TV on DVD: September 21, 2010

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, BBC, Cable, CBS, FOX, HBO, MTV, NBC, 30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, The Hills, DVD,

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday:

• 30 Rock (Season 4)
• Being Human (Season 2)
• Bored to Death (Season 1)
• Castle (Season 2)
• Community (Season 1)
• Desperate Housewives (Season 6)
• Dragon Ball GT (Complete Series)
• The Hills (Season 6)
• How I Met Your Mother (Season 5)
• Human Target (Season 1)
• Law & Order: SVU (Season 11)
• The Mentalist (Season 2)
• Modern Family (Season 1)
• Mythbusters (Collection 6)
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand (Season 1)
• Two and a Half Men (Season 7)

Make sure to also check out the DVD and Blu-ray film options for this week.

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Preview Several of FOX’s New Shows

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, FOX, Video,

Already itching to start a new TV season? Well here are a few of FOX shows scheduled to debut over 2009-2010.

Brothers
This half-hour comedy starring former New York Giant Michael Strahan will air on Fridays this fall. This Dollhouse lead-in (you can see the obvious similarities) focuses on a retired and financially-strapped football player who moves back home with his parents (Carl Weathers and The Shield‘s CCH Pounder). Daryl “Chill” Mitchell plays his wheelchair-bound brother.

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The 2007 Academy Awards: Live Commentary

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Specials, ABC, Editorial, Features,

Welcome to our live coverage of the 79th Annual Academy Awards!  During our live-blog of the 2006 Oscars, I made what may now be considered an eerie prediction about Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe:

“For some reason, I keep getting this nagging feeling that their relationship will dissolve sometime soon, but that discussion is for another post.”

I’d like to say that I’m psychic (if so, that Oscars pool at work is all mine)...but I’m going to have to chalk it up to nagging intuition.  What is that little voice inside me saying this year?  While some races may have been locked up months ago (I’m talking to you, Helen Mirren), there will be a shocker this year.  I can’t pinpoint the category, but I think it will be come riding in on a big yellow bus…

To find out who will be going hog-wild tonight during the Year of the Pig, stay tuned here for the live results!

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