Drop Dead Diva
Drop Dead Diva
9/8c Lifetime
High-school reunions can be mind-boggling, but having to actually prove a man's sanity in court while trying to keep one's own and connect with Jane's friends from school is enough to drive anyone crazy. But for Deb, who now faces such tasks on a pretty regular basis, it's just another day in the life. Gregory Harrison and Marla Sokoloff find themselves in the middle of all this zaniness as they guest star in tonight's episode.
Read on for previews of Daytime Emmy Awards, True Blood, Mad Men and Futurama.
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Futurama
This, without a doubt, is Bender's biggest score. Comedy Central has ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama, the animated comedy that ran from 1999 to 2003 on Fox.
Series creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are currently working on scripts for the new episodes, which will premiere on the cabler in mid-2010 and be dispersed over two seasons.
Strong DVD sales of the first four seasons plus a quartet of made-for-DVD movies — coupled with solid ratings from Comedy Central-aired reruns — are to credit for the toon's revival.
Citing the studio's previous success in plucking Family Guy from the ashes, 20th Century Fox TV chairman Gary Newman told the Hollywood Reporter, "Futurama was another series that fans ...
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Futurama
New releases announced today, October 24:
Futurama - Into the Wild Green Yonder on DVD and Blu-ray Disc will be coming out February 24
The Real Ghostbusters - Volume 1 will be coming out January 20
Schoolhouse Rock - Earth will be coming out March 31
Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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New releases announced today, July 26:The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog - Volume 2 will be coming out December 9 The Doris Day Show - The Complete Series will be coming out November 25 Family Affair - The Complete Series will be coming out November 25 Futurama - Bender's Game (on DVD and possibly Blu-ray Disc) will be coming out November 4 McHale's Navy - Season 4 will be coming out November 18 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, which as the name implies, is a giveaway of comics. Now in its seventh year, the event coincides with the opening of Marvel's Iron Man movie this weekend.Among the TV-themed books that are being given away are Bongo Comics Free For All (with Simpsons and Futurama stories), Transformers Animated (based on the Cartoon Network series) and The Stranded, the basis for an upcoming Sci Fi Channel backdoor pilot movie.For information on stores in your area that are participating, click here.
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Friday Night Lights by Bill Records/NBC
New releases announced today, February 28:Cybill - The Best of Cybill will be coming out June 24 Friday Night Lights - The 2nd Season will be coming out April 22 Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs will be coming out June 24 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Leela, Bender and Fry, Futurama
Good news, everyone! Fans of Matt Groening's smart, satirical animated series Futurama are getting an early Christmas present this year with Bender's Big Score — the first new content from the show since its 2003 cancellation — out today on DVD. Bender's Big Score, which guest-stars Al Gore, Coolio and Sarah Silverman, finds the gang battling a nudist plot to take over Earth. Three more original straight-to-DVD movies are forthcoming, and in 2008 the four releases will be broken up into 16 episodes for Comedy Central. Futurama's executive producer David X. Cohen talked to TVGuide.com about the DVDs' big-name guest stars and why Futurama never quite made it.
TVGuide.com: So what will be different between the Futurama DVDs and the Comedy Central episodes?David X. Cohen: We're beginning with the four direct-to-DVD feature releases, and then down t
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Michelle Ryan, Skeet Ulrich, Masi Oka and Matt Dallas by Sean Smith/jpistudios.com
At the 38th Annual Comic-Con International, fans of the sci-fi and fantasy genres proved they're no longer on the fringe. The mammoth convention, held this past weekend at the San Diego Convention Center, attracted more than 125,000 people, and in a nod to the fact that the event has gone far beyond comic books, it has billed itself as "celebrating the popular arts." Movie studios and TV networks packed huge rooms with rabid fans eager for exclusive scoop and swag.On the first day it was officially confirmed that Zachary Quinto, Heroes' slithery villain Sylar, will indeed be playing Spock in the next Star Trek movie (opening Dec. 25, 2008). Director J.J. Abrams made the announcement during a Paramount Pictures panel, and in a symbolic passing of the ears, Leonard Nimoy, who originated the role on TV and in previous movies and will play an elder Spock in Abrams’ movie, joined the discussion. "People have been asking me why I’m doing this movie," Nimoy said. "We have a great...
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Tobey Maguire and Samuel Jackson
The lines were longer than ever at this year's Comic-Con International, the annual celebration of all things geeky. Just ask the thousands of Battlestar Galactica fans who waited en masse outside of Ballroom 20 to see their favorite Cylons and colonials in the flesh. Meanwhile, the queue for New Line's special Snakes on a Plane presentation snaked (ha ha ha) out the door and down the side of the massive convention center. There are only two possible explanations for the sheer number of people who invaded San Diego for that weekend: 1) Nerds have learned how to clone themselves or 2) Geek culture is now mainstream culture. Either way, Comic-Con '06 was one for the ages. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights of the four-day extravaganza.
Best Teaser Trailer (Mo
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Futurama
Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox TV is in early discussions to go back into production with Futurama, the Emmy-winning animated series that ran on Fox from March 1999 to August 2003, giving it a Family Guy-style resuscitation. Based on the misadventures of Fry, Leela and Bender, Futurama is set in the year 3000, at which time Lindsay Lohan will have stopped making "news." But until then...
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