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Three months ago, I retooled my personal blog from untargeted essays on politics, poker, the law, science, and whatever happened to have my attention at any given time, into a source of news and commentary on the current state of...
The GuyMy name is Paul William Tenny, the sole author of this blog. I'm currently a freelance writer living in North Carolina. While this site has a TV/film theme, I write political essays, commentary, and occasionally news for different sites...
I live on the east coast of the United States (GMT -5:00), so please keep that in mind when sending email or an instant message. You can see what time it is locally here. I'll get to these things as...
Ken Silverman took over the reigns from Kevin Reilly at NBC too late to make any decisions about what new shows would be picked up for the fall season, so you can't really blame him if any of them fail....
A bit of news on M. Night Shyamalan's next flick after Avatar: The Last Airbender, where John Leguizamo has been cast as Mark Wahlberg's best friend in The Happening. For those who are not aware, The Happening is supposedly a...
Fox has a bad habit of killing off series before they've had a chance to build an audience, choosing instead to only keep shows that come with stellar numbers right from the very first airing. This of course resulted in...
Quick news from Variety that CBS, like NBC a day ago, has set its new fall schedule in stone. Here's the goods on what to watch, and when. If you're curious, you can find more information on many of these...
The only thing I've seen of the Saw "franchise" was the end of the first film, maybe the last thirty minutes or so, and I thought it was decently entertaining. It reaked of a SciFi channel original, though. Low budget,...
NBC is lowering itself to the role of media whore for the new Harry Potter film, extensively interviewing mega-rich author J.K. Rowling on The Today Show, and splitting the interview into two segments on back-to-back days. The interview will appear...
I've read news at a couple of different places that more than a few new characters are joining House for the new season. Before anyone jumps over the rail, I'd like to remind everyone that the entire supporting cast for...
The title pretty much says it all, studies based on data collected by TiVo show that people who skip advertisements tend to watch trailers for feature films. That's not exactly a surprise, or should be, movie trailers are pretty big...
TNT's The Closer did its thing on Monday, winning the week on cable with 7.4 million viewers. That's outstanding for cable, but would probably get you canceled on network television for that time slot. It's fewer viewers than Studio 60...
A lot of what TV Squad posts is fluff repeated on a daily basis, but a decent amount of it isn't because of the media access being owned by AOL gets them. The last open job I saw at the...
The list for the 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards was released by the ATAS today, and it's a big one. Well, they're all pretty big, actually. Here are the highlights along with the full list for your consumption....
There's a wonderful little story coming out of Hollywood Reporter today about an assistant at CAA that pitched a story idea to Brian Grazer (24, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13), had it bought, and now is in the mix as...
Leave it to Fox to ask for a date, then not show up. According to the LA Times, Fox has pulled out a number of its coming features from the San Diego convention where every major studio is set to...
With so much over-coverage of Harry Potter on the Internets, it's hardly worth spending any time over. There's nothing I can write that you can't get anywhere else, except perhaps to pick a fight over the attempt by some...
I realize there isn't very wide appeal for news and information on the talks taking place between the major studios and the Writers Guild of America, but you should read this anyway because it's extremely important. If a deal isn't...
I missed this when I wrote both news that 'Drive' was making its final goodbyes to the world when Fox stopped dragging its pathetic feet, placing the final two un-aired episodes online for free viewing - though they for...
I'm a notorious opponent of censorship in pretty much any form. Government simply should not be in the business of telling citizens what they can and cannot say - within reason. Obviously common sense dictates that threatening to kill...
Gavin Hood has been set as director for the X-Men spin-off Wolverine, according to Variety. Hood can't seem to decide what he wants to be when he grows up, writing, directing, and acting for television and film. The only...
I'm sorry, but when did Rob Zombie become a "visionary genius"? Isn't this guy a heavy metal musician or something? I suppose anyone can accomplish something if they put enough time and energy into it, but calling a guy who...
My new and current Internet provider, WildBlue satellite service, appears to be an incompetent company to say the least. After 11PM EDT, the connection is extremely stable and fast. It degrades as morning rolls into afternoon, and becomes unstable as...
