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SNL Asks: What Is “Burn Notice”?
Posted by Thadd - 02/17/10 9:00 am

In short, USA’s Burn Notice is a cross between MacGyver, Mission: Impossible (the series, focused on cool gadgets and great teamwork; not the movies, focused on making Tom Cruise look taller than he is) and little bit of Miami Vice thrown in for good measure (again, the series, focused on hot chicks and pastel jackets; not the movie, which nobody saw). It’s also one of the most popular shows on cable, ever.

But according to NBC’s Saturday Night Live (the same network that owns USA, fyi) nobody knows what it’s actually about!

Star Jeffrey Donovan got a kick out of it, saying, “you have to be doing something right for them to make fun of you.”

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The Most Important TV Event of the Day
Posted by Thadd - 07/07/09 11:20 am

syfy..no, not Michael Jackson’s funeral (which you can watch at Hulu, CNN, and pretty much every other website and channel around).

I’m talking about a much more important landmark in television: the name change of science fiction/fantasy cable network from SCI-FI to SyFy. Yes, folks the day is finally here. First reported back in March, many people have dubbed the change a “hoax” at best, a “huge freakin’ mistake that will ruin genre television for the rest of eternity” at worst (we geeks have a tendency to blow things out of proportion). So, why the change? And why all the fuss? Let’s a take a look.

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The Great Switch of ’09
Posted by Dave - 11/19/08 3:00 pm

Better get a pen and paper handy, looks like this could get complicated…

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