Saturday, February 24, 2007

Premieres and Notables: Feb 26- Mar 4, 2007

Let's get right to it:

Monday, 2/26

The Black Donnellys, NBC. 9:03 -10:00 CST. Series Premiere.
Four Irish-American brothers defend their turf in this mob drama. I've heard nothing but good about the pilot. Must See.

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern; Travel Channel. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Zimmern travels the world in search for odd foods.

Gregory Itzen returns as VP (according to TV Guide; I thought he was Pres) Charles Logan on 24.

And, following the emotional episode of Prison Break last week (was it not great seeing Stacy Keach again?), this week finds Sara and the brothers with the evidence needed to exonerate Linc, Mahone uses a former inmate to trap the brothers, and Kellerman goes after the president on his own.


Tuesday, 2/27

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?; FOX. 8:30 pm. Series Premiere.
Yet another show from Survivor producer Mark Burnett. Yet another game show hosted by a comedian; this time it's Jeff Foxworthy. Like the title implies, this game show asks questions from elementary school textbooks to adults. Yippee! I guess the most-asked question in any school can finally be answered: "When am I gonna need to know this?"


Thursday, 3/1

Swinging; Sundance. 8 pm. Series Premiere.
An ensemble sketch show about sex and relationships from the U.K.

The Office November repeat where the Scranton branch shut-down was leaked will repeat at 7:30. It's an amazing coincidence that my job had a similar thing go down just days before this episode aired, so it was especially relevant to me at the time.

If you're not a regular watcher, now's the time to try Scrubs as the regulars reminisce about the past six years in this clip show episode (8:00).


Friday, 3/2
For my friend, Brian: U2's Bono will be honored at the NAACP Image Awards (FOX, 7 pm) along with Bill Cosby (I just watched Bill Cosby: Himself on DVD last weekend-- good stuff) and Soledad O'Brien from CNN. (Is she the "hottie" Soledad from The Today Show?).


Saturday, 3/3

Robin Hood; BBC America. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
An old-school story with new-school attitude. The commercials and reviews makes this look really promising. Must See.


Sunday, 3/4

The Winner; FOX. 7:30. Series Premiere.
And, yet again, FOX throws a live-action comedy into the middle of its successful animated Sunday block... This one looks pretty good, though. Rob Corddry plays a guy who finally becomes a man at the age of 32.



Robin Hood; BBC America. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, the award-getting Soledad is the former NBC Soledad O'Brien

see http://soledadobrien.info

teameck said...

Thanks. I figured if I threw "hottie" out there, someone may actually answer it without me having to the research.

Someone who wasn't trying to sell me on the Mozilla Web Browser anyway... (check most of the comments to my postings for the reason I wrote that).

Seriously, though, thanks for the info. I guess "award winning" means I better look into her work as I'm always looking for quality stuff to fill my head with.