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Three down, don’t know how many to go…
Just watched three of the new season pilots from ABC that are up on Hulu (The Trophy Wife, The Goldbergs, and Back in the Game). The good news is, that’s an hour and a half a week of new shows I won’t have to worry about watching ever again. Now, don’t get me wrong. None…
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
This wasn’t one of the movies I’d really planned on seeing in theaters, let alone on it’s opening weekend. But an old friend was in town and, after dinner, we decided to hit up a movie. Of everything that was playing that neither of us had seen, we chose Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, kind of…
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Dark Shadows Returns, Will Burton Make it Work?
In case you haven’t heard, Tim Burton is coming out with another film where Johnny Depp is playing a pale, maladapated man who’s completely out of place even among the not-quite-normal people around him. This time around, it’s in a reboot of classic horror soap opera Dark Shadows. I grew up having vague memories of…
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A Conspicuous Copyright Casualty – Chrysler’s Superbowl Ad
Like millions of other people, I watched the Superbowl on Sunday. Like a good bunch of those people, I really don’t care about football. I watched it for the commercials. Now, some of the best ones made their appearance days before the Big Game (which I think was a mistake). Luckily, there were some other…
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Winter Season 2011-2012: New Shows
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,…
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Fall Season 2011: More Reviews
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 –…
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The 2011 Fall Season: New Shows
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…
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Monster Factory: Puppet-filled Fun
What do you get when you put a few little green monsters in a high school? Well, in the real world you’d probably get mass hysteria. In animated form, probably something akin of Invader Zim. But if those monsters are puppets and the rest of the student population isn’t, then you get Monster Factory. Here,…
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Frak Me: New BSG Series On Deck
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…
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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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And I’ll Form The Head!
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…
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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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