Détente "Walking Dead" Style

Hmmm who does Rick meet up with in the feed store?!

SPOILER WARNING!!!! Entertainment Weekly has a great recap of tonight's episode here, read at your own risk if you haven't seen this episode yet!

Original Star Wars cast reunited

Just in case you were on a deserted island (or snowed in on the East Coast) yesterday, the big Sci-Fi news yesterday was that Mark Hamel, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford all signed on in a new "Star Wars" Movie expected to be release in 2015! Last year, George Lucas sold LucasFilms and the Star Wars Franchise to Disney.

Petition for "JAG" reunion movie

Harm & Mac

TV series from 1995 to 2005 (one season on NBC and nine on CBS).

 

As NCIS (2003 to current #1 series) has been on the air for 10 years now, the show that it was a spinoff from, "JAG" has been off the air for almost 8 years now. As big fan of JAG, I often wonder "where are they now" ... the characters that is. Let's push for the reunion movie, here's the link to the Petition!

BBT "Monster Isolation" review

Lucy & Raj on The Big Bang Theory

Great episode, our beloved characters have grown alot in these six seasons and that it's become a joy to care about them again! I especially thought that actress Kaley Cuoco put on an impressive dramatic scene at the end in her "Streetcar Named Desire" bit (which was first referenced in Season 4's "The Thespian Catalyst". I like how the writers are constantly going back to earlier references and event bring in actors previously mentioned as new characters (such as Danica McKellar, who guest starred in one earlier episode, and Mayim Bialik, who had joined the cast as Sheldon's quirky girlfriend, Amy Farrah Fowler).    

WD: Glenn is Korean

Did you catch this on "TWD"? photo from FB's Top TV Series posting.

Yup, there the Dixon brothers are related!

New Amazing Race starting

Season 22 starts on Sunday Feb 17, 2013

The Cast for Season 22

From Entertainment Weekly:

Sitcom star Lisa Whelchel and former baseball MVP Jeff Kent may not be appearing, but The Amazing Race will trot out a few semi-celebrities of its own when the 22nd season of the reality hit premieres Feb. 17 on CBS. And the teams will have a new twist to contend with at the very start.

Headlining the cast are Jennifer Kuhle and Caroline Cutbirth of the country band Stealing Angels. Kuhle is the granddaughter of John Wayne while Cutbirth is a direct descendant of Daniel Boone. They will be competing against former NHL player Bates Battaglia and his brother Anthony, as well as YouTube channel hosts Joey Graceffa and Meghan Camarena. Also among the 11 new teams of two competing is a pair of twin doctors, two roller derby moms, and a father and son who both have survived cancer. (The full cast list is below.)

Teams this season will travel over 30,000 miles through nine countries on five different continents. Along the way they will, according to CBS, “skydive from 10,000 feet in Bora Bora, participate in a Shemozzle race in New Zealand, hunt for scorpions with the Bushmen of Botswana and scale the treacherous north face of the Eiger Mountain in Switzerland.”

They also will have a new twist thrown at them. While in the past the first team to arrive at the initial Pit Stop has earned an Express Pass that allows them to skip any task of their choosing, the team that arrives before all others at this season’s first Pit Stop will receive two Express Passes — one to keep for themselves and another one that must be given to another team of their choosing before the end of the fourth leg. It has the power of making one other team very happy, and several others unhappy over not receiving it.

The Amazing Race cast:

Name: Idries Abdur-Rahman
Age: 35
Hometown: Chicago, Ill.
Current occupation: OB/GYN Physician
Name: Jamil Abdur-Rahman
Age: 35
Hometown: Chicago, Ill.
Current occupation: OB/GYN Physician
Connection: Twin Doctors
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Name: Max Bichler
Age: 30
Hometown: Buffalo, N.Y.
Current occupation: Cigar Sales

Name: Katie Bichler
Age: 24
Hometown: Buffalo, N.Y.
Current occupation: Pharmacist
Connection: Newlyweds

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Name: Mona Egender
Age: 33
Hometown: Castle Pines, Colo.
Current occupation: Captioner/Roller Derby Player

Name: Beth Bandimere
Age: 36
Hometown: Arvada, Colo.
Current occupation: Tech Support/Roller Derby Player
Connection: Roller Derby Moms

________________________________________________________________________
Name: Bates Battaglia
Age: 36
Hometown: Raleigh, N.C.
Current occupation: Former Professional Hockey Player
(Played for the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple Leafs)

Name: Anthony Battaglia
Age: 33
Hometown: Raleigh, N.C.
Current occupation: Professional Hockey Player
(Currently plays for the Huntsville Havoc)
Connection: Hockey Brothers

