I’ve kind of gotten addicted to Glee the past couple of months. I know how cheesy it is, and I have to admit I’m not the greatest fan of the actual story lines, but I love the songs performed in it (I’ve got a weakness for musicals, growing up with lots of singing along to The Sound of Music and Oklahoma!).

Anyway, in the US the show has been on hiatus since December and we’re having to wait until it comes back in April (Tuesday April 13th to be exact). Fox has just released a new trailer though and I’m guessing in the weeks before airing we’ll get to see even more goodies:

What do you think of the trailer? They don’t show a lot, but it looks like they’ll be doing some good songs!

Farewell, Tenth Doctor! I’ve just finished watching the latest and last episode with David Tennant as the Doctor. Sniff. I won’t spoil anything yet for those who haven’t seen it, but it was a nice goodbye to Tennant. Not as great as an episode as I had hoped for (and nothing as spine-tingly exciting as previous finals), but still good (albeit a bit soppy).

I loved David Tennant as the Doctor, and since it was announced that he’d leave the show after the specials, I’ve been really curious to his successor. It was revealed a couple of months ago that the role went to Matt Smith; I wasn’t that impressed by the first photos we saw from him, but looking at the latest trailer and the little tidbit at the end of the final, I’m having more faith as him as the Doctor now.

What do you think? D you like how this new Doctor looks like?

I really enjoyed SyFy’s Tin Man last year (ugh, still not used to writing SyFy. Stupid, stupid name). While it wasn’t exactly a masterpiece, it was a cool sci-fi re-interpretation of the standard Wizard of Oz story. Now SyFy has done the same thing with Alice in Wonderland.

Now it isn’t exactly a “preview” cause the first part aired yesterday (the second will air tonight), but I still haven’t had the chance to check this out. It stars Caterina Scorsone as Alice, Kathy Bates as the Queen of Hearts, Andrew-Lee Potts as resistance fighter Hatter, Tim Curry as resistance leader Dodo, Colm Meaney as the King of Hearts, Harry Dean Stanton as the Caterpillar and Matt Frewer as the White Knight. Here’s the trailer:

It doesn’t happen everyday that someone you know is making a TV show, and actually delivers something that looks awesome. I met Sizemore (aka Mike Atherton) almost two years ago at the Tuttle/SocialMedia Cafe (not sure what it exactly is called nowadays, haven’t been able to make it for ages), and he’s one of the familiar faces I keep bumping into at various events here in London.

I think it was about a year ago when he mentioned for the first time that he was working on creating a new sci fi show… and now a sizzle reel has been released and it looks awesome. It’s not an actual trailer yet (cause there isn’t an actual pilot yet), it’s more like a mini promo to pitch the show to TV networks and executives etc. They’re hoping to shoot a pilot in 2010.

For more info about Slingers, head on over to Sizemore’s blog.

Chuck fans rejoice! For me, last season’s finale of Chuck was the surprise of the year. I loved loved loved that episode, only to find out that Chuck was on the bubble and was threatened to be cancelled. Luckily because of the support of its fans, NBC picked it up for 13 episodes, all airing in the latter half of the new season.

Now though NBC have ordered 6 additional episodes, bringing the season 3 of Chuck to 19 episodes. Yay! The premiere date has also been announced: Sunday January 10th for a special 2-hour premiere, and then to its new timeslot on Monday 8pm. This was the old slot of Heroes, which has now been pushed back to 9pm. This shows the amount of faith NBC now has in Chuck!

So here’s the new promo clip (of course it’s full of spoilers for the previous seasons):

Ooh, I like the added twist of this new upgraded intersect; I can’t wait for this new season to start!

In short: they should have called this show Spartacus: Blood and Sex. Cause that’s basically all it seems: lots of gore and blood, and loads of nudity and sex. Nothing wrong with that, mind, but for a TV show to hook me, there at least has to be some interesting story line and so far it doesn’t really show. I’m keeping an open mind though, cause I’m basing this all solely on the trailer.

Initially I was pretty curious, because it’s being produced by Sam Raimi. But then I realized he also produced: Xena, Hercules and more recently Legend of the Seeker. Not exactly shows that had me screaming for more. Spartacus: Blood and Sand reunites Raimi with Xena/BSG star Lucy Lawless, playing here Lucretia, who together with her husband Batiatus (John Hannah) own the gladiator camp that Spartacus (Andy Whitfield) is from.

Check out the trailer:

So what do you think? Discuss in the comments.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand premieres in January 2010 on Starz.

I’ve been dreading and putting off writing this preview, but we’re now a day away from the premiere, so I’ve got to say something about it. Anything. But to be honest: I still haven’t gathered all my thoughts about it, and I’m just too scared to even think about this show.

