Comedy Central confirmed Tuesday that it had ordered seven episodes of a new animated series, Freakshow. It is slated to begin airing on the cable channel next winter (late 2006 or early 2007). The show will chronicle the adventures of a group called the Freak Squad, who work as circus side show freaks but are
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Hard Pill {NO SPOILERS} Premise: A gay man unhappy with his life takes part in drug trials after a pharmaceutical giant develops a pill that may “cure” homosexuality. So, what would happen if scientists found the cause of homosexuality and said they developed a pill that could “cure” the condition. This is the premise of
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Well-known television actor Dennis Weaver died last Friday from complications of cancer. He was 81. Known as the last of the great TV cowboys playing cowboy-hat wearing heroes well into the 1980s, among science fiction and fantasy fans, Weaver may be best known for a single work; a little movie-of-the-week that wowwed critics and audiences
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Actor Peter Dinklage’s hard feelings over CBS’ abrupt cancellation of Threshold don’t run very deep. He has signed on to costar in another genre series at the Eye Network. In he show, called Ultra, Dinklage will play a character known as “The Scientist.” In Threshold, Dinklage played a wise-cracking and hard-partying womanizer who also was
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Award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer Octavia E Butler died suddenly Saturday, a victim of an apparent stroke. At age 58, she had achieved much more than once would expect from a dyslexic African American lesbian born to a shoe shiner. For her work, she had been awarded two Nebula and Hugo awards. Below is
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After taking a couple weeks off during the month of February, the dark fantasy thriller, Supernatural, is set to return to The WB this week before moving to Thursday nights at 9 p.m. (8 central) starting March 16. The network is paring the show up with Smallville, a move many expect to be ported over
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Just days after taking over the reins of the soon-to-shutter WB network, development honchos at the new CW network are already tweaking shows in development for next year. Making news this week, CW execs are taking a closer interest in the new Smallville spin-off, Mercy Reef. In a move that bodes will for the show’s
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Prolific actor Darren McGavin died Saturday. Best known among science fiction and fantasy fans as the original Carl Kolchak from Kolchack: The Night Stalker in the 1970s, ironically, his last performance was an uncredited cameo in the pilot episode of ABC’s short-lived reincarnation of the series a few months ago. McGavin was featured in dozens
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Nanny McPhee (2005) NO SPOILERS Of all the so-called family films I’ve seen in the past 12 months, two have stood out as films I’ve told adults to go see – whether they have children or not. One is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the second is Nanny McPhee. This film is a
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Underworld Evolution (2005) NO SPOILERS Every so often a stylish little film comes out of nowhere and becomes a cult hit. That happened in the fall of 2003 when a lower budget vampire and werewolf movie called Underworld opened in theatres. To almost everyone’s surprise, it was the top movie of the weekend and went
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