TV Features

Get It Watched! – The Border

Get It Watched! highlights some of the unsung heroes of the small screen; the lesser known programs that people often overlook. I’ll be looking at shows not just from the US but also from the UK, Canada, Australia and other English speaking countries and each edition will feature a different recommendation and rundown of what you are missing.  Please, please recommend your own picks for shows you feel are the orphan children of broadcasting, because I am only one guy (albeit one with stunning good looks and incredible intellectual insight).

Geoff Desmoulin Interview

If we ever wanted to find out who was the deadliest anything, we would most likely go to my latest interviewee. He is a professional Biomedical Engineer and one of the hosts for SpikeTV’s Deadliest Warrior, Geoff Desmoulin.

On Deadliest Warrior, which is now in its second season (first season available on DVD) and airs every Tuesday night at 10 PM on SpikeTV, Geoff, along with Max Geiger, Dr. Dorian, and some sweet analytical software, take some of histories greatest individual warriors and warrior groups and pit them against each other in mythological match-ups to determine the age old question: “Who is DEADLIEST?”

108 Things I’ll Miss About Lost

108 things I’ll miss/ things I loved/ remaining thoughts about Lost:

1. Maybe this will be repeated, one way or another in this list, it was nice to have a show that made the audience look for more. It was a difficult show all the way.
2. Hurley. Jorge Garcia has that kind of best friend look to him that is truly endearing.
3. Having a show that pulled off time travel in multiple ways, multiple times.
4. Ben Linus. I just remember when he first came on and thinking, “Jesus, that guy is slimy.” I wanted him dead. As always:
5. That this show rarely gave viewers what they wanted, and we were better for it.
6. The actors. Not to sound shallow, but so many of them were really good looking. Evangeline Lily and  Emilie de Ravin for the guys, Josh Holloway for the ladies…  
7. Mr. Eko. Yeah, he’s been gone for 3 seasons, but off all the ones who didn’t make it, I think I miss him the most.
8. Having my head hurt when thinking about the show. That’s a good thing.
9. Daniel Faraday. I have always loved Jeremy Davies; loved having a physicist interested in time travel as a character on a major network show.
10. Speaking of Faraday, one of my favorite episodes: “The Constant.” One of those, “My god what a great effin episode!” that Lost was capable of delivering 3 times a season.

Get It Watched! -The Fixer

Since this is a brand spanking new site, we are slowly starting to build up our reader base and are actively listening to comments and suggestions regarding features people would like to see. One such idea was to highlight some of the unsung heroes of the small screen; the lesser known programs that people often overlook. I’ll be looking at shows not just from the US but also from the UK, Canada, Australia and other English speaking countries and each edition will feature a different recommendation and rundown of what you are missing.  Please, please recommend your own picks for shows you feel are the orphan children of broadcasting, because I am only one guy (albeit one with stunning good looks and incredible intellectual insight).

Regrettable renewals and limbo

It’s that time of the year again, and we’re all waiting with baited breath to see which of our favourites survive the networks’ pruning process without getting the cut this year. So far, a number of my shows are safe or shoe-ins, practically guaranteed another season.
Unfortunately, some shows return that I would rather see take a graceful retirement…

Party Down – TV’s Most Under-Rated Comedy

Somewhere between “The Office” and “30 Rock,” between the gritty Showtime comedies and the testosterone laced HBO comedies, somewhere in the middle of all of these critically acclaimed television shows is “Party Down,” a tiny comedy that has somehow remained under the radar.  Ratings for the show are sub-par in comparison to other premium cable shows such as “Weeds” or “The United States of Tara,” and it doesn’t help that the show was picked up by Starz, a channel that is more known for airing various movies than television shows.  However, “Party Down” and “Spartacus” have come to represent Starz’s one-two punch of comedy and drama, and with Season 2 premiering last night, it’s more important than ever that people learn about this show before it becomes yet another great show that’s tossed into the “Cancel” bin.

10 Characters TV Could Do Without

Who would you like to kill off on your favourite show? Below are my pick of the 10 characters I would happily see drive off a cliff, or die in suspicious circumstances. Feel free to call me out on my choices and pick your own in the comment section.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand – Nudity, Gore and Uncomfortable Truths

Spartacus: Blood and Sand smashed its way onto Northern American screens in January amidst an orgy of blood, sex, severed limbs and inevitable controversy. With the success of historical epics

Pure Pwnage – From Monitors to the Silver Screen

The combination of gaming and television is an untapped market right now; it’s not very often you’ll turn on your television and see a television show focusing on gaming.  Sure, maybe a CSI episode will focus on a murdered video gamer every now and then and barely touch on the surface of the gaming community, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a TV show that dedicates each and every minute into helping you get into the mind of a gamer.  However, if you go on the internet, you’ll find a slew of internet web-series’ that delve deep into the gaming community, whether it’s a show that uses actual video game footage as its basis (Red vs. Blue), a mock-u-mentary type show involving a camera following around a gamer as he goes through life (Pure Pwnage) or following the lives of an online internet guild (The Guild).  Each of these shows were immensely popular on the internet as gamers from everywhere tuned in on a regular basis to watch new episodes.  For some reason, the internet has been a much easier place for video games and television to breed, creating hilarious, poignant and unique stories.