This article was originally published in the November 1998 issue. Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit.
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22 July 2019
Can You Say...Hero?
This article was originally published in the November 1998 issue. Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit.
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05 July 2017
Before ‘Game of Thrones’ Returns, Let’s Revisit Season 1
Watching is The New York Times’s TV and film recommendation newsletter and website. You may have heard that “Game of Thrones” is returning to HBO on July 16. To prepare for Season 7, we’re reviewing and reassessing the first six seasons of the show, with the benefit of hindsight.
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24 May 2017
How 'The Dark Tower' and 'It' Fit into Stephen King's Multiverse
Two movies and one TV show based on Stephen King novels will premiere in 2017: The Dark Tower, starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, Spike’s The Mist and It, starring a ragtag group of child actors, including Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things).
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07 December 2015
‘Doctor Who’ : 10 Things You May Not Know About ‘Hell Bent’
So, the Doctor has found Gallifrey, discovered a way to bring Clara back to life and met up with an old friend, in the shape of Ashildr/Lady Me. Happy endings all round then? Hardly.
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03 March 2015
Meet The Inhumans
The Inhumans were created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, and were first introduced in 1965 in Fantastic Four #45.
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07 December 2014
WKRP In Perpetuity
Television has been instrumental in rock and roll history since Elvis Presley's first appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956. Nineteen years later came the debut of Saturday Night Live, arguably the first network program with a fully rock-bred sensibility.
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27 November 2014
50 Years Today
Leonard Nimoy actually tweeted out a week ago that it was seven days until this point (one week being seven days...) and it would be wrong not to mention it - even though he wasn't on set for that event.
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‘Gotham’ Premiere: 14 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed
Since it was first announced, Gotham had the attention and the curiosity of both devoted comic book fans and casual audiences.
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31 October 2014
#tbt: 'WKRP' drops 'Turkeys Away' on shopping center
On this date in history, Oct. 30: Orson Welles scared the Halloween out of everyone with his "War of the Worlds" radio play in 1938 about a fictional Martian invasion. … And WKRP terrorized shoppers at a fictional Cincinnati mall by dropping live turkeys on them from a helicopter in 1978.
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06 October 2014
Doctor Who: “Kill The Moon”
For its first 20 or so minutes, “Kill The Moon” is fine.
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24 September 2014
‘Gotham’ Premiere: 14 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed
Since it was first announced, Gotham had the attention and the curiosity of both devoted comic book fans and casual audiences.
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‘Gotham’ Premiere: 14 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed
Since it was first announced, Gotham had the attention and the curiosity of both devoted comic book fans and casual audiences.
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15 September 2014
Doctor Who: “Listen”
“Listen” is the best Doctor Who episode in years. More than that, it’s the best story Steven Moffat has written for the show since “The Eleventh Hour,” and I might be willing to go still further back than that in search of an episode of his that outdoes tonight’s entry.
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24 August 2014
12 Great Moments From Deep Breath
Mark McCullough picks out his twelve greats for Twelve’s debut. Note: Episode spoilers naturally!
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01 April 2012
Rest On
“I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
-Game of Thrones04 January 2008
07 December 2007
Pretender To Pretend Again?
Pretender To Pretend Again?
Steven Long Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle, who created the 1990s NBC SF series The Pretender, told SCI FI Wire that they want to resurrect the show in a new digital medium.
"We created the show The Pretender, and we're working on bringing that back in a whole new form, in a digital form and in a digital platform," Mitchell said in an interview while promoting his SCI FI Channel miniseries Tin Man, which he and Van Sickle co-wrote and co-executive-produced.
Van Sickle hinted that the new Pretender could also feature original star Michael T. Weiss, who played Jarod, a man whose ability to assume other people's identities allowed him to assist those in need. The Pretender aired from 1996-2000 and also spawned two 2001 telemovies.
"We had breakfast with Michael today," Van Sickle said last week. "He just finished up a play out here in New York. I guess kind of the best thing we can say is that we have a timetable of within, hopefully, the next five or six months that we can have something really unique and different out there."
Van Sickle added: "We'll be certainly reeling things out along that same time period, but there will be things that the fans can tap into and kind of see our progress on that front and other things in the digital world." Tin Man premiered on Dec. 2 and continues Dec. 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.) —Ian Spelling
Steven Long Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle, who created the 1990s NBC SF series The Pretender, told SCI FI Wire that they want to resurrect the show in a new digital medium.
"We created the show The Pretender, and we're working on bringing that back in a whole new form, in a digital form and in a digital platform," Mitchell said in an interview while promoting his SCI FI Channel miniseries Tin Man, which he and Van Sickle co-wrote and co-executive-produced.
Van Sickle hinted that the new Pretender could also feature original star Michael T. Weiss, who played Jarod, a man whose ability to assume other people's identities allowed him to assist those in need. The Pretender aired from 1996-2000 and also spawned two 2001 telemovies.
"We had breakfast with Michael today," Van Sickle said last week. "He just finished up a play out here in New York. I guess kind of the best thing we can say is that we have a timetable of within, hopefully, the next five or six months that we can have something really unique and different out there."
Van Sickle added: "We'll be certainly reeling things out along that same time period, but there will be things that the fans can tap into and kind of see our progress on that front and other things in the digital world." Tin Man premiered on Dec. 2 and continues Dec. 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.) —Ian Spelling
07 November 2007
NBC shelves Heroes:Origins
NBC Shelves Heroes: Origins
NBC has shelved plans for Heroes: Origins, a spinoff series of its hit show, and the possibility of a writers' strike contributed to the decision, Variety reported.
