The only light in the badlands known as Saturday night television is the SyFy Channel’s mostly terrible, but campy Saturday Night Movies. Tonight (Saturday, May 5th) they debut their latest, a four hour retailing of the Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, Treasure Island.
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Fringe Takes #19 To Even Greater Extremes Of The Odd And Deeply Disturbing!
The year is 2036 and the Observers have taken over – but there is a resistance. That’s the basic setup for Fringe’s [Fox, Fridays, 10/9C] annual ‘out there’ episode [remember the previous animated, or musical 19th episodes], Letters of Transit [check out the cast teasing the episode above, and follow the jump to my review].
Magic Blooms Over Miami In Magic City Premiere!
After the sex, violence and political intrigue of Ancient Rome in Starz’ Spartacus series, it seems odd, yet somehow appropriate to find the same ingredients put to more nuanced use in the network’s Magic City [Fridays, 10/9C] – a series about hotelier Ike Evans and his family and their efforts to bring the magic with […]
The Finder Returns With Some Cool Beats – Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson Guest Stars!
The Finder returns tonight [Fox, 8/7C] with Life After Death, an episode about stolen lost tracks by a promising rapper who was murdered before that promise could be fulfilled.
Game of Thrones – HBO Season 2012 Premiere
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Life’s Too Short – Just Seen It TV Review
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Million Dollar Listing: New York – Finally! A Reality Series I Can Endorse!
Million Dollar Listing: New York [Bravo, Wednesdays, 10/9C] doesn’t have anyone forced to live with anyone else. There’s no forced competition – with or without battles, challenges or any other crazy thing dreamt up by the show’s creators. It’s just three ridiculously good looking land sharks selling real estate in the toughest market in North […]
Awake Is This Season’s Best New Show!
It seems that all the major networks saved their best shows for mid-season. In the case of NBC, they were holding back the season’s best new series, Awake [Thursdays, 10/9C] – a startlingly intelligent show about a police detective who is living two lives – in two worlds – simultaneously.
Awake – NBC Premiere – Just Seen It TV Review
CHECK OUT OUR REVIEW Detective Michael Britten survives a horrible car accident only to discover he is now trapped in two alternate realities – one where is son has died and his wife survived and another reality that is the opposite. But as he tries to do his job and solve murders, he finds the […]
Cab Calloway: Sketches – American Masters Looks At The Man Behind Minnie The Moocher!
Cab Calloway enjoyed new fame in 1980 with the release of The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis. By which time, he had largely been forgotten. In Cab Calloway: Sketches [PBS, American Masters, 10/9C], Landis is but one of many who reflect on Calloway and his music style charged a generation and influenced many more. […]
Goin’ Down That Spooky River – Or, What The [BLEEP] Was That?!
The River [ABC, Tuesday, 9/8C] is the latest attempt to produce a scary horror show for network television. Co-created by Oren Peli – of Paranormal Activity fame – it’s a show that follows the family, friends and crew of a famed explorer/television host as they follow a previously unknown offshoot of the Amazon River six […]