Gee ... no chatter about the Oscars?
One of the seminal moments in television history was the debut, and quick demise, of You're In the Picture, a game show hosted by Jackie Gleason that is most famous for two things: One, it was canceled after its first episode, and, two, for the secon
Read more…From the Human Torch to Cap, Chris Evans has taken the job. Thoughts?
Read more…Having seen my good friend Jeff's latest TV-based discussion, Jeff Watches Torchwood, I thought, "Since Jeff is posting about a current program that he's watching for the first time, I ought to post about an old program that I'd be watching for what
Read more…Although HBO isn't actually going to be involved.
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/03/04/hbo-rome-movie/
Umm. Wasn't Vorenus about as dead as can be at the end of the series?
Read more…You know, the guy in that movie, and in that other movie? Here he is!
Thanks to the much-appreciated efforts of a good friend of mine ("They call him...Tim."), I have finally been able to obtain copies of the four Kurosawa films that I had never seen, and so I am now in a position to do something I've always wanted to
Read more…It's been a long time coming, but Comedy Central has confirmed that the fifth (or is that sixth?) season will premiere on June 24.
http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2010-3-4-new-futurama-episodes-premiere-on-comedy-central-in-june
Read more…The longest-serving actor on the longest-running prime-time drama calls it a day: http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/04/01/s-epatha-merkerson-departs-law-order/
Read more…So, after far too long in my book they finally release the collected Twin Peaks in the UK, and I have the box in my grubby little hands to work my way through. Who wants to join me in a walk down memory lane of twenty years ago? Twenty years - I nee
Read more…While they're on Smallville in a 2-hour movie, Firestorm is the guest hero on Batman, the Brave and the Bold on CN.
Read more…Hey Fluits!
Y'all are into George R.R. Martin's stuff, right? If so, then good news: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/03/off-topic-hbo-greenlights-game-of-thrones-series/
It occurred to me yesterday ('cause, you know, sometimes I'm kinda slow) that we've got a host of non-American/non-Canadian English-speaking actors playing American charcters on American TV these days.
Off the top of my head (and just limited to show
Read more…CULVER CITY, Calif., January , 2010 – Marc Webb, the director of the Golden Globe nominated Best Picture (500) Days of Summer, will direct the next chapter in the Spider-Man franchise, set to hit theaters summer 2012, it was jointly announced today b
Read more…Did anyone else watch last night? A discussion of Flash as Christ figure in Crisis on Infinite Earths was a brief story element. It made me smile.
Read more…A couple of years ago, when “Super-Friends vs. the Legion of Doom” came out on DVD, it was billed as “season one,” but I remember watching Super-Friends when it first aired (the one with Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog), and I don’t remember no “Legion
Read more…I bet he goes for a quiet walk in the woods today...
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