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Those reruns of Jericho? Oops: they’re up against the return of Doctor Who to the Sci Fi Channel this Friday night. The fact that Jericho was one of the shows most time-shifted or watched online — methods of viewing that aren’t captured by traditional ratings systems — apparently contributed to its initial cancellation, though it … more…

The news about the resurrection of Jericho (which I wrote about previously here) just keeps getting better and better… maybe. One of the show’s executive producers, Carol Barbee, tells us not to assume that those seven episodes we’ll get next season will wrap up the story. “We are not closing this story out. We have … more…

It’s such a rare thing in our television world of too many cable channels filling up their schedules with endless reruns of old shows to come across episodes of a favorite old show you’ve never seen before. And yet this happens to me every year during the Sci Fi Channel’s Fourth of July Twilight Zone … more…

It’s a weird thing to be hooked on a TV show, and yet not really hooked. Like me with Star Trek: Enterprise. I’ve been obsessed with catching up with the entire series since the Sci Fi Channel started running the show from start to finish on Monday nights in four-hour blocks. The 98-episode run (it … more…

If you find yourself suffering from *House* withdrawal over the summer, you might want to check out *Heartland,* TNT’s new series premiering Monday, June 18 at 10pm Eastern. I’m sure that’s what TNT is hoping for, at least…

Nathaniel R. of The Film Experience is running another of his famous blog-a-thons today: this one’s on Action Heroines. Rather than yabber on about Ellen Ripley and Sarah Conner and Princess Leia, I thought I’d look at the action heroines on TV who thrill me the most, and make me wish I could be just like them when I grow up…

It’s gonna go down in history as one of the great fan movements in pop culture history, I suspect: Jericho fans were so passionate in their outrage over CBS’s cancellation of the series that, rather unbelievably, CBS renewed the show for another seven episodes, to air no one knows quite when yet, except that it … more…

You’ve probably already heard, but here is the bittersweet news: Battlestar Galactica will end after Season 4, which will air in early 2008. I call it bittersweet not just cuz I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the show for a while (though it was back to love by the Season 3 finale a few months … more…

(previous ‘Jericho’ posts here and here) Seems the campaign to save Jericho — headquarted at Jericho Lives — has made the mainstream press. The Los Angeles Times yesterday weighed in with a bit of snark, first aimed at the fans: We were on to the “Lost” legion and “Heroes” worshippers, but who knew there were … more…

What is television going to look like in a couple of years? Oh, I’m not talking about the switchover to from analog to digital broadcast that’s scheduled to happen in February 2009, which will make the picture and sound we all see sharper and way cooler. I’m talking about the content we watch on those … more…