Posts with tag Angel
Posted Jun 25th 2008 8:04PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Retro Squad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Okay, I'm a fan of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and
Angel, but not a normal one. I've read all the
comic books for both properties and seen the original movie that launched the phenomenon about three times over the years. And yet, for some reason I've never seen a full episode of either show.
When
Buffy first came out, I lived in a city that didn't have The WB. And by the time it was available to me I was already several years behind, and I hate coming into the middle of something. Then, for whatever reason, it has remained on my "to do" list over the years.
So where does that leave me for the Retro Squad
Buffy/Angel week? I want to participate, but in a way I'm a newbie to the show. So how about you guys tell me a good episode to immerse myself into the world of the
Buffy-verse? In fact, maybe one from each show? I'm hearing from the Squad that 'Hush' is a good candidate.
Continue reading Wanted: Buffy/Angel episode(s) to watch
Posted Jun 25th 2008 2:30PM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Retro Squad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Yesterday, we delved into
seasons one through four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's birthday episodes. Let's just say you really, really don't want to celebrate Buffy's birthday with her, as catastrophe, drama, and heartache are always center stage.
Season Five, episode 13, "Blood Ties"Buffy's 20th birthday goes no better than the previous ones. "Blood Ties" is all about how Buffy and Dawn share the same blood, "Summers blood," even though Dawn was created by monks to be The Key. Yes, it was a somewhat syrupy solution to Dawn's incessant whining in this episode, but it is so important for the resolution to the season, and the defeat of Glory, the Big Bad (Buffy can die instead of Dawn to save the world. Again.).
Continue reading Buffy's not-so-happy birthdays (part two)
Posted Jun 23rd 2008 9:20AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Retro Squad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Reality-Free
Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of classic TV shows.
When one of our favorite TV shows goes off the air, it can be devastating. However, many times, the cancellation is the birth of a spinoff. Sometimes it can be a great thing (Frasier) and sometimes not so much (AfterM*A*S*H). Here are some this month's spinoff ideas that I would love to see.
So you Think You're a Gentleman
Do you have the power to take away the ability of speech? Can you make it look like you're floating while walking? Are you one of the creepiest looking people in the world? Then you might be just what "The Gentlemen" are looking for. "The Gentlemen" from the Emmy winning Buffy episode 'Hush' are looking for a new member and you may be him. Please send in a videotape of yourself flashing your creepiest smile and detailing what makes you the only choice to be the next Gentleman. Hosted by Doug Jones
Continue reading Five Buffy/Angel spinoffs I would like to see
Posted Jun 23rd 2008 8:06AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Our Monday morning roundup of a half dozen things TV Squad readers - and TV fans in general - will be talking about this week.
1. Wipeout and I Survived A Japanese Game Show: Next season the Japanese will come over here and star in I Survived The Jerry Springer Show. (Tuesday at 8pm on ABC.)
2. The strike: One more week to go before the deadline.
3. The Baby Borrowers: Stars Jamie Lynn Spears and these girls. (Wednesday at 9pm on NBC.)
4. Jimmy Kimmel on The View: He's dumped on them for years and now he's going to be on the show. Should be interesting. (This morning on ABC.)
5. Hey, it's Buffy/Angel Week!: Our retro summer continues with posts about Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel (and everything related to them).
6. Rescue Me minisodes: We really have to think of a better name for these things. (Starts Tuesday at 10pm.)
Posted May 30th 2008 9:02AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Industry, Reality-Free
As Roger Daltry once sang, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Tim Minear has signed a new seven figure deal that will keep him at 20th Century Fox TV for another two years. His job will continue to involve working on existing shows while developing new drama projects. He's now been at 20th for over a decade, counting among his credits The X-Files, Strange World, Angel, Firefly, Wonderfalls, The Inside, and Drive. Currently he is working as a consulting producer on Joss Whedon's upcoming Dollhouse.
Continue reading Tim Minear gets a new deal
Posted Apr 18th 2008 8:04AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Programming, Casting, Reality-Free
I am a true whore for any Whedon universe. I thank the Powers That Be for DVD releases, so I don't have to mourn over the loss of
Buffy,
Angel and
Firefly. Heck, I even watch
Toy Story and salivate just a little.
So you can imagine how excited I am that Joss will have a new series,
Dollhouse, and that glorious new details have been revealed about the series this week.
Earlier today Bob mentioned that Amy Acker (Fred / Ilyria on
Angel) will join Eliza Dushku (
Buffy's Faith) and Harry Lennix (
24 and
The Matrix). So far, an amazing lineup. The fact that I get to see some of my old Whedon universe friends back with Joss' work is very cool.
Continue reading Dollhouse plot details revealed
Posted Apr 17th 2008 3:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Angel, Casting, Reality-Free
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse is becoming the "it" show, the show everyone is looking forward to and talking about (unless, of course, you didn't like Buffy The Vampire Slayer or Firefly). We've already told you that Eliza Dushku was signed to star in the show and that Battlestar Galactica's Tahmoh Penikett had joined her (along with Dichen Lachman, Enver Gjokaj, and Fran Kranz from Welcome to the Captain, which I doubt will be back on CBS next season), and now comes word about other cast additions that will thrill fans of a show about a vampire (no, not this one).
Continue reading More Dollhouse casting announced
Posted Mar 23rd 2008 2:03PM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Bones, Watercooler Talk
Oh, the disparity with the television control in my house ... I suffer through
Prison Break,
Lost (I am probably the only non-fan in America, who cringes at the self-indulgence of the show with the plot that goes nowhere),
The Shield and Breaking Bad.
But when I want to watch
Bones? The moans, the groans, the laptop and the disinterest begin. Why is
Bones not allowed in Mantown?
