Shows airing this week 30th June - 6th of July 2013

This Sunday sees the return of America's favorite serial-killer Dexter for an eight and final season, Sunday also sees the premiere of Showtime's new show Ray Donovan about a Hollywood fixer (have seen the premiere, good show that drags a bit, but still good nonetheless.) who may need fixing up, as his professional life clashes with his personal life. Monday sees the premiere of the scripted reality show, Siberia (Pilot review is already up).
This week also sees a lot of shows going on break, Royal Pains, Burn Notice, Graceland, Magic City and Soul Man, Continuum is still on its break but  they'll all be returning next week.

==== Sunday - Copper Season 2 Episode 2, Crossing Lines Season 1 Episode 2, Dexter Season 8 Premiere, True Blood Season 6 Episode 3, Falling Skies Season 3 Episode 5, The Killing Season 3 Episode 6, The White Queen Season 1 Episode 3, Ray Donovan Series Premiere and Whodunnit Season 1 Episode 2.

==== Monday - Longmire Season 2 Episode 6, Defiance Season 1 Episode 11, Warehouse 13 Season 4 Episode 19, Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode 5, King & Maxwell Season 1 Episode 4, Under The Dome Season 1 Episode 2 and Siberia Series Premiere.

==== Tuesday - Perception Season 2 Episode 2, Pretty Little Liars Season 4 Episode 4, Rizzoli & Isles Season 4 Episode 2 and Twisted Season 1 Episode 4.

==== Wednesday - Necessary Roughness Season 3 Episode 4 and Franklin & Bash Season 3 Episode 4.

Next week sees the return of HBO's Newsroom and the debut of 3 new shows, NBC's Camp, FX's The Bridge and Netflix's Orange Is The New Black (all episodes will be available at once for subscribers).

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Reality shows with Deaths: Whodunnit and Siberia reviews.

Siberia and Whodunnit, two different reality shows; having multiple contestants, strangers to each other, prize money at the end, cut off from their world but having the same theme, MURDER.
Reality shows were the rave years ago, but viewerships have been down in recent years, so to keep this cashcow going, networks have started rehashing the same shows, making reality shows out of the most absurd situations and occupations. Duck hunting, Amish community, preacher's daughters, gold hunters, comic book nerds, storage locker hunters to name a few.

So, to see Siberia and Whodunnit putting a twist on it isnt a bad idea. The added twist of murder in the groups at the end of pilot episode, although talked about in the press release (why the networks would allow such press release about a major twist in the show is beyond me.) was the major selling point of the show to the viewers. The death amongst the contestants was what was supposed to differentiate the show from other reality shows out there.

Whodunnit is based on the classic party game, different people from different backgrounds spend the weekend in a large house, alone with the butler and the maids. Then one by one, the visitors start getting killed one by one, and its up to the living inhabitants to solve the mystery of who the killer is.

 Here 12 contestants are brought together into a mansion, told to mingle and get to know each other, then sent to their rooms. Suddenly one of them is supposedly murdered, its up to the remaining contestants to solve the crime, find out what happened to the victim, how the killer set up the whole crime and how he/she committed it. They are given choices of what and where to investigate, the dead body in the morgue, the scene of the crime and the last place the contestant was before they died. As one contestant can't be in two places at once, alliances have to be formed between the contestants. Informations and clues to be shared between contestants, so as to get ahead of their competition. Later on, they are all each given a sort of clue to help them solve the crime.
After their investigations, they are then told to pitch to the killer how he committed the crime. How he did it and what materials or instruments he used. The two contestants with the least favorably pitches are given a card, 'scared', while the others are given 'spared' cards. Amongst the two 'scared' contestants, at the end of the episode, one of them is supposedly killed, Solving the murder(s) is the focus of the next episode.
Its a great twist to the whole reality show themes, with this, we expect new and better ideas and themes for reality shows on TV soon.

Siberia is more like a scripted reality show. !6 contestants are dumped into no man's land, in the middle of a large forest. They are told the only way off the land is if they quit, since there would be no rules or regulations guiding them, only their ability to survive.

They are told they can't have any personal luggages except what they have on them and told they have to follow a trail of red flags from the landing zone to the settlement they'll be staying in. The last two to get there are sent packing, as they traverse to the settlement, we're gradually introduced to the contestants one by one. Personalities, cultures and egos clash on the first night when they try to get water, food and start a fire.
The real fun starts the next morning when one of the contestants while looking for mushrooms doesn't come back, and later on, one of the camera-men is reportedly injured. They are later told that the missing contestant is dead, supposedly murdered, and the option to quit is still open to any of the contestant if they don't feel safe. We are shown a little video of how the attack went down, the face of the killer isn't seen. We don't know if the killer is one of the contestants or part of the filming crew.
The reaction of the contestants to someone killing them one by one is supposed to be the core of the show, whether they'll be given materials or clues to find the killer(s) isn't known yet, we wait to find out.

