Archive for January, 2009

new show review: Lie to Me

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Medium, House, The Closer, The Mentalist, Ghost Whisperer… and now Lie to Me.  All are procedurals about a key central character with a superhuman (or at least almost superhuman) ability to solve mysteries.  The adage that Hollywood likes to see new projects that are, “the same… but different” seems to prove true. Lie to Me [...]

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new show review: United States of Tara

Monday, January 26th, 2009

From the title and promo artwork, I thought we were looking at some kind of sketch/variety show.  Doesn’t it look a lot like the latest Tracy Ullman effort or something?  But United States of Tara is actually a dramedy about a woman suffering from multiple personalities disorder, created by Steven Spielberg and written by Diablo [...]

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Battlestar Galactica plot hole? Some geek please refresh my memory. (spoilerish)

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Don’t read this unless you’re up to date with BSG.

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A new BrevityTV.com web series starts today

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

This was a project that was a pain-in-the-ass.  It was more logistically complicated, cost more, and took longer than anything we’ve done.  That said, the people involved were all awesome in making it happen, and I’m really proud of the result.  The series was a great group writing effort from all of our writers, the [...]

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