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If We Controlled Your Remote… 9/1515

Posted on September 15, 2015 by , and

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Jenny’s Choice

besttimeeversmallIn my opinion, Neil Patrick Harris is one of my generation’s funniest and likable TV personalities. Loved him as Doogie Howser, then as Barney, and he always does a fantastic job as host on the award shows. So when I heard about his new variety show, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, I was really excited. And the promos I’ve seen for it have given me high hopes that it’ll live up to the hype. The live, one-hour show comes complete with stunts, skits, pranks, audience interaction, musical numbers, giveaways, and unlimited surprises and is based on the popular British show Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. Hopefully the proven format from the UK will translate to success here in the States!

On tonight’s episode, Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon serves as this week’s celebrity guest announcer.

Check out the premiere of NPH’s new show tonight on NBC at 10/9c.

I’ll also be watching/DVRing America’s Got Talent, Labor Games, & Chopped.
 
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If We Controlled Your Remote… 9/13/15

Posted on September 13, 2015 by

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Kyle’s Choice

projectgreenlightsmallI’m really excited for the return of Project Greenlight to HBO tonight. The series, which is executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, gives viewers a look at the entire movie-making process, from choosing a script, to selecting a director, assembling the cast, and filming, editing, marketing, and releasing the film. The series originated on HBO back in 2001, where in the first 2 seasons, we got to see dramas Stolen Summer and The Battle of Shaker Heights (starring a before-he-went-crazy Shia LeBouf) being made. Then the series moved to Bravo for its third season, for a very different kind of film, horror movie Feast.

Last year, we got a similar series on Starz called The Chair from Chris Moore, one of the Project Greenlight executive producers, and watching that series reminded me just how much I had missed Project Greenlight. I’m so glad to see the original show returning — and to its original home on HBO. For this new season, the Farrelly brothers have joined Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to judge the submissions and choose a script and a first-time director to make the movie. We’ll get to follow along with the process as this fresh filmmaker deals with the challenges of pre-production, principal photography, and post-production, and gets some guidance from the mentoring producers. I’m assuming with the Farrelly brothers involved, it will be a comedy this time around, but no matter what the film, I’m looking forward to another season of behind-the-scenes movie magic and drama!

On tonight’s premiere, 13 finalists are chosen from a pool of thousands of aspiring filmmakers and travel to Los Angeles to meet the series’ judges, who discuss the merits of each contestant’s short-film submission before announcing a winner.

Check out the finalists and hear the judges’ comments tonight on HBO at 10/9c.

I’ll also be watching/recording Big Brother, The Strain, The Great Food Truck Race, and Fear the Walking Dead.

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If We Controlled Your Remote… 9/11/15

Posted on September 11, 2015 by

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Kyle’s Choice #1

znation911smallTonight, Syfy’s zombie action/thriller/comedy Z Nation returns for its second season. When we last left off, the gang had made it to the lab, but when they got there, they found mad scientist Dr. Kurian, a man who had been developing biological weapons, and an army of zombified soldiers. Cassandra’s wound became infected and she was dying, but a bite from Murphy healed her, sort of – she became a half-zombie fighting machine. Doc was wounded in a firefight that broke out at the lab and was bleeding out. Meanwhile, the crazy doctor bolted from the lab, and Murphy followed, without following the proper decontamination procedure, which set off the emergency containment protocols – launching nuclear missiles toward both this facility and toward Citizen Z’s station at the North Pole. When Murphy got outside, he shed his skin like a reptile and took off.

Tonight’s season premiere picks up immediately where the first season left us hanging – our favorite gang of survivors has been even further separated and nuclear missiles are heading their way. Will the group escape the blast? Will Doc bleed out? Will Mack and Addy or Murphy ever rejoin the group? Will they find a vaccine? And what about Citizen Z? What’s he going to do if his facility is destroyed?

While I’m a big fan of The Walking Dead, there’s definitely room for both shows on my TV. They both have very different tones and are entertaining in their own way. I really enjoyed tonight’s episode. It has that nice blend of humor, action, and suspense this show always provides. I’m looking forward to seeing the fallout (no pun intended) of these nukes, what crazy situations these survivors end up in this season, learning more about Murphy’s zombie-controlling powers, and seeing how the larger group ultimately comes back together.

