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Syfy’s Christmas Season Countdown Programming [Twilight Zone Marathon]

by Bruce Simmons on November 30, 2011

‘Tis the season. At least on Syfy, ’tis the season to have Christmas episodes of Eureka, Warehouse 13, Haven and some adult Scooby Doo time with Ghost Hunters. And if that’s not enough, the Syfy channel has a few TV marathons in store for you… including their annual Twilight Zone marathon! (Sigh, remember the days when The Twilight Zone marathons were the norm for most holiday weekends?)

This year though, Syfy is having a viewers vote contest for fans, who can vote for what their favorite Twilight Zone episodes!

Check it all out below!

This year the Syfy channel is starting off it’s Christmas holiday season with the miniseries / Peter Pan prequel, Neverland. Neverland will be airing on December 4th and 5th.

On December 6th, we will have Christmas/holiday episodes of the ill-fated Eureka*, Warehouse 13 and Haven.

On December 7th, they’re hunting more ghosts, on Ghost Hunters.

On December 10th… it’s the snow globe from hell, in Snowmageddon!

On Christmas day itself, if you’re of the mind to, there will be TV marathons of

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Syfy Channel Season Premieres: Merlin, Being Human, Face Off & More

by Bruce Simmons on October 12, 2011

Syfy Channel DVD’s on AMAZON

We have some great news about Syfy series premieres for Merlin, Being Human, Face Off, Ghost Hunters, Lost Girl and more.

Merlin

First up… Syfy‘s Merlin season 4 will be premiering on Friday, January 6th, 2012.

Colin Morgan plays Merlin, Bradley James is the young Prince Arthur, Angel Coulby is Gwen and Katie McGrath plays the evil, and outcast Morgana. Anthony Head returns as King Uther and Richard Wilson as Gaius.

Merlin is a great little entertaining piece that takes an old tale and spins a great new angle that’s pretty entertaining to follow. It’s like a prequel of sorts. And it grows on you from episode to episode!

Being Human

Being Human will be returning to Syfy for its second season premiere on January 16th, 2012.

Being Human stars Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath and Sam Huntington as a vampire, ghost and werewolf, as this series, based on an idea from Toby Whithouse. And so far, the series has pretty much followed the original series outline, so there’s been no real surprises, but it’s still a great sci-fi drama on Syfy. I think it’s one of their bests shows they have to offer.

TV Series Renewals, Jobs Newly Cast [Merlin, Vampire Diaries and more]

by Bruce Simmons on July 15, 2011

[tvguide.com: Syfy renews Merlin]

Today I’ve got some TV news bits about Syfy‘s Merlin, Mark Valley casting news, The Vampire Dairies casting bits, ABC’s Rookie Blue, MTV’s Teen Wolf, Glee, and the sad news regarding Men of a Certain Age. Scroll on through to your favorite bit to see what’s up…

Merlin

Syfy renewed Merlin for a fourth season! Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Angel Coulby, Katie McGrath, Anthony Head, Richard Wilson and John Hurt are returning with the fourth season.

New cast will include Nathaniel Parker and guest stars Gemma Jones and Phil Davis.

The third season of Merlin averaged 1.9 million viewers, which was 12% increase from the season before.

Mark Valley Lands Role in Harry’s Law

Mark Valley fans can rejoice once again. Though all his fans were sad to see Human Target go by the wayside, Valley is joining Harry’s Law as a regular cast member in the second season of the series.

Karen Olivio is also joining the cast.

[ew.com: Mark Valley to Harry's Law]

The Vampire Diaries Cast News

Did you catch the news that David Gallagher from 7th Heaven, is joining The Vampire Diairies this next upcoming season? Yep, it’s true. Well, he’ll be in the first two episodes at least.

Gallagher will be playing a werewolf named Ray Sutton who has to deal with Klaus.

The Vampire Diaries returns to your TV set with new episodes for a 3rd season, starting September 15th.

‘Comic Con’ Schedule for Sunday [Nathan Fillion, 'Supernatural,' 'Doctor Who']

by Bruce Simmons on July 10, 2011

in Entertainment

The last schedule released by Comic Con for the 2011 San Diego Comic Con came out, focusing on Sunday, July 24th.

Looking over the schedule, there’s a Browncoats panel, a focus panel with Nathan Fillion, Supernatural, Doctor Who, Sons of Anarchy, and Merlin are on the schedule for Sunday, the 24th of July.

But what I’m wondering about is Ballroom 20? What’s up with that?

Below, I break down Hall H and then other selected events that are taking place on Sunday at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con event. These events are picked from the entire schedule that was put out. There will probably be changes and such so you need to head on over to the website to see all the details or updates!

Ballroom 20

Ballroom 20 is oddly not on the schedule for Sunday. I find it interesting, considering there are some big-name projects not on the schedule and Ballroom 20 is absent from Sunday. Hmm

Hall H

10:00-11:00 Glee
11:15-12:15 Supernatural Screening and Q&A
12:30-1:30 BBC America’s Doctor Who
1:45-2:45 The Cleveland Show
2:45-3:30 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
3:30-4:00 Sons of Anarchy
4:00-5:00 Buffy the Musical

New Movies on DVD & Blu-ray Coming out 1-18-11 [Justified, Takers, Buried]

by Bruce Simmons on January 17, 2011

in Entertainment, movies, television

This week we’re seeing around 150 new movies and such coming to DVD and Blu-ray on January 18th, 2011. Amongst the new movies and TV series coming out this week, we see the 14th season of Dallas; the 1st season of the Timothy Olyphant starrer, Justified; and the 2nd season of Merlin. Movies coming out include Takers with Paul Walker and Buried with Ryan Reynolds. We’re also getting some Edward Norton in Stone.

