The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon related scoop on the season 8 premiere from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on The Big Bang Theory from this week's (Posted on 8/5/14) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: Any info on the Big Bang Theory season premiere? —Joey
Ausiello: For those curious about Sheldon’s whereabouts all summer, I can confirm that he did, in fact, get on that train (vs. just squatting in the station, as some have speculated). The bigger question you should be asking yourself is whether he ever stepped foot outside the train during his epic journey.

Link to the full article:‘The Big Bang Theory’ Season 8 Spoilers: Did Sheldon Ever Leave the Train? | TVLine

The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon related scoop on season 8 from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on The Big Bang Theory from this week's (Posted on 5/21/14) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: Any idea how long Sheldon will be AWOL next season on The Big Bang Theory? —Charlie
Ausiello: Riddle me this — what if he never actually got on a train? We threw out that possibility to Jim Parsons at this week’s Hollywood premiere of The Normal Heart and he was intrigued. “I never thought of that, but you’re right — he could show back up at home immediately, couldn’t he?” mused the Emmy winner, who admitted that he grilled his bosses about his alter ego’s whereabouts but “nobody will tell me. I don’t know if they know yet. They may know, but I really don’t know if they do.” When Sheldon does eventually reunite with the gang, Parsons is anxious to explore the next milestone in his slow-burn romance with Amy (whatever that may be). “I don’t know that we’re headed for the bedroom or the altar any time soon,” he admitted.  “But, whatever… The writers have been so good with the pace of it, just bring more is all I would say.”

Link to the full article:‘Bones’ Season 10 Spoilers: Time Jump, Booth Brennan Reunited - TVLine

The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon related scoop on the season 7 finale (Episode 7x24 "The Status Quo Combustion") from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on The Big Bang Theory from this week's (Posted on 5/7/14) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: I will happily take a Big Bang Theory season finale spoiler. —Kerry
Ausiello: And I will happily give one to you. Jim Parsons is confirming what CBS’ official finale logline strongly hinted at: Sheldon goes AWOL by the end of the episode. “He gets the hell out of there and I have no idea where he’s going or what he’s planning,” the Emmy winner tells me. “I won’t know until I come back and read the first episode [of Season 8].” What Parsons does know is the reason behind his alter ego’s fast break. “All the [personal and professional] changes that are taking place finally start to come home to roost for him as problems,” he explains. “It was very interesting to read it for the first time and then to play the final episode because it really gets at the crux of something that is perhaps his defining characteristic as a character on television — which is his resistance to change. If you look at it through that lens, so many of the things he does, the things he says, the places he sits, etc, have everything to do with the fact that this is the way it’s done, this is the right way to do it and this has served him fairly well as a human. They’ve got him in a situation now, the writers do, where it’s not possible to carry on without some of these changes.”

Link to the full article:‘Revenge’ Season 4 Spoilers: Big Deaths — Who’s Leaving the Show? - TVLine

Dallas: Didn’t anyone ever tell you that denial isn’t just a river in Egypt, John Ross? (My thoughts on episode 3x06 “Like Father, Like Son)

Right off the bat, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. The biggest highlight of this episode for me personally would be all of the scenes featuring John Ross, who spent the episode desperately trying to keep the Arctic lease deal alive by scheming with various people throughout the course of the episode. His primary strategy was to suggest to Christopher, Bobby, Pamela and Sue Ellen that they take Ewing Global public. He originally got the idea from an old friend of his, Hunter McKay, and Nicolas, who both told him that they became rich by originally buying controlling interest in a company, so John Ross set out to do the same thing. He thought that he had managed to get enough support from Nicolas, Pamela and Sue Ellen, but when the time came to vote Sue Ellen voted against taking the company public, so his plan ultimately failed.