Not the best of shows, but worth keeping an eye out for.

News Brief: Awkward Loses Its Showrunner, Shows to be at Comic–Con and New Casting News

... MTV's Awkward showrunner and creator Lauren Iungerich is departing after the currently on-hiatus third season wraps up. MTV is likely ordering a fourth season, dependent on who they find to replace Iungerich. But Iungerich's very funny and talented voice was all over the series, and the loss of her will be, like, totally obvs.

... FX is developing a TV version of the book Mohicans, which served as the source material for the film The Last of the Mohicans. The idea would be to make it a miniseries that follows the development of America as seen through the eyes of the characters from the books.

... The CW is developing an adaptation of the Venezuelan telenovela Jane the Virgin, and you have to listen to this awesome description. Jane, a respectable, religious goody-goody, gets accidentally artificially inseminated through a series of hilarious circumstances!
... Simon Cowell is launching Afghanistan's Got Talent.

... History Channel's The Bible miniseries has sold more than 1 million units of its Blu-ray and DVD editions.
... Captain Planet might become a movie. Let our powers combine.

CASTING NEWS

... Elementary's Sherlock Holmes has an older brother, and we'll all get to meet him in Season 2. Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man's the Lizard, Human Nature) will play Mycroft Holmes and I'm pretty convinced that he could actually be Jonny Lee Miller's real-life brother. Mycroft will appear in the premiere episode, where the two brothers will confront their recent falling-out after Sherlock heads to London.

... In today's The Leftovers news, the show has added The Secret Circle's Chris Zylka. In the Damon Lindelof drama about those left behind after the Rapture, Zylka will play a college dropout who settles under the wing of a guru.

... TLC's Who Do You Think You Are?, which is being revived by TLC after cancellation by NBC, has announced the celebs who will let Lisa Kudrow poke around their families' pasts and talk about them on TV (minus the "your great granddad was a Nazi sympathizer" part). Here they are: Christina Applegate, Kelly Clarkson, Cindy Crawford, Zooey Deschanel, Chelsea Handler, Chris O'Donnell, Jim Parsons, and Trisha Yearwood. Who Do You Think You Are? debuts July 23 on TLC.

... 1980s dreamboat Andrew McCarthy will guest-star on CBS's summer drama Unforgettable. He'll play a rich dude who enlists Carrie's help to get his kidnapped young daughter back.

... First Andrew McCarthy, now Sendhil Ramamurthy!?!?!? A day after casting the Pretty in Pink star, CBS's summer series Unforgettable has booked Ramamurthy (Heroes) for a guest role. In the second season's second episode, he'll play a criminal who's employed by a mystery man.

... Last Resort's Scott Speedman will star in Ryan Murphy's HBO pilot Open. The drama is described as an exploration of modern sexuality. Speedman will play a hunky sports executive, and chances are very high that you will get to watch him have sex. Let's see if he's learned anything since Felicity!

... Maggie Gyllenhaal will star in Sundance Channel's 2014 miniseries The Honourable Woman. She'll play a lady who inherits her dad's arms-smuggling business but uses its resources to install data cable networks between Israel and the West Bank and then earns a position in the U.K.'s House of Parliament.

COMIC-CON
... The X-Files will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a panel at this year's Comic-Con. Series creator Chris Carter and writers David Amann, Vince Gilligan (who now has his own nifty show), Howard Gordon, Darin Morgan, Glen Morgan, John Shiban, and Jim Wong will be on hand for the Thursday, July 18 panel. Gillian Anderson has also confirmed an appearance, but there's been no word from David Duchovny. He's got to show up, right?

... CBS Television Studios has announced the shows its bringing to Comic-Con: Under the Dome, Intelligence, Star-Crossed, and Beauty and the Beast.

... Falling Skies will be at Comic-Con, too.

RELATIONSHIPS NEWS
... Pretty Little Liars' Lucy Hale and Revolution's Graham Rogers (Danny!) are dating!
... Justified's (and The Following's, I guess) Natalie Zea got engaged! Congratulations to Zea.

REQUIRED READING
... James Gandolfini's funeral was held this week in New York. The procession, including a eulogy from The Sopranos creator David Chase, was surreal and truly touching.

NEW SERIES: "Under The Dome" Review

Under the Dome pilot  was a fun ride. Based on one of the numerous novels by Stephen King, who’s being having his novels and stories on TV and in the cinema. 

A small town is entrapped inside a mysterious plain transparent dome, cutting them off from the world. No sound, electronic,radio waves could penetrate it from the outside. This isn't a town without its own secrets, we're shown early on that somethings amiss in the town already, something the authorities know about and aren't telling the town folks. Mysterious deliveries of propane over a few weeks period, too close for coincidence. A mysterious stranger, unlucky enough to have hit some cows and have an accident just before the 'dome' entrapped the town, thereby trapping him inside the town. Who he is, what he does are also mysteries we don't know yet, although we're shown him burying someone in the woods at the beginning of the episode. We're introduced to interesting town folks, a councilman (who's power hungry), a town sheriff with a heart problem (something happens to him at the end of the episode, thereby opening up new directions and plot-lines for the show.), a female journalist (who's husband is the dead body buried in the woods), two home-alone teenagers (their parents are trapped outside the 'Dome') and a psycho kid (the son of the council-man) who has obsessive and trust issues.

