Best Television Series – Drama Dexter House In Treatment Mad Men True Blood Best Performance By An Actress in a Television Series – Drama Sally Field (“Brothers and Sisters”) Mariska Hargitay (“Law and Order: SVU”) January Jones (“Mad Men”) Anna Paquin (“True Blood”) Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”) Best Performance By An Actor in a Television [...]
Archives for the ‘Casual Zombies’ Category
December 15, 2008
List of Golden Globes TV Nominations
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Casual Zombies,Featured,News and Commentary
August 29, 2008
Fall TV List
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Casual Zombies,Chuck,Featured,Heroes,Knight Rider,News and Commentary,Pushing Daisies,Sarah Connor Chronicles,The Office
Your favorite shows are returning in just about a week! Here’s a list of the shows that TVZ discusses in one form or another, that will debut this Fall. If you don’t see shows you’re anticipating like Dollhouse, Reaper, or Virtuality, that’s because they are scheduled for midseason debuts. SORTED BY DATE: 1. Prison Break [...]
August 28, 2008
TVZ Ep.53: “A Pile of Rocks for all Eternity”
- by Jeff Barrus | Filed under: Casual Zombies,Podcast
TVZ returns with a discussion of AMC’s critically acclaimed 1960′s advertising agency soap opera, Mad Men, and Chris explains how it’s actually a science fiction show. Also, the start dates of five new shows, the news of the week and commentary by Preston of Cornish Sci-fi Supplement. Click here to download the episode.
August 16, 2008
Navigating the World of Webisodes
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Casual Zombies,Featured,News and Commentary,Recommended
With TV mostly dead throughout the summer, I’ve found myself turning to the internet for entertainment just as much as a rerun or DVD season set of a TV show. One form of online tv-viewing is watching a webisode. These range tremendously in quality, while the networks decide exactly what is the most beneficial way [...]
The Jeopardy! Experience
- by James DiBenedetto | Filed under: Casual Zombies,Featured
Game shows are not normally a topic covered by the Zombies or discussed here on the site. But, since I have first-hand experience to share, I think it’s worth writing about here. Specifically, I was invited to audition for America’s Favorite Game Show a couple of weeks ago. Here’s how it works: once a year, [...]
June 10, 2008
Review: “When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions”
- by James DiBenedetto | Filed under: Casual Zombies,Featured,Reviews and Recaps
This past Sunday, the Discovery Channel aired the first two parts of a six-part series from the producers of “Planet Earth”. This series, “When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions” is a history of the U.S. manned space program, with the cooperation of NASA, featuring never-before-seen (and remastered for HD) footage from the NASA archives, [...]
April 24, 2008
Chris’ Pal is on TV Tonight
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Casual Zombies,News and Commentary
My good friend, Dr. Ken Jeong, is on tv again tonight. We were pals in college while he was completing his residency and stay in touch even though we’re on opposite coasts. He’ll be appearing as (what else?) an Asian doctor on ‘Til Death. It’s on Fox at 8pm. Ken has appeared on shows such [...]
The Presidential Election gets Classy on TV
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Casual Zombies,Weird Stories
The candidates have decided that the best way to reach fans is to carefully read catch-phrases to WWE fans. Odd.
April 16, 2008
Casual Zombie: Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil
- by Tina Seamonster | Filed under: Casual Zombies,News and Commentary,Recommended
Jonah has mentioned this show a few times on our podcast. I just wanted to note that on tonight’s episode of Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil, Andy Kindler and Patton Oswalt expose the Evils of American Idol and High School. Check out a preview: Both high school and American Idol feature harsh social criticisms, [...]
Casual Zombie: The Deadliest Catch 4.1
- by Jonah Knight | Filed under: Casual Zombies,Reviews and Recaps
Between the coast of Alaska and Russian Siberia is more than 700,000 square miles of ocean called the Bering Sea. Because the U.S. seafood industry relies on more than one billion dollars of product from this area, the Bering Sea has a high volume of fishing boat traffic. Combine the frequent arctic storms with the [...]