Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
If you’re looking forward to the premiere of Lights Out, the new series on FX that premieres on January 11th, then you’ll probably want to check out the trailer below. If you haven’t heard about Lights Out, give it a look and see if the show might be something you’d like. Since you read this blog, there’s a good chance it will.
Larry Griswold aka “The Diving Fool” was a talented diver, gymnast and co-inventor of the trampoline. Griswold traveled the world with his act and, as you can imagine, was a hit on early television variety shows. Here, he preforms on the Frank Sinatra Show.
Griswold’s act kind of reminds me of John Beatty when he’d work the high dive. [Via Bits and Pieces]
Have you seen this trailer for Falling Skies? So, what’d you think? Although I’m not sold from just seeing the preview, I do like the concept…
… FALLING SKIES opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force…
… and the people involved…
FALLING SKIES is executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, along with DreamWorks Television heads Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank, Graham Yost (Justified, The Pacific) and screenwriter Robert Rodat. Rodat, who earned an Oscar® nomination for his screenplay for Saving Private Ryan, wrote the pilot from an idea he co-conceived with Spielberg. Mark Verheiden (Heroes, Battlestar Galactica) and Greg Beeman (Heroes, Smallville) are co-executive producers. The pilot was directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move, Out of Time)…
The series stars: Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Drew Roy, and Colin Cunningham.
There’s been quite a bit of speculation lately, that Harrison Ford would like to see Indy killed off in the next Indiana Jones movie. Depending on which article you read, Ford either…
Either way, the rumors have some die hard Indiana Jones worried. Although I’m an Indiana Jones fan and would look forward to another outing, I’m not in the least bit worried about the character. Seriously, if Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull didn’t kill off the character, nothing will.
Although Fringe isn’t my favorite tv show, I do look forward to it every week and would hate to see it get cancelled. Fox’s decision to move the show to Friday is seen by almost everyone, including the folks who make the show, as a potential deathblow.
I’m glad to say that the creative talent behind Fringe are facing the move to the scheduling graveyard head-on. io9.com also posted Five Things We Can Do to Save Fringe.
So, will Fringe be able to turn the move to Fridays into a rallying call for hardcore fans to bring in new viewers, or will it suffer the same fate of most shows moved there? Time will tell…
If you’re a fan of the 60’s Batman series, odds are high that you’ve never seen Batman in Legends of the Superheroes. It was a special that aired in 1979 and was even campier than the Batman series. Mark Evanier explains how the special came to be… in a situation that is so weird it just has to be true.
If you were a fan of “24” then you might want to jump on this great deal from Amazon. 24: The Complete Series (eight seasons, the 24 tv-movie: “Redemption” and a bonus disc of supplemental materials) is currently on sale at 49% off the suggested price of $349.98. That’s right, you can snap it up for $179.99 and get is shipped to you for free and in time for Christmas!
The dvd set comes available Tuesday and Kiefer Sutherland talks a bit about it and the series here. “24” is one of the few series that I watched from the premiere until the end without ever missing a single episode… and if the series had continued, I’d have kept on watching.
Now that the first season of The Walking Dead has concluded [with the highest ratings of any drama on cable], Robert Kirkman sat down for an interview with the fine folks at CBR.com. You can read part one here and then come back tomorrow for part two.
E!OnLine has a great little interview with Kurt Sutter, the man who created Sons of Anarchy. Sutter talks about the past season, the things fans hated, loved and where the show goes from here. It’s definitely worth a read.
If you subscribe to Entertainment Weekly, then you’ve probably already received your copy of The Walking Dead issue. If you don’t sub, then you might want to look for a copy which hits stands on November 29th. If you’re a fan of the show, then you’ll want a copy because Entertainment Weekly goes behind the scenes to talk to…
“…all the key players, including comic creator Robert Kirkman, executive producers Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd, and star Andrew Lincoln…” and others.
Want to see 60 years of tv catchphrases in a little over 2 minutes? Sure you do. They did a great job of hitting most of the major ones. Perhaps, “Denny Crane. Denny Crane.” should have been included. Although they weren’t from tv shows, they were tv catchphrases: “Where’s the beef?” and “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” could have also made the cut.
Is Captain Kirk about to get a shave from Floyd the barber in Mayberry?
As unlikely as it sounds, that is actually the building used for Floyd’s Barber Shop in the hit series The Andy Griffith Show! And, no, William Shatner didn’t make a guest appearance as Captain Kirk on The Andy Griffith Show.
But the buildings of Mayberry did!
You see, they were used in two episodes [“Miri” and “The City on the Edge of Forever”] of the original Star Trek series.
If you’re a fan of comic books, Walt Simonson, Charlton Comics, The Twilight Zone or twist endings, then you might get a kick out of this four page story drawn by Walt Simonson back in 1973 for Charlton’s The Twilight Zone #50. The story is called “Nature’s Way” and can be read in its entirety here thanks to the great folks at io9.com.
Hot off the Press Internet: A little over an hour ago, The Hollywood Reporter posted that AMC had renewed The Walking Dead for another full 13 episode season. Here’s why…
The drama series, toplined by Andrew Lincoln, has broken ratings records, with the show reaching more viewers in the 18-49 demo than any other cable TV show. The Walking Dead’s series premiere on Halloween drew 5.3 million total viewers and Sunday’s “gutsy” episode took in 4.7 million — that’s an incredibly high retention of a record rating and surely made this pickup an easy decision for AMC.
