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March Madness: Leverage vs. Rizzoli & Isles

Leverage easily defeated Supernatural, but Rizzoli & Isles had the largest landslide victory of round one, sending New Girl off crying. Now the two champions face each other from opposite sides of the law.

Leverage teams up a former insurance investigator with four criminals who have specialized thieving, hacking, fighting, and grifting skills and together they help ordinary citizens by robbing the wealthy criminals, corrupt businessmen, and crooked politicians who ruined their lives.

Rizzoli & Isles follows Boston detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) and medical examiner Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander), complete opposites and good friends who solve crimes and bust some of Boston’s most notorious criminals.

Which team do you want on your side? Leave your choice in the comments!

Update: Rizzoli & Isles won, vote for them here!

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March Madness: Castle vs. Covert Affairs

Castle – After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard “Rick” Castle (Nathan Fillion gets permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes. He partners with Detective Kate Beckett, and uses a fictionalized version of her as the main character of his new series.

Covert Affairs – A young CIA trainee, Annie Walker, is sent out into the field to work at the Domestic Protection Division (DPD). August “Auggie” Anderson, a blind tech operative, is Annie’s guide in her new life. Annie’s cover story is that she works in Acquisitions at the Smithsonian Museum.

Here at last, the final pair! Which show will make it to the next round? It’s up to you, so vote by leaving a comment with your choice!

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March Madness: Suits vs. Person of Interest

Suits – On the run from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant college-dropout, finds himself a job working with Harvey Specter, one of New York City’s best lawyers.

Person of Interest – A crime thriller about a presumed dead former-CIA agent, Reese, who teams up with a mysterious billionaire, Finch, to prevent violent crimes by using their own brand of vigilante justice.

Two newer shows set in NYC – which will you vote for?

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March Madness: 2 Broke Girls vs. How I Met Your Mother

2 Broke Girls – Set in Brooklyn, the series chronicles the lives of two waitresses in their early twenties—Max, who comes from a poor working-class family, and Caroline, who was born rich but is now disgraced and penniless due to her father getting caught operating a Ponzi scheme—working together at a Brooklyn restaurant. The two become friends and build toward their dream of one day opening a cupcake shop.

How I Met Your Mother is about a man in the year 2030 who begins telling his kids about how he met his wife via flashbacks from the future. The story starts in the year 2005, when then twenty-seven year old architect Ted Mosby was spurred on to want to get married after lawyer Marshall Eriksen and kindergarten teacher Lily Aldrin, his best friends, got engaged. Ted’s new quest in life was much to the dismay of his womanizing friend, Barney Stinson. But soon after Marshall and Lily’s engagement, Ted believed that his life mate was going to be news reporter and aspiring news anchor Robin Scherbatsky, who, despite having had a romantic relationship with her after this time, ended up being who the kids know as their “Aunt” Robin.

After running the shows through a randomizer, I was surprised to find out that these two Monday night comedies were competing against each other in the first round! Which should make it to the next?

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March Madness: Blue Bloods vs. The Finder

Blue Bloods is a drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Family patriarch Henry used to be the police commissioner, his son Frank is the current commissioner, and his three children are a police detective, an assistant district attorney, and a rookie cop.

The Finder – Walter Sherman is an Iraq War vet who suffered brain damage in an IED explosion, which triggered the ability to “find” things: he sees connections between seemingly unrelated events, objects or people that other investigators would miss. Walter is assisted by his “legal adviser” and bar owner Leo Knox, US Deputy Marshal Isabel Zambada, and teen parolee and thief Willa Monday, who is serving her probation with the team.

Which of these shows is your favorite? Let me know by leaving a comment below!

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March Madness: Warehouse 13 vs. Alphas

Warehouse 13 – After saving the life of the President in Washington D.C., a pair of U.S Secret Service agents are whisked away to a covert location in South Dakota that houses supernatural objects that the Regents, an Authority above and outside any government, have collected over the centuries. Their new assignment: retrieve any lost objects and investigate reports of new ones.

Alphas – When a witness is inexplicably murdered in a locked room at a federal courthouse, Dr. Lee Rosen is put on the case. He leads a team of “Alphas”, human beings with enhanced abilities due to differences in their brain structure.

