The spoilers for “Betty’s” return on May 7th are included in this update, as are the spoilers for Jackson’s return to “Housewives” on May 3rd.
If you’re a fan of reality shows, ABC has a lot of them this summer. Here is the schedule. At the bottom includes the info on “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Eli Stone” and “Pushing Daisies” final episodes.
ABC ANNOUNCES ITS SUMMER SCHEDULE, WITH THE RETURN OF “THE BACHELORETTE,” “WIPEOUT,” “HERE COME THE NEWLYWEDS” AND “I SURVIVED A JAPANESE GAME SHOW,” AND THE PREMIERE OF THREE NEW SERIES, “THE GOODE FAMILY,” “THE SUPERSTARS” AND “DATING IN THE DARK”
ABC announces its summer schedule, with the return of “The Bachelorette” on Monday, May 18; “Here Come the Newlyweds” on Monday, May 25; “Wipeout” on Wednesday, May 27; and “I Survived A Japanese Game Show” on Wednesday, July 8. Also premiering are three new series: animated comedy “The Goode Family” from Mike Judge, on Wednesday, May 27; “The Superstars,” based on the classic Wide World of Sports series, on Tuesday, June 23; and alternative series “Dating in the Dark” on Monday, July 20.
AS THE WEDDING FESTIVITIES BEGIN, ABBY, HENRY AND TRISH HAVE RUN-INS WITH THEIR PASTS, ON “HARPER’S ISLAND,” THURSDAY, APRIL 16
“Crackle” – As the wedding party embarks on a scavenger hunt, Trish confronts an old flame, Henry makes peace with some locals and Abby runs into a friend who is haunted by John Wakefield and the island’s tragic past, on HARPER’S ISLAND, Thursday, April 16 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
So tonight was the premier of “Harper’s Island.” First I’ll give a recap, as much as I can remember (premiers are hard, you have to remember everyone!) and then some thoughts. This is late, so sorry any errors as well!
The show opened with a shot of the island and a bunch of dead people. We were told that 7 years ago Jack (John?) Wakefield killed a bunch of people on the island, it was the first set of murders on the island, it wouldn’t be the last.
Cut to today. We find all these people gathered on a boat in Seattle to take them out to Harper’s Island. Henry (the guy who played Henry on Ugly Betty!) is getting married to Trish. Trish is rich and proper, Island royalty so it seems. Henry was just the poor kid who visited the island every summer with his brother Jack to work fishing. Jack has issues, tattoos all over, a loner, and we learn he has tried to commit suicide.
Henry’s best friend is Abby, who lives in LA. She was reluctant to come, but does. She used to live on the island, that’s how she knows Henry. We soon find out her mother was one of the people killed years ago, she left after.
Uncle Marty is played by Harry Hamlin, he’s Henry’s Uncle. He shows up on the boat sporting a gun for some reason. We get the feeling he’s a bit creepy. Henry confides in him that Trish’s dad Thomas isn’t too pleased about this wedding.
The boat sets sail, though some cousin Eddie (or something like that) never seemed to arrive. Oh he arrived, and was tied underneath the boat right by the rudders! He also wasn’t dead, whoever put him there gave him a scuba tank to keep him alive. Once the boat started, Eddie stopped living!
Everyone gets to the island, somehow not realizing Eddie was killed along the way. Trish gets odd calls from someone named Hunter Jennings, which she ignores. Later on the island, her dad gets an odd email saying “I’ll get to her tonight.” It seems Hunter and Trish had thing, and he approaches her late at night and kisses her. Hunter is ex-Days star Victor Webster. She pushes him away, saying she’s married.
Henry, worried about his brother, sends Abby out to look for him and keep an eye on him. His brother ends up in some bar, where Abby runs into her old boyfriend. Jack gets in a fight, Abby breaks it up, only to have the sheriff show up. The sheriff is her father, there seems to be some bad blood between them. We learn her father killed the Wakefield guy “supposedly” responsible for the murders years ago, but nobody knows why he even killed all those people.
Abby returns to the big Wellington mansion, that’s where the wedding is happening, that’s where all the guests are staying. Henry comforts her, saying it will be okay, that the killer is long dead. Abby goes to her room only to find old newspaper clippings about her mom’s murder on the mirror.
Uncle Marty has a talk with Trish’s dad, basically warning him not to mess with Trish and Henry’s happily ever after.
There was a weird scene with Trish’s niece going into her parents bedroom late at night. She tells her mom that people were killed on this island. Her mom asks her who told her that? She says her new friend.
Henry and Trish make whoopee. She goes to the bathroom after, saying how they should stay in separate rooms from now on until their wedding. Her phone buzzes and Henry sees Hunter is calling her.
The end had Uncle Marty walking across a bridge and falling through, being trapped. Someone started hacking and we end up seeing the entire lower half of his body has been cut off!
My Thoughts . . .
It was a very interesting show. Definitely a bit gory, though more implied than anything. It was NOT as bad as the OR scenes on “Grey’s” for sure!
There are a lot of characters, some who weren’t well introduced, so I felt a bit lost.
The mystery is interesting, you get the sense that the guy who everyone thought was the killer wasn’t.
I have this feeling Henry and Abby will end up together, not this Trish girl.
It may be a month away, but the spoilers for the “Grey’s” season finale are already coming in!
Ausiello has scooped that in the finale, Debra Mooney of “Everwood” will play Owen Hunt’s mother. Liza Weil (“Gilmore Girls”) will play a cancer patient interacting with Izzie.
Oh but here is the spoiler (again from Ausiello) that I know will possibly turn some of you off the show for good, should it happen. George gets signed up for the military in an upcoming episode. Owen notices George soars when Alex fails in emergency trauma. Well in the season finale George is wounded in battle . . . possibly killed!
