Posts with tag buffy the vampire slayer
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 Mar 29th 2008 10:06AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
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Posted Mar 21st 2008 8:21AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: TV Royalty, Industry, Interviews, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
From March 14th to March 27th,
The Paley Center for Media is presenting the twentieth-fifth annual William S. Paley Television Festival. The Paley Center, formerly the Museum of Television and Radio, says that the festival celebrates "television's rich and diverse programming and the creative process behind the medium." This year the festival includes
Chuck, Friday Night Lights,
Pushing Daisies, and
Gossip Girl among others.
Last night, I attended the
Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion. For what happened during the panel discussion and some pictures, read on past the jump...
Continue reading Paley Festival: Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion
Posted Jan 25th 2008 2:45PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Dirty Sexy Money
There are very few times that I wish I lived in Los Angeles (I'm a cold weather guy). This is one of them.
The annual William S. Paley Television Festival kicks off on March 14 (at its new home at Hollywood's Cinerama Dome) and runs through the 27th, and it looks like a lot of great shows are going to be celebrated during those two weeks. Already announced are panels that will reunite the cast from Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, as well as nights devoted to Chuck, Mad Men, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, Elvis Presley, and Judd Apatow. And there are still more events to be announced next week.
Continue reading Buffy cast to reunite at Paley Festival
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 Oct 2nd 2007 9:20AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, Stargate, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel
So let's say you had an extra $900 lying around and you really loved science fiction shows. What DVDs would you buy?
Amazon is making your decision a little bit easier for you. They have a special bundle for sale, nine different FOX/MGM shows at 49% off. OK, it's still a little pricey at $900 (you could probably put that money toward your rent), but look at what you get: the Buffy, The Vampire Slayer Collector's Set, The Angel Collector's Set, The X-Files Ultimate Collection, all ten Stargate: SG-1 seasons and all three Stargate Atlantis seasons, all four seasons of The Pretender (plus the movies), all three seasons of Roswell, both seasons of Dark Angel, and Firefly: The Complete Series. Holy crap!
Continue reading Hey sci-fi fans, do you have an extra $900?
Posted Aug 25th 2007 12:39PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
Posted Jun 2nd 2007 4:00PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry
When CBS first announced their new show
Moonlight there were a lot of people out in tvland that raised an eyebrow. A vampire? Who just happens to be a private detective? Romantic drama with a mortal? It wasn't a tough jump to
Angel. I was willing to wait and see, because there are a lot of ways the show could go. It wouldn't necessarily have to be a rip-off of
Angel.Now comes word that in addition to recasting the female lead, the network has brought in David Greenwalt as Executive Producer/Showrunner. Yes, the same David Greenwalt who was a writer/producer for
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and is credited as co-creating
Angel. It's getting a little harder to give anyone involved the benefit of the doubt.
That doesn't mean the show isn't going to be good. I'd go so far as to say the addition of Greenwalt makes the show look like a more attractive option for your television viewing schedule. Along with the his
Buffy and
Angel work, he was also the showrunner for NBC's
Kidnapped, and ABC's
Miracles. While both of those shows came and went rather quickly, it wasn't because they were poorly made.
Posted Apr 28th 2007 11:35AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Commercials, Web, Celebrities
Long before he was turning into a werewolf on Buffy or creating puppets on Robot Chicken, Seth Green had a really bad haircut.
After the jump is a video of a 1992 commercial for a Nerf slingshot. It features Green and another kid going around a mall, trying to pick up chicks. They decide to use their Nerf slingshots to shoot the girls in the face, which I guess was the most effective flirting technique back in the day. In the process, they also kill a mime.
Judging from the hair and the clothing, the video looks like it's from the 80s, but it's not. The youngest I've ever seen Green was in a mid-80s episode of Spenser: For Hire. He had normal hair then.
