more ‘Doctor Who’ on Sci Fi — hoorah!

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…

spending the holiday in the Twilight Zone

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…

hooked, kinda, on ‘Enterprise’ on Sci Fi

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…

fans save ‘Jericho’ from cancellation apocalypse

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…

CBS hearts ‘Jericho’ fans (not really)

(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…

network blues, and what TV will look like in 2012

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…