Though it seems like a natural, this Tuesday marks the first collaboration between Nova and National Geographic Television. The material, entitled “The Great Inca Rebellion,” focuses on new discoveries and revelations about the Spanish conquest of the Incas. It is… Read More ›
Month: June 2007
Worst.. Finale… Ever…
Oh boy. A week and a half after the finale of HBO's The Sopranos, it seems like the perfect time to take a step back and have a look at television finales, specifically bad ones. I didn't think that The… Read More ›
Hell’s Kitchen Cooks Up Killer Food
What in the name of all that is good and holy are those women on Hell's Kitchen thinking? No, seriously, it's time for a good old fashioned rant… Last night, three of the women, yes, three of them, tried to… Read More ›
Dig That Funky Binary Solo And Cable’s Other Great Offerings
With the ever-expanding set of original programming choices that are offered by cable networks over the summer, I think that the months between the end of one traditional season (May) and the beginning of the next (September), are rapidly becoming… Read More ›
Nova Gets Jiggy With Thylacoleo Carnifex
There is very little that can be done to make paleontology “sexy.” This is not a slight against paleontology itself, the importance of paleontology, or some sort of joke about paleontologists. It’s just a cold, hard fact. Much like the… Read More ›
The TV and Film Guy’s Recent Sporadic Posting
Okay, so here’s the deal: The TV and Film Guy is in the process of moving across the country. That’s bad because it means he doesn’t have the internet access he’d truly like nor does he have the television access… Read More ›
The Nintendo Wii Is Now Ready for some Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat has been around for years and years. The franchise has put out an incredible number of releases — between console and arcade, the number is somewhere over 70. It’s an incredibly successful franchise and it has had both… Read More ›
Out of the Frying Pan and into Hell’s Kitchen
For the past three summers, Fox has whipped up a deliciously spicy little reality treat, Hell’s Kitchen, starring the inimitable Gordon Ramsay as a complete and utter SOB. The premise is simple: take 16 chefs (or wanna-be chefs) that want… Read More ›
Frak It All, Battlestar Galactica is Ending
Bye-bye BSG. It’s true, after months of rumor and speculation, hand-wringing among fans, statements from stars Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff, Battlestar Galactica producers and the Sci-Fi Channel have announced that the upcoming 22 episode season will be the… Read More ›