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    Wednesday
    Feb222012

    "Mad Men" Season 5 Betty Is Back Trailer

    "Mad Men" returns with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, March 25 at 9pm ET and will return to its regular timeslot on Sunday, April 1 at 10pm ET.

    Written by Matthew Weiner and directed by Jennifer Getzinger, the season premiere episode will also be available on amctv.com the Monday after air.

    "Mad Men" stars Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Jones, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris and Kiernan Shipka.

    Huffington Post

    Tuesday
    Feb212012

    Chill Out, Internet – Community Returns Next Month

    In what will surely send Twitter into overload, Dan Harmon has twittered Community will grace NBC stations or Hulu if you're like many and wait till the next day to catch it on March 15.

    Beyond that, the fate of the cult-favorite comedy is anyone's guess. Best enjoy what's in front of you from here on, regardless of its fate past May, and stop your bitching about NBC yanking it off air. Not the first time, or last, a show us nerds loved that got no love from its own network or the Nielsens.

    Saturday
    Feb112012

    Clone Wars Darth Maul Teaser!

    He's back on the big screen in 3D right now and one of the most popular characters from A Galaxy Far Far Away will come to the small screen this March when he is resurrected in the Clone Wars animated show.

    Maul will feature in the 4 part arc that closes out season 4 and the big speculation regards whether he will return with mechanical legs as depicted in an expanded universe story, whatever the case may be he certainly seems angry at the Jedi, unsurprisingly since Obi Wan sliced him in half.

    Friday
    Feb102012

    DC Nation Premieres March 3rd

    All-New Hour-Long Block Premieres Saturday, March 3 at 10 a.m. (ET, PT)

    Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment are teaming up to present DC Nation, a full hour of exclusive kids’ television programming and shorts based on DC Comics characters. Full of action and humor, DC Nation brings some of the most beloved and legendary heroes — as well as some lesser-known cult favorites — from the pages of DC Comics to the screens of a whole new generation of fans. Anchored by Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice, DC Nation will premiere Saturday, March 3, at 10 a.m. (ET, PT).

    Green Lantern: The Animated Series debuted in November 2011 on Cartoon Network as a special one-hour movie event and was greeted with much critical acclaim: Variety lauded the “beautifully rendered” series for its “bold, sleek design.” Now fans can experience the series again from the very beginning. With stunning, stylized CG animation, Green Lantern: The Animated Series takes viewers on a journey of cosmic proportions as Hal Jordan and his band of heroes fight to save the universe.

    The second half hour of DC Nation will be comprised of new episodes of Young Justice, a series which Entertainment Weekly called a “super-ior cartoon” with “a good dose of super-hero action.” The series continues with more adventures for Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis as they continue to try to prove themselves as superheroes while dealing with all the pitfalls of being teenagers.

    Rounding out this branded block of original programming will be a number of shorts featuring DC Comics super heroes and characters as you have never seen them before. With fresh designs and concepts, fan favorites such as Plastic Man and Doom Patrol will finally take center stage next to the likes of Wonder Woman and Teen Titans. Bringing them to life will be the result of a collaboration with some of the top talents in the animation industry, which include award-winning Aardman Studios (Arthur Christmas, Wallace and Gromit) with its stop-motion clay animation techniques, and the unique direction and character designs of Lauren Faust (The Powerpuff Girls, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic). In addition to these shorts, DC Nation will also feature event programming, interstitials, exclusive behind-the-scenes looks at theatrical motion pictures and an insider look into the world of all things DC Comics.

    Tuesday
    Jan312012

    Stephen Amell Is Green Arrow

    Deadline has the reveal of our new Green Arrow and it's Stephen Amell. I'm not familiar with the actor, but I do know some of the shows he's been in which include 9012, The Vampire Diaries (both are CW programs), HBO's Hung, and Private Practice for ABC.

    While Justin Hartley's portrayal of the character for Smallville was a bit more clean cut, it looks like Amell could really pull of the rugged style that Oliver Queen is known for. I assumed the twirled mustache and pointed goatee would be gone and understandably so. He very much resembles the newly relaunched version of the character in DC's new 52.

    A modern retelling of the story of DC Comics character Green Arrow, he will play the vigilante superhero who fights crime using archery, martial arts and technology under his secret identity as Oliver Queen, a wealthy playboy and billionaire industrialist-turned-outspoken politician in Star City.

    Tuesday
    Jan312012

    X-Factor Fires a Bunch of People – America Shrugs

    According to Entertainment Gossip Bitches (Take your pick), everyone in the picture above who isn't Simon Cowell or the black guy (I kid - music producer L.A. Reid) won't be back for the second season of X-Factor, the over-hyped singing competition show pretending like there was no such thing as American Idol before it.

