Please consult your local listings to verify this week’s prime time and weekend TV highlights.
Tuesday, July 29th
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends – 8pm, Toon Disney
Jurassic Fight Club – 9pm, History Channel
>Investigating the existence of cannibal dinosaurs.
Eureka – 9pm, SciFi Channel [Season Premiere!]
>They’re rerunning the whole season prior to the premiere in case you need a refresher.
Hulu Spotlight: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
>For those of you who missed it the first time around, watch it! Watch it now! Watch it twice!
Wednesday, July 30th
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends – 8pm, Toon Disney
MonsterQuest – 9pm, History Channel
>The team investigates the "Hairy Man" who may be responsible for the Bigfoot legend.
Ghost Hunters International – 9pm, SciFi Channel
Scare Tactics – 10pm, SciFi Channel
Thursday, July 31st
Jeremiah – 7pm-11pm, SciFi Channel (repeats)
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends – 8pm, Toon Disney
The Neverending Story – 8pm, ION [Movie]
>"Moooooooonchiiiiiiiiiild!
Samurai 7 – 8:30pm, IFC [Anime]
Supernatural – 9pm, The CW (repeat)
>It’s the Groundhog Day episode!
Fear Itself – 10pm, NBC
Burn Notice – 10pm, USA
Friday, August 1st
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – 8pm, ABC [Movie]
The Fog – 8pm, FOX [Movie]
>Your chance to watch this remake for free…
Speed Grapher – 8pm, IFC [Anime]
Joan of Arcadia – 7:30pm, SciFi Channel (repeats)
Gunslinger Girl – 8:30pm, IFC [Anime]
Doctor Who – 8:30pm, SciFi Channel [Season Finale!]
Stargate Atlantis – 10pm, SciFi Channel
Saturday, August 2nd
Hulu Spotlight: Pitch Black
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero – 7:30pm, Cartoon Network [Animated Movie]
Dragon Wars – 9pm, SciFi Channel [Movie]
>Korean legend based film starring Jason Behr (Roswell).
The Prophecy – 9pm, IFC [Movie]
Eli Stone – 10pm, ABC (repeat)
Sunday, August 3rd
Mannequin – 4pm, Fox Movie Channel [Movie]
Superman: The Animated Series – 6pm, ToonDisney
>Lois travels to a parallel world where Supes and Lex rule with an iron fist.
Hoodwinked! – 7pm, Cartoon Network [Animated Movie]
Doom – 8pm, TBS [Movie]
Heatstroke – 9pm, SciFi Channel [Movie]
>D.B. Sweeney and Winnie Cooper…I mean, Danica McKellar must say the Earth from marauding aliens.
Legion of the Dead – 11pm, SciFi Channel [Movie]
>Mummies terrorize California.
Sci-Fi channel is still airing Charlie Jade at 3am on Tuesday mornings.
I’ve read there was a major production change and the episodes from next week through the end of the series has a totally different writing team and new executive story editor than the first 8 eps (which were visually dazzling, but very slow).
Maybe worth recording to see if the show really does pick up the pace and improve, as some people claim.
What is Charlie Jade about and is it worth watching?
Tamara: I love that you got Mannequin up there. It’s a hoot.
Plot summary from IMDB:
“Charlie Jade is a rogue private detective in a world dominated by greedy multinational corporations. While on an investigation, Charlie explores a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him from his own universe (alphaverse) to a strange parallel universe (betaverse). Soon, Charlie is drawn into a conflict that involves these two universes and one other pacifist universe (gammaverse) with unsuspected terror at its heart.”
Charlie Jade is a 20 or 21 episode television series, a joint South African and Canadian effort filmed in Cape Town, South Africa that originally aired in 2005 (I’m guessing in Canada). Essentially, it’s an ambitious, somewhat confusing, dark, moody, complex show with very interesting visuals, set designs and cinematography/camera work. Alpha Verse is a little Blade Runner-ish… modern, dark, with very advanced technology. Beta is similar to present day. Gamma appears to be similar to a utopian society with a lush, tropical landscape. On the show, the tone and colors change dramatically between universes.
Apparently, the group that wrote the first 8 episodes was replaced with an entirely new team in order to get the narrative moving forward, which the initial episodes did not do after the main plot setup. According to another source:
“Trust me when I say (Charlie Jade) it will get a hundred times better and cooler. It takes a few episodes until the second writing team – led by Alex Epstein, Denis McGrath and Sean Carley – really takes off, but even in next week’s episode, ‘Betrayal’, you can see marked improvement. That slowness that was evident early in the season goes away fast as things ramp up quickly.”
Thanks for the heads up about Dr. Horrible showing on Hulu!
Joss is the Man!
Thanks for the heads up about Dr. Horrible showing on Hulu!
Joss is the Man!
Thanks for the heads up about Dr. Horrible showing on Hulu!
Joss is the Man!
How about that Doctor Who finale??? Wow!
Rick, I agree with you 100% about the Doctor Who finale. I wish that someone here would do show recaps of Doctor Who when it starts back up again – David Tennant is the best Doctor ever!
I would love to do those said recaps! I saw it back in July and was blown away. I am glad Sci-Fi didn’t cut anything out.