Positives;
--- The mysterious epileptic attacks of the two teenagers, and both of them saying the same things in a trance.
--- The story and reasons behind why the authorities were storing propane even before the 'Dome' came down.
--- The tussle for power and control of the whole town.
--- The mysterious man and his connections to the town and the late doctor.
--- What the late doctor was doing on Sundays when he lied to his wife that he was
working at the hospital.
--- The effects on the show were great, top-notch. The cow sliced in two, the small plane crashing into the dome, the truck speeding and ramming into the dome, seeing how it folded on itself. One of the best CGI effects on any show this summer, considering its a Network show and not for cable.

Negatives;
--- Didn't like the psycho-kid story-line. Its a plot i believe is going to drag down the narrative, we aren't shown how he came to be this, meaning there's gonna be no back-story explanation of how he became obsessive kid. End of the day, he'll contribute nothing to the show and end up dead, possibly a heroic or gratuitous death.

Will definately tune in to watch more episodes.

News Briefs: Game of Thrones Is the Most Pirated Show of the Season

... Congratulations, Game of Thrones! A lot of people are so addicted to you that they are willing to break the law to watch every one of your episodes. The HBO fantasy series was the most pirated show of the spring by a wide margin, averaging approximately 5.2 million illegal downloads per episode. That's almost the same number of people who watch the show legally—an estimated 5.5 million viewers. Rounding out the top 10 pirated shows of the season are The Big Bang Theory (2.9 million), How I Met Your Mother (2.85 million), The Walking Dead (2.7 million), Hannibal (2.1 million), Vikings (1.9 million), Arrow (1.85 million), The Vampire Diaries (1.8 million), Modern Family (1.75 million), and Revenge (1.7 million).


BUSINESS TIME
.... Under The Dome, CBS new summer show debuted to very impressive numbers, earning 3.2 ratings with 13 - 14 million viewers. Impressive numbers, ratings-wise and viewership-wise for a new summer show, they don't normally perform well outside of the Main TV season.

... Apparently AMC's Mad Men had an up-and-down season creatively, but when it comes to ratings, it was pretty much the same old, same old. Last night's Season 6 finale pulled in an audience of 2.7 million viewers, about the same as last season's (give or take a hundred thousand people), but it was just big enough for AMC to tout it as the highest-rated Mad Men finale ever.

... Lifetime debuted Devious Maids, a.k.a. Los Housewives Desperados, this past weekend and it did rather pedestrian in the ratings. Just 2 million people tuned in to watch the latest from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry. Lifetime's top shows hover around the 3 million mark.

.... Stars has ordered "Battlestar Galactica" executive producer Ronald D. Moore's Outlander, based on Diana Gabaldon's bestselling books. The Outlander series follows Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is swept back to 1743, forced to marry Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser and finds herself torn between two times. The show's 16 episodes will begin filming in Scotland this fall and premiere next year.

CASTING NEWS
... Expect a very cranky American person to arrive at Downton Abbey. Legitimately great actor Paul Giamatti will drop by the fourth season of the PBS import as Harold Levinson, brother of Cora and uncle to Mary and Edith. His character is described as a maverick playboy, and will appear in the Season 4 finale next year.

... Hunky twins Charlie and Max Carver have been cast in the HBO pilot The Leftovers, the Rapture-themed drama from Lost's Damon Lindelof. The facsimiles, best known for playing the Scavo twins on Desperate Housewives, will play—you guessed it—twins who befriend the main character's daughter.

... Boardwalk Empire's Julianne Nicholson has landed the lead role on Sundance Channel's original drama The Descendants. A straight-to-series order for six episodes, The Descendants follows a sheriff who's struggling to prevent a small town and a Native American tribe from tearing each other apart. Nicholson, whose other credits include Law & Order: Criminal Intent and She will play the sheriff's boozing wife.

SAD NEWS
... Gary David Goldberg, the creator of Family Ties and Spin City, passed away on Sunday at the age of 68. The multiple-Emmy winner helped launch the careers of Michael J. Fox and Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence (Lawrence co-created Spin City with Goldberg). Goldberg's other credits in varying capacities included The Bob Newhart Show, Alice, Brooklyn Bridge, and The Tony Randall Show.

... Discovery Channel continued to look like a shell of its former self last night with a live broadcast of daredevil tightrope artist Nick Wallenda walking across the Grand Canyon on a two-inch wide high-wire with no harness and only Jesus to guide him along. And lots of people tuned in to watch him fall to his death (he made it safely to the other side)! The broadcast averaged 8.5 million viewers, but at its peak, 13 million viewers took a peak at the program, crushing everything on network television.

