The BBC's Merlin is coming to US television this Sunday on NBC, according to the New York Times.  I haven't encountered any fan opinions of this Merlin that were not shippy, so I don't feel I know what we're in for besides pretty young actors and lack of historical social credibility.  But the TVscape is tragically devoid of historical fiction ( Read more... )

For those who enjoy Numb3rs, a recommendation: the final scene of last Friday's episode, "Animal Rites," is a Bechdel Rule-satisfying interlude with three of the four regular female characters, plus a long-familiar actress who guest-starred and whom I hope will be coming aboard for future episodes.  The scene feels like three minutes of filmed ( Read more... )

Why did the second half of the BtVS second third season finale, "Becoming" "Graduation Day," originally air in July, two months after the first half, well into the summer and past sweeps?  (Or is it a typo on the DVD packaging?)

Addendum: Wikipedia answers this question here.

When I got home last night, I was exhausted with this cold that just won't go away, and didn't manage to do anything more constructive than eat dinner in front of an old NCIS episode on Pax and drag myself to bed.

I had never seen that NCIS episode before.  It was from very early in Ziva's tenure, the one with the boy Abby dubbed a "mini-Gibbs," ( Read more... )

From the NYT: Short-Lived Cult Shows Live Again on DirecTV.  They are airing full seasons of shows that were canceled with many episodes unaired.  Specifically, nothing I've ever head of -- Smith, The Nine, Eyes, Wonderland -- but if this becomes their gameplan, they will inevitably run into stories we love, won't they?

"Cable's Sci Fi channel is changing its name to Syfy, which sounds the same but can be trademarked [emphasis mine]...  So if changing a station's name to the contrived 'Syfy' helps wussies cop to their fandom, fine..."--- Margaret Lyons, "Sci Fi becomes 'Syfy'...sigh" on Entertainment Weekly 03/16/09, link spotted on GoogleNews headlines at lunch

Just watched last night's NCIS before work this morning.  So what is up with that clandestine conversation between ( spoiler )

I can watch full episodes of Numb3rs on the official CBS site, but V. cannot.  She gets an error message saying that the episode has "expired."  Do any of you know why?  She suspects that it is because the CBS site knows she is in Canada, and that it will allow only US access to episodes; could that be true?

I caught up on this week's NCIS this evening.  When I saw Torri Higginson reprising her role as Dr. Jordan Hampton, I had two thoughts almost simultaneously:

• "Golly, I hope someone alerted havocthecat."
• "Hey, tv-elf, remember when you said -- oh, right. D**n. Miss you."

( Tiny Spoilers )

Pushing Daisies is all but canceled.  ABC ordered only thirteen episodes to start the season, and has not extended that order.  Too bad.

Granted, when the show finally came back from the writer's strike this October, it came back initially unsteady and unappealing, in my opinion.  This entire construction of ( spoiler )