Archive for July, 2008
ER TV Show Created by novelist Michael Crichton and reportedly based on his own experiences as a medical student, the NBC hospital drama ER debuted September 19, 1994, directly opposite the similar CBS endeavor Chicago Hope. Though many critics thought that Chicago Hope had a better chance for survival than ER, the NBC series scored a surprise hit — and over a decade later it was still firmly imbedded in the network’s Thursday-night schedule, while Chicago Hope had long since vanished. Set largely in the emergency room of Chicago’s fictional County General Hospital, ER focused on the professional and personal trials and tribulations of the unit’s staff, with several subplots and story arcs weaving in and out of each hour-long episode. The regular cast for the first season consisted of Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene, George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross, Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis, Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton, Julianna Margulies as Head Nurse Carol Hathaway, and Noah Wyle as med student (and later doctor) John Carter.
Later principals, in order of their appearance, included Laura Innes as Dr. Kerry Weaver, Alex Kingston as Dr. Elizabeth Corday, Paul McCrane as Dr. Robert Romano, Kellie Martin as med student Lucy Knight, Erik Palladino as Dr. Dave Malucci, Goran Visnjic as Dr. Luka Kovac, Ming-Na as Dr. Jing-Mei “Deb” Chen (a recurring character in season one who returned as a regular in season six), Maura Tierney as Nurse (and later Dr.) Abby Lockhart, Michael Michele as Dr. Cleo Finch, Sharif Atkins as Dr. Michael Gallant, Mekhi Phifer as Dr. Gregory Pratt, and Parminder Nagra as med student (and later doctor) Neela Rasgotra. Many of these characters’ lives were intertwined romantically, while some of the characters were bitter enemies; all were uniformly fascinating. And just as in “real life,” there was nothing predictable about the exits of certain characters: some departed with tragic abruptness (Lucy Knight, Robert Romano), others simply bade farewell and moved on with their lives (Doug Ross, Carol Hathaway, Peter Benton); but no “goodbye” was as poignant and moving as the lingering illness and death of Mark Greene throughout the length and breadth of season eight. Though the plot emphasis was on the continuing characters, a number of prominent guest stars made memorable appearances during the series’ decade-plus run. Alan Alda, Sally Field, and Bob Newhart were but three of the A-list entertainers who passed in and out of the doors of Chicago County. The winner of innumerable industry awards, ER has also earned a niche in media history as the most expensive dramatic series in TV history, reaching this particular plateau with its 13-million-dollar-per-episode average budget during the 1998-1999 season.
Dexter TV show is a dramedy which moves around Dexter Morgan who is a likable, self-effacing jovial employee in the Miami Metropolitan Police Department’s crime lab. Dexter is a forensic blood spatter expert.
In reality, He is a disciplined and murderous psychopath, and he slakes his blood lust at night by carefully killing the serial killers he tracks down during the day. Dexter’s homicidal tendencies were detected by his police officer father, Harry who encouraged his son to utilize his violent impulses in a positive manner, and also pounded a strict moral code into the boy.
He is the main support for his sister, Debra, a Miami Cop. He has a steady girlfriend Rita, with two kids who adore him. Such was Dexter’s harmless-looking veneer that no one suspected him of being a killer. Although his drive to kill is unflinching, he struggles to emulate normal emotions he doesn’t feel, and to keep up his appearance as a caring, socially responsible human being.
Dexter is originally based on Jeff Lindsay’s novels Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter . Dexter began its weekly Showtime run on October 1, 2006 and will soon back for a new series.
Desperate Housewives TV Show throws light on the different spheres of the lives of a group of close knit housewives. The normal life of these ladies takes a dark turn when one of their closest friends commits suicide. One day, the housewife Mary Alice Young killed herself in the middle of her living room.
Her circle of friends includes Bree Hodge; Martha Stewart, who is fighting with widowhood, alcoholism and revengeful children; Lynette Scavo, who struggles with the complications of work, family issues, cancer; Susan Mayer a divorcee and single mom; newly married Gabrielle Marquez, the ex-model who is unlucky in love; and serial divorcee Edie Britt. The men are: Mike Define, a plumber who is the love of Susan; Lynette’s husband, Tom, Gabrielle’s ex-husband, Carlos; Mary Alice’s widowed husband, Paul who is in prison; Bree’s husband, Orson Hodge. They all try to deal with their own problems and romantic lives. Each year brings on a new mystery and twisted events in their lives. In the first season, the show discloses the mystery that why Mary took her own life. Desperate Housewives is the winner of both the 2005 & 2006 Golden Globe Awards for best Television series.
