To absolutely no-one’s surprise ABC picked up Flashforward for the remainder of the season.
Whilst I don’t hate the show, I’ve found little worth getting excited about, and the fact that both Dominic Monaghan and Sonya Walger star in the show means their presence in the final season of Lost is questionable. That’s not a good thing. I will concede that Flashforward has a great deal of potential, but the thinking that it’s a Lost replacement drives me crazy. That line of thinking completely undermines the genius of Lost by assuming that creating a once in a lifetime show can be done anytime you want.
Here’s the trailer for Peter Jackson’s latest flick The Lovely Bones.
The story, adapted from the novel by Alice Sebold, centres on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Despite my almost universal dislike of Mark Wahlberg (the only good thing he’s ever done is Boogie Nights) I think that this looks pretty damn impressive. The crapness of Wahlberg is offset by the brilliant Rachel Weisz and Michael Imperioli, the supremely creepy looking Stanley Tucci, and the fantastical special effects. Not to mention that it’s directed by one of the best directors working today (even though I think the LOTR trilogy are vastly overated).
Here are some new snaps of Joshua Jackson and Lance Reddick filming for the second season of Fringe in Vancouver.
I really enjoyed this show during it’s first season and have high hopes for it going into the second season. My hope is that it finds it’s own voice and will take over as the prime serialised series once Lost finishes up its final season next year. I’m still kinda bummed that they fired Kirk Acevedo but I’m confident that they’ll introduce more interesting characters throughout the second season.
The second season premiere of Fringe is scheduled for 17th September at 9PM.
Looks like that writers strike didn’t affect Lost as much as I thought it would. I figured when the writers strike cut into the scheduled episodes of Lost that they were gone for good and I’d still only see 16 hours for each of the remaining seasons. Thankfully another hour has been added to Lost’s 6th and final season taking the total to 18 hours.
I’m simultaneously excited and upset that there’s only 18 hours remaining on one of the top 5 shows of all time. I wish the show could go on forever but I’m not naive enough to think that it could possibly keep up this sustained level of excellence. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse did the right thing in getting a concrete end date and it just builds the excitement for what they have in store come February 2010.
