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by Rick Norwood
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SF on TV in February 2011
The Season Two Finale of V airs March 1. Sanctuary will return in
April. Some time later this year look for the new Battlestar Galactica series:
Blood and Chrome, set ten years into the first Cylon war. The last ten episodes
of Stargate Universe will air sometime this Spring, though Stargate fans
still hope that they can save the Stargate franchise. Fringe, following
in the footsteps of Lost, is talking about a finite story arc lasting seven
years. Game of Thrones comes to HBO in April. Wonder Woman is coming
to tv, probably in the Fall.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
Being Human is a horror comedy series based on a British show of the same title about a
vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost who share an apartment. It debuted on SyFy in January to an audience
in the two million viewer range. This would get a series cancelled on network television, but
for SyFy it's huge -- the final episodes of Caprica had less than one million
viewers. Counting repeat airings (but not discounting repeat viewers) the numbers reached
almost four million. By way of comparison, a single January airing of Fringe,
a moderately successful network show, was seen by almost five million viewers. I'm not much
of a horror fan (though I do love Dark Shadows), but I plan to give
Being Human a try. I'll let you know what I think in the mid-February column.
Wednesday, February 2
Star Wars: Clone Wars, "Altar of Mortis"
 
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