One Tree Hill – Queen of Hearts

Previously One Tree Hill: Nate found some skillz, Brooke fired her mom (YAY), Dan thought about killing a preacher to get his heart, but didn’t, Lindsey misses Luke, Brooke loves Luke (probably like a friend), and Peyton dreams about marrying Luke.

NYC. WHO is the card guy. He is familiar. Luke and Brooke meet up, for their anniversary??? He is her husband??? They talk about tree hill, they never see everyone. Has to be a dream. Luke goes in a door and back out/in another, with different flowers, yelling happy anniversary . . . to Peyton. Totally a dream. They are SO cute! Luke sits down . . . at another house with Lindsey. And now he is married to her. He talks to her about how easy they are together. And he is back with the card guy. WHO IS HE? Looking at the cards, there’s 3 queens. Hayley tells him to pick one. Hmm I detect symbolism. Nate and Jamie tell him to pick, as do Brooke, Lindsey and Peyton. He picks the queen of hearts. He has always known. And he wakes up in the Tree Hill airport. Talking to the card man. And then picks up the phone.

Dan is helping the old man outside of the hospital, where, last season, he gets hit by another car. Luke makes that all important phone call, asking someone to marry him in Vegas tonight. But WHO??!!?? Dan backs up . . . and boom, car. And irony of ironies, his transplant pager goes off, and someone picks it up. Card dream guy talks to Luke about getting married. Luke says he knows he made the right choice, card guys points out that there is no choice, love finds you, you don’t find love. Destiny, fate, written in the stars, and women are smarter. Card guy says that he obviously made the right choice, Luke asks how he knows that, Card Guy says that she showed up (as he looks behind Luke) and she sure is pretty!!! WHO IS IT?????

Update from the Upfronts

Well this week is the TV Upfronts in NYC. Very exciting. Not all of the networks have presented their final schedules, but we def. know what the lineup will be for a few of them. Here is alll the scoop (compiled from Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Watch with Kristin, Ausiello at TV Guide, and The Futon Critic — you can find the links to all of them over there to the right)

(please be patient as it will take me awhile to compile all this information!!)

CBS:

Picked up SIX new series which include:

• Project Gary - A guy in his 30’s gets divorced, re-enters the dating pool and is forced to stay in touch with his ex-wife whom he hates because they have kids.
• Worst Week - A single camera comedy series based on the British limited run
  series about a couple’s nightmarish week before their wedding dealing with family and in-law politics.
• Eleventh Hour – A U.S. version of a British Miniseries. The series follows the adventures of a professor who is an adviser to a government scientific agency that troubleshoots threats stemming from or targeting scientific endeavor. He is joined by a female government operative who acts primarily as his bodyguard, as he has made powerful enemies through his work.
• The Mentalist - A dramatic series about a guy with psychic abilities who works as an independent contractor for the police.
• The Ex-List- A dramatic series based on an Israeli series about a woman who tracks down all of her exes after a psychic tells her that she has already met the man she is going to marry.
• Harper’s Island – Horror story that unfolds during the course of a season as a group of friends meet on an island off the Seattle coast for a destination wedding.

CANCELLED on CBS:

• Moonlight
• Shark
• Cane
• Jerico
• Kid Nation

RENEWED on CBS:

• The Unit
• The New Adventures of Old Christine
• Rules of Engagement
• How I met your Mother
• Cold Case
• Criminal Minds
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• CSI: Miami
• CSI: New York
• Ghost Whisperer
• NCIS
• Numb3rs
• Without a Trace
• Survivor

NBC

PICKED UP (*W is for Winter):

• MY OWN WORST ENEMY -“The Bourne Identity” meets “Jekyll & Hyde” and centers on a mild-mannered suburban dad (Slater) who learns that his alter ego is a spy.
• KATH & KIM – A comedy series based on the hit Australian sitcom about a divorced woman, KATH, with a married daughter out of the house who dating a great guy and looking terrific. Just as things are about to get really serious with her boyfriend, KATH’s daughter KIM leaves her perfectly nice husband and moves in with her mother, upending her life.
  
• KNIGHT RIDER
• SNL Thursday Night Live – During the Elections
  
• CRUSOE -Adaptation of the classic novel follows a shipwrecked man and his loyal manservant as they struggle to survive on an island fraught with natural and man-made perils.
  
• W* THE PHILANTHROPIST – A dramatic series about an iconoclastic billionaire who looks
  for ways to distribute his wealth and help people by using all of his
  resources, regardless of the risk.
  
