Tru Calling courtesy Fox
New releases announced today, May 2:Samuel L. Jackson's Afro Samurai - Director's Cut on Blu-ray Disc will be coming out August 26 George of the Jungle (2007) - Swinging 1st Season will be coming out August 19 Masters of Horror - Season 2 will be coming out July 29 Rebus - Set 3 will be coming out July 1 Robin of Sherwood - The Complete Collection will be coming out July 29 Tru Calling - The Complete Series will be coming out August 12 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Eliza Dushku courtesy Fox, Joss Whedon courtesy Fox
Short of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion movie, this is just about the best news you could ask for: Eliza Dushku and Joss Whedon are reteaming for a new series! (Told ya it would be worth tearing yourself away from the candy corn to drop by The Ausiello Report.) Here are the five things you have to know about the show, and I mean now:1. It's a one-hour drama produced by Twentieth Century Fox to air on Fox. The first of the seven episodes to which the network has committed could premiere as early as spring. 2. It's called Dollhouse because that's the nickname of the high-tech lab where a group of human chalkboards are kept between assignments.3. Human chalkboards?! Yes! What else would you call characters like Dushku's Echo who can be given new memories, skills and even personalities, then stripped of them just as quickly, leaving them virtual children?4. Whedon is the creator, head writer and executive producer, and perhaps in part because Dushku convinced him to do the show, she...
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Question: I'm anxious to see Pushing Daisies because it's my kind of show, but in the promos currently airing, it looks oh-so-much like Tru Calling. Many of us loved that show and were sad to see it canceled, so I'm wondering how Daisies is different. Or is it just that Tru came before its time?
Answer: Oh, for the love of... [deep breath]. These two shows are on different planets, creatively. While trying to be respectful to the seemingly undying Tru cult, all I can think that connects the two is the ability of its lead characters to interact with dead people, since (if I remember right) Tru worked in a morgue and got messages from dead people that sent her back to relive the previous day to save lives and right wrongs. Tru Calling, though perhaps not without humor, was basically a supernatural thriller, while Pushing Daisies is a bright, fantastical comedy about a man whose touch can restore the dead to life (briefly), allowing him and a private eye to solve crimes, not turn back
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Question: I hear that clips of you and Keri at your baby shower will be included in a special presentation on the MIA Network Feb. 30, following an interview with William Fichtner, where he finally figures out which version of Prison Break you've been watching, and after an interview in which David Boreanaz lovingly discusses Angel and how much he misses it. The whole thing will be preceded by a new episode of Tru Calling.
Answer: Actually, I'm still trying to lock in Fichtner, but the rest is accurate. (You're getting an Ausiello Scoop, Megan. E-mail me your address.)
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Question: I wanted to respond to your comments about the idea that perhaps the unaired episodes of canceled shows should not be streamed online, and instead viewers should simply "move on." I've yet to have a show I watch sent to this online exile, but I've had tons of shows of which I was a fan canceled with unaired episodes that later surfaced on DVD. Surely, I was better off seeing the entire glorious season of Wonderfalls rather than "moving on" after the handful that aired, wasn't I? Even without a lick of closure, the unaired Christmas episode of Tru Calling was a gem. And Firefly was only getting better through its unaired episodes. (Of course, in that case we fans finally got our closure in a different medium.) Might the problem that viewers are having this year with the Vanisheds and Kidnappeds of the world have more to do with streaming technology, or the fact that their unaired episodes were themselves not very good, than that the notion of watching unaired eps at all is a ...
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Question: The ratings for last week's Veronica Mars premiere (3.3 million viewers) look really good to me, but people are complaining about how it was a big drop-off from Gilmore Girls.
Answer: CW execs were very pleased with those numbers, and that's really all that matters.
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Question: Please tell me that Charmed is coming back for another season.
Answer: I'm getting a little tired of repeating myself, people! For the last time, Charmed's ninth season starts Oct. 41 at 26 pm/ET on the new MIA network. It'll be immediately followed by all-new episodes of Invasion, Tru Calling, Joan of Arcadia and Dark Angel.
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Question: You have no idea what big fans me and my friend Jenny are of yours. Will you marry one of us? Also, can you please tell us what show The O.C. is going to be crossing over with?Answer: Since you're my biggest fans, I'll give you another clue: A character from The O.C. will leave town next month to take a job at Seattle Grace. But, and I can't stress this enough, this is probably news to Shonda Rhimes. I should also point out that this "crossover" is more amusing than anything else. At least it's amusing to me. Speaking of The O.C., Josh Schwartz sent me the first four episodes and it's killing me that I haven't had time to watch them yet. I'm hoping to plow through them this weekend. In the meantime, AA intern Scott Sode just finished watching them at his desk (Best. Internship. Ever.) and it appears Mr. Schwartz is taking my
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Tim Daly, The Nine
ABC's The Nine, which premiered just last week, wasted no time in stirring up all kinds of questions and mysteries, first and foremost being, as the ad campaign says, "What happened in there?" For the show's second episode (airing tonight at 10 pm/ET), we stole a few minutes with TV vet Tim Daly, who plays not-good-but not-entirely-bad cop Nick Cavanaugh.
TVGuide.com: The way you saw it, how did Nick differ from other roles you have been offered over the years?Tim Daly: I like Nick because he's a very human character. He's flawed. He's the kind of guy who creates all his own problems. He's a guy who's in the police force, which relies on people obeying the chain of command, and he has a horrible problem with authority. He's got this gambling problem, an ex-wife, he's a wiseass... and yet he's a really good guy, and I thought there was an opportunity to see him change significantly, as we do with all these characters, after he goes
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Question: Damn, I was hoping Tru Calling would debut on Sept. 32 as well.
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Actually, Tru Calling's third season premiere has been delayed until Oct. 41. Mark your calendars!
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