Desperate Housewives

Good morning, everyone! So, how did everyone enjoy the episode on Sunday? I know I did and I’m here to talk about my favorite of the week: Nicollette Sheridan. I’ve always enjoyed the character for the comic relief she usually provides, but it’s nice to see her getting more to do with this whole Dave situation. The latest episode proves how good she can be.

In the episode, she goes from annoyance and arrogantly telling Dave that she “does stay lonely long” to being hurt and angry when Dave reveals the fact he was married before. The look on her face and the tone in her voice as she told him to get out was great and I love how she’s still got that rough edge to the character. Early on, she was so whipped, I was worried the character might lose some of her spark, but that wasn’t the case. Good for her.

I’m looking forward to getting to see how she handles herself as the season goes on, because I get the feeling she’s going to have a lot to do soon. Much more than she ever has before on the show- and it’s about time.

So what do you all think? Is Nicollette up to the challenge? Did she bring it last week? Is there someone else you would have picked instead? Be sure to comment and let me know. I love to dish! By the way- the picture here is from her birthday celebration in November at Luau. She’s standing with actress and singer Michelle Phillips. That’s it for now. Take care and I’ll see y’all again tomorrow!

Good morning, everyone! I hope you all got a chance to catch the new episode last night. I sure did and loved it! In case you missed it, here’s a little recap of what went down.

The Hodges/Van de Kamps met Andrew’s future mother-in-law and it did not go so well. She’s determined to get the kids to move to where she is, while Bree is just as determined to get them to stay. So much so, in fact, she decides to buy a house Edie is selling to keep them on Wysteria Lane, much to her adversaries annoyance. Should be interesting to see what counter moves are coming. And you know one’s coming….

The Solises are at a crossroads now that Carlos has his sight back. Carlos doesn’t want to keep working as a massage therapist. He’s rather work with an organization for the blind. The same one that helped him, in fact. Gabby, meanwhile, thinks that he should take the cushy six-figure offer an ex-co-worker with his own company offered. This leads to a bit of an argument between them (Carlos hates the guy and thinks of the work as soul crushing, while Gabby thinks the family has sacrificed enough and it’s time for him to bring in real money again.) Carlos finally relents and agrees to take the job. I can’t wait to see the trouble this is going to cause.

Over at the Scavo house, Porter’s lawyer has found out that Porter left and Preston has been taking his place. He threatens to go to the DA with the information unless they can get Porter back before the lawyer’s next meeting with him. Lynette tries to get Preston to spill the details, but he refuses. He says that they’re more worried about being able to serve pizza than Porter’s safety. Lynette takes Preston with her to a club where Mr. Shilling hangs out and informs him that she is going to run the man over to protect Porter to prove how much she does care about them and orders him to get out so she can do what she has to do. Porter gets the point and refuses to leave, telling her he will try and get Porter to come back. They talk to Porter over the phone and almost convince him to return. That is, until Lynette’s mom comes into the scene and makes Porter hang up, telling him not to trust her.

Over at Edie’s, she catches Dave talking to himself a couple nights after getting into a fight over his appearance. She can tell something’s wrong, but won’t say what. The talking to himself incident finally pushes her to demand to know the truth. Dave doesn’t give her the whole story, but admits that he was married and widowed once before. Edie is furious he kept that information from her and tells him to leave immediately. He packs his things and heads off to a hotel or something just in time to see Karen returning home from an ill-fated trip to Dave’s doctor’s office. (By the way… apparently, the people who work with him are idiots. The receptionist says he was due back over a week ago and has still not returned, but they haven’t seemed to report this fact to anyone.)

