This week demonstrated the Kids can still be both bizarre and tasteless. I wish they had been consistently funny.
Archive for the ‘TV Series’ Category
By popular demand, here’s a review of a non-genre detective series starring Captain Tightpants himself, Nathan Fillion.
New Futurama will hit the airwaves on Thursday, June 24 according to this report. Futurama is one of the unreviewed shows eligible for voting here, if you’d like to see reviews of the previous seasons.
The Winter Olympics have ended, and the Kids and the Hall return with the latest chapter in their mini-series about Death’s doings in a small Canadian town.
The trial grows more bizarre, Corrinda Gablechuck gets cleared of the second murder, and Dusty’s relationship with the mayor’s corpse turns sexual.
Is anyone else at the Bureau watching?
And did this episode make you more or less likely to continue?
HBO has given the greenlight for 10 episodes based on George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. The pilot is in post-production now and no word on how far into the books (or just book) the season will go.
Yours truly has reviewed most of the series, starting with “A Game of Thrones.”
The official press release follows.
A true original of genre television and an icon of the late 1980s, Max Headroom, central character in promotional blurbs, the British Channel 4 film Twenty Minutes Into the Future, and his own short-lived but thought-provoking U.S. series, will finally appear on DVD. Prescient, funny, and overdue for a revival.
Farscape was one of those shows I heard great things about, but never got around to watching in the original broadcast. Amazon.ca had the complete series on for a decent price, so I took the risk.
The Winchester boys are back for another full season, and they’ve got one hell of a job to do.
Chad points us to this article with one reporter’s estimates of which shows will and will not return to TV this fall. It links to a handy dandy status chart with story links letting you know about individual shows on each network and what their current status is.
It’s been confirmed that Supernatural will get a sixth season and The Vampire Diaries will get a second season. In the past few years, it’s been Supernatural and Smallville that get the early announcements, though in previous years they aired back to back. I’ll watch for other renewal notices in the coming weeks.