Tag archive for ‘Battlestar Galactica’
The Prime Times: Part Labrador, Part Russell Crowe Edition
Television news and scoop, right off the grill:
- The next season of Dexter will feature laudable thespians Julia Stiles (Save the Last Dance) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Eli Stone).
- A failed FOX pilot was rescued by A&E: the cable network ordered 13 episodes of Breakout Kings, a drama about an [...]
The Prime Times: Get Your Fill Edition
Yes, this installment of The Prime Times is chock-full of fortifying TV scoop. Yumm-o!
- Steven Spielberg is in talks with FOX to develop a dinosaur drama! (That sentence begged for an exclamation point.) The project, tentatively titled Terra Nova, would see a family from the future travel to prehistoric times. But obviously, [...]
The Prime Times: Post “Lost” Edition
Lordy lordy, do I have a ton of news items to share. Let’s waste no time:
- Most excitingly, William Keck at TV Guide reports that Terry O’Quinn (Lost‘s Locke) is pitching a series in which he and Michael Emerson (Ben) star [...]
2009 Primies: Best Shows
Because I’m theoretically on vacation, let’s just speed through this! Here are my picks for the ten best programs on the boob tube for the year of 2009. (Hint: AMC takes the cake!)
- Breaking Bad
- Mad Men
- Lost
- Battlestar Galactica
- 30 Rock
- True Blood
- Modern Family
- Fringe
- Glee
- Dollhouse
2009 Primies: Best Episodes
Aloha, dear TV junkies. I may be on vacation, but thanks to some coffeshop wi-fi, I’m still able to update this here blog with cinnamon-bun-sticky fingers. Surely you didn’t think I’d forgotten about honoring the best small-screen moments of 2009! Listed below are my favorite episodes across the airwaves from all [...]
2009 Primies: Best Characters
Because it’s the end of the year (and of the decade), every TV critic is releasing best-of lists. And I am no exception, though small-potatoes I may be. Ergo I announce the First Annual Primie Awards! And the first category honors the 15 characters whom I appreciate most, in descending order of awesomeness. Frankly, the shows below would [...]
Completist Destiny
Completist Destiny, as defined by Wikipedia, is the belief that a television addict such as myself is destined—nay, divinely ordained—to watch a series completely and completely chronologically. Fine, I admit: that might just be a dogma of my own creation. But I stick to it. (This is [...]
The Everywhere Actors
When you watch as much television as I do, you see familiar faces all the time, and then you have to ask yourself (or IMDb), “Where have I seen him/her before?” For example, I’m watching the first season of House, [...]
The Hierarchy of Obsessiveness
The following post was originally published on my old blog on February 4, 2009. Updates to this post are noted below.
Under some pretense of being an organized person (ha!), I keep a very meticulous list of the episodes I have yet to see for all the shows I follow. And I’ve noticed definite trends regarding my [...]