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“24” Day 7, Hour 10: Money Doesn’t Talk, It Screams

By ElaineB Lesson learned: Never underestimate the corrupting power of greed. For the last nine hours, I’ve been concentrating on the theme of force vs. law (or torture vs. reason, depending on your perspective). But now 24‘s second theme is emerging and, in these troubled times — in which bankers, stock and real estate brokers and Bernie Madoff destroyed countless lives and the American economy with their greed — it’s likely to be accepted as reasonable by just about everyone that White House and FBI staff can be bought with diamonds. Sadly, the most unbelievable thing in hour 10 was […]

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“Breaking Bad” Fans: AMC Wants You To Get Down(loads) With Your “Bad” Selves

Breaking Bad addicts, are you counting the minutes until the second season of the best show on TV premieres March 8 (if you’re not, I’ve got my hands on the first three episodes and, honeys, you should be)? Happy news — thanks to Sony Pictures Television and AMC, fans of the Emmy® Award-winning series are now just a few clicks away from some fun little fixes. Start at amctv.com to catch five original mini episodes penned by Vince Gilligan, Kate Powers, and Gennifer Hutchinson, and directed by John Shiban. The “minisodes” feature the series’ regular cast members in storylines that […]

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SCI FI Channel Enters Warehouse 13

By RabbitEars SCI FI Channel has begun production in Toronto on its new, 11-part “dramedy” series Warehouse 13, premiering in July with a two-hour pilot. Apparently playing off (and maybe a spoof of) the mythology and speculation surrounding places like Area 51 and Hangar 18 — believed by some to be top-secret government storage facilities for all manner of alien devices and technology — Warehouse 13 finds two Secret Service agents, played by Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly, transferred to a similar hush-hush location in a remote part of South Dakota. This place houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic and […]

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Win A “Being Erica” Wardrobe Do-Over

By Stacey Did you enjoy last night’s premiere of Being Erica? Well, SOAPnet is teaming with upscale retailer Loehmann’s to let one lucky winner really get in the spirit of the show’s focus on second chances. Just log on to SOAPnet.com or visit any Loehmann’s location to enter the Being Erica Wardrobe Do-Over sweepstakes, which will award one grand prize of a $2,000 Loehmann’s shopping spree and five first-place prizes of a $100 Loehmann’s gift card.

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Getting “Lost”: 316 Review

It’s a good time to be a Lost fan. We’re finally getting some answers this season — so many, in fact, that we don’t even mind that just as many new questions are being raised. Plus, coming off last night’s episode, which was undeniably awesome, we have “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham” to look forward to next week. When we spoke to Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof before the season began, that’s the episode they pointed to as potentially being as mind-blowing “The Constant” was last season. But enough about next week, let’s talk about last night… johnnysweeptheleg’s […]

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24 Day 7, Hour 9 — The things we do for love

By ElaineB Lesson learned: Google prospective boyfriends I used to work with a gorgeous young woman with a very active dating schedule. The secret to her success in finding good men, she said, was weeding out the losers. She googled names, checked arrest records, whatever she could find before she moved beyond that first coffee date. To me, trusting soul that I am, her actions seemed a bit extreme. But Marika, Dubaku/Samuel’s girlfriend, should have done the same. Of course, she would have come up with nothing, as Samuel did not exist, but she might have tried. And, as noted […]

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SOAPnet Debuts “Being Erica”

By Brian Gorman At one time or another, everyone has wondered how different life would be if, as the song goes, we had only known then what we know now. Well, meet Erica Strange, a thirtysomething single woman who may be the world’s top-ranked heavyweight of regret. She’s also the only one who actually can take what she knows now and use it to do something about what happened back then. Being Erica, premiering Feb. 19 on SOAPnet, stars Erin Karpluk (The L Word) as the title character, who describes herself as afflicted with championship-level poor judgment. If there’s a […]

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Cherry Jones discusses playing Pres. Taylor on “24”

By ElaineB It’s always a pleasure when a network makes a star available during the season, as FOX did last week with Cherry Jones. In a long interview, she gave her thoughts on her role and working with Jack/Kiefer. For those coming to this story a bit late, her interview took place just days after the 24 episode in which Taylor meets Jack Bauer at the White House. Cherry Jones on her familiarity with the series before she was cast: When I found out I had the meeting, I went and rented the first season and watched the first two […]

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Getting Lost: “This Place is Death” Review

Posted by johnnysweeptheleg and Mike The year is 1988. The Summer Olympics are being held in Seoul, South Korea. Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan. And Jin is trying to figure out WTF he’s doing washed up on an island with a very pregnant and half-her-should-be-age Rousseau. So “This Place is Death” isn’t about Cleveland, after all, huh? The island is death. Ok, now we get the title. Man, we love this show! johnnysweeptheleg’s Lost in a Moment: Thanks to earlier seasons of Lost, we all know that Rousseau’s team is wiped out, leaving Rousseau alone and crazy, […]

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Lou Diamond Phillips To Guest On “The Beast”

Posted by ButtonKnows Former Numb3rs star Lou Diamond Phillips will match wits with Patrick Swayze’s Agent Charles Barker in an all-new episode of A&E’s The Beast, premiering Feb. 26 at 10pm ET/PT. {SPOILER ALERT: Plot points after the jump}