I don't know if this is in effect anymore, but it used to be the rule between the two networks showing NFL games on Sunday that they alternate twin-bills and the morning/afternoon schedules in markets with an NFL team in-place so that one network (like Fox/CBS) would have a double-feature one week while the other…

Red Zone is Sunday-Only. Sometimes a team I like is scheduled on the Sunday Night, Monday Night, holiday, or Thursday night games which are not covered by Red Zone, as well as the playoffs. Unfortunately, those games DO commercials.

Grimm lost me this last season. Don't know how it happened. It was one of my favorites, but something about the relationship between the principle characters started to feel a bit too much like a soap opera, so off the DVR list it went. Same for Clone Wars (I know, how dare they put kids in a kids show—lol!) and…

Up until BoBW, Trek wasn't a cliffhanger-type show. The tradition being each episode a self-contained "mission". That's what made BoBW so great. TNG didn't really develop a decent story arc to build up after the Borg, but it did try. Worf's sacrifice and redemption of his honor was the best though. In fact, you…

AND don't forget Warehouse 13's great cliffhanger episodes, especially the season three finaly, where...

"Fringe" WAS one of my favorite shows and I loved all the cliffhangars and it's campy-serious send-up of X-files plotlines until the last two seasons that turned the show into just another variation of "V", "They Live" and "The Monitors." There's already too many "freedom fighters vs. Authoritarian Alien Rulers"…

Here's a shout-out for the innovative "Beast Wars", the 1996 cgi-animated "kids show" that had some surprisingly adult storylines and character developments (even robot "love stories" and a blatantly pervy tarantula!). It also had some of the best cliffhangers of a kid's show as well, the best one being the season…

I'm juuust old enough to remember "Batman" first-run (IN COLOR!), but my first clear memories of any tv show were the Batman cliffhangers (done in that "sudden-stop" filming style "Starsky & Hutch" and then other '70's action series copied). The only one I can still remember anymore is one where B&R were tied-up in…

It's not a surprise the Chinese can build something faster than we can, the instruction manuals are already in Chinese! ;)

Update: James Earl Jones would HAVE been awesome. Oh well...

Oh my, I wasn't even thinking of a haiku until you mentioned that! How's this:

This kind of reminds me of what happened to the film version of Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears". The antagonists in the book were Islamic Fundamentalist, but in the film they were re-engineered as European Neo-Nazi radicals. The movie lost its credibility among Clancy's readers (and Ben Affleck's acting finished…

The more I look at that needle, the more I expect the Proteus to fall out and a bunch of tiny little voices yelling, "OH, SHIIIIIIIIIIII——!"

Anyone know who's doing the voice of Smaug? James Earl Jones would be awesome!

Game of Thrones.

After what happened to him in "Casino Royale", I'm surprised he doesn't need a "Quantum of Cialis" just to fill out his BVD's.

"Have you been to the surface lately?"

"Reality television makes us strong!"

That picture up there looks awfully familiar.

I think what would put SyFy "on the map" again is a series based on an extended novel anthology based on the works of a well-known author, but as "Game of Thrones" shows this is simply not doable on a reasonable budget. Gone are the days you could sell a "Dr Who"-type cheap-set drama even with good stories and…