Maria Elena Fernandez, TV writer for the Los Angeles Times is reporting that ABC has picked up Eastwick – the second TV series to be based on John Updike’s famous novel, The Witches of Eastwick – and that Fox has shown romantic comedy/procedural drama hybrid Bones two more years of love. For Bones, the deciding […]
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TELEVISION: ABC Renews Three Shows; Adds Seven New Ones for Fall!
Reports are coming in from multiple sources, including the Los Angeles Times, that ABC has renewed the Nathan Fillion headlined mystery series Castle, as well as Scrubs [though it is unknown if and how many of the current cast will return] and Better Off Ted, which has a very Scrubs-like sensibility. All three shows have […]
TELEVISION: Dollhouse Coming Back? Here’s One for the Books!
Airlock Alpha [the former SyFy Portal] is reporting that news of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse’s pick-up for a thirteen episode second season is being reported by trade publication TV Week’s columnist, Josef Adalian [try saying that three times fast!]. According to Adalian, “Many media types had written off the show for dead, since its ratings on […]
HORROR NEWS: Canada’s Rue Morgue Festival of Fear National Horror Expo Headliners Include B-Movie Gods Bruce Campbell and Roger Corman!
Toronto, Ontario, Canada’s world renowned annual horror expo, the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear has landed Bruce “The Chin” Campbell as its 2009 Guest of Honour – and B-movie producer/director/writer Roger Corman as Featured Guest. Campbell is, of course, known worldwide for playing Ash, the lead [if not necessarily the hero] of Sam Raimi’s Evil […]
TELEVISION NEWS: Gossip Girl Spinoff Dead, Lost Questions Answered, and Dollhouse Tanks
Our blog partners, the fine folks at TV.com have a couple of interesting stories going on over at their site today including a look at The Dollhouse ratings tanking. The show ain’t coming back folks. Check it out here. I don’t watch Lost but the TV.com folks try and answer the 10 questions that are […]
INTERVIEW: Guiding Light’s Orlagh Cassidy (Doris Wolfe)
The name Orlagh Cassidy is a hard one to forget. You may recognize the name because of its unique Gaelic beauty but you’re not quite sure where you recognize it from. Well if you are a fan of Guiding Light you will recognize the name Doris Wolfe, Springfield’s feisty and oh so politically driven Mayor. […]
Smallville Season 8 Finale Recap – SPOILERS
Wow, Smallville still knows how to put on a fabulous Season Finale. I quit watching Smallville way back in Season 3, I don’t know what possessed me to start watching it this year, but it’s been surprisingly good. But they almost hit it out of the park with tonight’s finale, at first I thought separating […]
TELEVISION NEWS: In a Shocker, Danny Gokey gets the Hook!
Oh my god the bad singing Danny Gokey is gone from Idol. I know the judges are upset no way did they want Kris Allen to make it past the toop 6, that alone this far. He’s like the little rabit that could. So the big battle is no personality but good voice KrisAllen verses […]
Television: A Commentary On Cliché TV Scripts Done Supernatural Style
Much has been made of the Supernatural season four episode Jump the Shark and the standard TV script cliché it took on with its own unique style. However, the truth is the last half of season four of Supernatural has also dealt with two other of the four standard clichés scripts that always come along […]
TELEVISION NEWS: Finally someone Shows Class in the Mrs. Universe Mess
Ok I’ve avoided commenting on the whole Miss Universe controversy because frankly I don’t care. But the crap is all over the place and it’s impossible to avoid. First of all anyone who thinks Donald Trump was going to strip that lying ditz Carrie Prejean of her crown was smoking drugs. Trump doesn’t care about […]
TELEVISION NEWS: American Idol Top 3 Recap
I can’t help myself. I wasn’t going to do an Idol Recap until Adam butchered U2s “One,” one of my favorite U2 songs. His version of One was an utter mess, it was slow, screechy, cabaret and what was with the tongue? It was AWFUL. I mean really who would actually buy this crap? Gokey […]