The Democratic candidates debated on CNN Monday evening, working entirely from questions recorded and uploaded to YouTube. I thought the idea was stupid at first, because which questions would be presented was still up to the organizers of the debate...
AICN made its bed by getting people who got into test screenings to write reviews they could publish, leaking plots and starting the ball on early negative press. Studios hate the negative press because it's usually accurate, in that the...
Variety reports that FX has bought the broadcast rights to Judd Apatow's next comedy flick, Superbad. The movie, written by scribe Seth Rogen, is about two friends who are outcasts that are forced to adjust to life without each other...
Peter Jackson's next project is a film adaptation of the novel Lovely Bones, a murder mystery about "a young girl who watches over her family -- and killer -- from heaven", that looks like a real snoozer. Jackson's run...
A number of pundits and even indy studios have been wondering if we're in the midst of a horror-genre overload this year, while the audience is telling them as plainly as possible, practically asking if they need to spell...
I know who killed the box office this weekend: Lindsay Lohan. Yes, I'm not clever and since I'm getting paid pennies for this, you get a couple of pennies worth of effort. Sorry.While Lindsay may be headlining the tabloids for...
A trilogy of film companies are getting together to bring Dark Shadows to the big screen. Warner Brothers being the big player, while the other two are just fronts that actors and producers use to simply paying taxes and...
I suppose it's cool news that Leonard Nimoy will be reprising his role as Spock in Star Trek XI, though he won't be a star from what I gather, the spotlight will fall to a younger actor who will portray...
On April 29th, TelevisionWeek published a story written by reporter James Hibberd that documented the posting of several of this fall's big network pilots on websites dedicated to indexing files available for download over BitTorrent. This is happening more and...
The numbers are in for the last weekend of July, and surprise surprise, The Simpsons feature film took the weekend handily. The Fox flick grossed $71 million domestically in a little over 3900 theaters. Though I'm entirely confused as to...
Talks between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Writers Guild of America have begun, and already both sides are doing more verbal sparring in the media than they are sitting in a room together negotiating...
Diaz, Knightley, and Depp have all found new things to do with their insanely rich and exciting lives - though not together, at least not right this second anyway. I would jokingly say that no studio could afford to have...
If you like being teased without any pay off, this video from TV Guide featuring short segments of interviews with the Heroes cast from some recent press event may be to your liking. I was disappointed, personally, believing that "Dig...
The title really says it all, doesn't it? Not giving a title to the film really is kind of a silly way to tease the audience. Think about it, even if we knew what the title of the film is,...
TV Guide is carrying a short interview with Masi Oka (Hiro) from Heroes, spilling a few tidbits about what's going to happen in the second season. The good news is that the premier is just eight weeks away, coming up...
Crapping myself here, and bummed that I didn't pick up on this earlier. Apparently Comic Con is someplace I desperately need to go to next year, because this is quickly becoming a place where all the cool stuff is being...
Apparently, this trailer was debuted at Comic Con. Given the relatively poor quality compared to real trailers, I don't know if this video is even a legit upload. Probably not, but since it's not mine and I don't believe that...
This trailer is an international R-rated version for the film Beowulf, which apparently just came out yesterday. The quality isn't all that great, so if you want something better, you can always hit up Apple's movie trailer site.Beowulf is a...
As promised yesterday, here's a link to Kevin Smith's blog entry, talking about his announcement at Comic Con that he'll be writing and directing an episode of the Heroes spin-off, Heroes: Origins. In his typical down-to-earth style, he starts right...
Cinematical ran across a trailer for the next Resident Evil flick on Sony's website, apparently notable for the trailer featuring R-rated violence and gore (which I can personally attest to.) That, I'm afraid, is about all this film is going...
It's not fair to say since I don't know the man personally, but I will say this of Ratner, when he snaps his fingers, studios fight each other over who will dump the most money on him and his productions....
I'm of two minds on China these days, the first being that anything we do that doesn't result in a positive change in China's way of doing things is contributory to its shameful culture of ignorance and oppression. On the...
