Wednesday This N That

The latest issue of TV Guide arrived today.
One of the segments included a look back at some of the season finales that just wrapped up and what’s in store for the next season, including CSI & NCIS


For CSI, I’m not really sure that I care for the synopsis of discord amongst the team. I’m getting quite sick of the soap opera that the show has turned into instead of the forensics, crime-solving show that I loved to begin with. All I can hope for is that Marg actually does decide to leave and not continue with the half-season stuff that we’re going to see next fall. I also hope this nauseas Raskell fallout isn’t the reason for her leaving. I’d really love to have original storyline of her leaving to be part of the Sam Braun empire.

For NCIS, it was quite an underwhelming season finale. I wasn’t impressed with the ending of “Who will Tony be spying on next season?” Which begs the question – why does every show need to have a season-long story arc these days? Can’t we just have great stand-alone episodes where you don’t need to know all of the past information?

On a brighter note, last weekend I found a great ad in The Hollywood Reporter congratulating Jorja Fox on 15 consecutive years on Prime Time TV.



TV Guide also had a bunch of ads promoting the returning summer shows – including Burn Notice and Covert Affairs.


I’m still not totally into BN, as my favorites are Sam (Bruce Campbell) & Madeline (Sharon Gless), with my least favorite being the main characters, Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) and Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Weston (he’s kind of “okay”)

As for Covert Affairs, I basically quit watching midway through the first season. I might try to get back into the show this summer – maybe.

It’s still a month & a half before the return of Rizzoli & Isles, but it’s been fun seeing some of the tweets & pics from Angie & Sasha during filming. I can only imagine Jane grumbling about being dragged to the spa for a mud bath. I wonder if there was a mud fight?


A new summer show that I might check out to begin with is Necessary Roughness. I see that Craig Bierko & Concetta Tomei are scheduled for recurring roles. That may be the only thing to keep me watching.


There’s still buzzing about the new fall shows. I’m excited to see Maria Bello in the remake of Prime Suspect, however, will the whole “woman in a man’s job” theme become too outdated for this day & age? Will it eventually have to turn into just another “cop” show? At any rate, it’ll be great to see Maria on tv regularly. She’s the main reason I actually tuned into ER for a while.


I also saw a small update with Stevie Nicks in the new issue of More


on a final note - are we FINALLY done with Oprah? Am I the only one to say "Who cares?" when it comes to her?

Don't forget to check out my latest rambles at KayLyne's Place, including the latest - Did CBS have an inkling?