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Wednesday’s “kneel before Zod” news

24 June 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Season finale: Supernatural

18 May 2009 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Supernatural‘s a bizarre aberration for The CW. While most of the shows on the network are aimed at girls and young women, Supernatural – although clearly having some appeal for that demographic in the form of the two leads – is very much a horror show with a clear(ish) target of young men and boys.

Now despite this fact, and the fact it’s not exactly the most trumpeted of shows, Supernatural is probably the second-best if not the best show on the network (Gossip Girl being perhaps the best despite a disappointing second season). And this fourth season has, despite the odds, probably been the best so far.

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Wednesday’s VJJCVD news

13 May 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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  • Four clips from the Lost finale
  • Scrubs writers hired to exec produce NBC’s Community
  • Party Down gets a second season
  • A&E developing six cop dramas
  • Fox picks up Human Target, Sons of Tuscan, renews Lie to Me with Shawn Ryan as showrunner
  • Clips from the Smallville and Supernatural finales

Tuesday’s Galaxy Quest news

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  • Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth to star in Addams Family musical

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A few things learned from TV last week: 24, The Mentalist, Chuck, Supernatural and House

6 April 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

24
Although I was generally in favour of TV companies being allowed to place products in TV shows – they really need the cash these day – I almost made a 180º turn on that after watching last Monday’s 24. Product placement is one thing, but when you have nearly two minutes of a show turned into a training video for Cisco’s WebEx digital signature system, I think we’ve gone too far.

Chuck
Yvonne Strahovski looks like a tiny little girl playing dress-up when she’s next to Tricia Helfer.

House
Even if a show is formulaic, if it knows it formula well enough then it can be very clever in how it plays with that formula.

The Mentalist
Even if a show is technically a ‘procedural’, it doesn’t actually have to follow any known police procedures. Ever.

Supernatural
Even if an episode’s concept isn’t totally original (Stranger Than Fiction, etc), you can still make a damn fine and clever episode from it, even when you’re in your fourth season.