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A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Quiz

Webmaster — 2009-11-21T11:27:18Z

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Spike in STVs Top 12 Onscreen Vampires

Webmaster — 2009-11-21T11:09:31Z

The top 12 onscreen vampires ?

Fans of Twilight : New Moon star Robert Pattinson may claim Edward Cullen's the best ever onscreen vampire - but he has plenty of other blood-suckers to contend with. Well, at least a dozen, anyway.

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Spike (and Angel) from Buffy - James Marsters manages to top Kiefer by having the peroxide hair and a British accent, making him the stuff of several million Buffy fans' dreams. If you don't believe me just do a YouTube search for Spike, then try not to vomit to all the homemade clip compilations set to the worst power ballads ever inflicted on our poor world. But on another note : Spike or Angel ? Unfortunately I just can't think of the latter without remembering that Dido video David Boreanaz was in...

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http://entertainment.stv.tv/new-moon/news/138483-the-top-12-onscreen-vampires/

"Dollhouse" Tv Series - PaleyFest 2009 Panel - Watch The Videos

Webmaster — 2009-11-21T11:05:44Z

Dollhouse in the 10 TV Things TWoP is thankful for this year

Webmaster — 2009-11-20T23:21:23Z

While we're constantly grateful for our friends and family and jobs and health and all that jazz, we're really thankful for the gift of television and DVRs and for Grey's Anatomy episodes without Katherine Heigl. So instead of focusing on the negative, we'd like to spend this very special episode of TWoP 10 celebrating all of the good that has come to the airwaves this fall.

10. Dollhouse is Given Notice

While we're not happy Dollhouse was cancelled, we are happy that the show will get the chance to air its remaining episodes to finish out its second and final season. Unlike when unceremoniously cut off Joss Whedon's Firefly a few years back, Whedon will be able to wrap up Dollhouse the way he wants to, which hopefully means we'll see a lot of story resolution that might have been a long ways off under ordinary circumstances. We won't go as far as saying "blessing in disguise," but we will say that we can't wait for the finale, because nobody does them like Joss.

9. Charlie's Match.com Dating Profile (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Sunny in Philly's funniest moments usually involve delving into the mind of Charlie Kelly, but Mac and Dennis trying to interview him for his Match.com profile, in which we learned that his favorite food is "milksteak" (preferably with a side of fine jelly beans — raw), that his interests include "magnets" and "little green ghouls, buddy !" and that his dislikes are solely "people's knees" was one of the funniest short scenes in the history of this already awesome show.

8. Jim Parsons on The Big Bang Theory

Parsons scored an Emmy nom for his role on BBT and rightfully so. His character Sheldon is a masterpiece, the perfect blend of intellectual superiority, smug nerdosity and obsessive-compulsive disorder. From his intricate arguments about superheroes to his icy analysis of his roommate's love life, he's the bastard we love to hate, mostly because we know he likes to be sung to when sick.

7. John Lithgow on Dexter

It didn't seem possible, but somehow John Lithgow has managed to forego his usual overacting style in favor of delivering a genuinely terrifying and restrained serial killer foe for Dexter. He's the perfectly suburban Christian dad when the script calls for it, which makes his psychotic explosions all the more disturbing when they appear. Truly perfect casting, and very impressive work from an unlikely actor on a series returned to form this season.

6. The Office Wedding

Finally, the payoff we've been waiting five years for ! Although the rehearsal dinner was a nightmare and the ceremony itself devolved into a YouTube video tribute, Jim and Pam got the wedding they wanted by cutting out for an hour and getting married on the deck of a boat under Niagara Falls. In the words of Jim : "I bought those boat tickets the day I saw that YouTube video. I knew we'd need a backup plan. The boat was actually Plan C, the church was Plan B, and Plan A was marrying her a long, long time ago. Pretty much the day I met her." Oh, Jim — you seem to have gotten something in our eye.

