Watching the Toob With Our Brains Turned On
Once upon a time, there were only two seasons on TV: Fall and Summer. Now, things being what they are, we should just be honest and admit that there are four. Forget this “mid-season premiere” fallacy. If we’re luck, a season these days is 12 episodes. Shows that do 20+ episodes a year are, effectively, [...]
Okay, we’re now a few weeks into the new season and everything I planned on watching has premiered. Some of it has been very good, some of it has been very bad, and some of it is already gone. Here’s a look at what wasn’t covered last time. How to be a Gentleman (CBS – [...]
Since I’ve been quite remiss in reviewing things anywhere outside of Twitter and in person lately (like, for the past few seasons), I thought I’d round up some quick thoughts on what I’ve seen of the new 2011 Fall Season of shows so far. The beginning of the season is always a busy time for [...]
Looks like SyFy is aiming to cash in on the still strong Battlestar Galactica fanbase. The new series, Blood and Chrome, sits nicely between the immensely popular reboot of the cult classic BSG series and the still trying to find it’s foothold Caprica. As they describe it: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome takes place in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]