Well Known Faces Grace Happy Town Disaster
I watched Happy Town. I have a strong urge to leave the post at that, mostly because I’m not sure what else to say. I hadn’t heard about what Happy Town was supposed to be. I still don’t think I know after screening the pilot, you know.. a few weeks after they pretty much gave [...]
J/DB’s 12 Days of Lists – Day 5 – Best of 1999
Let’s celebrate the end of the decade by looking back at the end of the last. Here’s what I consider to be the high points of the 1999 television landscape.
First up we’ve got the growth of the Whedonverse. 1999 not only saw some of the best Buffy episodes (both Dopplegangland and Hush), but also the [...]
This Post Sucks
We here at JDB are big fans of both lists and holiday theme posts, so I figured I’d make up a list of my favourites of a monster type on TV. Saying as there aren’t a lot of werewolves or zombies and ghosts are lame, I went with the Vampyr. I even did my best [...]
Jerk’s Top TV Geeks III: The Nerd List
This was probably the easiest of the three lists to compile, as Nerds are the most prevalent form of geek on TV. Makes sense really, as Geeks require pop culture references which if done poorly would date your show badly, and TV normally tries for the glitz and glam, so true Dorks on television are [...]
Jerk's Favourite Finales
Battlestar made me want to make up this list of my favourite series finales. Not just ‘good’ or ‘acceptable’ finales, but ones that measured up with the best episodes of the show, that tied everything together perfectly. Turned out to be harder than I thought, because most of the shows that I’ve watched over the [...]
FOX tries Reverse Psychology on Bones Viewers
When Fox moved Bones to it’s new slot on Thursday night with -well almost all of my favorite shows I thought it was a terrible move. I used to flip between Bones and ANTM on Wednesdays but without it’s ‘mate’ I’d let my Bones watching fall to the wayside. What fixed this? Pissing me off [...]
Regarding Vampires
One of the things that stands out the most from the first season of True Blood was how vampires die in the show. Now I’m probably just biased from all the Buffy and Angel that makes up the vast majority of my vampire knowledge base, but it seems turning to dust and/or withering away is [...]
The Gospel According to Whedon
Last week I read an amazing interview by the futon critic with producer /creator Joss Whedon. I was really impressed with the interview and if you’re a fan of Joss’ work, I recommend you go check that out.
In the interview he was asked about coming back to television after the success of Dr Horrible’s online. [...]
Video Killed The Radio Star
These days it seems like everyone’s a cross-over artist. They sing! They dance! They design $100 leggings! Performers are pimping their brands which most of the time spring from some sort of talent, usually.
Just when you thought the Parkman postage stamp was the coolest piece of Greg Grunberg memorabilia you were ever going to get [...]
