season six-related stories
Posted Jul 2nd 2009 1:00PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Programming, Lost, Reality-Free
This news is a few days old, but just this morning I found it buried in Ausiello's Twitter feed and I haven't seen it reported anywhere else yet.
The final season of Lost is going to be 18 hours instead of 17, meaning a double episode for the premiere and finale. So figure on an extra 45-ish minutes of head-scratching, "what the hell just happened" moments once January 2010 rolls around.
You may recall that at the end season three, ABC, Damon Lindelof, and Carlton Cuse agreed on the final three seasons of Lost being 16 hours each. But after the WGA strike cut season four back to 14 episodes, those last two hours got dispersed between seasons five and six, bumping them to 17 eps each.
I guess it just goes to show you that even the most well thought out plan can be tweaked, but it makes me wonder ... was this ABC's demand to get a longer season or Lindelof and Cuse's creative decision? I guess we'll know for sure if midway through the season we get "Stranger in a Strange Land, Part 2."
Posted Jun 10th 2009 7:09PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
I've talked at length in the past about how much I've loved all the creative taglines Entourage has featured over it's previous five seasons. They're short and witty, yet the brevity always gets across the point of the season too. The latest promotional campaign for Entourage's upcoming sixth season is no exception:
"Life changes. Friends don't."
When we last left Vinny and the boys, they were gearing up for Marty Scorsese's Great Gatsby re-imagining and it began with moving home to Queens. Speculation seems to be leaning towards Vince finally getting his due and being recognized for what's sure to be a stand-out performance in a Scorsese classic.
Continue reading Check out the new season six poster for Entourage
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:00PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Programming, TV on DVD, Animation, Adult Swim, Reality-Free
I'm a huge
Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan. It's one of the funniest shows ever created. However, for as big a fan as I am, I never know what's going on with it. Trying to interpret
the archaic grid schedule at Adult Swim requires far too much concentration and eye-squinting. I finally gave in, though, and it turns out that the show's sixth season returns on Sunday, March 29th at 11:45PM ET. Don't get too excited - there's one big problem.
Continue reading Aqua Teen returns to Adult Swim at the end of March
Posted Oct 6th 2008 1:05PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Entourage, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Just five episodes into Entourage's long-awaited fifth season, and HBO has already pulled the trigger on a sixth. This morning the pay cable network announced that a sixth season of the popular comedy is in the works with a summer 2009 premiere planned.
So far, season five has seen Vince and the gang head into a downward spiral as he tries to rejuvenate his career in the wake of his last poorly received film, Medellin.
Even though I've seen plenty of positive reviews of the new season (I even gave it one), I still have a bit of an issue with HBO renewing the show. It's not that I disagree with a renewal, but I'm not so sure the timing is right.
Continue reading HBO renews Entourage for sixth season
Posted Jul 8th 2008 10:03AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: The Simpsons, Video, Retro Squad, Reality-Free, Cheers
Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of classic TV shows.
Even when it isn't at its greatest (which, for many fans, hasn't been since season 10) The Simpsons has still provided some great parodies of classic movies and television programs. For instance, in the season four episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" they did a great parody of the Star Trek movie franchise with Star Trek XII: So Very Tired. I still crack up everytime I see the scene where the severely obese Scotty is telling an aged Captain Kirk that he can't push the warp engines any further.
Continue reading Cheers: The Animated Series - VIDEO
Posted Apr 10th 2007 11:15PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, The Shield, Episode Reviews
(S06E02) As I was watching this episode I couldn't help but think how ironic it was how Kavanaugh went out of his way to make Mackey look sloppy, when I think Kavanaugh was being the sloppy one all along. How long could he keep up that charade? How long could he keep Amoya under his control and not looking incredibly suspicious?
Meanwhile, as Kavanaugh continues his witch hunt against Mackey (it does feel like a witch hunt, doesn't it?), Vic continued a witch hunt of his own. Though Vic was into being the judge and jury, Kavanaugh was just playing judge.
Continue reading The Shield: Baptism By Fire
Posted Mar 28th 2007 11:04AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, The Shield, FX, Early Looks
Recently Jonathan and I got on the phone with
The Shield's Walton Goggins, but if you
read the interview you'll note we hadn't yet seen the first six episodes released to the press. Having now seen those episodes, I think our line of questioning would have been quite different.
Continue reading The Shield season six -- An early look
Posted Mar 19th 2007 2:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Horror
I would never have seen a single episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel if I hadn't recently lived with some friends who were huge fans of both series. I could never get into Buffy, but I did like Angel, and was more than a little perturbed to find out the series ended abruptly with no real resolution at all.
Continue reading Angel fans may finally get closure with new comic books
Posted Feb 15th 2007 9:03AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, The Shield, Video, Web, FX
Jonathan
mentioned a few weeks ago that Bud TV would be debuting a sort of "bridge episode" of
The Shield. The 15-minute short is
now available for viewing on the site, and after viewing it I'd say it plays a lot more like the first fifteen minutes of the new season premiere.
