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 [...]
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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 [...]
The CW and NBC Order Soapy and Scary J.J. Abrams Pilots
J.J. Abrams, the man who can do almost no wrong in film and TV these days, has won over the networks again with two new pilots that he is co-creating, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The first of those two projects to be announced, Shelter, sounds like a drama, sans Abrams’ usual fascination with fantasy. I [...]
The CW Targets Stephen Amell as Green Arrow
Sorry Fans of Smallville’s Justin Hartley: Turns out that The CW has passed on the chance to have him reprise his role as Green Arrow in the upcoming pilot based on the character. The network has signed Stephen Amell instead, according to TV Guide. The news was originally reported on Deadline. Amell has previously a [...]
New Alcatraz Video: Introducing Rebecca Madsen
On Saturday we brought you a preview of the next episode FOX’s new sci-fi thriller Alcatraz, ‘Todd Sweeney,’ which debuts tonight. Following up on that FOX has released another promotional video introducing the character of Rebecca Madsen (played by Sarah Jones). Madsen is a young cop who is part of the team of [...]
New Star of Spartacus Salutes Late Predecessor’s ‘Humanity’
US channel Starz sent viewers back to Roman times on Friday with the return of its action-drama Spartacus. The new season is subtitled Vengeance, which presumably says a lot about one of its major themes. Fans who don’t keep up with the entertainment news might have been surprised to see an unfamiliar face now in th [...]
FOX Alcatraz Preview: Cal Sweeney
FOX’s new sci-fi series Alcatraz reaches its third week (but technically its fourth episode) on Monday and the network has released a preview of the upcoming episode, ‘Cal Sweeney,’ which you can see below. Alcatraz is a serialized procedural that revolves around the mystery of what happened to the dangerous cri [...]
Clips: SPACE and Syfy Get Back to Being Human
The North American adaptation of Being Human returns to SPACE in Canada and Syfy in the United States tomorrow night for its second season. We have two short clips from the premiere for you below, which the latter channel released last week. Readers in Canada can see a SPACE preview on spacecast.com. Being Human [...]