5. The Vampire Diaries Is Surprisingly Good

The first episode of this seemed to just be aimed at cashing in on the popularity of Twilight (even though the VD books were around first). But this silly CW love triangle has rapidly become a weekly addiction, not for the cheese factor, but because it's actually good — shockingly so. The well-developed rivalry between the brothers, some stellar acting on Ian Somerhalder's part and a bunch of really fun plot twists (and the cutest little witch since Willow) have made this a perfectly satisfying partner for our beloved Winchesters.

4. Nathan Fillion on Castle

We love Nathan Fillion wherever he pops up, so we were happy when his new series Castle got picked up for a second season because it's a fun, comedic procedural that keeps getting better the more we come to know the cast of characters. But the best supporting cast in the world would mean squat without Fillion himself, who hams it up in every scene as Rick Castle, the big-kid mystery author who gets to play cops and killers for real. And the Halloween-episode shout-out where he dressed up as his character from the late, great Firefly ? Icing on the cake.

3. Two Awesome New Comedies in Community and Modern Family

Usually if we get one halfway decent new comedy a season we're lucky. And ones that start strong and don't need a lot of time to build like Parks and Recreation or The Office are even more rare. This season we were blessed with two fantastically funny new shows that started off fabulous and have kept up the momentum. Community focuses on an oddball students in preposterous situations and Modern Family focuses on an oddball group of relations in preposterous situations, both happily laugh track-free. Community is filled with pop culture references and features a selfish jerk as the lead, while Modern Family delights in exposing as many awkward family moments as possible. Both are awesome in their own right and we're hoping that we'll be thankful for them for many years to come.

2. The Mad Men finale

Aside from the regrettable likely loss of Kinsey and Ken for good, the new business endeavor between Don, Bertram, Roger, Pryce, Peggy, Pete and Harry was one of the most exciting season finale plot twists and next-season set-ups we've ever seen. The band's back together (with Joan in tow, thankfully), the Draper marriage was put out of its misery at just the right time and we can't wait to see what happens with that rag-tag rogue advertising company full of crazies cooped up in a hotel room. Dear Bones, House and Heroes : this is how you do it right.

1. All Things Glee

We may quibble and nitpick about plotlines that don't make sense or about Mr. Schue's annoying wife, but it comes from a place of love. This show is just such a wonderful delight, filled with pop songs and good cheer, that it just brightens up our week. Jane Lynch is phenomenal and someone needs to give Amber Riley (Mercedes) a recording contract, stat. And seriously, iTunes can't post the songs fast enough for us. So while we might not love a preachy story about being nice to people in wheelchairs, we love this show with open arms and are willing to forgive all of its flaws.

"Uncharted 2" Video Game compared to "Firefly" Tv Series - Watch The Video

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Firefly in Ten of the best Science fiction television series

Webmaster — 2009-11-20T13:42:10Z

2. Firefly

Created by : Joss Whedon

Seasons : 1

Debuted : 2003

The darling of modern science fiction remains as eternally popular now as it ever was, if Mal Reynolds' recent cameo as Nathan Fillion on Castle is anything to go by. Imaginative, wild, and special, this was a unique show.

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"Firefly" Tv Series OR "Serenity" Movie in Blu-Ray is Amazon.com's Lightning Deal

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"Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing : Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon" Essays - Available for pre-order ! (you save 15%)

Webmaster — 2009-11-20T13:17:45Z

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon universe (or "Whedonverse"). Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing : Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon studies the significant role that music plays in these works, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Whedon's latest creation, the internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

Kendra Preston Leonard has collected a varying selection of essays that explore music and sound in Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, offering multiple perspectives on the uses and meanings of music in Joss Whedon's works. The essays investigate both diegetic and non-diegetic music, considering music from various sources, including the shows' original scores, music performed by the characters themselves, and music contributed by such artists as Michelle Branch, The Sex Pistols, and Sarah McLachlan, as well as classical composers like Camille Saint-Saëns and Johannes Brahms.

The approaches incorporate historical and theoretical musicology, feminist and queer musicology, media studies, cultural history, and interdisciplinary readings. The book also involves the compositions written by Whedon himself : the theme music for Firefly, and two fully integrated musicals, the Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling" and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, released over the summer of 2008. With several musical examples, a table with a full breakdown of the Danse Macabre scene from the acclaimed Buffy episode "Hush," and an index, this volume is fascinating to students and scholars of science-fiction, television, film, and popular culture, as well as to fans of Whedon and his works.

