Question: Regarding Blade: The Series, if Spike TV really wanted a vampire series that the fans would love, why didn't it just give us "Spike" the movie or series? No one does better justice to a black duster than James Marsters! — Kathy
Matt Roush: Surely you're not looking for an argument here. And wouldn't Spike the vamp have been a perfect poster bad boy for Spike the network? I'm just ashamed I didn't think of that when I wrote my review, in which I was more fixated on comparing how Buffy the Vampire Slayer improved from movie to TV show while Blade, to be generous, doesn't. At least not yet.
AKS skrev:I dagens Matt Roush:I'm just ashamed I didn't think of that when I wrote my review, in which I was more fixated on comparing how Buffy the Vampire Slayer improved from movie to TV show while Blade, to be generous, doesn't. At least not yet.
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Question: Why should we care about the Emmys? Every year people in the entertainment news media complain of the innumerable shows that were unjustly snubbed, and grumble that the Academy is too conservative, oblivious and ill-advised. I don't disagree with them. To wit: The mom from Malcolm in the Middle was nominated this year. That show is still on? I mean, do actual TV critics vote on the Emmys? It seems the entire body of voters is made up of my grandma. And every year the same news outlets hype up the Emmys like crazy, as if they actually meant something. It's tragic that the Emmys don't take advantage of what they could do — promote and save underwatched shows, expose viewers to innovative programs they wouldn't otherwise watch. I, for one, refuse to watch an awards program that honors the familiar and mediocre (ahem, Two and a Half Men) and consistently ignores truly great TV, like this year's snubs Battlestar Galactica and Veronica Mars. — Luke G.
Matt Roush: I wondered how long it would take before this contrary point of view would be expressed. (Happens every year around this time. And by the way, forgive the Emmy obsession in this week's columns. It did tend to dominate the traffic this week. I promise to move on to fresher topics soon.) We care for the same reason we care about the Oscars, the Grammys or the Tonys. It's the primary award ceremony in which the industry rewards its own, however imperfect the process is. I don't know how many times I've advised readers not to take the Emmys too seriously or to rely on the nominations to validate their sense of a show's worth. Cult shows like Battlestar and Veronica are never going to get their due, any more than Buffy ever did — even the unforgettable musical episode, which was ignored in music categories! The real crime of the Emmy-nomination process this year is that in some key categories, it all seems to have boiled down to who watched a single episode, as if that's the way TV series ought to be judged. If judges went into a room so oblivious to Lost that they couldn't make sense of the episode they screened, they had no business signing up to judge that category in the first place. It's a debacle this year, even more than usual.
An exclusive chat with the Buffy and Angel alum about her new TV movie Relative Chaos, Veronica Mars, and her time as Cordelia Chase.
Rombat skrev:Vafan! Jag vill med ha barn med Amy Acker! Jävla oschysst.
Glorificus skrev:Joss!!! Hans tal (med introduktion av Meryl Streep!) på Equality Now i maj. Wow.![]()
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Han är rätt fantastisk...
Question: With the end of the WB era approaching and with Sunday night's rebroadcast of the pilots of its biggest shows, I was just wondering what you think that network's biggest or most influential show was. I know that Buffy was tops in quality and really brought about a renewed interest in vampires and horror/fantasy TV shows, but I think Dawson's Creek is the seminal WB show. I mean, it's a big part of our pop-culture lexicon, and how many imitators came out after that one? I was in college when these shows premiered, and, while no one I knew watched Buffy, pretty much everyone was at least familiar with Dawson's Creek.— Kristi
Matt Roush: Purely in terms of the WB brand, Dawson's is tops, no doubt about it. The show established the tone for a network that was still struggling for an identity, and became hugely influential in what followed. While 7th Heaven was more popular in terms of sheer numbers (because of its cross-generational appeal), it couldn't match Dawson's place in the zeitgeist. And Dawson's gave us half of TomKat; who'd have seen that coming? In cult terms, Buffy and Angel weren't merely WB's best series of all time, they're in the top tier of genre series ever. Right behind them I'd put Felicity, which had the sex appeal of Dawson's Creek but also a much deeper emotional resonance. It went far beyond the realm of guilty pleasure.
Kofi, Spike and Blade will be among the pupils arriving at primary schools in four years time, new research reveals.
The secretary general of the United Nations, a reformed blood-sucker and a crime-fighting vampire have apparently influenced parents' choice of names for their offspring.
Some 22 have been named Spike, an undead character from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
TVGuide.com: Any other TV plans? Or did the shabby treatment of Firefly do it for you?
Whedon: Firefly wounded me really badly, but I love, love, love TV. It's just a question of freeing up time. I have a few commitments, Wonder Woman being the biggest. I can't let any of them slide, so I've got to get through the things I already agreed to do before I can start agreeing to do other things. But I miss TV. I'm not going to lie: I love it.
The Smiths, for all their bonhomie in public, remain a private couple. They rarely go out, opting for nights at home watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel or playing Monopoly or Crazy Eights. Perhaps Pinkett Smith and Willow might bake a cake or sugar cookies.
At a con a couple of years ago, J August Richards told us that his first year on Angel, Will recognised him at a party - he was pretty blown away!
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