News Brief: James Gandolfini is Dead ,,,,, and other TV news.

SAD NEWS
Actor James Gandolfini, known for his iconic, Emmy-winning portrayal of one of television's most famous gangsters, Tony Soprano (in the series The Sopranos) has died at age 51. Early reports suggest that the cause of death is a massive heart attack; Gandolfini was in Italy at the time. Gandolfini's long and impressive resume includes roles both large and small in True Romance, Where The Wild Things Are, In the Loop, Zero Dark Thirty, and a host of other films. He is survived by his wife and two children.

LET THE LAUGHS BEGIN NEWS
... FX has ordered a new untitled comedy starring Martin Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer as mismatched lawyers who end up being buddies. The deal, dubbed a 10/90, is similar to the one FX struck with Anger Management; FX is asking for 10 episodes, and if those 10 episodes hit a certain target in the ratings department, FX will order 90 more episodes. FX has a similar deal with a new comedy starring George Lopez.

.... Community creator Dan Harmon has apologized for his comments about Community Season 4. Where he said that he watched the fourth season Community—the season he was not part of after his firing—and did not care for it. At all. In fact, he compared watching Season 4, specifically seeing James Brolin play Jeff's dad, to "being held down and watching your family get raped on a beach." And "flipping through Instagram just watching your girlfriend blow everyone." He apologized to fans, the Season 4 writers, and the cast and crew for his remarks, but did not mention Sony or Season 4 showrunners Moses Port and David Guarascio. He also acknowledged that he said what he said in a cheap attempt to get laughs and that his head "was up his ass."

BUSINESS TIME
.... Netflix has renewed the Eli Roth-helmed horror series Hemlock Grove for Season 2, ordering 10 episodes with a target launch date of 2014. The company has also announced that Charles H. Eglee will join the series as an executive producer and showrunner; Eglee's previous EP credits include The Walking Dead, Dexter, and The Shield.

... Singer John Legend won't let his dream of getting into the TV business die. After a few failed attempts at producing, Legend has a new project in the works at Showtime. The half-hour comedy would follow the lives of big-time music producers, and be loosely based on Legend's life, which probably involves all kinds of opulence and pretty ladies and man. Is this going to be similar to The Real Husbands of Hollywood (one of the best new comedy series this year), reality-show or scripted? We wait and see.

... Nashville music boss T Bone Burnett is leaving the series between seasons, and will hand over his post to Buddy Miller, Burnett's righthand man in Season 1. Burnett produced all the original tunes for the country-music drama and co-composed the score.

CASTING NEWS
... HBO's drama pilot The Leftovers has beefed up its cast with a rare bit of TV casting for one actress. Liv Tyler (that elf lady from Lord of the Rings, that daughter of that rock star) has joined the project, starring opposite Justin Theroux. The drama comes from Damon Lindelof and follows those left behind after the Rapture takes all the righteous away. Tyler, in her first major TV role, will play a woman who becomes the target of a cult.

... Oscar nominee John Hurt has joined FX's vampire pilot The Strain, from Carlton Cuse and Guillermo Del Toro. Hurt will play the owner of a pawn shop who may be the only one who knows what's going on with the sudden viral outbreak the show is built around. Corey Stoll and Mia Maestro were previously cast in the series.

... NBC's upcoming drama Believe is already changing things up. Sienna Guillory, originally cast as a series regular, will see her character written out of the show now that producers have decided on a new direction. In the J.J. Abrams-produced drama about a young woman named Bo with special abilities, Guillory's character was a professional goon attempting to kidnap her. But now several new bad guys will be written in with the hopes that one becomes a series regular.

... Desperate Housewives vet Doug Savant will guest-star on TNT's Rizzoli & Isles. He'll play a mock trial adviser in a September episode.

... Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane will lend his voice to Futurama's final season, and not for just any role; I'm talking about the character who owes me 10,000,000 tears. MacFarlane will voice Seymour, Fry's dog from 1999 who was the centerpiece of the series' masterpiece "Jurassic Bark." Listen for MacFarlane in the August 14 episode. [EW]

... The Veronica Mars movie will bring back New Girl star Max Greenfield as Deputy Leo. Basically, everyone who was originally part of Veronica Mars will be back for the movie.

FIRING NEWS

Following Charlie Sheen's weekend tantrum over his co-star Selma Blair, Blair has been canned from Anger Management. Sheen had threatened to quit the show if Blair wasn't fired after word got back to Sheen that Blair had been talking smack about his work ethic.

Shows airing this week 16th - 22nd of June 2013

WOWza, with the end of the best show Game of Thrones last week, we have to do with shows that aren't going to reach the level of it. Although we are going to have quality True Blood back this Sunday, the quality exhibited by GOT isn't going to be surpassed anytime soon this summer. Unless shows start pulling crazy, unexpected and twisted deaths for their main characters, we aren't going to forget the "Red Wedding" anytime soon. 