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"Dollhouse" Tv Series listed in the remakes of the future

Webmaster — 2009-11-20T12:26:29Z

#2 — Dollhouse

Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was only cancelled recently, but it already deserves a remake. It wasn't a bad piece of television by any stretch of the imagination — it was just…slow.

It started off as an interesting enough concept, but the ratings began to flounder when it didn't develop much. Sure, Echo was getting back her memories, but what did it matter ? It took a few episodes for the series to even get heated up, and once it did, it still didn't go anywhere. There was no real overarching plot (well, there was in the unaired episode "Epitaph One," but it went, well, unaired).

I like Joss Whedon, but the series could have used a little help. Maybe a remake from a fresh perspective would give Dollhouse a better light.

"Dollhouse" Tv Series - 2x05 "The Public Eye" & 2x06 "The Left Hand" - Press Release

Webmaster — 2009-11-19T09:15:19Z

DOLLHOUSE

Air Date : Friday, December 04, 2009

Time Slot : 8:00 PM-10:00 PM EST on FOX

Episode Title : (DOL-205/206) "The Left Hand/The Left Hand"

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4

**2-HOUR EPISODE**"DOLLHOUSE"(8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) CC-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1

ECHO RACES TO STOP THE DOLLHOUSE'S SECRETS FROM BEING EXPOSED ON AN ALL-NEW "DOLLHOUSE" FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, ON FOX

Summer Glau, Alexis Denisof and Keith Carradine Guest-Star

Echo is sent to stop Senator Daniel Perrin (guest star Alexis Denisof) before he can expose the Dollhouse's secrets, and Adelle and Topher travel to the Washington, D.C. Dollhouse to meet its genius programmer, Bennett Halverson (guest star Glau), a woman with a mysterious past connection to Echo. In the second hour, Echo and Bennett have a shocking meeting as Adelle goes head-to-head with the ruthless head of the Washington, D.C. Dollhouse (guest star Ray Wise). Meanwhile, Topher sees double when he involves Victor in his espionage, and Perrin finds a surprising witness to testify against the Rossum Corporation in the all-new "The Left Hand (Part 1 of 2)/The Left Hand (Part 2 of 2)" episode of DOLLHOUSE airing Friday, Dec. 4 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (DOL-205/206) (TV-14 D, L, S, V)

Cast : Eliza Dushku as Echo ; Tahmoh Penikett as Paul Ballard ; Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt ; Harry Lennix as Boyd Langton ; Fran Kranz as Topher Brink ; Enver Gjokaj as Victor ; Dichen Lachman as Sierra

Guest Cast : Summer Glau as Bennett Halverson ; Ray Wise as Stewart Lipman ; Miracle Laurie as Madeline/November ; Keith Carradine as Matthew Harding ; Alexis Denisof as Senator Daniel Perrin ; Stacey Scowley as Cindy Perrin ; Nelson Franklin as Burt Styne ; Maurissa Tancharoen as Kilo

Buffy & Angel Figurine Coll Mag #2 Buffy - Available for pre-order ! (you save 20%)

Webmaster — 2009-11-19T09:11:26Z

This second special in a series of magazines/figurines focusing on Joss Whedon's Buffyverse features the vampire with a soul, Angel, an extremely popular character from Buffy, The Vampire Slayer who ultimately went on to star in his own smash hit show. Packed with stunning imagery and extensive details on Angel, this collector's edition magazine includes a hand-crafted lead figurine boasting a highly detailed sculpt of actor David Boreanez. Each figure comes packaged with the magazine in an individual box.