Finally, with Jackson out of town, Susan goes out with Lee and ends up getting drunk. She wakes up beside him in bed and freaks out, thinking they slept together. He assures her that nothing happened and Susan is relieved, since Jackson called and asked her to move in with him. Without even thinking of MJ (and Mike’s access to him, since Jackson’s living out of town right now), Susan decides she should do it. To his credit, Lee, who’s been filled in on the situation, tells her she shouldn’t do it unless she can say she loves him. This is something she wasn’t able to do. We’ll see how that all turns out.
Well, that’s all for now. I will leave you with the preview for next week, courtesy of mattndjessproduction. Stay tuned for my thoughts on the promo, favorite quotes, actors and more over the next few days. Take care!

Good morning and happy Friday, everyone. Guess it’s time to put the holidays behind us (and the time off that comes with them…) and get back to business. I know today’s post is going to be slightly off-topic, but it is related. I’m talking the Melrose Place re-make.

As I mentioned (and many of you probably already knew), two Housewives actors came off that show: Marica Cross and Doug Savant. Because of that, I thought I should update you on the latest. The CW has now announced that the project is going full speed ahead and they’re now looking to hook some of the old cast. Namely, Heather Locklear. Not surprising, since she is credited with helping keep the original on the air past season one. Mark Schwahn (One Tree Hill) is writing the pilot episode and they’re already working on several scripts to be ready for a possible fall premiere. Also, they’re moving fast on casting and we may actually learn who’s moving in to the complex in the next few weeks. I’ll let you know how that all turns out.

If they’re smart, they’re already working on trying to get Marcia and Doug to guest star in flashback scenes. I don’t know if they’ll sign, but lots of people do multiple projects, so it isn’t totally out of the question. Let’s just hope Allison Parker isn’t among the returnees. I never did like that character. So, confession time- who is actually looking forward to this besides me? Any ideas for flashback scenes? Feel free to share them in the comments section. I leave you with a little blast from the past: Marcia and Doug in a scene from 1994, courtesy of amessin. Enjoy!

Good morning and Happy 2009 Today, I wanna fill you in on when some of our favorites will be on TV in the next week or so. Let’s start with the people who were/are regulars.

Nicollette Sheridan- You can see her in Code Name: The Cleaner on HBOe on January 2nd at 10 AM. She’ll also be in Spy Hard, airing January 5th on AMC. That’s at 4:45 am, so you better program those VCRs/DVRs….

Mark Moses- You can see him in the movie Monster-in-Law on TNT. You have two chances to see that one in the next week, January 3rd at 8 PM and 4th at 4:30 PM. He’ll also be in a rerun of 7th Heaven on January 5th at 7 PM. That airs on WGN.

Brenda Strong- You can check her out in The Craft on HBOe. They’re playing it at 4:25 AM on the 3rd and 3:30 PM on the 5th. You can also see her in Encore’s showings of Spaceballs. Those are scheduled for January 5th at 8 Pm and January 6th at 3:10 AM.

Now, let’s talk about some of the recurring people. There are several of them appearing in shows and movies soon. First off… Roger Bart, our very own George the Pharmacist. If you have the east coast versions of Showtime, you’ll be able to see him in the movie Hostel Part 2. SHOe has it airing January 3 (10 PM), 6 (10 PM) and 11 (10 PM). SHO2e will air it air it on the 4th (11:30 PM) and the 9th (11 PM). You can also see him on MOMAXe’s airing of The Producers on January 4th at 7:45 PM.

Dixie Carter, aka: the mother-in-law of Bree’s nightmares, is going to be in the Hallmark Channel’s airing of Our First Christmas on January 2nd at 1 AM. You can also see her guesting on a USA repeat or Law and Order: Special Victims Unit at 4 PM on the 4th or Lifetime’s rerun of Desperate Housewives January 9 at 12 PM.

Well, that’s all for now. Take care and I’ll see you all again tomorrow!

Good morning, everyone!! Can you believe New Year’s is here already? I know I can’t. It seems like the past year has just flown right by. Since today is a special day of reflecting and looking forward, I am going to mention a couple of my favorite moments so far this season.

Gabby being a mama bear and refusing to take the money from Granny Screw Loose when she found out Granny is going to try and take control of the kid’s schooling. This blind/poor plot for the Solis family has been great for her character.

