- The verdict is in, and Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is a hit, drawing 1.9 million total viewers for its 10 and 11 PM Friday airings — 77% higher than the debut of the first season.
- Speaking of ratings, Syfy’s Being Human was up in its second week — the strongest winter scripted debut since Battlestar Galactica in 2005.
- Meanwhile, BBC America has announced that season three of Being Human (their version) will begin sooner than was previously thought, on February 19th. Meanwhile, a new show, Outcasts, will debut the same day. Is it sci-fi or fantasy? From the website: “With Earth no longer habitable, a group of courageous pioneers have traveled to another planet to begin again… As they continue to work and live together they come to realize this is no ordinary planet. Mystery lurks around them and threatens to risk the fragile peace of Forthaven.”
- It hasn’t been cast or filmed, but the movie version of The Hunger Games has a release date: March 23, 2012.
- A list of the actresses thought to be interested in playing Wonder Woman in David Kelley’s new TV version.
- Remember the reports that the production of HBO’s A Game of Thrones had damaged a nature preserve? A website investigated and found that those reports were exaggerated.
- I totally called this one! Leonard Nimoy hasn’t retired from acting after all, and may return to Fringe.
- Speaking of A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin talks about wrapping up the book series:
- An interview with the new Spartacus, Liam McIntyre. He walks the fine line of paying homage to Andy Whitfield while also trying to establish his own identity in the part: “Andy’s Spartacus is always going to be Andy’s Spartacus, and I would never try and emulate that. Or try to be him. I think that should stand alone as his legacy.”
- So after all the rumors back and forth about the new Matrix movies — they’re on! no, it was all a hoax! most of the story was false, but two new Matrix movies are still in the works! — what’s the truth? No movies are in the works, the studio says.
- An interesting point: when a girl becomes possessed by a demon, she becomes creepily sexualized.
- Ron Moore’s pilot about a world ruled by magic, not science (a “Harry Potter for grown-ups”), has been picked up by NBC.
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As to the sexualized possessed women, we get that phenomenon due to the Victorians. In Victorian England, a woman could never be depicted enjoying sex unless it was due to an evil influence such as becoming a vampire or being possessed. Because of the puritanical nature of America, especially the MPAA, that trope is still in full force.
Good point.
Bridget Regan for Wonder Woman! Not Lake Bell or any of the others mentioned (who have all previously expressed an interest in playing Wonder Woman in a big-screen movie, not an ongoing television series).
If not Bridget Regan, then Alexa Davalos.
As much as I like her, she doesn’t seem quite right for the role…