Month: January 2014
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Watch This: Trailer for Cosmos
Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a continuation of the old Carl Sagan series, COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey. The new 13-part series premieres Sunday, March 9 at 9/8c on FOX. It will also appear on the National Geographic channel. Set your DVR. This ought to be good!
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Nashville: Hayden Panettiere Evolves in a Good Way
Last night’s episode of Nashville, “It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right” finally showed the very long evolution of Juliette Barnes, played by Hayden Panettiere, in a light that makes her a more likable character. For a long while, Juliette Barnes has been the antagonist, the bad girl we love to hate. At the same…
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TV Extends its Reach
Yesterday there was an announcement in The Hollywood Reporter that the series The Fosters has an order for a 5 part web series that will focus on the group home where the character Callie is currently living. Lost Girl used 4 webisodes to bridge the gap between season 3 and season 4. Defiance has a…
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Recap: Lost Girl, S4, E11 – End of a Line
It’s “End of a Line” on Lost Girl. Everyone but Bo thinks Rainer is evil, the line between life and death is permeable, and someone we love dies. (Say it isn’t so!) Kenzi (Ksenia Solo) and Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) are picking a movie to help distract them from the fact that Bo has locked them…
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Winners and Losers
Four new TV shows caught my eye. After checking them out for two or three episodes, I’ve picked the winners I want to keep watching and the losers that will disappear from my viewing schedule. The Winners The two shows I find the best are Intelligence and Killer Women. Sheer dazzle makes Intelligence interesting. Josh…
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PBS Announces Dates for Season 2 of Last Tango in Halifax and I’m Not Happy – Updated
PBS announced that the second season of Last Tango in Halifax will air on PBS beginning Sunday June 29, 2014. You read that right: June 29. Five months from now. As far as I’m concerned here at Old Ain’t Dead, that’s a unacceptable delay and wait. Blimey Okay, I am pretty upset with PBS. And…
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Watch This: Trailer for the Short Film One Billion Rising
One Billion Rising is an event organized by Eve Ensler of The Vagina Monologues. The film is a short about the event in 2013. Another event is planned for Valentine’s Day 2014.
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Amy Poehler and Natasha Lyonne and Old People: I’m Excited
The news is that Amy Poehler received the go ahead for a new comedy on NBC, tentatively called Old Soul. The series will star Orange is the New Black sensation Natasha Lyonne as a young woman working as an aide to a group of old people. According to this report in Deadline, “This show, hopefully,…
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Recap: Lost Girl S4, E10 Waves
In the “Waves” episode of Lost Girl, two separate stories are told in tandem. One is a procedural crime-solving tale involving Kenzi, Dyson and Lauren. The other takes us back to the train and answers a lot of questions for us about Bo and Rainer. This being Lost Girl, the episode also sets up a…
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Watch This: Cave Digger Trailer
Cave Digger is an award-winning documentary about an unusual artist who digs caves in the sandstone of Northern New Mexico. The caves are works of art filled with carved sculptures, furniture, rooms with arched entries and fantastic displays that range from things like flowers and leaves to abstract designs. This extraordinary cave artist is Ra…