We going to have Season premieres for True Blood this Sunday, 2 buddies Law show Franklin § Bash, Cedric The Entertainer's comedy show Soul Man both debuting on Wednesday.

==== Sunday - "True Blood" Season 6 Premiere, ”Mad Men" Season 6 Episode 12, "The Borgias" Season 3 Episode 10, "Continuum" Season 2 Episode 8, Veep Season 2 Episode 9, Falling Skies Season 3 Episode 3, The Killing Season 3 Episode 4.


==== Monday - "Longmire" Season 2 Episode 4, Defiance Season 1 Episode 9, Warehouse 13 Season 4 Episode 17, Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode 3, King & Maxwell Season 1 Episode 2.


==== Tuesday - Pretty Little Liars Season 4 Episode 2, Twisted Season 1 Episode 2.


==== Wednesday - Royal Pains Season 5 Episode 2, Necessary Roughness Season 3 Episode 2, Soul Man Season 2 Premiere, Franklin § Bash Season 3 Double Episode Premiere.


==== Thursday - "Hannibal" Season 1 Episode 13, Burn Notice Season 7 Episode 3, Graceland Season 1 Episode 3.


==== Friday – Magic City Season 2 Episode 2.

Next week sees the return of old Shows and the debut of 2 new ones, "Under the Dome, Crossing Lines, Perception with Rizzoli § Isles”. Under the Dome is based on a Stephen King Novel about a town mysteriously covered by a large dome, isolating the town from the outside world while also restricting resources too. Crossing Lines is a new show about a disgraced city cop, who's invited to join an international law-enforcement agency that tracks international criminals.

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Shows: Canceled, Ended Renewed or Unknown

This is a sesasonal cumulative list of recent changes (not a full year).
However, please feel free to continue discussing and or posting/sharing information. If you see a show information page with outdated information (48 hours or more), please post it in the comments.

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Canceled, Ended, or Not Renewed
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1600 Penn
30 Rock
666 Park Avenue
90210
Alphas
Animal Practice
Beavis and Butt-head (The last episodes aired in December 2011 and there hasn't been any
...word about making more. I'm calling it Canceled)
Ben And Kate
Body Of Proof
Buckwild (Canceled one week after Shain Gandee's death)
Burn Notice (Final season to premiere June 2013)
CSI: NY
Cult
Damages
Deception
Dexter (final season to premiere June 2013)
Do No Harm
Don't Trust The B---- in Apartment 23
Emily Owens, M.D.
Eureka
Fairly Legal
Family Tools
Fringe
Futurama (the 13 remaining episodes will air summer 2013)
Go On
Golden Boy
Gossip Girl
Guys With Kids
Happy Endings
How To Live With Your Parents...
Last Resort
Made In Jersey
Malibu Country
Office, The
Partners
Private Practice
Red Widow
Rock Center with Brian Williams
Rules of Engagement
Smash
Southland
Spartacus
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Cleveland Show
The Mob Doctor
The New Normal
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Touch
Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Up All Night
Vegas
Wedding Band
Weeds
Whitney
Zero Hour

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Renewed
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2 Broke Girls
American Dad
Arrow
Banshee
Beauty And The Beast
Blue Bloods
Bob's Burgers
Bones
Castle
Chicago Fire
Community
Cracked
Criminal Minds
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Defiance
Elementary
Family Guy
Glee
Grey's Anatomy
Grimm
Hannibal
Hart Of Dixie
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
How I Met Your Mother
Last Man Standing
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Mike & Molly
Modern Family
Nashville
NCIS
NCIS: Los Angeles
New Girl
Nikita (short season)
Once Upon A Time
Orphan Black
Parenthood
Parks and Recreation
Person Of Interest
Raising Hope
Revenge
Revolution (2012)
Saving Hope (Dropped by NBC, continuing on CTV)
Scandal
Suburgatory
Suits
Supernatural
The Big Bang Theory
The Carrie Diaries
The Following
The Good Wife
The Mentalist
The Middle
The Mindy Project
The Neighbors (2012)
The Simpsons
The Vampire Diaries
Two and a Half Men
Vikings

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Not Canceled or Renewed Yet
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Borgias
Duets
The Blue Rose

ORPHAN BLACK: SEASON 1 REVIEW

Orphan Black, is this the best new show of the season?

Tatiana Maslany stars as Sarah, a con artist and criminal who one day sees something shocking – a woman who looks just like her, who leaps in front of a train. Ever the opportunist, Sarah impulsively grabs the woman’s purse, seeing the chance to possibly make a cash grab. But there is much more going on than Sarah can suspect, as she discovers she and her mystery lookalike are two of a much larger number of clones. Who made them and for what purpose? Well, that’s what the TV show is about, of course….

