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Just when you stopped humming the theme, here comes the return of Hawaii Five-O.
Daniel Dae Kim of ABC’s Lost will be staying in Hawaii to play the lead in the CBS remake of the classic cop series. Kim will play Detective Chin Ho Kelly, a role originally played by Kam Fong.
The role of partner Steve McGarrett remains open with no casting as of yet although Moonlight star Alex O’Loughlin is holding final talks with the studio.
As ‘Jacksonville’ opens, the Fringe team heads to NYC after a building seems to merge with another after an earthquake. They find no survivors in the building except for a man who has four legs, four arms and a head growing out of his chest. (Where do they come up with this stuff?).
Olivia and Walter try to question him but he dies. Walter begins to think that the two buildings (one from this world and one from the alternate world) have merged. Olivia thinks Newton has to do with it too.
Walter thinks that a similar building went to the other universe too so things will be balanced. In order to save everyone inside, they need to figure out what building is going to move to the other side. Walter tells Olivia only she will be able to see which building it will be.
This week’s Fringe was one of best of the season (so far). As the episode opens, an cinnamon-scented airborne toxin causes people to die by being “suffocated from the inside-out,” as Walter puts it. We also learn more about the Bishop family tree.
Right away, Olivia realizes that one of the victims at a wedding party was a Holocaust survivor. The villain of the episode, a Nazi sympathizer, had developed a lethal formula that could pinpoint specific victims based on their DNA. All it needed was a heat-source dispersed into the air to be effective.
Much of the information the bad guy was using for his research came from an experiment conducted by Walter’s father. Peter’s grandfather was Dr. Robert Bishoff, a U.S. spy who worked in Germany in the World War II era.
Last night on Fringe, as the show opens, a man gets off an elevator when his nose begins to bleed and within moments he passes out. Then, a bike courier tries to give him CPR but his veins begin to bulge and break, spraying blood everywhere.
Olivia and Peter start the investigation while they wait for the rest of the team to arrive. While they are upstairs questioning witnesses, Walter and Broyles stand outside when suddenly the bike courier dies in the front lobby. They quickly realize what caused both deaths is a deadly virus which is contagious, and looking for a host.
In last night’s episode of Fringe, a young boy with a monstrous face accidentally leads to the death of three police officers. The fringe team is called to a remote town in New York State to investigate where Walter, who is still traumatized by his recent abduction, decides the boy is a metamorph which causes his physical appearance to switch from normal to grotesque. They quickly realize the boy isn’t the only one who is effected by this metamorph phenomenon.
These mutants aren’t just ugly, they can be very violent too. They try and kill Peter, Olivia and Walter by running them off the road and shooting at them. Later Peter has a shoot out with one in the woods but when he finds the body, its a man with no deformities.
On Monday night, Fox sneaked in an unaired episode of Fringe about a teenage girl who is taken off life support after being declared brain dead. The girl didn’t stay dead for long though. While surgeons were harvesting her organs she wakes up, screaming out a an alphanumeric code, in Russian.
Come to find out, Lisa has developed some kind of psychic bond with Rusk (a dead soldier) to the extent that she sees him behind her when she looks into mirrors. But, this ability does help her show the police where Rusk’s body is, in the trunk of a car at a dump site.
CBS easily won Monday night, again, with its insanely popular line-up of comedies. During its flagship night, the network defeated ABC and NBC in the 18-49 demographic and demonstrated series highs with The Big Bang Theory and the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother. Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders and Alyson Hannigan, the show netted its best numbers since last spring.
Two and Half Men with Charlie Sheen also had its best 18-49 demo performance since last winter and also its best audience average since December of 2008.
While most folks were sleeping soundly when the fireworks went off, champagne bottles popped and revelers passed out in the streets, 2010 arrived with fanfare and confetti. During the annual show in New York City and L.A., security was stepped up under the threat of terrorist activity. But for those who were awake and didn’t feel like freezing in the bitter cold, ABC was there to help.
ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve averaged an 8.7 rating 21 share in the 56 markets metered by Nielsen from 11:30 p.m.-1:15 a.m. (up 2% from last year’s 8.5/20).
NBC’s long-running sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live, posted its best rating for adults aged 18-49 last weekend. Its prime time Christmas special last Thursday also provided the struggling network with solid numbers as well.
Saturday Night Live Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas posted a solid 3.1 adults 18-49 rating, according to Nielsen overnights, NBC’s highest rating in the 8 to 10 p.m. time slot since Oct. 8.
The show averaged 7.8 million total viewers, a new season high in the slot, and it won the two-hour period among adults 18-34, though it finished second among 18-49s.
The special was a compilation of skits from past Christmas episodes and was hosted by Gilly (Kristen Wiig), a mischievous (and deadly!) re-occurring SNL character.
As the show opened last week, a mental patient was undergoing brain surgery by someone from the other side. While undergoing the surgery, he is discovered and leaves the man with his brain exposed.
The Fringe team comes in and learns that before this apparent surgery, the patient was crazy, but has become completely sane since having his brain opened up. After doing some research, the team finds out that this has happened several times to different patients at different mental facilities, including Walter.
