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Boldly go to the high-def frontier.
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Looks like The Firm is on the chopping block this season.
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Parks and Recreation will get a visit from the White House soon.
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We're sure this won't be Leonard Nimoy's last interview ever, but it may very well be his last interview about acting. The thespian formerly known as Spock has announced his retirement from acting after 60 years, and will cap his career with a swan song as mysterious genius William Bell in tonight's season finale of Fringe. He was only able to give us a few key details about the episode, including whether we'll see an Alternate Bell and whether he'll resolve his relationship with Walter Bishop, but he also weighed in on Star Trek and on his long, storied career over the course of his conference call. So until we start covering his erotic photography exhibitions, enjoy these last words from the man, and live long and prosper, Mr. Nimoy.
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We're not sure that the world really needs a spinoff to Criminal Minds, but then again, we didn't think sub-divisions of Law & Order were necessary and SVU and Criminal Intent proved us wrong by being far more enjoyable than their mothership. And while spinoffs may not always grab us right off the bat (like NCIS: Los Angeles), sometimes a new series just needs a little time before it starts improving upon its predecessor. Case in point: The City returned this week with new characters and a compelling new focus that made it far more watchable than the now totally contrived LC-less The Hills. But these aren't the only shows that have been better than their originals. Here's our look back at the best spinoffs from the past two decades:
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Hollywood To TWoP: Hello There!
Men of a Certain Age: Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher Talk About Their AgeIt's an unusual group of guys, to be sure. Scott Bakula is known for his science-fiction roles on Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise and Chuck. Andre Braugher is best known as a cop on Homicide and Hack and a doctor on Gideon's Crossing. And, of course, everybody loves comedian Ray Romano. Together in Men of a Certain Age, they're three odd musketeers, but they provide a little something for everyone when they sit down at their table in the diner to talk about life, work, families and women. We sat in on a roundtable with Bakula to talk about his one-foot-out-of-the-game actor character, and later with Braugher to find out about his car-salesman family man. (We gave Romano a pass.) Plus: Bakula's Chuck situation and Braugher's Star Trek dream!
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Some fun Leonard Nimoy facts: He used to be on Star Trek, he loves J.J. Abrams a whole lot, and he's very good at keeping spoilers to himself. I was on a media call with him yesterday about his return to Fringe tonight, and sadly he really didn't give a whole lot away. But, I mean, he's Leonard freaking Nimoy; he's delightful no matter what he's doing. His tight-lipped answers to the internet's questions after the jump!
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Really Ridiculous Reality Shows, The Biz, We Should Totally Be TV Execs
The 7 Syfy Channel Reality Shows We Want to SeeJust as the fervor over the Sci Fi Channel's name change to Syfy has started to die down, a rumor has come out that they're looking into expanding their reality television slate, which currently consists of Ghost Hunters. (If you can call that reality.) Once again, genre television fans are in an uproar, and Jimmy Kimmel isn't helping things by envisioning cooking show Iron Man Chef. But here are seven shows (in the seven main reality categories) we, as geeks, would actually like to see on Syfy, and we think that the geek community at large would like them, too.
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This week, you have a choice between hilarious comedies and gripping dramas, family fare and adult material, and original Star Trek and Next Generation. One might say that this week's offerings run the gamut.
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It's a hell of a thing, killing a man, taking away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. And yet, the writers of ABC's FlashForward have shown John Cho's character, Demitri Noh, what his life will be like six months in the future, and, long story short... he won't have one. Six months in the future, his life is pitch black, and now he has to help solve the mystery of why he (and the rest of the world) was shown this future, and try not to let the knowledge of his fate affect his job at the FBI or the planning of his wedding. We caught up with Cho for five glorious minutes, and while he couldn't give much away as far as plot points go, we did manage to get him to admit that he was planning on taking his shirt off in the near future. So that counts for something, right?
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