Orphan Black has a lot of reasons to recommend it, including a very fun storyline that keeps adding twists and turns, as Sarah finds out she and her fellow clones are in great danger. But the number one reason to watch is Tatiana Maslany. To use a cliché, the Canadian actress gives a revelatory performance here; or, to be more precise, performances. Maslany 100% commits to making each of these woman a very specific, very different person, with absolutely incredible results. Beyond the different accents they have (Sarah’s from England, and other clones are from the Ukraine and Germany, among other locations), Maslany imbues each clone with completely different mannerisms, posture, disposition and so on and so on.
Besides Sarah, two other clones soon become main characters – Budding scientist Cosimia and “soccer mom” Allison. Watching these characters, whether together or off in their own storylines, it sometimes becomes hard to compute that one woman is playing all three of them. They are all so distinct and so fully formed, it’s simply amazing to realize the work Maslany is doing and how technical it must be when she’s in a scene with herself… and herself.
Maslany is given strong support from her costars, including Jordan Gavaris as Felix, Sarah’s foster brother and Maria Doyle Kennedy as Sioban, AKA Mrs. S, Sarah and Felix’s foster mother. There’s also an entire police department storyline, as Sarah discovers Beth, the woman who threw herself in front of a train, was a cop, with Kevin Hanchard doing solid work as Art, Beth’s partner, who has his own secrets to protect.

We are treated to the different contrasting lives of 3 clones, Sarah, Cosima and Allison.
Sarah Manning is a single-mother, street punk, jobless woman who when we are introduced to, we find out that she abandoned her daughter with her foster mother for over a year and the first time back, she witnesses Beth's suicide.
Theres also Allison Hendrix, a married soccer mum who's life is thrown upside down by continous revelations and informations revealed about the clones, this affects her family and her standing in her suburban neighbourhood.Most of the show's humor has come through Alison's unexpectedly soapy and fascinating storyline, making her the series' biggest surprise.
 Cosima Niehaus is like the indie-rock hipster clone to Sarah's punk clone, wearing dreads, black-rimmed glasses, and a nose ring. But she's smarter than your average Bon Iver fan: She's getting her PhD in Experimental Evolutionary Developmental Biology and graduated from Cal. She deals with the scientific details of the clones, DNA, genes, chromosomes and all that.
We are also introduced to the psychopathic Helena (We won't know about her until episode 3) who goes on a divine mission to cleanse the world of the 'ungodly' creations. Although we see Beth Childs on the subway platform, before she jumped, we never get to meet her. We are introduced into her life as a cop when Sarah takes over her life. We come to realise how complicated and secretive her life is, both from her boyfriend and her partner. We are briefly introduced to Katja Obinger, a German clone, but she's soon taken out by Helena.

We are also told about other clones, another one in America and some in Europe.
Comedic elements in the show mainly comes from Felix, Sarah's foster brother, and when Allison went 'crazy'. The show is well grounded, with great writing, and the pace of the show moves the viewers along well.
Definately a great new show to get involved in, after the brilliance of Banshee and Rectify, its great to get involved in another new show that maintains its quality all throughout the episodes as the season progesses.

Some Elements Culled from TV.com and IGN.com

Shows airing this week 9th - 15th of June 2013</

Summer is here, With the 2012/2013 TV fall season ended. Summer shows are are taking over, new shows joining old ones. Meanwhile Game Of Thrones is airing its season finale tonight 9th of June, We also have Veep and Awkward finales this week. With Men At Work, Rogue, Da Vinci's Demons and Orphan Black ended, some new shows have popped up to fill the left-over void. Graceland, Teen Wolf and 3 part mini–series In The Flesh premiered last week (In The Flesh also ended its run after showing its 3 episodes for 3 straight nights). Premiering this Sunday is Falling Skies, The Killing and King & Maxwell, Pretty Little Liars Season 4 premieres this Tuesday, while USA network’s shows Necessary Roughness and Royal Pains are premiering this week on Wednesday and Starz's Magic City is premiering on Friday.

==== Sunday - Game Of Throne Season 3 Finale Episode 10, "Mad Men" Season 6 Episode 11, "The Borgias" Season 3 Episode 9, "Continuum" Season 2 Episode 7, Veep Season 2 Finale Episode 8, Falling Skies Season 3 Premiere, The Killing Season 3 Premiere, King & Maxwell Series Premiere.


==== Monday - "Longmire" Season 2 Episode 2, Defiance Season 1 Episode 8, Warehouse 13 Season 4 Episode 16, Teen Wolf Season 3 Episode 2.


==== Tuesday - "Awkward" Season 3 Finale Episode 10, Pretty Little Liars Season 4 Premiere.


==== Wednesday - Royal Pains Season 5 Premiere, Necessary Roughness Season 3 Premiere.


==== Thursday - "Hannibal" Season 1 Episode 12, Burn Notice Season 7 Episode 2, Graceland Season 1 Episode 2.


