NBC's TCA Press Tour

On Thursday, NBC presented their TCA press tour. Here's some key announcements from the Executive Panel:

• Heroes Reborn will air a 2 hour premiere event on September 24th from 8pm to 10pm and that there will be no repeats airing during the series 13 episode run.
• That moves The Blacklist season premiere a week back to October 1st. 
• NBC has given a straight to series order to Mike Schur project called "A Good Place." Which it centers on a woman wrestling with what it means to be good. 
• NBC locked on to another Tina Fey/Robert Carlock untitled comedy project that will be written by Emmy Award winner Tracey Wigfield (30 Rock).
• Celebrity Apprentice will be back for the 2016-2017 season with a new host that Robert Greenblatt said that they're looking for a host that has a big personality and "make some noise." And also that it's very unlikely that Donald Trump will ever comeback to the show as host.
• NBC has acquired broadcasting rights to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas this holiday season.
• Jimmy Fallon is staying for six more years as the host of The Tonight Show. 
• Rhianna will be a key adviser on this upcoming season of The Voice.

Laurie Holden Leaves Chicago Med

It seems that one doc has check out of Chicago Med early.

Laurie Holden, who's played ER surgeon Dr. Hannahn Tramble in last April's backdoor pilot in Chcago Fire, has parted ways with NBC's upcoming Fire spin-off.

"It was LAurie's decision to pto out of the series," said a spokesperson for the show to TVLine. "We are sorry to see her go. We are currently casting addtional new roles which we hope to have confirmed very soon."

Holden, who starred in The Walking Dead and Dumb and Dumber To, also issues the following statement:

"I am so grateful to Dick Wolf, my fellow cast memebers, NBC and the entire Chicago Med team for their understanding. Sometimes we must make tough choices and, for family reasons, not doing Chicago Med is one of those for me at this time. I know the show is going to be a huge success and I'll be watching."

Chicago Med's current stars are S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order), Yaya DaCosta (Ugly Betty), Nick Gehlfuss (Shameless), Oliver Platt (Fargo & The Big C), Colin Donnell (Arrow) and Brian Tee (Grimm).

You can catch the premiere of Chicago Med Tuesday, Nov. 10th at 9/8c on NBC.

To Freak or Not To Freak: Playing House "Cashmere Burka"

This week's episode Emma's mother writes a play but when the pressure is on thanks to Maggie's helpful and both Emma and Maggie have to left up her spirits.

Jane Kaczmearek guest stars as Emma's mother, Gwen, and she wrote a play and has Maggie reading it. Maggie thinking that its good and gets Gwen worked up to make the play happen.

Emma not really caring to do it, does it and plays the lead role. I will say that the funniest part is when everyone is rehearsing the play and Mark is the stage designer and Gwen tells him so many task to do to make the stage to what she wants.

Heck, I couldn't get the word "hairy oyster" out of my head.

When Maggie and Gwen have dinner, Gwen's "good friend" stops by and talks to her. Maggie mentions that Gwen wrote a play and that'll be perform. Gwen freaks out and takes things on her control from firing Emma and then firing Maggie.

After a talk, Maggie and Emma go to the play and find Gwen locked in the bathroom. After a one on one talk, Gwen is calm down and the play was performed in one setting.

The play seemed to be a hit and when Gwen's friend comes up, Gwen tells her that she appreciated that she had come and soon she leaves freaking out.

Also Emma bumps into Dan, who turns out to be a Rabbi, but their relationship grows. When they meet on premiere night, they had an awkward greeting.

I enjoyed this episode very much. I thought there was plenty of humor especially when Mark was freaking out and the outfits he was wearing was weird.

Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch "Playing House" Tuesday night at 10/9c on USA Network.

Doctor Who Series 9 Trailer #2

On Wednesday, the latest trailer for the upcoming season of Doctor Who was released. 

"He doesn't have a plan yet, but when he does it's going to be spectacular," Clara says.

There's so many new villains and so old familiar ones. 

"Just the same old, same old," says to Doctor to the Daleks.  "Just the Doctor and Clara Oswald in the TARDIS."