________________________________________________________________________
Name: Chuck McCall
Age: 46
Hometown: Daphne, Ala.
Current occupation: Retail Manager/Taxidermist

Name: Wynona McCall
Age:  49
Hometown: Daphne, Ala.
Current occupation: Cosmetologist/Hairstylist
Connection: Married

________________________________________________________________________
Name: David O’Leary
Age: 58
Hometown: Salt Lake City
Current occupation: Investment Properties

Name: Connor O’Leary
Age: 21
Hometown:  Salt Lake City
Current occupation: Professional Cyclist
Connection: Father/Son (Both Cancer Survivors)
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Name: Caroline Cutbirth
Age: 29
Hometown: Austin, Texas
Current occupation: Singer/Songwriter (Band Member of “Stealing Angels”)
*Caroline is a direct descendant of Daniel Boone
Name: Jennifer Kuhle
Age: 30
Hometown: Nashville
Current occupation: Songwriter (Band Member of “Stealing Angels”)
*Jennifer is the granddaughter of John Wayne
Connection: Friends/Country Singers

________________________________________________________________________
Name: Joey Graceffa
Age: 21
Hometown: Los Angeles
Current occupation: YouTube Host
Internet Personality Joey’s YouTube Channel

Name: Meghan Camarena
Age: 25
Hometown: Los Angeles
Current occupation: YouTube Host
Internet Personality Meghan’s YouTube Channel
Connection: Friends/YouTube Hosts

________________________________________________________________________
Name: Pamela Chien
Age: 29
Hometown: Los Angeles
Current occupation: Art Director and Fitness Instructor

Name: Winnie Sung
Age: 29
Hometown: Los Angeles
Current occupation: Senior Project Manager
Connection: Best Friends

________________________________________________________________________
Name: Jessica Hoel
Age: 26
Hometown: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Current occupation: Account Manager

Name: John Erck
Age: 27
Hometown: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Current Occupation: Entrepreneur/Computer Programmer
Connection: Dating

________________________________________________________________________
Name: Matthew Davis
Age: 25
Hometown: Gaffney, S.C.
Current occupation: Firefighter

Name: Daniel Moss
Age: 24
Hometown: Gaffney, S.C.
Current occupation: Firefighter
Connection:  Best Friends/Firefighters

Survivor Caramoan Debuts tonight!

Fans vs Favorites

TBBT Valentine episode this week

Love is in the air for this Valentine day episode in

"The Tangible Affection Proof"

Link to the CBS website for more information.

The Zombies are back - TWD Season 3 part 2

Totally forgot that the mid-year season premiere was on (was watching the Grammy Awards)!

The Bazinga Bee

Name for newly discovered insect inspired by TBBT

"Bazinga!" is how biologist described this newly named bee! Inspired by the television character Dr. Sheldon Cooper's (The Big Bang Theory) favorite catch phase! See the Huffington Post here.

Asteroid named after TBBT character

artist rendition of an asteroid entering into Earth's stratosphere

Asteroid 246247 Sheldoncooper is listed in the JPL Small-Body database was discovered in September 20, 2007 but was recently named after the fictitious character from television's "The Big Bang Theory" in 2012.

Star Wars continues!

Classic Star Wars

Star Wars fans stay tune for the 2015 release of episode Seven (to be follow by Eight and Nine); Disney Corporation has announced yesterday that they have purchased Lucasfilm and will continue the Star War movie franchise. They plan to release one new movie every two years after Episode Seven.  Disney has also acquired the "Indiana Jones" franchise as well. Keep your light sabers at the ready!!

Related News Link here.

Sci-fi this week

Finally saw the Season two finale this morning almost a week after the original broadcast. Not bad, great cliffhanger for Season three!

While watching the Dish Network broadcast of "Star Trek", I did a web search for any new updates of the new franchise; it turns out they're in final production for the unnamed sequel due for release in a few months!!!

The Big Bang Theory on TV Guide's Comic-Con issue

BSG - "The Plan" cable broadcast schedule

Will be on SyFy Channel on Sunday January 10th and on Friday January 15th; check your local listing for the exact time.

BSG "The Plan"

My first BSG posting in six months ... it turns out that Scifi Network or whatever they call themselves these days is not broadcasting the Cylon version of the annihilation of the colonies so as it turns out, the dvd is on sale this Tuesday; 17.99 at the local Target store here.

BSG Serie Finale - Review (LA Times)

TELEVISION REVIEW

'Battlestar Galactica' finale is satisfying -- so say we all

After five seasons, all is revealed, and it turns out to be worth the trip.

