‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Dalek spotted on Santa Monica Boulevard…
…ahead of Matt Smith’s appearance tonight on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Clearly Ferguson is deeply geeked. 12:30am Eastern on CBS.
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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: quiz show gets ‘DW’ answer wrong, but no one knows the actual answer
The question was: Which actor has played the Doctor the longest? The answer is, well, kinda timey-whimey…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Matt Smith on Craig Ferguson?
The Internet has been abuzz with the news that Matt Smith will appear on CBS’s The Late Late Show, hosted by Craig Ferguson, on November 16. However, Smith is not listed as a guest for that night. Perhaps that’s merely a temporary oversight?
a few thoughts on ‘The Walking Dead’: “Guts”
Are the sheriff’s wife and the sheriff’s partner grieving in any way for the sheriff? Were they having an affair before the zombie apocalypse struck, and the end of the world is no reason not to continue with this? Or is he just being an asshole — he must know that this woman is his partner’s wife, right? — and is she just proving what the sheriff said about her, that she’s basically evil?
question of the day: Should Jon Stewart be afraid of Conan O’Brien?
Last winter, NBC booted Conan O’Brien out of its late-night NBC spot. O’Brien landed at the basic-cable channel TBS, and his new talk show debuts there tonight at 11pm Eastern. Guess who else is on at 11pm Eastern on basic cable?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Christmas special will be fast-tracked internationally
Can’t wait for the return of the Doctor at Christmastime? Nope, none of us can… and it seems that the BBC is beginning to catch on that the show is popular enough outside the U.K. that concerns about piracy are becoming a factor in its scheduling….
question of the day: Why are we fascinated by movies (and TV shows) about our own destruction?
AMC’s new zombie drama, The Walking Dead, enjoyed the highest-rated premiere on cable this year: more than eight million people tuned in to see the world end… again. Why?
a few thoughts on ‘The Walking Dead’: “Days Gone Bye”
So, I’m not really seeing so much that’s new in this The Walking Dead thing yet. Except that it’s pretty gory not only for TV but also for some zombie movies I’ve see. Seems to be lots of lingering on head shots and blood spurting out in slow motion. Monty Python’s Sam Peckinpah would be proud.
a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “False Labor”
I want to say that I understand why no one was watching Caprica: it’s a tough, complicated downer of a drama about people who are merely trying to figure out how to cope with a tough, complicated world. But so what? Must everything on our TVs be escapist?
are you gonna watch AMC’s new ‘The Walking Dead’ tonight?
It doesn’t look very terribly different from most of the zombie movies we’ve seen, but I’m hoping that as a weekly drama, that means it will have to focus much more on character than films usually have time for. Perhaps this will be the first zombie apocalypse soap opera…