Also there's a new poster:

I'm really dying to see if the Doctor plays the guitar for the Daleks that would be so rock n' roll. 

You can catch the season premiere of Doctor Who Saturday, Sept. 19th on BBC America. 

Here's the trailer:

Person of Interest: Sarah Shahi Returns!

It's one of the tip top reasons that we want Person of Interest to return sooner than later. Word is that Shaw is back and it's for realizes, as TVLine reported exclusively. 

Sarah Shahi told TVLine at the CBS' Television Critics Association press tour on Monday night, that she's returning for the coming run. She's been on maternity leave since Season four of the CBS drama.

"I go back in September- full-time," Shahi shared to TVLine. "I'll probably do eight or nine" of the shortened 13 episode season.

She has no idea on what her return storyline would be, "I have no idea what the plan is," she admitted with a laugh.

Person of Interest will return mid-season.

UPDATED: The Blacklist: What to Look Forward is Season Three

The highly anticipated season premiere of The Blacklist is just more than a month away.

Here's a quick catch up:

From where we left off from the season finale is that Agent Keen had shot the Attorney General of the United States (by the way, he did deserved it), and went of the run with Red.

What we are looking next is that there's an FBI manhunt for Liz as she and Tom "have completely flipped roles," said creator Jon Bokenkamp. "She is now the criminal, and he is innocent, which gives it an interesting dynamic."

As Liz relies on Red, she'll get a better look at how his network of curious characters operates and run shoulders with the likes of Mr. Kaplan and Glen. Meanwhile, Ressler is now in charge of the task force while Cooper is under suspicion which brings Ressler in direct opposition with Tom.

Plus: Twilight's Edi Gathegi will guest-star as Mr. Solomon, a new enemy.

The season premiere of The Blacklist is Thursday, September 24th at 9/8c on NBC.

UPDATE: Thursday, Aug. 13, NBC announced that The Blacklist season premiere has been moved back to Oct. 1st due to Heroes: Reborn airing a two-hour premiere event.

CBS Return Shows to Watch

CBS had kicked off their portion of the Television Critics Association Summer Press tour on a really good spoiler note with releasing fall teasers of their returning shows. I'll just going to put down the ones to look forward to:

CSI (Sunday, September 27)
In the special two-hour series finale event, a catastrophic event paralyzes Las Vegas, and Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows and Jim Brass returns to help the team with the investigation. Also, D.B. Russell and Sara Sidle make decisions regarding the future of their crime-fighting careers and Lady Heather makes a return, creating maniacal controversy betwwen Grissom and sidle.

CSI: Cyber (Sunday, Oct. 4 10/9c)
Ted Danson's D.B. Russell, a civilian specialist, transfers from Las Vegas to become the director of the newly created division of Next Generation Cyber Forensics. He joins Avery and her team as they track down the most dangerous cyber criminals, beginning with the hacking of a home security system that turns into a homicide investigation. Also Avery considers moving to a new position within the hierarchy of the FBI, Krumtiz is a witness in his sister's trail, Elijah deals with a family situation and more is revealed about both Raven's and Nelson's background.


Elementary (Thursday, Nov. 5th 10/9c)
Holmes attempts to rebuild his life in the wake of his attack on Oscar and subsequent relapse. Due to his violent actions, Sherlock's partnership with Watson and their consultancy with the NYPD are in jeopardy. As he awaits news on whether or not he will face criminal charges, the case of a mission woman allegedly killed by her husband lands in his lap, just in time to distract him from the impending arrival of his estranged father, Mr. Morland Holmes (new cast member John Noble).



Hawaii Five-O (Friday, Sept. 25th 9/8c)
In the sixth season premiere, a murder leads Five-O to investigate a centuries-old pirate story involving buried treasure, and it seems that the killer is using the back of a stolen painting as a treasure map. Also, the morning after their wedding, Kono and Adam (Ian Anthony Dale) are kidnapped and tortured by Gabriel (Christopher Sean), and Danny shows concern for McGarrett regarding Cathrine's return to the island.