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Dark Horse – Star Wars Deal for Black Friday

Posted by   on November 24, 2011

in Comic Books

Dark Horse Comics is joining in on the Black Friday madness with a very exclusive limited offer to their digital comics readers.  On Black Friday, for 24 hours only, Dark Horse Digital will offer 134 single-issue Star Wars comics for $100! This is a savings of over $166!  The sale will begin at midnight (PST), November 25th!  Dark Horse Digital is available through all modern web browsers and as an app in the iTunes Store for Mac devices.  Stop by https://digital.darkhorse.com  and get all the Star Wars comics you could want and more!

DIGITAL CYBER MONDAY DEAL!  If you miss the Black Friday special (or you want even more), you have another chance at a killer deal for Cyber Monday!  Dark Horse Digital is offering the first 500 people through the checkout 50% off their entire order!  You can redeem this 50% with the coupon code: dhcyber  This coupon is limited to 500 redemptions and you must have a $20 minimum cart to redeem it! Good only for 24 hours beginning at midnight (PST) on Monday, November 28th.

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SyFy Brings out Zombies for Halloween

Posted by   on October 29, 2011

in Sci-Fi Channel,Television

Halloween kicks off with Zombie Apocalypse, as part of SyFy’s launch of a new slate of holiday-themed Saturday Original movies. Zombie Apocalypse, stars GoldenGlobe winner Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Mission Impossible, Dawn of the Dead), and will premiere tonight, Saturday, October 29 at 9PM (ET/PT).

Said Thomas Vitale, Executive Vice President, Programming and Original Movies: “Syfy is committed to finding new and different ways to destroy the world in our Saturday Original Movies. Since 2002, we’ve unleashed natural disasters, unnatural disasters, creatures on land, sea and air, and iconic fantasy characters. Now we’re taking over the holiday seasons, one terrifying movie at a time.”

In the Halloween-themed Zombie Apocalypse, a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the world’s population. A small group of survivors, led by Rhames, fight their way across the United States to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina. The movie also features Taryn Manning (Hawaii Five-O, Sons of Anarchy).  SyFy plans other holiday themed movies for Christmas and St. Patrick’s Day.

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PREVIEW of Grimm on NBC

Posted by   on October 27, 2011 · 1 comment

in Television,TV Reviews

The good news is that supernatural-themed sci-fi dramas have been making a comeback on broadcast TV, which is terrific for those of us who want to avoid the constant onslaught of reality series and even more standard cop dramas.  The bad news is that NBC decided to make a bonehead move and schedule their new series GRIMM opposite two other already established shows within the same genre, CW’s  “Supernatural”  and FOX’s  “Fringe.”   Considering that the pool of viewers usually drawn to such shows is already rather small and currently fractured between  Supernatural  and  Fringe,  adding a third player into this mix makes no sense at all. Rather than trying to fracture the small pool even further, it would have made more sense to capture a greater sample of this genre’s available viewers by scheduling opposite, well, anything else the rest of the week that isn’t sci-fi!

The premise of GRIMM puts a new twist on the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm by having a homicide detective learn that he is a descendant of a group of hunters known as “grimms” whose job is to keep humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world living among us.  The addition of the supernatural element certainly puts a twist on the typical cop procedural show.  The real Brothers Grimm created their fairytales in the early 1800s.  While we are certainly familiar with the cleaned up versions of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Princess and the Frog, Hansel and Gretel, and Rapunzel (to name a few), many of these original tales had dark, gruesome and macabre elements.  It is this scary element that GRIMM will be trying to capture.

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Grade: B

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The True Hollywood Story of Kara DioGuardi

Posted by   on October 26, 2011

in Television

Kara DioGuardi has been ruling the Billboard charts for years as the woman behind the music. Having penned hits for Pink, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera to name a few, Kara is one of the most in-demand songwriters in the business today. Thrown into the spotlight as a judge on American Idol, the world met Kara without realizing she had already been in their homes, on their iPods and through their radios for years. Still, despite DioGuardi’s significant contribution to pop, her life story has remained a mystery – until now. For the first time ever on television, in an intimate and personal interview, DioGuardi opens up to E! about her long journey towards success. Helping to tell her story are her husband, Mike McCuddy, her brother, John, her closest friends, professional colleagues including music industry legend Tommy Mottola, American Idol Executive Producer Ken Warwick and some of the artists for whom she has written hit songs including Kelly Clarkson, Jason DeRulo, Dave Stewart and Colbie Caillat.