For those who are sad to see Lem gone from the series, this short video will only make you hate what Shane did with even more passion. Read on for a short rundown of what goes on in the video (image to the right is a little teaser for you).
Continue reading The first fifteen minutes of The Shield's new season
Posted Feb 7th 2007 12:04AM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX, American Idol, Music and Variety, Anime, Reviewcaps, Episode Reviews
(S06E07) We're in San Antonio, Texas, home of the Alamo. There's lots of history at this location, but will we make
American Idol history tonight?
It's the last stop on this year's audition tour, and what a tour it's been. I'm beat. I'm ready to wrap up these auditions and move on to the real competition. But first we see 11,000 people packed into the Alamo Dome as the
Rawhide theme plays. An interesting tidbit: The
Rawhide theme was originally sung by 1950s crooner Frankie Laine,
who died today at the age of 93.
Back in San Antonio, the judges arrive, and Simon is cranky and suffering from jet lag. Poor Simon.
Continue reading American Idol: San Antonio auditions
Posted Feb 2nd 2007 1:15AM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, Smallville, The CW
(S06E13) Valentine's Day comes to
Smallville about two weeks before the rest of the country. Why can't these episodes come on closer to the actual date of the holiday? Okay, I'm griping too much. We've got the return of Red Kryptonite, and it's about darn time. It comes at the right time, too ... given the fact that Lois has gotten a bit itchy in her relationship with Oliver Queen, and Lana is about to go fully over to the dark side and marry Lex Luthor, not to mention have his baby. That's getting a bit too close to the whole Anakin/Padme relationship, ain't it?
The whole little Zoltar machine slash Gypsy slash matchmaker woman who just gives Lois the magical lipstick was wayyyyy to much of a plot device for me. It's like the writers were in a post-Chinese food coma and decided to just have some character waltz in and hand it over. Was it too convenient? Am I griping about the small stuff too much again? Most likely. Granted, the alternative was probably having a department of LuthorCorp working on cosmetics, and some wacky scientist decides to add meteor rocks and yadda yadda yadda. K-powered shampoo and shaving gel for the world.
Continue reading Smallville: Crimson
Posted Jan 26th 2007 12:34AM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, Smallville, The CW
(S06E12) Or as I like to call it, "The Martian Manhunter Show!" All Martians, all the time. Either that, or "One Flew Over the Clark Kent's Nest," except we didn't get a Nurse Ratchett, unfortunately. You can tell right from the beginning that this is all taking place in Clark's mind, so it has the ring of "ripoff" to me. Basically, it's like holodeck episode of
Star Trek: TNG. Although some good things came out of those (Dixon Hill, Moriarty, Minuet) so I'm not going to declare full shenanigans ... maybe only halfsies.
Someone needs to YouTube together all of the scenes of Clark working on farm equipment and make it a commercial for Clark's Tractor Repair. We must have seen him work on that thing a million times, but I don't remember him ever turning over any soil in the north forty. What gives,
Smallville? The writers need to think about dropping the whole Kent Farm charade and just have them live on the land. Martha's a senator, which must pay fairly decent wages, right?
Continue reading Smallville: Labyrinth
Posted Jan 12th 2007 9:21AM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX, American Idol, Contestants
Once upon a time, January was just a long cold month that filled me with regret and longing. I regretted the holiday over-eating and over-spending. And longed for warmer weather and something (anything) to distract me from the bleakness of winter.
In 2003, that all changed. Season 2 of
American Idol appeared on the horizon giving me -- and the rest of America -- HOPE. Now, every January,
American Idol triumphantly returns with blaring trumpets and great spectacle to awaken the American viewing public out of our winter stupor.
Continue reading American Idol: Four days until season six begins
Posted Jan 7th 2007 11:17PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, NBC, OpEd, The Apprentice
(S06E01) I'm not sure I'm sold on The Apprentice moving to Los Angeles. It sounds stupid, but it boils down to little things for me. Things that feel different that I liked about New York. For instance, remember the way a fired contestant would exit New York? Hop into a cab. It's not the same in Los Angeles. A chauffeured towncar service? It just feels weird to me. That's the best way I can describe it. For most of my thoughts on the premiere and this season in general, check out this Early Look post that I wrote a few weeks ago. However, I've watched the episode again and I've got some fresh thoughts after the jump.
Continue reading The Apprentice: Los Angeles: To Have and Have Not (season premiere)
Posted Jan 5th 2007 4:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: FOX, Family Guy, Animation
Two and a half months ago, when negotiations between 20th Century Fox and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane reached a standstill, the writers for the series were told not to report to work. According to Variety, the suits at 20th Century Fox didn't want to stop production midway because a deal was never solidified, despite the fact MacFarlane's contract wasn't up for several months.
Continue reading Production begins on sixth season of Family Guy
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