    Is anyone truly incensed by this? Back during Cowell and Paula Abdul's judging duties on Idol, there were always rumors, like clockwork, about how Paula was getting fired and how she and Simon were at each other's throats (Ryan Seacrest's too). Such over-thinking on throwing hosts and judges out the door and yet the simplest solution is looking straight in their face, and they either can't see it or won't acknowledge it.

    It was stupid to have singing competition shows all year long. As useless as their winners have been (Hasn't been a champion to have a legit career since Carrie Underwood - eight years ago), it was a yearly tradition for people to click on American Idol in January and after crowning a winner in May, take the rest of the year off to cool down and get it out of your system. Nobody wants to see that 12 months a year and especially with Idol without Cowell's venomous, but generally on the money, criticisms, and judged by people who can't afford to be truthful because they still have a PR image to maintain and albums to sell.

    Why does Fox think their ratings are down big time this year?

    Wednesday
    Jan252012

    Dwight Centered Office Spin-Off In Development – Really, NBC?

    While they put on their best brave face and confidentially spoke of the infinite story possibilities, you just know everyone knew The Office was never going to be the same. The moment Steve Carell confessed in the spring of 2010 the (then) forthcoming seven season for the hit NBC comedy was his swan-song, we all speculated that perhaps the showrunners would have the good sense to let the series end as its lead character, Carell's kind-hearted doofus Michael Scott, walked off into the sunset to begin his new life with the love of his life Holly (Amy Ryan).

    But then we snapped out of that idealistic delusion of grandeur and realized this is NBC we're talking about; once the #1 rated network on television now reduced to having its ass handed to it by the likes of A&E, Univison and MTV (to name a few cable channels). No, we were stuck with a comedy without its protagonist to anchor on and no viable B-plots (Jim and Pam now have two children and, as much as they try, the Andy/Erin love-woes ain't cutting the mustard) to keep us watching anymore.

    Now NBC, as reports "TOLDJA," so needy for programming they're leaning on an, that's right, Office spin-off. One that will serve as a vehicle centered on the odd-ball, but dedicated, salesman Dwight Schrute, as played by Rainn Wilson.

    Let's just put aside not only how desperate this comes off and how far too late into the series' run this is. Just think to yourself. Is there anything else left to be said or done with Dwight as a character (as brilliant as he is portrayed by Wilson) that requires now an entire half-hour comedy where he is the primary focus?

    If all works out (and again...this is NBC we're talking about; they need the programming so it will most likely go down), the untitled Office spin-off would premiere in the midseason 2013 season.

    Wednesday
    Jan252012

    CW's "Arrow" Character List

    Really a fan of anything Marc Guggenheim & Greg Berlanti are working on, I don't think Arrow is going to be the exception. We just recently found out that the duo was working on the project with Andrew Kreisberg with little details on the show. The TV Addict via ComingSoon.Net has obtained the casting sheet which you can view below.

    Oliver Queen

    A 27 year old reformed bad boy, who after having spent five years shipwrecked on a tiny, brutally dangerous island in the South China Sea returns to town a different man. Or to be more specific, a tortured, thoughtful master of the bow with a ferocious determination to make a difference.

    Dinah "Laurel" Lance

    28 years old, smart sexy, Laurel is a legal aid attorney determined to use her life as a one-woman war against the 1% following the death of her younger sister Sara. A sister, who as luck would have it, just so happened to have died aboard Oliver’s yacht.

    Tommy Merlyn

    28 years old and devil-smooth, Tommy is a trustafarian like Oliver, a spectacularly rich young man whose life revolves around parties, clubs, liquor and lots of anonymous sex. Unlike Oliver, he can’t seem to understand his former best friend’s sudden change of lifestyle and direction.

    Moira Queen

    48 years old, a beautiful woman, Oliver’s mother Moira is a very wealthy woman who is not used to being shaken. Having remarried during the five years that former husband Robert and Oliver were both presumed dead, Moira has had free rein over the Queen billions. Not surprisingly, she’s deeply interested in learning whether or not Robert will also return unexpectedly, to ruin her present marriage and go over the books with a fine-tooth comb.

    John Diggle

    35 years old, African-American, Diggle is really, really big, a former military man who served with the Army Rangers in Afghanistan, and has been a bodyguard for hire for the last four years. Hired by Moira to be Oliver’s chauffeur and protector, Diggle soon finds he is trapped in a battle of wits, as Oliver repeatedly eludes his protection. But in fact, Diggle’s primary conflict is one of loyalty — he has to show that he’s working for Oliver, not Moira, before Oliver will give him a smidgen of trust.

    Thea Queen

    17 years old (suggest 17-22 years), Oliver’s Lolita-esque sister, Thea was a 12 year old girl when he went on his infamous yachting voyage — but now she’s a celebutante who’s testing the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Thea loved her big brother with all her heart, and is delighted to have him back in her life — but she’s spreading her wings, and is unprepared for Oliver to become the Bad Cop in the family, restricting her access to boys and drugs.