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Buffy & Angel Cast - "Unusual You" Music Video - Watch The Clip

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Firefly in the The Worst TV Ideas Of The Decade

Webmaster — 2009-11-18T22:38:08Z

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Fox cancels Firefly way too soon : Unlike NBC, which for all its weaknesses will usually give a quality quirky show a decent chance to find its audience, Fox has the reputation of quickly abandoning anything that is not an instant hit. The primary example in recent years was Firefly, the Joss Whedon space opera that might have become a Battlestar Galactica had Fox shown any patience at all. But the program was mishandled by the network in any number of ways and was abandoned halfway through the 2002-03 season. The upshot is that now, even when Fox does give a show a fair shot (such as Whedon's most recent series, the just canceled Dollhouse), the Firefly example still gets cited as evidence of its bad faith.

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Buffy is Best of the Decade on Sepinwall.blogspot.com

Webmaster — 2009-11-18T22:31:42Z

Best of the best of the best ?

As we get close to the the post-Thanksgiving, pre-New Year's rerun dead zone, I'm starting to do work on both my Best of 2009 list (which will be a bear, because so many good new shows debuted this year, at the same time that a lot of veteran contenders were still great), and also on a Best of the Decade package that I'm guessing will comprise multiple lists, spanning not only genre (drama/comedy/reality/etc), but also covering things like Best Season, Best Episode, possibly Best One-Season Wonder, maybe Best Import, etc. Some more thoughts on that - and my request for input - coming up after the jump...

Not sure yet. Still trying to suss it all out. But the goal is to spread the wealth as much as I can, because the '00s were a great decade for TV, so no show will appear on more than one list.

I more or less know what most of the series contenders are - and if you've been reading me for a while, you can figure some obvious ones out, like "The Wire," "The Sopranos," "Freaks & Geeks," "Arrested Development," etc. - and just have to figure out how to divvy them up. But the lists for best season (of a show that overall isn't great enough to qualify for a best series list) or best episode (ibid) may require more thought. The best seasons of "Buffy," for instance, were in the '90s, but "Once More With Feeling" (pictured above) or "The Body" might earn a spot on the episodes list. ("Hush," alas, was the final episode aired in 1999, or it would be the pick.)

So I'm curious : if you leave out the obvious contenders listed above (and shows like "The Office" and "BSG"), what are either some great episodes or great seasons from shows that you think merit end-of-decade recognition ?

"Dollhouse" Tv Series - Rossum Company website has a TV commercial

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Wizard Magazine #217 J Scott Campbell Buffy Cover - Available for back-order !

Webmaster — 2009-11-18T20:06:19Z

WIZARD o BUFFY New York Times best-selling writer Brad Meltzer takes us behind the scenes of Buffy Season 8 ! o HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST Wizard kicks off its Halloween-themed issue with the annual homemade costume contest ! Get ready for the Spandex ! o THE WOLF MAN Benicio Del Toro stars in the highly anticipated reimagining of the Wolfman mythos. We check in with Del Toro and stars Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt about this horror thriller. ALSOÖ o Iron Man 2 secrets ! o Joss Whedon Q&A ! o Doctor Who ! AVAILABLE IN COMIC BOOK STORES : September 30, 2009 AVAILABLE ON NEWSSTANDS : October 13, 2009 Exclusive Cover BY J. Scott Campbell !*

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"Dollhouse" Tv Series - 2x06 "The Left Hand" - Stills - High Quality Photos

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Good-bye, Dollhouse, It's Been Nice ; Hope You Find Your Paradise

Webmaster — 2009-11-18T14:05:56Z

To quote Joss Whedon's favorite musical creator, I'm sorry/grateful that Dollhouse was canceled. (Basically, my feelings mirror those of our wonderful recapper Joy Press, who tweeted, "It had potential. But like a lot of people, I was too ambivalent about Dollhouse to feel sad about cancellation.")

But I'm unambiguously happy that Whedon will get to do something else, whether it's Dr. Horrible 2 : The Horribling or that new digital studio he's supposed to be founding — the one I dream will turn him into the entrepreneurial Moses of online distribution. And while I'm flipping all over the emotional dial, I'm irritated by Lisa De Moraes's acrid suggestion that the show flopped because Whedon was money-hungry : "Joss Whedon needs to think more about his fans and less about his wallet. If he did, he would do his work for a cable network which can sustain a show that attracts this sized audience. He did not serve you well. Shame on him."