Two SyFy shows go head to head – which should make into the next round? Vote below!

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March Madness: Bones vs. NCIS: Los Angeles

Bones – Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist in Washington, DC. FBI Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) calls on her to assist with investigations when the standard methods of identifying a body are useless – when the remains are badly decomposed, burned or destroyed beyond recognition.

NCIS: Los Angeles – The Naval Criminal Investigation Service’s Office of Special Projects takes on the undercover work and the hard-to-crack cases in LA. Hetty Lange leads a crack team: agents G. Callen, Sam Hanna, Kensi Blye, and Marty Deeks, and op techs Eric Beale and Nell Jones.

FBI or NCIS? You pick the agency!

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March Madness: The Office vs. Burn Notice

The Office -A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium. Based on the hit BBC series.

Burn Notice – After he’s set up and fired from the CIA, a special ops agent puts his training to use by doing a variety of dangerous and undercover jobs for people as he tries to figure out who betrayed him.

Workplace comedy or action and explosions? As always, it’s up to you!

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March Madness: Suburgatory vs. House

Suburgatory – Single dad George Altman moves his 15-year-old daughter Tessa out of New York City and into the suburbs, where she’s horrified by plastic moms, superficial peers, and nosy neighbors.

House – An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits.

Which of these shows should make it into the next round? It’s up to you!

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March Madness: Eureka vs. Once Upon a Time

Eureka – Small town. Big secret. A car accident leads U.S. Marshal Jack Carter into the top-secret Pacific Northwest town of Eureka. For decades, the United States government has relocated the world’s geniuses to Eureka, a town where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand.

Once Upon a Time – There is a town in Maine, where every storybook character you’ve even known is trapped by an evil curse. Trapped in time, with all their happy endings stolen, they don’t remember who they are or where they came from. Only one can break the spell.

This time it’s quirky science fiction versus interwoven fairy tales! Make your choice in the comments.

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March Madness: NCIS vs. Being Human

NCIS is an action drama with liberal doses of humor that focuses on the sometimes complex dynamics of a team forced to work together in high-stress situations. These special agents travel the globe to investigate all crimes – from murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines – with Navy or Marine Corps ties.

Being Human is an American remake of the acclaimed British show that focuses on three twenty-somethings who share a house and try to live a normal life despite being a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire.

Special agents or unique creatures? Vote which you prefer in the comments!

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March Madness: The Big Bang Theory vs. Ringer

The Big Bang Theory – A woman who moves into an apartment next door to two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.

Ringer – A young woman (Sarah Michelle Gellar) on the run from the mob poses as her wealthy twin sister to try and evade them, but soon discovers that her sister has a price on her head as well.

Smart and funny versus drama and intrigue – which will you choose?

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March Madness: Nikita vs. Community

Nikita (Maggie Q) is a trained assassin gone rogue trying to stop a secret U.S. agency known only as Division from recruiting deeply troubled teenagers and training them to be assassins.

Community features smart-aleck lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), whose education is deemed void by the bar and is forced to attend a local community college with an extremely eclectic staff and student body.

Rogue agents or crazy students – it’s your pick! Leave a comment to help your favorite advance to the next round!

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March Madness: Grimm vs. Psych

Grimm dives into the world of Portland, Oregon homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt, who discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as “Grimms,” charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world. Monroe, a reformed “Big Bad Wolf”, reluctantly helps him.

Psych features novice sleuth Shaun Spencer (James Roday), who is hired by the police after he cons them into thinking he has psychic powers that help solve crimes. With this assistance of his reluctant best friend, Gus (Dule Hill), the duo take on a series of complicated cases.

Which crime-solving duo do you prefer to have on the case? Leave a comment with your choice!

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March Madness: White Collar vs. Chuck

White Collar criminal Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) agrees to help the FBI catch other white collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter and racketeer.

When twenty-something computer geek Chuck (Zachary Levi) inadvertently downloads critical government secrets into his brain, CIA and NSA assign two agents to protect him and exploit such knowledge, turning his life upside down.

One show just ended season 3, the other gave a tearful farewell with season 5 – which one gets your vote? Leave a comment!

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