Palm Sightings: The League, The Good Wife, Castle, Ghost Whisperer
The Pre just keeps popping up all around the place. This time around it’s made appearances on ABC, CBS, and FX. Even better, we don’t see the Pre doing things it can’t do (well, for the most part). We’ll start with the last: the new FX show The League, where the Pre got a big close-up during the opening scene, displaying a streaming video speech. Sadly, it looks to have been videoshopped (err...) into place, as the header bar with network info is visible with full screen video. But it’s a Pre getting big face time in a new show, and judging by the flood of tips we got on this one, a lot of you saw it.
Next up is the freshman CBS drama The Good Wife, set in the chaotic world of a high-powered Chicago law firm. It is here that you’ll find the Palm Pre in the capable young hands of junior attorney Cary Agos (Matt Czuchry), making phone calls with the screen turned on again. Memo to props department: It’s 2009, smartphones don’t glow when you talk on them anymore.
And then there's sophomore a drama, though on ABC and more towards the order side of the law equation is Castle. While Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) is billed as the star of the show, he’s not blessed with a sweet little webOS-packin’ handset, is he? Clearly, Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) is the true star, and she makes sure we know it by whipping out her Pre multiple times. She even knows how to use it - the screen turns off! Or props took out the battery... nah. And hey, 'Castle' was the codename for the in-development Pre, nudge nudge wink wink.
Lastly, there’s Ghost Whisperer back on CBS. In her paranormal-aided investigations, Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) finds that sometimes she needs to show some pictures to jog someone’s memory. What better way to do that than with a Pre?
Have you spotted the Pre, Pixi, or other Palm device on your favorite show? Drop us a note at pretips@precentral.net with the show and a few relevant details like air date, time in the episode, and an online video link if you've got one!
Thanks to Kevin for The Good Wife, Shashi for Castle, David for Ghost Whisperer, and the eighty seven bazillion of you that sent in the The League sighting.
