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This morning, the nominations for the 67th annual Emmy Awards were announced. The full list of nominations is below but first there are a few things worth mentioning in this years crop of nominations. First off, Tatiana Maslany was finally, finally nominated for an Emmy for her work in Orphan Black. It has been, and continues to be, one of the best performances anyone is giving on television today and should be recognized as such. She's been snubbed in the past, but glad to see she's finally getting her due. This will be the last year that past favorites like Mad Men and Parks and Recreation can be nominated for anything, so it's very possible that they will take home a good share of what they've been nominated for as a sort of "thank you" to those shows. Speaking of Mad Men, John Hamm has been nominated as an actor in a Drama Series with Mad Men and as an actor in a comedy series with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt . For the first time in five years, Th...

Those who saw the fourth season of Arrested Development had a lot of things to say about it and not all of them were kind. Some complained about the format that focused on only one character at a time. Some complained about the fact that some shots were clearly patched together from two different shots because schedules couldn't line up well enough to get the everyone in the room at the same time to shoot the shot. Some just had general complaints about the quality of the show saying the magic of the first three seasons was gone. My personal complaint? The ending. Not what the ending was exactly, but the fact that they chose to end on a cliffhanger. I mean I was waiting for the better part of a decade for that season to finally come out and we had no idea how long a fifth season would take to get together or if it would ever finally happen at all. And I had to wait with that ending? Well we still have to wait a while but at least a general end date to our waiting game has be...

As the days get longer and outside gets warmer, we know that summer is approaching. Which means it a perfect time to start thinking about all of that Netflix you're going to watch inside in the air conditioning while you eat ice-cream. Netflix has announced a whole slew of original programming scheduled to be released between now and August, so lets take a look at what's coming up in the next few months. May 21st Between: The first Netflix series to focus on a YA audience, Between is a Canadian show about a virus that kills everyone over the age of 21. So it looks like a good bit of Lord of the Flies mixed with some of that YA dystopian genre that's so popular right now. The first season will consist of six episodes and, unlike earlier Netflix shows, the series will not put out the entire season all at once, but instead put out one episode a week starting May 21st. Check out the trailer below. May 22nd Jen Kirkman: I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine): Net...

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you have something productive that you were going to do today? Well get that silly notion out of here because clearly this is going to take up the next several days of your life. See, In an effort to make more people aware that brand new episodes of Whose Line is it Anyway? are still being produced on the CW, the channel has released not just all of their new episodes hosted by Aisha Tyler, but in fact every single episode of the original US run as well that was hosted by Drew Carey.   I would say more here, but I'm sure you're still just reading this as a courtesy until I give you a link that you can click on. So here you go everyone! Enjoy!

Did you know that there are currently seven different shows on TV that are about comic book superheroes? No really. You've got Flash and Arrow on the CW, Gotham on Fox, Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter on ABC, Powers on PSN, and Daredevil on Netflix. You can also throw in Walking Dead and iZombie on AMC and CW as they're both based on comic books for a grand total of nine. Well it looks like even more are coming our way as two trailers have debut for superhero shows that are coming out this television season. First up we have Supergirl on CBS. So this looks a lot like early seasons of Smallville with that "How does a Kryptonian make it in this modern busy world?" kind of feel. I'll give it a go, I did like the arguments about how the costume should look. But if they keep using the term cousin so they never have to say Superman, that's going to drive me up the wall by episode three. Next up we have DC's Legends of Tomorrow on the CW So th...

Once upon a time NBC was the powerhouse channel when it came to television comedy. For well over twenty years, the comedy lineup on NBC Thursday nights was a force to be reckoned with. From The Cosby Show , to Cheers , to Frasier , to Seinfeld , to Will and Grace to Friends , to The Office , NBC comedy lineup was more or less what created to modern version of Must See TV. In recent years though NBC has struggled with their once magical comedy night. While shows like 30 Rock , Parks and Recreation and Community have all been well received critically, earning Emmy nominations, and small but loyal, vocal followings, NBC's comedies have failed to find big audiences. In an effort to regrow that comedy block, NBC tried to bring back some big names including Sean Hayes and Michael J. Fox, only for both of their shows to last only one season each. NBC as a network has slipped from 1st place to 4th place, sometimes lower, in terms of viewers. As time has passed, show after now has f...

