Burn Notice Season 3 Promos

The best show on cable TV returns June 4, just in time to chase away the blues of all my favorite network TV shows going off the air for the year. So what’s Michael, Fiona, and Sam been up to? Probably lots of more weird jobs for hapless victims and trying to keep Michael alive, since at the end...

May 15th, 2009 | Read More

Sutherland, Producers on 24 Season 8 Plot Details

You can’t keep a badass counter terrorist agent down. Bio-weapon infection with no known antidote? Pfft. Whatever. Jack Bauer shakes that off like other people shake off overgrown toenails. It ain’t no thang. According to 24 producer Howard Gordon, Jack Bauer will indeed survive next week’s...

May 14th, 2009 | Read More

Official: NBC Cancels Damian Lewis’ Life

Well it’s pretty much official, even though NBC has yet to send out a press release saying it’s official, but Michael Ausiello over at EW recently came back from NBC’s infront presentation and is confirming that Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi, and the gang over at the Life TV show will not...

May 4th, 2009 | Read More

Olyphant in FX Channel’s Fire in the Hole

Timothy Olyphant must really like the idea of playing a U.S. marshal in the new TV series Fire in the Hole, because he’s putting aside a thriving movie career to take the lead in the new series for the FX Channel and creator/producer Graham Yost (”Speed”). According to THR, the show...

April 27th, 2009 | Read More

Warren Ellis’ G.I. Joe: Resolute Airing Dates

By now you’ve probably seen that bootleg footage from the animated “G.I. Joe: Resolute” penned by comic book scribe Warren Ellis. If not, then you should go there and see it now. It’s very cool. It’s at least 10 times cooler than anything I’ve seen from the live-action...

April 16th, 2009 | Read More

Female Empowerment Continues in 24 Season 8

I have to admit, 24’s current Season 7 is not exactly the pinnacle of excellence, but it’s still the damn best action-adventure show on TV right now. Yes, even after this week’s WTF moment with Tony Almeida. Is he or isn’t he, guys? Decide already! Anyways, now that we know the...

April 15th, 2009 | Read More

Douche Bag Michael Vick Wants His Own Reality TV Show

Probably because no one would hire his dumb, violent, and dog-torturing and killing ass, incarcerated former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is looking for another way to pay the bills, and damn, does he need the money. He apparently owes millions to creditors, and has filed for bankruptcy....

April 15th, 2009 | Read More

24 Season 8 Will be Set in New York? Plus, CTU Returns.

Besides “Slumdog Millionaire’s” Anil Kapoor joining the cast of 24 Season 8 as a Middle Eastern leader, the show’s upcoming season is said to be starting production up real soon. How soon? How about next month. Yup, they’re already set to roll on this baby, and Season 7...

April 14th, 2009 | Read More

The New Phantom, er, Doesn’t Look like the Phantom at All

Well you knew they had to do it: the Sci Fi Channel is bringing back The Phantom, but it won’t be The Phantom fans grew up with. Instead, it’ll be one of those fandangled “re-imaginings” where in lieu of his skin-tight purple suit and mask, this new, younger Phantom will instead...

April 8th, 2009 | Read More

Slumdog’s Anil Kapoor Joins 24 Season 8

So I guess this means Jack Bauer survives his little brush with bioweapon contamination, then? It would appear so, because Season 8 of Fox’s aging (and showing every year of it) 24 TV show is already penciling in an eighth season, and one of its regular cast members will be Indian actor Anil Kapoor,...

April 6th, 2009 | Read More

Lawless, Whitfield in Sam Raimi’s Spartacus

She keeps trying to escape, but they keep pulling her back in! She being Lucy Lawless, and “in” being swords and sandals adventure TV shows. The latest news from the Sam Raimi-produced TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand has Lucy Lawless and Andy Whitfield joining the show, Lawless in a supporting...

March 31st, 2009 | Read More

True Blood Season 2 Promos

Oh, those handsome, moody bloodsuckers and those accepting human women who love them. They’re everywhere nowadays, at the movies, on TV, in the comic books, living next door to me. Okay, I’m a bit iffy on the last one, but I’m reasonably certain all that lovey dovey stuff the neighbors...

March 31st, 2009 | Read More

Sci Fi Channel Orders Phantom, Riverworld, and Alice in Wonderland Mini-Series

For a guy in purple tights, The Phantom sure is getting popular. The last time we heard about the gaudy masked crimefighter, some German company was going to make a sequel (or maybe a reboot) to the movie starring Billy Zane from a little ways back. Now comes news that the Sci Fi Channel (soon to be...

March 23rd, 2009 | Read More

Sutherland: 24 Movie Could Take Place in Europe

Is Jack Bauer destined to head over to Europe to dispense his brand of terrorist scum killing ways? Maybe, says Kiefer Sutherland, star of Fox’s long-running action adventure show, who was over in the Old Country recently to attend the premiere of his animated movie “Aliens vs. Monsters”,...

March 13th, 2009 | Read More

Rorschach and Chi Join Human Target

So does this mean Jackie Earle Haley won’t be playing Freddy Krueger in the upcoming “A Nightmare on Elm Street” remake? I’m not sure, but it does mean “Watchmen’s” Rorschach is going to be a little busy in the coming years. THR announces that Haley has join...

March 6th, 2009 | Read More

The Simpsons Gets Two More Years from FOX

FOX may have axed another long running cartoon in King of the Hill, but they’re not going to let those yellow things from Springfield get away quite so easily. The network has ordered two additional seasons of The Simpsons, thus ensuring that should the show cease production two years from now...

February 26th, 2009 | Read More

OMG It’s Hot Girls in Scary Places

Seriously. That’s the title of the show. Hot Girls in Scary Places. They’re not just USC cheerleaders, they’re also ghost hunters! Or actually, they’re honest to goodness USC cheerleaders (or cheer squad members, since apparently there is a difference) who must spend the night...

February 13th, 2009 | Read More

Mark Valley is the Human Target

According to the trades, Fringe star Mark Valley has been tapped to lead Human Target, a new FOX show based on the DC Comics series of the same name originally created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino, and was recently reinvented by Peter Milligan. The Hollywood Reporter says it’s about “a...

February 11th, 2009 | Read More

Kevin Williamson to Produce Twilight TV Show — er, Vampire Diaries for CW

The CW believes they have the next teen craze on their hands — small town girls and brooding vampires. No, I’m not talking about a TV version of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” books. I’m talking about a TV version of L.J. Smith’s “Vampire Diaries” books,...

February 6th, 2009 | Read More

Cool, Chris, and Friel for NCIS Spin-off

CBS’ NCIS is one of those TV shows that seems to have been on forever, but I’ve never actually met anyone who has seen a whole episode. I myself have seen a couple of episodes on and off, and it definitely looks like the type of show that a newbie could jump on at any time, but at the same...

February 5th, 2009 | Read More