There was an overwhelming amount of great TV, this year [and, as you’ll see not too much later, an almost equally overwhelming amount of excessively bad TV]. Given the truly amazing amount of quality to be found between the networks and the various cable outlets, I’ve decided to list my favorite fifteen shows of the […]
Category: Television
TELEVISION: Stargate Atlantis Goes Out With A Bang – And No Cliffhanger!
Stargate Atlantis [Sci Fi Channel, Fridays 9/8C] closes up shop one week from tonight with its one hundredth episode – but before we get to that double milestone, there’s a small matter of a series of inexplicable murders in and around Las Vegas. Subtly entitled Vegas, the show’s penultimate episode opens as a clever riff […]
Battlestar Galactica: The Auction – Catalog Now avialble Online!
With a month to go before the “Battlestar Galactica” auction, the auction catalog is now available for viewing or for purchase at www.battlestarprops.com. The auction will offer spectacular and unique items in every price category. Some of the more familiar items to “Battlestar Galactica” viewers will include “Caprica Six’s” red dress, “Admiral Adama’s” blue uniform, […]
Television: Supernatural Behind the Scenes – We Q&A With Writer Jeremy Carver about In The Beginning
Since Joining the writing team for the hit CW/Warner Brothers television show Supernatural, Jeremy Carver has written some of the most pivotal episodes of the series. Episodes like season three’s Mystery Spot and A Very Supernatural Christmas which have delved into the deep connections that Sam and Dean Winchester have with each other as brothers […]
INTERVIEW: Dean Devlin and Aldis Hodge Talk Leverage, being A Geek and more with Michelle!
Leverage is a new TNT show that airs Sunday nights. The show reminds me a lot of USA’s weekly spy caper – Burn Notice. The difference is being that instead of an ex spy stuck in Miami, Leverage is about criminals trying to do the right thing. They take on, primarily Corporate criminals who prey […]
TELEVISION: CSI Cliffhanger Makes the Most of Petersen & Fishburne
This season, CSI [CBS, Thursdays, 9/8C] has been a real rollercoaster ride. It started with the death of Warrick [Gary Dourdan] – followed by a murderer who used dead people to create some very warped art; an unsolved case involving an engaged couple; a killer hypnotist and even the return of Lady Heather [Melinda Clarke]. […]
TELEVISION REVIEW: Leverage: A Little Mission: Impossible; A Little Robin Hood!
After sitting through the first four episodes of TNT’s new series Leverage [premieres Sunday, 10/9C, then moves to Tuesday, 10/9C] – one of the easiest assignments of my career, it occurred to me that TNT’s motto could be modified to read, “We Know Dramedy.” Leverage, like its fellow TNT shows The Closer, Saving Grace and […]
TELEVISION REVIEW: The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice – Still In Like Flynn
Every so often, you need a little low-budget, B-movie fun. The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice [TNT, Sunday, 8/7C] provides exactly that. This time, Flynn Carson’s [Noah Wyle] New Orleans vacation is interrupted in unique style as it comes to light that the Judas Chalice – the chalice made from the silver of the […]
TELEVISION: Showtime Partners Up with Summit Entertainment & Twilight!
Showtime Networks Inc., the home of such unique programming as Dexter and Californication have bumped up their movie slate by entering into an exclusive output agreement which includes up to forty-two of Summit’s films to be theatrically released between 2008 and 2012 for airing on the network. The agreement includes the studio’s box office hit […]
Female Jedi Spotlighted In The Newest Episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
Acclaimed animation-and-comics writer Paul Dini (the “Justice League,” “Superman,” “Batman” animated series) amps up the action for Jedi heroines Luminara Unduli and Ahsoka Tano in “Cloak of Darkness,” an all-new episode of the hit animated series STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, premiering at 9 p.m. ET/PT Friday, December 5th, on Cartoon Network. In “Cloak […]
TELEVISION: Caprica Is a Go!
After months of dithering, the Sci Fi Channel has finally determined that Caprica will be added to their schedule in 2010. The announcement, made today, is that the series has a twenty episode order – including the two-hour pilot. The series, which a prequel to Sci Fi’s signature series, Battlestar Galactica, stars Eric Stoltz [Milk, […]