When I watched what I thought was the series finale of The Event, I had a few choice thoughts about it… like leaving us hanging with a new planet in our sky, earthquakes rattling the world and those pesky aliens wanting to take back the planet for themselves. We had stopped their evil plans to kill us all with a plague, to find out that would have been the humane method of ridding the rock of these pesky humans.
The finale for The Event, I presumed, kept us and our creative hopes engaged by forcing us to decide for ourselves, what was to become of everyone and everything on Earth. I presumed humanity would win and adapt, with lingering aliens either accepting their fate and to continually plot for another 65 years to try again.
But now it seems that my imagined outcome and future of the mythical Earth may no longer be the case! Right now the “word on the street” is that the Syfy channel is in talks to possibly pick up The Event and continue it as a miniseries.
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The title says it all over at Inside TV, where they labeled the article ‘V‘ to pull a ‘Jericho’: Season will end on cliffhanger despite cancellation risk. And sure enough, even though they’re staring into the abyss of cancellation, the showrunners of V are going to end the show in a cliff-hanger.
Ending a show that’s teetering on the ratings rail is not only daring, it’s, well, daring. The premise behind this is that if it ends with a cliff-hanger, and the network cancels the show, then the fans will turn into enraged villagers and run off to get their pitchforks and what not and storm the castle.
Jericho got itself renewed when fans went nuts… literally. But in this case, if V doesn’t get a 3rd season, then the fans will be unhappy. And it is hard to predict who they’ll be unhappy with. The network or the showrunners. But with Jericho, even though CBS gave it a second season, it was on minimal support with more economical filming practices, very little ad-time to support it or what not. If V gets canceled, do you want a discounted version of it continuing on?
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This Brusimm roundup chats about Transformers 3 & Batman 3. A bit on a new online Serenity comic, Emilie Ullerup, Skyline and auditions info on America’s Got Talent. We also have some incidental info on Grey’s Anatomy, Caprica apples and a bit on a Gizmodo site vent! Pretty interesting stuff… if that’s what you like.
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Transformers 3:
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Word on the street is that it is post production time for Transformers 3, (Transformers Dark of the Moon). Principal shooting has come to an end and now it is time to start adding the magic of CGI and inserting Transformers into the story. It’s been fun watching the details of the film shoots and now I’m betting we’ll start seeing teaser and preview trailers pretty soon to keep our appetites whet.
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Batman 3:
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There’s a rumor that it’s possible that Christopher Nolan may be shooting The Dark Knight Rises completely in IMAX. That rumor is boosted by the rumor that IMAX has finally made a camera small enough that you don’t need a jeep or helicopter to manhadle it!
Sweet. Of course that’s a double rumor report so we’ll have to wait and see.
Almost Update: An update is when you’ve gone to “print” and corrected the info. In this case, I found out that they won’t be shooting the entire film in IMAX… just as much as they can.
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The Walking Dead, a Review, Retrospect & Some Questions
The Walking Dead premiered on AMC on Sunday night, October 31st, 2010. It’s the perfect night and perfect timing to premiere a TV series based on a popular comic book where a man wakes up from a coma to find himself in a world infected by zombies.
In airing the premiere when it did, AMC netted 5.3 million viewers, 3.6M of them were adults in the 18-49 age-range category. (That’s the shopping demographic everyone loves.) These numbers set a record for the highest rated cable original series premiere for 2010. That equates to a 3.7HH rating. (That’s an estimated 3.7% of all household TVs.) When they added the encore transmissions, the total number of viewers jumped to 8.1 million total viewers. That’s awesome.
In a sense it was the perfect ending to the very popular Halloween horror-thon that AMC calls AMC Fearfest. In their fearfest, AMC aired over 300 hours of content which included 60 movies, that started on October 18th this year. The ended it perfectly!
The Walking Dead (TWD) was written for TV by Academy Award-nominee Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist, Collateral). Darbont also directed and produced TWD.
My initial questions about the show were:
- Did the serious amount of heavy viral marketing help the show be the success it was? Media outlets were pummeled with all kinds of goodies and gadgets, who in turn regurgitated the news. (That’s not a bad thing… I’m just saying, as a point.)
- Was premiering on Halloween night an awesome tactical maneuver that netted the comic book adaptation series one of the best moves ever?
- Is the fan base for the comic franchise really that huge?
- Or was the show that good?
In a word, let me quote myself from a later point in this article: “The Walking Dead plot is a superbly balanced flow of slow energetic anxiety.”
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Jericho fans are always keeping an eye out for news of a possible movie coming our way. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but not yet folks. During a chat with FEARnet, Jon Turteltaub said the following about a Jericho movie*:
- A graphic novel has been released
- Working with CBS Films on a film version
- A script is being written.
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The graphic novel is called Jericho Season 3: Civil War. Three issues have come out to date. Jericho #1 hit the newsstands back on the 25th of November, 2009. The latest in March of 2010.
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I just got done watching Jericho, which has been airing on the Syfy Channel all day.
I’ve watched the last few episodes of this really fine show and it’s a shame that it couldn’t have been carried or supported properly by CBS. They’ve got themselves some serious ratings stompers so I understand why this didn’t stick with the show, but dang, this is some well written story.
Jericho ran for 2 seasons from from 2006 to 2008, with a slight interruption because it was canceled after the first season, despite drawing in an average of 9+ million viewers. A raging fan campaign got it a 2nd season. But the 2nd season wasn’t really that well supported by CBS and it floundered with a mere 6+ million average of viewers.
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If you really need your fill of Jericho because we just can’t get enough, the third season of Jericho has kicked it in gear in comic book form.
It’s called Jericho Season 3: Civil War. Jericho #1 hit the newsstands back on the 25th of November, 2009. The latest in March of 2010.
Check out the news and other tidbits at Axiom’s Edge Jericho Comic.
First, yet another reminder that Emilie Ullerup will be on Smallville tonight.
Now, I’ve noticed a lot of you have been coming here for some news and notes about Emilie, so I’ve taken it upon myself to scour the web, turning over every keyboard and stone I could find for any news I could find about Emilie and I did find some news.
This brand new interview (less than 24 hours old) I came across, I will surmise what they’ve said, but I urge you go on over to the site for the detailed transcribed conversation that ÜberSciFiGeek had with Emilie Ullerup.
First, something I didn’t know was that Emilie had surgery to remove a tumor from her sacrum. It had wrapped itself around some spinal nerves and with the removal, the doctors had to leave large margins to prevent the tumor from spreading. (I am not even sure I want to go into explaining what that is, but I had to help a friend deal with this exact thing but the “margin” was a sight I will never ever forget and I could not help with the bandage changes.)
This interview was her more-or-less official statement on the issue.
The one thing that I gravitated to in the interview was that Emilie Ullerup leaving Sanctuary was due to a network decision. A NETWORK DECISION! I just wanted you to not miss that point. NBC is the parent company of Syfy. I’m just saying. Thought you should know.
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When a show struggles in ratings, it gets some or most of a season to play out, even if it’s on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday night. Sometimes a show gets dumped because it’s too rich for the Nielsen families. IE: repeats of Jericho got a new lease on life on The CW on Sunday nights… but then the networks need to actually say something about it too.
But dang, Ashton Kutcher’s TV series called The Beautiful Life was dumped hard after only 2 episodes on The CW.
Oddly,despite drawing “only” a million viewers, The CW said it was too similar to the lead-in reality program called America’s Next Top Model. That show where Tyra Banks demonstrates how full of herself she is.
So now we wait and see what they put in its place.
For more on the deed of show cutting, check out THR.
