Author: Kier Duros
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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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Marble Hornets: A Virtual Mystery
Perhaps my favorite type of storytelling on the Internet. This one is only about three weeks and eight posts in. It’s suitably creepy and engaging enough to keep me wondering where it’s going… at least for now. More to come… (when I finally have time to write about things again…)
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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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Three claws down for X-Men Origins: Wolverine
I could spend hours poking and picking at the things they changed from the comic book continuity I grew up on and loved. I could lament the lack of some of my favorite story bits and the light touch they gave others. I could do all that, but, when it comes to X-Men Origins: Wolverine…
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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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Kings: Watch it
This past Sunday, NBC aired the first episode of their new series Kings. It tells the tale of the kingdom of Gilboa, pulled together from beaten and broken territories after the Unification War and built over the course of a generation into one of the most powerful and prosperous kingdoms in the land. But all…
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Push
Got back a little while ago from seeing Push. Not a bad film, but definitely not as advertised. If you’ve seen the ads, it’s being billed as “the first real action film of the year” or some such. Let me be the first to tell you, Push is not an action film. It’s got a…
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Tonights Schedule Proves One of Two Things
Either Fox has given up on 24 or it’s been decided that The Golden Globe Awards are irrelevant to other networks. Usually, the big awards shows–Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes–and big sporting events clear the schedules of ever network that isn’t broadcasting them, relegating the prime time slots to reruns and movies. Not the case tonight…
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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…