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Cartoon Network series takes “Green Lantern” into a new dimension

November 10, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

After soaring onto movie screens this past summer, DC Comics superhero Green Lantern is preparing to defend another realm of entertainment when Green Lantern: The Animated Series premieres at 7pm Friday on Cartoon Network. Executive producer Bruce Timm, who was a major creative force behind both Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series, returns to helm these largely outer space-set tales following the adventures of Hal Jordan (Josh Keaton) and his fellow band of galactic defenders. His main companion is Kilowog, his old Lantern Corps drill sergeant, portrayed by voice-over stud Kevin Michael Richardson. Tom Kenny, best known […]

Frank Darabont did sound kinda burned out on “The Walking Dead”

October 14, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

On Friday, July 22, the cast and producers of The Walking Dead assembled in San Diego to bask in the adoration of fans at Comic-Con. Among them was Frank Darabont, the Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, who shepherded the zombie-apocalypse drama from the black-and-white pages of Robert Kirkman’s comic book to television, where it became the highest-rated show on AMC. Darabont met with hordes of reporters, including myself, and appeared on the brink of exhaustion at times. Understandable, given the show’s relentless production schedule, and the rumblings we’d all been hearing about behind-the-scenes conflicts […]

Skyler Samuels adjusting to life as “Chloe King”

July 25, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

When I last spoke with Skyler Samuels, she was sitting in a makeup chair dutifully prepping for another day’s work on The Nine Lives of Chloe King. The show was still weeks away from debuting on ABC Family, and the 17-year-old actress had no presence on Twitter, nor any way to know what it would be like to have a following. Fast forward a couple months, and Chloe King is in full swing, while Samuels has collected thousands of Twitter followers who are enthralled with the show, which follows the adventures of a young San Francisco girl dealing with her […]

Comic-Con 2011: Day 1 in pictures

July 22, 2011 Channel Guide Staff 2

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH If you’re looking for a Twilight fix, I’m afraid you’ll have to look elsewhere. The stars of the tween saga were the stars of Hall H on Thursday, to the delight of thousands of their screaming fans. But while I didn’t attend the panel, Twilight seemed to keep coming up, usually as a joke. While talking to Max Brooks (World War Z) and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), for their participation in the Deadliest Warrior: Vampires vs. Zombies panel, Brooks mentioned that inevitably, “someone will find a way to Twilight zombies,” meaning that all […]

Comic-Con 2011: Sights from Preview Night

July 21, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH The real show starts Thursday, but the hordes of pop-culture enthusiasts (they don’t mind being called geeks) have descended upon San Diego to see the sights. There has been talk about how some luster has been lost with a few of the major movie studios sitting this Con out, but you’d never know it from the marketing machine that’s out in full force. Here is a taste of what’s out here.

“Terra Nova” interactive experience kicks off at Comic-Con, travels country

July 20, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP After more than a year’s worth of anticipation, FOX’s new drama Terra Nova — an adventure about people time-traveling back to prehistoric Earth to change humanity’s future — will finally hit the airwaves on Sept. 26 with a two-hour premiere. Leading up to that, FOX will be kicking off an interactive fan experience called Journey to Terra Nova this Thursday, July 21, at Comic-Con in San Diego. From there, it will travel to 20 additional markets around the U.S. this summer and early fall.

Comic-Con preview: Top 10 most-anticipated TV panels

July 18, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

For the fourth straight year, I’m in San Diego to partake in the annual geek call-to-arms that is Comic-Con. It’s a singular experience, with 130,000 people expected to converge to be among the first to see what’s going to be hot in pop culture in the coming year. Increasingly, that has included TV shows, which seem to develop the die-hard loyal audiences that movie studios so desperately crave. You see stories just about every year now about how a movie that made a big splash at Comic-Con (Watchmen, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) didn’t fare as well in general release. […]

C U at C2E2!

March 17, 2011 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

By Stacey Harrison One of the highlights of my year is the midsummer pilgrimage out to San Diego to attend Comic Con, the undisputed epicenter of geek culture. Once a niche haven for comic book/science-fiction fans to meet their favorite authors and talk about the subjects they love, the event has grown into a pop-culture behemoth, with attendance surging over 120,000 and counting. People come from all over the world and wait in ungodly long lines at every turn just for the chance to get exclusive sneak peeks at what the movies, TV — and sometimes still even comic books […]

AMC pumps life into zombie genre with “The Walking Dead”

October 31, 2010 Channel Guide Staff 1

By Stacey Harrison Let’s face it, the words “zombie apocalypse” aren’t often associated with quality drama. Despite the respect paid to the works of Night of the Living Dead auteur George A. Romero, who never fails to infuse sharp social commentary and allegory into the genre he essentially created, it’s more often than not the terrain for hackneyed horror flicks filled with excessive gore and scantily clad coeds. For every Dawn of the Dead that brings credibility, there’s a Zombie Strippers lurking to take it all away. As for its TV prospects, the horror genre overall has not gained much […]

Comic-Con 2010: Maggie Q makes “Nikita” worth watching

July 21, 2010 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Do we need another take on the La Femme Nikita story, which started out as a 1990 French film, was remade for American audiences in 1993 as Point of No Return, and then was the subject of a long-running series on the USA Network? Absolutely not. But if we must have one, this Maggie Q-led version — in which Nikita has gone rogue and is setting out to destroy the top-secret government organization that turned her into an assassin — is easy enough to accommodate. The action and plot won’t wow anyone who lapped up Alias or Buffy, but Maggie […]