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Watching Stuff With Our Brains Turned On

Month: June 2010

  • And I’ll Form The Head!

    Well, it looks like Voltron is coming back. Next year Nickelodeon and Paramount (and, of course, Mattel) will introduce a whole new generation to a multi-colored team of five robot lions that get together to form one of the most bad-ass plantetary defenders this side of Robotech. I hope it gets done well… Voltron was…

  • New Season of Torchwood, Only on Starz?

    According to this article at Scifi Wire, there will, indeed, be a new season of Torchwood hitting the BBC. (Something that was a little doubtful after the crushing, but amazingly played, events of the last miniseries.) Thing is, it won’t be showing up in the US anywhere other than the pay cable channel Starz. This…

  • Soul Fire Rising

    The more one bounces around online, the more little interesting things one comes across. This bit of new online series came my way via Kelly Stables Twitter account, most recently recognizable as part of the cast of Romantically Challenged, the very hastily (and unfortunately) canceled sitcom headlined by Alyssa Milano. Stables is a producer on…

  • Alias reboot? Already?

    According to this little tidbit from SciFiWire, JJ Abrams is in talks to reboot Alias on TV… except without the semi-mystical Rimbaldi backstory that motivated both the good guys and the bad guys. My question is: what’s the point? First of all, the show hasn’t been off the air that long. Secondly, without Rimbaldi behind…