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 [...]
Review and Coming Attractions
March 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
New monthly bit here. Just a quick note catching up and looking ahead. A kind of regular check and balance to make sure things are moving in some direction that vaguely resembles “forward.” In Review Things have been kind of quiet here. Many other concerns have kept me from getting to the backlog of reviews [...]
Trenches: Worth the Wait
February 16, 2010 By 2 Comments
Trenches Finally Sees the Light of Day
January 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A few years ago, my friend Kelley was involved in the production of a sci-fi series called Trenches that really piqued my interest. It was an online series with some pretty hefty backing (Disney/ABC) about a bunch of space marines shooting it out on an alien planet when things go from bad to worse. Unfortunately, [...]
Karate Kid – We’ve Changned Almost Everything
December 24, 2009 By 1 Comment
First, go and watch this trailer for the new Karate Kid movie staring Jacki Chan and Wil Smith’s talented son Jaden. If this weren’t being billed as The Karate Kid, I don’t think it would be that bad. My problem is that, once again, we’ve taken everything except the most very basic story idea (kid [...]
Friday the 13th (2009): Just Die Already
December 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
To say I didn’t hold out a whole lot of hope for the reboot of the Friday the 13th franchise would only be a slight understatement. I was relatively happy with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, so seeing the same team involved kept my expectations from being totally negative. There was some small spark of [...]
New Scrubs? Not Quite.
December 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Just finished watching the first two episodes of the new season of Scrubs on ABC. I think that’ll be the last time I’ll be watching it for a while. I’ve been a bit of a Scrubs fan since it first hit the airwaves. It was different, creative, and populated with solid actors playing horrendously quirky [...]
NBC-Comcast Merger: Bad for Us?
December 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
It looks like Comcast is well on its way to becoming part-owner of NBC-Universal. According to a post at the New York Time DealBook blog: General Electric has reached a tentative agreement to buy Vivendi’s 20 percent stake in NBC Universal for about $5.8 billion, helping clear the path to a sale of the television [...]
The Prisoner: Be Confusing You.
November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I finally got around to watching the remaining four hours of AMC’s new version of The Prisoner. After watching the first two hours when they ran last week, I can’t say I was terribly impressed. It had potential, sure, but it was missing something. And it seemed a bit more surreal at times than the [...]
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 [...]