Posts with tag episodes
Posted Jun 25th 2008 2:30PM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Retro Squad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Yesterday, we delved into
seasons one through four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's birthday episodes. Let's just say you really, really don't want to celebrate Buffy's birthday with her, as catastrophe, drama, and heartache are always center stage.
Season Five, episode 13, "Blood Ties"Buffy's 20th birthday goes no better than the previous ones. "Blood Ties" is all about how Buffy and Dawn share the same blood, "Summers blood," even though Dawn was created by monks to be The Key. Yes, it was a somewhat syrupy solution to Dawn's incessant whining in this episode, but it is so important for the resolution to the season, and the defeat of Glory, the Big Bad (Buffy can die instead of Dawn to save the world. Again.).
Continue reading Buffy's not-so-happy birthdays (part two)
Posted Feb 15th 2008 9:23AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, TV on DVD, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Web, Heroes, Software, TiVo
We all know that how people watch TV has been changing dramatically in the last few years, but now comes this news from
TorrentFreak.com: 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time are downloading a TV series. More than anything else, it's TV content they want.
What this means is that TV fans aren't just watching TV shows live or using DVRs and TiVos alone. They're just as apt to download a show to view on a laptop, desktop or iPod. According to the article, "over a billion TV shows are downloaded every year and this number continues to rise."
Continue reading Half of all BitTorrent downloads are TV shows
Posted May 29th 2007 7:09PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Industry, The Closer
TNT and TBS will offer all seven of their original summer series for free online. New episodes will appear on Turner websites about about 3 am the morning following their debut, and the episodes will be available for viewing for about a month each.
Believe it or not, Turner is one of the first cable networks to do the streaming episodes thing, following in the footsteps of the big four networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. Last summer, only ABC Family offered its original programming for free online. Other networks, such as FX, Sci Fi, USA, and E! have streamed occasional episodes (mostly premieres and finales) but not entire seasons. As
Broadcasting and Cable points out, it's probably because the cable networks can't demand a ton of money from carriers if their content is also available for free online.
Beginning next month,
The Closer,
Heartland,
Saving Grace, and
The Company will be on
TNT.tv, while
House of Payne,
The Bill Engvall Show,
My Boys, and
The Frank Show will be on
TBS.com. Episodes of
The Closer,
Bill Engvall,
My Boys and
The Frank Show will also be available on iTunes.
Posted May 15th 2007 6:21PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Web
Reports are coming out that CBS has plans to syndicate much of its content through such Web portals as AOL (which owns TV Squad), Facebook, Last.fm and Joost.
Currently, CBS does offer some full episodes on its innertube site, and it also has a YouTube channel featuring short clips from various series. This new venture would allow folks on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to embed the episodes on their profiles, and to even "personalize" the videos (though don't ask me what that means, exactly).
The new content will begin to appear on the aforementioned sites sometime this week. Personally, I'm happy to see more networks offering full episodes, and offering them through more than one venue. The YouTube clips are nice, but I think what viewers are clamoring for is a chance to see their favorite shows anytime they want. It would seem the networks are starting to figure this out.
Posted May 11th 2007 5:22PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Music and Variety, Celebrities
Fuse has given its musical sketch comedy series The Whitest Kids You Know a second season. The series, which originated as a series of Web videos back in 2000, first hit Fuse last March. Before coming to Fuse, the team of Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams, and Darren Trumeter made a name for themselves around New York City's various comedy venues.
Variety does not specify when the second season will begin, although it does mention the possibility of a DVD release.
If you're like me and don't have Fuse on your cable lineup, you can watch some of the sketches on YouTube, which has a collection of some of their old Web stuff and possibly a few clips from the actual series. The Fuse site used to have clips, too, but those are gone. I watched a few of them not too long ago and found them amusing, but right now I have to say MTV's Human Giant is the better sketch comedy series.
Posted Apr 17th 2007 3:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Web
We've know for awhile now that FOX and NBC had plans to stream full-episodes via a new venture that was being dubbed a "YouTube killer." Recently it was announced that some of content would be streamed through comcast.net and fancast.com, and other "distribution sites" including AOL (which owns TV Squad), MSN and Yahoo.
Continue reading Networks take advantage of MySpace's popularity
Posted Mar 14th 2007 10:09AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Web
Holy history porn. If you dig
Rome, and
Deadwood does it for your fictive nonfiction-loving self, then Showtime's
The Tudors may be right up your alley. It's a journey through Henry VIII's kingship and many, many marriages with more tits, ass, intrigue and bloody violence than you can shake a royal stick at.
Showtime is offering a VIP preview of
The Tudors' first two episodes
online. (The password is "king.") The series, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, premieres on Sunday, April 1st at 10PM. The series focuses primarily on the king's affair with Anne Boleyn, his obsession with producing a male heir and the political intrigue of the court. And, did I mention that it's essentially softcore for the Anglophile set?
[Via
Pop Candy]
Posted Dec 14th 2006 3:34PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, Web
For the very few of you who watched
3 lbs, CBS's short-lived rip-off of
House, the
remaining three episodes are now available on the network's online video channel, Innertube.
3 lbs was pulled from the air after only three episodes. Starring Stanley Tucci and that guy from
Good Morning, Miami, CBS had hoped that the medical drama would pull in the
House crowd from Fox. After all,
viewers were switching from
Grey's Anatomy to
ER. But the gamble didn't work. The remaining X episodes are now on Innertube.
