‘Dream a Little Dream’, which is airing on the CW Network on February 7th at 9PM EST time is another installment in this ‘wild ride’ in which the Winchesters brothers and their friend/mentor and fellow hunter Bobby Singer are confronted with a ‘Freddy Krueger’ style situation in which people are mysteriously dying in their sleep.

Warner Brothers has released a teaser clip for ‘Dream a Little Dream’ to give ‘Supernatural’ viewers a taste of what is to come.

The clip can be viewed here

To show how much support Warner Brothers has for their hit series, they are also launching an official ‘Facebook’ page for the series for fans to come and explore including some cool downloadable content for fans over the next few weeks including exclusive wallpaper,screensavers and a special bts feature on Dean Winchester’s beloved ‘67 Chevy Impala.

You can access all of this at the Official Supernatural Facebook Page.

So check out the teaser clip, the cool stuff at Facebook and tune into ‘Supernatural’ next Thursday to see Sam and Dean Winchester ‘Dream a Little Dream’.

HBO’s wildly popular “The Wire” started its fifth and final season last week. The riveting series, dedicated to the intersection of Baltimore’s gritty drug world, police intervention and political turmoil, had a slow, cautious start.

Over the years, “The Wire” became a well-respected series by fans. Clearly the network’s underdog, the series rose to unprecedented popularity, as viewers tuned in every week and insisted that the network keep the show on despite their on-off-again battle with canceling the show.

The Wire’s fourth season focused mainly on the youth and their street life, home life and education. At the height of the season, one of the key young characters, Michael Lee, joined the team of known drug lord Marlo Stanfield.

The final season’s first episode, “More With Less,” zoomed in on budget cuts in Baltimore’s police department, resulting in no paid overtime, disbanding of departments, dilapidated vehicles/equipment and plain-out disgruntled employees. The first episode shattered all progress made in the last season, particularly in the Major Crimes Unit, which was hot on the heels of notorious and mysterious druglord Marlo Stanfield. Ultimately, last season – the Major Crimes Unit was in the process of tying over 20 bodies found in vacant houses to the druglord and his cohorts Chris Partlow and Felicia “Snoop” Pearson.

The plot of the police department’s financial debacle was paralleled with the financial woes of the Baltimore Sun. Facing similar cuts and low morale, the newspaper’s staff desperately attempted to pull headline stories, while pulling long hours. They even uncovered an interesting real estate transaction between city council and a known felon and druglord.

With the bodies being put on the back burner and the members of Major Crimes disbanded and back on the regular force, the show went on in a slow, cautious way. Photos of Marlo Stanfield were taken and he was trailed, as he went to his regular meeting with other Baltimore king pins, “The Co-Op.”

As anticipated, the second episode, “Unconfirmed Reports,” picked up the pace a bit. Determined to bring closure to the city’s nearly two dozen bodies found in abandoned houses, James “Jimmy” McNulty (formerly of Major Crimes) and his partner decided to try to tap in to FBI resources to fund the investigation, which they expected to be wrapped up in just under a month’s time. McNulty and several fellow officers know that Marlo and his goons Chris and “Snoop” are behind the murders. However, they need the tangible evidence to prove it.

Also in “Unconfirmed Reports,” the disgruntled police found ways around the police department’s issues. McNulty, back to relying on a good flask of alcohol like he did in the series’ earlier seasons, unsuccessfully intertwined his work with alcoholism.

As Marlo’s crew took their young protégé Michael on the road to commit a murder, Michael started to realize how insane the crew’s actions can be. In the latest murder run, Chris and Snoop were after someone named June Bug, who “allegedly” made a sexual innuendo of Marlo Stanfield. In disbelief, Michael asked why they would kill someone just over the person calling Marlo a name. Snoop, in her thick inner-city dialect, advised Michael that’s just the way it is and she uttered “you need to stop talking so much and watch your mouth young boy.”

As Michael was asked to cover shooting anyone that flies out the back of the house, he assumed his position regretfully. When a young boy came running out, Michael didn’t have the heart to shoot him. In addition to believing that the whole hit was flat-out wrong, the teenager bears a soft spot for children – given that he is raising his brother.