The Punisher left a lot to be desired, and while I don't claim to be much of an expert since I'm not a comic fan, that doesn't mean that I don't know what I'm talking about. There wasn't a discernible...
This came out over the wire yesterday and has splattered the web from end to end already, so here's your obligatory note that DreamWorks plans on having Shrek 4 out in theaters in May of 2010, about three years from...
Date announced for Jericho Season 2 Premier...Note: If you've come here looking for info on the second season of Jericho, you may find these other posts interesting: CBS Entertainment Prez Talks 'Jericho', Stephen King Digs Jericho, Jericho on DVD, Turteltaub...
Apparently the really expensive, heavy-on-the-drama and absolutely enjoyable original Scfi Channel series Farscape is making a bit of a comeback, albeit not through traditional outlets. The critically acclaimed (for all that comment is worth these days) series will see 10...
I talked about Sunshine a little bit about one week ago in Offsite Stardust Reviews, because obviously I had momentarily confused Sunshine with Stardust. In the extended entry, I had this to say about the films premise.I'll be honest here,...
I noticed in my traffic logs this morning that the story I wrote earlier this morning on Jericho got linked from the Jericho forum hosted by CBS. Thanks for the link, love is always appreciated. Based on some chatter in...
The title says it all, if you're a big Stargate SG-1 fan and don't have the entire series resting comfortably in your DVD collection, here is a great opportunity to spend a lot of money and get the whole series...
I came across a post over on the GateWorld forums reminding people that the Scifi Channel's latest "Get in the Gate" contest ends today, Friday August 3rd. Get in the Gate is really just a random drawing they hold once...
This is a combo piece where the Scifi Wire has some quotes on changes Ridley Scott made to the new super-duper-extra-special re-release of Blade Runner on DVD. But that's not all, if you call within the next ten minutes, you...
Three big releases this weekend from Universal, Paramount, and Buena Vista. The big dog isn't Disney's Underdog, it's The Bourne Ultimatum, the final film in the trilogy from Paul Greengrass. This flick is opening wide in over 3600 theaters today,...
According to Variety, id Software has licensed the theatrical rights to first-person-shooter Return to Castle Wolfenstein to producer Samuel Hadida. The bad news is that this doesn't really mean anything, rights transfers like this happen on a daily basis, and...
ABC created a mini-series which is an anthology of one-hour stand-alone episodes, supposedly from the "masters of science fiction", which will debut tomorrow night at 10PM. Yeah, Variety wasn't the only one to notice that ABC isn't even giving token...
Fox is playing around with their fall schedule, pushing the debut of New Amsterdam back towards January, kicking into high gear its disgustingly reality-laden schedule which appears to now be eating up half the broadcast week. Supposedly, Fox is doing...
Even though the upfronts are behind us, the networks always keep things moving behind the scenes. Some shows that didn't get picked up at place A will get a second chance at place B, after place B decides some of...
TV.com has lots of information, such as a reminder that the first season of Heroes will be released on DVD this month, August 28th. You can pre-order the standard definition box set, or the HD-DVD box set right now. Sorry,...
I didn't have to find an article on Entertainment Weekly to know this, nor do I feel like it's really worth posting here since I try to stay away from tabloid entertainment "news", but since I said this was going...
In a strange reversal of fortune, someone thought it would be a good idea to give cameras to the already famous and mostly rich thespians, directors, and other pros at Comic-Con to take pictures of the event from their perspective....
Okay well, to be honest, this guy wasn't a heckler. A heckler is someone in a crowd that shouts with the intent to disrupt something, solely for the purpose of being a jerk. This guy waited his turn, went up...
Entertainment Weekly interviewed Chris Carter about his work on the upcoming sequel to the 1998 feature film The X-Files, while IGN TV hooked up with the star of Fox's continuing drama 24, Kiefer Sutherland. For the record, I didn't like...
Quick news blurb, here but I'm pushing this show because I sense great potential here. Pushing Daises is getting Lost's old time slot on Wednesday nights at 8PM beginning on October 3rd on ABC, based on the logic that this...
