On January 24th, fourteen years after what fans thought was the series finale, The X-Files kicked off its much hyped six episode event. Ratings were HUGE with 16 million people watching episode one (probably didn’t hurt that it directly followed the Super Bowl) and even though episode two only pulled in about 10 million viewers, those are still big numbers for any network show, but especially interesting considering the show’s age (the pilot episode of […]
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A Look Back at the X-Files, Season 6
Season six of the X-Files picked up where the movie left off and focused on Mulder and Scully’s reassignment to other cases within the F.B.I. The agents, who had been taken off the X-files, still found themselves dealing with cases very much like what they had been working on before, much to the chagrin of the director of the F.B.I. During season 6, production of the show left Vancouver and relocated to Los Angeles, giving […]
Home to Stars Hollow
The drive home to the Gilmore house had seemed extra long after the whirlwind day in D.C. Rory pulled into the driveway and parked next to her mother’s Jeep, grabbed her bags, dress and laptop out of the backseat of her Prius and started up the front porch steps. The porch light flickered on and Lorelei ran screaming from the house, nearly knocking Rory down. “You’re here! You’re here! I have so much to tell […]
Glee: Where Do We Go From Here?
This just in: Fox renewed Glee for two more seasons. That’s right not one, but TWO. Considering how the ratings the past few seasons have been consistently dropping, that decision comes as a pretty big surprise. But then again, this is the same network that’s beating us to death with twelve seasons of American Idol and nine seasons of Bones – both good shows at one time, but anymore just feel stale. So where does Glee go […]
Young Adult Dystopian Fiction: Coming to a Big and Small Screen Near You
Dystopian fiction is nothing new, but has seen a huge rise in popularity over the past few years with the success of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling YA series, The Hunger Games. And just like what the Twilight phenomenon did for the surging popularity of vampires and werewolves, The Hunger Games is doing for dystopian fiction. Many dystopian series are equally as popular with both the young adult and adult crowd and fill the shelves at your […]