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TV This Week: Say Goodbye To Jericho
Barring a miracle, this week sees the last ever episode of Jericho, the nuked-America show that grew into a masterpiece of paranoia. (Maybe the Sci Fi Channel will discover some extra money laying around that it hasn't spent on Ghost Hunters.) Also this week, Clark takes another huge step towards his super-destiny on Smallville. And there are two mini-documentaries about Battlestar Galactica. Click through for full listings, including preview clips. More »
9:00 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Jericho's Attack On Corporate Dominance, Sponsored By Sprint
Trust Jake Green to summarize in a few words the theme of this season of post-apocalyptic Kansas drama Jericho: "This isn't a country, it's a company." The old America is gone, replaced with a corporate dictatorship. This scene really made me feel as though the show knows exactly what it wants to say, and it's heading towards a huge resolution next week. And then the show threw a plot twist at me that suddenly put me in a smidgen of doubt. Spoilers, and more reaction to last night's episode, ahead. More »
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TV This Week: Chief Tyrol Invades Smallville
It's your last chance to get to know Kyle XY this week, and your second-to-last chance to discover Jericho before it goes away, maybe forever. Those both happen to be shows that I really disliked when they started, and they've both grown on me a lot. Meanwhile, Smallville features Chief Tyrol in full crazoid mode, and Lost has a script co-written by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man). Click through for clips and full listings. More »
9:00 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Worst Postapocalyptic Game Of Death Ever
A nuclear holocaust has caused a new ice age and all but wiped out humanity... and the survivors kill time with pointless murder games. Robert Altman's Quintet has two of the greatest movie concepts in history jammed together, in a quintessentially 1970s blend of apocalypse and wacky death game. No wonder Paul Newman is excited! It's like stumbling into Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Jericho and the Sci Fi Channel's Ice all rolled into one. (And check out the proto-Bartertown sets, complete with weird slogans.) Sadly, the seemingly innocent game of Quintet hides a dark secret, as you'll see after the jump. More »
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Jericho's Wildest Cliffhanger (Sort Of) Yet
Wow. Just when I thought last night's episode of Jericho was giving me just a little bit too much wish-fulfillment, it gave me a little more, and then a little more than that... until I was choking on it. Jericho was once again dark and twisted, but in a different way than the show's usual post-nuclear-attack evil conspiracy mongering. It was disturbing enough that I almost forgave the show for how convenient it all was. Almost. More »
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TV This Week: Come Back To Smallville!
I'm going to try something a bit different starting with this week's TV column. Instead of just telling you what's on TV and letting you make up your own mind, I'm going to recommend stuff. I'm going to explain to you why Kyle XY really is a better show than you ever realized, and why it's time to give Smallville another chance. And why several thousand of your friends should be watching Jericho. Advocacy, and preview clips from Jericho, Smallville and Lost, below the fold. More »
9:00 AM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Latest by jesustonight: never watched kyle XY due to the trailers the main character was really funny lookin with odd eyes .A personal predjudice but its stood me in good stead so far more »
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Find Out What's Next On Lost, Smallville, Jericho and Doctor Who
Smallville will try to imitate Lost — which will be doing something completely different. Meanwhile, Doctor Who is visiting more alien planets and showcasing radically different alien monsters in its fourth season. Learn more in our television-heavy round of spoilers this morning, which also include clips from next week's Lost, and new promo images from Smallville and Jericho. Because we're all about giving away the surprise. More »
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The Most Shocking Gunfight Ever, From Last Night's Jericho
This scene from last night's episode of post-apocalyptic survival show Jericho really startled me. I had to rewind my DVR a bit, because I didn't believe what I was seeing at first. It was the first really surprising thing in this whole season of Jericho, which has been cool and subversive, but not really startling except in a twisty-turny suspense thriller way. But this clip — which you really shouldn't watch unless you're prepared for major spoilerage — changed all that. Click through for spoilers. More »
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First Official Description Of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse!
We have a new official plot description for Joss Whedon's fledgling show Dollhouse, which gives way more concrete details about the hows and whys of his dystopian future of brainwashed slaves. That's just one of the as-yet-untold stories which we unravel in this morning's dose of spoilers. We also have new clips from Lost and Jericho, and tons of spoilers for Lost, Smallville and Heroes. Spoilers ahead! More »
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TV This Week: Sarah Connor's Last Stand!
