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Heroes: Someone! Will! Die! Or Something!

NBC Photo: Paul Drinkwater Tonight, as NBC is promo-ing, “two heroes will fall” as “Volume 2: Generations comes to an explosive, bloody finish.” Judging by recent history, I think we can definitely take that as an ironclad promise that two characters will fall, downward, and substantial portions of their body will come in contact with [...]

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NBC: Deadliest Network

Discovery Channel The New York Times reports that NBC has struck a deal to acquire a ton of programming from outside producers including Thom Beers. You probably don’t know who Beers is, but you very likely know his shows: he specializes in cable shows about people in extreeeeeeeeem circumstances, like Deadliest Catch and Ice Road [...]

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The Morning After: On a Scale of One to Tin

SCI FI Channel Photo: Art Streiber I panned Tin Man, the Sci Fi Channel adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, in the print TIME magazine this week. But as you know, I write all kinds of asinine crap, so Tuned In’s substantial sci fi contingent may well have disagreed with me. Did you watch the [...]