Channel of the Apes
So, the Fox Movie Channel is billing itself as the Channel of the Apes for Thanksgiving weekend, playing all Apes, all the time—the movies, the TV series, featurettes, etc. Even though I own the entire collection on DVD, I watched the first movie last night while I was working on other things. Other than the [...]
I guess they couldn’t call it “2″
I watched the 2-hour movie of 24 that aired last Sunday. Fairly routine 24 business, although it was somewhat bloated. A one-hour episode of The Unit packs in more. Keifer Sutherland’s acting skills have degenerated over the years to hoarsely yelled instructions. I wasn’t thrilled with last year’s season, so I may well skip the [...]
Chameleons on TV
Zeljko Ivanek — it’s a name that just rolls of the tongue. Google it so you’ll know who I mean. He’s a pasty, ghoulish looking guy who always manages to elevate whatever program he appears on. This week he was the hostage taker on House, the guy who’s so desperate to find out what’s wrong [...]
Black Friday
I always wondered why the day after tomorrow is called Black Friday. It seems like a negative term, like Black Monday when the stock market crashed back in 1987, or the movie Black Sunday. I finally looked it up and now know that it is the day that starts the period when merchants are expected [...]
Seasonal fare
My favorite Thanksgiving television episode (and perhaps the funniest 30 minutes of TV ever) is the classic WKRP in Cincinnati episode where Paulson thinks he’s doing a good deed by tossing turkeys from a helicopter circling a grocery store parking lot. The punch line alone (“I swear, as God is my witness, I thought turkeys [...]
Editorial input
One interesting thing about The Amazing Race is how quickly a team can go from the front of the pack to the back. Nick and Starr had a bad day with Moscow taxi drivers and ended up dropping to third. I strongly suspect that they edited it together to make it look like Dan and [...]
I am Iron Man
It’s fall. It’s summer. It’s winter. No, wait, it’s really summer. Near-freezing temperatures late last week, high seventies today. Make up my mind for me.
I read David Morrell’s new novel, The Spy Who Came For Christmas yesterday. It’s a fairly short thriller set in Santa Fe on Christmas Eve. The main character is a Russian [...]
Least suspenseful Survivor ever
And yet the ending of the show was worth the wait. Who was going home was never in question. Bob played one of the all-time great pranks. Unlike the faux idol whittled up last year, Bob’s actually looked like it could have been an idol, but Randy and Corrine were the only ones who didn’t [...]
Dirty Rotten Stoned Daisies — three ABC shows canned
According to E-Online, ABC has canceled Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money. The report says that Pusing Daisies will end after episode 13, a cliffhanger. The creative people are looking at other options to complete the story, such as comic books or film.
Eli Stone is the only show of the three that I [...]
Is that what it’s like to talk to me?
Walter continues to be Fringe’s greatest asset. This week he had to go back inside the mental institute where he spent nearly two decades in an attempt to extract information from an inmate. Today’s subject line comes from his dialog with his son after he is released again. He’s not very self aware, which is [...]
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
