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It was a no-brainer that Lifetime‘s series Army Wives would be back for another season. Not simply because it ended on a cliffhanger (networks have been known to leave viewers hanging by yanking shows before storylines are completed if the program’s ratings are low), but because the all-important viewing numbers were more than there. Season 1 was one of last summer’s hit shows, with the season finale becoming Lifetime’s most-watched original series telecast ever. And the cliffhanger should certainly help bring all of those viewers back for more. Last season ended with a bombing at the Hump Bar, a watering […]

Thom Beers believes he has struck another goldmine. The creator/producer of such hits as Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, Monster Garage and Ax Men — just to name a few — will unearth his latest find when Black Gold premieres June 18 on truTV. Following the adventures of oil drillers, known as “roughnecks,” who put their lives on the line to capture the bubbling crude, the show continues Beers’ fascination with the world’s most dangerous jobs. Whether it’s on the high seas or in the arid badlands of West Texas, Beers says the key is finding the right people to […]

And what if they hadn’t come back from the moon? When Neil Armstrong made his “one giant leap for mankind” in the summer of 1969, the world cheered — little knowing that it was less certain he would ever walk on Earth again. The most telling evidence of how dangerous that original moon landing was is found in a memo from then White House speechwriter William Safire. Titled “In Event of Moon Disaster,” the short speech was prepared so that President Nixon would be ready in case the mission went wrong and the men could not return. It says, in […]

Novelist David Morrell looks not one bit like a pumped-up, anger-fuelled, out-of-control one-man-force of lethal destruction, but he does know a thing or two about that — having created the character John Rambo in his novel First Blood, and in the novelizations of the subsequent films in the popular franchise. I first met Morrell at Chicon V, the 1991 World Science Fiction Convention. We were sitting next to each other at a mass book signing. As we waited for the doors to open, we discussed, among other things, how the incredible shades of gray in his novel First Blood shifted […]