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Reaper renewed!

post from TV Squad on 12 May 2008 11:51:00 PM. © TV Squad

Filed under: OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Reaper, Reality-Free

Reaper fans rejoice! The Hollywood Reporter (with its new, ugly design) states that the CW has renewed the show for a second season.

The show has been on the bubble for a little while, and I can postulate the CW's motives for renewal. First, it gives the opportunity to build a name for the show (which is a nice Buffy the Vampire Slayer combination of fantasy and humor). Second, it cuts some slack for the show with regard to any possible developmental interference the writer's strike may have had on it.

The show will return for 13 episodes in the mid-season and will likely run alongside the CW's other fantasy suspense series Supernatural after Smallville finishes its run.

The show has made great strides since its Kevin Smith-directed premiere and really shows promise. The still-struggling CW could use as many hits as possible. It's a good thing that the network is pursuing shows with some degree of sophistication and not abandoning them for mindless drivel (coughcoughrealityTVcoughcough) in the pursuit of cheap ratings.

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Michelle Ryan Looks Fabulous at the World
Premiere of Sex and the City

post from Bionic Woman on 12 May 2008 11:38:06 PM. © Bionic Woman

Michelle Ryan looked amazing in a skin-tight purple dress at the world premiere of the Sex and the[...]

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Parvati won because of "truthful" answers, Cirie
says; tiebreaker still unknown

post from reality blurred on 12 May 2008 10:51:34 PM. © reality blurred

Parvati Shallow beat Amanda Kimmel and won Survivor Micronesia as a result of the answers the two women gave at the final Tribal Council, according to their alliance mate Cirie Fields, although Amanda only says she made mistakes. "I just did a lot of things wrong and I really don't know what else to say," Amanda told Reality TV World, demonstrating her not-very-powerful powers of persuasion. (She does, however, apparently have strong acting abilities, as she says she's been cast in a movie. "I found out from Micronesia that I'm a pretty good actress, so I got this film. It's...

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Parvati's win gives Survivor its lowest-rated
finale yet

post from reality blurred on 12 May 2008 10:15:47 PM. © reality blurred

Survivor Micronesia had one last surprise to offer. Despite being the conclusion to one of (if not the) best season(s) in the show's history, its finale had the franchise's lowest finale ratings ever. Parvati's unexpected win was watched by 13 million people, which is down significantly from the 15.1 million who watched Todd Herzog win Survivor China in December, and lower than the then-record low of 13.6 million for Survivor Fiji a year ago. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the "finale and reunion show ranked as the lowest in the reality series' history, continuing the run of series-low ratings drops...

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Micronesia is Survivor's lowest-rated finale yet

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Rumor: Pioneer Slashing 2000 Jobs To Save Plasma
Biz

post from TV Snob on 12 May 2008 10:04:00 PM. © TV Snob

Pioneer may make the best plasma TV's around, but with inefficiencies in the companies manufacturing process, they've had to outsource the KURO panels to Matsushita for production. Now a Nikkei newspaper is reporting that when Pioneer announcing its 2007 fiscal earnings (actually a predicted loss) in just a few hours time, they'll also announce that 2000 Pioneer employees will be out of a job. That's 5% of the company's total workforce, apparently deemed dispensable just so the company can get its plasma biz back on track. The layoffs are rumored to occur over the next fiscal year ending March of 2009 and mainly include the companies 3 domestic plants. Some layoffs will be done through early retirement packages, but 200-odd plasma-related engineers and researchers will likely be headed for Matsushita. The company is also rumored to be considering job cuts in it home A/V department, and hopes to have its plasma biz back on track by 2010.Via Earth Times

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Will Yun Lee at the Asian Excellence Awards

post from Bionic Woman on 12 May 2008 09:59:12 PM. © Bionic Woman

Will Yun Lee, who played Jae on Bionic Woman, recently hit the red carpet for the JC Penney Asian[...]

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NBC Lineup Poll The Results

post from I Am A Child Of Television on 12 May 2008 09:32:00 PM. © I Am A Child Of Television

As most of you know, we are entering that most happy nerve wracking of times for the television industry, Upfront Week. It's that time when the US networks cut free those shows they no longer want and say hello to what they damned well hope (usually wrongly) will be The Next Big Thing. Of course the strike has made a lot of the suspense go away, with networks declaring some shows safe as early as February. But some shows at least were still hovering on the brink, caught in the limbo between renewal and cancellation. All of this is supposed to be a big secret until each network's day in the spotlight, but inevitably stories leak out, usually about what is cancelled and what has been saved. As usual, our beloved Nikki Finke has the latest scoop on what's going on before the networks make it official (along with a metric ton of other stuff for the people who want the sort of entertainment industry news that you don't get on Entertainment Tonight or Extra).

Traditionally, the first day of the Upfronts is traditionally given over to NBC. But of course in this brave new post strike world NBC has decided to march the very different beat of Jeff Zucker's drummer and announced their 52 Week Lineup for 2008-09 in April, in an event that the "clever" people at NBC labelled the "Infronts." NBC had an Upfront presentation on Monday but most of what was announced appears to have been very minor tweaking of the previously announced lineup. The big thing was the announcement that Jimmy Fallon will replace Conan O'Brian on Late Night when Conan takes over the Tonight Show.

Back in April I asked the question "Which of the new NBC shows sounds most promising?" Foolishly I forgot to include an option that said "they all sound like a big steaming pile of poo," (an option that will be in the next lineup poll I do I assure you). Maybe that explains why I only had six votes cast ? I didn't give anyone a chance to express how they really felt about the NBC lineup. Anyway, here are the results. In a four-way tie for fifth place with no votes are The Philanthropist, Kath & Kim, Merlin, and Kings. In a three-way tie for second place are Knight Rider, Crusoe, and My Own Worst Enemy. But the "winner" with three votes is "The Office spinoff."

I find this result absolutely fascinating. I mean think of it; here we have a show with no announced title, no announced cast and no announced storyline ? in fact it was reported at the time that "they don't even have a premise for the new series yet" ? and it got as many votes as the other seven series combined! I mean this says a lot about something. Either it means that the people who voted trust the creative minds behind The Office to deliver another show with the same sort of creativity and comedy as the main show...or they think that the other shows on the list are a "big steaming pile of poo." I'm not entirely confident which is the real answer.

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"I am Iron Man, Yadda-Yadda" (Starlog)

"I was so geared up when I did Comic-Con. I was putting on the (Tony Stark) suit in the restroom when Avi (Arad) walks in. So I'm in there with him, in this big can, and I'm in the handicapped stall putting on these boots, and Avi tells me, '(The[...]

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One Will Be Revealed: Guessing at The Final Cylon
Model

Four have been revealed. One remains hidden.One of the more intriguing plot threads throughout Battlestar Galactica's four season run has been the mystery (and the audience conjecture) surrounding the final five models of the Cylon.While four of those models were tantalizingly revealed at the end of last season--stripping away the veneer of humanity from sleeper agents Colonel Tigh, Tory,