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SR’s Inaugural Weekly TV Wrap Up

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:21:15 +0000

Welcome! This is the first rendition of Screen Rants Weekly TV Wrap Up. This is where we pass on some of the TV news we come across, keeping you on the edge of news and updates. Our regularly scheduled day will be Thursday mornings, so be sure to check in every week with us.

When there’s TV news, it will be here!

1. Sci-Fi’s Eureka has a new character coming on board in the form of Tess Fontana (Jamie Ray Newman), who’s joining Global Dynamics. The 2nd half season will debut later this year. Source: SCI FI Wire

2. Sci-Fi Channel has ordered a second season of Ghost Hunters International and a sixth season for Ghost Hunters. Additionally, their new college based series, Ghost Hunters: Next Generation is headed at us with a 2010 premiere. Source: Sci-Fi Wire

3. In case you didn’t notice, Pushing Daisies has been dropped before it got to finish its run. (Is it that bad?) And at this time, there is no set air date for the remaining episodes of the brightly colored show. Sorry gang. Source: EW.com

4. The green-screen based Sci-Fi show Sanctuary has done well enough to be picked up for season number 2 with 13 episodes. Source: ENEWSI.com

5. Here’s a list of People’s Choice Awards winners from TV

TV Drama: House M.D.
TV Comedy: Two and a Half Men
TV Animated Comedy: The Simpsons
Sci-fi/Fantasy Show: Heroes
Reality Show: Dancing With the Stars (Bruce admits… great eye candy if you have to sit through it)
Game Show: Deal or No Deal (Why does everyone blow it on this show?)
Male TV Star: Hugh Laurie (He’s the man! A sarcastically honest man.)
Female TV Star: Christina Applegate
Scene-Stealing Guest Star: Robin Williams, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV Drama Diva: Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Johnson, The Closer
New TV Comedy: Gary Unmarried
New TV Drama: The Mentalist
Online Sensation: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (OK, it’s not TV, but I could get this on my TV… does that count?)

Source: pcavote.com

6. REMINDER: Friday Night Lights is back on NBC on January 16th!

7. Eleventh Hour will have a new agent for a few episodes. FBI trainee Felix will be joining Agent Young, played by Omar Benson Miller. Source: EW.com

8. The Unit (One of Bruce’s favs) is getting a new team member in the form of Wes Chatham playing a recurring role of Sam. He’ll show up sometime in March in a real whopper of an action packed episode. Hmm… when aren’t they? Source: EW.com

9. Don’t forget, in case you’ve missed any of the 1,000 ads that The Sci-Fi Channel has been running, tonight is the series finale of Stargate: Atlantis, and the season finale of Sanctuary.

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Sanctuary & Ghost Hunters News

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:28 +0000

The green-screen based sci-fi show Sanctuary has done well enough in the ratings department for Sci-Fi to pick up a 2nd season with 13 episodes.

Sci-Fi must be happy with it, as apparently are the fans of the show.

The first few episodes tested my patience… but that’s because they tried to fit so much developmental detail into those first few hours that it was blatantly obvious and painful. I personally wanted to find sanctuary from the show.

As the show progressed I felt that it found its footing and is showing a nice pace with the character developments through the episodes. I now find it isn’t a bad show to kill time with. (I did not say superb. I said wasn’t bad.)

Sanctuary was Sci-Fi’s highest rated debut episode since Eureka premiered back in July of ‘06. (ENI)

Since we’re chatting about the paranormal, I thought I’d toss something out there about Ghost Hunters.

If you can’t get enough of Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International and what not, fret not my trusty readers.

Ghost Hunters has been such a stalwart performer for the network, spewing record ratings no matter which flavor of GH you watch. With that in mind, one more spin-off is coming our way soon: Ghost Hunters: College Edition.

I saw evidence of this popularity back at Comic-Con. Twilight had a gigantic line for it, but it was in the huge presentation room of the Con. When I headed off to catch the Ghost Hunters panel, I got there about an hour early and found the line had gone out the door, down the side of the conference center, stretched around the corner and extended to the front of the facility. It was surprising to say the least that getting there an hour early did not net me a seat. In fact, I never got near the door. I was still up at the front of the building when we were told the room was full. Boo! (That was not a pun! That was an attitude.)

Yep, another spin-off indeed. The show is going youthful and will feature a group of college students traversing the country, guided by an experienced ghost hunter.

No cast or crew have been announced yet, but I am sure the students will be keeping up on their studies while having their wits frightened out of them. (THR)

Have you ever been in a haunted house? It is a true test of your blood pressure for sure. My grandparents house in Maine was over 200 years old and it had what I called “Incredibly Unique” sounds and events that used to occur in the place. I could not stay there alone when I was a kid. Nope. And the dog (That I kept with me in the house when I was alone) didn’t help when all he did was bark at a dark corner of the hallway. (”Expletive”-ing dog.)

Well, with Ghost Hunters being such a solid ratings performer, I have an idea that will set ratings afire and put the Sci-Fi Channel on the map of all networks, basic or otherwise. PAY ATTENTION SCI-FI: Ghost Hunters: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Yeah. I’d love to see my fav, Marissa Miller chasing ghosts. She’s a tomboy of sorts and would kick some serious a**. That’s all I’m gonna say about this…

Marisa Miller image: marisamiller.com

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Upfronts And The New 2008 Fall TV Season

Bruce Simmons — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:34:00 +0000

[UPDATE: Check out our up to date Complete 2008 Fall TV Preview!]