Lynette coming back into the house and defending Anne against her crazy husband. I think that showed a real soft side to her we don’t see much of. Usually, she’s too busy scheming to get her own way or bossing the kids and Tom around.

Bree giving a book lecture high on sleep medicine and her resulting revenge on Orson. She is one character you just don’t mess with. Maybe in the new year people will figure that one out. Then again, this is Housewives. People don’t always act in the smartest ways on this show. It’s part of the fun.

Jackson and Mike bonding during a guy’s night out and the friendship that resulted from that. Those two actors have such great chemistry and my best wishes are still going out to Gale for a speedy recovery and return to the show. Latest rumors out there suggest he might not be back this season after all. I hope those are false.

Carlos selling the baseball he loved so much to get Gabby a dress after seeing how much she has sacrificed for the family. This just showed what a great guy he is and how much he’s grown up since season one, when he could be a little too ‘cave man’ like a times. Here’s hoping this new, improved Carlos sticks around.

Well, that’s about it for now. Feel fre. Before I go, I just want to say thank you all so much for reading and commenting on the blog this year. I hope you’ve been enjoying yourselves as much as I have and I look forward to more dishing in 2009. See y’all next time and have a safe and blessed new year!

By the way… don’t forget a new episode airs this Sunday!

Good morning, everyone!! How are you doing? So, preview scenes have been released and I’m anxious to show em to you so we can discuss. If you don’t want to see things like this ahead of the episode, I would go no further. May I suggest checking out this site? For the rest of you, read on to see the previews and my comments. All the previews, by the way, were posted by DHCentral on youtube. Read the rest of this entry »

Good morning everyone!! I hope you all had a great weekend and you’re ready to get back to dishing. I just saw that the description for the hundredth episode is out and I wanna share it with you. Just in case you won’t want to know what’s going to happen that week (it airs January 18th), I’ll put the description and my comments behind a cut. If you keep reading, feel free to post your thoughts in the comments. If you decide to go elsewhere instead of reading it, have a great one and I’ll see you next time. Before you do leave, though, here is a new promo out for ABC’s shows. It was posted by DreamersVids. Enjoy!

Ok, still with me? Good! Here’s what the description has to say. Read the rest of this entry »

Good morning, everyone!! I hope your holiday was a great one and the rest of the holiday season treats everyone well. I thought today I would go ahead and keep you guys updated on where you can see some of the stars on TV over the next week or so. Let’s start with the whole cast in Desperate Housewives. Lifetime is playing the special “Everything You Always Wanted to Know” on the 29th at 1 PM. It’s the perfect chance for anyone new to the show to catch up on all the action.

Now, let’s talk about the guys. You can catch Doug Savant in a repeat of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on Spike TV December 26th. It airs at 4 PM. Meanwhile, James was in the movie Primary Colors. Ya know… the John Travolta movie that kinda mocks Clinton? That’s on December 28th at 4:30 PM on the channel HBOSGe. Anyone have that or know what on earth all that stands for? I sure don’t! Finally, you can see that so-bad-it’s-entertaining movie I Know Who Killed Me on Starz for your Neal McDonough fix. It airs on the 29th at 12:50 AM, so set the VCRs. He’s also in Band of Brothers, airing on the History Channel December 27th at 10:42 AM.

And now, we get to the ladies. You can see Felicity in Georgia Rule December 29th at 1 PM. They sure do work with the Lohan a lot, huh? Eva will be in The Sentinel on FX at 6 PM on January 3rd. And you can see Teri Hatcher in Tango and Cash on December 29th at 3:20 AM (set those VCRs…). That airs on Cinemax. Well, that’s it for now. Remember, all those times are Eastern and I’ll see you all again Monday!

