CBS Gets Good Start in 2013-2014 TV Season

      For the week of September 30 - October 6 "NCIS", "The Big Bang Theory", and "60 Minutes" help to start CBS out in first place this television season.  "The Millers", starring Will Arnett, and The Robin Williams situation comedy "The Crazy Ones", helped to give CBS a favorable score in this second week of the television season.  See also, www.tvguide.com.

Stings New Theatre Show About A Shipyard

     The show is a musical about a shipyard in Wallsend, England.  The city in Newcastle, northeastern England, in the United Kingdom,  where Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) grew up.  "The Last Shipyard" is a story set in an Englishtown, whose shipbuilding industry is on its last ships, before the factory shuts down.  The shows lead character wants more than a factory life, and leaves to travel the world, very similar to what Sting himself has done. Sting will perform a 10-night benefit fundraiser in New York, at the 260-seat Anspacher Theatre, from Sept. 25 thru Oct. 09 to highlight some of the shows music and debut his new album entitled, "The Last Shipyard".  See also, www.nytimes.com.

Breaking Bad Breaks Camp

     One might say if Texas has the Alamo, New Mexico has a car wash that was one of the focal points in the night time drama, Breaking Bad. Filmed on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico Breaking Bad had 10.3 million viewers in it's fifth and final season finale. The show features the trials and tribulations of a methamphetamine drug lord Walter White (Bryan Cranston). The show also features a somewhat interactive talk show, where the actors of Breaking Bad, sit in traditional talk show fashion, and answer questions about the show. The show had soaring success and has won many Emmy's, among them best drama series. See also, www.amctv.com.

Three Big Cities and Two Big Companies

      New York - The blackout in New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles lasted one month. September 2, 2013 the companies reported they had reached a retransmission agreement. CBS programming has returned to all affected Time Warner Cable Networks. See also, www.tvguide.com.

Vin Diesel...Riddick Four

      Riddick (Vin Diesel) is left for dead on a scorching hot planet. Riddick finds himself fighting an alien race of predators, to save himself he must activate an emergency beacon that will alert to rescue ships to aid him. See also, www.universalpictures.com.

Fracking Not The Only Fray

    With at least 10 bills in the legislature, hydraulic fracturing ( commonly known as fracking), is the subject of a new hollywood movie.  Acid jobs, an old well completion method that involves pumping chemicals into wells to melt rocks, and other impediments that slow the flow of oil, are not required to report when they use it.  Most drillers in the region of Monterey, California, where the process is becoming popular among oil producers, employ chemicals such as hyfrofluoric acid (acid jobs), only one bill under consideration would regulate this method.  See also, www.popularmechanics.com.

Fox's New Bacon

     Kevin Bacon, big screen actor doing television, is tracking cyber criminals in "The Following."  Bacon is fielding a television series that is a possible Emmy nominee.  "The Following" marks his first regular TV role.  See also, www.tvguide.com.