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DVD News: Flashforward Coming in February Volume 1
I don’t know how I feel about these half-assed dvd releases where instead of giving us one Complete set, we now have to purchase 1/2 a season at a time. I purchased part 1 to Glee, knowing full well I’ll have to purchase the 2nd arc i...
Television Alert: Reminder Encore Big 80s Weekend!
Don’t forget, this weekend Encore’s Big 80s Weekend marathon. Almost every awesome movie from the 80s is going to air starting Christmas Day, highlights include all the John Hughes movies, Fast Time At Ridgemont High, Back To The Futu...
Television: Supernatural Finds Syndication Home On TNT
While Supernatural is still going strong in first run on the CW Network, the hit series, which is now in it’s 5th season, has found a syndication home on TNT. This of course means that fans who discovered this exciting series a little late...
HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Chuck and His Creators Tease Season Three!
Last week, Zachary Levi, the star and Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, executive producers of NBC’s Chuck – premiering with back-to-back episodes on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 at 9/8 and moving to its regular timeslot Monday, Jan. 11th at 8/7C – to...
TELEVISION: Syfy Plans 8-Hour Chuck Marathon to Celebrate The Show’s Upcoming Third Season!
If you’re a fan of NBC’s Chuck [Chuckies? Chuckles?], then you won’t want to miss Syfy’s eight-hour Chuck Marathon on Thursday, January 7th, 2010. Running from 5 p.m. [4C], the eight eps will feature guest stars like Michael Clarke Dunca...
Television: Check out the Full Caprica Pilot, Now!
Dave Howe, SyFy, President announced that the full two hour pilot of Caprica is now available online. Check it out after the break. ...
Hollywood Insider: Dave Howe, President of SyFy Speaks!
On Monday I took part in an hour long conference call with Dave Howe the President of SyFy. He’s quite a talker and had a lot of good things to say, I drilled him about SyFy’s recent penchant for “reimagining” everything u...
Syfy Renews Stargate Universe and Sanctuary!
Syfy announced pickups for a second season of Stargate Universe and a third season of Sanctuary today. Both series are shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – with SGU being shot on sets and locations, while Sanctuary is shot mostly on g...
TELEVISION: Syfy’s Annihilation Earth Is Explosive!
Annihilation Earth [tonight, 9/8C] harkens back to the allegorical science fiction B-movies of the ‘50s with its technology may doom us all stance. When one of the three supercolliders in the world is sabotaged, it destroyed the French city of...
MOVIES & TELEVISION: Gene Barry, Star of The War of the Worlds, Bat Masterson, Dead at 90.
Gene Barry, best known for playing Dr. Clayton Forester in George Pal’s groundbreaking 1953 film The War of the Worlds and the dandified marshal, Bat Masterson in the series of the same name, died December 9th. Cause of death is, as yet, unknown...
Television: The Return of The Queue! 10 Things to Watch Right Now!
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve done an edition of The Queue. The reason being, I’ve been stuck in a hotel in New Joisey for the last two months, my internet will not let me use my Netflix Instant Queue. I never realized how mu...
TELEVISION: Beyond Sherwood Forest – Robin Hood, Maid Marian and a Dragon!
After more film and TV adaptations than any character other than Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes, Syfy has come up with a rather nifty fantasy version in Beyond Sherwood Forest [tonight, 9/8C]. Even before the opening credits, it’s apparent that this...
TELEVISION REVIEW: Ben 10: Alien Swarm – Teen Ben is Lacking Something!
Ben 10: Alien Swarm [Wednesday, 7/6C] is the second live-action Ben 10 movie produced by The Cartoon Network and, like the animated series, Ben 10: Alien Force, from which it is spun off, it features teen-aged versions of the characters first intr...
TRAUMA: Exclusive On-Set Look at episode 1.09 “Going Home”. And keep watching, cancellation is not imminent!
It is quite unnerving to see a real plane sitting on its belly, ripped in half, flames shooting out of its cabin, not to mention one engine lying burning to the side, and luggage strewn about. Even when you know it is just make-believe, th...
Television: Huge TV News, Oprah Calls it a Day!
Say it ain’t so. Oprah calls it quits. She’s ending her show in 2011, she will make the announcement on her show tomorrow (Friday). Twitter is all atwitter over the news and has had over 8,000 tweets an hour since the announcement. I...
TELEVISION: NBC’s Chuck Returns In January With Two-Hour Premiere!
