Category: TV

  • Conan O’Brien’s TBS Promo

    The date is fast approaching for the popular talk show host Conan O’Brien’s premiere on TBS. An entertaining, action-packed promo has been making rounds. A rare occasion to call Conan badass? Definitely. The highly anticipated show will premiere on November 8. And for those who are hard-of-reading: that’s November 8 on TBS.

  • Nine Inch Nail’s Year Zero Moves Forward as HBO Miniseries

    In 2007 Nine Inch Nails released a concept album entitled Year Zero. Coupled with it was an alternate reality game to further the concept that dealt with a fictional future where politics leaned heavily towards evil intentions and fanatics drowned out sanity.

    Trent Reznor wrote the album during his frustrations with the Bush Administration, but put a spin on the music instead of writing a straightforward protest album. With a dash of science fiction in a form called, “The Presence”, Year Zero had an underlining horror element.

    Now, why am I talking about it? Because Year Zero is finally moving forward to become a miniseries like Reznor has hoped for. Daniel Knauf of Carnivale is penning the pilot with BBC Worldwide Productions as the studio. It’s planned to be an HBO miniseries — which is smart, given the subject matter. There’s no word yet on a release date.

    Sure, the inspiration for the concept is now dated, but the story was captivating. And there’s a lot that can be expounded on in a television format. It’s bound to be a very intriguing miniseries.

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  • Voltron Making a Return

    Screenwriters Thomas Donelly and Joshua Oppenheimer have been taking on film projects that would make geeks like me happy — they scribed the upcoming Conan movie and are currently penning the adaptation for Marvel’s Dr. Strange. Recently they have been hired by Atlas Entertainment to write the script for the big screen adaptation of Voltron.

    A lot of us remember Voltron being a cartoon from the 80s about a group of five men who pilot five lion robots that combine to form  Voltron. Together known as the Voltron Force, the group protected the planet Arus from King Zarkon and his ilk. Full of nostalgia yet?

    Concept art for Voltron has recently been released. And it’s looking incredibly badass. Let’s hope they don’t film the action scenes like Transformers. Pull back the shot; let the audience see their massive scale.

    It’s hard to be pessimistic about this project. It has potential. The kid in me is excited. We’ll see how it pans out for Atlas Entertainment.

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  • The Dark Tower is Adapted by Universal

    Stephen King’s fantasy series The Dark Tower has become Universal’s next franchise. It will be produced as both three films and a TV series. An interesting thing is that Ron Howard will be directing both the first movie and the first season of The Dark Tower. It will definitely keep the two coherent with each other, and that in itself is rather unique.

    The Dark Tower is Stephen King’s series of books that can be described as a fantasy gunslinger. It also incorporates horror themes. Naturally. The plot revolves around Roland Deschain, the last survivor and gunslinger of Arthur Eld. Nations have been torn apart; some as far as merely vanishing. And time isn’t orderly. Roland searches for the Dark Tower, a building that’s only talked about; a building that is the nexus of universes.

    The fact that the first movie and the first season of the TV series for The Dark Tower will have the same director is an exciting endeavor. Though, I’m curious if they’ll be using the same actors or not. Hopefully they do. And making it a series on HBO would be a good move.

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  • Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Being Adapted

    Neil Gaiman’s Sandman will be adapted into a TV series. Interestingly enough, the creator of Supernatural, Eric Kripke is rumored to be the showrunner. He’d actually be a perfect fit for the new series — his own show being a testament to that.

    Sandman is a comic book written in 1989 about a character named Dream and his brothers and sisters — who are all essentially allegories. And the story deals with worlds-within-worlds.

    The adaptation has a lot of potential, and it would be a smart move to put Eric Kripke at the helm.

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  • Battlestar Galactica Exhibit

    The Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, Washington, is opening a new exhibit: Battlestar Galactica: The Exhibition. It’ll feature props, costumes, and music from the original series and the re-imagined series. On top of that, it’ll also feature three full-size spaceships. It will open to the public on October 23, 2010 to March 4, 2012.

    Saying that I think it’s awesome that Battlestar has an exhibit is an understatement. If anything, it inspires me to get a group together for a road trip to see it.

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  • NBC’s Magic Drama from Ronald D. Moore

    The man behind the re-imagining of Glen A. Larson’s Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D. Moore has signed a deal with NBC for a new drama series where magic is the norm. It’s been described as an adult Harry Potter. Apparently the pilot and series penalties totaled around $2 million.

    Moore has an excellent track record with the shows he’s worked on. Battlestar Galactica is still viewed as one of the top series on television, and Moore also had a hand in HBO’s Carnivale, which is highly regarded. It’ll be exciting to see how his new project pans out.

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  • Futurama Parodies Comic-Con

    On Thursday Futurama will air an episode parodying Comic-Con. A sneak peek was released, and it’s bound to make any Comic-Con attendee laugh. And if that’s not enough, Battlestar Galactica‘s Katee Sackhoff is one of the guest stars.

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