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CSI TV Show (Crime Scene Investigation) is an innovative, fast-paced drama that follows a crew of forensic investigators as they solve crimes by analyzing evidence with advanced forensic tools. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which first aired on October 6, 2000, could be described as “Quincy for the 21st century.” Set in Las Vegas, the weekly, 60-minute series focused on the activities of that city’s Crime Scene Investigations Bureau. Working the overnight shift, the principal characters deployed state-of-the-art forensic technology to solve unsolvable crimes. Whenever scientific analysis failed, however, the lab’s “criminalists” relied upon good, old-fashioned logic — logical to them, if not to their superiors. So efficient was the CSI team that it was rated the number two such crime lab in America. The series’ main protagonist was Gil Grissom (William L. Petersen), once the youngest coroner in the history of the L.A. police department, who after 15 years with the Vegas PD, was put in charge of the crime lab when its former skipper, the mercurial Captain Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), was transferred back to the homicide division.
The crew is headed by Gil Grissom (William Petersen), the senior investigator devoted to find the truth through the latest forensic methods combined with old-fashioned research and intuition. Alongside Gil is Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), a single mother struggling to balance her home life with the rigors of her demanding job; Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan), whose knowledge of the gambling world helps the Las Vegas based crew; Nick Stokes (George Eads), a self-proclaimed ladies man with an objective to find the wrong-doers; and Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), the newest, outspoken member who often lets her troubled past get in the way of her job. The crew works along side Captain Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), the former head of the graveyard shift turned captain; Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda), a quirky lab tech working to be part of the CSI crew; and medical examiner Dr. Robbins (Robert David Hall).
Brothers & Sisters is an American Emmy Award-winning television drama series produced by Ken Olin and JOn Robin Baitz. ABC announced the renewed Brothers & Sisters for its second season on March 21, 2007 and September 30, 2007 the premiere of the new season. The show revolves around the Walker family and their struggles with their daily lives. Set in Sam Marino, California, the family members are all involved running their family-owned business Ojai Food Corp..
Part of the family alongside Nora, his brother Saul Holden [Ron Rifkin] also help to run the family business. Starring Academy and Emmy Award winner Sally Field as Nora who played the mother of five siblings namely: Sarah [Rachel Griffiths], Kitty [Calista Flockhart], Tommy [Balthazar Getty], Kevin [Matthew Rhys], and Justin [Dave Annable]. Trying to live up to their parents expectation, they have their own line of specialization with their field of expertise. As to mention Tommy is a businessman. Sarah as head of the Ojai Food Corp. and also a working mother. Kitty, the communication director for US senator Robert McCallister [Rob Lowe]. Kevin is a gay lawyer, who had been married, divorced and going through a custody of his wife’s child. Justin is a veteran of the Afghanistan war and recovering drug addict. Throughout the season the revelation of major secrets after William Walker’s death, Nora’s husband. First the sixth sibling named daughter Rebecca Harper [Emily VanCamp] after William’s affair with his mistress Holly Harper [Patricia Wettig] for decades. Secondly, Sarah and Tommy who the most active in running the business, discovered the inappropropriate borrowed from the company funds. The revelation has great impact in the lives of family. Brother & Sisters features the usual domestic lives wherein it features about family relationship, challenges that surrounds within family and how they cope it up. It is a family oriented shows that tested the bonding of the family members.
Boston Legal TV Show is a spin-off of the popular series The Practice and focuses on civil law. It centers on ethically challenged attorney Alan Shore (James Spader) who, with the help of his friend and mentor Denny Crane (William Shatner), quickly begins winning cases no one will take. His rival and colleague Brad Chase (Mark Valley) is assigned to the office to keep an eye on the possibly senile Crane while Shore refuses to let honesty or integrity get in his way while winning a case.
The personal and professional lives of Boston’s most experienced litigators form the foundation of this prime-time comedy drama that has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards since its 2004 premiere. When Washington, D.C., attorney Brad Chase (Mark Valley) was relocated to Boston to keep an eye on senior Crane, Poole & Schmidt partner Denny Crane (William Shatner), he had no idea what he was getting into. Meanwhile, as Chase does his best to keep an eye on Crane, Alan Shore (James Spader) uses ethically questionable methods to win the cases that no one else will touch. A spin-off of the Emmy Award-winning legal drama The Practice, Boston Legal has also featured such respected actors as Candice Bergen, René Auberjonois, and John Larroquette.
