After two weeks of battling dark forces and demons at the outer rim of the universe, Doctor Who takes a break from hardcore horror with a light, silly, and completely rewarding episode. Not since Tom Baker tumbled over his scarf while fighting an egg-headed Sontaran Warrior umpteen-zillion years ago has there been a chuckle-fest quite [...]
Totally Frakked: The Lost Room, Part 1 -- Material Possessions
December 12, 2006 By 2 Comments
After last December’s waterlogged The Triangle, the Sci Fi Channel seems to have taken a less-is-more approach with this year’s annual miniseries offering, The Lost Room. Should “The Key and the Clock�? (the first of three chapters) be indicative of what’s to follow, the end result should amount to a tasty holiday banquet, low on [...]
Totally Frakked: Battlestar Galactica -- Hunger Pains
December 12, 2006 By 3 Comments
The last time Battlestar Galactica faced a food shortage was in 1978, in the original series episode, "Those Magnificent Warriors." The tone then was a lot lighter, with Match Game trollop Brett Somers macking on Lorne Greene's Adama. That was another time and another Galactica. Today, as the events in "The Passage" demonstrate, the universe [...]
Totally Frakked: Heroes - Human Steak Bomb
December 7, 2006 By 7 Comments
The Heroes head off into reruns until January 22, 2007, but not before carpet-bombing the battlefield with cliffhangers -- the big, the small, and the eerily profound. After last episode’s meander through the past, “Fallout�? chugs a shot of adrenaline-laced espresso before that first fade-in, and buzzes at a dizzying speed right up until the [...]
Totally Frakked: Battlestar Galactica -Million-Dollar Battlestar Babies
December 6, 2006 By 11 Comments
Using the sport of boxing as a metaphor, members of the Battlestar Galactica crew step into the ring to settle private personal conflicts by beating the frak out of one another. Gods, say it isn’t so -- not another Sci-Fi sports-themed episode! Forget that there’s a war going on, and that murderous robots are stalking [...]
Totally Frakked: Doctor Who -- "The Satan Pit"
December 5, 2006 By 2 Comments
Last week, Doctor Who and his traveling companion Rose found themselves stranded on a desolate planet locked in the event horizon of a black hole. The TARDIS pulled one of her classic disappearing acts. As if that wasn’t bad enough, a sinister race of tentacle-faced Ood were on a murderous rampage through the planet’s deep [...]
Totally Frakked: Heroes - DILFs (Dads We'd Like to Forget)
December 1, 2006 By 2 Comments
In our partnership with MeeVee, please welcome our new Totally Frakked columnist: Gregory Norris (aka Mr. Write). For over a decade, Gregory has been a contributor to Sci-Fi and Cinescape magazines and was a screenwriter on "Star Trek: Voyager." He has interviewed such genre luminaries as David Duchovny, four of the five Star Trek Captains, [...]
No Hope For "Planet Earth" In Absurd TV Movie
October 13, 2006 By 2 Comments
Written by: Ray Richmond Reuters/Hollywood Reporter - Hallmark Channel's "Final Days of Planet Earth" is a sci-fi thriller-cum-camp extravaganza that envisions a world where your Blackberry cannot save you in a pinch and your friends may sprout slimy appendages at a moment's notice. Produced by the ubiquitous and deep-pocketed Robert Halmis senior and junior, "Earth" [...]
Mystery Deepens In New 'Lost' Episode
October 12, 2006 By 5 Comments
Written by: ERIN CARLSON (Associated Press Writer) ******SPOILER ALERT****** Lost" fans, this was a good one. Last week's premiere was a downer, focusing on moody Jack (Matthew Fox) and his troubled past. Wednesday's episode, however, brought back the intrigue that hooked viewers during the ABC drama's debut season and deepened the mystery once again. (It [...]
Six Degrees: Incidentally, Not A Right Angle
October 8, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Submitted by: Sevens (SoSF Staff Reporter) Source: Cinema/TV Blend Reviewed by: Logan Scherer Random strangers can spontaneously interact in collisions that can be pretty meaningful. This may be true in the camera-captured worlds of a whole slew of successful films and if it is we get it. ABC’s "Six Degrees" follows unknowing Manhattanites, some connected [...]
Aquaman: Could Have Been a Winner For CW
July 29, 2006 By 2 Comments
An Uncle Sam Review: Last night I downloaded and watched the pilot episode of Aquaman on iTunes. The never-before-aired pilot, which was supposed to be the new CW Network's tentpole show, is just one of many new television programs that the soon-to-be-defunct The WB Network has contracted with the download giant to offer. As I [...]
Uncle Sam Review: "Blade: The Series"
July 1, 2006 By 14 Comments
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (SoSF Producer & Managing News Editor) If you like seeing vampires killed by the dozens and won't be too put off by some pretty campy acting then SPIKE TV's "Blade: The Series" might be something you will enjoy watching. For me, the two-hour pilot was entertaining enough to keep me [...]
STAR TREK 2.0 - A Review
April 14, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Written by: Christine Roberts (SoSF Staff Reporter) For starters, to give an indication of the popularity of this new innovation in interactive TV viewing, you will need to register ahead of time if you want to take part in the Spock Stock Exchange or the Chat Room. I made the mistake of not doing this [...]
Dark Kingdom : The Dragon King - A Review
March 30, 2006 By 11 Comments
An Uncle Sam Review: Well, I have just finished watching the 2-part miniseries on The SciFi Channel, "Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King" and I must say I was surprisingly pleased. Being a Norse tale the location scenery was of course stunningly beautiful to look at. However, what surprised me most was the oustanding acting job [...]
Doctor Who - Did It Live Up To the Hype?
March 18, 2006 By 14 Comments
AN UNCLE SAM REVIEW Last night was the U.S. premiere of "Doctor Who" starring Christopher Eccelston and Billie Piper on The SciFi Channel. Last year's British return of Doctor Who finally has made it to American television sets thanks to an agreement between the BBC and The SciFi Channel. For months before its trip to [...]
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