NCIS

Earlier in the night, CBS’s “NCIS” won the 8 pm hour by a wide margin with 17.9 million viewers, ahead of NBC’s “Biggest Loser” (9.7 million). ABC’s “Homeland Security USA” (6.2 million) ranked third, ahead of Fox’s repeat of “Bones” (5 million).

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 NCIS 06.30 House 07.30 Supernatural 08.30 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 09.00 Night Court NCIS. Season 5, Episode 6. "Chimera" The 100th episode of NCIS and one of the very best. The team are all alone on a ghost ship out at sea. As they try to figure out what happened to the crew they realise that someone (or something) on on the ship with them. Then Ducky announces that they may have only have a few hours to live... Supernatural. Season 3, Episode 5. "Bedtime Stories" This is goofy story. You really have to take a leap of faith to accept this one. But I love stories like this. She-Wolf Of London did an episode somewhat like this, and Kolchak's later episodes were "out there" too. On stories like this, I really admire the creativity of the writers. Hmm...   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) NCIS. Season 5, Episode 5. "Leap of Faith" NCIS is not like the other CBS crime procedurals. Witness the scene where Tony and McGee are waiting outside the office of the man they are supposed to be questioning. Tony has an embarrassing picture of McGee on his phone and - while left completely alone - the two men get into a long wrestling matching for possession of the phone. Eventually they are caught and have to identify themselves as NCIS agents on a case. Hilarious, and an example of why I love this show. It's fun. Supernatural. Season 3, Episode 3. "Bad Day at Black Rock" 'I'm Batman' declares Dean at one stage in this delightful episode, the latest in a long line of very, very funny SN episodes.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 07.30 NCIS 08.30 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 09.00 Supernatural It's a fun episode. Tony is relentlessly hilarious in this one. Supernatural. Season 2, Episode 21. "All Hell Breaks Loose" It's been a great season for Supernatural. They've added humour to the mix. They've locked down and defined a lot of the rules of their world, while - at the same time - broadened out the show by doing standard stories from the Fantasy genre (Zombie Flick, Parallel World, I can't wait to see them do a time travel story!). Highlight? Supernatural (Dean can't live without Sam) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) NCIS. Season 5, Episode 3. "Ex-File" One of the best episodes. The case-of-the-week is so-so, and the twist is the exact same as one the pulled in Season Three, but this one introduces us to Gibbs' ex-wife and shows that his relationship with Hollis Mann is alive and well (I like this character and enjoy her relationship with Gibbs). Kathleen York (looking amazing, as ever) is perfectly cast as the ex-wife and she gets several great scenes (particularly the last one, where she and Gibbs are nice to one another). A lot of the stuff that we knew anyway is pieced together in this episode and Hollis Mann learns a lot of Gibbs past for the first time. Their scenes together are great. Particularly the final moments of the episode where she finds the tape cas...   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 NCIS 06.30 Cavemen 07.00 Ben 10 07.30 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 08.00 Legend Of The Seeker NCIS. Season 5, Episode 2. "Family" Sometimes the show finds very tenuous ways to make the case-of-the-week a navy crime. Like this week: the victim just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and the actual case is a baby kidnapping thing. Not usually what we see on NCIS, but it make for a good case. Especially when it prompts Tony to do some deep thinking about his recent ill-fated romance. There are many great character scenes. Ziva cornering Tony in the toilets is one of the best. And her obviously affection for him is wonderful to see.   [read the full post]

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By Jane And McGee has writer's block. We've all been there, more so than others, and it blows. BEER PONG! Fun but gross. Nice Frat boy-ish house. I swear I've seen this but I could not find my review for it. What did you do at MIT? ...

By er1n Recommended by er1n on Aug 28, 2008 Mark Harmon, guys. Need I say more? My mom has got it right about this show... he is a hottie, even for an older dude. This Review is: Smart Funny Useful Lists: Things My Mom Would Like Tags: CBS, dvd, Mark Harmon, navy, NCIS, seasons 1-5, show, tv on DVD, tv show ...

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By Jason the TVaholic NCIS (CBS): New. Two members of the team go to Iraq to investigate a murder. Bravo has eight episodes of Work Out. MTV has five episodes of Sweet 16 Blingest Bash Countdown. Oxygen has 21 episodes of The Bad Girls Club. Sci Fi has 16 episodes of Tales From the Darkside early.