It must have been a good year for ABC. With the exception of just for shows (The newcomers Christela and  Forever , as well as Resurection and Revenge ) the entire slate of ABC primetime shows will be returning next year. While this includes some shows that were foregone conclusions, (Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Scandal) there are a few nice surprises in there. American Crime, despite not getting stellar reviews was a big hit with critics and is getting another season. There is a good chance that American Crime might be up for some awards this fall which may have helped it's renewal. ABC has decided to also renew both of their Marvel TV shows Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter. While it looks like the proposed Agents of SHIELD spinoff, won't be going forward, the fact that both shows are going to get more episodes is great news. This puts Agents of SHIELD in it's third season which according to Forbes almost guarantees a fourth season renewal next year to e...

It has been announced that Netflix is developing a TV series around the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham. Yes, for real, and Netflix has already ordered the first 13 episodes of the series. I think this would be a great time to point out that the source material, the book Green Eggs and Ham, only uses 50 words in the entire book. Seriously, Dr Seuss wrote the book as part of a bet were someone said that he couldn't write an entire children's book using fifty or less different words. Well he did, and now it's going to apparently take 13 (or more) episodes to tell that harrowing tale of someone trying to get someone else to eat something. And you thought they added a lot to the Hobbit Trilogy. The show is nowhere close to coming out though. It's expected to take about three years to create the show and it should come out in 2018, because I forgot to mention THIS IS EXPECTED TO BE THE HIGHEST-END, MOST EXPENSIVE ANIMATED PROGRAM PRODUCED FOR TELEVISION EVER!! That...

I've heard of shows that have been canceled, and then uncanceled due to either loud enough fan support or last minute deals going through. I've also heard of shows that got canceled before a single episode was aired. (This happened to the show Hieroglyph , just this past year.) But I'm not sure if both of these things have ever happened to the same show before now. A while back, the land of Oz seemed to be everywhere. Disney had released a fairly successful prequel movie about the Wizard first arriving, Oz characters were showing up on Once Upon a Time , and there were no less than three (count 'em three) Wizard of Oz themed TV shows in development at the same time. One of those shows was Emerald City on NBC. Emerald City was described as a Game of Thrones style interpretation of the land of Oz (i.e. NBC would like some of that GoT success) that would cover events not only from the original Wizard of Oz book, but its thirteen sequels as well. Last January, NBC order...

If you don't know about The Mortal Instruments book series, here's a quick rundown for you. The story is about a young girl named Clary who learns that she is a member of the Shadowhunters, a race of people, descended from angels to battle demons. The Mortal Instruments is a book series comprised of six books (really two trilogies) following Clary and her friends. The potentially cool thing about this series though is that it is one of potentially five different series that all together will make up The Shadowhunter Chronicles . The author, Cassandra Claire, has written a series titled The Infernal Devices that is a prequel series to The Mortal Instruments and features the ancestors of some of the characters in the Mortal Instruments series. If all goes as planned, there will be a total of five different series making up the Shadowhunter Chronicles with The Infernal Devices being the earliest, A proposed trilogy titled The Last Hours being a sequel to that, Then the alread...

It was announced last week that Fox was planning to bring The Rocky Horror Picture Show to the small screen for a two hour remake set to premiere some time in the undetermined future. And people are FREAKING OUT!! Look Rocky Horror is a rather decisive piece of work. People tend to either love it or hate it and there is really no middle ground. But those who love it tend to try and convince those who don't that the reason they don't is likely because they've never been to the live midnight showings of the movie, where you can really enjoy the movie in full, complete with the audience call and response to the movie that has developed over the years.  This is what makes the idea of a remake of the movie that people watch alone and at home so bizarre on the surface. Why would one of the most famous bits of audience interaction be something that people would do alone? Is anybody going to throw rice at their own TV if they have to be the ones to vacuum it up later? However...