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Preview: “Ghost Hunters” Scares Up A New Season

By RabbitEars America’s favorite ghost-hunting plumbers are back to flush out more phantoms in Season 5 of SCI FI Channel’s hit series Ghost Hunters, beginning this Wednesday (March 11) at 9pm ET/PT. Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who head up The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) team, explain that this season will see a return to a lot of residential cases in addition to continued explorations of the higher-profile historical sites. This plan is evidenced right away in the premiere episode, a two-investigation show in which the team travels to Pennsylvania to visit a terrified family just outside of Philadelphia, and […]

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“Mars” Departs, “Ashes” Arrives

By ElaineB ABC announced Monday that it is canceling Life on Mars – bad news for fans of the quirky American version of the British series. But if there is one thing the network folks have learned from the disastrous season a few years back – in which heavily plotted shows like Surface and Invasion simply Vanished from the air – it’s that even short-run series must have a resolution. So if you have been immersed in this throwback-to-the-past police drama, you’ll at least be able to find out what happened to Sam before the series takes its final bow […]

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New Cast Members For “SGU: Stargate Universe”

By RabbitEars Joining previously announced stars Robert Carlyle, Justin Louis, David Blue, Jamil Walker Smith and Brian J. Smith on the upcoming SCI FI Channel series SGU: Stargate Universe are Lou Diamond Phillips, Ming-Na, Elyes Levesque and Alaina Huffman, the network announced today. The series — which follows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis in the popular franchise — concerns a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, the Destiny, that is locked on an unknown […]

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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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Eliza Dushku talks “Dollhouse”

When Dollhouse premieres Friday night on FOX, it will mark the resumption of the fruitful relationship between Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku. She was Faith, the tough slayer who gave the heroine fits on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and she reprised the character for a stint on the spinoff, Angel. While Dushku went on to mainly sexpot roles in not-so-high-profile projects, Whedon always believed she was better than the opportunities she had been given. They had a lunch to discuss what her next step should be, and by the time the check came they had fleshed out the idea for […]

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Fringe: Ability — Now We’re Getting Somewhere

Posted by SH Lots of payoffs with this episode. The wonderfully slimy Jared Harris is back as Dr. Jones, the guy who teleported himself out of a German prison, and is now set on finding Olivia. Nina Sharp is back, eager to help Olivia with her innocent inquiries into a mysterious drug. We learn more troubling news about Walter’s past, and best of all, we get to see some faces melt! Well, they don’t melt exactly. But the skin grows enough to where it covers every orifice, suffocating everyone it afflicts. Apparently it’s attached to a set of $2 bills. […]

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Summer Glau, Josh Friedman talk “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”

With all the attention over Christian Bale’s tapestry of profanity woven on the set of Terminator: Salvation, let us not forget that other bit of cybernetic business brewing over on FOX. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles moves to a new night next Friday (Feb. 13), where it will be paired with Joss Whedon’s highly anticipated new series Dollhouse. Summer Glau, who plays the role of Cameron — a Terminator sent back in time to protect John Connor from other sinister robots who want him dead before he can lead a human resistance in a postapocalyptic world — and creator Josh […]

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Fringe: The Transformation

Posted by SH OK, this one was supposed to be pivotal. Here was when we got all our questions answered about John Scott. Who he was, who he was working for, did he really love Olivia, what he was really after. Did we get all that? I guess. Can’t say it was all that earth-shattering, though. He was a black-ops guy, working undercover with a couple other black-ops guys to try to get hold of a deadly virus that apparently turns people into mindless killing machines that resemble giant hedgehogs. So, he was a good guy, then? I’m still not […]

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Fringe: Mark Valley speaks

Posted by SH Despite being killed off in the pilot, John Scott has remained a strong presence on Fringe. His memories now take up residence in his old flame Olivia’s consciousness, and while they sometimes lead her to clues that help her solve Pattern-related cases, they also threaten her sanity. She sees him standing in front of her, assuring her that he’s real. Olivia’s conflicted feelings over John — whose allegiances were murky at the time of his death — have been one of the driving dramatic forces in the creepy cop show. Tonight’s episode, “The Transformation,” has been billed […]

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Fringe: “The No-Brainer”

Posted by SH This week’s episode brought a double dose of nostalgic glee. There was the presence of not one, not two, but three former Wire stars, and the plot line brought back the brain-melting joy of a criminally underrated horrorshow from my childhood, Halloween III: Season of the Witch a.k.a The One Without Michael Myers. We start out with a teenager who finds something more dangerous on the Internet than even Dateline has discovered, a program that gets you into a trance and turns your brain into goo. The last thing you see before you die is a cheesy […]