Highlights of the Week

• This event is so epic it’s going to take all week to get through it. Straight from a smash run in the UK, the five-night Torchwood: Children of Earth event begins on Monday at 9pm and runs nightly through Friday. It will have you on the edge of your seats!
• If that’s not enough, the series that spawned Torchwood is back with a movie event. David Tennant is wrapping his run as The Doctor, so don’t miss Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead, now on BBC America. (Sun. 8pm)
• On the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, Discovery takes a look back with the special When We Left Earth: Apollo 11. (Mon. 10pm)
• Gordon Ramsay is back to tell potential chefs what fucking wastes of time they are on a new season of Hell’s Kitchen. (Tue. 8pm, FOX)
• Say goodbye to Samantha Who? with the last two new episodes ever. (Thu. 8pm, ABC)
• The Wanted is NBC’s new reality offering, where an elite team of specialists track down an international terrorist. How about they go after Bin Laden? (Mon. 10pm)
• Discovery is launching The Colony, a 10-part experiment that looks at what it would take to rebuild a society if everything has been destroyed. (Tue. 10pm)
• ABC News is probably going to tell us lies in Over a Barrel: The Truth About Oil, but you never know. (Wed. 10pm)
• So You Think You Can Dance celebrates 100 episodes with new performances of classic dances, past contestants and more! (Thu. 8pm, FOX)
• I don’t even need to read about this one to know how great it’s going to be. It’s a Syfy original movie on Saturday night. And it’s called Malibu Shark Attack. Bikinis. Blood. Gore. Bad effects. I’m there! (Sat. 9pm) Read the rest of this entry »

Two bitches, so little time. When Nick and Jenny respectively left the show, their names were immediately excised from the credits. And yet, week after week, there we saw Juliet Aubrey’s name. So we knew Helen Cutter was still out there.

Considering she’s been at the center of the anomalies since the beginning, I think we knew we weren’t done with her yet … at least until we’re done with her. My guess is next week’s finale, especially considering the fact that the show’s canceled in the UK after this third season. At least there’s hope of a film and/or spinoff. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve reviewed a number of good shows already here at the Babble. BBC America doesn’t appear to be slowing down, as they have a host of new series, movies and fresh seasons of established faves on tap for 2009. Here’s a quick preview of what’s in store for the coming months.

• Mistresses – Debuts this Friday night at 8pm. Its normal time slot will be Fridays at 9pm. Four 30-something friends ponder their relationship woes. They all share one thing in common: infidelity. Looks like a Brit version of Sex and the City. Let’s hope it’s not as obnoxious. I’ll give it a watch and do a more extensive review down the road.

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BBC America

(Series 2, Episode 7 – Season Finale!)

Primeval has been renewed for a third series across the pond and is expected to start filming said series in early 2009. I’m not sure if they knew that or not when they filmed this episode that they were getting renewed, so they worked hard to make sure that we hated Helen as much as humanly possible by the end of this.

So do any of you know what the hell happened to the character of Stephen this series? I guess after the timeline changes between the first and second series, he became a tool. And yet no one mentioned this particular personality change, what with being focused on Claudia/Jenny and all. Maybe Helen has some venereal disease that brings out the stupid in guys. Nick has been out long enough to have started recovering. Maybe there’s a Helen’s crotch brain rot therapy group out there.

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ABC Studios

Syndicated (Check Local Listings)

• It’s been awhile since the likes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess graced our screens, heralding a new “golden age” of syndicated fantasy. But now, the man behind those “classic” shows, Sam Raimi (Spider-Man movies), along with ABC Studios, is back at it. This time he’s bringing an adaptation of Terry Goodkind’s epic The Sword of Truth book series to the screen with the awkwardly titled Legend of the Seeker, premiering in a two-hour extravaganza sometime today. Check local listings; you remember how this syndicated thing works, right?

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NBC

8:00p/7:00 Central

• America’s Toughest Jobs wraps its first season run on NBC with a finale where the final four contestants must face again the toughest jobs of the competition so far. CMT’s Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling was more fun than I expected, but I’m an old school wrestling fan. The second episode kicks off tonight.
• For sports fans, it’s a choice between ABC’s Saturday Night College Football and World Series Game 3 on FOX. That one’s all tied up and headed to Phillie for tonight’s contest.
• MyNetwork TV is throwing on the feature film Wes Craven’s Dracula, while CBS offers up another Saturday night of repeats, starting with an NCIS from last year featuring Gibbs’ wife as a witness in a murder case.

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Fox Reality Channel

8:00p/7:00 Central

• Yes, I know there were specials on MTV this afternoon featuring “Lost Scenes” from The Hills. I just don’t care. If you really want to watch them, and missed them, I’m sure MTV will repeat them ad nauseum throughout the next week.
• What is on is NBC’s America’s Toughest Job, settling into a new timeslot just in time for the 5 remaining contestants to tackle search and rescue on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley. I wonder if they can see Russia from up there? TLC’s Flip That House comes at you with two back-to-back renovations stretching from Georgia to California.
• ABC’s cooking up some more Saturday Night College Football. It looks as if games may vary by location so check your local listings. One thing that won’t vary is the ALCS Game 6 on TBS. After the Red Sox gave the Rays a stunning come-from-behind spanking, the action returns to Tampa.
• The premiere of Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling features the likes of Tiffany, Todd Bridges and Danny Bonaduce: basically those “celebrities” who’ll do any kind of reality show to get some exposure and money. It’s the fact that it’s on CMT that makes little sense to me.
• FOX offers up a two-hour block of Cops repeats, while CBS repeats Nicholas Brendon’s guest appearance on Criminal Minds from last season.

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