Television

2011 Emmy Winners

The results for the 2011 Emmy
Awards are in, and it’s a mix of long-running winners and first
timers. Mad Men
drew in it’s fourth win for Outstanding Drama Series, while Modern
Family repeated last year’s win for Comedy. In fact, Modern
Family turned out to be
the big winner of the night, taking awards in nearly every category
it was nominated. With Breaking
Bad out of the running
this year, the door was left open for Friday
Night Lights star Kyle
Chandler to pick up the award for the series’ final season. Peter
Dinklage also nabbed the supporting actor trophy for the first season
of Game of Thrones.

New Fringe Trailer Gives A Better Look At Season Four

After weeks of some of the most confusing yet intriguing promotional material for any television show ever, Fox has seen fit to put out yet another trailer for the fourth season of sci-fi drama Fringe. The trailer gives a better look at actual fourth season material that isn’t distorted by cryptic messages like those that have come before it, but does once again largely revolve around the theme of “Where is Peter Bishop?” 

Though his name is never mentioned, there are various flashes of the character, who disappeared from all states of existence at the climax of the third season. There is also a heavy emphasis on the fact that Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel) has been promoted to a regular cast member, following his stint as a recurring character since the second season of the show, as he appears in almost every scene shown.

Fringe: A Look at Season 3 and Speculations on What Lies Ahead

The maiden season of Fringe
introduced interesting characters and peaked our curiosity. The second
season, capitalizing on those achievements, turned interesting
characters into compelling ones and elegantly developed the fascinating
concept of co-existing universes. When the third season started, I
think regular viewers felt they had embarked into something different
and special, but it came with fears of disappointment, fears that the
show would not be able to fulfill the promises of such an outstanding
beginning. Ultimately, the writers succeeded and arguably went further:
they managed to make it difficult — even for viewers not blinded by
unconditional love for the series — to easily dismiss any episode in a
full 22-episode season.

FX Picks Up Animated Series From ‘It’s Always Sunny’ Gang

Just as the seventh season of It’s
Always Sunny is launching, FX has announced that they have given
a thirteen episode order to a new animated series from the same minds
behind their twisted sitcom. Unsupervised is set to premiere
in January and will run alongside FX’s other animated series, Archer,
as it continues into it’s third season. Sunny alums, Rob Rosell,
Scott Marder, and David Hornsby(who is already busy with his new CBS
series, How To Be Gentleman)
with serve as executive producers.

The
series centers on two best friends who must overcome the trials of
life as teenagers. Gary and Joel are too optimistic lads who try to
stay morally grounded even without any parental guidance. Several
actors will be lending their voices to the series, including; Justin
Long, Kristen Bell, Romany Malco, Kaitlin Olson, and Alexa Vega.

Fox Developing Drama Based on ‘The Spectre’ from DC Comics

According to Deadline Hollywood, Fox is developing a drama series based on DC Comics’s The Spectre. The project has only received a script commitment, which means it is still far from being picked up as a series.

Created by Jerry Siegel (Superman)
and Bernard Baily, the Spectre first appeared in comic books in 1940 as
the spirit of a cop enacting justice for the dead. The character then
lived through several reboots of the DC universe and significant
personal transformations including a change in the identity of its
host, or more precisely, a transfer of the role to another
spirit. The network’s adaptation seems to be based on the original
story, although not set at the beginning of the twentieth century.

It’s Always Sunny – Frank’s Pretty Woman

Sunny days are here again, as
everyone’s favorite gang of miscreants is back. Starting off
the seventh season with an episode as big as Mac himself is now, our
pals from Paddy’s Pub were moving into their “second acts” and
showing us that no one really changes, you just get older; or in some
cases, you die of a crack overdose, but such is life. “Frank’s
Pretty Woman” may not have been the hooker with a heart of gold,
but beyond one painfully unfunny moment, the episode itself was a
riot, and a solid return for It’s Always Sunny.

You’ve been waiting
with baited breath for months. Well Fat Mac is here, folks, and if
McDonald’s ever decides to stop pretending like they can promote
good health, they have a killer spokesperson standing by. The image
of the self-declared Sheriff of Paddy’s; now full bearded, fifty
pounds overweight, and toting a garbage bag full of chimichangas, was
one of the greatest things this series has ever given its fans.
Mac’s added “mass” pretty much drowned out anything else going on
for the first few minutes of the episode, but there were still a few
moments worth noting from before chubs made his entrance.

Alphas – Blind Spot

“Blind
Spot” showed many glimpses of the episode it could have been, and it
did something extremely well throughout the hour: It made us forget we
never left the confinement of our heroes’ small headquarters. The
episode showcased a multilayered story, which introduced fascinating new
Alpha abilities and put a fan-favorite character at the heart of the
events, resulting in a plot that kept the viewer interested in spite of
its shortcomings.