Ray Wise, Reaper
Ray Wise has a legendary gift for diabolical roles — he played the character, after all, who committed perhaps the most famous murder in television history. Wise is marking his 40th year since his first film — Dare the Devil — by continuing his turn as The Devil himself in the second season of the CW's Reaper (premiering Tuesday at 8 pm/ET).
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DVD Tuesday Twin Peaks meets ER in The Kingdom -- check your preconceptions with the triage nurseSo Im still getting over the horror that was Pathology Heroes star Milo Ventimiglias ill-advised foray into hospital horror But I realized the perfect antidote was on my DVD shelf Lars Von Triers The Kingdom 1994Set in a vast crumbling medical center built on a noxious swamp Von Triers haunted soap opera inspired Stephen Kings short-lived Kingdom Hospital But dont hold that against it Everything Kingdom Hospital did wrong The Kingdom does exactly rightThe huge cast of characters includes arrogant Swedish neurosurgeon Dr Stig Helmer newly arrived at the Kingdom with a stained professional reputation and a seethining hatred for all things Danish would-be psychic Mrs Drusse who makes real contact for the first time in the hospitals elevator junior Dr Krogen the go-to guy who secretly lives in the hospitals basement and supplies everything from medical equipmen
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Arrested Development courtesy 20th Century Fox
As part of TVGuide.com's Strike Survival Guide, we've asked our staff of... staffers to tell you how they are biding their time in these TV-anemic times. Hi, my name is Erin, and I'm a TV addict. (This is where you say, "Hi Erin," as you nervously look around at the other TV addicts.) The WGA strike isn't freaking me out at all, because now I have time to watch all of the shows on DVD that I've been missing for one reason or another. I'm not into reality programming at all, except for American Idol, Ace of Cakes and So You Think You Can Dance. But these days, only Idol is around to console me during this long and sad strike. So, it's back to my DVD sets, to enjoy The Sopranos all the way through, Arrested Development for laughs, Moonlight (so the vampire fans don't stalk me), South Park (to get through gym workouts with a smile on my face and less fat on my ass. Don't you dare call me Cartman), and Twin Peaks, to expand my TV history knowledge. (Plus, David Duchovny in drag? Gotta l...
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Still feeling grateful folks. I can’t help it, it’s this month. Ya got Thanksgiving coming up, the weather’s finally changing (although this Philly humidity is total bullshizz) and the DVD coffers are filled to the rim with causes for celebration these days.And with this TV writers’ strike shaping up to suck long and big, having a few great DVDs to keep your flat-screen toasty is never a bad thing. Especially if the DVDs themselves are bad-ass weirdness like this week’s basket of goodies.First up, and huge props to the geniuses (geniui?) at Paramount Home Video, is Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition. Oh, holy Log Lady, is this set stellar! Not only package-wise, but also in what's going on inside the sleek box. 10 discs, including the pilot that was woefully absent from the original first-season set, and oodles of extras on the making of the show that confused so many of us between 1990 and ’91. Trust me, as soon as you see poor plastic-wrapped...
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Twin Peaks - The Definitive Gold Box Edition courtesy Paramount Home Video
Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition arrives on DVD on Oct. 30 — including the original and European versions of the pilot. (Shop Amazon.com.) Damn good cup of coffee not included.... Prison Break: Season 1 comes out on Blu-Ray Nov. 13.... In the vein of Fashion Rocks, CBS presents Movies Rock, a new entertainment special featuring appearances by (of course) Beyoncé, Carrie Underwood, Fergie and many others, on Dec. 7.... MTV Australia VJ Lyndsey Rodrigues is Damien Fahey's TRL cohost starting Dec. 1.... Country star Porter Wagoner succumbed to lung cancer on Sunday. He was 80.
