34 posts tagged “bsg”

There is a Dollhouse spoiler at the bottom of this post. You have been warned. It's not necessarily a plot spoiler, but it is a casting spoiler.

Let's see if this turns in to something worth posting...

First up, how cool was the Lebowski shout out on How I Met Your Mother this week?

Then, there are a handful of things coming up for fans of British TV.
1) The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Ian McKellan's King Lear is on PBS on March 25th. It's an episode of Great Performances, for those of you searching by episode.
2) The Mighty Boosh is coming to Cartoon Network. I've never seen it but always wanted to.
3) Little Dorrit starts on PBS. It's a "Masterpiece Classics" miniseries starting on March 29.
4) If you can't get enough of Captain Jack from Torchwood, John Barrowman's reality show from the UK, Any Dream Will Do, starts airing on BBC America on March 29th. It's about the search for the male lead in some Andrew Lloyd Weber muscial. I forget which one. Joseph, maybe?

I enjoyed the BSG finale. I didn't love it, but I really really liked it. See you on the other side, BSG.

That's about all I got right now, but I'll be back soon with more. I didn't get through all my sources tonight for this post, so I'm sure there's more stuff out there. I'm also leaving this space to give you room to avoid the spoiler if you really don't want to know.

Here's your Dollhouse spoiler:
My leaf on the wind, Alan Tudyk, has been cast as Alpha in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. I have been hit or miss on Dollhouse so far this season. The latest episode, written by Joss, was a big improvement over previous weeks, but either way I'd been warming to this show. It's taken way too long to feel that way, so my guess is this is a one and done sort of thing. But Oh. Em. Gee. If Alan Tudyk was on every week it would be appointment TV. Joss knows how to write for this man. Joss has even (another spoiler, but it's beyond the statute of limitations) killed him on screen and he comes back for more. It's going to be fun to see him playing a bad guy. It was rumored he was going to show up this past Friday, but I've also heard rumors that we're not going to get to see Alpha until the season finale, episode 13. For those of you playing at home, this was episode six.

The Battlestar Galactica premier is on my Tivo's To-Do list! In looking it up I also noticed there's a show called Battlestar Galactica: The 10 Things You Need to Know airing on Sci-Fi a bunch of times next week starting on Sunday. So if you're feeling out of the loop, and seriously, who wouldn't, go record it.

Well, so remember a while back when I said I'd put up a post about the season finales? It would appear that I lied. Most of the shows have had their finales already and I neglected to say anything about it. As I type this, I'm watching the season (and now we know it's the series) finale of Moonlight. I'm not entirely sure why I'm bothering since there's no point in getting invested in these characters, but I liked this show. So I guess I'll see it out. The thing that's amusing me the most right now is that the episode starts with an incident at a dedication of a gym at "Hearst College". The gym is being named for the character Josef Kostan (a vampire), who is played by Jason Dohring, who was on Veronica Mars which took place at...Hearst College. Nice homage. Somebody asks Josef what his connection to the college is, and he replies that he founded it. Ha.

Aaaaanyway, finales this week include How I Met Your Mother, House, Reaper, Law & Order and CSI:NY. Last week was more-or-less everything else including CSI, Smallville, The Simpsons, SNL and My Name is Earl. And two weeks ago was the finales of 30 Rock and Scrubs. Oops. Sorry about that, but now at least when you're wondering where the heck your show is, you'll know.

So how about the ongoing shows in our world, eh? I'm several weeks behind in my Lost watching, but you should know that there is no Lost this week while we take a quick breather and get ready for next week's two hour finale. ABC is showing the last two weeks' episodes on Wednesday this week in case you missed anything.

I am caught up on Battlestar Galactica. The cliffhanger at the end of Friday's episode was so good. I could have done without the singing at the very very end, but the bit with the hybrid? Finally an Oh, Snap! moment to end an episode. I feel like we'd been missing these.

Doctor Who continues apace as well. I feel like I'm not enjoying this season as much as the previous one, but I also realize that I felt this way about the first half of last season as well. Then the season seriously picked up with the second half. This season looks to be similar with a two parter by the same guy who wrote the Human Nature/Family of Blood two-parter and then just killed with the season ending three-parter. So I'm really looking forward to the last six episodes of this season. I still don't really understand the way the BBC works with its withholding of some info and what seems to be over disclosing other info. So I find it curious that for all the info and teasing of future episodes, they're still holding on to the title of the second to last episode. Fan conjecture seems to have reached a consensus, but I won't write it here in case anybody actually cares.