==== Friday – Magic City Season 2 Premiere.

Next week sees the Season 6 premiere of True Blood, Season 3 premiere of Franklin and Bash and Season 2 premiere of The Soul Man.

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News Brief: New Series Debuting and Casting news

 
Since most of all the new pilots have been accepted or discarded last month, there have been little/slow new information to provide. Aso we have Some news which came out last week and New Series premiered last week worth checking out.

.... "Graceland”, about agents from different law agencies living together in a house. Created by Jeff Eastin, who created ”White Collar” for USA network as well.
Graceland is the name of an impeccably decorated beachfront home where the FBI, the DEA, and U.S. Customs house a handful of their best agents, Real World-style, so that they can work together to catch the bad guys. Starring Daniel Sunjata (Rescue Me) and Aaron Tveit's (Les Miserables).They're joined by Vanessa Ferlito (24, CSI: New York), Brandon Jay McLaren (Falling Skies, The Killing), Manny Montana (Chicago Code), and Serinda Swan (Breakout Kings).

.... "In The Flesh”– this show puts a unique twist on the zombie genre by bringing the undead back from the undead, so to speak.
In the world where "In the Flesh" takes place, the dead rose from their graves, ate human brains, got better, were rehabilitated through treatment and counseling, and then rejoined society, where they now live—with the help makeup and colored contact lenses—as if they'd simply had a bad case of the chicken pox (the show refers to their condition as "Partially Deceased Syndrome"—PDS). But at the same time, untreated zombies roam freely and cause serious problems. Sounds pretty cool, right?

CATELYN STARK NEWS
... ”Game of Thrones' Michelle Fairley, who had quite a bit to do in last week's epic episode, has booked a recurring role on the upcoming third season of ”Suits". She'll play a British oil entrepreneur who hires Harvey to defend her against a lawsuit. Look for her debut in the Season 3 premiere on July 16.
... Justin Theroux ("Parks and Recreation", the movie Wanderlust) landed what may be the cushiest new acting gig of next year, taking the lead in HBO's pilot ”The Leftovers". The show comes from Lost's Damon Lindelof and follows those who remain behind after the Rapture takes the virtuous away..

... "Defiance" will welcome guest-star Brian J. Smith (Stargate Universe) as astronaut Gordon McLintock. The character was put into an induced coma after a space station accident in 2013, and will have his mind blown when he wakes up to see that Earth has changed, Oh, and all the aliens and stuff. 

BUSINESS TIME
... NBC's ”Revolution" ended its first season last night with a slight ratings uptick, racking up a 2.0 in the adult demo. It finishes as the second-best rated new series after Fox's "The Following".

... MTV's "Teen Wolf" returned for Season 3 last week, and brought back a whole lot more viewers. The premiere was the series' most-watched episode to date, averaging 2.4 million viewers.

News Brief : Actress threatens Obama, High numbers for Game Of Thrones and Burn Notice season premiere

NUMBERS NEWS....
... "Game of Thrones" is being watched by a lot of people. But how many people? Enough to give it the second-biggest audience among original HBO series, according to a collection of data put together by someone. Across all platforms it's notching about 13.4 million viewers per episode this season, which stands just below the 14.4 million that watched "The Sopranos” in 2004.

... USA's "Graceland" premiered last week to decent numbers. The drama, about undercover agents from different government departments who live together in a safehouse, drew 3.3 million viewers despite going up against the NBA finals (go Spurs, or should I say, don't go Heat!) and having its pilot available online for a few weeks.
"Burn Notice's final-season premiere was up from last year, with 4.3 million viewers.

... FX has canceled "Brand X With Russell Brand”, but it hasn't done away with Russell Brand entirely. After realizing that letting Brand do a live, daily show wasn't working, FX has opted to use him elsewhere and ordered a Brand-starring pilot loosely based on Brand's life.

CASTING NEWS
... Leverage star and internet sensation Christian Kane will guest-star on TNT's upcoming drama King & Maxwell. Kane will play the brother of star Rebecca Romijn's character in Episode 6.

... Ernie Hudson, the black guy from Ghostbusters, is close to joining Frank Darabont's upcoming '50s cop drama Lost Angels. Hudson would play a mobster in the employ of Bugsy Siegel who owns a bunch of clubs.

... The upcoming movie Hot Tub Time Machine 2 will reunite a pair of "Community" actors, as Gillian Jacobs and Chevy Chase have both signed on to appear in the film. I'm sure everything will go great.

JENSEN ACKLES NEWS
... ”Supernatural's Jensen Ackles and his actress wife Danneel Harris (One Tree Hill) had a baby girl! And they named it Justice Jay Jensen. Congrats, guys.