At some point I'll figure out a better name for this series of posts. Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments or email/instant message them to me if you'd prefer.Last Friday it was Rush Hour 3 and Stardust, even...
I can take flat out lying better than I can hypocrisy, and I'm going against my own call for civility for a moment to call out IESB. There was a spat about two weeks ago, a very public back-and-forth dialog...
I'm not sure what has changed since I haven't had the opportunity to work on the problem, but the thing that made the comments broken has seemingly went away. I'm enabling them on all new posts from this point forward....
For those of you who, like myself, didn't know about this, there was a panel at Comic-Con for the people who run blogs - I think it was called Masters of the Web, or something similarly ridiculous. Of all the...
It looks like tracking was off pretty badly this weekend, I seem to recall reading that The Simpsons was going to retain the number one spot with $50 million, with The Bourne Ultimatum coming up just short with about $40m....
The Scifi Channel has canceled their original show The Dresden Files. I picked this up from Syfy portal this afternoon, which they apparently poached from TV Guide. It's difficult if not impossible to keep an eye on every single cable...
Yesterday afternoon, my host upgraded some server-side scripting packages that MovableType depends on to access the MySQL database. This happened while I was working on the templates to bring them into full compliance with the XHTML and CSS specs. The...
Apparently flooding a CBS studio and shutting down subways in New York. While they had over two inches of rain dumped on them earlier today, forcing the Early Show to move to another set, North Carolina where I am writing...
Zap2it.com posted a story reporting that Paul McGillion will return to Stargate Atlantis in the upcoming fourth season in a two-episode arc, along with Torri Higginson, though not necessarily in the same episodes. I heard about McGillion's character being killed...
Battles have been raging all across the country between video game publishers and the various state legislature's attempts to regulate games that contain forms of sex and violence. While virtually every law passed has been struck down for being unconstitutionally...
Far be it from me to lecture people about piracy, given my own spotty past (I'm reformed), but this is totally unacceptable behavior from an executive producer and must be strongly condemned. According to TV Squad, Weeds EP Jenji Kohan...
I wrote about a story going around last week that Ridley Scott was looking to direct another Blade Runner film, if he could find a good script to shoot. It sounded like he was encouraging writers to cook something up...
Feast wasn't what Marcus Dunstan sold it as. It was not in the tradition of Evil Dead, if there is such a thing. It was more like Trey Parker and Matt Stone's limited rewrite of a bad horror film written...
I think it was during the upfronts earlier this year when Ronald D. Moore, showrunner for Scifi Channels "original" series Battlestar Galactica let slip that he was writing scripts both for a sequel to I, Robot, and possibly a new...
I see news from yesterday evening that Blockbuster finally bought out Movielink, a movie download service created by five of the major studios in an attempt to offer consumers a legal alternative to downloading movies without resorting to piracy.This puts...
I'm experimenting a little here with embedding Apple movie trailers in my pages, something I've never done before so I'm not sure how well this will work. The actual trailer will be on the post page, so you need to...
There is nothing else to say about this. However, soldier on to view a trailer for this continued abomination from Uwe "I #$!%ed your mom" Boll....
If it wasn't bad enough that Thomas Jane bowed out of the sequel to The Punisher because he was ashamed of how poor the first film was, and upset at how terrible the sequel was shaping up to be, and...
Hollywood writers have scored a big win in their fight to receive minimum wages and union-mandated residuals for their work on webisodes, in what is shaping up to be a war over payment and jurisdiction just as they've settled in...
I wrote a story yesterday based on other material I found around the web, including a post on TV Squad, a site that was purchased by AOL/TimeWarner when they bought Weblogs Inc. from Jason Calacanis in 2005. I'm not blaming...
There are only a couple of big players opening today, the overwhelming favorite to take the weekend prize being Rush Hour 3. A lot of people will go to see it on the credit of the previous two films, and...
I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for this for a long time. Survivorman Les Stroud is returning to the Discovery Channel tonight at 9PM EDT with all new episodes, some of which are still being shot.Just when...
