Greek + Scoop!

Mild Spoilers! If you haven't seen Greek's season premiere, skip down to the bottom!

Oh, Casey, you are so unbelievably unlucky in love. First, you go and date, according to one of your sorority sisters, a hot geek. I quote: "He was a nerd, but he was hot. It was just so confusing."

That would be the average humor of each joke on Greek. I wouldn't regard it as a guilty pleasure show, but it's definitely not going to be on my favorites list. It's a rather simplistic, kind look at college life. There's nothing truly dramatic going on in this series, which is exactly why it's on ABC Family.


Regarding last night's premiere, the key plot points seemed to be on/off again relationships, breaking promise vows, and failing a class. Not exactly "edge of your seat" programming, but you wouldn't expect that from this program.

You expect fluff. And decent humor. And maybe the occasional "vulgarity." (They're college students? Getting drunk? How Scandalous!) It's good, for the most part clean fun. With its target demo being teenagers and young adults, it fulfills its duties of entertaining them without getting caught up in the seriousness of life.

Grade: B

Scoop!

•  Congratulations you couple million Mad Men fans out there, it's most definitely coming back for a fourth season. This comes on the heels of its highly anticipated season premiere, drawing in a record audience for the cable show. The season would most likely contain 13 episodes, airing mid- to late summer 2010. Mad Men airs Sundays on AMC at 10:00 PM, ET
•   Expect to hear the words "Wonder Twin powers, activate!" on the new season of Smallville, because they and other comic book characters will soon be coming to life on the series, airing its ninth season this fall. The Green Arrow, played by Justin Hartley in the series, will also get a sidekick in the series, "Speedy". Speedy, though a boy in the comics, is now a girl named Mia, a runaway with a sordid past that may or may not include contracting HIV, a storyline in the comics. No casting has been done yet. Smallville's ninth season will premiere September 25th at 8:00 PM ET on The CW.
• For all of you House fans that have been wondering what private eye Lucas Douglas has been up to, wait no longer. Michael Weston will be returning to the hit series this fall, reprising the sleuth character that House (Hugh Laurie) originally hired to spy on Wilson (Robert Shawn Leonard). Douglas's return has been given no background and FOX would only confirm that the character would be coming back for one episode, though the deal may be extended. House premieres September 21st at 8:00 PM ET on FOX.
• Spoiler! Warning, this reveals some content of upcoming episode(s)!: For those who watched last year's season finale of The Office, it was revealed that Pam (Jenna Fischer) was pregnant with Jim's (John Krasinski) child. Mindy Kaling, who plays Kelly Kapoor and is a writer for the show, told reporters that Jim and Pam would be having a "shotgun wedding" sometime this season. With this news came the casting for a key part in the family drama: Momma Beesly. Though played by Shannon Cochran in the past, Michael Ausiello revealed that the role would go to relative unknown Linda Purl. The reason for recasting is unknown, but Ms. Purl will be making her Office debut later this month. The Office premieres September 17th at 9:00 PM ET on NBC.

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-themodrenman