For most of you (I’m guessing practically ALL of you) this will just be another vampire show piggybacking on the hype of Twilight and True Blood. And I’m not disagreeing; that’s definitely the reason why CW picked up this show. For me though this show is much more: the TV adaption of one of my most beloved book series from LJ Smith. I adoooored these books as a teen and can’t begin to tell you how often I’ve read them. While they weren’t my favourite books from LJ Smith (have a look at the Nightworld series, Dark Visions, and the Secret Circle trilogy), they are the first books I read from her and they’ll always remain “sacred” to me.

When I found out the CW would make a TV show out of this, a part of me was ecstatic, but a larger part of me was just dreading it. You know how it is with book-to-TV/movie adaptions; you’ll never satisfy everyone and there will be some disappointments on the way. Whoever they cast in it, it will never match up 100% with however the characters looked in your mind.

And the more I see and hear about this Vampire Diaries TV show, the more I think that in the end I’m just going to be completely disappointed in it. Maybe it will still be an okay series (I doubt it though), but it won’t be my Vampire Diaries. Here’s one of the trailers:

Eek, there is just so much that is wrong! Some of the things might seem minor, but I don’t understand why they had to change it. For starters, Elena (the main character) is described in the books as a blue-eyed blonde, who starts off the series as a bit of a shallow self centered bitch. Not at all remotely like how they’ve portrayed her in the TV series. Then Bonnie is supposed to be bubbly short redhead, descended from druids and is psychic. Apparently they’ve changed  that in the show to “voodoo princess”. Then the third best friend Meredith is just completely missing from the show! There are more changes like this and I just don’t get most of them. Why base a show on a book if you’re going to change the entire thing?

Besides that though, even if you haven’t read the books, I still think it looks awful. Nothing about it seems compelling enough for me to watch it: the dialogue sounds dreadful, the characters look dull, and the plot laughable. It just seems as if they’re cashing in on the whole Twilight and True Blood buzz (”hey, let’s make our own vampire show!”).

Maybe it will turn out okay, but my gut feeling is telling me this will be utter crap. I’m definitely going to try to see when it comes out, but I’m not hopeful about it at all. My tip: ignore the TV show, buy the books instead (Amazon UK, Amazon US).

What do you think of Vampire Diaries? Will you be watching? Or maybe you had a beloved book that was adapted horribly? Discuss in the comments.

I love How I Met Your Mother; it’s I think my favourite sitcom at the moment. It’s got some of the best quotes; most all coming from Barney: “It’s gonna be legen… wait for it… dary!”, “Haaaaave you met Ted?”, “Suit up!”.

Last season ended (SPOILER ALERT for season 4) with a couple of long awaited revelations: Barney declared his love for Robin (yay!) and as Ted began teaching Coumbia University, it was revealed that the Mother is in his class room. I love the Barney-Robin relationship and can’t wait to see more of it.

The TV addict has a bunch of photos from the season premiere of How I Met Your Other up on his blog, and I just had to share them with you. Here’s one of them:

To see the other ones, just head on over to The TV Addict.

How I Met Your Mother – Season 5 Premiere: 21 September 2009 on CBS

Fringe was one of the most interesting new series of last year, so I’m pretty curious to see how their second season will be. There was a big revelation at the end of last season’s finale, and I really want to know how that will affect everyone involved.

Fox has released a couple of different ads to promote the upcoming season, which will be airing on Thursday September 17th. The first is a short promo showing, some scenes from the new season:

Besides that, they’ve also released a season 2 poster, with a couple of cryptic clues hidden within:

I can’t find a high res version of this, making it a bit tricky to see the cryptic clues. So far I’ve spotted the six-finger handprint, the white bunny, the butterfly and something like a tarot card on the ground. Anybody found anything else?

Another soapy drama with pretty people: The Beautiful Life revolves all around the fashion industry about a pair of fresh young models. Here’s the description from The CW:

The life of a high-fashion model appears glamorous and sexy, but as every new model learns, behind the beautiful façade is a world of insecurity and cutthroat competition. Two teenage models just discovering this world are Raina Collins (Sara Paxton, Last House on the Left), a stunning beauty with a secret past, and Chris Andrews (Benjamin Hollingsworth, The Line), a strikingly handsome Iowa farm boy. Raina befriends the newly discovered Chris, introducing him to her friends at the “models’ residence’ she calls home. After an intense photo shoot and an exclusive industry party that a violent turn, Chris questions whether he can survive in this world of dangerous excess and fleeting fame.

I want to not like this series, but I have a feeling that just like with Gossip Girl and 90210, I’ll get hooked.

The trailer is a bit long, but I’m already curious to see more of the characters; they seem likable already. The main girl Sara Paxton seems so familiar to me, but I can’t figure out where I’ve seen her before (browsed through her IMDB page, nothing popped out). I’ve always hated Mischa Barton, but if her character remains the bitchy girl-we’re-supposed-to-hate I don’t have a problem with her.

The Beautiful Life – Serie Premiere: Wednesday September 16th