Q: What happened to "The Mentalist"?
A: Its final season began Nov. 30. "The Good Wife" will take a break and "The Mentalist" will have its time slot for five weeks. "The Good Wife" then returns Jan. 4 and "The Mentalist" moves to Wednesdays as of Jan. 7. (It will take over the "Survivor" time slot while that is on its own break.) "The Mentalist" will continue on Wednesdays through Feb. 18, when its two-hour series finale will air.
Q: I was enjoying the TV show "When Calls the Heart" on Saturday nights on the Hallmark channel. Any idea what happened to it?
A: All 13 episodes from its first season have been televised. Hallmark has ordered a second season for telecast in 2015.
Q: At the introduction of Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show," the Roots shout out a number (i.e. 154, 163). What is the purpose of this?
A: The called-out digits represent the episode number. Sometimes, you will hear the Roots mention a city after the number; in that case, the number also matches the city's area code.
Q: What has happened that "Parenthood," being so popular on TV, has ended filming? It is one of the last good shows on TV.
A: The NBC drama has had a good run — the current season is its sixth — and very positive reviews. But it was far from one of the more popular shows. Indeed, when looking at stories written about it over the year, you'll see it called a "perennial bubble show," meaning it was always on the bubble when it came time to decide which shows would be picked up. With a large and reportedly expensive cast, it was in even more jeopardy, especially when NBC was getting more successful in other time slots. So we have come to its final 13-episode season.
