Edie Falco, Toni Collette
Showtime is bringing Nurse Jackie back early.
The half-hour drama starring Edie Falco will return March 22, 2010, the cable channel announced Friday. Jackie will be paired with fellow returning sophomore show...
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Grey's Anatomy
Which TV Couples Do You Want to See Hook Up?
Loyal TV viewers, we are on your side. Like you, we love it when our favorite characters make the sexytime, but we also know that not every romp in the sack is guaranteed to be a crowd-pleaser. As the new TV season gets underway, we hope you'll join us in urging TV producers not to repeat the sex-scene mistakes of the past. We've compiled a guide to some of the least sexy sex scenes from the recent past — the scenes that put the sex in unsexy. (Check out our photo gallery for physical evidence.)
After you consider our cautionary list, we want to know: Which TV couples would you like to see do the dirty? Sound off after the jump.
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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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Marcia Cross, Thomas Gibson, Sandra Oh
Every week, editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
I am so over Orson and his lame blackmail scheme. How long before the writers put that story to rest and let Bree and Karl tie the knot on Desperate Housewives? — David
MICKEY: Poor Kyle MacLachlan — the writers really screwed him with all that kleptomania nonsense. The good news (for us, at least) is that Bree's emotional affair with Karl will take on a new dimension when they start sending dirty text messages to each other. As Emily Post might write longhand on personalized stationery: OMG!
Any Fringe scoop? — Lizbeth
MICKEY: Right off the bat in the first episode, one character's alliances will be questioned, and the answer will be heartbreaking...
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The Bachelorette
The Bachelorette
8/7 CT ABC
So, romance fans: Who'll it be? Ed Swiderski? Kiptyn Locke? Neither of them? We'll find out tonight, following one last round of canoodling and soul searching in Hawaii (this time on the Big Island). But before the final rose ceremony, Ed and Kiptyn must also face another round of grilling from Jillian's family. And happily-ever-prospects aren't bright: Of the four previous Bachelorettes, two (Trista and Jen) did get married, but Jen wed someone other than the guy she picked on the show.
Read on for previews of The Closer , Making His Band, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and Nurse Jackie.
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Nurse Jackie
Home Run Derby
8 pm/ET ESPN
All eyes are on the efficient and powerful swing of Cardinals star Albert Pujols as the All-Star break home-run leader heads a group of eight long-ball specialists in the shadow of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The beloved reigning NL MVP has finished second and third previously in an event that often leaves a more-lasting memory than the actual All-Star Game, as happened last year when runner-up Josh Hamilton set a new single-round record of 28 dingers. Missouri native and 2006 champ Ryan Howard joins Prince Fielder and Adrian Gonzalez in looking to outlast Pujols.
Read on for previews of The Bachelorette, Teddy: In His Own Words, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List and Nurse Jackie.
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Dance Your Ass Off
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
8 pm/ET ABC Family
In last week's season premiere, John Schneider suffered the same fate portraying Grace Bowman's father as he did playing Clark Kent's father on Smallville: His character was killed off the show. Tonight his death is mourned by everyone who knew him, especially Grace, who was in a fight with her dad before he got into a plane accident. She's also plagued with guilt because she believes her actions (forsaking her vow of chastity until marriage by sleeping with Jack) are to blame for his death.
Read on for previews of The Bachelorette, Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech, Dance Your Ass Off and Nurse Jackie.
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Edie Falco and Merritt Wever
Showtime has green-lit a second season of Nurse Jackie.
Monday's premiere of the Edie Falco medical dramedy nabbed 1 million viewers, the cable network's highest-rated premiere audience ever. In addition, 350,000 people watched the premiere's encore presentation — for a total of 1.35 million same-day viewers.
Showtime has ordered up 12 new episodes, but has yet to schedule an air date for them.
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Hugh Laurie (House), Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU) and Bret Harrison (Reaper)
Every week, senior editors Matt Webb Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
I have to wonder if the psych hospital in the House finale was also a hallucination. It was pretty strange how the street and parking lots were empty. And it looked like he was going to one of those hospitals from the 1940s. — RSmith
MATT: How Vanilla Sky! But nope, sources assure me that House's rehab stint is the real deal. And that hospital's more retro than you think. Greystone Park State Hospital (in Morristown, N.J.) made its debut in 1876 as the not-so-subtly named New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum. The hospital has tended to such patients as singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, and until the Pentagon was built, it boasted the largest foundation (674,000 sq. feet) of any structure in the U.S. I'd try to book a TVGuide.com Q&A with the building, but fear I'd be stonewalled.
Now that Reiko Aylesworth has been dropped from ABC's The Forgotten, could SVU bring back her ADA character, Erica Alden, from Season 1? —Walt
MICKEY: It's an interesting idea, but a very well-informed source tells me that Aylesworth will ...
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Haaz Slieman and Edie Falco
Here's what I learned about my new best friend Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) from watching Monday's premiere of Nurse Jackie:
Jackie has a bad back — and a prescription-drug problem. "What do you call a nurse with a bad back?" Jackie asks. "Unemployed." As such, she's a highly functioning pill-popper who'll take whatever she can get her hands on. Literally take.
Jackie is dedicated. From the get-go, it's clear that Jackie owns the ER. She hits all the right notes with doctors, other nurses, cops and patients. She's knowledgeable, courteous, but not exactly what you'd call nice. Read on to see what we thought of Edie Falco's new show...
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