Posts with tag Degrassi
Posted Aug 22nd 2008 10:03AM by Brett Love
Filed under: OpEd, Stargate, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
With that pesky business of putting the kibosh on season six of
Atlantis out of the way, Sci Fi is now ready to announce that they are giving the
Stargate Universe project a green light. The show will kick off with
a two hour movie early next year and transition to a regular series for the summer. Creators Brad Wright and Robert Cooper will be the executive producers.
Universe will follow a new cast of characters on the adventure that comes after they explore a ship launched by the Ancients, Destiny. The reconnaissance mission takes a dramatic turn when they discover that the ship can never return to Earth. They are along for the ride as the ship carries on with it's pre-programmed navigational schedule. The adventure comes during periodic stops at stargates. The danger is that if anyone is left behind, there is no way to go back for them.
Continue reading Stargate Universe gets a green light
Posted Jun 1st 2008 2:15PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Reality-Free
I'm sure that thirty-something IT guys with freakish beards is not the demographic that The-N is searching for, but they've hooked me just the same. Instant Star, Beyond The Break, and South Of Nowhere have all long ago earned their season passes on my DVR, and I can be sucked into a Degrassi marathon on occasion.
If you share my predilection for Canadian teen drama, you might be interested to know that Instant Star is back with all new episodes tomorrow. And if you like the teen drama from the north but haven't managed to get on board with Jude's adventures just yet, you can catch up with a huge marathon tomorrow. Starting at 1AM, there will be 15 hours worth of episodes leading up to the fourth season premiere at 5PM PST. That premiere will, of course, answer the big question... As The-N's promo department puts it, "OMG! Who did Jude choose?!"
Posted May 26th 2008 6:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Absolutely Fabulous - Absolutely Everything
- Cory in the House - New and Improved
- Degrassi: The Next Generation - Season 6
- Gunsmoke - Season 2, Vol. 2
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - Vol. 2
- Holocaust - Anniversary Edition
- The Invaders - Season 1
- The Jackie Gleason Show - The Honeymooners: Collection 3 (color)
- Lipstick Jungle - Season 1
- MonsterQuest - Season 1
- One Piece - Season 1, First Voyage (Uncut)
- Rawhide - Season 3, Vol. 1
- The Three Stooges Collection - Vol. 2: 1937-39
- Wing Chun - Complete Series
Posted Aug 19th 2007 2:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Animation, Children, Pickups and Renewals
Via Toon Zone comes news that Noggin and its evening version, The N, will be splitting into two separate, twenty four-hour networks on December 31.
Noggin will continue with programming aimed at the preschool set with programs like Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Oobi, Jack's Big Music Show, and Nick Jr. properties like Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues and The Backyardigans.
The N, originally the evening version of Noggin aimed at teens (and "tweens" to use a meaningless marketing term), will expand to 24 hours with TEENick programming during the day (All That, The Amanda Show, etc) and original programming at night: Degrassi: The Next Generation, South of Nowhere, and Beyond the Break. The N also acquired rights to air reruns of That '70s Show starting June 2008.
Continue reading The N and Noggin to split into new channels
Posted Jul 2nd 2007 6:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Baa Baa Black Sheep - Vol. 2
- Batfink - Complete Series
- Chancer - Series 1
- Degrassi: The Next Generation - Season 5
- Dora The Explorer - Summer Explorer
- Eureka - Season 1
- George Lopez: America's Mexican (HBO standup special)
- Ghostbusters - Vol. 2
- Kate & Allie - Season 4 (Canada)
- Slings & Arrows - Season 4
- WWE - One Night Stand
Posted Dec 22nd 2006 1:31PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, PBS, Web, Pickups and Renewals
Quick. Name a network television show, other than Margaret Cho's
All-American Girl, that featured Asian-Americans in all of the lead roles. Sure, you can find a handful of Korean-Americans in the ensemble casts of
Lost and
Survivor, and the animated Long family rules the roost on the Disney's Channel's
American Dragon. But, not since Cho's short-lived 1994 series has there been an entire show constructed around the trials and tribulations of Asian-American characters. On December 26th, that may change.
PBS affiliates around the country are debuting the series
My Life...Disoriented, a
Degrassi-style high school drama about sisters Kimberlee and Aimee Fung. The girls' lives are turned upside down when they move from San Francisco to a largely white neighborhood in Bakersfield, California. The show was created by Five Dollar Martini Productions - a partnership which includes three Asian-American women including actress Di Quon.