If that wasn’t enough trouble for John Ross to deal with, Sue Ellen continued to tell John Ross that he was acting just like J.R. by cheating on Pamela with Emma and his secretary Candice, but he made it clear to her that there was nothing going with Candice. Candice did try to make a move on John Ross at one point in the episode though, but he rejected her advances. Throughout the episode he repeatedly told Sue Ellen that he’s not J.R., but personally his attempts to convince her that he’s not just like J.R. were about as convincing as Jim Parsons’ attempt to convince everybody that he’s not Sheldon when he was hosting Saturday Night Live, which weren’t even the tiniest bit convincing. After all, in his opening monologue he talked a lot about how he’s nothing like his character on The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper. He even sang a song about how he’s not Sheldon, where the lyrics consisted primarily of him singing “I’m not that guy” over and over, only to act just like Sheldon in pretty much every sketch that he appeared in throughout the episode. I’m now convinced that Jim Parsons is pretty much just being himself when he’s playing Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, which in my mind shows that despite all of the awards that he’s either won or been nominated for, he has a very limited range in terms of his acting ability. That really makes me wonder what will happen with Jim Parsons’ acting career once The Big Bang Theory eventually ends, but I digress.

Speaking of bad acting and characters that annoy the hell out of me, while I’m willing to admit that for the past several episodes Christopher hadn’t been annoying me nearly as much as he did last season, he unfortunately found a whole new way to annoy the hell out of me that didn’t even involve him talking or threatening to have someone sent to jail in this episode. Towards the beginning of the episode, Bobby told John Ross that he was giving his shares in Ewing Global to Christopher, because now that he’s serving as the interim Texas railroad commissioner regulations dictate that he can’t own any shares in a company. What made Christopher so annoying in that scene is the way that he stood in the background with an incredibly obnoxious smirk on his face the entire time Bobby was telling John Ross this.

The Big Bang Theory: Pop culture related scoop on season 7 from Entertainment Weekly's Sandra Gonzalez

Here's some scoop on The Big Bang Theory from Entertainment Weekly's Sandra Gonzalez's The Spoiler Room column, which was posted on 9/13/13.

There is much going on in the geek world, with the Batman-Superman movie and Star Wars, are we going to hear the BBT gang weigh in on that? — Victoria
“I’m sure they will,” reports exec producer Steve Molaro, “and you’re leaving out a new Doctor Who! That’s a big deal that I think Sheldon finds to probably be extremely stressful.” Speculation Poll: What casting will shock Sheldon more? The Doctor…or Batman?

Link to the full article:Spoiler Room: Scoop on 'Bones,' 'Chicago Fire,' 'Suits,' 'HIMYM,' more | Inside TV | EW.com

Melissa & Joey: Oh, no! Is Joey quitting his job? (My thoughts on episode 3x01 “Works for Me”)

Now that summer has begun and pretty much all of the shows that I watch on network television have either ended for the season, or they are about to end for the season, I’ll be blogging about TV shows that air on cable. I also hope to write a review of Dallas’ (TNT series) second season, a review of the first season of Revolution and get started on my project of reviewing all five seasons of 90210. Although, I’ll be moving into a house in a few weeks and the whole moving process might not leave me with very much time to actually work on those projects. I’m going to try my absolute best to get them done over the summer though, or in the case of my 90210 project, at least get started, but I digress. Melissa & Joey is one of my favorite shows to watch during the summer, so I might try to review at least some of the episodes this summer.

With that said, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the season three premiere. It mostly revolved around the fact that Joe was feeling like Ryder and Lennox no longer needed him since they’ve grown up so much, which led to him trying to get a job in finance since that’s what he did for a living before he worked for Mel. Joe was offered a job by a guy who works in finance, so he initially believed that the job was working in finance; however it turned out that he wanted to hire Joe to be their baby’s nanny. Apparently, they were willing to pay Joe a lot of money to be their nanny, so he accepted the job offer and immediately started the new job by babysitting the baby.

One of the reasons why I loved this episode is because it finally touched upon something that I’ve thought a lot about ever since the show began. Personally, I always felt like Ryder and Lennox were old enough to take of themselves for the most part even when the show began. One of the reasons why I felt this way is because when I was their age at the start of the series, my parents were okay with me staying home alone by that point. Sure, I wasn’t old enough to drive, but I never really had all that much going on after school that would require somebody to drive me around. I suppose that might be one of the reasons why Mel initially wanted to hire Joe in the first place though. Plus, she also has Joe cook dinner for them, which is probably due to the fact that she’s often very busy with her work as a city councilwoman. Although, I cooked for myself a lot when I was Ryder and Lennox’s age so that doesn’t make that much sense to me either, but I digress.