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Charlie de Lauzirika, DVD producer for Twin Peaks (along with many, many other titles) was on hand at the "DVD Sneak Peak 2007" panel moderated by Bill Hunt and Todd Doogan from The Digital Bits. de Lauzirika talked about the October 20 release of Twin Peaks - Definitive Gold Box Edition.The set will include both the domestic and international pilot episodes (the international pilot had a drastically different ending), plus all the season 1 and 2 episodes. It was rumored that the set wouldn't include deleted scenes, but that's completely false; they'll be on the set, plus all the "Log Lady Intros," the Twin Peaks coffee commercials (I'm told these were spoofs of the show), a documentary "Secrets From Another Place: Making Twin Peaks" and "Slice of Lynch," a roundtable discussion with David Lynch, Kyle McLaughlin, Madchen Amick, and one other person (he wasn't mentioned on the piece they showed us).There will be hours of new and vintage material on the set, and de Lauzirika said "We ...
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Question: I like to think I'm an educated TV viewer. I live for smart shows like The Wire, Lost, Battlestar Galactica and The Shield. Shows that don't spoon-feed you plot but rather force you to pay attention and think. But after the latest episode of John from Cincinnati, I am at a complete loss. This show is either an epic-level disaster or pure genius, and I have no idea which it is. For the first five episodes, I felt like one of the characters in the show — I was annoyed and unhappy, I had no idea what was going on and yet I inexplicably kept coming back week after week. Only a massive talent on the level of David Milch could make a show this incomprehensible, right? But I can't deny that I was hugely intrigued by Sunday's episode when, after five weeks of parrot dialogue and seemingly pointless meandering, John finally started to play his cards. First, his shocking confrontation with Cissy (revealing that she may have molested her son) started to make some sense of Rebecca ...
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As you will see detailed in the Friday, June 29 Interviews & Features column, TV Guide presents the Top Cult Shows Ever, an updated "best of" list that is sure to ignite conversation and debate — both of which we encourage at this blog set up just for the occasion.* Denotes a newcomer to the list since our previous 2004 countdown30) Strangers with Candy (1999-2000) *29) Absolutely Fabulous (1994-2003)28) Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007) *27) H.R. Pufnstuf (1969-1971)26) Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1975-1978)25) Firefly (2002-2003) *24) Twin Peaks (1990-1991)23) Dark Shadows (1966-1971)22) Doctor Who (1963-present)21) Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)20) The Avengers (1966-1969)19) Quantum Leap (1989-1993)18) Veronica Mars (2004-2007) *17) Beauty and the Beast (1987-1990)16) Babylon 5 (1994-1998)15) Family Guy (1999-present)14) Battlestar Galactica (2003-present) *13) Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1989-1999)12) Pee-Wee's Playhouse (1986-1991)11) Jericho (2006-present) *10) Xena: Warrior...
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The "Pick of the Week" for April 3 is a tough, tough decision. The obvious choice would be Twin Peaks Season 2, but I'm unimpressed with the set. The set has a few interviews that total approximately an hour, as well as the "Log Lady Intros." We waited five years for this? I'm about 95 percent sure we'll see a complete series release in time for the holidays.No, my "Pick of the Week" goes to BCI's She-Ra Princess of Power: Season 1, Volume 2. This six-disc set includes 33 episodes and tons of bonus material produced by the great Andy Mangels (and no, he's not paying me to say that). There's a documentary; an episode commentary by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5); an animated storyboard; two image galleries; two beautiful art cards; "Loo-Kee's Fun Facts" and trivia; detailed profiles of characters, creatures and artifacts; and a DVD-ROM section that features eight complete scripts and model sheets of the allies. I wish BCI could license every unreleased animated TV show so they cou...
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Question: This week marks Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 10-year anniversary. (The show debuted on the WB on March 10, 1997). Looking back at those 10 years, it's difficult to ignore the show's remarkable influence on other shows, on all genres and on the industry itself. Just to name a few: Alias, Smallville, Lost, Heroes, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, and even shows like Gilmore Girls, Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy. (The creators of those three shows have declared in recent interviews their undeniable love for Buffy.) Moreover, Buffy created a genre of its own: "the multigenre," a mix of a few genres in one show — fantasy, horror, comedy and drama, for instance. Looking at some of the shows on TV right now, it's easy to see shows that embraced Buffy's special multigenre: The O.C., Lost, Grey's Anatomy and Veronica Mars. Another interesting aspect of this influence is the writer. Joss Whedon surrounded himself with a fabulous group of talented writers who were almost kidnapped to other ...
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