• W* THE OFFICE SPIN-OFF- TBD
  
• W* MERLIN – Merlin & his friend Prince Arthur grow up in Camelot where magic has been banned
  
• W* KINGS – A modern-day re-imagining of the historical story of King David, featuring a strong leader who unites two previously divisive factions.

CANCELLED on NBC:

• Las Vegas
• Bionic Women
• Journeyman

RENEWED on NBC:

• Chuck
• Heroes
• The Biggest Loser
• Law & Order:SVU
• Lipstick Jungle
• Deal or No Deal
• MY Name is Earl
• 30 Rock
• The Office
• ER
• LIFE
• W*Celebrity Apprentice
• W*Friday Night Lights (will be on DIRECT TV first)

ABC

PICKED UP:

• Life on Mars – A U.S. adaptation of the BBC series about a 21st century detective who is mysteriously transported back to the 1970′s.

CANCELLED:

• Big Shots
• Cashmere Mafia
• Men in Trees
• October Road
• Women’s Murder Club

RENEWED:

• Boston Legal
• Brothers & Sisters
• Desperate Housewives
• Dirty Sexy Money
• Eli Stone
• Grey’s Anatomy
• Lost
• Private Practice
• Pushing Daisies
• Ugly Betty

FOX:

PICKED UP:

• Dollhouse - A group of agents working for a shadowy organization are programmed with certain talents and personality traits for specific missions. Between assignments, they reside in a compound called the Dollhouse where their memories are wiped clean. When one member of the group becomes self-aware, she starts trying to find answers to who she really is and the company’s mysterious purpose.
• The Fringe - A dramatic series centering on a young female FBI agent who unites with a brilliant, and perhaps crazy institutionalized research scientist. Together, they confront powerful and unexplained phenomena.

CANCELLED:

• K-Ville
• New Amsterdam

RENEWED:

• Prison Break
• Terminator

THE CW:

PICKED UP:

• 90210 - A contemporary version of the 1990′s FOX teen-driven soap opera. The main family consists of a grandmother who was a huge star in the 1970′s, her do-gooder son and his athletic wife who are in the their late 30′s and their two teenagers. Their sixteen year old daughter is an aspiring and talented actress and their adopted son is also sixteen, highly intelligent, but with lingering behavioral issues.
• Surviving the Filthy Rich – The story follows a young smart woman who is fired from her job at a tabloid newspaper, only to be hired by a very wealthy man to be the live-in tutor and life coach for his teenage granddaughters.

CANCELLED:

• Life is Wild
• Alien’s in America

RENEWED:

• America’s Next Top Model
• One Tree Hill
• Reaper
• Gossip Girl
• Supernatural
• Smallville

One Tree Hill – An Annoyance

I know I am WAY behind in posting One Tree Hill recaps.  Wanna know why?  Because it is now on Monday . . . along with Dancing with the Stars, Samantha Who, The Hills and Gossip Girl.  It’s too much TV for a girl to handle!!!  Anyone else annoyed with the switch in date and time?

One Tree Hill – Something Better

Lindsey is the first thing Luke thinks of every day.  Luke is the first thing Peyton thinks of.  haha Chester the bunny is the first thing Jamie thinks of, cute!  HA! Brooke thinks of herself first thing; Skillz has no idea what day or time it is.  Mouth thinks of Millicent, work, remembers he was fired/left his job and freaks out.  Way to go morning panic attack.  Hayley and Nathan just slept together!!!  Aww they both think of Jamie.  Then Nathan thinks about how hot Hayley is.  Jamie is in their bed, they are both starving (usually happens when you have sex all night!) and they play with Jamie.  Dan hears a gunshot upon awakening and thinks of Keith.  Yow.

OTH really quick . . .

. . . (about to leave for the gym) from last week: (story is told in intersecting arcs, with each segment ending with something of a question that starts the next.  It was good!)  Brooke wants to adopt a baby.  She has the house meeting with someone from the adoption agency, shows a bit of her immaturity, but it is clear she wants a child.  The agency rep has talked to her mother, who completely screwed her.  She seems to be making do being a good godmother to Jamie.

Peyton talks with the former music store owner about being in love with Luke.  Big surprise.

