Syfy’s Warehouse 13 had a second season that both entertained like crazy and pulled in strong ratings, so it’s hard to understand why the series didn’t have a third season pick-up by the time the second season ended. Finally, the logical/inevitable decision was made and the snappy series about two Secret Service agents who snag, […]
Category: Television
Caprica’s Real and Virtual Worlds Engross As Series Returns For Season 1.5!
It’s been a hair over six months since Amanda Greystone stepped off a bridge in the mid-season finale of Caprica [Syfy, Tuesdays, 10/9C]. In the meantime, things have changed considerably.
IRT: Deadliest Roads – You Think You’ve Seen Terror?
Longtime readers of Eclipse will know that I loathe reality TV for the simple reason that the vast majority of it is anything but real – it’s edited into storylines that take reality and turn it into fiction. Well, that and the fact that most of it is exploitative in nature and reminds me of […]
Believe It or Not He’s Just… Gone – Stephen J. Cannell Dead at 69!
Stephen J. Cannell – creator of The Greatest American Hero, The Rockford Files and The A-Team – has died from complications associated with melanoma. He was 69. Cannell, who is probably best remembered for The A-Team and The Rockford Files, was a prolific writer whose credits include ground breaking television [undercover cop/Mafia series Wiseguy predated […]
Television: Supernatural S6.01 Exile On Main Street – Romance, Bad Djinn & Annoying Relatives Makes for An Odd Mix for the Start of Supernatural Season 6
I know the Djinn in Supernatural S6.01 Exile on Main Street (written by Sera Gamble) are suppose to be the bad guys, but I wonder if they would grant this viewer a wish anyway; to send Grandpa Samuel Campbell (Mitch Pileggi) and the Campbell cousins into exile and off of Supernatural as quickly as possible […]
Turner Classic Movies to Pay Tribute to Legendary Leading Man Tony Curtis Sunday, Oct. 10
Tony Curtis – star of the films The Defiant Ones, Some Like It Hot, and The Great Race, among others – died of cardiac arrest yesterday at his home in Las Vegas, He was 85. Today, TCM, where Curtis had become something of a regular presence – joking that TCM stood for “Tony Curtis Movies” […]
Television: Sneak Peek At Tonight’s Episode of Nikita S1.04 Rough Trade
Nikit continues to heat up the Thursday night ratings for the CW Network and win rave reviews from critics and viewers alike, and with good reason. Nikita is action packed and intelligently written. The main character, played with ultimate cool by Maggie Q is a strong and resourceful woman who can hold her own. […]
Television: USA Network & Lifetime Network Stays With The Tried & True: Announces Renewals of Several Hit Series
Following on the heels of the The USA Networks renewal of Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, Covert Affairs and the final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, they continue to keep viewer favorites in their television line up by announcing that they have renewed Psych, Royal Pains and White Collar. Psych will kick […]
We Have a Winner! Errr… Make That a Loser!!
For those of you who are into pools and keeping score, the 2010 Fall TV Season has its first casualty. Fox has cancelled its critically acclaimed ratings bomb, Lone Star. Other early contenders for the #2 spot include ABC’s The Whole Truth and My Generation, and NBC’s Outlaw and The Apprentice. I guess fans of […]
ABC Family Announces The Greenlighting of Three Pilots!
Hard on the heels of a very successful summer season, comes the news that ABC Family has greenlighted three new pilots: Nine Lives, Switched at Birth and Strut. Details from the press release follow the jump.