Save the date: Sunday May 23rd 2010 isn’t just the day that Lost ends, it’ll also mark an end of a larger era: The era of successful serialized mysteries on network television. And Lost deserves a lot of credit for making that happen.
When Daniel Dae Kim says, somewhat self-congratulatory, “I don’t think you can have a conversation …
Poor Heroes. First NBC cancels the series (Although creator Tim Kring said yesterday that he’s “finalizing [a] discussion about a number of ways to keep the ‘Heroes’ universe alive for its fans,” whatever that may mean) and then it gets slapped with a $60 million lawsuit alleging that its final season ripped off a little-known …
In the latest news to demonstrate the troubles of the manga market, DC Comics today announced that their manga imprint, CMX Manga, will close on July 1st. In a statement from co-publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee, the closure was blamed on “the challenges that manga is facing in the American marketplace,” presumably referring not only to …
The first trailer for new NBC superhero series The Cape suddenly makes the network’s reason for canceling Heroes clear: They wanted you to feel that things used to be better in the old days before characters used stretchy magic capes to fight crime and win back the love of their children. Remember those halcyon days when saving a …
I don’t know what was more uncomfortable on last night’s episode of Chuck on NBC: Seeing the show (accidentally?) point out all of the flaws and plotholes in the way that the series has evolved away from its initial set-up, or watching Scott Bakula.
Okay, it’s not that Bakula’s acting is bad; it’s just that I genuinely found it hard to …
Not content with being one of the more enjoyable shows on television, this week’s (American) episode of Doctor Who decided to up the stakes by demonstrating why it’s one of the smartest, as well. As the Doctor’s future wife River Song would say, spoilers!
Previously, on Doctor Who: Forty-seven years of episodes, but what you really …
File under “Inexplicable legal actions seemingly born of laziness”: Time Warner Cable is asking a US court to quash legal action against online piracy, because it doesn’t have the bandwidth to look up more than 28 IP addresses a month.
According to the Hollywood Reporter’s THR, Esq. blog, TWC has filed a third party motion to quash a …
