On the last couple of listener feedback shows, we’ve asked for reaction, thoughts and feedback on ABC’s The River.

Slice listener and reader Heather from St. Louis has seen the series, including the recently aired season finale. She took the time to review the first season and offer some thoughts on it. We’re including it here on the Slice web site to help spark the conversation about this series.

As a single hour of television, Awake is fascinating, compelling television.  As a long-term series, there are questions about if and how the show can sustain its premise over the course of a season or seasons.   But if you haven’t seen the pilot yet via various on demand services or streaming from NBC’s web site, this is one that’s worth tuning in for when it finally airs tonight at 10 p.m. EST.

Terra Nova makes its debut Monday night at 8 p.m. EST on Fox. Is the show worth tuning in for?

On the surface, Syfy’s new summer series Alphas feels an awful lot like a clone of NBC’s Heroes. Ordinary people with extraordinary abilities are brought together to fight evil. But dig a bit deeper and you’ll see that, well, the show really is a lot like Heroes, only this time instead of fighting against a mysterious governmental agency, our elite team is a special branch of the Department of Defense.

While best known for his work on the silver screen, Steven Spielberg is no stranger to television. One of his earliest directing jobs was the movie of the week classic Duel and many genre fans will recall that he produced the anthology series Amazing Stories in the early 80s.