Just a quick reminder, episode 2/part 2 of ABC's miniseries Masters of Science Fiction will be on tonight at 10PM EDT. Tonights installment is called The Awakening, with the description "In Iraq, American soldiers discover a mysterious casualty that cannot...
Just dropped by Gateworld to see that they've dug up a link to Yahoo! where you can feast your eyes on a promo for the upcoming and currently shooting fourth season of Stargate Atlantis.The clips confirm Samantha Carter's promotion to...
You know, since quality is so subjective, the best metric for predicting a films box office success or failure is taking a hard look at how much it cost to make. Since theaters take about 45% of ticket sales, a...
Later on tonight in its regular time slot of 9PM EDT, Ali Later (Jessica Sanders) and Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petreilli) will be hosting an episode of Heroes from last season as a two-part promotion for Later's upcoming flick Resident Evil...
I wrote a story a few days ago about a final ruling from the National Labor Relations Board on a complaint filed against the Writers Guild of America (WGA) by NBC Universal over the creation of "webisodes." If you managed...
Because one version of a film is never enough. This version will be live-action with CGI special effects used to make real animals shot in India talk like human beings. Can we for a moment just consider trying something original?...
The only two big players this past weekend were Stardust, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, and Rush Hour 3, the all-action no-plot third installment of the franchise from Brett Ratner. Stardust didn't inspire me very much with its...
I heard the rumors that Harvey Keitel was in the running to replace Mandy Patinkin on CBS' Criminal Minds, but I didn't hear that Geena Davis was in the mix too. How about that? How about neither? Joe Mantegna is...
I envy people that have press connections that enable them to preview new TV series before the rest of us get to see them. Back when people like that were crapping Prison Break, I thought "hey cool, they just saved...
Because three hours just isn't enough time to see all of this falls finest fashions, NBC's The Today Show is expanding from an unfortunate three hours to an untenable four hours sometime early next month. NBC has tapped Ann Curry,...
Not that I like reporting on this tabloid garbage, but sometimes I get really bored fighting the forces of evil and saving the planet fifty times every day, and I need to take a break and read about the latest...
I'm not surprised in the least, are you? I heard rumblings that a straight-to-DVD sequel to the extremely great The Lost Boys had been commisioned. A sequel might have been a given if the thought had crossed the studio's mind...
Well, that was predictable. The first film was pure lightening in a bottle, while the sequel was an underwhelming and unsatisfying adventure within the Jurassic Park world, but not in the mind of Michael Chricton who gave birth to it...
It's about time somebody apologized for the abortion that was the Star Trek: Enterprise finale. Listen, I have sympathy for writers who try to do good but end up producing crap. Sometimes you're constrained by the studio, or higher execs...
The Showtime drama Weeds has set some records with their third season debut, according to Variety. Last nights opener saw a 43% increase over the second season premier, though these numbers are extremely small given the nature of pay-cable shows,...
My condolences to the staff and fans of HBO's exceedingly strange show John From Cincinnati, which was not renewed for a second season. There's a fine balance to be had between exciting mystery, and downright confusion, and apparently John couldn't...
Just posting this for Jericho fans, this isn't news by any means, but I thought you might like to know about this. Stephen King has column at Entertainment Weekly (what a waste of a place) where King writes about "pop...
The irony of this situation is exceedingly apt. A lot of people mock Fox News Channel as the true source of fake news, given their conservative bias and tendency to just make things up to enrage people. It wasn't funny...
NBC shot a thirty minute segment hosted by Heroes star Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman) that previews their fall lineup, with a sneak peak at season two of Heroes itself. This special has already aired on select local NBC affiliates, but...
Fear not, I'm rolling my eyes too. Let's make Die Hard 4, and remake old flicks, and then make sequels to re-made old flicks. Let's not have the balls to shoot original material, because, you know, it's not like original...
I'll be honest, I don't have the first clue what kind of show Without a Trace is, even though I recognize the name. There are way too many shows, most of them mediocre and bad, to watch and become intimately...
It's strange, yet actually quite appropriate. 20/20 is investigating Dateline's visit to a town in Texas where one of their caught "predators" was actually a Texas District Attorney who, after being snagged by Dateline, fatally shot himself just when he...
