Tag Archives: TV

Daddy Dearest—a review of Chuck’s “Chuck vs. The Sensei”

The writers have trouble fleshing out John Casey, but the B story is much better, and the ratings jumped... Read more [...]

GRRMartin’s Game of Thrones picked up as a pilot for HBO

George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire & Ice series has been picked up by HBO, which is funding a pilot, to be titled Game of Thrones (after the first book in the series)... Read more [...]

Breaking Up is Hard to Do—a review of Chuck’s “Chuck vs. The Breakup”

Chuck is growing, evolving, turning into a better character, but so are the background characters, and the whole series is getting better and better... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Barnes & Noble Review interviews Neal Stephenson and remembers Tom Disch

Barnes & Noble's online review 'zine, Review, features a long interview with the author of Anathem and Paul Di Filippo's first "Speculator" column, about Tom Disch... Read more [...]

Nerd Love—a review of Chuck’s “Chuck vs. The Seduction”

Chuck is really hitting his stride as the nerd starts to grow, the secret agent starts to learn, and the showrunners wise up... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Liar, Liar—a review of Terminator: TSCC’s “Allison from Palmdale”

A great main story with some of those headache-inducing time travel paradoxes, but weak B-lines, and what are the network execs thinking? (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

The Chronic Rift Reopens

The first episode of the podcast version of The Chronic Rift is now available. The two-hour show features... Read more [...]

Additional Blood Ties airings

Tanya Huff's literary agent Joshua Bilmes reports that "Lifetime Real Women, one of the digital spin-off networks of Lifetime, is now re-running Blood Ties, the TV show based on Huff's 'Blood Books' novels." The show is airing at 10PM on Saturdays and Sunday, with reruns a few hours later, at 3AM... Read more [...]

Harry Potter, Bolt, and Twilight do a three-part scheduling dance

The film version of the sixth Harry Potter novel is moving from November to next July, so Disney's Bolt and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight film are moving up to take its spot... Read more [...]

New Riverworld tv option, and other PJFarmer news

Chris Lotts at the Ralph Vicinanza Agency reports selling "a major TV option" on Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series to Hallmark Productions via Vince Gerardis at Created By. Lotts also sold rights to Dare, and remarks on... Read more [...]

Second Annual Scribe Award Winners

The Scribe Awards, honoring media tie-in writing, were presented during the San Diego Comic-Con. The winners are... Read more [...]

Stephen King’s “N” being serialized as a mobile phone download series

Stephen King's new short story "N" is being released as a series of 25 two-minute episodes for mobile phone subscribers... Read more [...]

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