Archive for the ‘Television’ Category
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Zombieland Series Passed Over by Amazon
With Amazon making decisions on whether to pick up or pass on their 14 original series pilots for their instant streaming service the most prominent one has already been shot down. Zombieland, from the creators of the movie (which was originally envisioned as a television show), will not be getting an order for more episodes. Heavy negative response to the pilot - which was legitimately terrible and the decision to recast the same characters from the film misguided - was likely the determ...
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Trailer for the Sleepy Hollow TV Series
The first look at the upcoming Sleepy Hollow series for Fox has arrived. The show is set to premiere this fall. Ichabod Crane wakes up from the throes of death 250 years in the future to find the world on the brink of destruction and learn he is humanity’s only hope. From co-creators/executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the “Star Trek” and “Transformers” franchises, “Fringe”) comes the adventure thriller SLEEPY HOLLOW. In this modern...
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Trailer for Arrested Development’s Fourth Season
Netflix has released the first look trailer for the new season of Arrested Development that will be available exclusively through their streaming service (all 15 episodes) on May 26. ...
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Trailers for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The first teaser ad for the new ABC series from Joss Whedon Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has arrived now that the series has been officially picked up for the fall season. Coulson is back - here as the lead - despite his apparent death in The Avengers and hopefully they'll explain the circumstances behind that through the show. Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel’s feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwid...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of May 14
Cloud Atlas Future. Present. Past. Everything is connected. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future. Based on the New York Times...
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24 Could Be Returning for Limited Run on Fox
Though talk of a feature film for 24 has been ongoing for a long time - the idea of it was raised even well before the series ended its run in 2010 - it has never gotten off the ground and lately was considered to be dead. Apparently that won't stop a return of 24 just in a manner which no one would have expected. Deadline is reporting that Fox is in talks with Kiefer Sutherland to reprise his role as Jack Bauer for what would be a "limited series". It's unclear how many episodes that wou...
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DVD/Blu-ray for Week of May 7
Jack Reacher From The New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes one of the most compelling heroes to step from novel to screen - ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: “Get Jack Reacher!” So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence a...
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Netflix Announces Next Original Series
The fifth original series produced and distributed by Netflix will be a prison-set dramedy called Orange Is the New Black. All 13 episodes will be available to watch beginning on July 11. The show chronicles a woman (Taylor Schilling) whose relationship with a drug runner (Laura Prepon) gets her sentenced to a year in prison. It also stars Jason Biggs, Kate Mulgrew, Taryn Manning, and Natasha Lyonne and comes from Jenji Kohan who previously created the Showtime dramedy Weeds. ...
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