From my POV, this is crazy-talk, since from what he's said in interviews, Whedon developed the Dollhouse concept in the first place because Eliza Dushku (a friend since her role on Buffy) already had a development deal with Fox and asked him to collaborate on a vehicle for her. For better or worse, he's spent his adult life as an ideological populist, trying (à la The Simpsons) to plant subversive myths in mass culture. Now, this particular subversive myth definitely didn't work — not in the ratings, not in Dushku's performance. (The role Whedon had written to demonstrate her versatility highlighted exactly the opposite trait, while her unspellably named castmates, Dichen Lachman and Enver Gjokaj, kicked ass in their multiple roles.)

I certainly don't think that Dollhouse's fate makes Whedon the martyred Christ of network villainy, but it also doesn't mean he is the villain himself. There's such a thing as an interesting failure, and that's the category I'd put Dollhouse in : At once ambitiously conceived and weirdly unbaked, it had moments, even whole episodes, of brilliance. In the end, it was a failed genre experiment, in which a feminist sci-fi creator tried to use a police-procedural format (the type most frequently used as an excuse for endless close-ups of nude female corpses) to stage a metaphor about false consciousness and sex slavery.

In a way, maybe the series is even more admirable because it now looks, in retrospect, so truly impossible to pull off. Unlike something as purely girl-powered as Buffy — a juvenile myth with adult philosophical resonance — Dollhouse was designed to freak viewers out from the start. When it was kicking on all engines, the series was a sick-making essay about rape culture, and I've never seen one of those hit a mass audience. (Although it had a strange thematic sibling this year in AMC's Mad Men, another ambiguous dream-world stocked with brainwashed women.)

For those still grieving, here are some Dollhouse epitaphs — plus one proposal for the future of Whedon that I personally hope comes true :

i09's Graeme McMillan's wry 5-stages-of-fan-grief model for TV cancellations.

James Poniewozik admires the show's ambition but says that "Fox gave it as much of a chance as it reasonably could have."

And Devin Faraci argues that Whedon belongs online :

"Whedon needs to fully leap into the world of direct to DVD and On Demand programming. He's already dipped his toe in those waters with Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog, which was an artistic success and apparently fiscally successful enough to warrant an impending sequel. Instead of going through a network, dealing with their interference and their programming whims and the need to appeal to a very wide audience so as to sell time to Viagra advertisers Whedon can concentrate on serving his fanbase with his vision ...

Imagine a world where a show like Arrested Development or Battlestar Galactica isn't constantly in fear of getting the axe, where shows don't have to dumb it down to reach the widest audience, where creators don't have to worry about skittish advertisers, where fans put up or shut up by supporting what they really like."

"Dollhouse" Tv Series - Season 2 - Sierra & Victor Spoilers

Webmaster — 2009-11-18T14:03:07Z

Shel in Colorado : I love Victor and Sierra ! Are we going to get to see any more of them as a couple before Dollhouse goes off the air ?

There will most definitely be more Victor and Sierra sweetness on Dollhouse before the show goes off the air for good. An insider whispers, "We learn just how deeply in love Victor and Sierra are across several more episodes—especially when they are separated..." Ack ! Don't love the news about a separation, but they do say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Who else is terribly torn by this news ?!

Buffy's Cordelia Chase on EW's Top 21 Bitches List

Webmaster — 2009-11-18T13:17:32Z

Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

She had incredible growth over the course of seven years — starting an ''I hate that I love you'' relationship with Xander, becoming decent enough that we actually wanted to see her end up with Angel — but she began as vain and self-absorbed as a teenage girl with her own minions could be. Why did we, and the Scooby Gang, tolerate her ? Carpenter's delivery of Joss Whedon-penned gems like this one : ''Senior boys are the only way to go. Guys from our grade, forget about it, they're children. You know ? Like Jesse. Did you see him last night, following me around like a little puppy dog ? You just wanna put him to sleep. But senior boys, hmm, they have mystery. They have... What's the word I'm searching for ? Cars ! I just am not the type to settle. You know ? It's like when I go shopping. I have to have the most expensive thing. Not because it's expensive, but because it costs more.'' — Mandi Bierly