Posts with tag Jill Wagner
Posted Mar 28th 2008 10:24AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Game Show, Pickups and Renewals
If you love
America's Funniest Home Videos -- and I know a lot of you do because the show's been running since 1989 -- you're the likely target audience for something new from the network.
ABC plans to produce Wipe Out, a new reality competition from producer Matt Kunitz (
Fear Factor).
The idea for the show is to create -- rather than collect a la
AFHV -- spills, splats, crashes and wipe outs ever seen on TV. Endemol USA (
Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, 1 vs. 100) is producing the show for ABC.
Continue reading ABC to Wipe Out with new reality show
Posted Oct 27th 2007 11:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Stargate, Episode Reviews
(
S04E05) The folks over at
Stargate HQ are having a good week. First,
Atlantis gets picked up for a twenty episode season five, and then they finish it off by heading into their weekend with another very good episode. It was, for the most part, another stand-alone offering, but we did get some hints at a couple things in the future. If that wasn't enough for you, they also had the good sense to hire Jill Wagner for a guest spot. My TV is better with more Jill Wagner on it.
Continue reading Stargate Atlantis: Travelers
Posted Oct 20th 2007 10:31AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Stargate, Episode Reviews
(
S04E04) Last week, Rich commented on the previews for this episode and asked where have we seen that before? It's a fair point, because the dream device is something that has been used again and again in the sci-fi/fantasy/horror genres. I'm OK with that though. Much like episodes where we get to see two characters both narrate previous events from their own point of view, what I like about dream episodes is that they often give us a chance to see characters in a way that we wouldn't normally see them. We got a bit of that here with the evil Shepard.
Of course, the dreams weren't the only part of the episode that felt familiar. Carter made reference to when O'Neill was knocked unconscious by an energy being that took on his appearance. That's from the season one
Stargate episode "Cold Lazarus." In an interview with Gateworld, writer/director/producer Robert C. Cooper called it an homage. That's a good way to put it, as you can see if you go back and look at the scene where O'Neill touches the crystal. That video is after the jump.
Continue reading Stargate Atlantis: Doppelganger - VIDEO
Posted Sep 29th 2006 1:28PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series, Cancellations
According to the lovely Jill Wagner, SpikeTV's
Blade: The Series is not going to come back for a second season. "I was just informed today that there will be NO 2nd season of
Blade: The Series,"
she told the site ComicBookMovie.com. Also according to this article, ratings for the show started out well, but slipped as the season went on. Ah, well, at least we can still see her in
those Mercury commercials.
Indeed, Ms. Wagner also let that information slip to our former TVS colleague and current Netscaper
Ryan j Budke. Not sure if that was before or after he helped move her furniture.
(Just kidding, Ryan...)
Posted Sep 7th 2006 7:41AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: OpEd, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E11) Woo hoo, the last episode before the season finale (as show promos are so fond of saying). So far Krista's been turned into a vampire, seen her whole family killed, had her hand sliced off and grown back, etc. Marcus, meanwhile, has discovered the cure to all the ills of vampirism, and declared war on all enemy houses. And Blade has ... Well, Blade is still Blade. Basically he seems to run around killing non-essential vampire day-players far from the central story arc of the series. But that was before this week. Blade comes along nicely this time, bags a major player and Sticky gets more dialog this episode in some well-played scenes with Collins than he's had in the rest of the series combined.
Now explain to me how the purebloods have managed to survive all these centuries when they so easily get duped into believing that Chase has converted to their side against Marcus. If that isn't enough, why in the world is Marcus so sure a bomb on the company Lear jet is gonna do the trick to wipe out Charlotte and her crew of purebloods. Right after the crash Charlotte and her assistant "Lurch" wick away a few drops of blood, feed on nearby campers and are back on their way. It's not even that close a call for them -- though it did make Charlotte very thirsty. Good plan Marcus.