Good morning, everyone and Merry Christmas!! If you don’t celebrate, I hope you’re having a great holiday season so far. Wow… can you believe that the year is almost over? In only a couple weeks, we’ll be in 2009. I’ll reflect a little bit on the past year in Housewives and offer my thoughts on their new year’s resolutions in these last couple weeks, as well as all the usual stuff. For now, I wanna give you all a little present. It’s my humble spoof of the Twelve Days of Christmas. I hope you all enjoy it! Keep reading to see more…. I’m also inculding a video of the original from youtube. Read the rest of this entry »

Good morning guys! I’m here with a little SAG update for you. The vote that was set for January 2nd has now been moved to either the 12th or 13th. Why? Because there’s not a lot of support for it. SAG needs 75% of it’s members to vote yes for this to happen and right now, a good chunk of it’s membership doesn’t like the idea. The main negotiator behind it all is hoping the delay will give those leaders who support it time to educate those who are against it and get them to change their minds. I say they’re crazy if they think another week or so is going to work. Doug Savant and others are still looking to fill empty board seats when SAG’s elections come up to make some changes in how the union does business. We’ll see how this all plays out in the new year.

Speaking of holidays, I thought in the spirit of the season, I’d share a few laughs with you. Youtube is crawling with Desperate Housewives Spoofs, so it’s very hard to narrow down what to choose. I figured I’d just grab a few at random. This first one was posted by waterstallion. I have no idea where it came from and the quality isn’t the best, but still kind of cute. One of the reasons I like it is because of the one playing Bree. She really nailed her voice and mannerisms. Check it out for yourself:

Next is a MadTV spoof from a while back with men in the parts of the Housewives. Once again, I think Bree (and the narration) is the best part. I love, too, how each spoof so far has made fun of Susan’s klutziness. Check it out, thanks to elvisontheisland:

Finally, let’s show the men some love. Here’s a spoof called Desperate Househusbands and it was posted by 1charmedlife. Enjoy and I’ll see y’all next time! Don’t forget to comment and let me know what you think of the spoofs. Share some of your own favorites, as well, if you want.

So, I’m sure by now all of you know about the new face on Wysteria Lane, Dr. Cominis. He’s the surgeon that fixed Orson’s snoring problem, leading to one of the funniest scenes all year. Ya know, the one where Bree informs the doctor that she doesn’t care if Orson’s apprehensive about the procedure because he owes her big. The look on his face was priceless.

He’s also got another role on the show: Andrew’s new man (another classic moment, by the way). According to the article he has shot four episodes of the show right now. Here’s hoping he’s got many more to come because he’s great. So far, he’s appeared in two. Because of his new notoriety, his hometown paper, The Daily News, did an interview with him. You can see the full article and all his comments about the cast and the show here. In the meantime, let me fill you in on a couple parts of the interview that stuck out to me.

One is people’s reaction to his part on the show. Apparently, he’s getting a lot of people joking with him that they saw his video (if you remember, his character once starred in an adult film). He has a great sense of humor about it, though, laughing along with the people. Also, he revealed that the scene where he and Andrew announce they’re engaged was filmed the day after Proposition 8 was voted through, which I thought was kind of ironic. You might also remember him from his roles on Samantha Who and Criminal Minds. Be sure to come back and share your thoughts on it all after you’ve read the interview for yourself. For now, I’m out of here! Take care and see you all again tomorrow.

Good morning, everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend, even though there was no new Housewives last night. They aired the repeat where Jackson meets the family and Gabby tries to pretend she’s still on the top of the social ladder. Today, I wanted to talk a little bit about Josh Henderson, who played Austin (Edie’s Nephew).

For those who don’t know, I’m also a fan of 90210, which is also in reruns. I happened to be looking at a news story for that show that mentioned Josh. Apparently, he’s playing Sean on that show. For those who don’t know, Josh comes onto the series as the long-lost son of Harry Wilson (the father of the main characters and principal of West Beverly) and Tracey Clark (the mother of his daughter’s enemy). Looks like he’ll be stirring up some big trouble, because in his last scene before the break, he revealed via a phone call to someone he is not all he appears to be.

