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  • Season 5 Promo For Archer Actually Makes Top Gun Good

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    Photo courtesy uproxx.com

    Top Gun sucks. Yeah, I said it. Even when I was a kid and everyone in elementary school was yelling full blast about how great it was, I still believed it sucked. It will always suck (to me). If you love it, that is between you and God.

    Leave it to Archer to make it fun.

    This new promo for Season 5 remakes the Kenny Loggins video for Archer fave, Danger Zone, using characters from the show. One great thing is that Lana will never age as badly as Kelly McGillis has. Seriously, go look her up. It is like she stared directly in the Ark of the Covenant.

    Archer returns in January. Sploosh.

    http://youtu.be/_7HkG6OSo3E

  • Sleepy Hollow Renewed For Second Season

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    Photo courtesy flickhd.com

    Well that didn’t take long at all. The first show of the new television season to get renewed is Sleepy Hollow after only three weeks on the air. Fox announced today that due to good ratings they would be moving forward with a second season next year. The first season is 13 episodes and instead of ordering an additional 9 for a full season of 22 episodes, they are taking the approach of the cable networks and keeping the series at 13 episodes a season.

    I have always liked the shorter season order for dramas that shows like The Shield, The Walking Dead and Mad Men have done. Sometimes a show can seem like it is dragging when there are 22-24 episodes to film. I loved Arrow but some episodes were hard to get through with so many episodes. Sleepy Hollow seems like it will work much better as a shortened season show especially since it appears there is already a long term plot in place. It debuted with 10 million viewers and has held on to most of them through the first three episodes.

    Sleepy Hollow has been a fun show so far, it is good to know there will be more next year.

  • “This Is My Design.” The Hannibal Season 2 Poster Is Here

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    Photo courtesy collider.com

    Hannibal was my favorite new show of last season. Bryan Fuller crafted a show that completely rebuilt and in many ways remastered characters created by author Thomas Harris. Mads Mikkelsen brought a new debonaire aura to Hannibal Lector that had not been seen before, even by Anthony Hopkins. The first season was one disturbing character breakdown of special investigator Will Graham and when we last left him he was locked in a mental hospital.

    The show was not a ratings juggernaut but did have enough of a following for NBC to pick up a second season at the last possible moment. If you have not had a chance to experience the show for yourself the first season has [amazon_link id=”B00CWIMY3O” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]just been released[/amazon_link]. You can thank me later.

    The poster for the second season will look very familiar to fans as it looks like Will will be seeing Hannibal for his true self this next season.

    Hannibal returns next year.

  • The X-Files Complete Series And Two Movies Only $89.99!

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    Photo courtesy fanpop.com

    Amazon is giving sci-fi fans one of the best deals ever today with their Gold Box Deal. You will get all nine seasons of The X-Files plus both movies (The X-Files: Fight the Future and I Want to Believe) for only $89.99. That is 73% off of the regular price. If you are a collector that has been wanting to complete a collection this is the perfect opportunity.

    This deal is good for today only.

    202 episodes and two movies for only $90. Check it out here.

  • John Watson Moves To North Dakota, Joins Cast Of Fargo

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    Sherlock and The Hobbit star Martin Freeman is coming to American TV. He has joined the cast of FX’s Fargo as lead character Lester Nygaard. His character will be put through the ringer by Lorne Malvo, played by Billy Bob Thorton.

    The show will be based on the Coen Brothers 1996 film. It will premiere next spring on FX. For anyone that has not seen Martin Freeman in BBC’s insanely good Sherlock, you are in for a treat. You can’t ask for a better lead then add in Thorton and the show already has high expectations from me.

    Dontcha know? Oh yah.

  • Commissioner Gordon Gets His Own TV Show Called Gotham

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    Photo courtesy dccomics.wikia.com

    The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. look to have some TV competition in the form of James Gordon. Fox has won a bidding war for Gotham, a show centered on James Gordon when he is a detective in Gotham City before anyone ever heard of a man prowling the streets in a bat suit. Gotham was written by the creator of The Mentalist, Bruno Heller and has been given a series order by Fox so expect to see this on the schedule sooner rather than later. Next fall is the best bet.

    Networks are quickly adding comic based series with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC and Arrow on The CW. The Flash will be introduced on Arrow this season also with the possibility of his own series down the road.

    Gotham could very easily work especially if the show takes a darker tone than people expect and focus on disturbing crimes like in Criminal Minds. Casting will be interesting also because I am thinking it will be a mid to late-40’s Gordon and fans will no doubt let their opinions be known if they do not agree with whoever takes on the role.

  • John Noble Returning To TV, Joins Sleepy Hollow

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    John Noble’s time away from television will not be long. The Fringe star is joining Fox’s Sleepy Hollow in a recurring role. He will play Henry Parrish who is described as “a kind and reclusive man who possesses supernatural powers that have the potential to help the series’ protagonist, Ichabod Crane.”

    If you did not catch the premiere of Sleepy Hollow this past Monday, go and find a replay because it was really fun and I can easily see it being my favorite new show of the season. They did a great job in expanding the mythos of the Headless Horseman in a direction that you would not think about, but should make the show intriguing.

    Now add in John Noble and I am even more excited.

  • Remember When Green Arrow Fought Black Dynamite?

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    Photo courtesy bleedingcool.com

    You don’t? Hell I don’t either, but that is what we are getting this fall when Michael Jai White comes to Starling City as Bronze Tiger. This may be the greatest thing ever to happen on the CW, although the bar is not that high to begin with.

    I don’t know if this means we will eventually get a version of Suicide Squad on Arrow, but it’s a start.

    And what about those T.J. Miller hand claws White is sporting?

    All this episode needs to be perfect now is kung-fu treachery.

  • Want More Walking Dead? AMC Hopes So. Spin-Off Series Coming In 2015

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    Photo courtesy bloody-disgusting.com

    AMC is developing a spin-off for The Walking Dead with creator Robert Kirkman and show producers Dave Alpert and Gale Anne Hurd. The show would involve new characters and locations not in the current show.

    This is a smart choice for AMC, even if some will roll their eyes at it. The Walking Dead is AMC’s highest rated show and a spin-off is logical considering Breaking Bad is ending in a few weeks and Mad Men’s seventh season will be its last. They have already given a go for the Breaking Bad prequel, Better Call Saul.

    So the AMC lineup for 2015 should look like this:

    The Walking Deader/Deadest?

    Better Call Saul

    Madder Men

    High Summer Moon

    Graphic Novel Women

  • Tennant, Smith And Hurt Are Front And Center In New Poster For Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor

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    This new poster for Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor features tenth and eleventh Doctors, David Tennant and Matt Smith as well as John Hurt, who will be playing a lost, forgotten Doctor. Billie Piper is returning as Rose and Jenna Coleman is back as Clara.

    The special will air on November 23rd on BBC One and simulcast in a number of other countries.

    For you Christopher Eccleston fans who want their fix just go and check out Thor: The Dark World.

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