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Star Zachary Levi and the Producers of Chuck Chat About Season 3!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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If I were a betting man, I’d wager the person that discovers Chuck’s secret is Morgan.

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TV 2.0.3: FearNet Reinvents the News

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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There’s a specific formula for presenting news, even if it’s entertainment news. Traditionally, the only difference between entertainment news and regular news was that the anchors don’t sit behind a desk to read the prompter. Some news anchors still shuffle note cards or papers along with reading from the prompter mounted above the cameras. There’s [...]

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TV 2.0.2: Circle of Eight on Myspace TV

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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This series is not a fly-by-night YouTube video. Circle of Eight is the type of real programming that will eventually bring on-demand internet entertainment to the masses.

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Sanctuary 2.3 – Eulogy

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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The episode was a sad one and, as always, Amanda Tapping carried it off impressively.

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Sanctuary 2.2, End of Nights Part 2

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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So, this episode of Sanctuary concludes the Cabal story arc and I couldn’t be happier that it’s over. There was a lot of fun to be had with the story on a pure entertainment level but the drama somehow didn’t quite work as well as I had hoped. Part of the problem has to be [...]

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TV 2.0.1: Sanctuary, South Park, and The Guild

Monday, October 12, 2009

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The future of TV entertainment isn’t about channel surfing in the traditional sense. We’ll be surfing to shows or grabbing them from some version of on demand or from DVR’s. The future is now if you look around. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog won an Emmy! The most successful TV 2.0 project has to be Sanctuary. [...]

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Sanctuary 2.1, End of Nights Part 1

Monday, October 12, 2009

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Sanctuary has taken the production style of films such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Sin City to a weekly series. The idea of shooting a project completely in front of green screen seems more perfect for TV, especially for lower budget TV, than for film. With this technology, a story can [...]

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Warehouse 13 1.11 – Breakdown

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Once again this week, the SyFy Channel utilizes some well known actor from one of their other shows in a current one, and the appearance ends up being barely more than a cameo.  If you’re going to get Michael Hogan (Battlestar Galactica), then you really make good use of him, at least that’s what I [...]

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Warehouse 13 1.10 Breakdown

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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This episode of Warehouse 13 leaves the kids in charge of the Warehouse while Artie has to take care of some unexpected business. Claudia is the stereotypical spunky and intelligent troublemaker that seems common to science fiction these days, basically every other character on Eureka, but it doesn’t make her any less entertaining. There was [...]

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Warehouse 13 1.8 – Duped

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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This is Myka goes wild week! There’s always the idea floating in the back of television writer’s heads to make characters act “out of character” if you will. This week it’s Myka’s turn when her body is taken over by “Alice” the killer, not Alice from Wonderland. This magical mirror crosses with the disco ball [...]

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Warehouse 13 1.6 – Burnout

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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Claudia is settled into the Warehouse now and she has very little to do. I don’t think this will be the case every week because she obviously did a lot more last week. The writers need to work out a balance for her though so that she becomes more of a commonly integral part of [...]

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