Marlo is high pressed to cut out having to go through Proposition Joe and others from Baltimore’s east side to get his product. Hence, he decided that he would aim at going to the source, a Russian (with links to the Greek suppliers). Although moving swiftly, Marlo was stopped in his tracks when original hustler Avon Barksdale (who is behind e bars by the way) demanded that Stanfield must go through him to successfully reach the Russians.

Other story lines during the second episode included Bubbles fighting his addiction by receiving treatment and attending support groups. The pending indictment against State Senator Clay Davis was also a focus. Finally, the episode set the pace for McNulty’s story line, as it feature him causing post-mortem trauma to bodies to make them look like homicides. The episode insinuates that making the deaths look like homicides (particularly those of non-minority people) will capture the attention of city officials and ultimately help close the Stanfield/body case.

The Wire has one of TV’s best written scripts. Certainly, this season’s writing will be as spectacular as ever. While the first two episodes went over well, the Baltimore Sun plot got a little boring at times.

Final Grade: A

Written By: Flair Lindsey

Eclipsemagazine.com

Los Angeles CA, January 16, 2008

As we all know, most shows are currently in reruns until the end of January when new episodes will be trotted out for February Sweeps Weeks. To put themselves ahead in the ratings game, CBS/Paramount has come up with a unique way to draw viewer interest to the reruns currently airing of CSI and has sent around a publicity image titled ‘Behind the Crime Scene: Ten things you didn’t know about this week’s episode of CSI’. This week’s rerun of CSI is a rebroadcast of the episode ‘Go to Hell’, which airs this Thursday, January 19^th at 9pm EST on CBS. Above is the publicity image containing the ten things we didn’t know about ‘Go to Hell’.

One of television’s quirkest shows gets a S3 order.  Originally I couldn’t quit get into the series, but after visiting the set, and
meeting with the cast, I’ve come around.  It took a bit to grow on me, but I’m starting to get into it, it’s nice to see it get the pickup. Here’s the official press release.

NEW YORK, NY - September 27, 2007- SCI FI Channel has greenlit production on a third season of its most-watched Original Series Eureka, ordering 13 new hours of the dramedy. SCI FI is also renewing its investigative reality hit Destination Truth for a second season, it was announced today by Mark Stern, SCI FI Channel’s Executive Vice President of Original Programming.

Eureka will begin production on a third season in Vancouver early next year for a summer 2008 premiere. The second season of Destination Truth is also slated to premiere in 2008 with six exciting new episodes.

“Eureka rose to an even higher creative level in its sophomore season, combining entertaining, compelling stories with deeper character development and great cast chemistry. And clearly the audience noticed, bringing millions of new viewers to the Channel,” said Mark Stern. “Destination Truth with Josh Gates proved to be a great addition to our Wednesday night lineup and the perfect companion piece for Ghost Hunters.”

In keeping with SCI FI’s mission to broaden the scope and appeal of its programming roster, Eureka is a relatable, earth-based dramedy credited with bringing in over 3 million new viewers to the Channel in its second season alone. The series premiere on July 18, 2006 broke Channel records and remains the highest rated series telecast in SCI FI history. Eureka continued to grow in its second season, achieving season high household and key demo ratings with its August 28th episode (2.1 HH, 1,654,000 adults 25-54).

Eureka seems like any other cozy Pacific Northwest town, but is actually a secret community of geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research. The result is a place where anything imaginable can happen… and does. Returning for a third season are stars Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Joe Morton, Jordan Hinson and Ed Quinn and executive producers Jaime Paglia and Charlie Craig. Eureka is a SCI FI Channel presentation and is produced and distributed by Universal Media Studios.

In the second season of Destination Truth, adventurer and truth-seeker Josh Gates will once again take viewers off the map in his search for answers to some the world’s most notorious unexplained mysteries. The show will feature even more exotic locales, stunning finds and fascinating eyewitness accounts as Josh brings his humor to brand new investigations. This season Destination Truth will be Executive Produced by Brad Kuhlman (1000 Places to See Before You Die, Daisy Does America, FM Nation).

Josh’s thrilling and humorous adventures into the unknown made Destination Truth a bona fide ratings hit for SCI FI, bringing in over 1 million new viewers over its 6-week run last summer. The series premiere in June 2007 was the highest-rated premiere for an alternative reality series on SCI FI since the debut of Ghost Hunters in 2004.