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The British Academy Television Awards nomination list has been published. Here is the full list of nominees: Leading Actor Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock (BBC One) Dominic West – Appropriate Adult (ITV) John Simm – Exile (BBC One) Joseph Gilgun – This is England ’88 (Channel 4) Leading Actress Emily Watson – Appropriate Adult (ITV1) Nadine [...]

The TCA is a media organization of about 200 TV critics and journalists from the U.S. and Canada, and last week those guys picked what in their eyes was best on TV during 2011. Here’s the full list of winners on the 2011 TCA Awards: Program of the Year Friday Night Lights (DirecTV/NBC) Outstanding Achievement [...]

The fantasy series, Merlin may have been cancelled by NBC after only one season, but it continues to be a huge success elsewhere, so it didn’t come as too much of a surprise to us to find out that the BBC have commissioned the show for a fifth series. The announcement was made during the [...]

Here’s another quick post before I delve into that Comic Con super-post. During the packed True Blood panel, the new trailer for the series fourth season was screened. It’s a trailer that shows us a lot of what will happen in the rest of the season – so if you’re not in the mood for [...]

Before I post my Comic Con 2011 summary (it was a pretty huge event, but the spoilers/highlights can be squeezed into two-three posts) – here’s an update for all you TWD fans. During the Comic Con, AMC has released the first trailer for the second season of the zombie series (a couple of weeks ago [...]

The return date for the sixth season of Doctor Who was revealed yesterday during a Comic Con panel which consisted of the show’s stars, Matt Smith (The Doctor), Karen Gillan (Amy Pond), plus executive producers Piers Wenger and Beth Willis, as well as writer Toby Whithouse. And the good news for all Doctor Who fans [...]

I’m not in San Diego at the moment, where the Comic Con begins today andwhere almost every American TV critic is right now. The schedule of this year’s convention is looking good, and thefact that I’m not there just gives me more time (and focus) to collect all the important information for you, and bring [...]

So who’s going to attend the 2011 Comic-Con International? Easier to ask who’s not, since the list is full with almost every TV series you can think of. The time is July 21-24 (with preview night scheduled for July 20), and the place is San Diego. And here’s the list of TV panels on the [...]

SEB: tca awards nominees Later this summer we will hear what the Television Critics Association loved most this year. This year’s TCA Awards would be hosted by Parks and Recreation‘s Ron Swanson – Nick Offerman (so no matter what the critics chose, it’s going to be a hell of an event). A group of around [...]

SEB: Cannes 2011 winners This year the Cannes Festival was surprisingly exciting, with many new films from big directors, and some very interesting ones from newcomers. Lars Von Trier was perhaps responsible for some of the entertainment, but luckily this year the films were the most interesting part, and no provocation could compete with that. [...]

SEB: cannes 64 films The Tree Of Life Directed by: Terrence Malick; Written by: Terrence Malick Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain One of the most interesting films in Cannes this year, a contemporary story that features images of prehistoric earth: “microbial and astronomical imagery, along with dinosaurs”. Giving the fact it also features [...]

SEB: cannes 64 competition, cannes 2011 films Earlier today the list of films selected for the 64th Cannes Film Festival were announced, as well as the jury. The 2011 Festival De Cannes will take place next month, May 11th-22nd. Mean & Massive is going to enjoy some of those films, and report live from Cannes. [...]

SEB: best tv pilots 2011 With so many pilots in development this season, you’d think it’s hard to choose the best from the rest. But, in fact, the good ones, or better say, the most interesting pilots, are pretty easy to spot. And usually the story has nothing to do with it (in fact, most [...]

SEB: Raising Hope season 2 spoilers PaleyFest 2011 came to a close last Thursday, 17th March with a night honouring Fox’s new comedy, Raising Hope. Raising Hope was created by Greg Garcia (the creator of My Name is Earl) and premiered on Fox in September last year and has already been renewed for a second [...]

SEB: Chevy Chase, Joel McHale, Community spoilers It was the turn of the cast and creators of NBC’s comedy Community to take to the stage at PaleyFest 2011 on Tuesday night. Now in it’s second season, Community, which was created by Dan Harmon, follows the lives of a group of students at possibly the worst [...]

SEB: Steven Tyler, Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez Monday night at the PaleyFest paid tribute to TV’s biggest TV show, American Idol which is currently in it’s tenth season. Obviously American Idol doesn’t need any introductions but just a bit of trivia for you… did you know that as of January 2011 it is the most [...]

SEB: Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles The next great show to be honoured at this year’s PaleyFest was Supernatural and once again it was a full house at the Saban Theater on Sunday afternoon. Supernatural has actually been on our screens for over five years now and the sixth season is currently airing on [...]

SEB: Judd Apatow, Undeclared We’re up to Day Eight on our coverage of PaleyFest 2011 and Saturday night’s offering was slightly unusual in that it featured two shows, Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared which both only had one season more than a decade ago. However, IFC is currently showing re-runs of both series and it [...]

SEB: Danny McBride, Will Ferrell, Eastbound season 3 spoilers The big story to come out of HBO’s Eastbound & Down‘s appearance at PaleyFest 2011 on Thursday, 10th March is that the upcoming third season will be it’s last – but more on that later. First off, a bit of background on this comedy show. It [...]

SEB: PaleyFest 2011 panel, Parks and Rec season 3 spoilers, Michael Schur, Rob Lowe, Amy Perkins Wednesday night was the turn of NBC’s Parks and Recreation to take to the PaleyFest stage and as expected, a fun night was had by all. Again for those who have not seen this show, it is a comedy [...]