Category Archives: tv

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finally a network threw us a bone 0

After weeks and weeks of rumors, ABC announced they would renew Castle for another season and Fox agreed to pick up Dollhouse (though still sticking it in the “where shows go to die” Friday night time slot). Unfortunately, Terminator – The Sarah Conner Chronicles will not be picked up after a “fragmented” two season run [...]

Castle starring Nathan Fillion 0

Thank you ABC! Thank you… thank you. Now please don’t go an cancel it, damn it! He looks brilliantly swarmy!

enjoying olympic coverage 0

I actually think NBC is doing a rather decent job thus far. And I have 3 HD channels covering it (NBC HD, USA HD, and UHD). I get all my mainstream sports on NBC, and can also flip over to USA or UHD to grab some of the obscure ones (handball, sabre, badminton… Badminton is [...]

SYTYCD 2008 (Favorites pt 1) 0

If you can find high def versions of these, I highly recommend it. Incredible performances! Update — well son of a bitch, those bastards at Fox pulled the videos. Don’t they know this is like free advertising?! If anyone can find versions, let me know. (Updated second video… someone pulled the original link)

review of Jericho 2

I don’t know how I first heard about Jericho. It definitely was not through normal advertising channels (which says quite about CBS’s anemic promotion). I think it was a combination of io9 coverage with netfix recommendations. In any regard, I’m so glad I discovered the show and now I have a chance to support it [...]

jericho 0

I’m going to post a follow up later this weekend… As soon as you can, go buy/rent/borrow the first season of Jericho, and then go to cbs.com and watch the first 4 (of 7) episodes for season 2. It was already cancelled once, and the fans managed to get CBS to buy 7 episodes for [...]

a few things 0

Currently a television kick… If you haven’t seen the first two Terminator episodes… go now!  I’m so sad the writer’s strike is on!  I want a full season damn it!  Summer Glau is awesome and steels the entire show!  She really is amazingly well cast for this role.  I think they have the flexibility to [...]