SLEEPY HOLLOW: Monday 9PM on FOX Previously… on SLEEPY HOLLOW: Remember Ichabod Crane, from junior high reading lists? Well, he’s back. Really back, as in returned from the semi-dead state he’d been in since 1781, when he’d been (more or less) killed in battle after making the infamous Horseman headless, and then placed into […]
DATES: Thursday 9PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On… CW is barely promoting its run of the 2013 British series DATES, which the network is using (presumably for a negligible fee) to fill a few hours of its summer schedule. It’s an oddity, the kind of show you might expect to find […]
PENNY DREADFUL: Sunday 10PM on Showtime Previously… on PENNY DREADFUL: In 1890s London, a mysterious set of figures exist in a world where literature’s classic horror characters are as real as Jack the Ripper and the Industrial Revolution. Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), a famous African explorer, is searching for his daughter Mina, who […]
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]
CRISIS: Sunday 10PM on NBC Previously… on CRISIS: On its way to a field trip in New York, a class of students from a Washington DC private school are kidnapped by a large and well-organized group of captors, and in the course of the crime, first-day Secret Service agent Marcus Finley (Lance Gross) is […]
TAXI BROOKLYN: Wednesday 10PM on NBC Previously… on TAXI BROOKLYN: Cat Sullivan (Chyler Leigh) is a grouchy (but spunky and cute) NYPD detective whose driving is so bad that she’s been demoted to walking a beat. Luckily for her, she’s made the acquaintance of Leo Romba (Jacky Ido), a genial French ex-con and illegal […]
CONSTANTINE: Friday 10PM on NBC Previously… on CONSTANTINE: John Constantine (Matt Ryan), a character who originated in DC Comics, is a demon-hunter, trying to regain his own soul (which he lost by allowing a young woman to die) by saving humans from otherworldly attacks. He has a magic map that tells him where hellish […]
MADAM SECRETARY: Sunday 8PM on CBS Previously… on MADAM SECRETARY: Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni), a college professor and prior to that a crack CIA analyst, is asked by her former CIA boss, now President of the United States Conrad Dalton (recurring guest star Keith Carradine) to become his Secretary of State after the death […]