Luke has been out sailing for the last month with his mom and Andy.  He still loves Lindsey.  Andy advises him to go to her, which he does (PS – Luke denies the comet has anything to do with Peyton’s car, but has no idea what Lindsey drives. Though, if she is in NYC, she most likely doesn’t have a car).  He tells her he is not going to give up on them and she has to edit his book.

Nathan and Hayley are in therapy.  Seems to be going well, they are getting back to normal.  Hayley is a bit overprotective of Jamie after the abduction.  The therapist suggests they spend some time getting back to themselves as individuals, since they are only 23ish after all!!!  This seems to help, as Nathan and Hayley end up in bed together at the end, YAY!!!  (oh and Grandpa Dan is visiting Jamie at school on the sly.  Its a bit creepy, he tells one of Jamie’s classmates that if he messes with Jamie, the kid has to answer to Dan.  Way to go picking on a 4 yr old tough guy.)

DWTS, OTH coming soon!

So sorry for missing out last week!!  I was at at tradeshow in NC and didnt watch TV and then was recovering from said tradeshow.  I did manage to watch One Tree Hill, and will go back with my Tivo and watch and blog, and so sorry to Priscilla Presley!!  Look for tonight’s recap later!

One Tree Hill – More than just a comet.

Lucas is telling Jamie a story about riding in the car, but its a voiceover as he and Hayley and Jamie are in the car.  He tells Jamie about Keith letting him drive, and he lets Jamie steer.  BTW, he has an awesome mustang.

Peyton drives by the church and envisions leaving it, a bride, with Luke.  Brooke is in a wedding dress, beaming . . . actually, she’s sewing it.  dream!  Nathan wants to come home, she tries to blow him off and he kisses her.  They start making out, and its raining inside – you know them and the rain!!!  Nah, Nathan is dreaming, in the shower.

Hayley and Luke talk about his manuscript.  She thinks its about Peyton, he disagrees, she recommends he not show it to Lindsey, he already has.  Their talk gets interrupted cause KAREN IS BACK!! YAY!!! Aww and Lilly has gotten so big!! and Karen and Andy are still together! (is that the same Andy?)  Karen goes to Keith’s grave.  (same Andy)  He says something really nice about wishing Keith could be there for Luke’s wedding day and for Karen.

Dan is whistling the wedding march, oh crap.  Is it me or is he MORE psycho now?

One Tree Hill – “Blessed are the hearts that can bend, They shall never be broken.”

Lucas and Lindsey are getting married soon.  Nathan is sleeping on Luke’s couch.  To get the best man and matron of honor back together, Lindsey and Luke decide to have joint bachelor/bachelorette parties.  Meddlers!

One Tree Hill – bad things start with D

OK, I CANNOT find it, but I read somewhere that this season, all things bad for One Tree Hill start with D.  And after last night’s episode, I bet I can guess what they are.
I missed last week, but watched it on my iPod , and let me say, the girls in the library gave us a much needed comedic break (I wonder if those “this girl looks like she smells like feet” comments really were on Kate Voegle’s Myspace!), while learning a bit about Lindsey, who has been the poor red-headed step-child of this show (and I hear rumors that it is only going to get worse for her = SPOILER).  Glad the Ravens won, and I am glad to see Peyton and Lindsey patch things up a bit.  Still wondering if that was meant to be Peyton’s ring…  Anyhoo!

CW Renewals

If you haven’t already heard — America’s Next Top Model, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Supernatural, and Smallville have all been picked up for the 2008-2009 Fall Season. Hoorah.

One Tree Hill

My discussion today with Kathy, a frequent SomethingCreative reader:

Kathy: I HATE THE NANNY
Kathy: !!!!!!!
lb: haha i think everyone does
Kathy: you can quote me on the blog haha

So everyone hates the nanny. The question is: Do we like Lindsey? (and does she spell her name like mine? or with the -ey?) We still have time to find out, since the last pre-strike episode airs March 18 and the new ones start April 14, according to Ausiello. Recap after the jump!

The shows are back!!! (soon!)

According to Ausiello, we have return dates for some of our favorite shows!

Feb 27th
Men in Trees (11 new episodes left)

March 24th
The Hills

April 10th
The Office – 6 new episodes

April 14th
One Tree Hill (4 new episodes remain) – 6 additional episodes

APRIL 13th
Desperate Housewives – 7 new episodes

APRIL 20th
Brothers & Sisters – 4 new episodes

APRIL 21
Gossip Girl – 5 new episodes

APRIL 24th 
Grey’s Anatomy – 5 new episodes
Ugly Betty – 5 new episodes

APRIL/MAY
Lost (5 New episodes Left) – 5 additional episodes

No New Episodes until the Fall:
Dirty Sexy Money (3 new episodes remain)
Heroes
Private Practive
Pushing Daises

TBD:
Friday Night Lights
Prison Break

PS – I have been incrediably remiss in blogging Brothers&Sisters, I will get back on that ASAP!!

