Hugh Laurie, David Krumholtz, Kiefer Sutherland
Every week, editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
What's going on with Cuddy, Wilson, Foreman, Cameron and Chase while House is in the mental institution? — RBlythe
MICKEY: First off, have you seen this Season 6 preview? Because I just noticed something awesome: Dr. House is kissing the brilliant Franka Potente (Run Lola Run, the Bourne films), and she's wearing a lab coat. Hmm... Until we get to that, though, only Wilson and House will appear in the season premiere, which takes place at the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. After that, look for Foreman to take the lead back at Princeton-Plainsboro, which will cause a rift in his relationship with Thirteen. What do you people have against the lovely Olivia Wilde anyway?
Do you know if Amita accepts Charlie's proposal on Numbers? — Marie
ADAM: Amita's decision will defintely be revealed in the season premiere, and I'm hearing that ...
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Beau Bridges
Bummed that The Closer has wrapped up its summer season? Here's a little good news to tide you over until it returns in December.
Beau Bridges will guest-star in one episode of the TNT cop drama, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Bridges will play George Andrews, a former partner of Provenza (G.W. Bailey). Andrews returns to help close a case that has been ...
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It's the end of our summer season and, regretfully, it's time to say good-bye. Coincidentally, our finale — a longer version of which will be available on-line and on iTunes after-air — seems mostly about going away. That's not only a clue to Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson's personal life, but also to solving the mysteries confronting Major Crimes.
I say mysteries because I like to remind people that The Closer is not merely about catching the criminal, but also getting the confession. This task ...
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Nurse Jackie
Nurse Jackie
10:30/9:30c Showtime
In the highly charged season finale, addiction and adultery make for a most volatile cocktail, and the tension fomented is so palpably thick you could cut it with a scalpel. Things spark when an angry Eddie decides to drown his sorrows at a bar — and not just any bar, but Kevin's bar. As Jackie's lover tosses back shots and beers, a cheery Kevin sings the praises of his lovely wife, and you just know that something's gotta give. Later at the hospital, a drunken Eddie confronts Jackie, who is so shaken that she attempts to self-medicate, and that sends her spinning.
Read on for previews of The Closer, Which Way Home, Rachel Zoe Project and Dating in the Dark.
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Our next-to-last episode of the season presents Brenda and Fritz with the unexpected problem of providing constant supervision for their imperfectly behaved teenage niece, Charlie, while continuing to do their jobs. This problem, which will be almost too familiar for most of our audience, challenges our heroic couple in ways both small and enormous.
Exactly how much responsibility does one assign to a child? How should a kid be raised? What are ...
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The Closer
The Closer
9/8c TNT
A little close-up on The Closer: The crime-time show begins closing its seasonal string of episodes (the summer finale airs next week), and Sosie Bacon, thespian daughter of Kevin Bacon and series star Kyra Sedgwick, continues her guest-star arc tonight. Brenda, while playing kiddie sitter to rebellious niece Charlie (Bacon), must snoop when a shooting on a school parking lot results in one person's death and another's critical wounding. Landing squarely in the middle of the case: none other than Charlie. Meanwhile, gruff but lovable Provenza is ready for a big life change.
Read on for previews of Glenn Martin, DDS, House, Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi and Weeds.
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It isn't easy to change the way people look at us. Our parents, for example, take years to recognize us as adults. Bosses often refuse to view us as capable of any other job than that for which they hired us in the first place. And inexperience, denial or willful ignorance often leads us to believe family members are perfectly all right when they are anything but. All these situations are at play in "Smells Like Murder."
Certainly, Sgt. Gabriel wants ...
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The dual nature of human personality has been too well examined, and by far more intelligent people than I, to discuss it at any length here except to say it serves as the theme of our new episode. Those who prefer puzzlers will hopefully find themselves trying to discover whether a father has half-way confessed to a murder in a desperate attempt to protect his mentally ill son, or whether he's gaming the system to get a lighter sentence. Bruce Davison brings to life one of our more unusual villains with the kind of affecting performance for which he is justly famous. The case also includes a schizophrenic witness, who might also be a suspect, the return of Brenda's mother, Willie Ray played by the always-brilliant Frances Sternhagen, and a new character who will test Fritz's desire to have children.
Let me go back a few years. When Kyra Sedgwick first started on The Closer, she had just finished an independent film entitled Lover Boy. It was a startling movie with an equally startling performance by a young girl named Sosie Bacon, Kyra and Kevin's daughter. Playing her mother's character as a young girl, Sosie's film acting debut was subtly wonderful, a bit of light in an extremely dark story dramatizing the inevitable (and ironic) consequence of being raised by overprotective parents.
After watching the film, I ...
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Jon & Kate Plus 8
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
8/7 CT ABC Family
Just last week, everyone was embarking on their summer plans: Ben was heading to Italy, Jack to football camp, Grace to a medical program and Amy to summer school. And now in the Secret Life world, summer's over and it's time to go back to school. For Ashley, this means her first day of high school, while for Amy the start of the new school year may mean the end of her and Ben. As for Amy's divorcing parents: George finally tells Anne about a secret he's been keeping from her.
Read on for previews of Sugarland: Live on the Inside, Invitation Only, Jon & Kate Plus 8 and The Closer.
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This week on TNT's The Closer, a new murder revived a decade-old, unsolved case, leading Brenda to get an "assist" from retired detective "Joey O" Olin (guest star Tom Skerritt). All the while, Brenda is haunted by a loose end of her own. Here now the recap!
It's the middle of the night and Brenda fell asleep with the TV on. As she retires to bed – Fritz isn't home – she spies an open bathroom window, then hears something break in the living room. Whipping out her gun and retrieving her cell, she calls the office for back-up: "Send units to my house, now! Stroh, he's here!"
Brenda is awoken from this nightmare by ...
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