Tag archive for ‘Terra Nova’
The Prime Times: Figure It Out Edition
Here’s all the TV news you need to know (read: a dozen news items you don’t need to know but are fun anyway).
- A Baltimore man was arrested on a handgun charge recently, and he happens to share the same name as a notorious character on The [...]
New Show Haiku
Like every other reputable TV critic, I’ve seen absolutely none of this season’s crop of new shows, except for the first episode and a half of New Girl. (Cut a guy some slack; we’ve been trying to slash Dexter from my to-watch list.) So since there’s no time like the holidays for frivolity, let me recklessly and unfairly pass [...]
2011 Pilot Watch: The Best of the Winners
The tribe has spoken. The networks have voted. And this development season’s pilots have either received series orders or have been all but forgotten about. After watching clips of (or, at least, reading synopses of) the new shows, I’ve decided which shows I can’t wait to check out. (And my track record is pretty great: only two-thirds of the [...]
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 [...]
2010 Pilot Watch: The Best of the Winners
Now that the big four networks have released their fall lineups (oh, and The CW, too), I can talk about the new shows which excite me most—with the added bonus of knowing that each of them will air for at least one episode! Will all of these shows be Emmy-worthy? Probably not. But, sight unseen, I think [...]