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Preview: New Knight Rider

KITT is back in a new Knight Rider TV series, which will premiere as a two-hour movie Sunday night, February 17, 2008. The movie is what people are calling a “back door” pilot — which basically means that if the movie scores well in the ratings, a TV series won’t be far behind....
February 15th, 2008 | Read More

Jericho’s Return Fails to Deliver High Ratings

Jericho’s miraculous resurrection after being cancelled by CBS has achieved near legendary status — nuts. And lots of nuts. But if the Season 2 opener is any indication, CBS may be re-thinking their renewed hope in Jericho. The show’s return to the airwaves failed to deliver in the...
February 13th, 2008 | Read More

NBC Renews Chuck and Heroes

NBC has released their schedule of shows they expect back for next season — they include the third season of Heroes, the second season of which was shortened because of the writer’s strike, and the second season of the new series Chuck. The Heroes renewal is no surprise, but Chuck was a little...
February 13th, 2008 | Read More

TV Review: New Amsterdam – Pilot Episode

New York Homicide Detective John Amsterdam can’t die. You see, he’s immortal, given the ability to live forever by a tribe of Native American women in 1642 for an act of kindness. Now, Amsterdam works the murder cases of present-day New York City while waiting for his true love to enter his...
February 13th, 2008 | Read More

Five Knight Rider Clips

Five new clips from the new Knight Rider TV series has appeared online. The new Knight Rider premieres as a 2-hour movie (or “back door pilot” as it’s being called) on February 17, 2008 on NBC. Mike Tracer, the knew Michael Knight, is a pretty good brawler. Check out Clip 4 as he goes...
February 12th, 2008 | Read More

ABC Renews Lost, Pushing Daisies

Pushing Daisies fans rejoice, because your show is coming back for a second season. ABC has just released their list of shows that have been renewed for an additional season, and Pushing Daisies was among them. No surprise, Lost was also on the list, since that’s pretty much the only show ABC has...
February 11th, 2008 | Read More

Joshua Jackson Joins Abrams’ Fringe

Joshua Jackson is headed for the fringes of TV — J.J. Abrams’ upcoming sci-fi show Fringe, to be exact. The former Dawson’s Creek star has joined the Abrams show, about FBI agents investigating paranormal and unexplainable whatevers. More: Jackson — best known as wise-cracking Pacey...
February 7th, 2008 | Read More

Val Kilmer is the New Voice of Knight Rider’s Kitt

The Knight Rider backdoor pilot (set to premiere in less than two weeks on NBC) originally had Will Arnett as the voice of supercar KITT — that is, until car company GM found out that KITT was a Ford Mustang, and asked Arnett to pulled out. Being that voicing GM commercials is more lucrative than...
February 7th, 2008 | Read More

Stargate: Atlantis Season 5 Update

The Sci Fi Channel announced today that Season 5 of Stargate: Atlantis will begin later this month with a 20-episode order. There are also news of returning and leaving castmembers. Of note is Amanda Tapping, who will be doing “guest star” work while Sci Fi revs up production on her new series,...
February 5th, 2008 | Read More

SPOILERS: Pilot Episode of Abrams’ Fringe

I am definitely marking this one with a big ol SPOILER tag, because it is very spoilerish — as in, it tells you pretty much everything that happens in the pilot episode of J.J. Abrams’ upcoming sci-fi TV show Fringe. Yes, I do mean everything, so if you don’t want to know how the pilot...
February 5th, 2008 | Read More

Lost Season 4 Premiere is a Ratings Winners

To absolutely no one’s surprise, the return of Lost to the line-up in a season plagued by the writer’s strike and way too many reality TV shows netted ABC a major victory. The network scored a whopping 16.1 million, 6.7 rating/17 share in adults 18-49 in the Nielsen, up from last year’s...
February 1st, 2008 | Read More

Aussie Anna Torv, 2 Others Join Abrams Fringe

J.J. Abrams has a habit of making stars out of unknown actresses: Jennifer Garner in Alias, Evangeline Lilly in Lost, Keri Russell in Felicity, and now … Anna Torv in Fringe? Maybe, since the Australian actress has been tapped by Abrams to play the female lead in his upcoming FOX sci-fi show Fringe....
January 31st, 2008 | Read More

Amanda Tapping’s Sanctuary Comes to Sci Fi Channel

Amanda Tapping’s web series “Sanctuary” is being adapted into a regular TV series by the Sci Fi Channel, says The Hollywood Reporter. “Sanctuary”, which starred Amanda Tapping, started life as an original web-based series created and produced by Tapping and her SG-1 colleagues,...
January 31st, 2008 | Read More

Farscape Finally Comes to iTunes

So, are you one of those people who have been waiting with bated breath for the Henson company to release Farscape onto iTunes for you to download? Um, why? Dude, if you were a real fan you would have bought the DVDs years ago! But hey, I’m not judging you. Or am I? More: The Jim Henson Company...
January 29th, 2008 | Read More

First Images from the New Knight Rider

It took a while, but finally, promo images from the upcoming Knight Rider TV series have finally hit the net. These images showed up on io9, and shows the new lead, Justin Bruening as Mike Tracer attending some kind of funeral. Geez, I hope it’s not going to be a downer series. We got transforming...
January 29th, 2008 | Read More

Two More for Abrams’ Fringe

J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci’s big-time sci-fi show Fringe has added two new castmembers: The Wire star Lance Reddick and Aussie John Noble (”The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”), will be playing a FBI agent and a mad scientist, respectively. More: The two-hour...
January 24th, 2008 | Read More

Sci Fi Channel Nabs Jericho Re-Reruns

The Sci Fi Channel has acquired exclusive cable re-rerun rights for CBS’s post-apocalyptic TV series Jericho, which is scheduled to return for its second season on February 12th, 2008, which is no easy feat, considering the show was actually cancelled once by CBS, but was saved by a fan campaign...
January 23rd, 2008 | Read More

J.J. Abrams’ Fringe TV Show Adds to its Cast

Speaking of J.J. Abrams (no, this isn’t a J.J. Abrams site, it just so happens that the guy is involved in a lot of sci-fi work nowadays), his other big high-profile project is the FOX sci-fi show Fringe, which has added Kirk Acevedo and Tomas Arana to a cast that already includes Mark Valley....
January 17th, 2008 | Read More

The New Knight Rider Can Morph, David Hasselhoff

Justin Bruening, the star of the new Knight Rider TV series, says his show has a little bit of “Transformers” in it, in that the new Kitt can morph “into different colors and actually morphs into an attack mode”. He goes on: “It grows a spoiler and becomes more aerodynamic...
January 15th, 2008 | Read More

Crack the BSG Season 4 Last Supper Picture Code

Entertainment Weekly has got this massive spread on their site showing characters from the Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica sitting around a table in a very Christ’s Last Summer style sitting. What are they trying to say? Is someone going to betray someone? And who is Christ? Is there a Christ?...
January 13th, 2008 | Read More

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