As a sidenote, the remaining episodes of
Smith are no longer
on Innertube. The heist drama, starring Ray Liotta, preceded
3 lbs in the Tuesday night at 10 pm slot. Three episodes of
Smith made air before the network yanked it.
[Thanks, Mike!]
Posted Dec 13th 2006 4:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, Web
BET and
Court TV have both recently added a few series to the iTunes store. BET is offering episodes of
American Gangster;
Lil' Kim: Countdown to Lockdown;
DMX: Soul of a Man;
Beef the Series;
The Christies: Committed; and
Comic View. Court TV also has episodes available:
Psychic Detectives;
Murder by the Book;
Beach Patrol;
Body of Evidence; and
The Investigators. These shows have been available since late November/early December, so forgive me for not reporting this sooner, or don't forgive me, I guess it doesn't really matter either way. More than a few people know of BET's presence on iTunes, seeing as how
American Gangster is one of the top ten TV downloads. All of these episodes, as usual, are $1.99 per episode. Court TV episodes are $1.99 plus time served.
Posted Oct 23rd 2006 3:12PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Animation, Web, Adult Swim
What a glorious age we live in. Now that we've got this crazy thing called the internet, the phrase "canceled" no longer has to mean a show is gone for good. At least, that's how the men and women at Adult Swim seem to see things. First, they decided to bring
Perfect Hair Forever back with episodes created exclusively for the Web, and now they're doing the same thing with
The Brak Show. Right now that's all the information I have, based on one of those informative bumps that flashed on the screen after the season premiere of
Aqua Teen Hunger Force that I usually fast forward through. If you've been beggin' for just a little more Brak to get you through the day, you can rejoice now. Also, don't forget
Cartoon Planet has been airing in the wee hours of the morning on Sundays. That should satisfy your Brak jones until these new episodes hit your computer screen, whenever that might be.
Posted Oct 17th 2006 9:02AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Celebrities
October Road, a new drama about a famous novelist who returns to his hometown to teach at a university and confront the people he left behind, didn't make the ABC lineup for May, but the network has decided to order six episodes of the series that will air this spring or this summer. The idea of a famous person returning to the place he grew up isn't exactly a new idea, but I'll withhold judgment until I see it. Besides, a lot of shows have turned out something unique while using premises that have been done before. The show will star Bryan Greenberg as the famous writer, along with Tom Berenger, Laura Prepon and Geoff Stults. The show is being produced by
Alias producers Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemic.
Posted Oct 1st 2006 12:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Sports, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, HBO, Showtime, Cable, Premium Cable, News, Video, Animation, PBS, Music and Variety, Web, Adult Swim, Anime, Horror, Children, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, TNT
Reader Rod wrote to us recently asking for a comprehensive list of all the television programs that can be downloaded or streamed online. That's a pretty tall order, and I'm sure I'll forget a few, which is why I'm asking our faithful readers to fill in any gaps left due to my ignorance or plain forgetfulness. I'm going to focus purely on legitimate downloads and not such things as peer-to-peer downloads or torrents. I'm not going to list specific shows, because obviously as the television schedule changes, so do the programs.
I encourage you to add this post to your Favorites, as I'll be updating it every now and then.
(Last updated on 01/21/07)
Continue reading Where to find your favorite shows online
Posted Sep 29th 2006 9:43AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, BBC, Doctor Who, Sci Fi
With more than 700 episodes,
Doctor Who is the longest running science-fiction series of all time, says the
Guinness Book of World Records. Long ago, the series hit on the clever idea of creating a sci-fi explanation that would allow the Doctor to appear in a various "incarnations" therefore neatly explaining away periodic changes in actors, and allowing the series to remain fresh. In fact, in its twenty-first century version, which followed a near-decade break in production from 1996 until Christopher Eccleston picked up the role in 2005, The Doctor seems as popular as ever.
Doctor Who first appeared on the
BBC in 1963. "The Time Lord" has been played by ten actors in all. David Tennant now has the role, and season two episodes of the new
Doctor Who will appear in the U.S. on the SciFi Channel
beginning tonight, with
"New Earth." Billy Piper is still along as plucky Rose.
Who's
your favorite Doctor?
Posted Sep 23rd 2006 1:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Programming
I think I can say with some certainty that whatever cable or satellite provider you use, you probably have at least one channel that airs episodes of
M*A*S*H on a fairly regular basis. Well, if you also have TV Land you'll have even more chances to catch the men and women of the 4077 because episodes of the long-running series will be hitting that channel starting in January. The match makes sense, I guess, because you don't get much more "classic TV" than
M*A*S*H, but is there really much of a point when the series is already rather ubiquitous on the TV landscape anyway? It's not as if TV Land has exclusive rights to the episodes. Eh, whatever, when I get that occasional itch to watch
M*A*S*H it'll give my TiVo more chances to catch an episode or two.
Posted Sep 4th 2006 6:59PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, Sci Fi, Firefly
Are you one of the few that still haven't discovered Joss Whedon's
Firefly? Maybe you have, but you didn't get around to picking up that DVD set yet. Or maybe you just prefer your sci-fi western space-opera with commercials. Whatever the case, if you want to see a whole bucketload of
Firefly eps, Sci-Fi
has you covered. On September 18th you can catch 11 hours of
Firefly in a row. From "Serenity Pt.1" all the way to "War Stories" beginning at 8AM EST. Set your VCR's, PVR's, and DVR's, or start prepping your excuse to call in sick.
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