Tell me men, why are you opposed to a show with a strong male lead character, who is well rounded, funny, good-looking, sensitive, somewhat damaged but complex and good at what he does? You surely can't be threatened by a TV character. My husband loved
Angel, so why is
Boreanaz not getting the love on
Bones?
Continue reading Why am I not allowed to watch Bones?
Posted Feb 25th 2008 1:03PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Retro Squad, TV Squad Lists
How good are you at spotting someone's true age? There's been a few times I've caught myself wondering how old that actor really is on TV, when they're playing someone my age and look ten years older. Do I really look that good? Then again, I've seen the opposite and thought, "damn, I am an old decrepit fart." In any case, I'll pull up IMDb and usually find myself in shock of how young/old the actor on-screen really is.
The whole actor-to-character age ratio thing got me curious, so I did a little research (with the help of some of the TV Squad team) and made a list of some of the more extreme and well-known (or, maybe to some, not-so-well-known) examples. By the way, we didn't include actors who played flashback scenes of their characters for short periods of time, as there are more of those than we have room for.
Continue reading Some big actor-to-character age differences on TV
Posted Feb 14th 2008 3:21PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Early Looks
It's been a while since my last review of a
Buffy season eight comic, and since then there's been other developments in the TV-on-comics front (we should have a category for that). Rather than dedicate separate posts to this news, I'll round everything up here, at least this time around.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - season eight - Issues #10 & #11These were stand-alone "episodes," unlike 'The Long Way Home' and 'No Future for You'. A few things are revealed here that help keep the Big Bad of this season in play. Willow has even more power than we could have realized in past seasons, and an unexpected person has a crush on Buffy. I really liked 'A Beautiful Sunset' (#11) more than any other issue, with a great moment where one of the main, masked antagonists is almost revealed. Classic Joss writing.
A new multi-part series kicks off March 5, written by veteran Drew Goddard.
Continue reading TV in comics update: Buffy, Angel, The Stranded and Serenity
Posted Dec 20th 2007 10:18AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, Festivus
It's that festive time of year when children put tinsel on the television antennas and hang mistletoe over their favorite DVDs. Where celebrities check into rehab to spend the holidays with all their celebrity friends. And where the rest of America is invited to corporate non-specific, non-religious, non-alcoholic generic winter holiday luncheons where they can mingle with their co-workers and say things like "Remember when this company used to have real Christmas parties?"
But while political correctness may have ruined most holiday functions, nothing can ruin Festivus! That magical season in which TV Squadders hope and pray for televisions dreams come true. And I know just what I want...
Continue reading All Jason wants for Festivus
Posted Nov 29th 2007 1:06PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, TCA Press Tour, TV Squad Lists, WGA Strike
What are you going to do? The Office, How I Met Your Mother, and even new shows like Pushing Daisies and Chuck are either out of fresh episodes or quickly running out. Well, you don't need to spend the "strike season" curled up in the corner of your bedroom crying through a pile of TV Guides, remembering the good old days when you didn't already know what was going to happen this week on House.
Television is alive and well, and even growing ... just somewhere else. Want to know what happened to Jack Bauer before Season One of 24? How about Buffy and the Scooby Gang after the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? More and more shows are expanding their horizons by telling prequels, sequels and even in-between-quels in comic books, or graphic novels.
Continue reading TV continues uninterrupted in comic books
Posted Nov 9th 2007 12:02PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Vs., Watercooler Talk, Angel, Moonlight
When
Moonlight first aired, TV fans couldn't help themselves but to compare the series with
Angel. Both series have a good looking vampire as its lead and said main character is an investigator. At first glance,
Moonlight's lead vampire, Mick St. John, may sound like an Angel clone. Let's compare, shall we?
Continue reading Angel Vs. Mick St. John
Posted Oct 29th 2007 6:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Angel - Collector's Set
- Arrest and Trial - Best Of
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 3
- The Benny Hill Show - Thames Years 1969-89 Megaset
- Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes - Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 5
- CSI: Miami - Season 5
- Checkmate - Best Of Season 1
- Cimarron City - Best Of
- Dark Shadows - The Beginning, Vol. 2
- Everybody Loves Raymond - Complete Series
- Family Affair - Season 4
- Family Guy - Freakin' Party Pack
- Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 (Canada)
- Laredo - Best Of Season 1
- Magnum, P.I. - Season 7
- The Mickey Rooney Show - Hey Mulligan
- My So-Called Life - Complete Series
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Vol. 12
- October Road - Season 1
- The Outer Limits - Vol. 3
- The Real McCoys - Season 2
- Riptide - Season 2
- Riverboat - Best Of
- Scrubs - Season 6
- Sgt. Preston of the Yukon - Complete Collection
- Tate - The Complete Series
- Twin Peaks - Definitive Gold Box
Posted Oct 22nd 2007 10:02AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: TV on DVD, Contests and Giveaways, Angel
The giveaways continue today! Not only are we giving away
five copies of seasons one and two of Upright Citizens Brigade, we've also got
one copy of the Angel Complete Series Collector's Set for a lucky, random commenter. The set is available in stores on October 30.
To enter, simply leave a comment below before 5:00PM Eastern, Friday, November 2 (yes, that's two weeks), simply telling us your favorite episode from the series. As always, we'll randomly choose one winner amongst the eligible entries. Some other details:
- To enter, leave a confirmed comment below stating your favorite episode of Angel.
- The comment must be left before November 2, 2007 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
- You may enter only once.
- One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
- One winner will receive a copy of Angel - Complete Series Collector's Set DVDs (valued at $139.98).
Click here for complete Official Rules.
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