Television Zombies made the finalist list for the Parsec Awards in the category of Best Speculative Fiction News Podcast. The awards are decided by a panel of celebrity judges and given out at the Dragon*Con in Atlanta on Saturday, August 30th during an evening awards ceremony.
The TVZ crew is proud to be nominated in [...]
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August 19, 2008
TVZ Nominated for Prestigious Speculative Fiction Podcasting Award
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Featured, Site News
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 [...]
Review: Eureka 3.3 - “Best in Faux”
- by Lisa Knight | Filed under: Eureka, Featured, Reviews and Recaps
Nice episode! This is what the show should be every week. Characters were used well, and the multiple threads of the story converged in a tidy way, really very pleasing. Who would have guessed that you could weave together robotic dogs, an underground volcano, a researcher who fabricates synthetic mucus in his laboratory, and a [...]
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 [...]
August 14, 2008
Review: Charlie Jade 1.9 - “Betrayal”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Charlie Jade, Doctor Who, Featured, Recommended, Reviews and Recaps
It’s all about time.
According to IMDB, Chris Roland (the series co-creator) has written or helped write all the episodes thus far. The same source also says only 4 of the 9 episodes thus far have been written or directed by anyone but him, including the pilot. Why then was this the best of [...]
August 13, 2008
TVZ Ep.52: “Season Finales”
- by Jeff Barrus | Filed under: Podcast
This week marks the close of the first year of Television Zombies! The TVZ gang and special guests look back on 52 weeks of podcasting. Also, the news of the week and a discussion of Russell T. Davies’ last regular episode of Doctor Who.
Click here to download the episode.
August 10, 2008
TVZ Ep.51: “How Can You Forget a Necrophiliac?”
- by Jeff Barrus | Filed under: Podcast
Plagued with technical problems, Episode 51 is finally here! 14 hours in the editing room have brought the patient back from the brink. Oh yeah, we discuss the news of two weeks ago and the penultimate episode of Doctor Who series four. Also, Tina proposes a shocking new television program.
Click here to [...]
August 8, 2008
Review: Eureka 3.2 — “What About Bob?”
- by Lisa Knight | Filed under: Eureka, Featured, Reviews and Recaps
For Eureka’s second show of the season, the crisis of the week involved the “disappearance” of a research scientist from a sealed biosphere (quote marks used because the man didn’t actually disappear — he started turning into a snake). But really, that story doesn’t matter (I’ll explain below).
Here are the things to comment on: (1) [...]
Buffy: The Animated Series
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Buffy, Featured, News and Commentary
About 4 years ago, Joss Whedon planned on doing a Buffy animated series. It was going to be set during the high school years (and would have included both Angel and Dawn). Anthony Stewart Head, Nicholas Brendon, Michelle Trachtenberg, Charisma Carpenter, David Boreanaz, Kristine Sutherland, and Allyson Hannigan were all on board to do their [...]
Review: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
- by Chuck Knigge | Filed under: Doctor Horrible's Sing-along Blog, Featured, Reviews and Recaps
Joss Whedon is possibly the most beloved television creator/producer/writer of our time. It’s obvious that I have a man-crush on him. I even met him once at a comic shop while he was perusing for stuff. Coincidentally, I got him to sign a copy of my Astonishing X-Men, but I totally forgot to get something [...]
Review: Charlie Jade 1.8 - “Devotion”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Charlie Jade, Featured, Reviews and Recaps
Things in the verses are starting to shake up.
16 hours before the premiere of Eureka, Charlie Jade brings one of its best episodes. There was some serious emotion this time around counteracting the sheer darkness (and I mean lighting) of the episode. I was seriously frustrated at the blinds causing a glare on the TV [...]
August 1, 2008
Review: Eureka 3.1 - “Bad to the Drone”
- by Lisa Knight | Filed under: Eureka, Featured, Reviews and Recaps
Well, the Season 3 opener for Eureka was kind of a dud. It wasn’t even funny, really. Colin Ferguson was charming as Sheriff Jack Carter and made us chuckle a few times, and several of the characters are certainly charismatic, but that was about it. The artificial intelligence (AI) concept that was central to the [...]
Review: DOCTOR WHO 4.13 – “Journey’s End”
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Doctor Who, Featured, Reviews and Recaps
Last week the Doctor was dragged aboard the TARDIS by his companions Jack, Donna, and Rose, having been shot by a Dalek. He then began to regenerate!
The episode begins and the Doctor is pouring out energy, about to regenerate. He then aims his hands at his old severed hand (as many fans have been speculating [...]
Review: HEROES Webisodes – “Going Postal”
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Featured, Heroes, Reviews and Recaps
You don’t want to watch the 3-part Heroes webisodes. Seriously. The title “Going Postal” should hopefully have been deterrent enough. Imagine giving an ADD-addled child high-end cameras and lighting equipment, a few actors, access to the Heroes soundtrack, and no money or apparently script and this is what you get, I guess.
CHAPTER 1: A NIFTY [...]
Review: Charlie Jade 1.7 - “Diamonds”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Charlie Jade, Featured, Reviews and Recaps
…in which we get a peek at Charlie’s past.
Flashback to five years ago. Charlie is narrating as two soldiers enter a building. It’s the same type of building we saw Jasmine in last week; lots of plastic and granite. They enter a room and open fire. One soldier takes off his [...]
July 30, 2008
Your Chance to Be a Television Zombie!
- by Tina Seamonster | Filed under: Featured
Episode 52 of TV Zombies will be recording this Saturday, August 2nd at 10 pm Eastern Time! This will mark one year’s worth of shows!
To celebrate, we’re going to do a special show! If you would like to be live on the show with us, email us at televisionzombies@gmail.com. In the email, include either your [...]
July 29, 2008
TVZ Ep.50: “Sing-along Blogs and Left Turns”
- by Jeff Barrus | Filed under: Podcast
This week, the TVZ crew looks at Doctor Horrible’s Sing-along Blog, Doctor Who’s “Left Turn” and the rejected pilot to the U.S. version of Life on Mars! Also the news of the week and more!
Click here to download the episode.
DOCTOR WHO mini-episode: “Music of the Spheres”
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Doctor Who, Featured, News and Commentary
On July 27th, during the annual “Proms”, the BBC showed a special mini-episode of Doctor Who entitled “Music of the Spheres.” Here is a YouTube link for those of us here in the States.
New LOST video
- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Featured, Lost, News and Commentary, Viral Videos
At the San Diego ComiCon last weekend, LOST producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof brought a brand-new video which provides tantalizing hints towards both the nature of the island and a secret of one of the characters from the show:
Amazing LOST video right here!
July 28, 2008
Eureka Season 3: New Viewer Guide
- by Lisa Knight | Filed under: Eureka, Featured, Reviews and Recaps
So we’re on the verge of the first episode of Season 3 of Eureka, the Sci Fi Channel’s quirky little show about life in a town full of geniuses. The first of 21 episodes premieres on July 29 (the season was originally announced as 13 episodes, apparently, but fallout from the writer’s strike actually benefited [...]