Continue reading My Life...Disoriented makes PBS debut
Posted Nov 27th 2006 2:01PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Web
I suspect I may be in the minority with this, but I watch a lot of stuff on The-N. I've seen more
Degrassi, South of Nowhere, Beyond the Break, Instant Star, and
Whistler than any 15 year old girl should. All the more disturbing because I am the furthest thing from a 15 year old girl.
If you share my weakness for teen drama, you might be interested in The-N's
Give Some * Get Some Giveaway. Beginning today, items from many of their shows will be going up for auction. Day one features Lacey's surfboard from
Beyond The Break (Natalie Ramsey pictured), Jude's silver space suit from
Instant Star, Manny's spirit squad uniform from
Degrassi, and Aiden's jeans from
South Of Nowhere. All proceeds go to charity. That's the give. The get involves weekend giveaways of electronics, DVDs and other merchandise.
[ via
tvguide.com ]
Posted Nov 22nd 2006 12:33PM by Brett Love
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, PVR Wire, The Five, Web, The Venture Bros.
As we all get ready to eat way too much pie and nap/shop (choose your own adventure) away a couple days it's time to give thanks for that which is good in television land. So, this year, I'm thankful for...
1: Tivo. I resisted the siren's call of Tivo for a long time, opting instead to stick with the complex system of tapes, VCR's and my computer that had kept me up to date for years. But finally, after hearing again and again from the TV Squad readers to just get a Tivo already, I did. And it has been as good as everyone said it would be. I'll say it. You were all right. I was wrong.
I'm still hoping for all the goodies to work with OS X, or dare I say, Ubuntu, but for now I can begrudgingly run Windows. The ability to archive shows to another machine is fantastic, and if you do the math, it works out to about the same price as using tapes for storage anyway.
Continue reading The Five: What Brett is thankful for
Posted Nov 3rd 2006 8:43AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Animation, PBS, Syndicated
One of Canada's greatest TV exports, next to
The Kids in the Hall, was
Degrassi Junior High. If I've got my lineage straight,
The Kids of Degrassi Street begat
Degrassi Junior High begat
Degrassi High begat
Degrassi: The Next Generation.
The long-rumored
Degrassi: The Next Generation graphic novel series, entitled
Extra Credit, has hit bookstores in Canada, and while we can't be sure if national pride has taken over or not,
Volume One of the series is
earning raves from its young readers.
Continue reading Degrassi: The Next Generation in comic book form
Posted Oct 24th 2006 8:43AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
The Addams Family - Vol. 1 - Batman Beyond - Season 2
- Beavis and Butthead - Gift Set
- Bewitched - Season 4 (color)
- Degrassi: TNG - Season 4
- The Facts of Life - Season 3
- Greg the Bunny - Best of Film Parodies
- Hannah Montana - Vol. 1 Livin' The Rock Star Life
- Justice League - Unlimited Season 1
- The L Word - Season 3
- Little House on the Prairie - The Movies
- MacGyver - Season 7
- Monarch of the Glen - Series 5
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Complete Series
- The O.C. - Season 3
- Sabrina and the Groovy Ghoulies - Saturday Mourning Collection
- Saturday Night Live - Best of TV Funhouse
- SCTV - Best of the Early Years
- Sesame Street - Old School: Vol. 1, 1969-74
- Slings and Arrows - Season 2
- The Swan - Complete Series
- That's My Bush - That's My Bush
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2, Vol. 1
- Wings - Season 3
Posted Jun 21st 2005 9:00AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: TV on DVD
Every Tuesday morning here on TV Squad we will highlight the week's TV-on-DVD releases. Some noteworthy releases today, June 21, 2005:
- Bewitched - Season One (Colorized and Original Black & White)
- Oz - Season Five
- Degrassi: The Next Generation - Season Two
- Farscape - Starburst Edition: Volume 4
- The New Outer Limits - Aliens Among Us Collection, Death & Beyond Collection, DVD Collection, Fantastic Androids & Robots Collection, Mutation & Transformation Collection
- The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - For The Red Sox
- Tabitha - Complete Series
Giveaway Thursday: Tickets to the New York Television Festival ... all of it!
I miss the media-friendly John McCain - VIDEOS
Giveaway Wednesday: Supernatural, season three
