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Ron Moore does Harry Potter (ish) show

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From Deadline Hollywood:

Ronald D. Moore is back at NBC Universal with a new drama project for NBC that has landed one of the biggest commitments so far this pitch season. The project from Sony TV where the Battlestar Galactica developer inked a two-year overall deal in May, is described as an adult Harry Potter set in a world ruled not by science but by magic. I hear the drama got pilot and series penalties totaling close to $2 million.

 To me this sounds like a riff off of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. But I’m curious how it turns out and does this mean that Caprica is going to be canceled.?

H/T to IO9.com

BBC working on Dirk Gently TV show

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From Bleeding Cool:

Mentioned only in passing at last year’s Hitchcon, the first* TV adaptation of Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency has now been officially announced by the BBC for their autumn/winter season. What do we know? That it’s going to screen on BBC 4 (not BBC 3 as originally planned), and that the plot will see Gently try “to solve the disappearance of a cat from an old lady’s house” – ie. it will be an adaptation of Adams’ first Gently book, at least in part. The script is by Howard Overman, creator of Misfits and Vexed, and according to his agent, the runtime is 60 minutes

H/T to IO9 

Dexter’s Laboratory by Genndy Tartakovsky

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Dexter’s Laboratory by Genndy Tartakovsky is a cute kid’s cartoon that people of any age would love. Genndy Tartakovsky is the Chuck Jones of this generation. He is able to convey wonderful emotions and hilarity with deceptively simple drawings and stories. Writers on the show included Craig McCracken (who went on to create The Powerpuff Girls), Butch Hartman (who went on to create Fairly Oddparents and Danny Phantom) and Seth McFarlane (Family Guy and most of Sunday night on Fox) among others. With top notch writing and a keen visual sense, Dextor’s Laboratory was one of the better cartoons of recent years.

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Rubicon review

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Rubicon is the new spy thriller on AMC. Everyone has been comparing it to spy movies from the 70s such as Three Days of the Condor and The Conversation. The action is slow paced (even though we do get a gun shot suicide and a train crash in the pilot) and deliberate with a few different story lines being setup for use throughout the season. But is it worth watching?

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New Syfy fall shows

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Syfy sent out a press release talking about it’s new lineup of shows. A couple that might be interesting.

By the production company that makes the Stargate shows:

BALL & CHAIN
After months of emotional tumult, Edgar and Mallory call their relationship quits. As they say their final goodbyes, the ex-lovers are nearly hit by a meteorite that, it turns out, imbues them with extraordinary powers. Unfortunately, the powers only work when they are in close proximity to each other. Though the last thing they want to do is stay together, they’ll need to try if they hope to overcome the newly arrived other-worldly forces that threaten to destroy them and anyone else who gets in the way.

And by the team that wrote Underworld: Rise of the Lycans:

ORION
National Treasure meets Firefly in this swashbuckling space opera about an adventurous female relic hunter and her team as they hunt down — and sometimes steal — valuable and powerful objects to sell on the black market, all while staying one step ahead of the bounty hunters hot on their heels.

Dr. Who season finale

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And we have the finale of Dr. Who, the first season with the 11th Dr. and my first season watching Dr. Who. Without any other Dr. Who to compare it to, I have to say that Dr. Who is now my favorite ongoing science fiction series. I love what Steven Moffat has done and I love the two main characters, Matt Smith as the Dr and Karen Gillan as Amy. Read on for more thoughts.

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Freaks and Geeks review

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Freaks and Geeks is not really science fiction, but the Geeks are huge science fiction fans, so that’s close enough for this blog. If you have never seen Freaks and Geeks before, it’s started playing on IFC this week. You should still be able to catch the pilot in reruns, with episode 2 starting Friday. And sit back for a bumpy and wonderful ride with a number of actors who’ve seen since, all in one little show that no one watched.

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The Greatest American Hero

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The Greatest American Hero was an early 1980s superhero show. It lasted for 3 seasons and was better known for the theme song (which was on the Top 40 charts for 18 weeks and just missed being #1) than for the show. The shows was an action comedy and had more in common with other similar shows from around that time (such as The Fall Guy where there would be action chasing a bad guy each episode lightened up with some humor) then any previous superhero shows. I loved it when I was 10, but was it any good.

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The IT Crowd

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The IT Crowd is a series from BBC which is currently being shown on IFC in the US. It’s about a small three person IT Department at an unnamed company who are completely overlooked and unappreciated. It’s a success in an topic of TV programming that usually fails (anyone remember the Dilbert series or Dweebs). The fact that the creators were able to make a funny and sucessful show about an IT department is reason enough to watch.

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