It’s no plucking chicken, but Saturday Night Live raised a few eyebrows this week when a new cast member made the mother of all mistakes. Read the rest of this entry »
 Archive for the 'Television' Category‘Dollhouse’ debut is ratings deja vuSeptember 27th, 2009, 5:06 pm by Chris "KeL" Adams
The Eliza Dushku vehicle only managed to garner 2.5 million viewers. While the show has a terrible timeslot at 9 p.m. Friday, it was also soundly defeated by every other major networks’ offerings. Even the third-highest show, a rerun of ABC’s ‘Modern Family’ racked up 4.28 million viewers. Though Fox did manage to defeat the CW’s showing of ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ so that’s something to be proud of I suppose. Those meddling kids of Mystery Inc. ‘Doo’ it againSeptember 14th, 2009, 11:49 am by Jayson Peters He doesn't eat much -- really. The world may still be trying to figure out what state Springfield, home of The Simpsons, is in — but another cartoon mystery has been solved. Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins, a live-action prequel to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons and the live-action films that came out in the first half of the decade, debuted Sunday night on Cartoon Network, and it firmly places the locale of Coolsville, home to the meddling kids and their dog, in Ohio. Read the rest of this entry » Clark Kent’s got something on his chest in ‘Smallville’September 9th, 2009, 12:04 am by Jayson Peters
Tom Welling is donning a new costume for the upcoming ninth season of Smallville – and it’s not what you might expect. Spoilers after the jump. Read the rest of this entry » ‘Mr. Bean’ creator to pen ‘Doctor Who’ episodeSeptember 8th, 2009, 2:49 pm by Jayson Peters Richard Curtis The British screenwriter behind some of the most successful romantic comedies (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually) as well as some of the most raucus British sitcoms (Mr. Bean, Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley) will write an episode of Doctor Who. Award winner Richard Curtis is also the founder of Comic Relief, a charity organization founded to raise awareness of hunger in Africa. Blackadder star Rowan Atkinson appeared as one incarnation of the Doctor in the 1999 Comic Relief sketch “The Curse of Fatal Death,” and his Blackadder co-star Tim McInnerny appeared in season four’s Planet of the Ood. According to The Doctor Who News Page, Curtis’ Doctor Who script, which will air during Matt Smith’s upcoming first season in the lead role, will involve a historical figure fighting a monster. Live-action ‘Star Wars’ TV series not so far, far away?September 6th, 2009, 10:27 pm by Jayson Peters Daniel Logan Reports from the “Future of Star Wars” panel at Dragon*Con this weekend in Atlanta has revealed some interesting tidbits about the live-action Star Wars TV series. According to Lucasfilm fan relations master Steve Sansweet, it will be a weekly one-hour drama likely premiering in 2012. When asked about the rumored involvement of Daniel Logan, the young actor who played Boba Fett in Episode II — Attack of the Clones, Sansweet said: “I would expect news from Daniel’s camp in the not-too-distant future.” Via EU Cantina The fall of Syfy ‘original’ moviesSeptember 3rd, 2009, 12:11 am by Jayson Peters
The next batch of “original” Saturday night movies on Syfy will include a remake of an adaptation of a Stephen King novel, more tales of the Earth turning against its unsuspecting inhabitants and a supernatural twist on the legend of Robin Hood. ‘Dollhouse’ adds another star from the Whedon-verseAugust 29th, 2009, 9:32 pm by Chris "KeL" Adams
With Whedon and Glau’s combined histories of cancelled television shows, I worry about the future prospects of the already shaky foundation of “Dollhouse.” In the past, Whedon has shown he can do great things when given a chance to work, let’s hope this season proves it again. It’s dark at the end of the ‘Rainbow’August 28th, 2009, 9:51 am by Jayson Peters LeVar Burton (Credit: WNED Buffalo) Today marks the end of Reading Rainbow’s 26-year run on public television. Only Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Street have aired on PBS longer. The Emmy award-winning show, hosted by actor LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation and Roots), featured children’s books and literary reviews by and for kids. It has struggled to stay on the air for years, sometimes producing only a handful of episodes per season as funding dried up. Now, as National Public Radio reports, neither PBS nor the Corporation for Public Broadcasting can afford to renew the broadcast rights. That’s just a shame. Read the rest of this entry » James ‘King of the World’ Cameron orders you to buy 3-D TV!August 21st, 2009, 3:56 pm by Jayson Peters Twentieth Century Fox While the world has been clamoring to get a sneek peek at the highly anticipated sci-fi epic Avatar, director James Cameron has been busy wheeling and dealing to bring television into the third dimension — and, no doubt, make himself even richer. A deal announced Friday will put Avatar in several trailers that will haul Panasonic’s big-screen, 3-D TVs around the U.S. and Europe next month. Avatar is shot entirely in 3-D, and it will be the first major motion picture to debut in both 2-D and 3-D when it is released in theaters Dec. 18. But the technology — both in homes and at theaters — is so new that it is sorely lacking in content and has no clear direction when it comes to disc and broadcast formats. Cameron’s name will give Panasonic a major edge in the coming dimensional war. Because, in a recession, the first thing on people’s minds is this: “Gosh, I need to get me a better TV.”
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