At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, I got a chance to talk with the cast and creator of Z Nation about this new season. You can find my videos from the press room at NoReruns.net.

On tonight’s episode, “The Murphy,” moments have passed since Murphy triggered the launch of tactical nuclear weapons, and it’s every man/woman for themselves as the group split up and try to outrun the impending blast. Meanwhile, Citizen Z finds himself battling thawed zombies and unable to communicate with the team, which leads him to make a desperate move that prompts the arrival of a mysterious and deadly bounty hunter.

See how the survivors handle the threats from the nukes and the zombies tonight on Syfy at 10/9c.
 
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If We Controlled Your Remote… 9/10/15

Posted on September 10, 2015 by

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Kyle’s Choice

underthedome910smallTonight, after 3 seasons and only like a month of elapsed time, the Dome finally comes down in the series finale of Under the Dome. Last week, the Dome continued to calcify, with those trapped inside in increasing danger of suffocating. Christine ordered her kinship to start executing the elderly in order to conserve oxygen and then transferred her own energy into the cocoon holding Eva’s alien baby, the future queen. As a result, she ended up human and was horrified when she saw that her former kinship started moving on to the children. She pretended to still be their queen and tried to order them to stop, but Junior and the others could see through this and went after her, but Barbie stepped in just in time to save her.

The Resistance (and new member Christine) worked feverisly on the plan to bring the Dome down and on a cure for the infected. However, Hektor didn’t want the aliens to get free and wanted to stop Joe before he could bring down the Dome. He tried to kill Joe, but Big Jim got to him first. Meanwhile, the new queen emerged from her cocoon, now a full-sized adult who looked just like Eva. She grabbed Christine and threw her against the Dome wall, causing her to disintegrate.

Can the Resistance stop this new queen before she kills them all? Can they find a cure to save the folks of Chester’s Mill who are under her spell? Can they bring down the Dome before it’s too late? What will happen once the Dome comes down? Why was the Dome there in the first place, and what was the point of all this?

While I enjoyed the first season of Under the Dome, the series quickly went off the rails in season 2, and this past season has been a total mess. This “event series” should have only been a single season, but the creators got greedy and decided to stretch the story out. I really hope they’ve got a good, satisfying ending for us! Those of us who stuck with it (and those just checking back in tonight) deserve a decent resolution and explanation tonight!

On tonight’s finale, “The Enemy Within,” the Dome comes down and the Resistance tries to protect the outside world from the infected townspeople.

To see how the series ends, tune in to CBS at 10/9c.

I’ll also be watching/recording Big Brother, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Married, Review, and Documentary Now!

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If We Controlled Your Remote… 9/9/15

Posted on September 9, 2015 by and

Have you ever been at a loss as to what to watch? Too many shows to pick from? We’re here to give you our opinions on what we feel is worth watching. Check it out and then let us know in the comments below what you’re choosing for tonight!

Jenny’s Choice #1

My first pick tonight is the season finale of Home Free. This show on FOX has been a lot of fun. It combines a design-competition show with a feel-good, heartwarming one. Nine couples started the show, thinking they were competing to be the last couple standing to earn their dream home. Each week, all the couples worked together – on teams and down to individual couples last week for the top three – on renovating an old or worn-down or just plain out-of-date home, and Mike Holmes decided which couple to send home. What the contestants didn’t learn until after the other teams had left the site was that the lucky family to get the home they’d just finished renovating was them. So all nine couples will win a house, not just the final, “winning” couple.

This was really fantastic to me, for a lot of reasons. One, each of the couples really needed a new home. Whether they’d hit on hard times, outgrown their old home, or (in the case of the sisters who “lost” last week and wanted a house for their parents so they could be closer to them now that their father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s) for whatever reason, the new home was needed. But my favorite thing about the show was that they aren’t just giving homes to lucky couples. The couples WORKED for them. They put their blood, sweat, and tears into each of the houses, even down to the final two teams on tonight’s episode. I love it.

On tonight’s season finale, “Dream Holmes,” week after week, each couple followed Mike’s lead and pushed themselves to make the best home possible for a deserving family. Weeks of tools, dry wall, and construction all come down to this moment when the winner is revealed!

See who takes the win and check out the final two houses tonight on FOX at 9/8c.
 
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