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Man, Season 4 of "Lost" isn’t even done airing yet, and already the DVD announcement has hit the net. All you Losties can look forward to picking up the DVD set on December 9th, just in the nick of time for gifting on  ChrismaHannuKwanzadon - as well as the premiere of Season 5. What a cruel tease to announce so early and then make us wait such a loooooong time. I can’t wait to see the blooper reel, though, and the Oceanic Airlines safety featurettes.
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Fox has announced their big plan to revolutionize TV advertising. I don’t know if it will work, but since the big plan involves fewer commercials, I’m for it. In their upfront presentation yesterday, Fox execs announced "Remote-Free TV," a very fancy name for "showing fewer ads." Starting with Joss Whedon’s "Dollhouse" and J.J. Abrams’ "Fringe," the new model will involve showing only 5 minutes of commercials per hour and charging a premium for running your ad in that uncluttered landscape.
Whether it will work is anyone’s guess, but it’s an interesting move. I’d certainly be happier about a little less advertising to fast-forward through, but our friends at TV Squad are already missing their commercials. I also won’t be happy if it comes at the price of more invasive product placement, like "Heroes" (brought to you by the Nissan Versa). Scifi fans will be tearing their hair out over the idea […]

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First halves of two parters are always a little tricky. A lot of the action is tied up in setting up stuff that won’t pay off for another week, and that’s doubly true for a show like "Lost." Actually, with a show like "Lost" there’s a lot of stuff that won’t pay off until next season, if then. Still, the lack of consistency in "Lost" is one of the single most frustrating things about watching it. Sometimes it’s really, really on, but other times it gets mired down in its large cast, the multi-layered timelines and the never-ending tease.
Not only is this week’s episode tied up in moving people and plots into place for the big conclusion, but it also reminds me a little bit of "Noises Off" in the scene where everyone is running in and out of various doors, just missing each other over and over again. With […]

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It’s the time of year when all the casting news starts trickling out of our favorite scifi shows and scifi shows to be. Today, two tidbits from The Scifi Channel:
"Eureka" will be picking up the lovely and talented Frances Fisher. Fisher ("In The Valley Of Elah") will be playing Samantha Thorne, a Global Dynamics "fixer" who will appear for an eight-episode plot arc. No doubt she’ll be on hand to sweep up the many, many complicated messes that the residents of Eureka manage to make. I bet she and the sheriff will get along just fine.
"Battlestar Galactica" fans are waiting with bated breath for any news on the upcoming "Caprica" prequel. Will it be awesome? Will it suck? Will it have Eric Stoltz? The last question, at least, can finally be answered. Stoltz will play Daniel Graystone, a filthy rich computer engineer with a terrible tragedy in his history. I’m […]

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Wow. After a slightly lackluster episode last week, "BSG" has bounced back in a serious way. This episode was quite the emotional rollercoaster, I’ll admit it even had me a little teary-eyed at a couple of points. Speaking of which, can we get Mary McDonnell an Emmy please? Despite the fact that Roslin’s cancer treatments are undeniably the B-plot in this episode, she brings a pathos to the process that’s absolutely irresistable. The whole "dying of cancer" schtick is such a painfully tired cliché that it’s a tightrope walk to keep it from tipping into melodrama or parody, but somehow, she manages.
I have to award points to my husband, who successfully identified Emily as a Star Trek cameo; the improbably named Nana Visitor of "Deep Space Nine." I thought the plot with Emily was, truthfully, a little heavy-handed, and it was pretty obvious where it was going from the […]

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It must be summer, because it’s time for an endless stream of "Heroes" casting news. Blonder-than-blonde Brea Grant of "Friday Night Lights" is the latest to join the increasingly mammoth cast, word is she’ll be playing a super-fast superhero who is described as the Joker to Hiro’s Batman. The new character’s name is Daphne, and she runs afoul of Hiro when she tries to rip off the Nakamura family.
"I’m stealing a secret that’s been kept in Hiro’s family for a long
time that he’s just now found," Brea Grant told The Associated Press
during a break in filming in
downtown Los Angeles. "He stops time right as I grab it, but in that
second it took him to grab it, I almost make it out of the office."
It’s going to be fun to see Hiro with an arch nemesis, especially a cute, female one. Daphne will be appearing in Season 3, which picks up […]

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Okay, it took me about ten minutes to get my eyes uncrossed after that ending. That was a full-tilt boogie, "Lost" style. I think I’m looking forward to seeing the half-baked theories that the internet comes up with almost as much as I’m looking forward to seeing the next episode. Given what we’ve learned, and what’s been hinted at, there are many billions of crackpot theories now available to the obsessive fans. Not that I would have any idea about that kind of thing.
Given what we know about his history, "destiny is a fickle bitch" seems like the perfect motto for Benjamin Linus. I’m surprised he doesn’t have it tattooed across his butt. Ben is a man who knows about the winds of fate, and which way they blow, and they are most definitely, err, blowing Locke. Clearly Ben’s not exactly excited about losing his slot as the golden boy, […]

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Fans of Jennifer Love Hewitt and ghosts rejoice, the show made just for you will be in reruns on The Scifi Channel. Scifi has inked a big juicy deal with CBS to rerun "Ghost Whisperer" along with some other favorites from the CBS catalogue including; "Star Trek: TNG," "Charmed," "Early Edition," "Highlander," "Mork & Mindy," and "Friday the 13th: The Series." "Ghost Whisperer" will begin airing in four-hour primetime chunks in the Fall of 2009; this year, "TNG" will re-premiere on Monday, June 2nd. No word on when or if any of the other properties will make it to the airwaves.
It may be wrong, but I’m tickled pink about the potential return of "Friday the 13th." "Ghost Whisperer" is fine and dandy, but "Friday the 13th" is the flavor of a youth misspent watching too much scifi and horror. Did anyone else love this series? Maybe "Mork & Mindy" is […]

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It’s nice to be reminded that while Saul and Tyrol are competing for who can go crazier, they’re just wading in the kiddie pool while Starbuck is jumping off the Olympic high rise diving board straight down into 12 feet of the craziest crazy around.
We’ve finally gotten a chance to see what’s been doing on the Demetrius, and it’s more or less exactly what you’d expect; Starbuck is using feng shui to find her way to earth and it’s making the crew just the tiniest bit antsy. None of this is helped by the arrival of Leoben, who is now somehow Starbuck’s best pal. Even knowing that creators Eick and Moore have said that the show is, ultimately, about getting to Earth, and knowing that the craziest people on "BSG" tend to be the ones who are correct, it’s still hard to believe that Kara isn’t just on the most […]

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After seven seasons of bald, handsome villainy, Michael Rosenbaum is ready to take a break from playing the Junior Miss edition of one of the most famous supervillains. In a press release Thursday, Michael announced his plans to leave "Smallville" and the character of Lex Luthor behind him, which might be good for his career but leaves the poor boy of steel in a bit of a lurch. Will Superman without Lex be like Sonny without Cher, or will the show soldier gamely on without him? I’ve never been a religious follower of "Smallville," but it always seemed to be that Luthor was one of the best elements of the show. The producers seem willing to hint that he’ll at least be back around for guest spots, however, so at least there’s some hope.
Along with the bad news, we get a bit of the good. A few new villains are […]

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