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

Steven Seagal: Lawman Trailer is Like Cops, Except with Steven Seagal

A&E put out this promo trailer for their new reality TV show called Steven Seagal: Lawman a week ago. And yes, like everything you’ve read, Seagal does indeed ride around New Orleans in a police car stopping crime in an honest to goodness police uniform. Okay, he mostly rides around a police...

August 26th, 2009 | Read More

ABC Checks into Clive Barker’s Hotel

So what makes the new show Clive Barker’s Hotel so scary? Well for one, their free towels are itchy and they don’t make your bed. Talk about horrific! But perhaps Clive Barker can conjure up more terrifying stories with the help of “Feast” writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton,...

August 18th, 2009 | Read More

24 Season 8 Update: Jack and Audrey, David Anders Signs Up

Oh, Jack, will you ever find true love? Or at least, one that doesn’t die on you or slip into a near-coma condition? Probably not, but that won’t stop fans of the long-running action-adventure show in hoping that the producers do everyone, but especially our boy Jack a really big solid by...

August 17th, 2009 | Read More

House’s Anne Dudek Joins USA Network’s Covert Affairs

How creepy was Anne Dudek (aka Amber aka Cutthroat Bitch) in that last episode of House? For a couple of episodes, as she showed up as a figment of House’s imagination, it was a little disturbing, but man, it got really creepy real fast when House realized that Dudek’s character was one figment...

August 13th, 2009 | Read More

First Look at the FX Channel’s Lawman with Timothy Olyphant

I always knew Timothy Olyphant of Deadwood fame had a little Clint Eastwood in him. After seeing this three minutes of footage from Lawman, the new “modern Western” from the FX Channel and “Speed” writer Graham Yost, I think I was wrong: Olyphant’s character in Lawman doesn’t...

August 12th, 2009 | Read More

AMC and Frank Darabont to Adapt The Walking Dead

Zombies, zombies, zombies. Funny zombies. Fast-running zombies. Slow-moving zombies. Zombie pets, zombie wives, zombie girls in basements. Everywhere you look, there are zombies. As a fan of the genre, who counts Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” as one of my favorite movies of all...

August 12th, 2009 | Read More

USA Network’s Covert Affairs Finds its Quirky Blind Spy Guy

It’s a show from the USA Network, so you gotta figure that Christopher Gorham will be playing his blind CIA spy character with plenty of quirks, otherwise you’d have a pretty depressing show about a spy who used to be a field agent until he was blinded, and now has to work from behind a desk....

July 30th, 2009 | Read More

24 Season 8 Comic-Con Bootleg Clip

As Season 8 of Fox’s 24 begins, Jack is living in New York with Kim and her daughter, and trying to be as normal as possible. Of course, we know that’s impossible. Soon, an old contact named Victor (played by The Shield’s Benito Martinez) comes to Jack to warn him of an impending assassination...

July 29th, 2009 | Read More

Graham Yost’s Fire in the Hole — er, Lawman is a Go at FX Channel

It’s got a new title, but it’s still the same TV show formerly called Fire in the Hole (now retitled Lawman) from Graham Yost, based on a short story about a loose cannon U.S. Marshal by crime novelist Elmore Leonard that we’ve been covering for a while now. Star Timothy Olyphant is...

July 29th, 2009 | Read More

TV Review: Human Target Pilot (Comic-Con ‘09)

Mark Valley is Christopher Chance, a freelance bodyguard at the center of FOX’s new action-adventure show Human Target. Unlike his comic book counterpart, from which the show is based, the TV version of Chance does not, in fact, assume the identity of his employees. Instead, Chance blends into...

July 25th, 2009 | Read More

Comic Con ‘09 Coverage: Spartacus Panel

This was one of the panels at Comic-Con that I was most curious about. You’ve probably heard all the stories, since we’ve been covering the Starz show from Day 1. It’s not supposed to be your father’s Spartacus. Bloody violence, sex, nudity — all that good stuff they couldn’t...

July 24th, 2009 | Read More

NBC Picks up Christopher McQuarrie’s Persons Unknown

I’ve been following the progress of Christopher McQuarrie’s Persons Unknown TV show since it was announced last year. It’s got a pretty good premise, and McQuarrie always does well when he’s given a lot of rope and the subject is mystery. Today comes good news, with Variety announcing...

July 17th, 2009 | Read More

2009 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominees, or, I Can’t Believe They’re Still Nominating Charlie Sheen for the Abomination that is Two and a Half Men

Wow, they’re still doing the Emmys? Maybe it’s just me, but it’s been ages since I’ve paid attention to this thing. Then again, I don’t pay any attention to the Oscars, either. I just don’t care who wins. The movies I like never win, or are even nominated, so what’s...

July 16th, 2009 | Read More

TV Review: Dark Blue Pilot

Despite the title, and the somewhat familiar premise, TNT’s new cop show Dark Blue is not, in fact, a TV version of the Kurt Russell cop movie of the same name from 2002. The show is yet another product of uber producer Jerry Bruckheimer (the CSI franchise), and stars Dylan McDermott (“The Messengers”)...

July 11th, 2009 | Read More