The bad news keeps rolling in this month, this time I'm reading that the Scifi Channel's Painkiller Jane which stars Kristanna Loken will not be renewed for a second season. The series will continue with production to fill out the...
E! Online is reporting that Fox's waning drama 24 has been delayed for a second time as the shows producers attempt to wrap their brains around the complex story line for the upcoming seventh season. Personally I think they would...
Let's do a little comparison here. The DirecTV MLB package gives you about 140 games (with about 20 national blackouts due to monopolistic, predatory licensing) for about $140 per year. That's about one dollar per game, and a really good...
You may or may not have heard, AOL/Time Warner has launched a video search engine called Truveo in an attempt to take on Google for advertising dollars and search dominance. This is one area where I expected Google to pioneer...
AP's movie critic has taken a few shots at the latest incarnation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this iteration staring Nicole Kidman, and having been written by the guys responsible for bringing us The Matrix. I'm a huge critic...
Superhero Hype was in on a conference call/Q&A with Heroes star Masi Oka (Hiro), and they've got a transcript of the deal to which I'll link, and provide a short excerpt. I have got to find out how to get...
Any cursory glance at this countries record of updating its copyright law makes it painfully clear that virtually every instance has been at the behest of corporate media lobbyists. I'm not riffing on them or going on your typical anti-conglomerate...
Found a new trailer for Rob Zombie's version of Halloween, which is totally unnecessary and yet completely predictable in the age of industry cowardice towards original material. I hope you enjoy the trailer to the film you've already seen, because...
I haven't read this whole thing but there's a transcript over there, along with the audio from the interview. Sometimes I bang my head on the table when I read interviews with working writers. There's one level, and then a...
According to a story in Daily Variety last evening, Kristen Bell has shunned CBS' Lost in favor of joining NBC's Heroes for its upcoming second season. She won't be a regular, but will take part in a multi-episode arc. Is...
NBC's new thing where they have two cast members from Heroes host "their favorite episode" from the first season is coming back at ya tonight at 9PM EDT. This evening we've got Hayden Panettiere (Clair Bennet) and Milo Ventimiglia (Peter...
Great post by Joe Mallozzi on this weblog yesterday afternoon, recounting his recent visit to Anime Evolution in Vancouver this year. I've had the pleasure to speak with Mallozzi via email once when I was trying to find a production...
John August's new flick The Nines is going to hit the Alamo Drafthouse on September 28th (four days after the debut of Heroes, which has nothing to do with this post but must be mentioned at every opportunity.) This is...
Seriously, and I'm not knocking on the guy personally, but I'm really kind of upset about this. Yeah, it's a silly thing to get mad about, but so what? Seacrest is the host of the planets most popular reality show,...
Everybody else does it, and I know you want it, so here is your daily does of really lame puns: Superbad is super bad at the box office this weekend!Guh. The numbers don't lie though, Superbad ate up $31 million...
I just got done reading a story on The Movie Blog called Ban Cell Phones From Theaters. I sympathize with the frustration, but disagree with a couple of things here. John Campea mentions how Australian authorities are claiming that the...
I read a while back that NBC was going to push Keith Olbermann to the front with some pre-and-post Nightly News slots sometime this year. Those as far as I know haven't happened yet, but Countdown is making its broadcast...
This is truly some creepy stuff. In an unverified letter written to The Consumerist, a D.C. moviegoer who went to see The Invasion (based on its weekend numbers, he is about the only person who did) noticed someone in the...
Hat tip to Matt Ausiello who got the scoop by reporting a few hours ago that Ganeane Garofalo will be joining 24 for its upcoming seventh season as a regular player. Ausiello has next to nothing else when it comes...
Mr. Ausiello of TV Guide has interviewed Kristen Bell on various subject matters, including her upcoming appearances later this year in its sophomore season. How many episodes? Lots. What the hell was the deal with Lost? Who cares, it feels...
Even though it has already been released, I'm tossing 300 in with this group because this group is distinctly lacking some awesome. For shame.300The second of Frank Miller's graphic novels to make it to the big screen, the first being...