Continue reading Blade: Monsters
Posted Aug 24th 2006 8:45AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E09) Krista goes off drinking out of grief for her mother (that cancer cure attempt really didn't work out all that well
last week) leaving Krista more isolated than ever. Well, not quite solo, as visions of her dead relatives show up to haunt her. A friend of Shen's show up at the Bladecave and delivers a lot of exposition to bring us up to speed on the real goal of Marcus's Aurora experiments -- to wipe out the elitist purebloods.
Continue reading Blade: Angels and Demons
Posted Aug 17th 2006 9:29AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E08) Turns out the purebloods aren't
all child vampires anyway, as another one show up this week: Alex. He is played by Kavan Smith, who's now the hardest working man on cable original scifi television, as he also plays Major Lorne on
Stargate Atlantis and Agent Garrity on
The 4400.
So Alex the pureblood is a smoothie and way into Chase. He tries to buy Chase from Marcus -- for Chase's own good, of course. Marcus' is about as unpopular with other vampires as he is with Blade. Jessica Gower who plays Chase, shows Marcus -- and us -- her backside, just she we can be sure that she's totally healed from her near-ash experience in Berlin with Blade
a few weeks ago.
Continue reading Blade: Turn of the Screw
Posted Aug 10th 2006 9:12AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: OpEd, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E07) SpikeTV ran the first Wesley Snipes
Blade movie tonight, leading into this episode. Not sure that's such a good idea, especially as it ends with a spectacular fight scene between Snipes and Stephen Dorff (playing Deacon Frost). Poor, indifferently executed fight scenes are an ongoing fan criticism of the show. The effect was sort of like seeing Scorsese's
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, right before an episode of
Alice would be --
the Linda Lavin sitcom just isn't gonna hold up that well.
Fortunately, this time we have a
good episode, maybe the best since the pilot.
Unfortunately, that's partly because much of it is set in the past, with a different set of actors. Maybe
Eric: The Young Blade Chronicles would make a good spin-off.
Continue reading Blade: Sacrifice
Posted Aug 3rd 2006 8:46AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Cable, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E06) My DVR picked up the last five minutes of Spike's timely lead-in for
Blade tonight:
Lethal Weapon. Seems there is no escaping Mel Gibson this week.
On the ongoing subject of Blade's relative unimportance to this show, especially compared with Krista (Jill Wagner), I will give that theme a rest this week and merely refer you to
insightful comments posted last week by techjitsu and others. I live in hope of a
Blade-centric episode one day, and this
almost promises to qualify at first, as the daywalker has to transport a pregnant woman (Vanessa) whose unborn baby Marcus wants for something to safety. Or take her someplace, they are on a train to Paris anyway. Turns out Blade (Kirk Jones) is taking her to see a doctor he trusts. "
Delivery" -- get it? Their travel is punctuated by several brief fight scenes, and it turns out she's not actually pregnant -- at least in the conventional sense.
Krista goes to an art opening with Marcus, and has one of her signature poignant moments, this time while looking a depressing painting made by a fellow Gulf vet. Her uncle shows up, and tells Krista her Mom has taken ill.
Chase (Jessica Gower) survived! Now Marcus sends Krista to Berlin the complete Chase's mission to bring the pregnant woman back to him. Krista objects, briefly. OH COME ON!!! Marcus has a whole frikkin' clan of vampires that he allegedly controls and he sends Krista?!? Again?!?!
Continue reading Blade: Delivery
Posted Jul 27th 2006 7:13AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Cable, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E05) Another episode, another Krista dream-sequence to lead into the opening credits. Fun fact: Krista's blood ritual lasts four hours and forty-two minutes longer than the previous longest blood ritual on record. But it's worth it -- Boone's destination is discovered. So Krista and Chase
SWAT-up and are off to Louisiana for a showdown. Hmm. Anne Rice country. Where next week -- Sunnydale? Boone escapes.
Continue reading Blade: The Evil Within
Posted Jul 20th 2006 8:23AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E04) A big chunk of Blade's past is revealed when the daywalker gets captured by survivors of a street gang that had rescued him as a homeless kid years before. Blade then spends the entire episode chained-up, getting the bejesus beat out of him. Turns out the gang - now called the Bad Bloods - is where Blade got his signature look. His tats are gang tats.