The biggest thing on TV this week is tonight's two-hour season finale for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — which may also be a series finale unless the show manages to bring a few million more viewers back in time. But there are also new episodes of Lost, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis and Torchwood... plus some other special programming. Click through for preview clips! More »
9:00 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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The Best Little Mad Max Clone In Texas
When Mad-Maxian bikers team up with riot cops with lion badges to attack your little town, what are you going to do? You're pretty much screwed. That's the message of 2020 Texas Gladiators, a post-apocalyptic action movie filmed in Italy. (You know it's Texas because they occasionally write "TEXAS" in big letters on the buildings.) This scene strikes me as a more scifi, but much cheaper, version of the Ravenwood stand-off from post-nuclear-disaster show Jericho. Click through to learn more. More »
Jericho Starting To Rebuild?
Our favorite day-after-nuclear-bombs TV drama, Jericho, actually improved its ratings this week over the week before, with a million extra viewers and double-digit increases in all categories. Will it be enough to win the show a third season? Stay tuned. [The Futon Critic]
Our favorite day-after-nuclear-bombs TV drama, Jericho, actually improved its ratings this week over the week before, with a million extra viewers and double-digit increases in all categories. Will it be enough to win the show a third season? Stay tuned. [The Futon Critic]
Don't Give Up On Post-Holocaust Kansas
Jericho isn't toast yet, insists producer Carol Barbee. The post-apocalyptic TV drama's first two episodes of its second season got "good but not great" ratings, but the demographics were decent. And if tonight's episode shows an uptick, then the show about Kansas surviving a nuclear holocaust could still win a third season. If CBS pulls the plug on Jericho, Barbee adds, she may shop it around to a cable network. [Sci Fi Wire]
Jericho isn't toast yet, insists producer Carol Barbee. The post-apocalyptic TV drama's first two episodes of its second season got "good but not great" ratings, but the demographics were decent. And if tonight's episode shows an uptick, then the show about Kansas surviving a nuclear holocaust could still win a third season. If CBS pulls the plug on Jericho, Barbee adds, she may shop it around to a cable network. [Sci Fi Wire]
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Red Hot Kissing Pic From Next Week's Lost!
Are you ready for the most shocking plot twist in Battlestar Galactica's final season? Will you know what to expect in the final two seasons of Lost? Can you see the writing on the wall for a budding romance on Jericho? Reading spoilers isn't just a guilty pleasure, it's all about being prepared for every eventuality. Click through to start pulling together your spoiler preparedness kit. More »
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Wondercon Confronts The Rise Of The Police State
The biggest cheers at Wondercon weren't for killer robots, but for allegories about government conspiracies, endless wars and terrorism. Much of the weekend felt like a poli-sci seminar, except with nuclear holocausts and mutated alien bugs instead of textbooks. If you needed proof that the shadow of 9/11 keeps falling over our formerly escapist narratives, then you only needed to sit in on any one of the con's jam-packed panels. More »
2:30 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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TV This Week: Watch Summer Glau Do The Cat Dance!
These days, the networks are bending over backwards to promote their shows online — and not just with crappy Flash games and viral-marketing mysteries. We have new promo clips for this week's episodes of Lost, Sarah Connor, Kyle XY and Jericho. You can get a pretty good flavor of which shows will be exciting (Jericho) and which will be kind of painful (Sarah Connor, sadly.) More »
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Jericho Predicted The Blackwater Scandals
This week's episode of post-apocalyptic drama Jericho pits our hero Jake Green against Ravenwood, the government security contractor he used to work for. When the producers were originally coming up with ideas for a TV show about the collapse of governing institutions after nuclear attacks, they did a lot of research into contractors like Halliburton and Blackwater operating in the chaos of post-invasion Iraq, producer Carol Barbee revealed at Wondercon. Jericho's portrayal of unaccountable contractors presaged the Blackwater scandals, which hadn't yet come out. More about the politics of Jericho, after the jump. More »
4:38 PM on Sun Feb 24 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Latest by MyEasyTV: And technically that horrible movie "The Siege" predicated that Muslims would be harassed in the future. more »
