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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Doctor Who — Series 6, Part 1
Doctor Who finally comes to America — literally — in Series 6, which finds the good Doctor’s BBC overlords deciding that yes, there were enough fans in the States to justify not only bringing...
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TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies
What’s your least favorite part of any good alien invasion movie? It’s gotta be the first 20-30 minutes waiting for the invasion to start, where we are forced to “get to know” a slew...
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TV Review: Justified Season 2 Premiere — The Moonshine War
Despite the title, there’s not a whole lot of “moonshine war’ring” going on in the “Justified” Season 2 premiere episode, “The Moonshine War”. If anything, it’s a hint at what’s to come — not...
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TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.02 Guts
SPOILERS — IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY SEEN THE EPISODE, DO NOT READ ON. The good news: Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) has found survivors in the city of Atlanta. The bad news: it’s also teeming...
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TV Review: The Walking Dead – Pilot, Days Gone Bye
I’ll be honest with you: I never thought I’d see the day when zombies invaded TV as an honest-to-goodness ongoing TV series. We’re not talking about “shot in someone’s backyard” type product here, either,...
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TV Review: Nikita 1.01 Pilot Episode
“Nikita” gets a new lease on life – again – with a second TV series, this time on the CW network. Maggie Q. (“Mission Impossible III”, “Live Free or Die”) fronts the new incarnation,...
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TV Review: Growing Up Twisted
If you were a rock musician in the ’80s and you’re finding the rock scene kinda slim pickings nowadays, you needn’t worry, there’s always a TV network or two waiting to turn your life...
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TV Review: Persons Unknown 2.0, aka, So Now What?
THIS REVIEW OF THE TV SHOW “PERSONS UNKNOWN” CONTAINS SPOILERS. DO NOT READ ON UNLESS YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN THE SHOW THROUGH EPISODE 1.06, “THE TRUTH”. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. So we’re at the halfway...
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TV Review: Covert Affairs – Pilot
“Covert Affairs”, from creators/writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman, is exactly how you would imagine the CIA from the USA Network’s other spy show, “Burn Notice” is like. You know, the place where Michael...
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TV Review: Justified 1.13 Season Finale – Bulletville (POTENTIAL SPOILERS)
The first season of the best new show on TV, the FX Channel’s “Justified” wraps up with episode 13, “Bulletville”, secured in the knowledge that U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens and his myriad of gun...
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TV Review: Persons Unknown 1.01 Pilot Episode
The first hour of Christopher McQuarrie’s first foray into television, the mystery-drama “Persons Unknown” is exactly how you would set up a TV show with a finite number of episodes (in this case 13)....
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TV Review: 24 Season 8/Series Finale (SPOILERS)
WARNING: This review of the “24″ season 8/series finale contains SPOILERS. Do not read on until you’ve seen the episode. And so, it’s come to this. But didn’t we always assume that this, or...
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TV Review: Justified – First 3 Episodes
Give Timothy Olyphant a cowboy hat and a hip holster and you’ve got gold. Which makes the casting of Olyphant in the FX Channel’s new series “Justified” as close to a sure bet as...
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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...
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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...
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TV Review: Leverage Season 2 Premiere
The boys (and girls) are back, as Season 2 of TNT’s original series Leverage kicks off next week, July 15. The Season 2 premiere picks up with former insurance investigator turned Robin Hood criminal...
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TV Review: Burn Notice Season 2 Premiere
Shortly into the “Burn Notice” Season 2 premiere episode, Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell) is caught enjoying a cup of java in the apartment of the show’s hero, Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan), to which Sam...
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TV Review: Life Pilot (2007)
“Life”, and its male lead Damian Lewis, are goddamn fantastic, which probably translates into the show having a very short shelf life on network TV. Shows this good just don’t last, which speaks more...
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TV Review: K-Ville Pilot
For a moment there, I considered writing a longer review for FOX’s new crime/buddy cop show K-Ville, but after seeing the pilot, and finding it lacking, I’ve decided to take the lazy route. Which...
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TV Review: Prison Break Season 3 Premiere
Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is back in the joint, but big bro Linc (Dominic Purcell) is not, and it’s up to Linc to find a way to break Michael out. Or maybe not. It...
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