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SEB: 2012-2013 new tv series Dick Wolf, the man behind Law & Order: SVU, has more than one reason to smile this morning: not only did the peacock network renewed Law & Order for a 14th season – it also picked up his drama pilot, Chicago Fire, for a series. All 2012-2013 TV pilots As [...]

UPDATE: and indeed it is true. All three shows will have their final 13-episodes long season. Goodbye, Leslie Knope. Next week the networks will unveil their fall schedule and the new shows for 2012-2013, as a part of the ‘upfront’ preview sessions for advertisers. NBC had already ordered a seventh and final season of 30 [...]

SEB: community s03e19 episode trailer, preview This week on NBC’s Community the study group has some free time. Watch the sneak peek to see what they do with it! Here’s the episode plot summary: When Abed becomes convinced that Dean Pelton is an impostor, he is required to see a therapist. Watch the episode promo [...]

Those days comedians have many platforms they can use to make us laugh. Still, TV is probably the best way to show people what you’ve got. Aziz Ansari and Louis CK will each have their own special on TV later this month. In both cases it’s a cut-down version and not the full gig. In [...]

Ricky Gervais is one of those names that are enough to sell a series. Channel 4 still wanted to test the pilot for Gervais’ new comedy drama Derek. After it drew 3.2 million viewers, the British channel has decided to give a full series order. Derek is written and directed by Gervais, who also stars [...]

If you love superheros, you love their costumes. What’s a superhero without his cape? The Avengers‘ end title sequence, designed by Method Design, is a tribute to superheros’ costumes, as it presents them in extreme close-ups, so detailed, until you feel you can smell it from your seat. Here’s what Method Design write on their [...]

SEB: game of thrones spoilers We’re still deep in season 2 of Game Of Thrones, but since HBO has announced the renewal of the series for the third season, we are all quite eager to know what is about to happen next year on the show. Watch Game Of Thrones episode promo – A Man [...]

For the second year in a row, actor Bryan Cranston, who plays Walter White in AMC’s Breaking Bad, is doing some good. Cranston organizes a Celebrity Softball Game, benefiting Wounded Warriors and Disabled American Veterans. In the game, the actor will lead a team of celebrities, while the other team will be the Wounded Warriors, [...]

SEB: hbo girls s01e05 episode trailer, preview I gave you the episode’s plot summary a couple of days back (together with my episode recap of Hannah’s Diary), before HBO has released the weekly promo for Girls. The next episode, Hard Being Easy (love the title!) continues where we last left the girls – dealing with [...]

SEB: louie season 3 Both FX comedies, Louie and Wilfred will return to FX on June 28. In case you’ve missed those two pearls on TV make yourself a reminder. Both series are not to be missed, and when they air the same night – it’s even better. You will probably not laugh out loud [...]

SEB: weeds season 8 promo May is already here, June has nothing much to offer (besides Louie season 3, which I’m pretty excited about) – so July is the next big month on TV. With shows like Breaking Bad and Weeds that return to fill our screens in sweet smoke, this summer is going to [...]

Remake of series many times changes them, and you can read my recaps of the American version for The Killing (AMC) or Being Human (Syfy) to see what I mean. I hope this time AMC will keep the original noir feel in their remaking of Low Winter Sun, a british mini-series from 2006. Low Winter [...]

Want to know more about NBC’s TV Pilots for 2012-2013? Read the full pilot list here. 1600 Penn, The New Normal, Save Me and Animal Practice – are the four comedy pilots that were picked up by NBC yesterday. They join Go On, which got a series order earlier in this pilot season. Animal Practice [...]

SEB: hbo girls s01e04 episode review Just by its name it was clear that this episode of Girls, Hannah’s Diary,  is going to start a snow ball that will go down until it will crash on the head of Hannah and her friends. Charlie didn’t mean to read Hannah’s journal, it was his friend who started [...]

SEB: mad men s05e08 episode review The power of Mad Men is the ability to go into dark places but stay amusing. Lady Lazarus, as dark and disturbing this episode was, was also one of the funniest this season yet. It says something about advertisement, I guess. Even when life looks like baked beans, it [...]

SEB: mad men s05e09 trailer, episode preview Mad Menepisode promos are not telling much usually. They’re more about the mystery, the rythme, and especially what about the characters don’t say. In the next episode of Mad Men, the ninth out of thirteen this season, the characters must deal with some Dark Shadows. And although in [...]

SEB: game of thrones s02e07 trailer, episode preview Action is in high gear in the next episode of Thrones. A Man Without Honor is the seventh episode in the second season of the series, and we don’t have much time left. The meaning of that is clear – whoever wants to get the thrones must [...]

The Magician’s Code will be the final episode of the seventh season of HIMYM, and it will air in a double-feature of one hour. You’ll have to wait until May 14 to watch that, but here’s the plot summary: We go back and see our characters in their youth – Barney’s magic teacher had something [...]

So you already know the fifth season of Breaking Bad is going to be darker, and that the series finale will include death. I’m not sure if those are much of spoilers – any Breaking Bad fan would have guessed that. But I’ve learned a few weeks back of a new character we are going [...]

For the first time AMC has ordered two drama pilots at the same time. Low Winter Sun and the Untitled LaGravenese & Goldwyn Project have both been picked up for a pilot order by the network. Low Winter Sun is based on a British mini-series from 2006. Chris Mundy (Criminal Minds) wrote the US adaptation. [...]