Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS AMC has picked up The Walking Dead for a 13-episode second season. Southland will return for its third season on TNT starting January 4 at 10 PM. Mark your calendars. It looks like the new BBC America series Outcasts that includes stars Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) and Eric …

In honor of Veterans Day, the following list was compiled to salute the top television series that focused on wartime, ranging from World War II through to the Vietnam War and beyond. Rather than rank the shows in any specific order, though, they are simply presented in alphabetical order: China Beach (1988 to 1991) – Set during the tumultuous time …

What makes a web series a success? If the web series, now weekly TV series, Sanctuary is any example, its success lies in a devoted fan base, its creator Damian Kindler (the man behind Stargate SGI-1 and Stargate Atlantis), fantastical CGI-enhanced scenes and elaborate storylines and a cast that includes Amanda Tapping, Robin Dunne, Ryan Robbins and Christopher Heyerdahl. You …

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS Actress Renée Felice Smith has become an official series regular on NCIS: Los Angeles, after playing the recurring role of Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones this season. The Shonda Rhimes-produced medical drama Off the Map, which is about young doctors working at a remote clinic in South America, will …

For about eight years now, I have been a member of the Paley Center for Media (formerly known as the Museum of Television and Radio). Back in 1975, one of the most powerful men in the television industry, William S. Paley, founded an organization to collect, preserve and interpret television and radio programming and to make these programs available to …

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS The CW has given full-season orders to rookie dramas Nikita and Hellcats, as well as long-running soap One Tree Hill. Unfortunately, missing from the pickup list is Life Unexpected. The sophomore drama did, however, receive an additional script order. Jane Badler has extended her visit to the ABC …

Here are the movies and series that you can look forward to seeing on TV in November: November 6 – The Hallmark Channel movie Something To Be Thankful For will premiere at 9 PM MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Claudia (Daphne Zuniga from Melrose Place and Beautiful People) is an ambitious attorney striving to become partner at her law firm. But when Claudia …

What is up with fall TV this year? Or more to the point, what is up with the new programs this fall? Each of the major networks introduced their normal pre-requisite amount of new dramas over the course of the last month or so. But, have any of them performed well? Three of them have already been canceled after airing …

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS ABC Family Channel has pulled the repeats of Friday Night Lights from their schedule as of today (October 18) because “it wasn’t performing from a ratings standpoint.” The show’s final season premieres on DirecTV on October 28. NBC has picked up both Chuck and Chase for the entire …

Are you a fan of the series Psych? And better yet, are you a fan of the classic TV series Twin Peaks? If so, the USA Network has a real treat for you. On December 1, Psych will air a Twin Peaks-inspired episode entitled “Dual Spires” that celebrates the 20th anniversary of the cult favorite. Here is a description of …