Two TV TIdbits

[yendi]

First, A Wrinkle in Time will finally air! Woohoo!

(okay, I know it might be a sucky adaptation -- I mean, three years on a shelf doesn't bode well -- but I need to see it).

Second, the Allyson Hannigan sitcom has been retooled, and they've added Michael Landes to it! Why do I care? Because Landes has starred in two of my favorite genre shows: Lois and Clark before it sucked (When they replaced Landes with Justin Whalen, the show jumped the shark faster than a speeding bullet), and Special Unit 2, which was a cut-rate MiB/Hellboy show done right, and the best show UPN has cancelled this side of Dilbert. So yeah, seeing him in a show with Allyson gives me some hope.

And yeah, it's been a long day, hence the lack of any posts other than an early-morning and late-afternoon tv nattering.

Comments

[rainbow-slinky.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it probably WILL be a sucky adaptation, but it's my favorite book ever so who cares. ;)

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that be "jumped a tall shark in a single bound?"

[masterrobyn.livejournal.com]

Hannigan in a sitcom? Heck, I'd watch her in a slaughterhouse training video.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

I wondered what happened to Wrinkle in Time...I thought I'd missed out on it entirely. Glad to know it'll finally see the light of day.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

To be blunt, I thought Special Unit 2 was awful. Not even self-parody. Gack.

Like Landes, though, at least as decoration.

[megthelegend.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I didn't know you guys hadn't seen it. We had it here (Sydney) quite a while ago.

I enjoyed it massively. Not the best show I've ever seen, but pretty good. Meg seemed very wrong at first, but then I grew accustomed to her & liked her heaps. Similar with Charles Wallace -- the actor understandably struggles with the 'cute odd brainy child' aspects of the character, but does quite well.

The production values are high, though the effects are a little too obviously CGI at times.

Hope you like it.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Irrelevant to your post, but apropos to what day it is now, you might appreciate this:

http://www.fictionalley.org/aprilfools/marvel.jpg

[gmslegion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't agree with that. Season 2 of Lois & Clark was merely awful. It didn't start sucking to the point of absolute embarassment until season three, when Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Lemming took over the show.

(Season 4, incidentally, was much better than 2 or 3. Despite about seven pathetic stories, they managed about ten really good episodes, including some written by Tim Minear.)