Devoted fans of NBC’s Chuck [and Subway] will be pleased by the news, just released, that the action-comedy series will return with back-to-back episodes on Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at 9/8C, before returning to NBC’s Monday night line-up the...
TELEVISION: The Final Season Of Lost Gets A Premiere Date!
Losties rejoice! ABC has announced that the last leg of the epic saga of Lost will premiere on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010. While keeping episode details close to the vest, the network says that Lost’s final season will get underway with an e...
TELEVISION: TV’s First Vampire Detective Returns in Chiller’s Forever Knight Marathon!
NBC Universal’s recently launched cable channel Chiller is making Thanksgiving a little bloodier with its Forever Knight Marathon airing on the evenings of Tuesday, November 24th and Wednesday, November 25th beginning at 8/7C. Forever Kn...
TV RECAP: V – A Bright New Day – But For Whom?
After the opening recap, we see Anna move into frame and face the camera. She is the first V to receive a diplomatic visa to the United States. Chad Decker’s voice proclaims “It’s a bright new day in America…” as we move outside the Peac...
TV – Recap: Glee, Episode S1:10 Ballad
I haven’t done any Glee re-caps because I don’t know most of the songs they sing every week, but this show, just wow. Once again they hit it completely out of the park for another home run episode. This week’s episode centers around Quinn ...
Television: Sneak Peek at Supernatural S5.10 Abandon All Hope
Sam and Dean Winchester move on from hanging out at a convention with fans all eager to ‘live the supernatural hunter’s life’ to facing down their most dreaded enemy this season..Lucifer!! Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen ...
TV Recap: Sam and Dean Winchester Have a Conventional Experience: Commentary on S5.09 The Real Ghost Busters
The CW Network is still pleased as punch about how well Supernatural season five is doing in the ratings and had the following to say in a press release dated November 18, 2009: SUPERNATURAL matched its best adults 18-34 (1.5/4) performanc...
TV RECAP: Legend of the Seeker: Baneling – What the Mark Means!
After a rapid fire “previously on…” segment, we see Richard running his fingers over the Keeper’s mark – drawing Kahlan’s attention. When she asks if it hurts, she tells him that being marked by the Keeper is not nothing! Richard ignor...
TELEVISION: Syfy Picks Up Home Made Sitcom Outer Space Astronauts!
And now for something completely different – Outer Space Astronauts, a sci-fi sitcom that mixes CG and live action in a new and twisted way. The series, which premieres on Syfy on December 8th, is a futuristic comedy series about eight vaguely...
Television: Sneak Peek at Supernatural 5.09 The Real Ghostbusters
Last week in Supernatural 5.08 Changing Channels, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (the recently engaged Jensen Ackles) found themselves tossed into TVland by their old nemesis The Trickster (Richard Speight Jr.). Being the nasty prank...
TV Recap: V: There Really Isn’t Normal Anymore!
The second episode of V opens literally seconds after the conclusion of the premiere with Father Jack and Erica sitting on that roof. A V shuttle flies by and the follow it to the scene of the underground’s meeting. The aliens are cleaning up ...
TV Recap: Legend of the Seeker – Marked: When is a Victory not a Victory?
In the first season of Legend of the Seeker, Richard Cypher [Craig Horner] was named The True Seeker by the Wizard of the First Order, Zeddicius Zu’l Zorander [Bruce Spence] and with the aid of Mother Confessor Kahlan Amnell, fulfilled the proph...
Television: Sophia Bush Takes Over One Tree Hill Director’s Chair
First it was veteran One Tree Hill actor James Lafferty who took over as director in the S7.07 episode “I and Love and You”, which ironically enough was also a very pivotal episode in the seventh season storyline for his character Na...
Television: CW Gives Out an Advance Look at Supernatural S5.08 Changing Channels And It’s A Tricky Ride For Sam and Dean Winchester!
Supernatural on the CW had a good week last week with the airing of S5.07 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester SUPERNATURAL Hits Season High in Adults 18-34 and Adults 18-49; Delivers Second Largest Audience of the Season. At 9:00PM The CW’s SUP...
TV Recap: V; There is No More Normal; Cue The Lizard Men!
What a morning! FBI Counter Terrorism Agent Erica Evans [Elizabeth Mitchell] awakens to a rumble that might be taken to be the harbinger of an earthquake and discovers her son, Tyler [Logan Huffman], hasn’t been home all night. The rumble inten...