By MARY McNAMARA

Television Critic

March 20, 2009

From "MASH" to "St. Elsewhere" to "The Sopranos" to "Seinfeld," all long-running television shows become myths at some point or another, reflecting, within the confines of their own universes, the disparate nature of human experience.

Yes, they're entertaining, but to keep an audience committed year after year, a show must offer enlightenment, even if it's just the recognition that the corruptible nature of power extends to the Soup Nazi.

“Battlestar Galactica,” which comes to an end tonight after five seasons, was always upfront about its relationship to myth -- it's science fiction, for one thing, which of all the narrative genres is the most unapologetic about its use of symbolism and archetype, journey and transcendence.

In science fiction, anything is possible, which is in itself a metaphor for the human spirit. So it was natural, when watching the trials and triumphs of this scrappy band of humans attempting to survive in a world overtaken by their technology, to wonder if the residents of the Galactica were our past or our future.

Tonight, praise the gods, we have our answer. All this has happened before, and it will happen again, but it's hard to imagine a more visually and thematically satisfying finale.

Creators and executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick have always taken the nature of the show seriously, which is why all those "praise the gods," "frakkings," "so say we alls" and look-alike Cylons (the evil twin trope taken to the nth degree) played as legitimate extensions of an alternate universe rather than camp. (Although where, on this stripped-down survivors' vessel, all that booze came from, not to mention Laura Roslin's very stylish wig, we must agree to simply overlook.)

The writers' dedication never falters, and "Battlestar Galactica's" finale is everything a fan, of the show and of television, could hope for. It's difficult to write about without giving anything away, so suffice it to say that tissues (or shots) would not be inappropriate accouterment.

Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) never looked so tragically good together while Col. Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan) and his newly resurrected uber-Cylon wife, Ellen (Kate Vernon), are by turns frisky and resolute (though it is depressing to learn that pole dancing was so popular on Caprica).

Adm. William Adama ( Edward James Olmos) not only stages one of the better do-or-die rescue missions ever, he even smiles once or twice (though most often in flashbacks). Laura Roslin's (Mary McDonnell) opera-house dream is finally explained, old treachery is paid back in full, and pretty much everyone, including Boomer ( Grace Park) and Cavil ( Dean Stockwell), is allowed a moment of heroism and grace.

As for Gaius Baltar (James Callis) and Caprica-Six (Tricia Helfer) both real and imagined, well, let's just say, the red dress finally makes sense. Sort of.

Yes, that's right, all is finally revealed, though in a way that leaves the door open for hours of satiated, as opposed to angry and agitated, speculation, not to mention a whole new round of term papers. Moore and his team should win not only an Emmy but a special Medal of Honor for Not Copping Out on the Finale.

In the end, the story is what one always suspected it was, a blueprint of sorts, an excavated journal of revelations that could be useful in the right hands. Much has been made of "Battlestar Galactica's" almost prescient political nature. Publicity was not the only reason the United Nations called on Moore, Eick, Olmos and McDonnell to participate in a discussion of human rights. The war between the humans and their machines, especially when it was revealed that some of the most devout resistance fighters were Cylons, has been seen as a mirror of our nation's war on terrorism.

Certainly theology, in both its curative and destructive forms, has been a major thread of the series as have other very modern concerns, including the fine line between rebellion and anarchy, the pitfalls of charismatic leadership, the high and ongoing price of freedom, and even the dangers of depression and alcoholism. (Spoiler alert: Tonight's finale contains, quite incidentally, one of the best drunken-barf scenes to appear on television.)

But more than anything, "Battlestar Galactica," like the most enduring myths, has been a lesson in great storytelling. Grand finales, as we all know, are a dangerous business; flouting convention may be crucial to a show's success, but it turns out to be a matter of discipline. Every writer wants his or her show to go out with a bang; the trick is to have it not destroy everything in the room.

Unlike some recent finales we could name, "Battlestar Galactica's" final hours may have plenty of explosions, and, it must be said, a few "oh, come on" moments. But in the end, it not only owns up to its narrative obligations, it glories in them.

As should we all.

mary.mcnamara@latimes.com

BSG Series Finale begins tonight!

‘Battlestar Galactica‘ Finale Split into 2 Parts

Fans will get three last hours of SciFi Channel's signature program

By MICHAEL HINMAN

Feb-16-2009

Source: Airlock Alpha

The final episode of "Battlestar Galactica" will indeed be three hours long, and SciFi Channel plans to air the end of what some hail as the most powerful science-fiction series of all time as a two-part special.

