Category: Commentary
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More Balanced Commerical Sound Almost Mandated
For those of us who still watch TV real time (sometimes), there’s good news coming in from Washington. It’s about to be mandated that the volume of commercials be comparable to the volume of the show they appear during. That means no more having to clap your hands over your ears when a car commercial […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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NBC-Comcast Merger: Bad for Us?
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 […]
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New Season Checkup
Things in the world outside of that box in front of my couch have kept me a bit behind on much of the new season and a wee bit too busy to get down most of my thoughts. So, here you go, in a short-ish format. Heroes is wobbling along, sometimes more steady than others. […]
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New Season Kicks Off With a Deluge
Well, The Emmys are done with and that means every network (other than the CW, which doesn’t seem to care about the Emmys) launches their new seasons full-on in the next week or two. Monday Monday night finds about half of my stable of favorite shows coming back. Of course, they all overlap. Two hour […]
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NBC Gives up on Kings
Not too terribly long ago, I was singing the praises of Kings, by far one of the most literary things to hit network TV in a while. After running four relatively unpromoted episodes on Sunday nights, NBC let the show skip a week before showling this past week’s episode on Saturday at 8 p.m. Not […]
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Time shifting dillemma
Like many of the more savvy and dedicated (or just busy) television watchers out there, I tend to time shift a good half to two thirds of what I watch. That’s mostly because bunches of it is on major networks during prime time. As anyone who knows me is surely aware, I love my TV […]
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Smallville: Let me get this straight…
As of this season of Smallville we have: Most of the stories taking place in Metropolis Clark working at The Daily Planet With Lois and an obvious romantic interest in him on her part Is it just me, or does that make it Lois and Clark more than Smallville? Also, no Lex or Lionel Luther […]
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History Repeats Itself
On a lazy Sunday, I’ve been going back through some things on the good ol’ DVR. One of them is a History Channel documentary about the lost pyramid in Egypt, about five miles outside of Giza. Interesting bit of detective work to piece things together. But that’s not what I’m going to talk about. The […]