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Friday, March 28th, 2008In recent seasons, Smallville has become a shallow, meandering, nonsensical, hollow-melodrama version of its former self. With a mild case of scurvy.
Clark Kent and his best girl. And Lana Lang.
And that’s before lead actors started abandoning ship. Now I really have no excuse for continuing to watch, other than my inexplicable and [...]
Reader Poll: Would you pay $35 for a luxury movie theater experience?
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008I’m not a fan of events that attract big, shuffling, crowded groups of people.
First, there’s invariably a handful of mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers amongst the bunch, and it only takes a couple of those to ruin the party for everyone. You know the ones I mean. The belligerent drunk in the stands behind you at [...]
Reader Poll - Are you enjoying the new season of Jericho?
Friday, February 29th, 2008Cheers to Executive Producer Carol Barbee and the three cast members in attendance at WonderCon who were just short of upbeat on Sunday, two days ahead of D-Day for the show. According to Barbee, this past Tuesday’s episode was make-or-break for the show’s future on CBS.
Considering that the current season’s best ratings have been [...]
WonderCon 2008: Battlestar Galactica’s Richard Hatch Gives Fanboys Good News and Lewd News
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Richard “Not the Gay One from Survivor” Hatch is precluded by non-disclosure agreement from even beginning to think about hinting at any spoilers for the upcoming season four of Battlestar Galactica. But during his Q&A session today at WonderCon, he did to some extent assuage fears that the writers’ strike had done any [...]
Reader Poll - Which freshman TV show would you most like to see cancelled?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008When you hear about a “death,” it’s usually bad news. Except when you’re talking about the demise of a technology that’s been perpetuating a format war that generally makes life 37% more annoying for consumers. (Suck it, HD DVD!) Or when a half-assed plan to bring another beloved geek franchise to the [...]
The Top Five Campaigns to Save TV Shows from Cancellation
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Set your DVRs, people. Jericho returns to CBS at 10p on Tuesday night with the second season’s first episode, “Reconstruction.”
As many of you know, CBS execs had actually canceled Jericho after the last season, but then later granted a seven-episode second season in response to a creative mass mailing campaign by fans of the [...]