Month: June 2008
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Everyone! Sing along!
If you’re even a passing fan of anything Joss Whedon has done (Buffy, Firefly, the upcoming Dollhouse series, etc.), you’ve probably already heard of his latest project. It’s a little ditty called Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. And it looks like it’s going to be a tremendous amount of fun. Of course, it’s a musical. Even…
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Celebrity Circus
Tonight, NBC premiers it’s new “reality” show, Celebrity Circus. I, of course, won’t be watching it. (I’ll be watching a much more worthwhile “reality” show, Ghosthunters.) Here’s the thing about what I’ve seen of this show just from the previews–I’ve already seen a better version of this a decade or three ago. It was called…
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Swingtown Starts With Fireworks
After being horribly disappointed by the Thursday night show I actually watched in real time, I was slightly hesitant to queue up Swingtown on the DVR. Very quickly, that hesitation turned to elation. This show could be really good. Yes, sex and swinging was a sizable part of this introductory episode. But it was done…
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Nothing to Fear in Fear Itself
I won’t say I had high hopes for NBC’s Fear Itself, but I did have moderate ones. And still, I’m disappointed. After a promising beginning, the first installment of the new anthology series, The Sacrifice, quickly degraded into a melange of same-old, same-old flat characters and sad excuses for plot twists. We won’t even talk…
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New On Thursday: Fear Itself and Swingtown
The new summer season kicks off Thursday night with the debuts of two new shows at 10 p.m. On NBC you have Fear Itself, a horror anthology series in the vein of Tales from the Crypt. Each week the hour will be dedicated to a single story. The show was created by Mick Garris, best…