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Exclusive: Game of Thrones season 2 roundtable
Game of Thrones’s second season, based off of George R.R. Martin’s novel A Clash of Kings, is blissfully due to descend on us in just a few weeks’ time. And though anticipation for the show’s return couldn’t be higher, there seems to be a growing undercurrent of tension or concern among both the fan and journalistic communities. Showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have changed the name of Asha Greyjoy, Theon’s sister back on the Iron Islands, to Yara? The way-cool storyline the crippled Bran Stark has back at Winterfell might be cut and moved to the third season? Daenerys Targaryen’s minimal presence in the novel might be dramatically expanded – with action scenes?
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Watchmen's Rorschach to help Human Target
Currently enjoying a well deserved wave of attention for his turn as the masked Rorschach in Watchmen, actor Jackie Earle Haley has just taken a steady paycheck co-starring in Fox's pilot for Human Target. Haley will play the information gatherer for the show's main character, undercover bodyguard Christopher Chance (to beplayed by Fringe's Mark Valley.)
Add a comment (0)Thursday, March 5, 2009
Heroes renewed for fourth season
Fans of NBC's struggling Heroes show will feel better knowing that the network's president said that it will be coming back in the fall. When asked by The Hollywood Reporter if Heroes was a show on the "bubble", an industry term used to describe shows that are on the verge of cancellation, NBC exec Angela Bromstad said no. NBC wants to order between 18-20 new episodes for Heroes' fourth season, slightly less than the 23 that are making up the present third season.
Add a comment (0)Tuesday, March 3, 2009
High School Musical 4 goes back to basic (cable)
Disney has done what we all knew they would do and announce its intentions on making High School Musical 4. Ok, so no surprise there, but unlike the previous HSM 3: Senior Year which was released to theaters first, the Mouse House will be doing what it did with HSM 1 and 2 and broadcasting the fourth installment on its Disney Channel sometime in 2010.
Add a comment (0)Thursday, February 26, 2009
Seinfeld's back and in marriage trouble
After being away from the tube for 11 years comedian Jerry Seinfeld is making a return -- in some way -- to television and NBC, the network where his hit show Seinfeld ran. He is developing a reality show called The Marriage Ref which will feature celebrities from entertainment, sports and popular culture dispensing their martial advice to ordinary couples experiencing domestic wedded disaster.
Add a comment (0)The Simpsons gets two more seasons
Homer and his brood will remain on the primetime air for at least two more years. Fox has given an order for two more full seasons worth of episodes for The Simpsons, bringing the animated sitcom up to its 22nd season.
Add a comment (1)Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Smallville renewed for a ninth season
After reaching a deal with star Tom Welling The CW Network has renewed Smallville for its ninth season.
Add a comment (1)Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Andy Richter is back working with Conan on The Tonight Show
Now that Conan O'Brien is about to have the reigns for NBC's The Tonight Show, he's bringing his old pal Andy Richter with him to L.A. to serve as the announcer as well as star in some of the show's comedic segments.
Add a comment (1)Thursday, February 19, 2009
Jimmy Fallon's Late Night lands its first guests
Tomorrow is the final day for Conan O'Brien as the host for NBC's Late Night. After 16 years of following up after Jay Leno and going one-on-one with the show's former host, David Letterman, O'Brien is set to relinquish the reins to ex-SNL star Jimmy Fallon when the latter comedian takes over on March 2.
Add a comment (4)Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Return of the Thing screenplay reviewed: Part 2
This is the second part of the review for Return of the Thing, a two-part mini-series that was in development in 2005 for the Sci Fi Channel. Click here to read the first part of this review or else you're going to be locked in a kennel with the rest of Clark's dogs.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Exclusive: A look at the Return of the Thing screenplay
Antarctica, Winter, 1982. The two survivors of U.S. Outpost #31 face each other as the blasted remains of their camp burn around them. Both men are unsure if the other is who they say they are, but both also know that it doesn’t really matter right now. As they accept the inevitable they sit down across from each other and begin to pass a bottle of booze back and forth, never taking their weapons from off the other.
Add a comment (1)Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Fringe player becomes the next Human Target
He's been seen this season as a recurring character in Fox's new paranormal drama Fringe as well as mentioned by some online fans as their number one candidate for the movie role of Captain America. Maybe with his new job as The Human Target actor John Valley might just catch the eye of the Cap producers.
Add a comment (1)Monday, February 9, 2009
Clone Wars will continue on Cartoon Network
The battle will continue on Cartoon Network this fall as the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be broadcast on the channel. The deal was announced today by the Network to reassure fans of the CG-animated show that Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ashoka and the clonetrooper army will return to their airwaves in fall 2009.
Add a comment (3)Nutter goes to Eastwick
David Nutter has been hired to direct the pilot episode of The Witches of Eastwick for ABC. This is a good omen for the chances of the show getting picked up for a series; 14 of the past 14 pilots that Nutter has directed have gone on to a series order.
Add a comment (0)Thursday, February 5, 2009
More info about the new V
Last week news broke that ABC had ordered a pilot for a proposed new V television series. Using the premise of the well-received 1980s mini-series as its springboard, the modern day V shows what might happen when immense alien spacecraft drop from the sky and initiate contact with our world. While on the surface it appears that the aliens are our friends it turns out that they have hidden plans for the human race.
Add a comment (1)Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Day One gets an order for one show (so far)
NBC is hoping to strike gold by mining the sci-fi vein by ordering a pilot for Day One, a new project created by Heroes writer and producer Jesse Alexander.
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