No No No No!
On the 100th episode of “Grey’s” (airing May 7th I believe) will be a wedding. It’s supposed to take place on Derek and Meredith’s wedding day, but it’s been pretty much spoiled that something stops them.
Ausiello in a tweet just spoiled a bit more! We can scratch of Alex and Izzie from the list.
So, um, yeah . . . Who are we left with?
Is Shonda going to pull something shocking and actually have Derek and Meredith wed? That their wedding will get stopped, but continue unconventionally in the OR or something?
So this most recent episode of “Medium” was fairly interesting I thought. James VanDerBeek guest starred as a man who had an odd relationship with his sister, and whose very wealthy mother had just died. Allison kept having odd dreams about him killing his sister with his old girlfriend, but the sister was very much alive. Then came the info that the fingerprints at the crime scene of the mother were the old girlfriends. Well it didn’t take long to figure out what was going on, thought it took Allison a bit longer.
James’ character killed his sister and the girlfriend helped cover it up. She was heading to the airport to leave the country, James was to follow her. However she got into an accident, and because she was in the sister’s car, they assumed she was the sister. Her face was badly damaged and would require plastic surgery. They cooked up a scheme to have her take the dead sister’s place, as the mother loved the sister and was going to cut the son out of the will.
Well fast forward to the mother, who begins having kidney issues and needs a donation. The “sister” couldn’t donate or she’d be found out, so she and James killed the mother. They almost got away with it, were it not for Allison.
I have to say the whole idea of having your girlfriend look like your dead sister is just gross! Every time you kissed, every time you . . . yuck! That’s an image you don’t want in your head!
The best part about this episode is Ariel disobeyed her parents and snuck off to a ski trip with friends, leading a “To Be Continued” at the end. It looks like the show is setting up some connected storylines. Allison soon gets a stalker terrorizing her and her family. I always love the “Medium” episodes that connect and flow into each other as storywise they are always the best ones.
So this week on “American Idol” was songs from the year you were born, which mostly amounted to 80s week. What should have been a great show, well mostly wasn’t. I thought so many people did horrible in this one. Scott was ultimately sent home. I expect Anoop and shockingly Lil to go next. Lil has to find her groove again, otherwise she’s gone.
Over on “Dancing With The Stars” it was David Alan Grier sent home, which I was surprised by. I expected Steve O or Lawrence the football guy to go first. I accpect them to be the next ones to go though. At this point we can all guess it will be Giles, Lil Kim and Shawn Johnson in the finals probably, though Melissa might be there over one of the other women.
“Harper’s Island” premiers this Thursday on CBS at 10pm. I’ve been looking forward to this one. I’m not sure how long it will last though. Word is this show pushes the limits of how much gore a primetime non-cable show can get away with!
Oh, ex Days’ Hunk Victor Webster, who played grown up Nicholas Alamain, stars in the premier.
“HARPER’S ISLAND,” A 13-EPISODE MYSTERY EVENT, PREMIERES THURSDAY, APRIL 9 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK
The Finale for the 13 Episode Mystery Event Airs July 2
“Whap” – HARPER’S ISLAND is a 13-episode murder mystery about a group of family and friends who travel to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They’ve come to laugh… to love… and, though they don’t know it… to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets exposed as a murderer claims victims, one by one, transforming the wedding week of fun and celebration into a terrifying struggle for survival. Henry, the boy next door, is marrying the woman of his dreams, Trish Wellington, a beautiful and wealthy heiress. But as the wedding week begins, people start dying. Every episode, someone is killed. Wedding guests and island locals…every person is a suspect. No one is safe. No one can be trusted. By the end of the 13 episodes, all questions will be answered, the killer will be revealed and only a few will survive.
In the premiere episode, Abby Mills returns to Harper’s Island for the wedding celebration of her best friend, Henry Dunn, and his fiancée, Trish Wellington. Abby hasn’t been home in seven years, since her mother and five others were murdered by John Wakefield, on HARPER’S ISLAND, Thursday, April 9 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
CAST:
Abby Mills………………………….. Elaine Cassidy
Henry Dunn…………………. Christopher Gorham
Trish Wellington……………………. Katie Cassidy
Chloe Carter………………. Cameron Richardson
Cal Vandeusen………………….. Adam Campbell
Jimmy Mance……………………… C.J. Thomason
Sheriff Charlie Mills……………………. Jim Beaver
Christopher “Sully” Sullivan………….. Matt Barr
Beth Barrington…………………… Amber Borycki
Thomas Wellington………………… Richard Burgi
J.D. Dunn…………………………… Dean Chekvala
Shane Pierce……………………………. Ben Cotton
Maggie Krell………………………… Beverley Elliott
Malcolm Ross………………………. Chris Gauthier
Uncle Marty Dunn………………….. Harry Hamlin
Shea Allen……………………………… Gina Holden
Richard Allen………………………….. David Lewis
Nikki Bolton……………………………… Ali Liebert
Danny Brooks…………….. Brandon Jay McLaren
Katherine Wellington…………… Claudette Mink
Joel Booth………………………….. Sean Rogerson
Kelly Seaver………………… Ana Mae Routledge
Madison Allen………………… Cassandra Sawtell
Lucy Daramour………………………. Sarah Smyth
Hunter Jennings…………………… Victor Webster
Ausiello got the scoop on the final episodes of “Dirty Sexy Money.”
The final four episodes of DSM will air Saturdays at 10pm from July 18th to August 8th. “Pushing Daisies” and “Eli Stone’s” final episodes will also air this summer.
