Category: Television
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New Scrubs? Not Quite.
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 […]
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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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The Prisoner: Be Confusing You.
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 […]
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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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Farscape finally hits DVD in a big set
According to Movieweb.com, come November, Farscape will finally be available in one complete box set. Some of us have been waiting a very long time for this. Twice before the series started to get released, first in bulky, expensive, partial season boxes then in the more streamlined, slightly less expensive, and no less partial “Starburst” […]
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Dating in the Dark a Bright Spot Among Reality Shows
Have you ever fallen for someone without even knowing what they look like? Maybe it was on the phone or, more likely these days, over the Internet. Even then, imagine not seeing a picture of them at all until just before it’s time to make the decision to date them in the real world or […]
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Virtuality – The Real World: Deep Space
Fox just ran a two-hour TV movie that’s obviously a set up for a series. I think it would be a pretty good one. Virtuality is set on board the first deep-space exploration vessel Phaeton. The crew has been picked for their various areas of expertise… and how interesting they’ll be on camera. See, part […]
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V to return to TV
One of my all-time favorite “mini-series events” was the original V–a story about aliens showing up, offering the hand of friendship, and enriching the lives of all on Earth. Well, almost all. All except the ones they were planning on eating, manipulating or enslaving (to eat later). After that first mini-series, there was a second […]
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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 […]