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Bones TV Show works double time to establish the character of Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel). She’s a D.C.-based scientist famed for discerning the identities of skeletal remains. From executive producers Barry Josephson and Hart Hanson comes the darkly amusing drama Bones, inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim’s bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her in to assist with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned, or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Brennan’s equally brilliant colleagues (or “squints” as they’re often called) at the Jeffersonian’s Medico-Legal Lab include earthy and bawdy Angela Montenegro, who’s created a unique way to render an original crime scene in a three-dimensional computer image; Brennan’s assistant, Zack Addy, a young prodigy whose genius IQ sometimes distances him from reality; Dr. Jack Hodgins, who’s an expert on insects, spores and minerals, but conspiracy is his hobby; and Brennan’s boss Dr. Camille “Cam” Saroyan, who replaced Dr. Daniel Goodman after the first season. Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seeley Booth, a former Army sniper who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes. Brennan and Booth clash both professionally and personally, but the chemistry between them has grown since they first met and has made them a strong and trusting team. To aid Booth and Brennan in their persisting struggles, psychologist Dr. Lance Sweets signed on in season three as their therapist and also occasionally provides input on cases they’re working on.
The 24 TV Show, is an advanced, suspenseful, acclaimed and real time action thriller series and has been nominated for a total of 57 Emmy awards. 24 gained Outstanding Drama series (2006) and Outstanding Lead Actor in a drama series for its star Kiefer Sutherland. Each episode covers an hour in a single day and each season takes place within one 24 hour period.
Jack Bauer, the hero, a dare and durable agent for the fictitious US intelligent body- The CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit), is attempting to stop the assassination of a presidential candidate. Jack Bauer is an agent for whom each day is more terrifying than the last one.
After the return of a former colleague and CIA Agent Tony Almeida, Bauer’s day takes an unwanted and surprising turn. Among the other characters are, President who leads the country beside White House Chief of staff Ethan Kanin and first gentleman Henry Taylor ; Kim Bauer, Jack’s troubled teenage daughter. A team of FBI agents including Agent Janis Gold, Agent Renee Walker, Agent Larry Moss, Agent Sean Hillinger, and Agent Michael Latham is constituted for investigation of National Security crisis.
Weeds TV Show, a golden globe winning comedy drama, which moves around widowed mom Nancy Botwin. After her husband’s death and economical sufferings, she adopts a new profession. Nancy Botwin resorts to selling marijuana (a type of drug) to support her family in the fictional suburb of Agrestic, California. It apparently seems that every one what she’s selling also including a city council man.
Weeds’ explores the dirty secrets behind the beautiful closed doors of this rich community. Series follows Nancy when her husband dies of a heart attack and she’s now the head of the family. Financial crisis are following her daily routine and there’s no option to earn money. She then turns to Conrad Shepard and his family to sell cannabis using a fake bakery to move the goods. Her new means of income are of type which she can’t share with anyone so she tries to hide it from her mistrustful PTA members and from her neighbors. She can’t share it with her children, Shane and his brother Silas, who’re also in mysterious condition after the death of their dad. Also in cast are Andy, Nancy’s brother-in-law; Dean Hodes, Celia’s husband; Isabelle, Hodes’ daughter; Peter, a single dad. Weeds was premiered on August 7, 2005 and season 3 finale was aired on 11-19-2007.
Ugly Betty, a comedy drama throws light on the life of Betty Suarez, an intelligent, sweet, hard working and productive young girl. Betty is very ambitious girl and her only dream is to shine in the publishing business. Betty Suarez is experiencing the world of high fashion where figure is everything and wafer –thin beauties are successful. The only problem with Betty is that she is not thin and is not a good looking young woman. But the destiny is with her.
Betty is hired by publisher Bradford Meade as assistant to his son Daniel, the new editor of the high-fashion “Mode” magazine, and the reason is that he thought Betty was only one with Daniel (His son) would never sleep with. With her hard work and determination, Betty earns his heart as she helps him to get out of many difficult situations.
Betty has a strong support group which includes her father Ignacio, her sister, Hilda, her fellow employee and friend Christina. The series is actually based on Colombian telenovela “Yo Soy Betty La Fea (I am ugly Betty)” and has been already translated in Russia, Mexico, Germany and India.
The series won a Golden Globe in 2007 for Best Comedy or Musical Series.
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