By C. Michael Bailey Stars: Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) Mossad Agent-on-Loan-to-NCIS Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) NCIS Forensics Specialist Abigail "Abby" Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) NCIS Director Jennifer "Jenny" Shepard (Lauren Holly)

DVD Review: NCIS Season 4 Blogcritics.org, OH - Pauley Perrette stars as the wickedly wonderful and super-smart Abby Sciuto. Sean Murray (Bellisario’s real-life stepson) plays Timothy mcgee. Cote de Pablo ... TV Review: NCIS - "Leap of Faith" Blogcritics.org all 2 news articles

The above attention-grabbing opening scenes are all taken from the first series of another of Channel Ten's success stories last year, the exploits of the special agents from NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service). And they're effective - NCIS is rating among the top 20 shows acro...

By Katie McNeill When the body of a Marine is found while Commander Coburn and his team are tracking down the gang members, it only complicates matters. The body turns out to be a Marine who has been missing for 17 years. While processing the body the NCIS unit finds a link to the murder of a Naval Officer’s daugh...

By C. Michael Bailey It is a Friday night and Shepard calls all hands on deck to the NCIS headquarters (most of whom are doing shooters at a local bar). Only NCIS Medical Examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum) and Mossad Agent-on-Loan-to-NCIS Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) remain. Ziva attempts to cal...

By C. Michael Bailey “Trojan Horse” is two episodes in one. NCIS Director Jennifer "Jenny" Shepard (Lauren Holly) is in Paris, attending a security conference and leaves Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) in charge, much to the chagrin of Shepard’s Girl-Friday, NCIS Tech Cynthia Sumner (Steph...

By C. Michael Bailey The Le Grenouille storyline on NCIS has its roots in earlier episodes “Suspicion” and “Blow Back”. “Suspicion” had NCIS Director Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) directing Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) in an undercover operation without the knowledge of DiNozzo’s boss...

By C. Michael Bailey At NCIS headquarters, Special Agent Tim McGee (Sean Murray) and Forensics Specialist  Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) discover more information about the mysterious Charles Harrow. Discovering his address, Gibbs sends Ziva and McGee (couldn’t find DiNozzo, who was wooing the comely...

By C. Michael Bailey At NCIS, the team is attending a required sexual harassment seminar being presented by a humorous woman who color codes personal contact as green, yellow, and red. This sets up the comedic allusions for the rest of the episode. The instructor is not used to the likes of Forensics Specialist...

By C. Michael Bailey While at a highbrow social function honoring the retiring Secretary of Defense (who looks suspiciously like Donald Rumsfeld) held at a local DC hotel, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) is nearly hit by the falling body of a veteran Marine, Sgt. Ryan Wright. Shepard informs Speci...

By C. Michael Bailey Jurisdiction at the scene is complex as the murder occurred at the Army-Navy Club, giving both CID and NCIS authority and a sturdy turf battle. Gibbs’ and Mann’s introductions are cool, reflecting Gibbs’ suspicious state of mind and old school attitude. However, the observer’s eyebrows...

By C. Michael Bailey The team arrives at the residence and find Gen. Custer dispatched to the hospital and the dead skeleton on the living room floor. Back at the morgue, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum) declares the dead skeleton’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the neck, but needs Forensic...

By C. Michael Bailey In the meantime, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum), using his newly anointed psychological forensics, interrupts Gibbs’ interrogation of Jody Carvell to tell him that she is telling the truth. Gibbs is nonplussed and returns to the interrogation while Ducky starts his own wi...

By C. Michael Bailey Gibbs is certainly not his “old” self and everyone notices. Ducky is unusually cool, even downright hostile with Gibbs, possibly angry that Gibbs did not attend his graduation from forensic psychology class. Shades of Ducky’s displeasure with Gibbs were seen in the last episode, “Esca...

By C. Michael Bailey Just a week after saving Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) from being framed and arrested by the FBI for espionage, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is once again lured from retirement when a past conviction rears its head. FBI special agent Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano) and his daughter Emily Fornell (Payton Sp...

By C. Michael Bailey The two-part season closer, “Hiatus Parts 1 & 2” finds Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) -- in a coma from an explosion aboard a cargo ship -- under investigation for connections with Islamic terrorists. After a stint with amnesia penetrated by Gibbs’ former boss, NCIS Agent (retire...