For those of us that once loved Heroes and now feel betrayed and often sickened by the disaster it’s become, the Brits have come around once again to demonstrate how exactly a show about ordinary people with super powers should be done.
Archive for Sci-Fi TV News
Slingers Is Rat Pack And Oceans 11 Awesome
Holy crap. When I watched this test and funding bait loop for the soon may be piloted Brit Sci-Fi “Slingers”, my immediate thought was, (after I stopped hyper blinking) This thing is too good to succeed.
Alice Goes Sci-Fi In A New Wonderland
Alice seems to be a hot girl these days. We’re awaiting Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland”, which from early looks appears dependably Tim trippy. Johnny Depp plays the Mad Hatter in this film version so I won’t be missing it.
The Season Six Preview Of LOST
From the Cuatro television network comes this eyebrow raising promo for the 6th and final season of LOST. What does it all mean? If the characters wandering around on the Island are chess pieces then who is knight and who is pawn? Of course more importantly, who is the King and Queen?
Stargate Universe Ratings: Steadying, or Falling?
I’m not a TV numbers wonk, mostly because numbers give me headaches, which probably explains why I suck at math. But thankfully we have sites like tvbythenumbers.com to do all the numbers following and crunching for us. The site has a comprehensive ratings break-down for the first nine episodes of “Stargate: Universe”, and depending by your point of view, the show is either falling or steadying itself.
First Look at the Justice Society on Smallville
Ha, look, Green Arrow is getting his ass kicked again. Remember when Green Arrow was actually a cool character on “Smallville”? Now everytime I see him on the show, he’s getting his ass kicked. I mean, by everyone. Some chick. Some dudes. Some gangbangers. It looks like Green Arrow’s status as “Smallville’s” resident punching bag will continue in the “Smallville” two-hour Justice Society-themed movie “Absolute Justice”. Check out two images from the upcoming February 5 episode below via EW. The “event” episode will guest-star “Stargate” fave Michael Shanks as Hawkman (seen below putting the smack down on Green Arrow), Brent Stait as Doctor Fate, and Britt Irvin as Stargirl. The Doctor’s costume looks completely impractical, though the abs on Stargirl is kinda hot.
SyFy Channel Picks up Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid aka Haven TV Show
As bad as movies based on Stephen King stories tend to be (with some rare exceptions, of course), TV products based off his books tend to be that much better. I can rattle off some examples: the long-running “The Dead Zone” TV show, “The Stand” mini-series, and heck, even the “It” mini-series scared the beJesus out of me when I was a wee bit lad. (Looking back on it, the mini-series was kind of tame, but you know, back then it was some pretty scary stuff.) The latest King offering to get the TV show treatment is “Haven”, based off his “The Colorado Kid” short story.
FlashForward Takes a Break, Shuts Down Production
Are you still watching ABC’s “FlashForward”? I have the show DVR’ed, but haven’t had time to watch the last three episodes. Okay, it’s not that I don’t have the time, it’s that I, well, don’t want to. Which is a shame, because after the first couple of episodes, this was quickly becoming my favorite new show. Then it, er, wasn’t. I don’t know what happen, to tell you the truth, but maybe it was that trip to Washington that just opened the door up to a whole slew of new, completely unlikeable characters that made me give up on the whole thing. In any case, news is that the show will now temporarily shut down production for six days so that the writers can “tinker” with it.
Here’s A Sneak Peek At The Next Episode Of Stargate Universe Called Justice
No one is pickier about their programming than Sci-Fi fans. We’re like piranhas on guppies when there is blood in the water. I for one, remain optimistic that SGU has some legs. People putting this show together and acting in it give a shit. I think it’s killing them that the show hasn’t had the reception they expected.
Doctor Who: The End of Time Preview (BBC Children in Need Special)
The Doctor’s been a marked man all year, and now all hell’s about to break loose. David Tennant departs “Doctor Who” and the BBC is giving him a grand sendoff, with a shattering story of epic proportions that will alter the show forever.
Stargate Universe Recap 1.09: Life
What would you actually do all day if you were marooned on a million year old starship, bound for who the hell knows and stuck with a motley band of cranky (or homicidal) crew? The ninth episode of SGU attempts to realistically explain this and also how to tastefully (maybe too tastefully) handle the sticky problem of space lesbians.
Steven Spielberg to go Under the Dome with Stephen King
Stephen King himself mentioned earlier this month that his latest book, the gargantuan tome “Under the Dome” (the book clocks in at a respectable 1088 pages) will be headed to the small screen, and now we know a little bit more about the project: besides King, the project will, in all likelihood, headed to a cable network in limited series (aka mini-series) form courtesy of Steven Spielberg and his Dreamworks studio.
South Park’s 2012 Parody. And Pee Drinking Episode.
The boys at “South Park” always likes to toss in a big Hollywood movie parody or two in their episodes. Last week they took a swipe at James Cameron’s “Avatar”, and this week it’s Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic “2012″. In the episode, the boys go to the local Splash Town-ish water park, where Cartman gets incense at all the minorities there, while all the peeing in the water results in a massive tsunami of, well, pee destroying the park in a “2012″-ish sequence. It’s all very silly and completely over-the-top ridiculous — you know, like the actual movie.
NBC’s Canceled The Listener Returns for Second Season on Canadian TV
NBC’s canceled “The Listener” starred Craig Olejnik as a telepathic paramedic who uses his gift to solve crimes. That’s a nifty little premise, but I never got around to watching it, and apparently neither did anyone else. I never knew when NBC was showing the show, so it just flew by its first season and was summarily canceled when not enough people tuned in. The Peacock network may not have had any faith in the show, but the Canadians think otherwise.
V Recap: 1.03 A Bright New Day
It’s a brave new world in America, as Anna and the Visitors prepare to establish official diplomatic ties with the Government, thanks in part to a willing media led by the very bias reporting of Chad Decker (Scott Wolf). Meanwhile, the Resistance of Two – aka FBI Agent Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Father Jack (Joel Gretsch) — continue their quest to find strength in numbers. Step one: find everyone who was at the warehouse that fateful night, including the AWOL Georgie (David Richmond-Peck). For his part, former V sleeper soldier turned human sympathizer Ryan (Morris Chestnut) goes in search of the remaining members of the V Fifth Column, a group of V rebels now scattered to the wind. As we learn toward the end of tonight’s episode, “A Bright New Day”, you just never know when those spunky Fifth Columns will show up next. While last week’s episode was a paranoid, tightly-wound continuation of the pilot, “A Brave New Day” opens up and takes a giant leap in story.
