Starting in October, the Peacock will be offering free downloads of some of its biggest shows. 
Heroes, The Office, Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno will all be available for download from the network’s new service, “NBC Direct”.  Viewers will have a […]

 
There are a few shows debuting this season that seem to be targeted to the geek crowd.  One such program is the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory.  I took a look at the pilot episode (which is available as a free download on iTunes now), and reviewed it over on our sister site TV […]

Over on one of our sister blogs, TV Jab, my colleague Michael has posted what he considers the top ten greatest science fiction shows of all time.
This new fall season is brimming with science fiction. From Bionic Woman to Pushing Daisies, there is sci-fi all over the television these days. It’s finally gone mainstream…but […]

Microsoft and Fox inked a deal that will bring Fox shows, including the greatest cartoon comedy on television (IMHO, as always) to the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Starting September 2, 360 owners will be able to get episodes from the first two seasons of Family Guy from the Marketplace for 160 Microsoft Points ($2).  More Fox shows […]

Kevin Smith has a busy road ahead of him.  Not only is he working on a new pilot for the CW, Reaper, but he’s also got two pretty geektastic shows in his future.
It’s been pretty common knowledge for a while now that he would be taking on an episode of Heroes: Origins, a set of […]

The new Sony HVR HD-1000U may be targeted at wedding videographers, freelancers and educational video creators - I’m pretty sure all three of those categories of people are going to have to get in line behind the independent filmmakers and podcasters that are going to snap this thing off the shelves as soon as it […]

Sharp unveiled a 20mm thick 52-inch LCD tv. It is the world’s thinnest and lightest LCD coming in at only 55lbs. Unfortunately the model won’t go into production until 2010.
Still…it’s a lovely idea…isn’t it?
via crunch gear

Despite the fact that Sony’s PR machine (and Sony fanboys as well) would have you believe Blu-Ray is the winner in of the current format war - HD-DVD is still alive and kicking. Today, HD-DVD delivered a hard left jab to the face of Blu-Ray with the announcement that Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Animation […]

Later this year, Time Warner Cable will introduce a new feature to their customers, called Look Back.  Free of charge, it enables viewers to rewind or restart programs they are watching or have recorded.  The service does come with some limitations, though;  there is no apparent fast-forward function, which means that the viewer is still […]

Looks like Smallville will have a whopping two Supergirls on the roster next season.
Helen Slater, who played Supergirl in the 1984 film, will play the aunt of Kara, Smallville’s Supergirl, played by Laura Vandervoort.  There’s no word as to whether she’ll have powers, yet, but her entrance is scheduled for the sixth episode of the season.
She joins […]

You know, these days with shows like Lost, Heroes, and Battlestar Galactica, it’s easy to forget how bad we used to have it on television when it came to sci-fi shows. Sure, we remember the Star Treks, the Fireflys, the Babylon 5s, and so on, that managed to crawl their way into our hearts…but […]

Joss Whedon reported this weekend at Comi-Con that the often rumored “Ripper” series was now in development with the BBC as a 90 minute telefilm.
“Ripper” is the story of Rupert Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s former mentor and “Watcher” after he returns home to England. There is no word on if the […]

She’s hot. She’s a 2nd Degree Blackbelt. What’s not to love? Her name is Laura Vendervoort, and she really comes off well in this video. I’m very interested in what they’re going to do with Smallville this year…

From the “360 Heroes Experience” to the Origins episodes we’ll be expecting next year, Heroes has done some amazing things when it comes to keeping their viewers interested in the show during downtimes.  One of the methods I’ve been following pretty closely (and recapping weekly over on TV Jab) is the Online Novel, which does […]

WETA Limited is collaborating with BBC Worldwide to produce a series of collectible Doctor Who statues according to Figures.com. The collectibles will feature famous scenes from the series. It’s not yet known exactly what the first four statues will look like, but we do know they will be 1:6 scale.
The statues will be unveiled […]

If you weren’t aware of it, A&E is in production on a miniseries remake of ‘The Andromeda Strain’, based on the 1969 novel that established Michael Crichton, my personal favorite fiction writer.  Here’s a brief synopsis:
After a U.S. government satellite crashes in a remote part of Utah, a deadly bacteria begins to spread, wiping out a […]