Posts with tag DayBreak
Posted Apr 21st 2008 2:38PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Journeyman, Reality-Free
Did you even know there was going to be a fourth film in the Terminator series? Yup, and it's going to star Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, and Anton Yelchin (Huff and Chekov in the new Star Trek movie). Sorry, Arnold Schwarzenegger is busy being the Governor of California, but there another name added to the cast, and what a cool name it is.
Moon Bloodgood, who played Livia in Journeyman and Rita in the short-lived Daybreak, is about to sign on to the new sci-fi movie, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. The film will be directed by McG (he directed the Charlie's Angels big screen movie) and is the first film in a planned trilogy. Bale will play John Connor (currently played by Thomas Dekker on FOX's The Sarah Connor Chronicles)., fighting evil robots after most of mankind has been destroyed. I have no idea if this plot will make sense with what is currently going on in the FOX show (or in the previous movies, for that matter), but thinking too much about all of it will give you a headache anyway, so just accept whatever happens.
Posted Apr 20th 2007 8:30AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Supernatural, Episode Reviews
(S02E18) They don't do much in the way of developing the big mysteries, but I do like it when the
Supernatural team takes time out to have some fun. Such was the case this week with "Hollywood Babylon." If it was the overall style of the show, I don't think it would work nearly as well. But as an every once in a while thing, these tongue-in-cheek, laugh at yourself, episodes are a fun diversion from the norm. Although, I would have preferred to see this one and "Tall Tales" separated a little more on the schedule.
Continue reading Supernatural: Hollywood Babylon
Posted Apr 9th 2007 3:31PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming
When the new fall schedules were announced last year, one of the shows that I was most looking forward to, ABC's mystery-drama Traveler, wasn't on the schedule. Which was sort of surprising since it got a lot of positive buzz in the upfront presentation that the network gave. And then we had all of the serialized dramas failing badly (The Nine, Smith, Daybreak, etc) and it seemed like Traveler would never premiere.
But ABC has announced that Traveler will indeed make it's debut on May 30, at 10pm. The number of episodes has been trimmed a little, and it looks like it's going to be one of those shows that will have a definite end, maybe like a long miniseries, so viewers won't feel cheated. Which is good news for TV fans these days, I guess.
Continue reading ABC's Traveler to debut (finally) on May 30
Posted Jan 17th 2007 4:29PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Web, Day Break
People have been wondering for some time now just what ABC is going to do with all those extra Day Break episodes that they paid for. All traces of the show disappeared from their website recently, leading many to believe that DVD was the only option for getting to the rest of the story.
We might not have to wait that long though. As
Joel reported yesterday
, ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson announced that remaining episodes will be available online by the end of February. There weren't any details about how the release is going to go. I would prefer just dumping them all on the site for a marathon viewing, but at this point even one a week would be just fine. They are sticking to the 'music clearance' issue as the reason for the delay. And of course, this comes with all the foibles usually associated with TV on the internet. But hey, it's better than nothing.
[thanks Matt ] Posted Jan 3rd 2007 6:35PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Video, Web, Festivus
(Part 3 of 5) In our review of the top television stories of 2005 former TV Squad scribe Ryan J. Budke said this about TV on the Internet, "If you think that 2005 was big, wait 'til 2006 -- you ain't seen nothing yet." Boy howdy, was he correct! If 2005 was the year that TV came to the Internet, then 2006 was the year that it bought a home, settled in, and joined the local PTA. From pilots and first-run episodes to classic and canceled shows, television and the World Wide Web took one step closer to being officially married in 2006. And, we have one site on the Internet to thank for this explosion . . .
YouTube.
Okay, maybe YouTube isn't the only site we should be thanking. I mean, according to Ryan, the networks realized back in 2005 that this newfangled technology called the Internet wasn't going away any time soon, so they began to utilize it. However, it was the utterly huge popularity of YouTube that pushed the networks into getting their collective acts together to get their content onto the Web.
Continue reading Top TV Stories of 2006: More TV on the Internet
Posted Dec 30th 2006 2:22PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Festivus
If you had told me a year ago that the top three shows on my "Best of" list would be on NBC, I would have said you were crazy. Then I would have asked you how you knew this. Are you psychic? Can you see into the future? You're the devil I say, the devil!
But that's what happened. Below is my list for the 5 best shows of the year and the 5 worst, along with various odd and ends. Yeah, let me have it in the comments about what I got wrong.
Update: After a few days of thinking about it, I've changed one of my "worst" picks. I'm sure you'll see why.
Continue reading Best and Worst of 2006: Bob's list
Posted Dec 13th 2006 11:31PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Day Break
(S01E06) Unlike
24, which is another fine, fast-paced, thrilling drama,
Day Break has a good sense of humor. I am still laughing about seeing Damien, Hopper, and Damien's driver in the Skinheads' van listening to
Journey Asia's "Heat of the Moment" (
Thanks to Chris for the correction!). As if that wasn't good enough, it was great when they threw the CD out the window at Hopper after kicking him out.
I love how the show is editing sequences now, so that instead of seeing every detail, we see what is relevant. On the other hand, if we miss something (my husband ran out to get our son from swim practice) they will show you enough of what has happened that you can pick it up again pretty easily.
Continue reading Day Break: What If They Find Him?
Posted Dec 6th 2006 11:40PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Day Break
(
S01E05) I am so hooked on this show! This was the best episode yet. I was an English major, so the quality of a show's writing is a major component in how well I like a show. The writing on this show is unexpectedly good. Well, by that I mean only that I wasn't expecting it to be this good.
