memorial Hospital and she is going to make Owens life hell. Luckily for Emily her med school buddy Will (Justin Hartley) is there with her too, but she has major crush on him and has yet to tell him. But then there is Dr Bandari (Necar Zadegan) who is in charge of all of the interns and she is not fan of Emily’s for reasons that are justifiable. Even though Bandari is against her, Dr Ellis (Michael Rady), who is a resident, has taken a shining to her.
As much as it is about the interns trying to learn how to be doctors, it is also about treating their patients. Each week they will solve medical cases and we will watch them grow to be the people we want to take care of us when we are sick.
Now I have to be honest the pilot is a little much as some pilots are, but the second episode is much tamer and I can see this show being around the full season with Hart of Dixie. Plus who doesn’t love have Mamie Gummer and Michael Rady back on weekly television.
