Syfy's "Being Human" remake is just like the Original. [Video]

Yep, it caught me off guard, but it’s hard to find any originality these days. This article from the Boston Herald goes into the pros and cons of a remake.

Being Human remake artical

Here’s also a video about Being Human… I mean uh Syfy’s show..

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Terra Nova: Cast Pictures and Neat stuff!

The Folks over at www.comingsoon.net have posted some cast pictures of the up coming Sci Fi Adventure series Terra Nova.

The humans on Earth in 2149 have discovered that our planet is nearly dead in the future, as a last ditch effort to save humanity, they’ve found a portal back to Jurassic Park. No… not the Film, but to a truly pre-historic earth.

Terra Nova will have a 2 hour premiere on Fox, May 23 and 24th. You can read up on it here:

Terra Nova at www.comingsoon.net

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ABC Green Lights "Charlie's Angles" Pilot

This link from Entertainment Weekly talks about how ABC has giving a green light to produce a pilot episode of Charlie’s Angles. Will you watch it?

Link to EW: Charlie’s Angles Pilot

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Off The Map: An ABC series premiere. [Video]

This one kinda snuck underneath the radar for me, did it for you? From what I can tell about this teaser trailer, it looks like that there a bunch of doctors on an island, helping out with people that get infected, injured, or hurt. Where’s Jack and Lock in all of this?

Watch it here:
Off the Map

It premiered January 12th on ABC @ 10:00pm.

Wiki it up!

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The Cape: Premiere Review [Clif]

This doesn’t contain any spoilers.

I sat down at the movie theater a while ago and like you guys, I saw that NBC was advertising a new show called The Cape.

Now, every single time, I struggled through that ad teaser, it came off to me as something that I just wasn’t interested in. A circus of bandits, a hero being made into a crime fighter, with a cape…. really? Come on NBC!

I put it back in the recesses of my mind, long to be forgotten, that is until yesterday. I go to my usually round of websites, Hulu being one of them and found that The Cape was up on the main page. NBC Universal probably spent some big bucks on their first episode, so I said to myself, why not? Exercise and watching a TV show, two things at once.

So there I clicked. From the moment it started, to the moment it ended, it was a really fun ride with a lot of potential.

It moves fast, characters are memorable, and I’m glad to see Keith David pop up on screen. I was also surprised to see Vinnie Jones who i’m a big fan of in Lock, Stock, and Two smoking Barrels, and Snatch.

There’s lots of action, memorable sobbing moments, and a quick pace of fun action with some witty dialog. The only downside of The Cape is that it may move just a bit too fast. A hero is born, he learns all his skills from a circus full of bandits in like five minutes of show, a super villain is establish, and our hero Vince Faraday played by David Lyons moves from scene to scene and even takes a little help from a techie girl Orwell, played by Summer Glau.

I get it that shows today are on such a tight wire, that you’ll need to cram in a lot of story in order to keep us entertained, but this is what might lead to The Cape’s unbelievability. But on the plus side, that’s what you’re getting into. It’ll keep you in your seat, but not on the edge, and if you let go of the “everything has to represent the real world” mentality, then you’ll be happy. The Cape is fun but it doesn’t leave you wanting more. It could have been the great Two hour made-for-TV movie and that would have satisfied enough.

I’ll be interested to see if The Cape does well with the superhero audience. With NBC ending heroes, Maybe they’re trying to keep the Superhero audience before ABC and Disney begin producing their own Superhero shows on their own. So if you like superheroes shows, you’ll like this one too. But if you’re just looking for a fun ride, i’d say check it out, but don’t count on it for the long haul.

-Clif

Check it out on Hulu before it goes:
The Cape

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