2009 Previews

[Cat]

Bob started a discussion on Three Rivers and it looked interesting enough to share with everyone. I really like O'Laughlin and am happy to see him back so quickly after Moonlight was cancelled.

[Cat]

The Good Wife

Status: New Series
Premiere: 2009
Genre: Drama | Family
CBS - 60 Minutes
Airs: Tuesdays at 10:00 pm
Color: Color
Episode Order: 13

•Archie Panjabi played Kalinda Sharma
•Christine Baranski played Diane Lockhart
•Graham Phillips played Zach Follick
•Josh Charles played Will Garvin
•Julianna Margulies played Alicia Follick
•Makenzie Vega played Grace Florrick
•Matt Czuchry played Cary

The Good Wife is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband Peter (Chris Noth), Alicia Florrick (Margulies) starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney. As a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner (Josh Charles), who is interested to see how Alicia will perform after 13 years out of the courtroom. Alicia is grateful the firm's top litigator, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), offers to mentor her but discovers the offer has conditions and realizes she's going to need to succeed on her own merit. Alicia's main competition among the firm's 20-something new recruits is Cary (Matt Czuchry), a recent Harvard grad who is affable on the surface, but will use any means to ensure that he, not Alicia, secures the one full-time associate position that's available. Fortunately, Alicia finds an ally in Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), the firm's tough in-house investigator. Gaining confidence every day, Alicia transforms herself from embarrassed politician's scorned wife to resilient career woman, especially for the sake of providing a stable home for her children, 14-year-old Zach (Graham Phillips) and 13-year-old Grace (Makenzie Vega). For the first time in years, Alicia trades in her identity as the "good wife" and takes charge of her own destiny.

[Karen]

Boy this is timely with all the glut of real life governors /presidential candidates etc in the news lately.
...you do wonder about the wives...but I venture not many have sterling law degrees to fall back on...

[Cat]

I'm sure most don't! Think they mighta based the character on Hillary?

[Karen]

oh!!!! never thought of that...lol
maybe...???

[the Captain]

I doubt this one will be renewed for a 2nd season.....

[Juli]

She's a good actress, so far I am watching, but I know I won't continue. Sort of predictable.

[Cat]

Human Target

Genre: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Family | Mystery
Status: New Series
Network: FOX ( USA)
Airs: Wednesdays at 09:00 pm
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Premiere: January 17, 2010
Color: Color
Episode Order: 13

•Mark Valley played Christopher Chance
•Jackie Earle Haley played Guerrero
•Chi McBride played Winston

It takes a brave, selfless man to make himself a “human target” in order to save the lives of those in danger.

Based on the popular DC Comics comic book and graphic novel, HUMAN TARGET is a full-throttle action drama centered on CHRISTOPHER CHANCE (Mark Valley, FRINGE), a unique private contractor/security guard hired to protect.

Call him what you like, because for Chance, it’s about one thing only: saving his clients’ lives. When there is an unusual or imminent threat that can’t be solved through “normal” means of protection, Chance is hired to completely integrate himself into his clients’ lives – to become the human target. If you’re a corporate manager whose disgruntled employee has gone violently off the deep end, Chance is your new auditor. If you’re the president of a bank who’s been tipped off to a potential heist, Chance is your unassuming bank teller.

During each job, Chance, assisted by his business partner WINSTON (Chi McBride, “Pushing Daisies”) and hired gun GUERRERO (Jackie Earle Haley, “Watchmen”), puts himself directly in the line of fire as he races against time to save his client, while unraveling the truth behind the mission. With every new danger, Chance’s dark history will also unravel. Does anyone know who Christopher Chance really is, or what secrets lay buried in his past? What would make a man willingly become a HUMAN TARGET?

HUMAN TARGET is a production of Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Television. Jon Steinberg (“Jericho”), McG (“Terminator Salvation”), Simon West (“Con Air,” “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”) and Brad Kern (“Charmed”) serve as executive producers. Peter Johnson (“Chuck”) is a co-executive producer. West directed the pilot.

[Karen]

I bet my son or husband might watch this one...me not so much.

[Cat]

I might, and for sure Dale will! I try to give anything he might like a try, cuz I'm the recorder person who hates commercials and puts the fully edited stuff on DVD for watching. If I don't like it, he won't miss it, it will just go onto video tape and he'll have to live with FF! :-)

[Karen]

Is this on already? Mark would definitly watch it I think

[Cat]

Not yet, but Fox ordered 13 episodes that will begin in Jan. 2010 on Wednesdays at 10PM your time, 9PM mine.

Network: FOX ( USA)
Airs: Wednesdays at 09:00 pm
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Premiere: January 17, 2010
Color: Color
Episode Order: 13

[the Captain]

If your life has ever been in imminent danger of being ended by someone -- you begin to understand that it doesn't get more "dramatic" than that! Of course, its all in how its handled--but there is enough
"open territory" laid out in the basic parameters of the concept that would allow an imaginative writer and producer to do some fairly interesting things!