Steven Plus Stephen: Dreamworks Options the Rights to Under the Dome

While there might be a hilarious buddy sitcom in here somewhere, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, cinematic and literary savants respectively, are teaming up to produce a television cable miniseries, according to Variety, based on King’s recent book, Under the Dome, which is about an enigmatic...

November 20th, 2009 | Read More

Chuck’s Returning – Why I’m Hopeful, And Why I’m Worried

It’s finally official – “Chuck” is coming back, earlier than what previous rumors told us. Instead of the unfortunate March release date that some anticipated, two back-to-back episodes of “Chuck” will be airing Sunday, January 10, and then the show will immediately...

November 19th, 2009 | Read More

The CW to Take Another Stab at Warren Ellis’ Global Frequency TV Show

I’ve read a lot of Warren Ellis’ comic book work, but I’ve never read his “Global Frequency”. Initially I thought this was the comic series “Planetary”, but apparently they are two separate works. In “Frequency”, a woman name Miranda Zero leads a...

November 18th, 2009 | Read More

Another Brutal but Awesome Trailer for HBO’s The Pacific

What else is there to say except World War II was Goddamn brutal, but it had to be fought. From Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg comes the “Band of Brothers” movie for the next decade, the epic mini-series “The Pacific”. As the title implies, this one doesn’t bother with the...

November 17th, 2009 | Read More

Abrams’ TV Spy Show Gets a Title, May Direct

As mentioned last month, J.J. Abrams is returning to the TV spy game with a new TV show, but we didn’t know the title of his husband-and-wife spy show then. Now we do: it’s going to be called “Undercovers”, which I suppose is a decent enough title. I guess. Hey, he’s J.J....

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

24 Tough Babes Aylesworth and Wynter Reunite on Damages

Sarah Wynter survived Jack Bauer, but Reiko Aylesworth wasn’t quite so lucky. After all, i’s not easy loving America’s greatest badass warrior (onscreen or off, as it turns out). Luckily for the two lovely ladies, “24″ was just a TV show, and they’ve survived to reunite...

November 5th, 2009 | Read More

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