Production has been halted indefinitely on the planned six-episode spinoff. It had attracted such talent as feature directors Eli Roth and Kevin Smith and writer Michael Dougherty (Superman Returns ). NBC had planned to debut the show while Heroes was on hiatus.
Heroes also has been facing sophomore growing pains, losing some key staff members, the trade paper reported.
Insiders told Variety that Heroes: Origins isn't completely dead and could very well be revived at a later date, perhaps as soon as next season. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
NBC has shelved plans for Heroes: Origins, a spinoff series of its hit show, and the possibility of a writers' strike contributed to the decision, Variety reported.
Production has been halted indefinitely on the planned six-episode spinoff. It had attracted such talent as feature directors Eli Roth and Kevin Smith and writer Michael Dougherty (Superman Returns ). NBC had planned to debut the show while Heroes was on hiatus.
Heroes also has been facing sophomore growing pains, losing some key staff members, the trade paper reported.
Insiders told Variety that Heroes: Origins isn't completely dead and could very well be revived at a later date, perhaps as soon as next season. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.)
02 November 2007
Spaced gettin' Foxed, Americanized
Spaced gettin' Foxed, Americanized
By Tim Surette
Published: October 30, 2007 at 10:47:00 AM
Cult British comedy created by Hot Fuzzers coming overseas sans Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright.
Importing British television programs and repurposing them for American audiences has been a bit of a trend in idea-deficient Hollywood for some time now. Reality shows, comedies, and even musical dramas have all crossed the pond with various degrees of success.
For example, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was an instant success in the US, The Office is a fan favorite but isn't breaking ratings records, and Viva Laughlin, well, you know what happened there.
The list goes on and on, and it will only continue to grow. The latest to be added is the Channel 4 series Spaced. This may not mean much to the typical American television addict, but Spaced was the launching pad for Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson, and Edgar Wright, better known as the team behind the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
Fox has ordered a remade-for-American-audiences pilot of the show, reports Variety, with producer Adam Barr (Will & Grace, The New Adventures of Old Christine) helming the show and McG's (Chuck, the movie Charlie's Angels) Wonderland production company behind it. The comedy, which aired for two seven-episode seasons in 1999 and 2001, follows a man and a woman who feign a relationship to get cheaper rent on an apartment and their wacky adventures with their misfit circle of friends. The British version got laughs with its use of pop-culture references, often appealing to the geek crowd by mentioning sci-fi movies, video games, and comic books.
Variety states that Wright and Pegg's involvement in the project is "still unclear." What do you think: Will slow-mo gunfights and the like work in the US?
[UPDATE] Edgar Wright has posted his feelings about the deal on his MySpace blog, and they're none too kind. In addition to calling the announcement "troubling news," Wright says that neither he nor Pegg were ever contacted regarding the deal.
Wright says: "I don't really want to get involved at all, but it infuriates me that they would a) never bother to get in touch but still b) splash me and Simon's names all over the trade announcements and infer that we're involved in the same way Ricky [Gervais] & Steve [Merchant] were with [the Americanized version of] The Office. Also, it's worth stressing that I will not be profiting from this reversion, nor do they have to get permission from me to make it."
But how does he really feel? "I'm calling for everyone to refer to the U.S. version of Spaced as McSpaced from now on. I can't think of a better distillation of the whole idea."
And Spaced fans wholeheartedly agree.
By Tim Surette
Published: October 30, 2007 at 10:47:00 AM
Cult British comedy created by Hot Fuzzers coming overseas sans Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright.
Importing British television programs and repurposing them for American audiences has been a bit of a trend in idea-deficient Hollywood for some time now. Reality shows, comedies, and even musical dramas have all crossed the pond with various degrees of success.
For example, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was an instant success in the US, The Office is a fan favorite but isn't breaking ratings records, and Viva Laughlin, well, you know what happened there.
The list goes on and on, and it will only continue to grow. The latest to be added is the Channel 4 series Spaced. This may not mean much to the typical American television addict, but Spaced was the launching pad for Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson, and Edgar Wright, better known as the team behind the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
Fox has ordered a remade-for-American-audiences pilot of the show, reports Variety, with producer Adam Barr (Will & Grace, The New Adventures of Old Christine) helming the show and McG's (Chuck, the movie Charlie's Angels) Wonderland production company behind it. The comedy, which aired for two seven-episode seasons in 1999 and 2001, follows a man and a woman who feign a relationship to get cheaper rent on an apartment and their wacky adventures with their misfit circle of friends. The British version got laughs with its use of pop-culture references, often appealing to the geek crowd by mentioning sci-fi movies, video games, and comic books.
Variety states that Wright and Pegg's involvement in the project is "still unclear." What do you think: Will slow-mo gunfights and the like work in the US?
[UPDATE] Edgar Wright has posted his feelings about the deal on his MySpace blog, and they're none too kind. In addition to calling the announcement "troubling news," Wright says that neither he nor Pegg were ever contacted regarding the deal.
Wright says: "I don't really want to get involved at all, but it infuriates me that they would a) never bother to get in touch but still b) splash me and Simon's names all over the trade announcements and infer that we're involved in the same way Ricky [Gervais] & Steve [Merchant] were with [the Americanized version of] The Office. Also, it's worth stressing that I will not be profiting from this reversion, nor do they have to get permission from me to make it."
But how does he really feel? "I'm calling for everyone to refer to the U.S. version of Spaced as McSpaced from now on. I can't think of a better distillation of the whole idea."
And Spaced fans wholeheartedly agree.
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