Mel was desperate to try and find a way to convince Joe to stay and continue to work for him by finding something for him to do. At first she was saying that she wanted him to stay so he could cook for them, but Joe didn’t like that idea, especially after she likened him to being a fire extinguisher, saying that she doesn’t always need to use it, but it’s nice to have around when she finds herself in a situation that requires a fire extinguisher. In an attempt to get Joe to agree to continue working for her, she decided to ask him to install solar panels on the roof since he had apparently suggested it at one point in the past. Mel figured he would be happy if she told him that it was a good idea to put the solar panels in, but she was also worried about how he would act since she knows how much he loves to be right about things. Despite being afraid of how annoying he might be about the solar panels, she decided to ask him to do it anyway. However, Joe quickly saw through Mel’s request and said that it was a “pity solarization” and told Mel that he was still going to take the job offer working as a nanny for the other family.

New Girl: Get ready for one of the most awkward romantic getaway weekends ever, everybody! (My thoughts on episode 2x12 “Cabin”)

While many of my favorite TV shows have suffered from the dreaded sophomore slump or are simply in a creative slump this year for shows that have been on the air longer than two years, I feel like New Girl has been lucky enough to avoid a true sophomore slump. In terms of what shows I feel are in a bit of a creative slump this season, some of those shows would be Revenge, Modern Family, and Gossip Girl, which recently ended its’ run, but I digress. Sure, there have been a few lackluster episodes this season, but for the most part I feel like season two of New Girl has been better than season one so far. That being said, I thought that this was a great episode, but it definitely played out very differently from the way I was expecting it to, especially when it comes to the Jess/Sam/Nick/Angie storyline.

The thing that surprised me the most about the Jess/Sam/Nick/Angie storyline is that Sam didn’t seem upset at all about Jess inviting Nick and Angie to come with them for the weekend at Sam’s boss’ cabin, even after he found out that Jess was afraid to spend time alone with him. I was also expecting the writers to use this storyline as an opportunity for there to be some awkward moments between Jess and Nick given the will they or won’t they get together element of their relationship, but there weren’t really any moments like that between them in this episode. There was however an awkward moment between Sam and Angie while they were drunk all on absinthe where Angie was sitting in Sam’s lap and was being kind of flirtatious with him and tried to kiss him. Luckily, Sam didn’t do anything to reciprocate Angie’s behavior, but Jess still ended up getting mad at Angie for flirting with Sam. Nick acted like he didn’t really mind Angie being flirtatious with Sam at first since he was repeatedly saying throughout the episode that he and Angie had an open relationship, but later on in the episode he admitted to Angie while he was still drunk that he didn’t like that she had tried to kiss Sam.

One of my favorite Nick moments in this episode would definitely be his little rant about some of the weird things that he’s believes in, such as the existence of UFOs when he was tripping on absinthe. This was also when Nick told Angie that he didn’t like that she had tried to kiss Sam. Nick’s rant cracked me up, and I personally think that Jake Johnson is an extremely underrated actor. While I loved watching the way Nick acted when he was tripping on absinthe, I also thought that Jess and Sam were also pretty funny when they were acting very lethargic after getting drunk on absinthe too though.

Another one of my favorite scenes from the episode is the scene where Angie was showing Jess how to shoot a can with a rifle and Sam and Nick were both watching them. I couldn’t help but chuckle when Nick told Sam that the scenario was his fantasy and his nightmare colliding with each other. The fact that Jess told Angie that she needed to have a backstory behind why she was mad at the can and wanted to shoot it felt very reminiscent of the pilot when Jess told Cece that she had created a backstory behind her stripper persona when was she was going to hers and her ex-boyfriend’s apartment to play out her ex-boyfriend’s fantasy about her being a stripper. As soon as Jess said that she wanted to take a turn at shooting cans with the rifle, I knew that something bad would happen and sure enough, I was right. Jess ended up accidentally shooting the cabin’s electricity generator, causing them to lose power in the cabin.

Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott--Emmys 2012-TVLine

Here's an interview that Adam Scott did with TVLine's Megan Masters. In the interview, Scott talks about his decision to enter into the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series category instead of the Supporting Actor category for the Emmy's this year. He also talks about working on Parks and Recreation and what it was like working with all of the guest-stars they had on the show last year, his thoughts on Ben and Leslie's relationship as well as his favorite moments from season 4. Here's an excerpt from the article where Adam Scott talks about his decision to enter himself in the Emmys as a Lead Actor:



TVLINE | First things first: Why did you decide to jump from Supporting to Lead Actor this year?
Let’s face it, there’s one true lead on the show, and that’s Amy [Poehler]. But just by virtue of the fact that this season my story coincided with hers for a lot, I thought that I could justify the move and spread [the odds] out a bit since there are a lot of actors on our show — and they’re all equally deserving of recognition. I think this is something that I could do on a season-by-season basis, since maybe next year it wouldn’t be appropriate. But this year, after checking with [creator] Mike [Schur] and Amy and [co-star] Nick [Offerman], I felt like I could swap categories.

TVLINE | Ben is obviously one of Parks’ straight-man personalities. Do you see that as a hindrance Emmy-wise, given that outlandish or quirky characters are more often the ones that bring home the trophy?
That’s a really good question. I don’t know… I do think that one of the blessings of Parks is that Mike and all the writers are so sharp, that even the so-called straight-man characters — which I would say probably comes down to Rashida Jones and me — have their moments of going off the rails. Ben gets nervous around cops, which is a really weird thing! [Laughs] He’s just inappropriately nervous around people in authority positions. So, everyone gets their moment to be a freak, without completely taking the grounded element away from the character. That’s really great writing more than anything, I think.



Link to the full article:Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott -- Emmys 2012 - TVLine



My thoughts: I personally would love to see Adam Scott win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy series. Next to Tom, Ben Wyatt is my favorite of all the guys on the show. Adam Scott always makes me laugh in pretty much every scene that he's in. I'm in favor of any actor besides Jim Parsons winning the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy series this year. I love The Big Bang Theory, but Sheldon constantly annoyed the hell out of me this year, and I don't think that Jim Parsons deserves to win this year.

The Big Bang Theory: Jim Parsons talks about Sheldon's relationship with Amy-From Inside the Box-Zap2it

As fans of "The Big Bang Theory" know, Dr. Sheldon Cooper is more than a little awkward around women. And he's certainly never one to express feelings about them...until now.

On Thursday (Nov. 16), Sheldon goes into a jealous fit after finding out his "girlfriend" Amy (Mayim Bialik) is on a date with Stuart (Kevin Sussman), the lowly comic book store employee. Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon on the CBS comedy, was as surprised as anyone that his character displays this emotion.

"It's funny that he even felt jealous," Parsons says. "It's a very rare emotion for him to have in regard to other people. He's felt biting and b****y about scientific matters, but about the attentions of another human being, he doesn't really care."

It's been a long road for the quasi-relationship between the two geniuses. The biggest problem is their divergent opinions of what they want from each other. While Amy has definite carnal desires, Sheldon is awkward (and likely disinterested) even when cuddling on the couch. But Parsons praises producers for how they've brought the relationship along, as strange as it is.

"I've enjoyed this whole introduction of the Amy character. It's just this odd connection that they have. It's not that it's odd that so fun, it's that there is one," the two-time Emmy winner says.

But with Thursday's episode, it's clear that Sheldon is willing to take this next step. The only problem is how the two each interpret what "next step" means.

"It's one of those things that's two steps forward, one step back with these characters," Parsons says. "In this episode there's a tremendous step forward in this acknowledgment of a relationship...But I just wonder how much that really means actual change."

He hints that the two will continue to be an item, but under mutually agreed upon and legally binding terms.

Why are we not surprised Sheldon would demand this?

This article was written by David Eckstein.

Link to the original article:'The Big Bang Theory': Jim Parsons talks about Sheldon's relationship with Amy - From Inside the Box - Zap2it

The Big Bang Theory: Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik-Actor on Actor interview

This is one of the DVD extras on the season four DVDs that someone posted on YouTube.