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Comic-Con 2012: “Arrow” review

July 11, 2012 StayTuned Staff

We’re not in Smallville anymore, that’s for sure. With Arrow, the upcoming small-screen interpretation of the DC Comics character Green Arrow, The CW is taking a page out of the Christopher Nolan playbook, forsaking any BAM! POW! ZAP! moments and going dark. Very dark. Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) is a vacuous, materialistic playboy who is heir to his family’s Queen Industries empire. He’s such a jerk, in fact, that he decides to take his girlfriend’s sister on a boat ride with him, and not just so he can show her the stateroom. But a storm at sea wrecks the ship, […]

Comic-Con 2012: “666 Park Avenue” review

July 11, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Yes, we all enjoyed seeing Terry O’Quinn play the ambiguous John Locke for six seasons on Lost, imbuing the character with layer upon layer of nuance, always keeping the audience guessing his true intentions. But it sure is nice to see him play an out-and-out creep like he does in 666 Park Avenue. For all we know from the pilot, he could be the creep, in fact. Mephistopheles himself. After all, the tenants of his building sell their souls to him in exchange for earthly rewards — whether it be fame, fortune, or a little more time with a departed […]

FEARnet to add two-hour “Funhouse” weekend programming block

July 10, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

FEARnet — a multiplatform service dedicated to horror, suspense and thriller content currently available in more than 7 million American homes via its linear cable channel — is adding a new two-hour weekend programming block to that linear channel starting Saturday, Aug. 18, in which it will bring back a couple of animated favorites from the past, as well as air two live-action series — including one never seen before on U.S. airwaves. Dubbed “Funhouse,” the programming block is aimed at the Adult 18-34 demo, a group that other networks, notably Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, have found success with by […]

Comic-Con 2012: “Spartacus: War of the Damned” sneak peek

July 9, 2012 StayTuned Staff

One of the more surprising announcements in TV this year was that the highly successful Starz series Spartacus would be ending after next season. So that makes the cast and crew’s appearance at Comic-Con in San Diego all the more important. I’ll be speaking with several folks involved with Spartacus: War of the Damned this week, including Spartacus himself, Liam McIntyre. Starz shared this behind-the-scenes video to give fans a taste of what to expect when the show premieres in January.

TCM to honor Ernest Borgnine July 26

July 9, 2012 StayTuned Staff

In a salute to the extensive lifelong career of Hollywood great and Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine, who passed away at the age of 95 this past weekend, TCM will feature an all-day marathon of some of Borgnine’s most memorable performances, as well as TCM’s Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine special. Lineup for the memorial day of programming Thursday, June 26, will be as follows: 6am: The Catered Affair (1956) 8am: The Legend of Lylah Clare 10:30am: Pay or Die 12:30pm: Torpedo Run 2:30pm: Ice Station Zebra 5:15pm: The Dirty Dozen 8pm: Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine 9pm: Marty 10:45pm: From Here to Eternity 1am: The […]

“The Closer”: Kyra Sedgwick says goodbye (video)

July 9, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

With the final six episodes of The Closer beginning tonight, TNT has released this video in which star Kyra Sedgwick emotionally reflects on playing Brenda Leigh Johnson for seven seasons, and tearfully thanks the cast, crew and fans of the series. The behind-the-scenes video also shows her wrapping her final scene as Brenda. RELATED STORY: KYRA SEDGWICK SHARES WHAT’S IN STORE FOR FINAL EPISODES OF “THE CLOSER” The Closer‘s final six episodes begin tonight, July 9, at 9pm ET/PT on TNT. The series finale is set to air Monday, Aug. 13.

Season 2 of Syfy’s “Alphas” to feature new and returning notable guest stars

July 6, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Syfy’s Alphas returns for its second season July 23 at 10pm ET/PT, coming off of its hit first season last summer, when it averaged 3.3 million total viewers. The series follows a clandestine group of ordinary people with superhuman mental and physical abilities. Led by neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. Lee Rosen (David Strathairn), the team takes on cases the CIA, FBI and Pentagon are unwilling or unable to solve, going head-to-head with many of the criminal Alphas hiding among the normal population. The rest of the cast includes returning stars Malik Yoba, Warren Christie, Azita Ghanizada, Ryan Cartwright and Laura […]

Jessica Tyler and “Degrassi” back for Season 12

July 5, 2012 StayTuned Staff

OK, yes, technically Degrassi has been around since 1979, but the reboots have been going on for a while. Degrassi: New Beginnings has the series celebrating Season 12’s premiere on TeenNick Monday, July 16 at 10pm ET, and the drama will be as thick as ever. To get a taste for what Degrassi’s new season will hold, I talked with series regular Jessica Tyler, who plays Jenna Middleton in the series. Jenna had quite the intense storyline in Season 11, having had a baby whom she subsequently gave up for adoption. Channel Guide Magazine: So how was last season for […]

On set with Eric McCormack of TNT’s “Perception”

July 5, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor

By Kate O’Hare In the feature film A Beautiful Mind, schizophrenic mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe) goes against a doctor’s advice and decides to forgo his medication and use his intellect to deal with his symptoms, including vivid hallucinations. In the TNT drama Perception, Eric McCormack plays neuroscience professor Dr. Daniel Pierce, who is also off his medication, instead using his hallucinations and paranoid delusions to help a former student, FBI agent Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook), solve crimes. But Pierce’s symptoms and the behavior they cause also put him at risk — and the disruption caused by his crime-solving […]

Stuart Townsend takes the lead as “XIII” comes to ReelzChannel

June 28, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Perhaps it’s fitting that, in a story about a man who doesn’t know his own identity, a new actor has taken over the role. That role would be XIII, an amnesiac super spy desperately searching for the truth about his past while trying to stay alive amid global intrigue, and the actor would be Stuart Townsend, whom one could say is used to this sort of thing. In 2002, he succeeded Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat in Queen of the Damned. Then in 2005 he starred in a short-lived update of Night Stalker, having to make his mark amid […]