Although hard to believe, it really is finally time for the second-season premiere of The CW’s delicious Devil dramedy Reaper. The first episode up tonight at 8pm EST has the very long and quite confusing title “Episode 201: Episode IV: A New Hope,” so let’s just call it “A New Hope” for short.
Following the Season One-ending development that The Devil and Sam might be a whole lot closer than mere employer and employee — father and son, in fact — Season Two opens with best buds Sam, Sock, and Ben returning from a soothing vacation. Yet, the road-trip …read more

Another midseason, another fun premiere from USA Network and its laid-back crime dramedy Psych. This time around, on “Six Feet Under the Sea,” the episode’s unique slant is Shawn and Gus’ investigation of the murder of a seal. Yep, you read that right — a seal, like the kind you find in the sea.
This is no ordinary seal, however. It’s famous Shabby the Sea Lion, and when Gus takes Shawn along to the mammal’s funeral, the fake psychic senses something is very, well, fishy.

I hope everybody else is as psyched as I am for the return of Tony Shalhoub and his magnificent crime dramedy Monk.
The place to be at 9pm EST tonight is USA Network, which will air the seventh-midseason premiere of the show, a fun episode called “Mr. Monk and the Other Brother.” And, you betcha — it appears Adrian Monk does indeed have another sibling besides John Turturro’s recovered agoraphobic Ambrose, a half brother named Jack Jr. played by Joy Ride etcetera star Steve Zahn.
The action gets rolling at the very beginning of the episode, when poor Monk, busy whipping …read more

I laughed quite a bit while watching “Meet Brown Meadows,” the series premiere of Tyler Perry’s latest TBS sitcom Meet the Browns, and somewhat less during the follow-up episode “Meet London and the Competition.” I won’t deny that much of the plotting on both was predictable and not sophisticated in the sense of, say, 30 Rock or The Big Bang Theory. But, the show definitely seems to be a fun way to pass a half-hour or two … so far (more on the quantifier soon).
During the premiere episode “Meet Brown Meadows,” we find central character Leroy Brown preparing …read more

As loyal Scrubs fans already know, last night the show made its eighth-season debut on its new home network ABC with the back-to-back episodes “My Jerks” and “My Last Words.”
On the first episode, the Sacred Heart gang meets new Chief of Medicine Dr. Taylor Maddox, played by competent Courteney Cox (sorry, all of you prepared to rag on her performance), who initially comes across as a sickeningly sunny and upbeat boss.
Never fear, though, because as the second episode makes clear, she has more than a few issues to help her fit in with the already quite quirky staff. A …read more

Today, the strike-shortened fourth season of NBC’s hit workplace sitcom The Office finally hit stores at a list price of $49.98 per set. That matches the price of the second and third seasons, although the fourth had only 14 episodes as compared to 22 for the second season and 24 for the third (the first season was a “tryout,” with six installments all together). If you’re thrifty, such pricing might present a problem, at least until the inevitable sales occur down the road, likely near the year-ending holiday season.
As for the set itself, the copy I received for …read more

Oscar-nominated writer-director Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me and 30 Days fame accomplishes a remarkable feat with his smart yet funny documentary Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?. He manages to evoke laughter while dissecting one of the least funny situations in the history of modern civilization: the War on Terror, its causes, and its many repercussions for various societies.
Concerned about the state of mankind after his wife Alexandra Jamieson learns she’s pregnant with their first child — she gives birth to son Laken James at the end of the film during Operation Delivery — Spurlock decides …read more

When we last saw the young men and women of Cyprus-Rhodes University who live for their sororities and fraternities, they were off on a wild Spring Break vacation at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Everyone’s back on campus as the second season opens, and it’s time to continue with the trying, tangled, and occasionally satisfying relationships that characterized the show during its freshman run.
The next big event on the minds of the Greek system members is the 63rd Annual Greek Week Olympiad, a take on the Olympics where the different houses compete against one another for bragging rights in …read more

The premiere episode of Eureka’s third season, “Bad to the Drone,” demonstrates once again that the series has the baddest community of brainiacs anywhere, and you can interpret “bad” a few ways.
After a little catch-up with the main secondary characters at Café Diem, we get to the gist of the episode when first a new face arrives in town and then the expected Disaster of the Week unfolds in front of that new person.
This chain of events wouldn’t normally be such a big deal — Eureka is a strange little town, after all — if not for the fact that …read more

For two seasons now, viewers have been enjoying the best-buds schtick between Psych stars James Roday and Dulé Hill, tempered with insight into why Roday’s Shawn Spencer acts the way he does, courtesy of those very special moments (much sarcasm intended) between the crime-solving fake psychic and his stern ex-cop father Henry Spencer (Corbin Bernsen). Since most things get old at one point, however, especially on television, it’s time to give the show’s fans more. Thankfully, judging by the entertaining July 18 third-season premiere “The Ghost in You,” Psych intends to do just that.
More what, you ask? …read more