Ooh, There’s the Long Arm of the Law on SUPERNATURAL

Well, strike-induced reruns are good for one thing–we can see all the stuff our poor, overscheduled TiVos couldn’t handle previously. You can catch #3 on our 2007 Ten Best Musical Moments on Television list tonight when Supernatural reruns “Night Shifter,” an episode that finds our intrepid demon hunters trying to explain robbers who have been [...]

LOST Leads Saturn Noms

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films has announced the nominations for the 34th annual Saturn Awards, with ABC’s Lost garnering seven nods in the television categories. Showtime’s Dexter scored five noms and NBC’s Heroes received four.
The Academy, founded in 1972 by film historian Donald A. Reed, is a nonprofit organization devoted to [...]

Picking Up the Pieces: What’s Left of the TV Season?

Assuming the outcome of today’s WGA vote is positive, we’re only hours away from an end to the strike. So, in the immortal words of President Josiah Bartlet, “What’s next?”
A number of showrunners have already gone back work, making plans for the remainder of the season and scrambling to figure out how many episodes they [...]

The 10 Best Musical Moments in Television of 2007

I am apparently extra-susceptible to being emotionally bludgeoned by well-placed music in my TV. Seeing me get a little teary-eyed over a musical montage, Susannah’s munchkin recently asked her mother in disbelief, “You’re not crying over this, are you?” as if to confirm only a crazy person would get misty over music. Maybe she’s right, [...]

Squee! It’s…

Squee! It’s Mercedes McNab on Supernatural tonight! This is the second undead character she’s appeared as in the last 10 days, as she was a soul escaped from Hell on Reaper last week (a soul escaped from Hell who had way too much affection for “Radar Love,” in fact). It’s also the second vampire she’s [...]