Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free It looks like the remake of the television min-series V has cast its new evil alien leader, apparently named Anna. Former space-hooker Morena Baccarin (okay, she only played a space-hooker on the TV series Firefly) will be playing that particular...

Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Life on Mars (S01E13) Now that it has been made public of the imminent demise of Life on Mars, it certainly makes any sort of analysis kind of moot. Hopefully, when the series ends (a mere one episode longer than the series that spawned it), it will offer ...

Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities, Reality-Free Chalk this up as rumor-ville, but it would be damned exciting if it was true. Some familiar faces may be finding their way to the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot in theaters this coming May. These are pretty major spoilers, so I'm leaving them...

Filed under: Ratings, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free, Dollhouse Well, it looks like my initial concerns regarding Fox's low ratings for the Friday night sci-fi double feature might be unfounded. It looks like the new Live+7 DVR data has given a 30% boost to Dollhouse's ratings and a 36% b...

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Programming, Smallville, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free, Gossip Girl Sweet Zombie Jesus! In the biggest display of optimism in the face of depression since FDR signed the New Deal, The CW has renewed six of their series, including Smallville, for next ...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals NBC quietly canceled the Chris Hansen-starring reality vehicle To Catch A Predator. Now it is planning to launch a similar sort of program in War Criminals which tracks down war criminals (obviously) and arrests them on camera. Didn't th...

Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S04E14) It is impossible to have a bad episode of Battlestar Galactica . Even a bad episode is better than most of the other crap on TV. Fortunately, this was the opposite of a bad episode. Obviously, there was no question about how t...

Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S04E13) Galactica, Frak yeah!Coming again to save the mother-frakkin' day, yeah!Galactica, Frak yeah!Frakkin' is 'bout all we say, yeah!* *With apologies to Trey Parker and Matt Stone This was an excellent episode. While the whole "co...

Filed under: Smallville, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S08E13) Consider that she's a recurring guest-star, a Lana-centric episode was something of a surprise. However, since she and Clark have a lot of history, it's also a necessity in order for Clark to move on. I didn't like this episode. The wri...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals MTV has renewed The City (a spin-off of The Hills) and Daddy's Girls ( a spin-off of Run's House). It also greenlit Teen Cribs, whose January special doubled their ratings. I could go off on another rant about how MTV has long stopped be...