Dino-riffic News For Fans of “Primeval”
How different is the financial paradigm in the entertainment world these days?? It’s this different: BBC (and, in turn, BBC America) is partnering with its broadcasting nemesis of over fifty years, ITV, to resurrect “Primeval“? And even crazier… they’re putting up the bulk of the dino-cash! Here’s the cheerful sci-fi news in today’s official press release:
International collaboration [...]
Believe The Hype: “District 9″ Will Blow Your Mind, or At Least Your Skull, Wide Open (Semi-Spoilery)
Remember “The Blair Witch Project”? Remember how it was billed as a bold new approach to suspense film-making? Remember how much it sucked?
Remember “Cloverfield”? Remember how it was billed as bold new approach to action suspense film-making? Remember how much it sucked?
Now, we get “District 9“, a new movie being billed as a bold new approach [...]
“I Chose Each Of You”
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NBC swears this is a real, unauthorized leak. It looks pretty rough, and you’ll have to jack the sound up. But as far as leaks go, this is pretty choice.
Both ABC and NBC have large-scale alien invasion dramas coming this season – ABC’s reboot of “V” and NBC’s “Day One” – and both [...]
Another Weekend DVR Download From Across the Pond
As American TV took a brief nap before the summer season starts kicking in for real, the DVR download this weekend was generally fueled by programming from the U.K. A few bits of it will have an impact in the U.S. in the next few weeks, so let’s clear the drive, shall we??
The big story from [...]
Early Buzz on Upfront Action
Updated 5/17 PM: The Hollywood Reporter, though still not naming sources or really confirming things, has posted that “Chuck” looks like a go for the NBC 2009-10 schedule.
Original 5/16 Posting: From a variety of sources come the following early glances at next week’s TV network upfronts:
The hottest story, from all sources - “Dollhouse” has been picked [...]
OMFG.
“Lost“. Season Five. As the kids say, “OMFG”.
The swagger and quality of Season One returned, with some of the boldest storytelling choices in mainstream network television history.
With a patchwork of honest-to-Vonnegut time-travel, flashbacks and flash-sideways, at times so dense and complex that we needed THREE “story so far” clip shows in sixteen weeks, major chunks of [...]
And Now For Something Completely Different – A Weekend DVD Download! (Some Spoliers)
Up front – unconfirmed TV rumors! A Doctor Who website is reporting that “Torchwood: Children Of Earth” will air in the U.K. the week of June 15th. Here’s the alleged official synopsis:
1965: Twelve children are gathered on a deserted moor, before being surrounded by a harsh, bright light …. and then they are gone! Today: all over [...]
“All of This Has Happened Before…” But Never Again? (As Spoiler Free As Cylonically Possible)
Basic cable science-fiction is not art.
At least it wasn’t until 2003, when David Eick asked Ron Moore to get involved in the plan to “re-invent” Universal Studios 1970’s big-budget TV camp classic “Battlestar Galactica” for the Sci-Fi Channel. Moore wrote something of a manifesto into his series bible and first script. It read, and I paraphrase, [...]