To get back onto topic following last week's SciFriday column, I wanted to take a minute (or a column) to address CBS directly. And CBS, you know who you are ... the offices with the big eye staring down at you from every corner, where your paychecks are signed by Les Moonves, and where your colleag ...
Read MoreLast time out, we took a look at the new series ordered by the broadcast and cable networks that should be showing up on our television screens in the next 12 or so months. Today I?d like to take a look at the genre related pilot projects in the works. These concepts have not been ordered to series ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the first season of the web series, "The House Between." ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Jennings & Rall" episode of the CBS series, "Jericho." In general, television has been more disappointing than satisfying for me this season. Sloppy writing, plot holes and uneven character development have plagued many series, old and new. I personally ...
Read MoreI have become a zombie. This semester, I am teaching eight classes for four colleges at all hours, 8 a.m. till whenever the hell I get home on Friday nights, and Monday through Saturday. Then I have the kids to tend to ? five of them (and even when they are grown I still have to do their taxes or re ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "The Demon Hand," the latest episode of Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." Is it just me, or is the cyborg becoming the most ... "human" ... character (with apologies to William Shatner) on the show? Cameron starts out the episode dressed in a ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the first part of "Kindred" on the SciFi Channel series, "Stargate: Atlantis." ?Hey, I've been cocooned inside an alien space craft, I've had another person living inside me, I've encountered, not one, but two different versions of myself, so who am I to jud ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for "Reset," the sixth episode of the second season of BBC?s "Torchwood." On "Doctor Who," Martha Jones was a fantastic companion to follow in the wake of Rose Tyler, and Freema Agyeman was flawless in the role. She firmly established herself in the series and e ...
Read MoreThe following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Jus In Bello" episode of the CW's "Supernatural." "I shot the sheriff." -- Agent Henrickson "But you didn?t shoot the deputy." -- Dean"Nobody kill any virgins!" -- Dean Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) finally track down Bella (Lauren Coh ...
Read MoreWhat is really sad is that I planned on using this space this week to talk about how disappointed I was that CBS picked what I felt to be a horrible time slot for "Jericho," and what I think is one of the reasons that the show is struggling to regain its audience (and the eight-month layover didn't ...
Read MoreGrowing up during the 1970s, I watched "Lost In Space" with the same fervor that children today get absorbed in "Spongebob Squarepants." Fascinated by The Robot, I tried building my own. Discarded boxes and duct tape were often the building blocks for my creations, but my crowning achievement in ado ...
Read MoreThis review contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Jericho" episode "Condor." Last week, "Jericho" proved it could ramp up the action. This week, it ramped up the politics. It really is too bad this show did not get a respectable slate of episodes to work its magic. While the first two episodes have been ...
Read MoreThis review contains MAJOR SPOILERS for ?Midway,? an episode from the fourth season of The SciFi Channel series ?Stargate: Atlantis".Teal'c: "Indeed."Ronon: "You say that a lot."Teal'c: "What?"Ronon: "Indeed."Teal'c: "Do I?"Ronon: "Yeah."Teal'c: "I had not noticed."There is a new person in charge of ...
Read MoreThe Writers Guild of America strike has ended, and the networks are making their plans for the remainder of the season and beyond. And because of the strike, we didn't have a normal pilot season. Instead, the networks started ordering series directly instead of ordering a pilot, or even ordered for ...
Read MoreThe review contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the "Knight Rider" telemovie on NBC. I remember the very first episode of the first "Knight Rider" some 25 years ago. I was no more than a first grader, and I remember my dad turning on NBC because this new series that was supposed to be a futuristic version of ...
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