NEW SERIES!
DRAMA
While watching this drama about a telepath who works as a paramedic, you may experience strangely urgent lightning-flashes of thought: "I see myself out in the fresh air playing volleyball! But wait—I've never played volleyball in my life! And I live alone on this island!" It's just your unconscious mind tricking you into abandoning the sofa. This silly import from Canada stars newcomer Craig Olejnik as Toby Logan, who's bombarded with inexplicable mental images whenever he arrives on the scene of accidents. Following them to their origin, he'll piece together a mystery that the shortsighted dopes around him aren't aware even needs solving. Toby himself is a puzzle: Grappling with this gift/curse since childhood, he's under the cautious guidance of a psychologist (Colm Feore, the President's miserable husband on 24).
The only thing of note here are Olejnik's eyes: They're of a deep but changeable shade of blue, and he's able to focus them into piercing pinpoints. The show should have been called The Laser.
USA, June 4, 10 p.m. ET |
NEW SERIES!
DRAMA
Mark Feuerstein plays a whip-smart Manhattan doctor blackballed from the city's hospitals after he runs afoul of some rich muckety-mucks. On a weekend in the Hamptons, he stumbles onto a different sort of practice: a physician-for-hire who makes discreet house calls to a whole new set of rich muckety-mucks. In the premiere, for instance, Christine Ebersole is a diva whose breast implant has deflated the day she plans to throw a party.
Feuerstein is smooth, steady, sensitive—properly McDreamian—but his patients are less interesting than the gorgeous real estate. Medical shows are better off sticking to hospitals, where the walls are painted a self-effacing teal.
ABC, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. ET |
COMEDY
This cartoon from Mike Judge (King of the Hill) lightly roasts a family so PC even their dog is forbidden meat. (Odd how the squirrels vanish.) The premiere's best scene finds Mrs. Goode agonizing over the price of organic produce—one kind of green versus another.
>1 SWIFT JOURNEY SUN. 5/31, 7 P.M. ET NBC Behind the scenes for a star's singin' summer on Dateline: On Tour with Taylor Swift.
2 OVER THE HILLS SUN. 5/31, 8:30 P.M. ET MTV Lauren Conrad says goodbye in the season finale. It's been real—hasn't it?
3 EXPEDITION AFRICA SUN. 5/31, 10 P.M. ET HISTORY Explorers relive the epic 1871 search for David Livingstone.
4 FOREST GRUMPS MON. 6/1, 8 P.M. ET NBC Sanjaya's stuck in the jungle on I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!
5 HEEERE'S CONAN! MON. 6/1, 11:35 P.M. ET NBC Conan O'Brien moves into that primo Tonight Show job.
>The keeper of the silver briefcases will emcee the inaugural Game Show Awards, airing June 6 on GSN. "They are part of the fabric of our culture," says Mandel, 53. "You can hum the theme from Jeopardy! and everyone knows what you are talking about." The comedian, who will give out cash and prizes at the ceremony, talks about the game shows he thinks are winners.
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES My foray into watching game shows. Bob Barker was the king of cool and funny. I laughed and played along.
LET'S MAKE A DEAL No real skill involved! Dressing up like a goofball and packing bizarre things in your pants— it was entertaining.
WHEEL OF FORTUNE I can't tell you how many hours as a child I spent playing Hangman, and it became this huge international show.
SURVIVOR It's the granddaddy of them all as far as reality. Its concept is simple because ultimately in a game, you just want to survive.
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE The show has personality and humor, and it took it to another level. Plus, I am a huge Regis fan.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
