TV WORTH WATCHING: BEST BETS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013
... NATURE: "THE MYSTERY OF EELS"
PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
Nature has scored some impressive wins this season, at least creatively, by going for the less cuddly creatures. Raccoons, for one – and tonight, doing a program on eels definitely counts as another. Am I kidding? No, this recommendation is for eel. For a full review, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader...
THE BIG BANG THEORY - TV GUIDE MAGAZINE VIDEO FEATURETTE: FAN FAVORITES 2013
Favorite Comedy: The Big Bang Theory
Favorite Ensemble: The Big Bang Theory
Favorite Actor: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Favorite Drama: Scandal
Favorite Actress: Kerry Washington, Scandal
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Show: Doctor Who
Favorite New Show: Arrow
Favorite Reality Competition Show: The Voice
Favorite Villain: Klaus, The Vampire Diaries
Favorite Couple: Castle and Beckett, Castle
Favorite Bromance: Steve and Danny, Hawaii Five-0
Favorite Feud: Thomas and O'Brien, Downton Abbey
Favorite Classic Show: Star Trek
CASTLE - VIDEO: 'STILL' EPISODE TRAILER - AIRS MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 APRIL 29, 2013 AT 10/9C ON ABC
[NOTE: Update April 18, 2013 - From Yahoo News, due to the incident in Boston on April 15, 2013, ABC had decided to reschedule this Castle episode for Monday, April 29, 2013. The episode airing on April 22, 2013 will be 'The Squab and the Quill.']
Beckett's life is suddenly in danger after she step on a bomb, on "Castle," MONDAY, APRIL 22 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
Beckett's (Stana Katic) life is on the line when she steps on a pressure sensitive bomb. While the team searches for a way to disarm the explosive, Castle (Nathan Fillion) distracts Beckett by arguing with her about who fell for whom first.
Guest stars include Allan Louis, Adam Rose, Andy Goldenberg and Stefan Marks.
"Still" was written by Rob Hanning and directed by Bill Roe.
And a new version of the episode trailer courtesy also of You Tube
REMEMBER SUNDAY - HALLMARK HALL OF FAME VIDEO: MOVIE SNEAK PEEK # 2 - PREMIERES SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013 AT 9/8C ON ABC
A lonely, down‐on‐her‐luck waitress, Molly (Alexis Bledel), meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk, Gus (Zachary Levi), and thinks that maybe—finally—she's met Mr. Right, in Remember Sunday, a new Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation.
The more Molly gets to know Gus, the more she's intrigued by him. But she's also mystified and sometimes miffed. Gus is absent‐minded and preoccupied. Is there already a girlfriend in his life? Is he harboring some big secret? In other words, Molly wonders, what's his problem? Well, Gus' "problem" is that three years ago he suffered a brain aneurysm. He'd been a brilliant young astrophysicist; now he's totally lost his short‐term memory. Every day is a brand new day and his life starts anew. And every day when he sees Molly, he's unable to connect the dots and recognize how, exactly, she fits into his life. But there's something about this beautiful, sensitive, funny woman that makes Gus fall in love with her all over again—every day.
Cast includes Alexis Bledel, Zachary Levi, Merritt Wever, Barry Shabaka Henley, Valerie Azlynn, David Hoffman, Jerry Adler, Ann McKenzie, Dana Gourrier and Griff Furst.
Remember Sunday teleplay by Barry Morrow, story by Michael Kase, and directed by Jeff Bleckner.
NATURE - PBS VIDEO: 'THE MYSTERY OF EELS' SNEAK PEEK # 2 - PAINTING WITH EELS - AIRS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 AT 8/7C
Inspired by Gyotaku, a Japanese fish-printing art form popularized in the mid-1800s, artist and naturalist James Prosek created a series of pieces employing the nature-print technique. But instead of using the traditional large-scaled carp to make his art, Prosek decided to use a rather unusual fish as his creative tool: the eel.
Eels have been a source of fascination to writer, artist and conservationist James Prosek since childhood. His introduction to the slimy, muscular fish occurred when fishing as a boy in the ponds and rivers of Connecticut. He would catch them by accident when fishing for something else. But when an old game warden explained that they were born thousands of miles away in the Sargasso Sea, somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, Prosek became hooked and determined to learn as much he could about the mysterious creatures.
Prosek’s journey takes him to Maine, where New England fishermen reap the benefits of a multibillion-dollar eel business; to Japan, where the fish are a staple of Japanese diet, with more than 130,000 tons of eel consumed each year; and to the Maori in New Zealand, where eels are revered, often depicted as mythical beings or guardians. Eels can be found all over the globe, in fresh and salt water ecosystems alike. But today, risk of over-fishing and the presence of dams and other obstacles that prevent eels from reaching their oceanic spawning grounds pose new threats to an animal that once roamed the planet alongside the dinosaurs.
NATURE - PBS VIDEO: 'THE MYSTERY OF EELS' SNEAK PEEK # 1 - THE EEL LIFE CYCLE - AIRS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 AT 8/7C
The remarkable lifecycle of the eel, a catadromous fish found all over the globe, in fresh and salt water ecosystems alike. Eels begin life in the ocean before migrating in their larval stage to rivers and streams where they can spend decades before returning to the oceans to spawn.
Eels have been a source of fascination to writer, artist and conservationist James Prosek since childhood. His introduction to the slimy, muscular fish occurred when fishing as a boy in the ponds and rivers of Connecticut. He would catch them by accident when fishing for something else. But when an old game warden explained that they were born thousands of miles away in the Sargasso Sea, somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, Prosek became hooked and determined to learn as much he could about the mysterious creatures.
Prosek’s journey takes him to Maine, where New England fishermen reap the benefits of a multibillion-dollar eel business; to Japan, where the fish are a staple of Japanese diet, with more than 130,000 tons of eel consumed each year; and to the Maori in New Zealand, where eels are revered, often depicted as mythical beings or guardians. Eels can be found all over the globe, in fresh and salt water ecosystems alike. But today, risk of over-fishing and the presence of dams and other obstacles that prevent eels from reaching their oceanic spawning grounds pose new threats to an animal that once roamed the planet alongside the dinosaurs.
Consider the eel -- snakelike and slimy, with a row of jagged teeth. Yet aside from these fearsome qualities, we know little about it. Hailed by poets as the "siren of the North Sea" and "love's arrow on Earth," this shadowy creature has fascinated researchers for centuries. In the new episode "The Mystery of Eels," artist, writer and naturalist James Prosek sheds light on the animal and the behavior it inspires in those who seek to know it.
