Posts with tag Heroes
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 9:03AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at
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This week we have:
Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Damages, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, Prison Break, Pushing Daisies, Reaper and Smallville. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Jun 25th 2008 5:25PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
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This week we have:
24, Bones, Heroes, Nip/Tuck, Prison Break, Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis and Supernatural. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Jun 25th 2008 1:03PM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Lost, Family Guy, Celebrities, Heroes, Dexter, Awards, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free
The
Saturn awards ceremony was held last night, and
Lost dominated the television categories with four wins. The drama won the award for Best Network Series and nearly swept the acting categories. Evangeline Lilly lost the Best Actress award to
Ghost Whisperer's Jennifer Love Hewitt, last year's winner. Most of the first-time nominees, such as
Pushing Daisies and
Journeyman, were shut out.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was the only exception; Summer Glau tied for Best Supporting Actress.
Comedian Jeffrey Ross hosted the event. Hopefully this is just the beginning of a successful awards season for
Lost. A complete list of winners in the television categories follows after the jump.
Continue reading Lost wins four Saturn awards
Posted Jun 20th 2008 5:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Web, Heroes, Reality-Free
Did you know that Heroes is filming right now? Yup, they're filming episodes for the third season (after a strike-shortened second season) this weekend in downtown Los Angeles.
BlogDowntown.com has a picture of a mural on a wall near an alley called Frank Court, which is between Spring and Broadway streets. No word on how the painting figures into the plot, but it does seem to show the Earth exploding, which is one step up from the painting that showed New York City exploding in the first season. BlogDowntown also says that the scenes being shot will also involve a car chase and gunfire.
I want to know what they're going to do with this painting once filming is done. Wash it off? Reproduce it someplace else? Just take photos of it? Tear down the wall and auction it for charity?
No word on which cast members will be involved in the filming, if any.
[via TV Tattle]
Posted Jun 18th 2008 7:24PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
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This week we have:
Chuck, Dexter, Gossip Girl, Greek, Heroes, House, Lipstick Jungle, Nip/Tuck, One Tree Hill, Prison Break, and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Jun 13th 2008 9:02AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
The big screen adaptation of
I Dream of Jeannie has been years in the making. Now a script writer is attached, so who knows, maybe we'll see it in theaters in the next few years (
IMDB.com lists a release date of 2010). And something tells me we'll probably see a belly button or two.
Producer Sid Ganis is bringing Rita Hsiao, who scribed
Mulan, on board to rewrite the script for a movie based on the 1960s series. Ganis is psyched for Hsiao's vision of the character -- a Jeannie who's smack in the middle of modern times.
In a
Hollywood Reporter story, Ganis said of
Hsiao's meeting with the producers, "She has a terrific, bright, fresh approach to Jeannie's story, with a twist and turn along the way. She captured all of our imaginations in the telling of it."
Continue reading Who should play Jeannie on the big screen?
Posted Jun 12th 2008 11:00PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E02) This is what is fun about anthology shows, and why I can never understand why they never do better in the ratings. As much as people bitch about and resist taking a chance on long-form new serialized programs like the '05-'06 trinity of
Invasion,
Surface and
Threshold, you would think they would embrace a series where each episode truly stands alone. With a show like this, your investment into it won't be impacted in any way if the network pulls the plug after only thirteen episodes, or even just four.
And yet, anthology shows tend to struggle even more than heavily serialized fare. In fact,
Fear Itself got its ass handed to it by Swingtown in the head-to-head premieres last week. The big question is, with the "not-so-good" nature of the premiere, how many people came back to see this much improved second episode, and how many will stick around for Daniel Knaupf's outstanding episode next week? While last week was a poorly written and acted "monster of the week" boobfest, this time we got a well constructed good old-fashioned haunting.
Continue reading Fear Itself: Spooked
Posted Jun 11th 2008 4:23PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at
(775) 640-8479 - your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
Big Love, Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Lipstick Jungle, Nip/Tuck, Pushing Daisies and Weeds. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Jun 6th 2008 11:59PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Smallville, Heroes, Awards, Moonlight, TV Squad Awards
Product placement is everywhere, inescapable. According to
Dr. Jean Kilbourne, author of
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, Americans are exposed to approximately 3000 advertisements every single day. Kilbourne has a compelling video called
Killing Us Softly that reveals how insidious advertisements are. Ads tell us that women should be thinner, quieter, nicer, want to have cleaner houses. They tell us that men are boarish, lust after women while drinking cheap beers, and order endless rounds of pizza without ever developing a gut. Advertisements not only tell us what we should buy: They tell us how we should think and feel about things and who we should be.