The other show I'm loving right now is my current "reality" show. Or at least it's unscripted, more or less. It's a British import on BBC America called Top Gear. It is allegedly a car show, but it's a riot. And it's so much more than cars. The one I just watched had the three hosts trying to cross the English Channel in amphibious cars. One crashed, one almost sank after it blew part of its engine, and the other tried to break the speed record set by Richard Branson. It's just genius. They're apparently in their 10th series, and I'm just getting started watching it. Once again, American TV is trying to remake this show. Jay Leno is apparently such a fan that they asked him to host the US version. He has such love for the BBC version that he actually refused! The show is totally made by the hosts. I can't imagine who'd they get to host here that could even hold a candle to James, Richard and Jeremy.

Time to go to bed, I suppose. Real news update coming soon, I promise.

Which is my Battlestar way of saying that the Torchwood finale was incredible. Russell T. Davies has been taking lessons from Joss Whedon. And that's all I'll say until it airs in the US. Tom, I might have to FexEx these to you just so I can talk to someone about the last few episodes.

And the BSG premiere was fantastic! Was it worth waiting a year for and enduring Razor? Hmmmmm. Yes, I think it was. They're having so much fun with the dynamic of the secret Cylons and the people who would kill them if they knew. The Starbuck mystery is still unresolved, which is sweet. If it goes another 19 episodes it might start to piss me off, but I'm hoping we'll get some payoff sooner rather than later. The conversation between Starbuck and Anders was priceless. But really all I can keep thinking is BATTLESTAR IS BACK! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

I've fallen behind again. There are a lot of things going on this week, but I feel as if I've failed you by not telling you to watch the two BSG specials that were on on Friday. Battlestar Galactica: The Phenomenon and Battlestar Galactica: Revealed. My Tivo schedule is showing seven more airings of each before the premiere of BSG on Friday night.

Did I mention that already? BSG RETURNS FRIDAY NIGHT.

Also on Friday night, the last Torchwood airs in the UK followed on Saturday night by the start of Series 4 of Doctor Who.

Sci-Fi channel announced Tuesday that the two hour BSG prequel movie has been greenlit. No word on when we'll actually see it, but it's officially in the works.

On the other hand, Ronald D Moore has said there won't be any movie spinoffs of BSG once the series is over.

And as a reminder, the cast of BSG will be reading the Top 10 list on Letterman tonight. Apparently the list is "Top Ten Reasons to watch the new season of BSG"

Hi kids. We're at about one month and counting until the return of Battlestar Galactica. The promos have begun. The same people who did the eight minute Lost recap have done a Battlestar one. Or at least it's the same narrator. My favorite line in the whole thing: "Girlfight."

Another random bits and pieces catch up post.

Jesse L. Martin is leaving Law & Order. This is too bad because this is the first year since we lost Jerry Orbach that he's got a partner that's working well. The whole cast is quite good this year. NBC is planning on doing 5 new post strike episodes that will air starting in April.

HD-DVD is dead. Long live Blu-Ray. Toshiba finally waved the white flag and gave up. All the major studios are moving to Blu-Ray. Looks like there's a PS3 in my future.

The J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie has been moved from a Christmas 2008 release to summer of 2009.

FX has confirmed that rather than produce any post-strike episodes, the season of The Riches will just be seven episodes long.

Craig Ferguson will host the White House Correspondents Dinner. I can't imagine he'll be as offensive to the President as Stephen Colbert was, but he's a funny guy and I'm sure he'll get his digs in.

The deal isn't done yet, but it looks like NBC will let Scrubs finish in the way it intended.

Lots of announcements about the upcoming Wolverine movie, but the only one I'm going to mention is that Dominic Monaghan has joined the cast.

CBS is moving How I Met Your Mother to 8:30 on Monday. Shows what I remember from before the strike, I thought it was there already. It also wasn't in the list of renewals that CBS put out earlier this week, but it seems most people think it will be back. I'll be disappointed if it isn't. They're expecting to shoot nine new episodes this season that will start airing March 17.

