im trying to watch the latest episode of royal pains, but when i start to watch it it goes to the part that says your video will begin after a word from our sponsors, and then it says advertisement starting and nothing ever happens, anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

Do you have dial up? I used to try to watch episodes on here for Monk and Psych and I got the same thing but now that I'm wireless (or whatever they call it...not dial up) I can view them without a problem.
Are you in the USA? If not, that might be your problem and you might have to download some special software to watch it.
If you can't get the episodes here, you might try:
http://www.fancast.com
http://www.hulu.com
If all else fails and you have the On Demand service, new episodes are posted there every week (usually on Fridays) under the Free TV Series
Hope this helps!

It could also be an issue of what protection software do you have running? Some spyware protection software as well as antivirus software will keep you from viewing some video web sites. As long as YOU trust the web site your on to not infect you with anything youll need to disable any protection program your running an then refresh the web page to get it to play. Ive run into it as well an usually its just my needing to turn off my spyware sweeper program to view videos.