A TO Z: Thursday 9:30PM on NBC Previously… on A TO Z: Dating website marketer Andrew (Ben Feldman) and lawyer Zelda (Cristin Milioti) have had their meet-cute, they’ve discovered that the office windows in their adjacent buildings overlook one another, so they can signal each other during their work-days, and now they’ve embarked on […]
> 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 […]
MAJOR CRIMES: Monday 9PM on TNT A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the 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) give plenty of notes, […]
THE VIKINGS: Sunday 10PM on History Channel Previously… on VIKINGS: Back around the 8th Century AD, Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) is the one Viking visionary enough to believe that there are lands to the west even more ripe for conquest (like, for example, England) than those in the east, and he embraces the revolutionary […]
AGENTS OF SHIELD: Tuesday 8PM on ABC Previously… on AGENTS OF SHIELD: Remember The Avengers? Well, this isn’t about them. (Mostly.) Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) is a familiar face, but the rest of his squad is new: pilot and general badass (her nickname is “The Cavalry”) Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), slightly uptight soldier Grant […]
ABOUT A BOY: Tuesday 9PM on NBC Previously… on ABOUT A BOY: Will Freeman (David Walton) lives a happily superficial, bimbo-laden life in San Francisco, supported indefinitely by the royalties from the one successful song he ever wrote–when one day, 11-year old misfit Marcus (Benjamin Stockham) and his vegan, neurotic, disapproving mother Fiona (Minnie […]
THE LEFTOVERS: Sunday 10PM on HBO Previously… on THE LEFTOVERS: 3 years ago, 2% of the world’s population simultaneously and spontaneously vanished, in what may have been the Rapture (albeit a Rapture that took Gary Busey and the cast of Perfect Strangers along with the Pope). The troubles of those who remain are encapsulated […]
CODE BLACK: Wednesday 10PM on CBS Previously… on CODE BLACK: At a famously busy Los Angeles hospital, the emergency room reaches the level of Code Black–where there are more patients needing treatment than resources to treat them–on a practically daily basis. The supervisor of the residency program, Dr. Rorish (Marcia Gay Harden), her colleague […]