TV Roundup

January: new shows, returning shows. Just a few highlights from recent viewing.

Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.5 (or is it 3.0?) started off with a BANG Friday night! Amazing character-driven action show. With the latest episode, BSG proves that it’s still the best drama on TV today. Seriously. I’m not making it up. Even if you don’t [...]

“Missed it by THAT much…”

RIP, Agent 86.
Get Smart was always one of my favorite shows growing up. Don Adams was a comic genius. And Barbara Feldon’s Agent 99 was my second love (after “Half Pint” from Little House on the Prairie, natch). I think that show fueled my life-long love of the spy genre, though later spoofs (e.g., the [...]

Ozarks at Large podcast

Our local NPR station, KUAF 91.3FM is now podcasting a great local show, Ozarks at Large. Ozarks at Large covers a wide range of interesting topics, witness the description of this week’s show:

On this edition of Ozarks at Large…we spend an afternoon with the defending world champion drum and bugle corps and get the [...]

No Emmys for Battlestar Galactica

Well, the Emmy nominations are out and Battlestar Galactica got rooked. I love SciFi. But, even if you don’t, BG is an incredibly well-done series. Great characters, great character development, a very intriguingly-put-together “sci fi” universe, great acting. Great, great, great. Really. Give it a shot. Season 2 starts Friday night (7/15) on the SciFi [...]

Wil got cut

Wil Wheaton got cut from Star Trek: Nemesis. That’s too bad. As much as Wil is sort ambivalent about his whole ST experience (and what it’s done to his career), I was looking forward to seeing Wesley Crusher ride again, if just for a bit of closure.
I hope that footage (apparently, they cut 48 minutes) [...]