I was wondering about all the news out and about regarding what’s coming up on television next season with regards to fantasy, sci-fi and action type shows, so I tracked down the announcements from various networks that distribute them to whet our appetites via the “upfronts“. EH? I know. You’re asking, “What’s an upfront“?

Upfronts are when networks publicly announce their new shows to the press and the advertising world. It’s during the upfronts that networks give advertisers the chance to get advertising time at a discount, versus paying premium dollar during the season. It could also be looked at as the time when advertisers hedge their bets with shows that look promising to them. Basically, get in on the action up in front of the new season. Sadly, it’s the driving force behind everything we love and love to hate about TV programming.

The upfronts can also give you some insight into the minds of the network execs and the trends they either think will happen or help actually develop. By trends I mean setting the mark. IE: After ABC’s Lost or Fox’s Prison Break became hot commodities, we saw a rash of similar type programs pop up in the ensuing seasons.

With that being said let’s go through the developments that have come out of the upfronts, where I focus on shows on the tube that you the Screen Rant reader might be interested in knowing about, with no particular order to the networks:

NBC:

New NBC shows:
My Own Worst Enemy, with Christian Slater as a spy who explores the duality of a man who is literally pitted against himself.
The Philanthropist (with David Eick as showrunner) about a rebel billionaire who uses his money, connections and power to help people in need.
Merlin – Yes, it’s based on the Arthurian legend.

Returning NBC shows
Medium,
Chuck,
Heroes,
All the Law and Orders &
Friday Night Lights. (With a disclaimer!)

Gone from NBC: Bionic Woman (Proof the system sometimes works!), Las Vegas & Journeyman. (Proof the system doesn’t always work.)

I got hooked on Friday Night Lights, and it’s been renewed for 13 episodes BUT the episodes will first air on DirecTV in the fall, and then on NBC in the winter. This is a great example of ratings being iffy, but DirecTV put up the money to continue producing the show, and NBC will reap the rewards by ‘rerunning’ them later. Is it me, or does The Philanthropist sound like Bruce Wayne? I’m just saying.

I don’t think too many people were sad to see Bionic Woman go back to the garage, but as we all know, none of us were happy to see Journeyman become a show of the past. Right Vic? But Las Vegas really upset the core fans because they pulled the plug on a cliff hanger. Way to go N-B-C. Of course I leave you with conflicting statements about the Neilsen system, but it is what it is – a fickle, money based, old school system. Of course, Journeyman’s curse was being put up against Heroes, where 3 other shows died trying to compete. Nice insight.
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The Sci-Fi Channel:

New to the Sci Fi Channel:
Caprica, a prequel of Battlestar Galactica.
Reruns of series including Lost and Jericho.
stunt-reality series Scare Tactics.
The Stranded, the first joint venture by Sci Fi and Virgin Comics.
Deputized, a comedy drama about an intergalactic police force.
Alice. Which is to Alice in Wonderland as Tin Man was to Wizard of Oz.
True Believer about a comicbook nerd who hires a down-at-heels superhero to become crime fighters.
Ghost Hunters International, a spinoff of Ghost Hunters, and
Mind Control With Derren Brown
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CBS:

Returning CBS Shows:
The Unit, Cold Case, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, The Ghost Whisperer, all the CSI’s, NCIS, Without A Trace

CBS gave the boot to Shark, and eclipsed Moonlight.

New CBS shows:

Eleventh Hour: The latest from Jerry Bruckheimer about a scientific investigator working for the government to probe unsolved anomalies.
The Mentalist is about a man with innate ESP-like powers of deduction.
Harper’s Island is a murder mystery involving a group of friends who meet on an island near Seattle for a wedding.

I like The Unit – It spins special ops, the politics behind them and the stress on the members’ families and how they deal with the dynamics of it all. I was pretty upset when they dropped both Shark and Moonlight. I liked both these shows, and CBS was quoted as saying cutting Moonlight was a tough decision but they had to make room for new shows… I hate rhetoric. Eleventh Hour, being a Bruckheimer production, sounds like they’re playing the X-files fan base with the Bruckheimer afficionado. A cheap rip off of some other efforts? Who’s to say. The one surviving show that surprised me is Numb3rs. I thought sure all that mathematical math-a-ma-jig stuff would confound people, but they use it to accent the police investigations and mix it in nicely.
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Sci Fi’s Ghost Hunters Gets A Spinoff

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:50:08 +0000

I’ve previously written a review on Sci Fi Channels’ Ghost Hunters with a bit of incredulity as to their success for constantly finding ghosts, here on Screen Rant.

The ensuing comments showed me people like the show more than I expected, and sure enough, the ratings must have warranted the same perspective, as the show is getting it’s own spinoff, called Ghost Hunters International.

Ghost Hunters International will follow a new crew of investigators as they travel around Europe, including some of Europe’s legendary haunted spots doing what they do best, finding or debunking those Casper sightings!

The European team will consist of alumini TAPS investigators Robb Demarest, Andy Andrews, Brian Harnois and Donna La Croix, along with Barry Fitzgerald (from the Ghost Hunters‘ investigations in Ireland) and newcomer Shannon Sylvia.

Ghost Hunters International is slated to debut on Sci Fi in January 2008.

Here are some links for your curiosity:
Sci Fi Channel’s Ghost Hunters website.
TAPS very own website.

Source: SciFiWire

While I was writing this, it was getting warm in the room. I thought I was having a ghostly encounter in my new home, but it turns out it was my wife staring at me, with a look that said “Why are you on the internet while we still have boxes to unpack!” I need to go now.

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