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Tag archive for ‘FlashForward’

The Prime Times: Post “Lost” Edition

Lordy lordy, do I have a ton of news items to share. Let’s waste no time:

2010 Pilot Watch

‘Tis the season for development, and Lynette Rice at EW.com has released a list of the pilots the broadcast networks are considering. (Bear in mind that only a fraction of these shows will make it to the airwaves.) After perusing the [...]

41 Shows Reviewed in 140 Characters or Less

Rose Byrne in "Damages"

Note: The following post first appeared as an article by the same name in The Climax, Hampshire College’s newspaper. Also, some of these micro-reviews may exceed 140 characters—my bad!

I am a student of television. Writing television scripts is my Division III [a senior project, in Hampshire speak]. So I have no shame in the [...]

The Prime Times: Peacock Overload Edition

The entrance of NBC Tower in Chicago

Here’s this week’s batch of freshly-baked television news:

  • Two big names will “sho” up on Showtime: Laura Linney will star in The C Word, a half-hour comedy series about a woman who turns her life around following a cancer diagnosis; and William H. Macy will star in Shameless, a comedic drama [...]

The Prime Times: Lawn Mower Meets Foot Edition

Seconds before disaster on "Mad Men"

I can’t even fit all the news that’s fit to print into one blog post, but here are some of this week’s most interesting tidbits:

Two Minutes, Seventeen Seconds

The Cast of "Flash Forward"

The following post was originally published on my old blog on April 20, 2009.

2009-2010 New Series Preview, Part 1

ABC has a lot of fine prospects for the 2009-2010 season, but one of the most exciting is a pilot called Flash Forward, based on the Robert J. Sawyer novel of the same name. [...]