Life is a show about a hyper smart crime investigator who uses his brilliant powers of deduction to solve crimes in sometimes baffling manners. The Mentalist is a show about a hyper smart crime investergator who uses his briliant powers of deduction to solve crimes in sometimes baffling manners. They both have hot women partners as well. They have this in common with Monk, Sherlock Holmes, and countless other fictional investegaters over the years. I like both shows, but. . . A few years ago there were a string of shows about Profilers, and one of them was a pretty…
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Dig This on CBS Sunday Morning
Have you ever dreamed of enlarging those sandbox toys you enjoyed as a kid? Have you ever thought it would be cool to operate an excavator, bulldozer or skid steer? Dig This is your opportunity to play in the dirt – super sized. –Dig This Bill Geist is one of the best parts of CBS Sunday Morning as he is always doing stuff that is, well, just silly. One week he bought land on the Moon. Another he learned the manly art of being a Hot Dog Vendor. This week he took that childhood joy of playing with Tonka Trucks…
Supernatural-I’m Your Density
Supernatural is the story of the Winchester Brothers and their quest to rid the world of Demons, Ghosts, and the Like by being professional Hunters. Professional meaning they do it full time, not that they get paid for risking their lives week in and week out. But of course, these are not just your average Hunters, these are Special Hunters. Sam seems to be something along the lines of the Angel Gabriel in that he will be the one who sounds the end of the earth. This is not a good thing for those us who are still busy using…
Terminator Sarah Connors Season Two
The new season of Terminator The Sarah Connors Chronicles is moving along at a good pace. Good guys and Bad guys are pretty clear cut here. With the exception of John Connor’s ‘sister’ who had a bit of a bad turn during the season opener. Since The Writer’s Strike brought the first season of Sarah Connors to a premature end, the Season Two opener did some quick clean up with what looked to be a lot more complex story element. Namely Cameron, the friendly Terminator, getting blow up in a car bomb. I was expecting something along the lines of…
Heroes Season Three
Heroes has been a good show with occasional flashes of brilliance. Like The X-Men and The 4400 there is an ever growing group of people with Special Abilities roaming the world and it is the job of the Mundanes (that’s Us) to try and stop them from taking over the world. One of the key elements of Heroes has been Slyar-a Villain’s Villain-but why have one super bad guy when you can have a whole cell block full of super bad guys? Through the usual Heroes business of Time Travel Gone Wrong-the world is once more at risk and we’re…
Primeval-Monsters Out of Time
Primeval is a British ITV show about holes in time that varied and sundry beasties wander through. They all end up near London and our merry band of heroes is always there to save the day. In the tradition of Dr Who Primeval is a sort of Sci Fi show, in that there doesn’t seem to be much real science, but there is a lot of fiction. Also like Dr Who, the special effects are not exactly up there with Jurassic Park. Primeval is coming to BBC America on August 9th and I’m sure fans of Dr Who and Torchwood…
Emmy Nominations 2008
I watch a lot of TV, but not as much as I used to. I hear stats from time to time that people are wringing theirs hands over kids watching four or five hours of TV a day, and I think, what are these kids? Amish? The TV goes on when I wake up and goes off when I go to sleep. Well, maybe not quite as bad as that every day, I do leave the house once in a while. But the point is, I am sort of familiar with most of the TV shows up for an Emmy…
Stargate Continuum
“If you ever travel back in time, don’t step on anything-because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can’t imagine.“Abe Simpson-The Simpsons Stargate Continuum is about a hundred times better than Stargate The Ark of Truth. But this may have something to do with my love of all things Time Travel and a very literal take on the Grandfather Paradox in Stargate Continuum. It is also worth noting that Stargate Continuum is the first Stargate to be released on Blu-ray. The old Stargate gang is here, watching as Baal-or one of his many clones-has his symbiont…
Fringe-JJ Abrams Does The X-Files
In the good old days, if you made a TV Show like Fox’s Fringe and wanted to get some buzz about it, you would arrange for people from TV Guide to see the show. Maybe JJ Abrams and Fox would invite someone from Parade Magazine and a few of the larger daily newspapers. The Media would watch a show like Fringe and write up a review to be printed the day that Fringe was going to air for the first time. Then came the Review Copy-Video Tapes and then DVDs of Fringe sent out to respected media. There were rules…
Coke’s Happiness Factory
I was in a mall the other day and saw an ad for Coca-Cola’s Happiness Factory. This was a full scale one-sheet that looked liked like a movie I might like to watch. I had never heard of the Happiness Factory, or the Coke ads that feature said factory whirling away inside vending machines. I guess I need to get out more. There are 237 videos on YouTube tagged with Happiness Factory, though there doesn’t seem to be but three commercials. Looks like Coke showed the Happiness Factory Movie in Second Life. I have enough trouble with the first life,…