'Heroes' review: 'Shades of Gray' separate killer
father & son

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Most taxidermists don't actually kill the animal they're stuffing, but since this is Sylar's[...]

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Check Out 'ER' The Complete 10th Season, Now On
DVD

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - TV News on 09 March 2009 11:46:22 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - TV News

Healing is teamwork and science. Instant decisions and best guesses. Joy one moment, tragedy the next, 24/7 readiness. It is learning, always learning. [...] Read more!

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Survivor: Sex and Beans

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This week, on Survivor: Jalapao does me a solid. Thanks, guys!...

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Why 'Heroes' should set an end date

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Ask fans what the biggest problem with NBC?s ?Heroes? is, and their top answer is ?the writing.?[...]

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"...it ejaculates FIRE!": Watchmen

post from The House Next Door on 09 March 2009 09:00:00 PM. © The House Next Door

By Adrian de la Touche[Editor's Note: This is one of several Watchmen reviews/articles by House contributors. Check throughout the week for more.]When I hear "American Girl," I am reminded, immediately, of Buffalo Bill, and his bumptious endorsement of[...]

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'Breaking' good news; 'Dollhouse' DVR

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The second season debut of AMC's "Breaking Bad" showed major growth compared to last year. "Bad"[...]

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HART LINE

post from INNER TOOB on 09 March 2009 08:46:00 PM. © INNER TOOB

In "The Storm Riders", 'Cheyenne' Bodie worked as a ranch hand for John Denbrow, his second wife Sheila, and his daughter Johnnie. There was an attraction between Cheyenne and 17 year old Johnnie; he even offered to stay on for a while longer, perhaps entertaining the idea that something might come of their interest in each other. But Johnnie sent him on his way - she knew he wasn't the type to be held down to any one place for very long. And besides, she felt ready to stand on her own as an adult, now that her father had died.

So Cheyenne Bodie wouldn't figure into the family tree of Johnnie Denbrow, but it's the Toobworld theory of Relateeveety that eventually she did marry and have children. And one of her grandsons would grow up to become a police detective in the Los Angeles homicide division.

If the theory is viable, in a world where genetic echoes are especially strong in succeeding generations, that grandson would be Sgt. Lester Hart, as seen on 'Burke's Law'.....

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MAGGIE MAY... SOONER THAN LATER

The BBC has commissioned a sitcom centered around a trade unionist (I'm not sure, but I picture the type of characters found in "I'm Alright, Jack".) who moves to a small, conservative village in County Durham. The press release says that other characters in the show would be a wealthy womanizer, a man-child and his battle-axe of a mother, a techno-wizard and an insane survivalist.

Usually I hold off on talking about pilots and proposed series until they actually air - why bother, if they're not going to be part of Toobworld in the end? But there was one intriguing item in the story: depending on when it is finally aired, it will be set in the future.

As a general rule, episodes of TV shows take place around the same time that they're first aired, unless they were definitely set in the Past or the Future. But even though the first episode is timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the miners' strike, it will kick off (litterally) with the death of Margaret Thatcher.

Like I said, the location of 'Silver Acres' on the Toobworld timeline depends on when it airs. The "Iron Butterfly" is still alive, (although in poor health mentally, I'm led to believe), so if it airs before she passes away, then it will be in the future on first airing. Not that I'm wishing it, but Mrs. Thatcher could join the Choir Invisible tomorrow; and then 'Silver Acres' would be set in the past.

I'll have to keep a lazy eye on this one......

[Pictured: Lindsay Duncan as Margaret Thatcher]

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957 (99). La Luna / Luna (1979, Bernardo
Bertolucci)

By Kevin B. Lee[Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures, a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't[...]

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THINKING TOOBALLY

I always enjoy reading TV reviewers and columnists who write in a Toobworld frame of mind, even if they don't realize it. And today I came across two examples which brought a smile.

First up is Keith McDuffie in his Clique Claque TV article about the Vikings in those Capital One commercials. (When they were dealing with just credit cards, I called them Visa-Goths.)

McDuffie offers his vision of a Geico Cavemen-styled sitcom for the berserkers:

"Here?s a possible premise for you: the largest credit card company in the world, Uppercase Two, is losing money. In order to fix the situation, the company?s CEO ? who?s actually the Viking god Loki ? calls upon the god Odin for help ?like the old days.? To both help and punish Loki, Odin sends him one-hundred Viking warriors from the ninth century. Hilarity ensues!"

There have been worse premises.....

And then Nicholas Fonseca, writing for Entertainment Weekly, had a crossover moment while puzzling over the series finale for 'The L Word':

"As series finales go, this one was a head-scratcher. The tone felt heavy and ominous, and all that moody music was making me wonder when The Log Lady and The Man From Another Place would come sashaying through a scene."

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