Unfortunately, the price of our entertainment is advertisements. Even when you go to the movies these days, before you have seen any previews, you have seen six commercials for new phones from Verizon and Sprint; and you have paid handsomely for the privilege. This TV Squad Award is amusing, but it is also a testament to how ubiquitous ads are: They have now found their way into the very scripts of some of our very best shows. The only advantage shows like
Lost and
Battlestar Galactica have is that they mostly take place anachronistically, so advertising would stand out too ridiculously. However, sadly, other outstanding shows have succumbed. And one of the finest is TV Squad's choice to win this award.
Continue reading The Brought to You by TV Squad Award: Winner - VIDEO
Posted May 30th 2008 8:41PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Smallville, Heroes, Awards, Moonlight, TV Squad Awards
I was honestly surprised by the number of responses we got to the call for nominees for The Brought to You by TV Squad Awards. It turns out that a LOT of people are as irritated by blatant product placement as I am. Hurray! Is this the wave of the future? And if it is, can we get advertisers to eliminate commercials? Because if I have to endure ads tucked within my shows, then I don't want even to have to speed past them with my TiVo. Let's have one or the other, shall we? Because I'd hate to start boycotting Krispy Kreme and Stride gum just because I've been bombarded.
As it turns out, there were four stand-out nominees; I will tell you who they are after the jump, and then you will have a chance to vote for the Reader's Choice winner (which, in this case, is actually an obnoxious loser). But I did want to mention two runners up:
30 Rock gets an honorable mention for its mention of Verizon, but it doesn't quite make the cut because of the humorous way it handles the mention, and the show's ability to poke fun at itself. The other honorable mention goes to
Ugly Betty for its hour-long ad for
Wicked, but it still didn't quite make the cut.
So, the nominees for the most obnoxious abuse of product placement within their episodes are ...
Continue reading The Brought to You by TV Squad Award nominees
Posted May 30th 2008 3:02PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Industry, Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free
OK, so this is just really cool. In an effort to drum up some buzz for their numerous Emmy nominated programs, NBC Universal is offering up free Emmy campaign buttons at their 2008 nomination website.
All you have to do is plug in your full name, street address, and e-mail and just like that, you got free buttons! 15 in all to be exact since you're allowed to check off as many as you want. Most of them have pretty funny campaign-esque sayings on them, similar to the 30 Rock button pictured at right.
Perhaps you like House (airs on FOX, but NBCU distributes it)? Then "Thank Hugh!" Or maybe you like The Office? Then get ready to "Believe in Steve." For those than can't wait for Sylar's return, don't forget to "Support our Heroes."
The only one I don't like? The Law & Order: Criminal Intent button. "D'Onofrio/Noth - Vote Both." Vote... both?? What? Does that even rhyme?
Posted May 28th 2008 6:23PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at
(775) 640-8479 - your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
90210, ER, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Lost and Samantha Who?. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted May 24th 2008 1:31PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
NBC has issued a press release with the
premiere dates for all their fall shows. This way, you know when to set your DVR.
The full press release includes descriptions for each of the shows. New shows are in all caps.
Heroes will be the first scripted show to return with a two-hour premiere on September 22nd. The first new scripted show will be
Knight Rider on September 24th (although I don't know if you could count it as new since they already broadcast the two-hour pilot).
Complete schedule after the jump.
Continue reading When are your favorite NBC shows returning?
Posted May 21st 2008 4:24PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at
(775) 640-8479 - your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Heroes, Lost, NCIS, Prison Break, Samantha Who?, Stargate Atlantis, and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted May 21st 2008 3:27PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, TiVo, Reality-Free
I was going to title this post "What are the most DVR'd TV shows?" but wasn't sure if DVR'd is a real word or not. And did I even spell it right?
Anyway, the list of the top 15 recorded shows for the past year has been released, and there are little or no surprises on it. Grey's Anatomy tops this list with 3.78 million viewers, while the Tuesday edition of American Idol comes in a close second with 3.73 million. Full list after the jump!
Continue reading What are the most recorded TV shows?
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