By Kate Blake – Admin TheEntertainmentHotline Who remembers Bosom Buddies? It starred Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari as two guys in advertising who donned dresses after work to get cheap digs in New York in a women’s hotel. Work It is a new series coming to ABC this fall that is trying to capture the fun of two guys in a dress. The big problem? Instead of having them wear the dresses part time to [...]

By Erika Blake The Entertainment Hotline admin Today Mark Pedowitz, former head of ABC Studios was named the new head of The CW.  Some of the problems that he faces are growing cable channel competition, losing their key audience (women 18-34) and losing viewers during long rounds of repeats during the year and all summer long. There is an easy solution for their woes: they need to stop thinking like a network channel and act [...]

By Kate Blake- Editor If you haven’t caught the first two episodes of the CW’s latest series Hellcats you are missing a rare treat. Most prime time programming aimed at the youth market focuses on sex and rich kids having sex and the girls are waif thin – most look like addicts and the metrosexual males have the morals of alley cats and hairstyles that require more time to get ready than your average beauty [...]

By Kate Blake- Editor TheEntertainmentHotline This year the Tribeca Film Festival branched out with their new ON DEMAND program allowing movie fans all over to access their selections of bright and interesting films from your own home. We will be reviewing several of these over the next few days. Our first selection is the music biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. It is the story of British new wave music icon Ian Dury. [...]

Psych – “Mr. Yin Present” Season 4 Finale Review By Michal – Staff Writer As soon as Mary Lightly uttered the line, “Yang wasn’t working alone…” I knew I was in for a fun episode. Psych’s fourth season finale, “Mr. Yin Presents,” was an awesome homage to Hitchcock films and used the classic thrillers Psycho, North By Northwest, Vertigo, and Rear Window to frame the new “game” set up my Mr. Yang’s (Ally Sheedy) counterpart [...]

Castle – “Suicide Squeeze” Review & Highlights By Michal – Staff Writer “No, us Castles are mostly con artists and circus folks, sir.” – Castle I have a love/hate relationship with baseball.  My family is made of baseball and I never got into the spirit.  Sure I’ll watch a game, but not on my own.  I do know all the words to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and that should count for something! But [...]

Season 2, Episode 14 Review by Holli “Dead body.  I’m good.” This show is so charming and yet a great cop tale.  Fillion could sell his charm as awesomesauce and retire happily, if he was so inclined.  Stana gives us the beautiful, tough-as-nails cop who is the subject of Rick Castle’s books and, episode by episode, perhaps the object of his affections.  This show is a joy each and every week. Castle and Beckett remind [...]

White Collar – “Hard Sell” Review & Highlights By Michal “Tell Fowler I know and I’m not backing off.” – Peter Well it’s nice to have Bryce – err I mean Neal – back on my television. And luckily the show is as fun as ever and we have a new shiny bauble to find! But onto tonight’s festivities…if you haven’t watched the episode yet, the standard spoiler warning applies and you should stop reading [...]

Castle – “Sucker Punch” Review & Highlights By Michal – Staff Writer “I’ve gotten used to you pulling my pigtails.  I have a hard job, Castle, and having you around makes it a little more fun.” – Detective Kate Beckett Man, I’m a sucker for mob wars on television. They have served me well over the years and making one of the mobs Irish, just makes me even happier. But onto last night’s festivities…if you [...]

A review of “The People Speak” airing Sunday, December 13th on the History Channel By Michal – Staff Writer If you’re interested in American history from the bottom up, the new documentary, “The People Speak” premiering Sunday on the History Channel is for you. Produced by Howard Zinn, the two-hour program uses actors and musician to tell the history of the United States of America using the voices of the common people. Starting with the [...]

How I Met Your Mother – The Rough Patch Other than the ongoing van/station wagon joke and Lily constantly referring to storm trooper as robots, I didn’t really enjoy this episode.  I enjoyed Barney and Robin as a couple and it seems like such a waste their romance is over.  It feels like the writers just put them to break them up a few episodes late.  I’m just holding out for the Robin Sparkles/Alan Thick [...]

How I Met Your Mother – The Sexless Innkeeper Well, that was a fun episode. Sure there wasn’t much of plot, and I can’t explain how Robin avoided the Marshall/Lily need for another couple to date while she was with Ted, but that didn’t dampen my love of the episode. The return of historic!Barney made me chuckle and I absolutely loved all of the RomCom clichés that they were playing with…especially the ending with the [...]

Castle – “Inventing the Girl” Review & Highlights By Michal “So what would Nikki Heat do after a bad day?” – Beckett As Castle succinctly explains, “It’s fashion week in New York City and the clothes are to die for…” I’m not really a fashion person, but I have to admit that wedding dress was quite pretty. But onto tonight’s festivities…if you haven’t watched the episode yet, the standard spoiler warning applies and you should [...]

Review by Holli There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking how to kill people . . . psychopaths and mystery writers.  I’m the kind that pays better. – Richard Castle Like the new teaser.  Introduction of the key characters.  Castle and Beckett.  Castle is eating popcorn from a bowl watchiing the moon madness of the precinct.  It’s entertaining.  Beckett is the calm amongst the chaos.  Fun lovin Rick had a great time [...]

By Kate Blake Editor The Entertainment Hotline Alright- I have to start this out saying I have no problems with watching football. Once upon a time I was a die hard 49ers fan back when the team was QBed by Joe Montana then by Steve Young- but since the 49ers haven’t managed to field a winning team in over a decade I find myself in search of alternate Sunday programming. Usually this is the night [...]