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Big Love for Željko Ivanek
Character actor Željko Ivanek makes his first appearance in tonight’s torrid episode of Big Love on SBS ONE.
Ivanek is well-known for his performances in The X Files (Roland), Homicide: Life on the Street (as prosecuting attorney Ed Danvers), Damages (Ray Fiske), Oz (Governor James Devlin), 24 (Andre Drazen), Heroes (Emile Danko), John Adams (John Dickinson) and True Blood (The Magister).
The third series of the HBO polygamy series has been its best so far, with some dynamite storylines. It surely deserves a much bigger audience.
The first series will also air on Showcase …
Airdate: Warehouse 13
The SciFi Channel will premiere US scifi series co-created by Buffy writer Jane Espenson described as “part The X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting.”
The series follows starring two Secret Service agents, who find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 — a top-secret storage facility which houses supernatural objects in windswept South Dakota.
The series stars Joanne Kelly and Eddie McClintock as agents reassigned to retrieve missing objects and investigate reports of new ones.
McClintock plays Pete Lattimer, a handsome, athletic Secret Service Agent whose impulsive, intuitive nature …
Airdate: Breaking Bad
The critically acclaimed US cable drama Breaking Bad will have its Free to Air premiere at 9:30pm Friday January 22nd on ABC2.
It will follow the third episode of Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Created and produced by Vince Gilligan (The X Files) the series has already aired on Pay TV but is certainly worth a look if only for the performance of Bryan Cranston who has two Emmy Awards for his performance as the dysfunctional father given just two years to live. He has beaten such competition as Hugh Laurie, Michael C. Hall, …
V: Promo
Airing in the US on November 3rd is the remake of the 1980s sci fi miniseries V, by writers from The 4400 and The X Files.
Look out for Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell Ipictured) as FBI counter terrorism agent Erica Evans, and Scott Wolf has a TV presenter.
Nine has this title. Don’t suppose we can see it in November, please?
Update: Turns out ABC will only air 4 eps in November with the rest to follow after the Winter Olympics. …
Supernatural creator eyes 2010 finale (kinda…)
Supernatural creator Eric Kripke plans to end his series in May 2010. Kinda…
“I did set out [to] tell a five-season storyline,” he told EW.com. “Quite frankly, I never expected [the show] to make it to five years. But now that we’re in our fifth year, I have every intention of ending the story with a bang and not drawing it out or watering it down.”
“That having been said,” Kripke continues, “I’m looking at this season as the last chapter in this particular story. That doesn’t mean there can’t be a new …
CSI: the movie
William Petersen has confirmed a big screen version of CSI is in development.
“Yes, there will be a movie,” said the actor who remains a show producer.
“I can understand people are a little trepidatious because of the franchise around the world and how well it’s doing. Usually people leave it until a series has finished – they did that with the X-Files and Sex and the City. But it’s about finding the right story – there has got to be a real reason to do it.
“You don’t just do it because you …
Gallery: TV art
Here’s a selection of some fantastic television-inspired artwork that can be seen at the website Idiot Box 88.
These are great interpretations of classic US television shows including Lost, The X Files, Seinfeld, The Twilight Zone, The Munsters, The A Team, Married with Children, Magnum, Ren and Stimpy, Fraggle Rock, and The Golden Girls.
You can check out a whole lot more of the designs here (there’s an awful lot of Alf!)….
Vale: Kim Manners
Supernatural and former X Files producer / director Kim Manners has died following a battle with cancer, aged 58.
Considered a key creative force on both shows, Manners directed every season finale of Supernatural and the season premieres for the last three years.
Supernatural creator & executive producer Eric Kripke issued a statement: “Everyone at Supernatural is walking around in a daze, shocked and absolutely devastated. Kim was a brilliant director; more than that, he was a mentor and friend. He was one of the patriarchs of the family, and we miss him …
What’s happened to HD?
Programming on HD channels has taken a holiday at some networks, with fleeting attention by networks to provide decent alternative viewing.
On some days next week on TEN HD there is only 3 hours of dedicated programming. On other days there is none.
Evening HD programming has dried up over summer on TEN, with no alternatives once provided by shows like Monk, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Torchwood, Eureka and The X Files. Those shows have now either concluded, without being replaced, or simply stopped.
When TEN HD was announced by TEN it promised “50 hours …
Fringe
Mental note to self: never, ever take a flight with screenwriter J.J. Abrams. He’s the guy who crashed Oceanic Flight 815 onto a tiny Pacific island in Lost. Now he opens his newest television drama, Fringe, with another disastrous flight.
This time a virus breaks out aboard a jet descending into Boston. Nobody survives a rapid, flesh-eating outbreak. Enter FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), called in to investigate as part of an interagency task force.
When her partner, and bed mate, Special Agent John Scott (Mark Valley) falls victim to the virus, …
Airdate: Fringe
J. J. Abrams (Lost, Alias, What About Brian) newest drama Fringe will start on Nine later this month.
Nine will screen the show from 8:30pm Wednesday September 17, a week after its US debut.
Fringe is a part-action, part sci-fi, and the cast includes Australian actress Anna Torv (The Secret Life of Us), Kirk Acevedo (Oz), Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek), and Mark Valley. Film actress Charlotte Rampling has also joined.
With its mix of terrorist / paranormal activites, the show has also been described as resembling The X Files and Altered States (they’ve even …