Our prissy little Janet seems to be loosening up, thank goodness. How so? After Tom gave her a no-big-deal kiss on the lips, she started to develop the hots for him and even went to a shrink to talk about it. I’m not saying that Janet’s having the hots for Tom is necessarily a [...]

OK, so maybe I’ve been living in a vacuum, but I had never heard of Jack Davenport, who plays Bruce Miller, before “Swingtown.” Then, while trolling cbs.com last night, I found some video interviews with the cast and was surprised to find that our off-screen “Bruce” is no Chicagoan. Not that that’s a bad thing, [...]

It hasn’t happened yet to the aggressive little minx and daughter of conservative Susan and Bruce. But I can see it in the cards. She’ll get preggers via her former summer-school teacher, Doug, who prefers that he and Laurie take things nice and slow. Doug will be in big-time hot water, Laurie will finally realize [...]

That’s right, sports fans, the swinging-sex series has relocated to Friday nights at 10. I found this out on Friday, when I went to watch the episode that was scheduled to air the night before, and right before it was suppose to start, an announcer said to watch for it on its new day, Friday. [...]

In addition to the outside air, things between Tom and Trina also got all heated up last week when he “cheated” on her in Tokyo with stew Bobbi. Tsk, tsk, Tommy boy. There ARE some rules in your “open marriage.”In the end, Tom and Trina decided that it’s time to revisit their marriage rules [...]

CBS says that last week’s installment of its summer series posted double-digit percentage increases over the week before. In this vast wasteland of summer programming, it was no surprise. (I watched “America’s Greatest Dog,” thinking it would be a cute contest between canines. It instead turned out to be “Big Brother With Dogs.” As [...]

I was glad to read in “TV Guide” last night that the CW series, going into its eighth year, returns on September 18, instead of its usual mid-October season debut. The month change could be due to their shooting a bunch of eps before the possible actors’ strike hit, and it’s still not certain that [...]

Oh, Janet, we just KNEW that there was a tiger waiting to spring out of that kitten.  Whoda thunk that the woman who was holding a Tupperware party would  end up joining Susan at—and kind of enjoying!—a get-together to help raise cash  for the legal-defense fund of the male star of the X-rated movie “Deep [...]

Going to the Millers’ country cabin was a refreshing change of pace in the episode “Cabin Fever.” The three couples were more on neutral grounds and forced to interact with each other. Tom, Trina, Janet and Roger were “out of their ususal element,” which made them more vulnerable. And I thought that I was going [...]

We must first give “Swingtown” credit for playing Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome” and the Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” on last week’s soundtrack. That as opposed to a cover band cranking out “Me and You and A Dog Named Boo.” And wouldn’t it be interesting to find out if all the tunes are [...]

Talk about one-track minds…. Do Tom and Trina Decker (below) think about anything else but sex? Those two are always obsessing about three facets of that subject: their most recent encounter, their current encounter or their upcoming encounter. But more than just one-dimensional horndogs, the Decker duo are becoming extremely dull. Especially Susan, who, [...]

Izzie on “Grey’s Anatomy” has rejected consideration for an Emmy nom this TV year, reasoning, “I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination, and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the Academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention. In addition, I did not [...]

If you dare? JUST KIDDING!

CBS is hyping this show as if viewers will be shocked—SHOCKED—by its content. But here’s the real skinny: The original Dr. Scholl’s sandals, Tab with the removable flip-top tabs, trimline phones, eight-track tapes….

OK, we “get” it. It’s the 1970s—the summer of ‘76 in a middle-class Chicago suburb, to be exact. The [...]

Let me introduce you to CBS’s new one-hour primetime drama, “Swingtown.” The Eye network says that the show “traces two generations of friends and neighbors as they forge intimate connections and explore new freedoms during the culturally transformative decade of the 1970s.”

It debuts Thursday, June 5 at 10 p.m.

The gory details: In July of 1976, [...]

(Yes, I know the show’s season finale was the week before last, but I’m hoping everyone will ignore that fact.)

The seventh-season close of our Superman-in-training series came with the obvious departures—or semi-departures, from what “TV Guide” and “EW” have said—of two main characters: Lex and Lana. Lex FINALLY found out Clark’s true status, as a [...]

Let’s get one thing straight: If one of my best friends called me a “stupid bitch” —and I don’t care WHAT the circumstances were—then I would make him/her beg (BEG!) on his/her knees for forgiveness. But that’s just me. It’s obviously not how Izzie felt when Alex called her that when she was trying [...]

…for this season only, of course.

Last week, Cristina has shed her previous mopey self, thank goodness, and was back in her crabby action, especially when she told Lexie flat-out that she didn’t like her. See, I’m all for that upfront truthfulness, rather than faking it and pussyfooting around the other person. But keep in mind [...]

If you like CW’s primetime shows now, chances are you’ll like its fall 2008 line-up, as there will be only three new additions: “90210,” Tuesdays from 8 to 9 p.m.; “Surviving the Filthy Rich,” which follows “90210” from 9 to 10 p.m.; and “Stylista,” Wednesdays from 9 to 10 p.m., which is from Tyra Banks [...]

Gerard Bocaccio was one of the original executive producers of the Friday-night freshman series, which is produced by the high-powered production companies Joel Silver Television and Warner Bros. Television. Rabid fans of the show and its male star, Alex O’Loughlin will be bummed to learn that “Moonlight” seems to have been passed over for a [...]

The guy’s definitely gone overboard. The proof? He got out of bed to continue his Veritas and Traveler hunts despite the searing pain that all of those post-slashing chest stitches—at least 100—must have caused him. His emotional drive overcame his physical pain. (Even druggie Dr. Gregory House wouldn’t have enough Vicodin to quell that discomfort.) [...]