The first hour-long part will air in its normal timeslot of March 13 at 10 p.m. ET on SciFi Channel, followed by a two-parter March 20 beginning at an earlier 9 p.m. to account for the two hours. For fans who don't want to wait between episodes, SciFi Channel plans to re-air the March 13 episode at 8 p.m. ET on March 20, allowing those who want to watch it straight through to do just that, a SciFi Channel spokeswoman tells Airlock Alpha.

Rumors had abound that the finale could run as long as three hours after SciFi Channel reportedly gave the go-ahead for showrunner Ronald D. Moore and his crew to use as much airtime as they need to tell the story. That prompted some reports that other episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" would be extended, but only the fourth-season mid-season premiere in January was longer than the hour timeslot, and even then, it just ran over by a couple of minutes.

The split doesn't actually add a week to the series, but instead uses the ninth episode as a one-hour setup for the two-hour finale, thus creating a three-hour finale over two weeks (and three episode slots, which would actually bring the total number of hours in this half of the season to 11).

The finale of "Battlestar Galactica" has already been extensively ballyhooed, and some other sources at SciFi Channel expect it could draw some of the biggest numbers the network has seen for not only the signature series, but scripted programming as a whole. There is no word on whether or not SciFi Channel will do any special promotions for the finale, but they've already spent a good amount of money since late last year promoting the final episodes with decent audience returns for the first group of episodes that included a two-part attempted coup and most recently a bunch of backstory behind the Final Five Cylons.

"Battlestar Galactica" airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on SciFi Channel.

BSG Season 4.5 episodes

Special. The Face of the Enemy (A 10-part online series)

First aired: 12/12/2008

Writer: Jane Espenson, Seamus Kevin Fahey

Director: Wayne Rose

Guest star: Brad Dryborough (Lt. Hoshi), Leah Cairns (Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson) , William C. Vaughan (Lt. J. "Shark" Finnegan), Jessica Harmon (Esrin), Michael Rogers (Brooks)

Global rating: 8.2

A second series of ten Webisodes will be available on the official scifi.com/battlestar website throughout December 2008 and early January 2009. The first installment was released on December 12, 2008.

The story focuses on Lt. Gaeta in the aftermath of the events seen in the final episode of Season 4.0 ("Revelations"). Number Eight (Sharon) also stars.

73. Sometimes a Great Notion

First aired: 1/16/2009

Writer: David Weddle, Bradley Thompson

Director: Michael Nankin

Kara struggles with the foreboding prediction of the Cylon Hybrid, while Adama and the Colonial fleet face despair over their shocking discovery.

74. A Disquiet Follows My Soul

First aired: 1/23/2009

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Director: Ronald D. Moore

75. The Oath

First aired: 1/30/2009

Writer: Mark Verheiden

Director: John Dahl

76. Blood on the Scales

First aired: 2/6/2009

Writer: Michael Angeli

Director: Wayne Rose

77. No Exit

First aired: 2/13/2009

Writer: Ryan Mottesheard

Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton

78. Deadlock

First aired: 2/20/2009

Writer: Jane Espenson

Director: Bob Young

79. Someone to Watch Over Me

First aired: 2/27/2009

Writer: David Weddle, Bradley Thompson

Director: Michael Nankin

80. Islanded in a Stream of Stars

First aired: 3/6/2009

Writer: Michael Taylor

Director: Edward James Olmos

81. Daybreak (1)

First aired: 3/13/2009

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Director: Michael Rymer

TSCC - first look at Stephanie Jacobsen

Stephanie Jacobsen will play "Jessie" starting on the 6th episode of "Terminator:TSCC".

New Cast Member joins TSCC: Stephanie Jacobsen

September 18, 2008

The TSCC producer’s blog confirmed recent rumors that an upcoming female cast member part has been cast.

Stephanie Jacobsen, an Australian actress, has been cast as another member to join in the fight against the Terminators and is scheduled to appear in a multi-episode story arc in which she will be working rather *ahem* closely with Derek.

Stephanie will currently be seen in a couple episodes of “Life on Mars” but is best known for her breakout roll in the “Battlestar Galactica” movie “RAZOR.” Her character Kendra Shaw made a one time appearance in the critically acclaimed series as an officer being groomed aboard the Pegasus by the often-times cruel and heartless Admiral Caine.

Kendra battled with a drug addiction that stemmed from trying to ignore inner demons over following one set of particularly unforgivable orders given by Admiral Caine during the beginning of the Cylon War.

Her standout performance that perfectly blended poise, vulnerability, resolve, and determination will serve as great groundwork that will make her a fantastic addition to TERMINATOR.