Showcase.ca has also created Endgame, XIII: The Series, King, and Shattered. All pretty damn excellent, though not sci-fi.

Yes, international distribution is an important part of all media properties (TV, film, music, games, books, etc). In 1998 John Wiley & Sons published a book I co-wrote on how the world's first unregulated global network was going to screw with the entertainment biz models.

Thanks, Bob — I enjoyed Äkta Människor. Wonder whether there'll be a second season.

Maybe. My first reaction was, sure, market size is always determinant. But then i remembered that "The Bridge" was broadcast by Danish TV with the expectation of around 100,000 viewers, and The Almighty Johnsons was renewed based on its performance of around 250,000 viewers.

i cant just be a few countries that produce this kind of stuff. it's got to be pretty universal. but maybe not much in English or with subtitles. i mean, there are plenty of Russian sci-fi writers. Israeli? Chinese? Japanese? South African?

here's the Wikipedia link for the show: [en.wikipedia.org]. i consider it a guilty pleasure. it's not great drama, but fun and original.

i liked the first episode or Real Humans, and appreciate the theme that humans can be even more evil than most sci-fi monsters (similar to Torchwood: Children of Earth).

wow, thanks for the tip Bob. it's looks really interesting (I'm downloading it now).

Nordic crime drama has been explosively successful (Wallander, The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge, etc). I wonder what cool sci-fi they could come up with. It's nice to see what writers in other nations are doing. A different take on the genre.

talking about "fascinating fictional detectives have been not just eccentric but actually mentally ill," be sure to include the character that Callum Keith Rennie portrayed in Shattered, a detective who suffered from dissociative identity disorder.

Orac, anyone?

eagerly anticipating the comment from "Dr Emilio Lizardo"

and, all those years later, "for the world is hollow, and i have touched the sky."

makes sense.

maybe, maybe not. timelines come and go on Fringe... like the weather. i dont think they're attached too any of these timelines

i think Walter shoots Olivia. possibly by mistake, possibly deliberately (for some overarching universe saving reason). which is why Peter screams ....

#corrections bad video link. the last Fringe video sneak peek, "Here's a video in which the cast previews the big season finale," is actually a video sneak peek for Once Upon a Time, s01e21.

can they tell whether he had any STD or other specific malady?

like, let's verify all the other obvious facts. yup, gravity is still working. let's check again in a century.

Wednesdays in New Zealand, Channel 3 broadcasts the latest episode of "The Almighty Johnsons," ([en.wikipedia.org]), a sci-fi fantasy thingee. which i download and rather enjoy (albeit as a guilty pleasure).