Posted May 17th 2008 1:07PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free
Apparently,
NBC Universal wants to make more Battlestar Galactica television movies like Razor, possibly as soon as this summer. According to Maureen Ryan of the
Chicago Tribune, discussions have just started regarding this.
Ronald Moore has stated that
Battlestar Galactica in its current format would not be continued after this season. Given the death rate of the surviving humans, I wonder if any of the characters will be left to film after the season's end. My guess is that the TV movies would serve as filler for what could be a long delay between the first and second halves of season four.
What keeps
Battlestar Galactica intriguing is that, much like
Lost, you never know who will be alive or dead by the end of the episode. This makes for exciting storytelling.
On the other hand, the TV movies could simply be tie-ins to the upcoming prequel series
Caprica. What do you think the TV movies would be about?
Posted May 17th 2008 12:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Programming, Daytime, Talk Show
ABC in turning things around on
The View -- at least for one day. In what a cynic might call a stunt,
The View is going to broadcast one show from the next two weeks from backstage. Essentially, what they're doing, is a rerun, but in a way you never saw the show.
On Friday, May 30, the experimental episode will show how
The View is made, by lifting the curtain so you can see how the magic happens. They've chosen to show the upside down, backstage
View on that Friday - and don't worry about marking it in your calendar. You can expect plenty of reminders from Barbara Walters (if she's there), Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. With all that behind the scenes footage, only half of the show as seen originally -- from the camera's point of view -- will be seen.
Continue reading The View to try a new point of view
Posted May 17th 2008 11:31AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free
Fox has released the
first official cast photo for the new series Dollhouse created by
Buffy and
Firefly mastermind Joss Whedon. The background appears to the be the set of "Dollhouse" itself (where all the agents to have new personalities and skills implanted are kept).
It looks like the Kens and Barbies aren't even allowed to have footwear while they're not working. Eliza Dushku, who plays the lead named Echo, is standing in the center. To the left is Tahmoh Penikett, better known as the actor playing Helo on
Battlestar Galactica. I don't recognize the two standing on either side of Dushku. To the right is Fran Kranz who just starred in
Welcome to the Captain, Olivia Williams of
Sixth Sense and
Rushmore, and Harry Lennix from the
Matrix movies.
Absent from the picture is Amy Acker, who played Winnifred Burkle on Whedon's previous series
Angel, but her role is only recurring and not technically a cast member.
I'm looking forward this series.
Posted May 17th 2008 11:03AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Numb3rs, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E18) "I connected you to a dangerous terrorist in three links." - Charlie
I've got to say - four seasons into Numb3rs and I can't believe we got a story like this now. Brother vs. brother. As Alan said, it had to happen sooner or later. It's just such an obvious plot that I figured it would have been sooner. Better late than never I guess. That being said, I suppose we could have done without it. Blame the WGA strike, but this episode felt like a lot of stuff just randomly thrown together to make it sort of season finale-ish. Anti-climactic at best.
Continue reading Numb3rs: When Worlds Collide (season finale)
Posted May 17th 2008 10:05AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, Video, Pickups and Renewals, Early Looks, Upfronts, Reality-Free
It looks like someone took the effort to create a Flash player with embedded videos of many of the upcoming new fall shows. Included are clips from
Dollhouse,
Fringe,
Life on Mars,
The Eleventh Hour, Scrubs, The Cleveland Show, The Goode Family (pictured right) as well as several others. I only had a chance to look at some of them. The previews aren't of all the new shows available in the fall (NBC only has one preview), but it's still quite a few. Which ones are missing?
Embedded videos after the jump
Continue reading All the new shows - VIDEOS
Posted May 17th 2008 9:02AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: News, TV Royalty, Web, Celebrities, Reality-Free
And
90210 makes the news again this week! But I don't mind because I can never get enough
Bevelry Hills, 90210 (or
Bev as I affectionately call it).
Ian Ziering will be developing webisodes with social-networking titan MySpace. These web shorts will be based on
Man Vs. Monday, a film Ziering directed, produced and even starred in two years ago. The webisodes will be about an office slacker who has trouble getting through his Mondays after his crazy weekends.
Why the choice to develop the shows with MySpace? "In the entertainment industry there remains one constant: change. I believe the digital world presents tremendous opportunities for the producers who understand it, and I am launching a digital production company, iMan Productions, to take advantage of this opportunity," Ziering told a press conference. Is he on to something here?
Ziering will also star opposite Heather Graham and Jerry O'Connell in the comedy
Baby on Board to be released later this year.
Posted May 17th 2008 12:25AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Episode Reviews, Moonlight, Reality-Free
(
S01E16)
"Leeroy Jenkins!!!!"-- Logan Griffen
I deliberately chose a humorous quote to help us say farewell to
Moonlight, rather than a more somber one. But other quotes in the running were: "Can my code name be Lando Calrissian?" and "It's going to be a freaking vampire apocalypse." It is not a spoiler but a fact that
CBS decided earlier this week not to pick up
Moonlight for a second season. The fat lady hasn't finished quite singing yet, though: Our own
Brett Love reported that Nikke Fink thinks the CW might pick up the show after all. So, keep your eyes pealed for that possible announcement.