Four shows had DVD season box sets released yesterday, and I apologize for not doing this yesterday as I had intended to do, but alas I forgot because I was dropped in my head as a child. More like thrown,...
I've read the news and I'm wondering what the downside is here. In case you haven't been following this story, Paramount has sided against Blu-Ray and consequentially virtually every other major studio by exclusively releasing their library on HD-DVD discs....
I heard there was a recently released promo video for Heroes season 2 floating around the 'nets the past few days, and I was hoping NBC would promptly release it on their YouTube page. Alas, they have failed me once...
A pair of interviews with the stars of Prison Break on upcoming season 3. IGN has Dominic Purcell (Lincoln Burrows) while MovieWeb picked up Amaury Nolasco (Fernando Sucre). MovieWeb for whatever reason scored a sad but victorious two whole questions...
With "always-on" Internet connections, you take for granted the power of instant global communication. That is, until you've lost yours. Want to know the 4-day forecast? Wait for the local news to come on. Last nights sports scores? Buy a...
Got my 'net access back today, and just in time too. Season 1 of Heroes was released on standard definition DVD for $36.99 and HD-DVD for $69.95 today. There's other cool Heroes stuff you can get at Amazon, though, besides...
There weren't any big flicks opening in theaters this past weekend, and the weekend chart reflects that with only 3/15 films landing somewhere in the top 10. Mr. Bean's Holiday, WAR, and The Nanny Diaries landed 4th, 5th, and 6th...
To whomever has been spamming this site with spam trackbacks, you might as well just stop. I've gotten nearly 300 of them in the past two weeks, 33 today alone. Do you know how many made it onto the site?...
A bit of casting news for a laugher, and a sequel to a film I just barely remember from my younger years. Anybody remember Escape to Witch Mountain? I've got the name, and a vague feeling of having liked it,...
Probably not of great interest to most people, but Rainmaker has promoted Marianne O'Reilly to president of the company. Rainmaker has done visual effects and CGI for both Stargate television shows as well as quite a few feature films, including...
Some old science fiction "classics" are great, while some aren't. By now, most of them have been written and rewritten and revisited and rewritten yet again. While The Day The Earth Stood Still hasn't been seen for quite some time,...
Good news for South Park fans, the show that began with the popular birth of the Internet has been renewed, and its venerable-yet-naughty creators signed for a further three years. No telling if they have any interest in continuing the...
I was wondering when Tim Minear was going to realize that Fox is probably the worst place you could try to setup a new show. They are the most arrogant of all the networks, one would think and justifiably so,...
It didn't take long for Fox to cancel Anchorwoman, did it? One and done. Here's the description I included in my look at the upfronts earlier this year: "a supermodel settles down in a southern Texas town and becomes an...
With the six-day downtime I took the opportunity to design a new template for this blog. I didn't know how long it would take, and suffice to say it's not a quick or easy process for someone who isn't a...
We're talking about Starz Entertainment here, the company that has nearly a dozen pay-movie channels (at least on DirecTV) and runs a constant stream of commercial free films all hours of the day and night. Most of them are old,...
Who was it, CBS, that is taking a lot of criticism for letting a bunch of children run a town on their own? Really just a terrible idea even just from an entertainment perspective, but so irresponsible as well, I...
It's finally September and I've fallen behind. Sorry about that, but it's a growing process. There were no big surprises this past weekend at the box office: Rob Zombie's unnecessary remake of Halloween grossed $26.4 million on a budget of...
I'm sure most people who care about this stuff already know that Jude Law was arrested in Britain after a scuffle with a photographer on Tuesday, and I'm sitting here wondering if it was worth the troubles he's brought down...
With the DVD release of the first season of Heroes recently, I took the opportunity to link up to the Unbox page for the hit series. That's Amazon.com's video download service, like iTunes, but no where near as popular. I...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ryan Phillippe has signed on for Last Battle Dreamer to play a Viking in "a love story written in fire and blood." Okay, I've seen Phillippe in a few flicks, one of them happens to...