Keep reading for highlights from the all-new THS which includes comments on celebrity friendships, eating disorders, frightening childhood memories, and life-changing decisions. The E! True Hollywood Story: Kara DioGuardi premieres tonight, October 26 at 10:00 PM on E!

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NBC Grants Full Seasons to New Comedies

Posted by   on October 5, 2011

in Television

NBC has picked up the new comedies Up All Night and Whitney for the remainder of the 2011-12 season, while the cancellation axe fell upon “The Playboy Club”.  Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment made the pick-up announcement today stating, “We made comedy an important goal for us this season and I’m very pleased to be making full-season commitments to both  ‘Whitney’  and  ‘Up All Night’.   We’re thrilled with the creative direction of both shows as well as the potential for them to continue to build loyal audiences over the coming months. We’re proud of all of the producers, writers, actors, and directors who have worked so hard to bring these shows to life.”

“Up All Night,” created by Emmy Award nominee Emily Spivey (NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” and “Saturday Night Live”) and executive-produced by multi-Emmy winner Lorne Michaels (NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock”), is an irreverent look at modern parenthood.  Christina Applegate stars as Reagan Brinkley: loving wife, successful career woman, life of the party and, most recently, mom. Determined not to compromise her career or cool reputation to the clichés of motherhood, Reagan adjusts to life with a baby and returns to work with the support of her stay-at-home husband, Chris (played by Will Arnett).

NBC’s new multi-camera comedy “Whitney” is a hilarious look at modern-day love, which centers around Whitney (Whitney Cummings, “Chelsea Lately”) and Alex (Chris D’Elia, “Glory Daze”), a happily unmarried couple. Together for three years, the duo is in no rush to get hitched, which seems to get a mixed response from their friends.  At the end of the day, Whitney and Alex try to have a relationship on their own terms – in a world that expects a more traditional approach.

ADDENDUM:  My apologies.  Rather than stating it as a fact that “The Playboy Club” has been canceled, the phrasing should have been that “the cancellation axe appears ready to fall on The Playboy Club”.  As of today, there has not been any definite decision.

 

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Warehouse 13 Two-Hour Season Finale Tonight

Posted by   on October 3, 2011

in Sci-Fi Channel,Television

Throughout its thrilling third season, Syfy’s Warehouse 13 has taken viewers on surprising twists and turns, from the return of Myka (Joanne Kelly), the introduction of new Agent Steve Jinks (Aaron Ashmore) and guest stars such as Jeri Ryan, Jaime Murray, Lindsay Wagner and Kate Mulgrew to nefarious villains like Anthony Michael Hall and Sasha Roiz threatening the survival of the Warehouse – and the world.  To conclude this powerful year, Syfy will present its first ever, explosive two-hour Warehouse 13 season finale on Monday, October 3 from 9-11PM (ET/PT).

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“The Coffee Addiction” Presented by CNBC for National Coffee Day

Posted by   on September 29, 2011

in Television

Did you know that today, September 29, is NATIONAL COFFEE DAY?  Don’t worry, I didn’t either, despite my severe addiction to this glorious brown liquid.  Whether it is the caffeine I can’t do without or the fantastic taste of a dark-brewed blend containing outrageous amounts of sugar and milk, the truth is this brown liquid keeps me company every morning.  Now, I do not usually take time to discuss documentaries when we have a bright, new TV season to play with, but when I saw that CNBC will be providing an inside look to my greatest addiction, I had to take a look.

Coffee has been called The Social Drink and it is the jolt that gets us through the day, and the one we can’t seem to live without. Once just our morning fix, it has become an American cultural obsession in a nation that consumes 400 million cups of it—every day!  It is also an $70 Billion global market.  On National Coffee Day, CNBC presents a special one-hour documentary titled “The Coffee Addiction,” on Thursday, September 29th at 9PM ET/PT.  This report allows us to see the journey of the coffee bean from the jungles of Peru as it makes its journey to ultimately end in our cup.  We will get an interesting look at the major players (like Starbucks), the way this commodity is traded, and even peek into the health effects. It will be hard to look at my morning coffee in quite the same after this. And don’t worry about that 9pm time interfering with your other programs; if you check the listings, you will see multiple airings of this program.  Details on it follow.

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