The kids have a new title or two from LeapFrog and genre fans might enjoy some animated Black Panther from the Marvel Knights collection.

Read through the selection of best-sellers here and use the Amazon search window below to look for other titles that you might be waiting to come out!

Movies

Takers : starring Paul Walker and Hayden Christensen.
- Special features include Filmmaker and Cast Commentary & “Yeah Ya Know (Takers)” By T.I. – Promotional Music Video

Buried (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) : starring Ryan Reynolds
Stone starring Edward Norton.
A Roger Corman Triple Feature! (Attack of the Crab Monsters / War of the Satellites / Not of This Earth)

TV Series Mid Season Premieres Returning January 5 – 7, 2011 [CSI, The Mentalist]

by Bruce Simmons on January 4, 2011

Continuing my reports on new & returning show premieres kicking it in gear this week in the mid-season time-frame, we have such fan favorites as Friday Night Lights‘ last season, Ghost Hunters International on Syfy Channel, CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, The Mentalist, Wipeout, Medium, Merlin, Star Wars: The Clone Wars & Young Justice on Cartoon Network.

Check on your local listings for times in your area.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 TV Premieres

Better With You
Cougar Town
Friday Night Lights (DirecTV)
Ghost Hunters International (Syfy)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Middle
Modern Family
Primetime

Syfy’s 2011 Season with Eureka, Ghost Hunters, Being Human, Face Off and More

by Bruce Simmons on November 29, 2010

The 2011 TV season will be bringing us some new and old shows to the Syfy Channel. Returning shows include Eureka season 4.5, Merlin, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International & Destination Truth.

New series on the Syfy Channel include Being Human, Face Off & Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen. Read on for the details folks!

Eureka

The Syfy Channel has a few new shows and a few old shows coming at us in the 2011 sTV season. First up, the tried and true series of Eureka in the second of season for, it’s 4.5th season in 2011.

First up is the upcoming holiday episode of Eureka that will be airing on December 7th, so don’t forget that one!

The holiday episode of Eureka will premiere on Tuesday, December 7th at 9/8c as part of Syfy’s first-ever “Christmas Week.” This special episode will feature guest stars Chris Parnell (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live) and former series regular Matt Frewer as Taggert.

Then in 2011, Eureka will be returning and they are building up a great guest list for the show. That guest list includes Wallace Shawn (Gossip Girl, Toy Story franchise, The Princess Bride), Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall) and Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica) join previously announced guest stars Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day, Ming-Na, and Stan Lee.

Eureka stars Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Joe Morton, Erica Cerra, Neil Grayston & Niall Matter, amongst the cast.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Remake Has No Joss Whedon

by Bruce Simmons on November 29, 2010

in Entertainment, movies

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Remake

It was previously written that Warner Bros is going forward with a remake of the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Joss Whedon was the screenplay writer for the movie and later, the writer & executive producer of the TV series by the same name. Joss Whedon then parlayed the success of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series into a spinoff series titled Angel.

During the Buffy series alone, Whedon introduced us to many actors who will, through time, become beloved actors with not only the Whedonverse, but all the world!

Entertainment News Bits [Batman 3, Movie Release Dates, Big Love]

by Bruce Simmons on October 31, 2010

in Entertainment

Batman 3, Merlin, House News

Looking around the net this last week, here’s some of the stuff I didn’t write about in-depth, Batman 3, movie release dates, Big Love, Merlin, House MD & News Corp news or the planned lack thereof!:

Batman 3 Movie Title

A few things with Christopher Nolan‘s third Batman movie, previously know as Batman 3. The title of the movie will be The Dark Knight Rises. In The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan did not say who the bad guy is, but he did rule out The Riddler and I believe that Mr. Freeze is also off the table.

In a refreshing bit of news, Nolan has convinced Warner Bros to not film in 3D… ahhh. Nice.

As far as the production company headed down to New Orleans, it’s not because the bad guy is Killer Croc (Though he’s not been officially ruled out yet) but because they’re headed down there for interior filming.

NO is offering great tax breaks for filming down there… and in the time that other municipalities in the U.S. are cutting back on tax breaks for the entertainment industry. Their loss.

Movie Release Dates

Movies we’ve been chatting about finally found themselves some opening dates for the box office… check it out:

Conan remake (w/ Jason Momoa): 8-19-11
Captain America: The First Avenger (w/ Chris Evans): 7-22-11
Footloose (remake): 4-1-2011
Fright Night (w/ Anton Yelchin) : 8-19-11
Iron Man 3 (w/ Robert Downey Jr.): 5-3-13
Real Steel (w/ Hugh Jackman): 10-7-11
Spider-Man (in 3D): 7-3-12
Super 8: 6-10-11
The Avengers (2012)(Robert Downey Jr.): 5-4-12
The Bourne Legacy: 8-3-12
Thor (w/ Chris Hemsworth): 5-6-11
X-Men: First Class (w/ James McAvoy): 6-3-11