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Rather than watch the Academy awards tonight I decided to watch an actual movie instead. I’d been wanting to see the remake of ‘The Crazies’ for a while (though Timothy Olyphant needs to start taking roles that aren’t law enforcement officers), and with Mike being sick and nothing planned it seemed a good night for it.

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The between-season TV drought is ending, not that I miss watching TV regularly much. A few of the things coming on that I think friends are interested in:

“Weeds” returns tonight on Showtime, and this year it’s paired with “Nurse Jackie”, which looks interesting although isn’t getting great reviews

There’s no new season of “Top Chef” this summer; we’re getting “Top Chef Masters” (starting on Wednesday June 10th) instead, which is “Top Chef” with established chefs (some of whom have been judges on the regular show) and a different team. (more…)

Not having read any spoilers, I predict that they set off the nuke and that the entire cast is propelled 150,000 years into the past where they become the progenitors of humanity… wait, sorry, wrong show.

NBC’s new show ‘Kings’ has intrigued me… the biggest selling points of it for me are that it stars Ian McShane (Al Swearengen from ‘Deadwood’)… we spent part of the weekend trying to explain the appeal and charm of Al Swearengen to someone, and likely failed.

The show is an alternate-universe modern retelling of the biblical story of David (replete with Goliath tanks). While I don’t have much need in my life for retellings of bible stories, the pieces fell together to make this one look interesting to me.

The show has received critical acclaim while, unfortunately, not many people seem to have watched the premiere. It’s still sitting on our DVR as we haven’t had a chance to watch it yet either, but I’m looking forward to some high quality Ian McShane time, even if it will be weird that he’s not swearing up a storm. (more…)

Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this:

It sounds ominous. If I don’t sign in are they going to close The Nugget?

Do you ever turn on the television and think “Oh my, why hasn’t Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom?”

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BSG is coming back this week for its final batch of episodes.

I have mixed feelings about it, if only because I’m really going to miss it terribly when it’s over. I’m glad it’s limited; there’s a specific story to tell and end, and the fourth season has been tight. But I’ll miss looking forward to it every Friday night.

The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the last few minutes of the new episode.
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And I don’t mean that sarcastically.

Today they have Queen’s album “News of the World” on sale as an MP3 download for $1.99.

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“Futurama” unfortunately never got the love that “The Simpsons” gets, but I’m still grateful for the fact that Fox gave the show another chance in the form of four direct-to-DVD releases ("Futurama – Bender’s Big Score", "Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs", "Futurama: Bender’s Game", and the forth-coming “Into the Wild Green Yonder”).

All I really know about “Bender’s Game” is that it involves D&D, robots and Leela as a centaur. It being “Futurama” was enough to know that I wanted to see it; that’s all icing on the cake.
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The most entertaining iPhone app I’ve seen so far comes from Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers and is called “Bloom”.

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