Month: September 2008
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October Season Starters: Previews and Predictions
Continuing on with the look at the fall season, we slip quietly into October. (If you’re playing along with the home game, all this is coming from this TV Guide.com calendar which is exceptionally useful.) Pushing Daisies (ABC, 8 p.m., Wednesdays) This show really hit the spot last season. It was whimsical, quirky, uplifting and,…
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Gemini Division
Genetically engineered terrorists, superscience and heavy doses of corporate sponsorship from Microsoft, Cisco and Intel. That’s what you get from Gemini Division, an online/On Demand series from NBC and Electric Farm Entertainment. Well that and a pretty good story starring Rosario Dawson as a NYC cop who gets drawn into an international conspiracy of secret…
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Difficult Night
Tonight’s one of those nights my digital recorders will be doing overtime. NBC is doing a three hour Heroes extravaganza starting with a catchup lead-in at 8 p.m. and then two hours of new episode. After faltering a bit last season, I still have high hopes for Heroes to wow me in those two new…
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TrueBlood – Vampires that don’t suck
The season premier of the new HBO series True Blood quite pleasantly surprised me. After last season’s less than spectacular experience with Moonlight, I was really wary of another vampire series. Even if it was from the same guy who gave us Six Feet Under and starred Anna Paquin. Was it going to be a…
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90210 Redux
Along with what I would suspect was millions of people much younger than I am, I tuned in to catch the series premier of 90210 on The CW. I have to say, it was a lot better than I expected. Granted, I’ve got this huge nostalgia bank saved up from the first few years of…