day break-related stories
Posted Sep 28th 2009 6:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
This might not be the biggest DVD release day in history, but it's certainly one of the business. There's something for everyone this week, including a bunch of "Fan Favorites" DVDs for various sitcoms, including
NewsRadio,
All in the Family, and
I Dream of Jeannie. That's a neat idea, though I wonder, if you're a big fan, wouldn't you already have the DVDs?
Oh, and remember
Day Break, the ABC mystery series from a couple of years ago? You can get the Complete Series. I don't think I ever saw the end of that show. You can watch it on
SlashControl, so maybe I'll start there before buying the set.
- All in the Family - Fan Favorites
- Ax Men - Season 2
- Barney Miller - Fan Favorites
- Bewitched - Fan Favorites
Continue reading New TV on DVD releases this week
Posted Apr 30th 2008 9:08AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd
Okay, here's a good one found via
Pop Candy...someone listed
six of the best Sci Fi television shows that you never saw (meaning that they lasted only a season or less).
If a young Julie Newmar is a robot, is she the first fem-bot? I suppose in many ways she's a sex toy ahead of her time.
I like the concepts behind
Alternative 3 (a documentary about a group of people who have abandoned the planet Earth as a lost cause) and
The Ultimate Imposter (an agent with a chip in his head to give him a different personality each week). I see elements of the latter in Joss Whedon's new series
Dollhouse.
Continue reading Sci-fi TV show concepts you never saw
Posted Mar 24th 2008 6:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Arrest & Trial - Best Of, Part 2
- Arthur - Season 10
- The Catherine Tate Show - Series 2
- Checkmate - Best Of Season 2
- Day Break - Complete Series
- Frisky Dingo - Season 1
- The Invisible Man - Season 1
- Kong: The Animated Series - Vol. 4
- Laredo - Best Of Season 1, Part 2
- Midsomer Murders - The Early Cases and Box Set Ten
- The Mike Douglas Show - Moments and Memories
- Noble House - Noble House
- Painkiller Jane - Complete Series
- Party of Five - Season 3
- The Price Is Right - Best Of
- The Shield - Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
- Sliders - Season 4
- Suburban Shootout - Season
- Tripping The Rift (Movie)
- Upright Citizen's Brigade - Asssscat
- Wings - Season 6
Posted May 7th 2007 2:03PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Jericho, Shark, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Brothers and Sisters, The Black Donnellys, Upfronts
We're about a week away from the upfronts, the annual back-patting festivals the broadcast networks hold to introduce their new fall schedules. TV Squad will be ready, providing you, the loyal reader, with coverage of who's in, who's out, and what's new on the five broadcast networks (yes, I'm counting the CW as a full broadcast network, even though it's looking like it'll air mostly reality shows next year).
So, it seems to be a good time to look back at our coverage of
last year's upfronts, to see what was considered news, which shows became hits, which shows never aired, and which pilots looked promising but mostly ended up causing each network piles of money, bad press, and misery.
Click on the network name to see to our coverage of that network's 2006 upfront:
Continue reading Looking at the 2006 upfronts with 20/20 hindsight
Posted Feb 23rd 2007 9:51AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Industry, Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities
More details are coming out about the forthcoming
Grey's Anatomy spinoff, which will be introduced in a two-hour episode of
Grey's this May. Joining Kate Walsh on the show will be none other than Taye Diggs, who last graced our screens on the short-lived ABC serialized show
Day Break.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two-hour spinoff episode will have Walsh's character of Dr. Addison Montgomery contemplating leaving Seattle Grace Hospital. If the spinoff gets picked up, the takes the new job. If it doesn't, she'll turn down the job and return to SGH. No word on what role Diggs will play.
Perhaps to make up for the quick demise of
Day Break, ABC has extended its development contract with Diggs' production company for another two years.
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 15th 2007 10:35AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, Industry, OpEd, TCA Press Tour
The first session of yesterday's ABC presentation started bright and early at 9 AM with a Q&A with network president Steve McPherson. He was cheekily introduced with a video showing the rehearsals of a "new cast member" of
Dancing with the Stars. It turned out to be McPherson, at a scene that looked like it came from either a previous press tour or an upfront presentation. Everyone laughed but me, mainly because I wasn't grizzled enough of a TV veteran to get the inside joke.
Anyway, some of the information he gave at the Q&A after the jump.
Continue reading ABC pres admits there were too many serials - TCA Report
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 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.
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