Gamer and Crank Boys to do Zeroes for NBC

It’s a show about crisis situations, with each episode taking place at the end of the crisis and bypassing all that dull build-up stuff that usually accompanies said crisis situations on TV shows. You know, lots of talking, lots of button pushing, and lots of gradual panicking? When all that’s...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Disgraced TV Prez Charles Logan Returning to 24 Season 8

First you thought he was a dolt, then it turns out he was kinda a mastermind. Okay, not really, because his conspiracy blew up in his face pretty fast, thanks to one Jack Bauer, but he was orchestrating the whole thing. The trades are now reporting that Charles Logan (played by Gregory Itzin) will return...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Sasha Alexander Joins TNT’s Female Cop Show Rizzoli

Well this is nice. I’ve been wondering whatever happened to Sasha Alexander after she had a temporary case of brain farts and decided to leave the hit CBS show “NCIS” just as it was becoming a gargantuan hit. You know, “NCIS”? That “CSI” show set in the military?...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More

24 Season 8 Trailer Shoots its Way Online

You know I love me my “24″, so of course I was excited when the first trailer for Fox’s “24″ Season 8 finally showed up online. And yes, I still can’t believe I just said this is the eighth season for the show. To say that it’s “aging” now would be...

October 28th, 2009 | Read More

Angie Harmon Back on the Crime Beat in Rizzoli

You can take the girl out of crime TV, but you can’t take crime TV out of the girl. Wait, what? That doesn’t make any sense. Anyways, Angie Harmon is returning to crime TV with a new show, but this time she’s the female lead. Unlike her stint on “Law and Order” (the original...

October 23rd, 2009 | Read More

David Fincher Brings House of Cards to Television

I suppose that Americans have come to expect entertainment specifically tailored to their very fine tastes. For once I’d like to see how audiences would react when, instead of an American version, the British versions of shows like The Office or Life on Mars were given a run. Unfortunately, those...

October 22nd, 2009 | Read More

Radha Mitchell is a Bipolar Badass Cop in A&E’s The Quickening

No, it’s not yet another “Highlander” sequel/reboot or TV series, in case that’s what you were thinking. It’s called “The Quickening”, and it’s a new cop show from A&E (cause, obviously, there isn’t nearly enough cop shows on TV at the moment)...

October 12th, 2009 | Read More

D’oh! Marge Simpson is Playboy’s November Cover Girl

I stopped watching The Simpsons on FOX about, oh, I don’t know, 10 or so years ago. I just stopped watching it one day, and realized I didn’t miss it all that much. Of course, South Park coming along to take up the slack probably helped, and I just didn’t realize I was swapping one...

October 11th, 2009 | Read More

J.J. Abrams Back in the TV Spy Game

J.J. Abrams’ career blossomed when he introduced Sidney Bristow and her SD-6 problems to the world in the ABC spy show Alias. The Bad Robot head honcho is now poised to return to the TV spy game with a new spy show, this time about two spies who also happens to be married. No word if they know...

October 1st, 2009 | Read More

Purple Crime Fighting Time! Trailer for the SyFy Channel’s new Phantom

Really, he’s wearing purple. If you’re going to go and change the Phantom’s costume completely, shouldn’t you also change the color, too? Why bother holding onto the ridiculous purple if you’ve already chucked the costume? I’m just sayin’. Anyways, that’s...

September 30th, 2009 | Read More

Stephen King and the Dead Zone Guys Check into Haven

I suppose if you had to turn to someone to adapt another Stephen King story into an ongoing series, you could do worst than Scott Shepherd, Lloyd Segan and Shawn Piller, the trio that somehow managed to turn a King novel into a long-running TV series in The Dead Zone, which ran for six seasons and resurrected...

September 29th, 2009 | Read More

Andy Richter Controls Wolf Blitzer’s Universe

You might not know it by looking at him, but beneath Andy Richter’s suave exterior is concealed an intellectual, erudite mind worth $68,000. This is the mind of a man who beat Smartest Person in the World Wolf Blitzer (SPitWWB) and an impressive showing by Desperate Housewives star Dana Delany...

September 19th, 2009 | Read More

Fuhgeddabout The Sopranos Movie, Already. Sheesh.

While attending the screening of his directorial debut “The Hungry Ghosts” in New York City, someone armed with an entertainment blog had the balls to ask “The Sopranos” veteran Michael Imperioli about the rumors surrounding a possible big-screen version of the popular HBO series....

September 18th, 2009 | Read More

TV Casting: 24, Covert Affairs

Three new enlistees for the eighth season of FOX’s 24 (via THR): Rami Malek will play Marcos, an Arab-American and would-be suicide bomber; Julian Morris as a CTU SWAT agent; and Hrach Titizian will play Nabeel, the second-in-command of security for President Hassan (”Slumdog Millionaire’s”...

September 8th, 2009 | Read More

MTV Sinks Its Claws Into Possible Teen Wolf TV Series

Earlier this year, it appeared that “Teen Wolf” was set to make a long-awaited return to the big screen as a modernized remake aimed at the oh-so sophisticated teen crowd. Now, apparently, MTV is giving the furry guy his own television program. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the music...

September 1st, 2009 | Read More

McFarlane and Spawn Return To The Small Screen

Just a few days after announcing he plans to embark on another Spawn-related motion picture, Todd McFarlane has delivered another bombshell via Twitter: Spawn is returning to television in 2010. If you’re anything like me, you own the entire series on DVD, and prefer the animated show to the impossibly...

August 31st, 2009 | Read More

Zooey Deschanel To Appear On Bones? Yes, Please.

Although it may hurt my credibility by admitting as much, I’m a pretty big fan of the Fox series “Bones.” Maybe it’s Emily Deschanel’s unusually long neck that keeps me coming back for more, or how much larger David Boreanaz’s head appears to grow every season. I’m...

August 28th, 2009 | Read More

Burn Notice is a Ratings Winner aka Congrats TV Watchers, You’re Not All Morons After All

Let’s face it, my fellow TV watchers can be pretty moronic at times. How else do you explain the cancellation of Life on NBC, New Amsterdam on FOX, and a host of other, really good shows that got the axe? Meanwhile, NBC is rolling out the 200th version of Law and Order and CBS is prepping CSI:...

August 28th, 2009 | Read More

Heathers Coming To The Small Screen

Continuing in the dodgy tradition of adapting feature films for the small screen, The Fox Network announced recently that they plan to develop director Michael Lehmann and scribe Daniel Waters’ impossibly dark high school comedy “Heathers” as a possible weekly series. The project is...

August 27th, 2009 | Read More

TNT Renews Leverage for Season 3

TNT’s Leverage isn’t exactly the best show on TV, but there are moments where it’s really, really fun. Although I have to admit, lately the show’s last-minute twists have become somewhat, well, questionable, like the writers just made them up on the spot at the, well, last-minute....

August 27th, 2009 | Read More