Archive for the ‘Television’ Category
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Have you ever seen the show Ghost Hunters on the Sci Fi channel? It's effectively a weekly argument against the existence of ghosts, but somehow the hosts keep pressing on, and viewers keep tuning in. Sci Fi is opening up the Ghost Network, a social network where fans of the ...
Posted in Sci-Fi, Social, Television, Web |
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Raoul Mowatt at MSN TV has a list of ten things that writers need to do to make Heroes a good show again.
3. Idiot-Proof All Plots
Too often, I find myself asking, "Why would a reasonable person do this?"For instance: Why would Mohinder inject himself with an untested serum when anything could ...
Posted in Sci-Fi, Television |
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Remind me to never cancel an appearance on David Letterman's show at the last minute. He gets really pissed off.
Posted in Politics, Television, Video |
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
I have no interest in the product, but Woot's write-up of this HD Mini Stick is priceless.
Posted in Technology, Television, Web |
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Jon Stewart, turning the mirror on Palin's defenders.
Posted in Politics, Television, Video |
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Multiverse, the company behind the now-delayed Firefly MMO, have announced that they're also working on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer MMO.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A massively multiplayer online game based on the critically-acclaimed Joss Whedon television series. Currently under development at Multiverse, "Buffy" exemplifies a new era of game design, ...
Posted in Games, Television |
Monday, August 25th, 2008
A new Stargate series, set to debut as a TV movie in early 2009 and continue as a weekly show next summer. From Wikipedia:
When a team of explorers from Earth find an Ancient unmanned ship called the Destiny and are unable to return to Earth, the crew must fend for ...
Posted in Sci-Fi, Television |
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Atlantis was never going to be as good as SG-1, but it was a good show. And you know what SCI FI does to good shows.
The show will go on, though, with a 2-hour movie that will air on SCI FI in 2009, and be released on DVD by MGM. The film will ...
Posted in Sci-Fi, Television |
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Amazon Prime. Quite possibly the best $79 I've ever spent.
As an Amazon affiliate program member, I received an email this morning suggesting that I pimp the Amazon Prime service. I have belonged to a lot of affiliate programs over the years, and I get these all the time. Usually they ...
Posted in Books, Business, Movies, Music, Software, Technology, Television, Toys, Video, Web |
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
An undeveloped Buffy cartoon is finally getting some attention in the form of a leaked promo on YouTube. The show would have taken place during season one, and followed the alternate Dawn timeline. Wikipedia has more details, naturally:
Development began on the show in 2001. Whedon and Jeph Loeb were to be Executive Producers ...
Posted in Television |