It Happened One Night . . . at Tric!

Well, I got a little slammed on my comments from last week’s episode, but I’m sorry, I have to stand by them. Though I don’t expect the writer’s of a teen drama to be writing the next Citizen Kane, I do expect a bit more than the hot nanny, even as just a plot builder. Last week’s episode was weak, but just because a show has a weak episode doesn’t mean we have to hate it (or hate on the recap!). Anyway, the good thing is, OTH made up for it somewhat this week! Plus K-Fed returned to be everyone’s favorite ass, and do a little ass-grabbing, so it was pretty worthwhile!

One Tree Hill – Revenge of the hot nanny!

Ok, seriously, One Tree Hill sucked last week.  The hot nanny was a bad idea, duh.  Lying to your kid about his grandfather being dead when he is in jail is a bad idea.  Brooke’s mom is a bitch.  Done.

Seriously, I could barely get through the episode and dont even want to justify it with a recap.  Here’s hoping that tonight’s episode is a better one!

More Appologies

Will try to post tonight!!  The real world job made it a little hard to do the blog job last week, and I peaced-out to Orlando on the weekend, so I’ll try to add to Lost, as well as post One Tree Hill, Cashmere Mafia, maybe Lipstick Jungle (If I decide it’s worth a post).  Tomorrow, I’ll add Dance Wars from tonight.

One Tree Hill Recap – On Time!

Lucas has writers block again. Lindsay finds a pic from Lucas’s bball days, and turns it into a moment to be insecure about them. Luke promises he is happy and wouldn’t change anything. He looks at the pic pensively and flashes back to 3 years ago, when he was a college freshman and an asst coach to Whitey. Um, I thought Luke went to UNC Chapel Hill, not the podunk place that Nate and Whitey went after high-school and coaching high-school. Nate goes outside to meet Hayley and Jaime (still a wittle baby) who says his first word: ball. Later that night, we find out that Peyton couldn’t make the game to see Luke. Plus Luke hasn’t gotten his novel published either. Ok, he stayed behind to help out Nathan and Hayley with Jaime. Marriage is def. on his mind. Hayley reminds him that he is a part of their family. Luke meets Nathan for a little practice, which fades into the college championship game. Nathan is tearing it up, and Luke is going for an aneurysm from the sidelines as the assistant coach (Whitey laughs at him). Nathan scores 3 to tie, and the other team calls a time out. Luke goes to make the inspirational speech, stops and motions to Coach Whitey . . . who turns the team over to him. It is time, young paduan. Then Whitey leaves? Luke snaps to, coaches and puts the game in Nathan’s hands, who scores to win! Whitey watches from the locker room. The brothers congratulate each other, Nathan turns to Hayley and Jamie, and there’s a flashback in a flashback! Luke remembers winning with the ravens and telling Peyton he is in love with her. title credits.

One Tree Hill – LAST WEEK (this week coming soon!)

 

This episode centers around parents. Peyton visits her moms grave, Brooke contemplates not listening to her mom. WAY more after the jump.

One Tree Hill…from LAST week (sorry!)

Ok, this post is a week late, and I am sorry. In other, good news, because Apple couldn’t find a part for my computer, they are sending me a brand new one!!! Today!!!! And, I will be getting my birthday present, an iPod Touch!!! It will be a good week for technology, or at least it should be. My arms disagree from playing about 3 hours worth of Dancing with the Stars on my Wii. Its not as girly as you would think, kinda reminds me of Guitar Hero, but I can actually play this (unlike Guitar Hero)! Anyhoo, One Tree Hill last week …

One Tree Hill – the Post-College Years

One Tree Hill is back, making me just that much happier! (Unfortunately, my computer has been sent to Apple for repairs, so any and all posts I do will be from work, so they might be a little late). The show picks up 4 years after we last left the kids from Tree Hill, all of them having either graduated or worked their way up the corporate ladder. So we had two new episodes. There are lots of flashbacks in these episodes, and I’m betting they will continue, so that we all know what happened in the last 4 years.