I must admit I haven’t watched as much of Grimm as I ‘d like in its currently airing first season but I’ve been happy with what I’ve seen. Hence, I was pleased to see today, via Twitter, that it’s coming back for a second season. Michael Ausiello at TV Line is reporting that NBC has renewed the supernatural seri [...]
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Paul McGann: I’d Love to Be in Doctor Who Again
English actor Paul McGann, who played the title role in the Doctor Who TV movie that was co-produced in the mid-1990s by the BBC, Universal and FOX, has said that he would love to play the role again if asked. McGann’s part in that film earned him a place in the Doctor Who canon as the Eighth Doctor. He has also [...]
TNT Announces Summer Dates for Falling Skies, Leverage, Dallas and More
Cable channel TNT has announced premiere dates for the series in its summer schedule, which includes two of the coolest shows on TV: Leverage and Falling Skies. The slate also features returnees Rizzoli & Isles, Franklin & Bash and The Closer. These five continuing series will be joined by debutants Dallas, Percept [...]
SPACE to Debut Monster Man on March 14
SPACE, Canada’s national science fiction, horror and fantasy channel, has issued an official press release announcing that it will debut the documentary series Monster Man on March 14 at 11 pm ET. Monster Man goes behind the scenes of one of Hollywood’s most respected practical effects workshops, SOTA FX, to w [...]
Netflix in Talks to Bring Terra Nova Back to Life
Don’t declare FOX’s dinosaur adventure series Terra Nova extinct just yet. Just days after the network announced that it had passed on new episodes of the megabucks sci-fi show but was willing to shop it around, it seems that Netflix might be interested it digging it up. Emphasis is on the might here, but accord [...]
SPACE Starts Creating it’s New World of Primeval
Canada’s stellar channel for science fiction, fantasy and horror, SPACE, has announced the start of production on Primeval: New World, the spin-off from the popular British sci-fi series Primeval. Thirteen episodes of the one-hour drama will be filmed in Vancouver. “SPACE is delighted to begin production on an e [...]
Amy Acker Gets Greedy as Grimm’s Black Widow
NBC’s Grimm is one of the new shows this TV season that has surprised me the most. In the right way. A few months ago, before the premiere of this supernatural series inspired by the tales of the Brothers Grimm, there was a sense that it might struggle to find an identity (see here). Such fears have since been a [...]
The River Takes Us on a Blair Witch Trip to an Undiscovered Country
Remember The Blair Witch Project, the 1999 movie that started a subgenre of first person, pseudo-documentary-style horror films with its tale of unfortunate campers taunted by supernatural forces deep in the American woods? It touched a cultural nerve in the United States that was lost on me when I saw it in Bri [...]
Terra Nova Star Urges Fans to Send Plastic Dinos to FOX
Terra Novasaurs listen up: The show needs your plastic dinos! According to the jolly good British periodical SciFiNow, star Jason O’Mara is calling on you to send toy Triassic fauna to FOX to show the network that descendants of Cro-Magnon man and woman want a second season. FOX’s expensive dinosaur-centric seri [...]
Super Bowl XLVI Ratings Not So Giant
The numbers are in: According to TV Line the NFL’s Super Bowl XLVI is the ‘Most-Watched TV Program Ever.’ Apparently the broadcast of the event was watched by 111.3 million viewers in the U.S., making it the most popular television program in that country’s history. To quote that commendable website, ” numbers were [...]
