Nominees for the 2013 Teen Choice Awards have been announced and, once again, some of the choices are really mystifying – I mean, apart from the Twilight Saga’s inexplicable and almost overwhelming success.
When some of the choices come from movies that were seen by dozens of people – instead of the, y’know, actual successes – you have wonder WTF? How do box office duds like the Total Recall remake, The Words and Peeples muster enough votes to make the list – unless a lot of non-teen, behind-the-scenes spin doctors have spun some magic with the numbers. Or maybe teens were the only people to see those movies and every last one of them voted.
Whatevs. For the complete list of nominations, deserving and unnerving, follow the jump.
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Summer television continues to just get better and better: BBC America is adding to the increasing quantity of summer must-see-TV with the return of its first original scripted series, Copper (pictured), for a second season; the American premiere of Broadchurch – a mystery series starring Doctor Who’s David Tennant; a new, four-night Luther miniseries; the premiere of the final season of the original Being Human; and the truly unique zombie apocalypse drama, In the Flesh. New series Bang Goes the Theory and Dangerman: The Incredible Mr. Goodwin join perennial favorite, Top Gear’s twentieth (!) season on the unscripted side of things.
Details for all of BBC America’s summer programs are included in the press release that follows the jump.
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The Broadcast Television Critics Association has announced the nomination for the 3rd Annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards. In an announcement that suggests the BJTA pays far more attention to what’s actually good on TV, there are some new and interesting nominations in their list – including Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany for Best Actress in a Drama Series and Suburgatory’s Jeremy Sisto for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.
Cable networks HBO and FX lead in total nominations, with 21 and 19 respectively. The most nominated series were The Big Bang Theory and American Horror Story: Asylum with six apiece. At least nine other series scored four nominations, or more, apiece.
The 3rd Annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards will be webcast live on UStream (at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/critics-choice-television-awards) on Monday, June 10th. The ceremony will be hosted by Retta, star of NBC’s community.
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Some great headlines and rumors to discuss on this week’s episode of the GeekScholars Movie News podcast!
The show kicks off with the hosts discussing the large amount of casting currently underway for the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Into the Woods. Specifically, it sounds like Meryl Streep, Johnny Deep, Chris Pine, Jake Gyllenhaal, Allison Janney, and Anna Kendrick may all be joining the fairy tale adventure. Also, two movies about chefs are squaring off—Chef starring Jon Favreau, Robert Downey, Jr., and Scarlett Johansson, and a rival picture of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Michelle Williams.
From there, the crew plays ‘Never Tell Me the Odds’, where they predict the probability of lots of film-related rumors! See which ones after the jump! [click to continue…]
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As I noted in my review of Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz, Fridays, 10/9C), it is ‘a fast-paced hour that mixes all the pomp and grandeur of historical fiction with a sense of joyousness and fun that makes (it) a genuinely unique experience. A+’
For the Memorial Day Weekend, Starz is giving the series a week off to allow viewers an episode or two to catch up – with a ‘Catch Up Marathon’ of the show’s last three episodes on Friday – and new viewers to come aboard with a marathon of three of the show’s six eps to date on Saturday and Sunday. Follow the jump for details.
The series will resume its run with a new ep, The Hierofant, on May 31st.
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Remember IBM’s Watson, the supercomputer that kicked human tuchus on Jeopardy? Well, the successful Jeopardy contestant is coming to a smartphone near you, via its new app, Ask Watson. Not only that, IBM is setting up a customer service via call-in center that it claims will reduce search time by up to 40%.
Check out the press release after the jump for more details.
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