Continue reading Day Break: What If They're Stuck?
Posted Nov 29th 2006 11:14PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Day Break
(S01E04) Whoa, things are starting to change. The writers aren't giving us the fun, though, of keeping track of all of the little details of Hopper's day; he does change the cell phone batteries, but the falling plate is gone now, as is the woman who routinely gets hit by a bus without Hopper's intervention.
I still think we will see her again, though. She works for a judge; maybe she will provide some kind of important alibi for Hopper one of these days.
Continue reading Day Break: What if He Can Change the Day?
Posted Nov 23rd 2006 7:31AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Day Break
(
S01E03) Well, the good news is that Hopper is healing. The bad news is that his life still sucks. Last week, I had to agree with commenter Mrs. Eldubya, who said basically that the show wasn't as good as she had expected, but it was still worth tuning in for. Well, this week? The show got
better.
This show hinges on the details-- and boy, do they get that right. Hopper is talking to his partner, Andrea, and she says, "How do you know I won't just take this into them?" (The Internal Affairs people who have offered her a deal if she brings in Hopper-- this being the hourglass that was in the package). The scene briefly shifts to her taking a bullet in a previous incarnation of the day in which she took a bullet for him so he could get away.
Continue reading Day Break: What If He Lets Her Go?
Posted Nov 16th 2006 6:46AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Day Break
(
S01E01 /
S01E02) Anna Johns called
Day Break "Groundhog Day meets
Diehard." Before I read that, I was thinking
Groundhog Day meets
24, because we are talking about 24 hours in a man's day that are very important -- essential, even. I would even throw some
Traffic and
Crash into the mix-- maybe because of the cinematography and direction. I admit that I had preconceived notions going into this because I have seen
Groundhog Day so many times.
Continue reading Day Break: Pilot / What If They Run (series premiere)
Posted Nov 15th 2006 6:29PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost
Lost is over until February 7th. Tonight, ABC is filling
Lost's time slot with a new series,
Day Break. (Think:
Groundhog Day meets
Die Hard) To keep
Lost fans murmuring about the show, the network plans to air teasers from next year's episodes during the entire run of
Day Break. But, you don't have to watch
Day Break because the 30-second clips will also be available on ABC's
Lost webpage every Thursday... and probably all over the internet immediately after they air. The network is also keeping the first six episodes of
Lost available on its website for refreshers or in case you want to watch that Sawyer/Kate sex scene again. And to keep fans from bitching about the big, fat hiatus, the network has also started up its own
Lost wiki, which it wants fans to create the content.
Posted Nov 11th 2006 3:04PM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Programming, Watercooler Talk
With the big Lost mini-season finale already out of the way and the Dancing with the Stars finals next week, I'm left wondering just what ABC is up to. With half of sweeps left to go they are going to be without three of the top ten shows on TV. That seems to fly in the face of traditional scheduling. Wouldn't it have made more sense to throw in a break for DWTS to push it two weeks later? And either extend the Lost mini-season or start it so the, self proclaimed, "Best Episode Of The Year" would end sweeps?
I haven't seen Day Break yet, but I've heard mixed reactions. Whichever way it goes, I think it's reasonable to expect it to fall somewhere short of Lost's performance. If they are counting on Lost fans to tune in just to catch the 30 second nuggets that they will be parceling out, I think they are in for a big YouTube flavored surprise. Add to that the fact that the Wednesday at 9 slot is going to be much tougher for Day Break than it was for Lost. They aren't going to have the luxury of a top 5 show as a lead in, but they'll still have to deal with the increasingly popular Criminal Minds. Show Me The Money should premiere with good numbers, just for the shatnerian curiosity factor, but will it match DWTS? It's all very curious.
Posted Nov 9th 2006 10:05AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Programming
Ok, cancelled may be a little strong. Maybe changed to a limited run would be better. I ask because, if you watched
Lost last night, you must have caught the
Daybreak previews. There was an interesting bit at the end of the first one. "Every question will have an answer. And in 13 weeks, the mystery will be solved." Given the complaints about answers with
Lost, and the performance of
The Nine, I can understand why the network would want to assure viewers that they are not about to be jerked around and strung along again. But you could also take it that they are going to tell this story in 13 episodes and be done with it, moving on to whatever next season's hot formula is.
That's all just speculation, of course. If it turns out to be the case though, I like it. Some ideas are just not compatible with an open ended, we don't know how long it's going to go, format. There's something to be said for knowing how much story you have to tell, getting to it, and stopping when you're done.
Posted Oct 30th 2006 11:30AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Industry, Programming, Watercooler Talk, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Friday Night Lights, Ratings
Tonight is an interesting night on NBC. With two of their most hyped shows struggling, they've decided to throw a little time slot voodoo at us and see what happens. Tonight's
Studio 60 was scheduled to be a repeat, but instead the kids from
Friday Night Lights are going to get a go in the post
Heroes spot. I think that's a good idea. A repeat would almost guarantee a drop in viewers, and the last thing
Studio 60 needs is another round of stories that say "ratings drop for the Xth week in a row."
The situation with
Friday Night Lights is a little different. Where
Studio 60 has lost viewers every week,
Friday Night Lights just never found them in the first place. The numbers have been fairly consistent, but when you premiere below expectations, consistent isn't exactly what you are looking for. And the fact that I use the word consistent is evidence that I really like the show. A more objective person might call the numbers stagnant.
Continue reading First guessing NBC's Monday experiment
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