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 […]
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 […]
HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: In Plain Sight’s Nichole Hiltz and Joshua Malina On The Firing Line!
This week I had the opportunity to take part in a teleconference Q&A session with Nichole Hiltz and Joshua Malina, who play Brandi and Peter, respectively, on USA’s unique series, In Plain Sight [Sundays, 10/9C]. Both talk about the show and their characters’ burgeoning relationship as well poker lessons and why Mr. Malina has gotten […]
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 […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Angels & Demons: When You Write Of Us – And You Will… Be Gentle
Unlike The Da Vinci Code, I found the Angels & Demons novel to be impenetrable… maybe it was just my mood, but I saw the movie without having read the book. That may have been a positive for the movie. Angels & Demons has a number of things going for it: it’s less convoluted than […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Angel and Demons, Not too Bad, Michelle’s Review!
I’m not a fan of Tom Hanks or Ron Howard and I also hated The Da Vinci Code so to say I wasn’t enthused to see the sequel, Angels and Demons would be an understatement. It starts off a little slow but somehow I found myself getting sucked into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of […]
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 […]
MOVIE NEWS: Sony Pictures Exec Puts His Foot in His Mouth
I’m going to do something I rarely do at Eclipse and that’s blatently “borrow a borrowed” story from another website. Huffingtonpost.com linked over to a Wallstreet Journal story about a Sony Picture’s Exec being a typical arrogant Sony jerk saying “I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet,” said Sony […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Angels and Demons Holds Some Improvements and Thrills, But Only Some
Angels and Demons, set some time after Ron Howard’s previous adaptation The Da Vinci Code, finds Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon being summoned to The Vatican in order to help them with an impending crisis. As a new pope is set to be elected, a mysterious organization known as the Illuminati, an old villain to the […]
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. […]