These are my picks for 2009: BEST DRAMA Mad Men BEST COMEDY Parks and Recreation BEST HOUR OF TELEVISION Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2.21 ”Adam Raised a Cain” BEST ACTOR – DRAMA Edward James Olmos, Battlestar Galactica BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA Mary McDonnell, Battlestar Galactica BEST ACTOR – COMEDY Steve Carell, The Office BEST [...]
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Best in television in 2009: editor’s picks
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Terminator sweeps the Tubey Awards
Television Without Pity has revealed the winners of this year’s Tubey Awards, voted by television fans across a number of categories. Josh Friedman‘s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles scored as many as 15 Tubeys (of the positive variety), including Best Drama, Best Returning Show, Best Single Episode, Best Season Finale, Best Smackdown, Best Onscreen Death [...]
Sci fi Friday kicks off: Sarah Connor, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica
For the next month and a half starting today, television will be treating science fiction fans fraktastically well on Friday nights. Battlestar Galactica goes into its final run of episodes (only six to go), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles moves to a Friday slot and into the season two back nine, and Joss Whedon‘s Dollhouse [...]
Bradley Whitford, Richard Jenkins enter Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods
Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford have signed on to star in The Cabin in the Woods, a new film co-written and produced by Joss Whedon. Very few details about Whedon’s upcoming horror flick are known at this point, but Whitford and Jenkins will reportedly play “white-collar co-workers with a mysterious connection to the titular cabin.” [...]
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Dollhouse, Sarah Connor relegated to Friday on Fox
Fox has posted its midseason schedule earlier today and it’s pretty much bad news for the network’s only two non-procedural science fiction shows, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the much anticipated Dollhouse. The entire schedule spells out one thing: caution. With the current economic crisis adding to all major networks’ other problems (losing viewers [...]
Starz teams up with Raimi for Spartacus
The world of gladiators comes to life as the Roman Empire’s most brutal fighters clash in the ultimate arena. Starz’s new series, “Spartacus,” an entirely new twist on the ancient legend, will utilize virtual environments giving it a unique graphic novel look and style, along with a fresh narrative approach. Debuting exclusively on Starz, “Spartacus” [...]
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Sarah Connor thumbs nose at Nielsen ratings, goes to full season on Fox
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will get a full second season on Fox despite having drawn only modest ratings this fall. After ordering additional two scripts last week, Fox has decided to add nine episodes to the existing 13 and give Sarah Connor the full 22 episode run that the show so richly deserves. The [...]
MGM picks up Whedon and Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods
MGM has greenlit a spec script from Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard called “The Cabin in the Woods,“ the Hollywood Reporter writes. The film will be the directorial debut for Goddard, who had previously teamed up with Whedon on cult series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel and also written episodes for two [...]
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Blood, peanuts and the future of television
It’s been two months since CBS cancelled one of its most popular scripted dramas, Jericho, starring Skeet Ulrich and Lennie James, the show that fictionalizes a possible aftermath of nuclear fallout in the U.S. Even if there has not been much concrete news lately, the hope that the Jericho story may be continued is still [...]
Dollhouse news recap: trailer, clip, new story details
Joss Whedon and his crew have recently finished filming the pilot for the new series, Dollhouse, and promotional materials have hit the web in big style this past week. The series’ launch date is set for mid-January. The episodes will air at 8 PM on Fox, right before the new season of 24. The episodes [...]
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