I’ll admit it: I haven’t watched a whole lot of The Eleventh Hour on CBS, although I did catch the pilot and the next four episodes or so. I liked what I saw, but it was probably too procedural for my taste, with the usual “scientific crime of the week” deal that CBS has made bank off with the CSI shows and their ilk. Basically, CBS is the network for procedural crime shows, what with all fifty CSI shows, The Mentalist, NCIS, and pretty much every show on the network that isn’t a comedy. In that sense, it’s no surprise that Eleventh Hour seems to be doing very well, if not exactly gangbuster ratings. Enough for the network to order five more episodes (short of a full season), anyway.
Although I’m not a very big fan of Battlestar Galactica, I gotta give the show all the props it can handle, if just for bringing science fiction back to the lips of mainstream audiences. Of course, if you’ve watched the new BSG at all, you probably realized this is less a sci-fi show than a TV version of an arthouse movie, where everything tragic that can possibly happen to human beings do end up happening to these poor saps on the doomed fleet. Anyways, the big question circling the show’s final season is: “Who is the 12th and final human Cylon that has yet to be revealed on the show”?
Eliza Dushku in tight black leather pants. Okay, so maybe that’s more than three reasons (I’m not good at counting), but you gotta admit, Eliza Dushku in tight black leather pants is a pretty good reason to do just about anything, especially when it comes to something as easy as watching a TV show in your free time. (Or at least DVR it, ya lazy bums.) Sure, FOX is doing its best to bury Joss Whedon’s show by scheduling it to bow on Friday nights aka The Graveyard, but let’s prove them wrong and watch Dollhouse anyway, shall we? Here are three new images of Eliza Dushku from the show to get you excited.
I hope the Sci Fi Channel’s Sanctuary lasts for a while. I really like the idea behind the movie, and the fact that the whole thing is pretty much shot on a sound stage in front of a green screen is kinda cool, too. Plus, it has Amanda Tapping, and I’ve always had the biggest crush on her. Anyways, the LA Times recently went behind the scenes of Sanctuary to see how they make the show, what it cost, and other topics of interest. Besides the article, there are some great shots of Amanda and company doing their thing in front of the infamous green screen. You gotta admit, acting this way is infinitely harder than with real people and real surroundings you can touch.
The good thing about being an off-network TV show is that people tend to give you second and in some cases, even third chances. Now I don’t know if the new Amanda Tapping show Sanctuary has managed to maintain its high ratings from its premiere episode, but the Sci Fi Channel has enough faith in it that it’s greenlighted a second season for the show, okaying 13 new episodes for next year. I haven’t been keeping up with Sanctuary since its premiere, but I’ve been meaning to add it to my list of DVR’ed shows. 
Wait, what? Wasn’t this new Knight Rider show already a reboot of the ’80s original? Yes, but they’re going to reboot the reboot anyway. You read that correctly: NBC and new show runner Gary Scott Thompson has decided to reboot the reboot TV show. He’ll accomplish this task by getting rid of the show’s current “terrorist of the week” formula and taking the main character (played by Justin Bruening) and a few colleagues, not to mention the talking car KITT, back on the road to help more “regular” people ala the ’80s show with David Hasselhoff. As a result, three castmembers have been jettisoned for the show’s second half, including Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Yancey Arias and Bruce Davison.
Oh Thank God. Someone came to their senses and decided not to go through with the proposed The Graysons TV series, the show that was going to go all Smallville on Batman’s sidekick, Dick Grayson, aka Robin. The proposed show was supposed to replace Smallville once that aging show went off the CW air, and would follow a teen Dick Grayson, or as he’s known in the show, “DJ” (yeah, WTF is right), as he learns about life, love, and other retarded stuff that people who watch the CW for anything other than Supernatural and Smallville care about. But have no fear, it’s been yanked!
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Haven’t heard much about Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse lately? Well besides the rumor (since confirmed) that Whedon has tossed out the original pilot for the show, and is now shooting a new pilot, I mean. Anyways, while we wait to see Eliza Dushku kick ass and look hot on the small screen once again, here’s a new promo for the show that’s popped up online. There are some new footages here that haven’t been seen before, but whether they’re from the newly shot pilot or the old one, remains to be seen. The promo does give off a more ethereal vibe, though, and less fanboy-ish than the previous ones that have been released so far.
I’m not the biggest fan of Doctor Who out there, but I have seen an episode here and there, and from what I’ve seen, I’ve liked. The show’s got that strange, British rhythm about it that just screams “this is NOT an American sci-fi show!” It’s kinda nice to see every now and then. But the show has a massive following around the world, and I’m sure this news will hit them hard: David Tennant, the current Doctor Who, will be leaving the show, and making way for a new Doctor. Not really a problem for the show, since the whole Doctor Who character was designed in such a way that replacing current the Doctor with new actors in the same role was always easily achieved, thus Tennant taking over for Christopher Eccleston a few years ago.