Up & Coming on the small screen
2:28 AM 8/21/09 · It's kinda weird how the TV Guide for a couple weeks ago is still being sold everywhere, haven't seen the new one yet. Still, it gave me the time to trot this out...so if you're as hooked to television as I am and a huge geek:
- Being Human: Saturdays at 9pm on BBC America (currently on). Interesting program about a vampire, a ghost, and a vampire sharing a flat in Bristol. They just want to be like plain folks, as much as that's possible anyway.
- Chuck: will be back in the Fall of 2010 on NBC. Contrary to what we saw at the season ender last time around, Chuck is not going to be a superman. While he does have the upgraded form of the Intersec, all the skills he has are ones that anyone with the training programmed into his head could have; remember it was designed for Bryce. The usual awkwardness will be maintained.
- Defying Gravity: Sundays at 9pm (currently on) on ABC. Described as a semi·scifi version of Grey's Anatomy, it's the ongoing missions of a group of international astronauts checking out seven planets over the course of 6 years. There's as much the mission as mission control, as flashbacks to training, and an underlying dakrker agenda.
- Doctor Who: starts up kinda regular again later this year on BBC America. The final days of the 10th Doctor before he regenerates. Will be 3 two hour specials. Also, expect a return from the Master!
- Eureka: Fridays at 9pm on Scifi (still refusing to call it that other thing). The usual shenanigans, this has been a great season so far, and finally we have aliens...sorta.
- Batman, the Brave and the Bold: new episodes begin in the Fall on the Cartoon Network, featuring a new regular villain called Equinox.
- Wolverine and the X·Men: Fridays at 8pm on Nicktoons (currently on) the team continues to try and prevent an apocalyptic future. Wolverine is stressed to the breaking point and overly pressimistic, on top of sudden revelations from the Weapon X Program via Mystique.
- Iron Man, the Armored Adventures: Fridays at 7pm on Nicktoons (currently on) the very young Shellhead has to deal with Advanced Idea Mechanics and the Crimson Dynamo. The Hulk is expected to make an appearance soon.
- The Spectacular Spider·Man: Mondays at 7:30 (currently on but don't know if AM or PM) on Disney. A lot of regular faces with a few new ones, like Silver Sable. The 'nature of power' is to be a centrailized theme this season.
- Supernatural: Returns Thursdays September 10th at 9pm on The CW....and there will be HELL to pay. Too much? Well, Lucifer is finally loose on the Earth and it's the apocalypse. Should make for an interesting season.
- Fringe: Returns Thursdays September 17th at 9pm on FOX. Last season ended in a parellel dimension and Leonard Nimoy made an appearance. A lot of the season will be focused on the situation with this other reality, their 9/11 was a little different as the World Trade Center is still standing...as is John F. Kennedy. Sounds fun!
- Heroes: Returns Mondays at 8pm on September 21st. Sylar will be around, sort of, and the others will be trying to work out what to do with themselves. A lot of them go back to their old lives, as best they can, while Hiro and Ando establish their own superheros for hire agency in Tokyo. There's also a circus of freaks that're not you're typical freaks. Ray Park will be joining the series.
- Legend of the Seeker: New episodes in November...and that's all you're getting cuz I don't watch this show. Just mentioning it to be polite.
- Sanctuary: Returns Friday October 9th at 10pm on Scifi (don't say it!). Helen finally loosens up, and there will be other fun stuff too. OoooooWeeeeOoooo!
- Smallville: Returns Fridays on September 25th on The CW. So, it the 9th season and Clark is going over the top on the whole Red Blue Blur (catchy name) gig. He's hardly ever doing anything else. Zod is back, but not, and even better!
- Star Wars, The Clone Wars: Cad Bane, the bounty hunter from the end of last season, returns as a major force, no pun intended, this season. He's listed as a 3rd party to the war between the Republic and the Droid Army. There will be a special focus on Ahsoka's fate, fans apparently are worried given she wasn't in Revenge of the Sith. Go figure.
- Dollhouse: Returns September 25th at 9pm on FOX. There may be elements of the not shown episode from the 1st season, only available on the DVD set. Basically, if you haven't seen it, it takes place about 10 years in the future where the Dollhouse's technology went bad and the world has suffered for it. Good times. Although Season 2 will be in the relative present so I'm a little lost on the specifics there.
- Warehouse 13: Still currently on Scifi, Tuesdays at 9pm, and a wonky new adventure every week. I watch it religiously.
- Caprica: Set for early 2010, takes place a bit before Battlestar Galactica. Kind of a soap opera dealio, where humans create an AI prototype that sets the stage for the Cylon War. Probably on Scifi.
- Day One: Set for the Winter of 2010. After a global catastrophe, a small band of survivors in an LA apartment building try to rebuild society and figure out what happened. Not even out yet and already it's being compared to a bargain basement version of Jericho. NBC.
- Human Target: Sunday January 17th on FOX. Christopher Chance is an odd sort of guy that saves his clients lives by putting himself in mortal danger. Based off a DC Comics series.
- Untitled Alien Invasion Project: ...and I'm just saying now I'm not sure if that's literal or they actually don't know what to call it yet. Set for 2010 on TNT. Stars Noah Wyle as a resistance leader in a world devestated by an alien assault. Sounds interesting and I loved this guy in The Librarian film series, not to mention e.r. As a side bonus, Steven Spielberg is holding the reigns here so it should be a fun ride.
- The Vampire Diaries: Thursday September 10th on The CW. Basically a love triangle a troubled high school girl and two brothers that happen to share a particular liquid diet. One's the good brother, the other's the bad brother. Essential elements of the typical American love story. Hopes are it will fall somewhere in between Twilight and True Blood success levels.
- Eastwick: Set for Fall on ABC. Obviously based off The Witches of Eastwick, one of Jack Nicholson's most fun works I think, it stars 3 witches and their seducer and should be in the same dark comedy place the movie was.
- Stargate Universe: Set for October on Scifi. Been a long time since I've seen Lou Diamond Philips in anything approaching science fiction so on that note alone I'm looking forward to this! A multi·national team gets stuck on a spaceship with failing life support systems and other problems. From what little I've heard, the ship was built by the Ancients and designed for the express purpose of placing stargates around the galaxy. Series is meant to be darker than the previous 2 Stargate series, 3 if you count the animated one.
- V: I'm both looking forward to and dreading this. Set for November, in time for my birthday, on ABC. It's a reboot of the television series from the 1980's detailing the meeting between the human race and the Visitors. If you missed the original series, they're a race of alien reptiles, wearing human skins, that eat people. Buzz is there's much convern that, as with Bionic Woman and Knight Rider, that trying to bring back a classic series may suck.
- Flashforward: Comes out Thursday, September 24th, on ABC. An FBI task forces is assigned to trying to work out why everyone on the planet passed out for 2m:17s exactly and why everyone has visions of the future...exactly six months. Casted by the actors from Star Trek: TNG, The Dark Knight, an the recent Star Trek film.