[via Cracked.com]
Continue reading Seth Green loves Nerf balls - VIDEO
Posted Mar 23rd 2007 7:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Supernatural, The CW
(S02E17) I was looking forward to this episode for two reasons, only one of which panned out. First, like Dean said, "Werewolves are badass." From
American Werewolf in London right up to the recent
Dresden Files episode "Hair of the Dog," I like stories involving werewolves. "Heart" can now take a well deserved spot in that long line of lycanthropic entertainment.
Continue reading Supernatural: Heart
Posted Dec 23rd 2006 10:17AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Game Show
To me,
Jeopardy! is the quintessential game show. At the end of a game, I walk away with a sense of awe that those three people could truly have the brains to retain such an amazing amount of information, then be put in front of millions of people to blurt pieces of it out on demand and faster than two other people -- in the form of a question, to boot. I'd often wonder how one could possibly prepare to be faced with that kind of pressure and what kind of unfathomable studying one would have to do to qualify for that show, never mind actually win. Several times.
Jane Espenson, who as some of you know has been extremely courteous enough to give
her insights into her recent writings for
Battlestar Galactica, sent me a copy of a book that opened my mind to the world of one very successful contestant on the greatest game show in the world,
Bob Harris. That book is
Prisoner of Trebekistan.
Continue reading Prisoner of Trebekistan: The TV Squad review
Posted Dec 19th 2006 11:05AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Festivus
As a big gadget and techno geek, I've got enough things on my wish list to cover many pages and many years on this site, but as you've no doubt already noticed with these lists here, "what we want for Festivus" covers an entirely different kind of list. Here are a few of my picks for this holiday season.
A satisfying Buffy Season 8 -- The first issue is due out in March, and as any fan of the
Buffy series knows, Joss is very involved in the writing for this series. I'm just really hoping it lives up to what fans would expect from a true season eight TV season, leading to possibly more within the true canon of the series.
Continue reading All Keith wants for Festivus
Posted Dec 6th 2006 10:27AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Battlestar Galactica, Interviews, Celebrities, Sci Fi
I can't begin to thank Jane enough for taking time out to answer some of your questions regarding the
Battlestar Galactica episode she wrote for this Friday: 'The Passage'. It's likely I'll have more questions to ask once we've all been able to watch it, and if you've got any of your own then, be sure to ask them in the comments of my episode review Friday night/Saturday morning.
Read on after the jump for your questions and Jane's responses!
Continue reading Jane Espenson answers your Battlestar questions
Posted Nov 22nd 2006 2:52PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, The Five
Before I start my list, let me get one thing out of the way: these are the
TV related things I'm thankful for this year. I felt I had to get that out of the way because I might come across as a cold-hearted bastard for not going on and on about my family, my dog, my job, etc. -- all that I'm definitely thankful for. OK, now I feel better.
1. Prison Break will end after a 3rd season. Well, at least this is what FOX has said in the past. This is one of those shows that, despite all of its imperfections and unrealistic points, I can't stop watching it. The fact that the show will supposedly end after a third season makes me realize there's a light at the end of that tunnel. It's sort of like in
Shawshank Redemption, when Tim Robbins' character shuffles through a pipe full of raw sewage to get to freedom.
Continue reading The Five: What Keith is thankful for
Posted Nov 10th 2006 4:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Celebrities
I'm not sure what is more infuriating about
this article, the fact that they try to convince us that the phrase "not so much" was first used on
Mad About You and
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, or the fact that anyone in the world actually thought that the phrase "yada yada yada" was invented by the people at
Seinfeld.
When you get older, you begin to realize how fast pop culture moves and what a short memory a lot of people have when it comes to TV shows, movies, and music. I (and other people I know) was using the phrase "not so much" in the 1980s, so it must have been around even before then. And as for "Yada yada yada," the article does point out that it was used by Lenny Bruce in the 60s, and I bet that it didn't originate with him.
Continue reading Buffy did not invent the phrase "not so much"
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