In the meantime, however, we have the season (and, thus far, series) finale to contend with. I don't know whether the writers suspected that the series would be ending, but surely they knew (along with everyone else) that the show was on the bubble. So, they ended the season in a manner that would provide some closure for us all, while also keeping things open in case it was continued. I, for one, appreciate that.
Continue reading Moonlight: Sonata (series finale) - VIDEO
Posted May 17th 2008 12:02AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Doctor Who, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E05) Yet another classic
Doctor Who villain gets an update. This time it's the Sontarans in their first television appearance in 23 years.
For a revision, it's actually pretty accurate to the original series. The only difference with the Sontarans now is that they're all short. This is actually an improvement on the original series since they've always been from a heavy gravity world yet appeared at normal size (which always struck me as a little odd, unless the Sontarans we've seen historically were the professional wrestler versions).
Continue reading Doctor Who: The Sontaran Strategem
Posted May 16th 2008 11:55PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E07) I'm going to go out on a limb (no pun ... oh hell, pun intended) and assume it's not a huge spoiler to mention the fate of Gaeta's leg here, before the jump. Most people in last week's poll thought it was "as good as gone," and they were right. The songs Gaeta sang in the infirmary, along with the haunting music of
Bear McCreary, were very well done. While we have some minor (and sometimes major) characters dying episode-to-episode, not so much feeling has been put into them as has been with Gaeta's amputation. Sad, yet beautiful.
OK, that was a bit creepy, but you get where I'm coming from.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Guess What's Coming To Dinner
Posted May 16th 2008 7:02PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: American Idol, Contestants, Predictions and Trends, News and Gossip
It's getting closer. On Wednesday, America will crown the next
Idol winner. Which David will it be? Of course, these two polar opposites have sparked some debate online as to who will win the competition.
Okay, is someone holding down Jeff Archuleta? According to E! Online,
the oddmakers at BetCRIS.com have chosen David Cook to take the title Wednesday night. As per the online bookies, Cook has a 74% chance of winning this season of
American Idol.
But E! Online makes a good point about Archuleta's young quick-dialing fanbase: "Of course, last we checked, Gambling 101 was not a part of a grade schooler's course load, meaning the actual voting demographic might not jibe with the oddmakers' pick and it still could be anybody's contest."
So, who are you voting for? Who do you think will win
American Idol? Better yet, who do you think
deserves to win
American Idol this season? Check back with TV Squad for our review of the big night.
Posted May 16th 2008 6:07PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Casting
TLC has a new competition series called Master of Dance (worst title ever). The show will test dancers' skills by changing the song mid-performance to measure the breadth of their repertoire and the level of their creativity. This sounds a little too much like
Freezedance but for prize money. The grand prise is $50,000 to be exact.
Joey Lawrence will host and there will be three judges: Lucinda Dickey (
Solid Gold,
Breakin'), Tyce Diorio (choreographer on
So You Think You Can Dance), and Loni Love (comedienne voted one of Comedy Central's Top 20 Comics to Watch in 2008).
Continue reading Joey Lawrence is hosting a new dance show for TLC
Posted May 16th 2008 5:42PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Desperate Housewives, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Michael Weinfeld of the Associated Press was able to sit down with television's most neurotic homemaker. Marcia Cross, who plays Bree Hodge on
Desperate Housewives, dished about
this Sunday's big finale event. The muffin-baking, rose bush-pruning domestic diva told all about what happens to herself and the other inhabitants of Wisteria Lane.
SPOILER ALERT: Marcia Cross talks about the Desperate Housewives finale after the jump. Continue reading Marcia Cross dishes about Desperate Housewives finale
Posted May 16th 2008 5:22PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Word on the street yesterday was that the
90210 spin-off
executive producers were thinking of actor Rob Estes to portray Harry Mills, a father who relocates his family in Beverly Hills to take care of his alcoholic mother. The show had yet to find an actor to play the pivotal role and they were now getting ready to just hand it on a silver platter to a "name" actor.
The stars quickly aligned (read here that Rob Estes became available since ABC canceled
Women's Murder Club) and
the actor will join the already beautiful 90210 cast.
Continue reading Rob Estes joins 90210 as predicted
Posted May 16th 2008 5:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Here's who's on the late night shows tonight.
- Charlie Rose: Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez
- The Late Show with David Letterman: Teri Hatcher and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Jay Leno: Matthew Fox and Kathleen Edwards
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Ryan Seacrest and Clay Aiken
- Tavis Smiley: Barbara Walters and Daniel Beaty
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Alan Alda, John Cena, and Everest
- The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Reba McEntire and Vinnie Jones
- Last Call with Carson Daly: Daryl Hannah and Josh Kelley (repeat)
Posted May 16th 2008 4:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Reality-Free
I know, I know -- a lot of you are shrugging and saying "so?"
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that if ratings don't improve for the last place network, buzz is that The CW could actually vanish next year. Ratings in the 18-49 demographic are down 28%, and the ratings for the May sweeps are down 22%. I guess Gossip Girl just isn't enough to prop up an entire network, and they just lost Friday Night Smackdown, not to mention that Smallville, Supernatural, and Reaper are probably going into their last seasons.
Continue reading Watch The CW or it could be gone next year
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