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I just wanted to note that I was pleased to see Rose Byrne get her name on the new Damages poster. Even though she’s really the main character, it was Glenn Close who was the only one mentioned on the first season’s graphic publicity. There’s no question Close is the big name, but it always [...]

The comedy troupe Kids in the Hall are set to return to television, according to Chortle. Dave Foley tells them that the group is returning courtesy of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation with a new show called Death Comes to Town. Foley explains, “it’ll be an eight-episode arc with a narrative running through it. We will [...]

La La Land Records has put together a limited edition 2-disc collection of orchestral work from Batman: The Animated Series. Compositions from Shirley Walker, Lolita Ritmanis and Michael McCuistion are present, along with Danny Elfman’s title theme. Some general scoring tracks are included alongside specific themes from the following episodes: “On Leather Wings”, “The Last [...]

The third season of The Venture Bros will hit DVD and Blu-ray on March 24, 2009. That season marked the move to HD production, so it should be a treat to finally see it that way. In addition to that perk, the Blu-ray set comes with a CD featuring a 20 track score from the [...]

Showtime has picked up Californication for a third season. The 12 episodes will begin production in the spring for a late ‘09 airing.
I say, good stuff!

Why did they change the clip of Scott Adsit’s Pete Hornberger in the 30 Rock title sequence? It’s distinctly worse than what was used for the first two seasons. It just doesn’t work since he’s moving along the z-axis within the clip. Instead it’s awkward and jarring. It feels like a mistake a student would [...]

Life has officially been picked up by NBC for a full second season following its move to Wednesday nights. Yay!

NBC is moving Life from its current 10 p.m. Friday slot to Wednesday at 9 p.m. Swapping with it is Lipstick Jungle. The move is said to be occurring due to the latter show’s steadily declining ratings and Life’s better chances on its original night, now sandwiched between Knight Rider and Law & Order. Hopefully [...]

ABC has released the first teaser footage for the second to last season of Lost, which debuts next January or early February. Writer Brian K. Vaughan (most known for his comics work on Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina) recently said that this season will be “the strangest thing that’s ever been on network [...]

Dexter’s third season is still running, but Showtime has opted to pick it up for not only a fourth season but also a fifth. I imagine that’ll be put a little pressure on the producers and writers to come up with a couple more plot arcs that keep things fresh. Hopefully they can do that. [...]

To whom it may concern,
It may come as a surprise, but commentary tracks featuring only one person tend to be sparse and boring. Commentaries by guest stars who had five minutes of screen time discussing entire episodes by their lonesome? Even more boring. It’s great that about half of the episodes on the 30 Rock [...]

Damn. Here I am idly wondering if there was any news on Tell Me You Love Me’s second season so I hopped over to Wikipedia and find that Variety reported last Friday that the second season had been scrapped. It was apparently a mutual decision between creator Cynthia Mort and HBO after they failed to [...]

This post serves as a contribution to The X-Files Blog-a-Thon.
Earlier this week I completed a quest I set out upon last November: to watch all 202 episodes of The X-Files before the new film was released. I’d never really dedicated myself to following a television show until college rolled around, with the exceptions of From [...]

Why all the canted angles?
I genuinely can’t wrap my head around it. They appear during scenes of conflict along with scenes of tranquility. They’re used for wide establishing shots and close-ups during conversations. There is seemingly no rhyme nor reason to when such angles are employed and no consistent cue that the cinematography is attempting [...]

Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, Fox is set to do a little experimenting with advertising when it comes to launching its two new genre dramas next season, Fringe and Dollhouse. Both hour-long shows will now be more true to that label, accompanied by half the amount of commercials traditionally shown. The article says there’ll be [...]