Posts Tagged “Television”

For those who follow my misadventures over on my personal blog, you may be familiar with the fact that I recently finished construction on my basement.  While it’s nice having a third bathroom, fourth bedroom, and laundry room, the best part about it is the family room.  I wired the room to accommodate a 7.1 home theater.  I even built a shelf over my fireplace that will be home to a 52″ LCD television.  The whole setup is very sweet and I take great pride in knowing that it was my hands that built it all.

Despite construction having been mostly completed for weeks, it has only been within the past few days that I’ve had the time to begin moving my electronics into place.  Unfortunately, I haven’t upgraded my components yet so I’m using a 12-year-old Pioneer four-channel receiver with a seven-year-old 27″ television.

Tags: cable, devices, DVD, HDMI, home theater, LCD, pioneer, RCA, rca cables, rca inputs, receiver, square peg, Television, theater, tv, VCR

The very first book I ever read on my own was Robinson Crusoe. I was seven years old, and had been reading for some time, but never with any interest. Between my short attention span and over active imagination, most story books were just too boring for me to want to read them all the way through.

Crusoe changed that however; I was bringing the book with me to the dinner table so I could keep reading, I would sit on the couch with the TV on and not look once at it all night, I would beg my mom to let me stay up just a little bit longer till I reached the end of the chapter. She must have been so happy (my mom is an avid reader herself, and I can only imagine how she must have worried that she had a 2nd grader who wouldn’t read).

Tags: bad Tv, Crusoe, Knight Rider, network TV, Television

Rumors have been flying fast and furious.  David Tennant, our current resident Time Lord, took some time away from the show to work with the Royal Shakespear Company (with Patrick Stewart).  Usually when something like this happens on a BBC production, the actors are moving on.  Yes after much deliberation, David announced that he would be leaving the TARDIS when the scheduled Doctor Who specials have been completed.

This sucks.  But it is official as you can see here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm

With the article was an interview with David about his decision to leave.  As I was watching it David mentioned how excited he was to see how they would do the regeneration scene.  The BBC literally gets to kill the main character of a hit show and have the show continue.  The regeneration scene was originally conceived when William Hartnel (the first Doctor) decided to leave the show.  The script writer, Gerry Davis, proposed that the alien doctor could have the ability to die and return with a new body.  This would allow them to continue the show with a younger actor in the lead role.  Recasting kept the show fresh and allowed it to continue for 40 years.

Tags: BBC, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Regeneration, Television

As a fan of a lot of Sci-Fi shows, I end up joining various fan clubs. Of course I run the USS Ticonderoga fan club for Star Trek. I’ve been involved in various clubs for Star Wars, Doctor Who, Firefly and others. One of these is the Visitors Fifth Column, a fan club of the various V mini-series and television series. Today the leader of the local chapter directed me towards a Variety report announcing that ABC would be producing a re-image of the V story. Warner Brothers TV will be producing the show.

Scott Peters, the co-creator and executive producer of the USA series The 4400, will be writing the new adaptation. Peters has also written for The Outer Limits and Highlander. He has also directed for The 4400 and Jericho.

Tags: ABC, fan clubs, highlander, Jericho, mini series, outer limits, Scott Peters, Television, V

I’m fairly convinced that 90% of the people who work in advertising are high as a kite while at the work place. Either that, or it’s actually a very small minority that is high, and they just happen to be the ones making most the ads we see. Maybe they’re cheaper, I don’t know.

I know I’m not the only one who’s thought that, I’m sure. I’m sure not the first person to bring up how dumb some ads and logos and such are. A great example would be a couple strips from Real Life Comics by Greg Dean

It so happens that certain Native American tribes are allowed the use of peyote for religious ceremonies since they’ve already been doing so for thousands of years.  I honestly wonder if there are other laws that protect people in certain occupations in a similar manner.  Something along the lines of “All bonafide advertising agencies may enjoy the use of crack cocaine for inspirational purposes.”

Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsTags: ads, advertising, comics, commercials, morons, Real Life, shampoo, Television, tv, WTF

Anyone who has watched the FOX network in the last few years has been burned numerous times by their cancellation policy. FOX seems to work on the idea of “If we make it, we must cancel”. Last year they spent about six months advertising a new show starring Nathan Fillion called Drive. Six months of ads lead to three aired episodes. I”m sure there are many blogs out there who still can’t get over the cancellation of Firefly, and many other. FOX is famous for launching a dozen new shows, and canceling all of them by seasons end. In the last few years I think the only shows that have made it are House, and 24. As I sit here I’m watching a show that met a similar fate, so I thought I’d talk about a few that I liked that never made it.

Tags: Aaron Sorkins, adventures of brisco county, bounty hunter, brisco county jr, bruce campbell, cancellation policy, Charles S. Dutton, Firefly, FOX, fox network, jeffery donovan, nathan fillion, Peter Dinklage, police drama, sci fi, Sportsnight, Television, touching evil, West Wing, x files

It would seem to me as though everybody is reading a lot into a single comment made by Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight.  When asked if the new batsuit will stop dogs, he replies that it will stop cats.  That is apparently a huge indicator to the geek populace that Catwoman will be the next villian to encounter the Batman.  I think that it was a comment made in passing but I could be wrong.  Man, do I hope that I’m wrong.  I love the stress that Selena Kyle brings to Batman’s life.

We all know that a movie that has made as much money as The Dark Knight will have a sequel; in this day and age, it’s a foregone conclusion.  There’s no script, title, or villian, but that’s not stopping a certain well known actress and soon to be founder of the New U.N. from lobbying for the part of Catwoman.

Tags: Angelina Jolie, batman, Catwoman, comics, dark knight, Julie Newmar, Kate Beckinsale, Lucius Fox, new batsuit, Selena Kyle, Television, villian, wonder woman

I’m a fan of the X-Men. Granted, due to the small percentage of my income that is allotted for comic books, I don’t get to read the various X titles as much as I would like. But that doesn’t change the fact that the X-Men have some very cool characters as members.

Well, it looks like the Marvel entertainment juggernaut is at it again, this time hitting television. Right now, it appears as though Wolverine and the X-Men will begin airing on Nicktoons sometime during the spring of 2009.

Tags: comic books, Television, wolverine, X-Men