After reading about this I decided to look up information on him and found out some interesting things. Once upon a time, he was a pop star! He was chosen to be in a band called Scene 23 that came out of the WB’s show Popstars. They didn’t ever release a full album and their label went bust, leading to the end of the group. That wasn’t his only brush with pop stardom, though. He also appeared on The Ashlee Simpson show on MTV. He was Ashlee’s boyfriend at the time and they broke up within the first few episodes.

So, who already knew this and who is surprised like me? Comment and let me know! I leave you now with one of their videos, courtesy of allegria78 on youtube. Enjoy and I’ll see y’all next time!

Good morning, again. Ok, is it just me or does someone have it out for Desperate Housewives lately? I heard they were totally shut out of the Golden Globe awards this nomination cycle, which is odd, considering how well the season has been received by the critics and viewers. Late last night I was reading the news sites and found out that the SAG awards nominations were announced and I see they only got one nod.

The category is Comedy Series Cast and the competition seems tough. They’re up against the casts of 30 Rock, Entourage, The Office and Weeds. I can’t comment personally on the quality of the competition, because I haven’t seen any of these shows. Still, they get a lot of buzz and seem to be popular so I think the show may have a tough road to the win.

I think if there is any justice, they’ll win it on just Marcia and Eva alone. They have been brilliant this year on the comedy front. Especially Eva. It seems like she’s much better (and more comfortable) at trying to get a laugh than making us wipe away the tears. Marcia? Well, she’s great in my opinion either way.

So what does everything think about the lack of Housewives love so far this awards season? Is it fair? Do you think the nominating committees are crazy? Post your thoughts in the comments section and let’s dish about it. Have a great weekend and I’ll see y’all again on Monday!

Hello, again! As we wait for new episodes to start up again, I went looking for some news about the actors. I ended up coming across a story on AdWeek’s website talking about a(nother) new project for Marcia Cross. If you remember, I mentioned yesterday she was gonna be involved with the inaugural festivities in January.

That’s not all, though. She’s just been signed on for another part: spokesperson. She’s gonna be the face of a new ad campaign for Mott’s. They haven’t done a major ad campaign in awhile and are ‘desperate’ to get the word out to people that their products give them some of those much-needed fruit servings and they want Marcia to be the one delivering the message.

They love the fact she’s a mom and think it’s gonna be a big draw. I say they made a good move. Who better than Bree herself to advertise a brand that loves it’s wholesome image? While the ads are already being filmed, they haven’t said when we can expect them to pop up on TV. Considering they said they’ll be putting out a lot of new products in the next year or so, I think they won’t be waiting to long to debut them. Whenever they get posted online, I’ll be sure to share.

So, what’s the verdict? Do you think this is a good move for her? Is there anyone else you think would’ve fit better? Post your thoughts below and I’ll see y’all next time!!

Good morning, guys Now, y’all know I enjoy Desperate Housewives and most of the actors on the show. Well, now I have even more reason to like them I’m sure you’re all aware I am not very happy about the strike vote that’s happening on January 2nd. I can’t see putting more people out of work in already hard times making much sense right now and apparently, I’m not the only one who feels that way. According to yahoo news, a petition was sent out to the SAG leadership urging the union as a whole not to vote for a work stoppage.

James, Neal, Felicity, Eva, Brenda and Kathryn were among over 100 names on the petition, sent after what was apparently a very disastrous meeting of a couple different chapters of the union. Some are even calling for the resignation of SAG’s President, Alan Rosenberg, who has been pushing for a strike for ages now. Congrats to the Housewives cast members and other actors who signed the petition. Let’s hope your efforts work and business can go on as usual. I’ll keep you posted on whether or not the petition works and any voting results.

On a much better note, details about the next new episode have been released. It’ll be airing, again, on January 4th and is called ‘Home is the Place’. If you want the details continue on… If, not… check out this blog Read the rest of this entry »