The first 2 parts of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome is now online.
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Homeland Renewed for a 3rd Season
Was there really any question?
I hate the CW for sucking me in with all their little DC Comics easter eggs. For example, the villain of the week this week: Deadshot[^fn1].
[^fn1]: I feel like I should get out my old _Secret Six_ comics in preparation for watching it.
Really great promo. It really is too bad NBC has jerked around with this show as much as it has.
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Community Premiere Delayed
Frakkin’ Kabletown.
I have not watched a single episode, and everyone I know who has watched it says its very mediocre. Still, I am always pleased when a sci-fi show gets picked up by a network.
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Grantland’s Fall TV Previews
Broadcast networks covered so far:
* [ABC](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/56908/fall-tv-preview-abc-tries-to-go-big-with-nashville-and-last-resort-go-dumb-with-the-neighbors)
* [CBS](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/57061/fall-tv-preview-cbss-boring-super-competent-dog-learns-some-new-tricks)
* [FOX](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/56788/fall-tv-preview-fox-beating-nbc-at-its-own-must-see-comedy-game)
* [NBC](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/57172/fall-tv-preview-hapless-nbc-still-stumbling-around-like-a-peacock-with-its-head-cut-off)
The biggest surprise for me was their granting[^fn1] *Season Pass* status to *Made in Jersey*:
> A zippy hour about a plucky fish out of water isn’t the usual CBS fare — it’s much easier to imagine Jersey succeeding on the more femme-friendly ABC, where it would be called Very Pretty Betty and feature a lot more Snow Patrol songs. But MIJ, starring the British minnow Janet Montgomery as a blue-jeaned associate floundering at a white-collar Manhattan law firm, exhibits CBS’s trademark flair for streamlined storytelling. Case in point: Creator Dana Calvo’s spunky pilot doesn’t linger too long on bridge-and-tunnel clichés, like Montgomery’s Martina recognizing pliers as a tool for skinny jeans, not murder. Rather, it wastes little time getting down to the underappreciated business of aspirational dream-making: Aided by an affably slick boss (Kyle MacLachlan), a loyal pal in the secretarial pool (Toni Trucks), and a proud Mama Mia (Donna Murphy), Martina cracks the cases that those lacking a deep appreciation of the Southside Johnny catalog never could. Even with Stephanie March’s impossibly smug, straw-woman antagonist (“You speak fluent townie,” she huffs. Is this Midtown or Monaco?), Jersey, surprisingly, won me over.
I wanted to check it out simply because I like Janet Montgomery, but this write up makes me think the show will have some staying power.
Two other shoes I am interested in, *Elementary* and *Revolution*, both got *Incomplete* status. There is nothing new that interests me on either ABC or FOX.
[^fn1]: See what I did there?
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G4 to “Rebrand”
Can someone ask the people at Kabletown what on earth “the modern male” means?
Great news. I also love the reason why:
> “[Steven Moffat’s] first episode of [Season Eight] sounds great.
> “It hasn’t been written yet but the idea is as brilliant and as mental as you’d expect from Steven. So there’s a lot to look forward to.
> “When Steven was going to pitch the next season to me not long ago, he said, ‘Are you ready to cry?'”
I cannot wait.
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Major TV Providers Lose Customers
> But this quarter’s losses were stark for DirecTV, which lost customers for the first time ever, and for Time Warner, who lost customers for the tenth straight quarter and lost more than analysts expected. Comcast’s loss of 169,000 customers was actually an improvement over previous quarters. The losses were chalked up more to the economy rather than “cord-cutters” dropping TV service entirely.
Pay television providers are getting closer and closer to the line where people decide the price is just not worth it for the product they’re getting. The “cord cutting” concept[^fn1] seems to be limited to the tech community, but if the economy stays were it is and services like Netflix continue adding quality content, more and more people might consider it.
[^fn1]: Where people cut all traditional cable television services
It would have felt wrong if he was not there.