Blade repaid his adopted bro's by turning them all into vampires.
Not nice -- but remember he was just a kid. The ganstas don't let him forget that, and keep calling him "little one" which has to hurt at least as much as does the beating he takes. Also, seems getting
turned by Blade makes you persona-non-grata in the undead community - so these dudes have been hunted into near-extinction by Chthon and the other vampire Houses. Now the Bloods want to trade Blade to Marcus in exchange for peace in our time. Great! Just what I needed, another faction to try and keep track of. But it's a pretty cool wrinkle added to Blade's history, and anyway, the gang looks to be history itself after tonight.
Meanwhile, Krista, for her half of the episode, is still pained, conflicted, and smoking hot.
Continue reading Blade: Bloodlines
Posted Jul 13th 2006 8:27AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Cable, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E03) For those who forgot to tune-in or record
Blade The Series opposite the second half of
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, or were perhaps still digesting the
Project Runway premiere (
don't lie, you know who you are): SpikeTV's resident daywalker Blade (
Kirk Jones) and newbie hemoglobin-addict Krista (
Jill Wagner) had to fight their separate battles this week. In order to find out more about the Aurora vaccine, Blade hunts down an ex-guinea pig one used by head Detroit-vamp Marcus's -- a sort of tweeker dude called Sands, while smashing progressively harder barriers (hotel room drywall, then brick wall, then big iron door) in the process.
Continue reading Blade: Descent
Posted Jul 9th 2006 1:33PM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Cable, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
(S01E02) In the opening shot of this one we see Detective Boon (Bill Mondy) yanking out one of his newly-acquired fangs and poking his way through the plastic baggie that has imprisoned him. Right away, I know we're in for more twists. Boone was a goner last week, when he awoke bagged and tagged for Aurora testing. Now,
why the dude has to
pull out his tooth to rip the plastic with it, I don't know. Nor do I know why House of Chthon researchers don't ship their test subjects in fang-proof packaging. Anyway, Boon is back -- doubling the tally of series regulars that are newbie-vampires.
Kirk Jones (the-artist-formerly-know as Sticky Fingaz) doesn't have as powerful a screen presence as Wesley Snipes, and sometimes disappears into the background of the show (and even to get overshadowed by his own leather get-up). But kudos to the creators for going with a guy that has his own style and is no Snipes wannabee. Blade does seem like he is only making cameo appearances in his own show so far. I guess calling it
Krista: The Television Series doesn't have the same recognition factor.
Continue reading Blade: Death Goes On
Posted Jun 26th 2006 10:36AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Cable, OpEd, Horror, Spike, Blade: The Series
While I'm not a huge comic book reader, I've been a big fan of the Blade character since the first movie with Wesley Snipes. The detail behind the vampire's history and lore almost puts to shame even what Anne Rice has written (yeah, I know I'll be attacked viciously in my sleep for that comment).
Blade brought vampires to the 20th/21st century way of thinking.
When I heard a
Blade series was in the works, I was both skeptical and excited. Excited because there would be a real chance to tell more of the story of
Blade, but skeptical because, well, Spike TV was going to air it. Luckily, and thankfully, they've pleasantly surprised me.
Continue reading Blade: The Series -- An early look
Posted Mar 26th 2006 2:22PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Commercials, Celebrities
I've been in love with this woman for over a year now. The
girl in the tight blue sweater that talks about how great the cars are. Until now, I didn't have any idea who she was
or where she came from. I just knew that I never changed the channel whenever her commercials came on.
But
now thanks to Google (a
cache actually; the original page didn't
come up), I find out that her name is Jill Wagner. She was born in Winston-Salem, NC, has a business degree from North
Carolina State University, and has been an actress in
Not Just Another Teen Movie,
Big Fat Liar,
Punk'd,
Dr. Vegas, and
Monk. She has a role in the upcoming TV series version of the
Blade flicks.
Wow, she's going to be on every single week now? Hey Keith, can I review this show?
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