BIZARRE NEWS
... An actress named Shannon Richardson who's played bit parts on The Walking Dead and The Vampire Diaries has been indicted for sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg in May. The letters were full of pro-gun statements and threats to anyone who tried to take Richardson's guns away. A snippet from one of them: "Anyone who wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. The right to bear arms is my constitutional God given right and I will exercise that right till the day I die." Ricin, made famous by Breaking Bad's Walter White, is a deadly poison that's difficult to trace and takes a few days to kill those who come in contact with it. Small-time actress Richardson played a zombie on The Walking Dead.

Burn Notice is Back For A Final Season

"Burn Notice" Season 7 Premiere Reunited us with our favorite characters and It Felt So Good. After leaving us last year with the Season 6 finale that had Michael sacrificing himself to (God knows what then) the CIA, so as to let Fi, Sam, Jesse and Maddy be released instead of a life-time in a god-forsaken hole. The show returned with showing us what happened 9 months later, to all our favorite characters.
We are first introduced to Michael in faraway Dominican Republic taking part in an underground fight, living all alone by himself without the other members of his team. We are later shown that Michael is back working as an actual spy, what he actually did before he was 'burned', by trying to flush out a target, a terrorist leader named Randall Burke ( Adrian Pasdar from Heroes), who he previously had dealings with before he got 'burned'.

Meanwhile, we learned what Sam, Jesse, Fi and Maddy were doing with their lives. Sam is back with his girlfriend Elsa, chilling by her hotel pool, Jesse is working with a private security firm, Fi is doing bounty-hunter job with her new boyfriend Carlos and Maddy is trying to get custody for her late son's kid.
We were later introduced to Michael's CIA handler, Andrew Strong (Jack Coleman from Castle, Heroes), alotta Heroes alumni showing up recently on ”Burn Notice”. We also found out about somebody (played by Nick E. Taraba from Spartacus) asking questions around Miami about Michael, even going as far as to create diffrent IDs for himself.

Whatever direction this new and final season of ”Burn Notice" brings, we are definately going to be given a great goodbye. Also with the introduction of a new boyfriend, new villain, new boss and a new city, ”Burn Notice” is setting itself to go out with a Big Bang.

News Brief : Major Doctor Who news

Doctor Who cast are making the news this week, while Dan Harmon returns to Community. 

.... Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who. After a few years as the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who. The news was revealed on the network's Doctor Who blog. Smith's final turns as the famed traveler of space and time will happen in the 50th anniversary special that's scheduled for November and in this year's Christmas special, after which the Doctor will be regenerated by some new lucky chap.

 "Doctor Who has been the most brilliant experience for me as an actor and a bloke, and that largely is down to the cast, crew, and fans of the show," Smith said in a statement.

.... In other Doctor Who related news, former Doctor's companion Karen Gillian, who played Amy Pond (the girl who waited) for 2 and a half seasons with (also outgoing) present Doctor 'Matt Smith' is joining "Marvel's Guardians of The Galaxy". Details are a bit sketchy about her role in the movie, but it appears she would be the lead female villain in the picture, Lee Pace and Michael Rooker are also said to be villains. The bigger nugget is that Benicio Del Toro has signed on for a multi-picture deal with Marvel, in a lead role for James Gunn’s space opera. Is he Thanos? Is he Rocket Raccoon? Hopefully we’ll soon find out. The cast now includes Benicio Del Toro, Karen Gillan, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Michael Rooker, Ophelia Lovibond, Lee Pace, and Glenn Close. The film opens August 1st, 2014.
.... Dan Harmon, the creator of Community is back. After creative and production differences between him and the studio last year that made him resign as the show runner, he's back to the show. After the 'up and down' quality of the episodes of season 4, Harmon's return is a welcome return for the show.
... Ben Edlund, Supernatural's most celebrated writer and executive producer, is leaving the CW show to help out his old pal and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke at Revolution. Edlund, who's also written for The Venture Bros., Firefly, Angel, and The Tick, is responsible for some of Supernatural's best and most creative episodes, including "The End," "The French Mistake," and "Wishful Thinking" (the porno-addicted teddy bear? That's Edlund's baby). Supernatural will survive just fine without Edlund, but Revolution should get a huge boost with him as it looks to improve creatively after its dull first season. And it's not just Edlund who will help things out in Season 2. It was previously announced that Farscape and Defiance creator Rockne S. O'Bannon, as well as CSI:NY's Trey Callaway, are also joining Revolution's writing team.
... Revenge will be saying goodbye to Ashley Davenport next season. Actress Ashley Madekwe has not been asked back for Season 3 as her character's story has come to a natural conclusion and none of the writers wanted to awkwardly squeeze her into the show.
... Actress Agnes Bruckner has been cast in the A&E pilot Occult from producer Michael Bay. The series is another one of those "FBI agents taking on supernatural cases" shows, like The X-Files. Bruckner won't play one of the agents; she'll play a woman who gets caught up in some freaky stuff.
... Season 2 of Netflix's House of Cards is adding a pair to its cast. Mad Men's Sam Page and Deadwood's Molly Parker will join the dirty Washington-set political thriller, but details on their roles haven't leaked yet.