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FlashForward – The first 16 minutes

28 July 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

FlashForward (or Flash Forward, depending on whom you talk to) is ABC’s attempt at a new Lost. The network has had precious little new of note in its schedules for a while, and has been cancelling just about everything in sight (eg Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone), so it’s got high hopes that FlashForward will fill the hole that Lost will leave next year.

I’ve talked about FlashForward already (everyone in the world blacks out for a couple of minutes and sees parts of their own future) and given you some trailers, but Comic-Con attendees got to see the first 16 minutes of the pilot episode. Now, in glorious shakycam vision, you can, too. What do you think, assuming you’ve recovered from the headache you probably now have?

Tuesday’s marvellous news

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What have you been watching this week (w/e 24 July)?

24 July 2009 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

I think you know what I’m asking, by now.

This week, I caught up via the S4C web site with the first episode of the new series of Caerdydd – only five more to go. Perplexed by recasting of Adam and Siwan Morris’s new/old hairstyle, but enjoying its bleak moodiness and the dumbness of Natasha.

Keep forgetting what happened in previous week’s Royal Pains/Burn Notice, but I’d say Burn Notice is probably having its best season so far, while Royal Pains is proving the deserved hit of the summer. Burn Notice is really shaking up the formula for the better this year. I also have minimal recollection of this week’s Top Gear but I definitely remember laughing a lot.

Dragons’ Den is becoming quite fluffy this series. I think the ending of this week’s episode was probably the loveliest of all the series so far, with Peter Jones being ever so nice, and wasn’t that woman from Sutherland desperately impressive and clever?

The second episode of the second series of Leverage was basically just an advert for MMA fights, which even to my martial arts-loving heart, was way too much. The con was moderately cleverer than normal, was still too telegraphed to really be a surprise. And it’s interesting how Christian Kane’s character has been downgraded from ‘absolutely indestructible and incredible’ in the pilot to just ‘a pretty good fighter’ over the last two series.

I’ve still got Dark Blue and the last episode of Valentine to watch, as well as lots of Samantha Who?. Wish me luck then tell us all what you’ve been watching.

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please

Slightly better, extended Heroes: Redemption trailer

24 July 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

I imagine I’m going to keep doing this until the proper version is released by NBC. This is the full extended trailer for Heroes: Redemption (aka the start of season four, at least). Obviously, it contains spoilers, but officially sanctioned spoilers. No Mohinder (oh dear?) but lots of Tracy, Noah, Claire, Hiro, Matt and Nathan as well as (spoiler alert) Peter seems to have his full powers back and Sylar’s still in there. And Robert Knepper’s really good.