Leonardo DiCaprio is producing a live action version of Akira.

Bionic Woman was officially canned. I deleted the unwatched shows off my Tivo a long time ago.

Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell have all signed on to take over Heath Ledger's part in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Since it's a Terry Gilliam movie we already knew it was going to be strange, this just makes it odder.

There's a special Aerosmith only Guitar Hero coming in May. It also looks like I'll be able to get a stand-alone guitar for the Wii in a couple weeks.

The first official trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie is out. It looks ok.

Apparently, there's a vampire movie in production called Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead. With a title like that you shouldn't need Sean Lennon doing the score, but it's got him.

Molly Ringwald recently turned 40. I feel very very old.

An Arrested Development movie might be in the works. For me, this show rode right up to my threshold of embarrassment humor and occasionally crossed it, so I'm not dying for a feature-length episode.

Among many other names added to the cast of G.I. Joe, including Dennis Quaid, Doctor Who number nine, or Claude the invisible man from Heroes depending on who you are, Christopher Eccelston has signed on.

We're getting reissues of three Replacements CDs and one EP in April. The rest of their catalog should be available by the end of the year. I may have to check these out. I love these guys.

In other music news, Thriller celebrated its 25th anniversary while I wasn't looking.

Harold and Maude finally got an official soundtrack. Seems a little silly since you can just pick up Cat Steven's greatest hits, but I guess there was never a proper soundtrack. Don't tell Jim, but I love this movie. He made me watch it one too many times before I was old enough to appreciate it, I think. But it's brilliant.

This is a great list of 48 unanswered questions on Lost. Speaking of Lost, it will produce five more episodes this season, bringing the total to 13 of the 16 they were supposed to do, and when it returns for those episodes it will be at 10 on Thursdays following Grey's Anatomy.

BSG tidbits: Season 3 will be out on DVD March 18th. Season four will premiere on April 4th, with two catch-up specials showing March 28th. The writers are back at work on the show and it looks like they'll actually get to finish it. We'll get everything they shot starting in April, and then we might not get the second half of the final season until 2009. Yikes.

I don't understand the Jane Fonda on the Today Show controversy at all. She said a naughty word, but in fairness, it was the title of one of the Vagina Monologues, so I don't get how that's so bad.

Mitch Peleggi, aka Walter Skinner, will be in the new X-Files movie. Yay! I thought he was great on the series.

The Smurfs in 3d? I just...have no words.

Looks like the Justice League movie is moving forward without Batman or Superman, since they're both currently engaged in their own movie franchise. But I ask you, is it worth seeing a Justice League movie without them?

Transformers 2 is a go. Hm. I think maybe one was enough.

Turns out we'll be getting *both* Coreys in Lost Boys 2. Thank god for that. For a while it looked like we'd have to survive with only one, and that just won't do.

J.J. Abrams new show on Fox, Fringe, has added Joshua Jackson to the cast. OMG Pacey's back on TV!

Disney Interactive has announced Discs of Tron for the XBox.

I think I might have mentioned this earlier, but SciFi announced they're going to show The Sarah Jane Adventures and the new season of Doctor Who starting in April. In fact, they're going to be on Friday night right before BSG. Sounds like we're going to get the good Doctor in a similar fashion to the way BBC America is airing Torchwood, with only a small lag between airing in the UK and airing here. The Beeb hasn't actually announced when this show is starting in the UK, a peculiarity of UK TV that they do that a lot, but it's starting on SciFi on April 18th, so one would assume it's starting sooner than that in the UK.

The Knight Rider movie did well enough that NBC is considering making it a series. Ugh.

The new Clone Wars animated series got picked up by Cartoon Network. I like the look of it. I wonder if the stories will be any good.

Ok, enough of that. I'll put all the returning show info I can find in the next post.

Just a quick reminder that tonight is the last Heroes for the forseeable future. Hope it's a good one. The promos say two Heroes will die. I know which ones I hope it will be. How about you?

Also, BSG Razor comes out on dvd tomorrow. This is the extended dance mix with all the deleted scenes and whatnot that they've apparently been showing on SciFi for months now. Turns out that BSG and Doctor Who are the only things I watch on SciFi so I've missed all the promos. I just got the confirmation from Netflix that it's on its way. I'll let you know if it's worth checking out.