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TV Tonight: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

BuzzSugar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:30:06 PDT

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which returns to start its second season tonight on Fox, is one of the more interesting stories of last TV season. The show premiered during the doldrums of the writers' strike, got a mixed critical reaction, and somehow by the end of the season became a buzzed-about show.

How? I'm not sure, but I think the show's innovative casting probably had something to do with it. I mean, Brian Austin Green as a badass? (Showrunner Josh Friedman told the very funny story behind that one back at Comic-Con, ending with him asking the onetime 90210 star "When did you get to be so hot?") This year's entry into the Annals of Improbable Casting is Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson, who's playing a technology company CEO.

But choosing interesting actors won't go too far if the story's not good, and Terminator: TSCC seems to be picking things up on that front as well: At the show's Comic-Con panel, producers announced that someone on the stage would die before the end of season two. The cast reacted with relative horror; it seemed they didn't even know which one of them was the goner. I guess that's one of those things we just have to watch and see.

After the jump, you can check out the trailer for the new season, which starts tonight at 8 p.m. EDT and PDT. Will you be watching? To talk about it, just

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First Look: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

BuzzSugar — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:32:31 PST

I've never been much of a Terminator person, so I was a little surprised when I first heard about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the Fox series that picks up the Terminator story at the end of Terminator 2. The show focuses on Sarah Connor - played by Linda Hamilton in the movie and Lena Headey in the TV series - as she tries to keep her son (Thomas Dekker) safe from the ever-shifting army of cyborgs bent on taking his life.

Fox clearly has high hopes for the series, pairing it with 24 in January and promoting it with the Terminator name (it was originally just called The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Terminator was added later). The thing is, I'm wondering if any people who aren't already hooked into the Terminator franchise - like me - will be interested in watching. Then again, the three movies together made more than $390 million in U.S. theaters, so that might be all the audience Fox needs. Are you curious to check out this show? To watch a trailer and another clip, just

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What to TiVo: Thursday

BuzzSugar — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:59:00 PDT

8:00 Missing (new)
9:00 Grey's Anatomy (new)
10:00 Scandal (new, series premiere)
11:35 Nightline (new)
12:00 Jimmy Kimmel Live (new, with guest Lena Headey)

8:00 The Big Bang Theory (new)
8:30 Rules of Engagement (new)
9:00 Person of Interest (new)
10:00 The Mentalist (new)
11:35 The Late Show With David Letterman (repeat, with guest Alec Baldwin)
12:37 The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (new, with guests Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jennifer Coolidge)

8:00 American Idol (new)
9:00 Touch (new)

8:00 Community (new)
8:30 30 Rock (new)
9:00 The Office (repeat)
9:30 Up All Night (new)
10:00 Awake (new)
11:34 The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (new, with guests Zac Efron and Jennie Garth)
12:37 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (new, with guests Sofia Vergara and Judd Apatow)

8:00 The Vampire Diaries (repeat)
9:00 The Secret Circle (repeat)

What to TiVo: Wednesday

BuzzSugar — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:59:00 PDT

8:00 The Middle (new)
8:30 Better With You (new)
9:00 Modern Family (new)
9:30 Cougar Town (new)
10:00 Happy Endings (new)
10:30 Happy Endings (new)
12:00 Jimmy Kimmel Live (new, with guests Robert Pattinson and Shailene Woodley)

8:00 Survivor: Redemption Island (new)
9:00 Criminal Minds (repeat)
10:00 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (repeat)
11:35 The Late Show With David Letterman (repeat, with guest James Franco)
12:37 Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (new, with guests Michael Clarke Duncan and Lena Headey)

8:00 American Idol (new)
9:30 Breaking In (new)

8:00 Minute to Win It (new)
9:00 Minute to Win It (repeat)
10:00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (repeat)
11:35 The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (repeat, with guest Kirstie Alley)
12:35 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (repeat, with guests Amy Poehler and Tiger Woods)

8:00 America's Next Top Model (repeat)
9:00 America's Next Top Model (new)

More shows to watch when you

10:30 Storage Wars (new)

10:00 Top Chef Masters (new)

11:00 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (new)
11:30 The Colbert Report (repeat)

10:00 Justified (new)

11:00 Chelsea Lately (new, with guest Ziggy Marley)

10:00 The Real World (new)

11:00 Conan (new, with guests Tyler Perry, Morgan Spurlock, and The Strokes)
12:00 Lopez Tonight (new, with guests Dwayne Johnson and Cat Deeley)

The Game of Thrones Cast Kicks Back and Breaks Character at Comic-Con

Becky Kirsch — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:51:07 PDT

It's no surprise that Game of Thrones had a huge turnout at Comic-Con today, given the show's explosive first season. Fans were treated to a panel featuring a handful of the show's stars: Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo), and creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. The icing on the cake was that the panel was moderated by the man himself, George R.R. Martin, who authored the series on which Game of Thrones is based.

Half the fun of the panel was seeing the actors out of their crazy costumes (Headey was practically unrecognizable) and showing off personalities that are far different from what we see onscreen. Jason Momoa was particularly colorful, teasing Martin about killing off his character and stealing the spotlight whenever he could. Here are more highlights from the panel:

Clarke was plucked right out of drama school for this role, but apparently her classes weren't much help preparing her. She said, "There are no dragons in drama school. The thing that prepared me for this was Dany, and falling in love with her."
Cersei is definitely the character fans love to hate, and apparently Headey's skin isn't as thick as she had initially thought. She quipped, "It's fun to play a character who isn't trying to be morally good, but people come up to me and say 'I hate you.' It's kind of horrible, I thought I could handle it. I love her, I think she's misunderstood."
Momoa was presented with the tough question of pitting Khal Drogo against his other onscreen personal, Conan the Barbarian. He took the opportunity to kiss up to Martin saying, "Between you and me, Drogo would kick Conan's ass."
Apparently Harrington isn't ready to be a pin-up just yet, saying that the idea of girls having posters of him "scares the crap out of me."
Don't expect to see any deleted scenes on the DVD release of the first season: the showrunners said they used pretty much all the footage they had, but fans will get to see the audition tapes of certain cast members.

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Apparently some booze and pizza were all Momoa needed to master speaking Dothraki. When asked how he came up with the sound of the language, he quipped, "Actually when I went to the table reading, David and Dan pulled me aside and said it was a good idea to make this language since there was no way this whole tribe would learn to speak English. It literally sounded like Jabba the Hut and Fozzie bear. I was like, I really want this job! I'll do anything. So I went back to my hotel, ordered some pizza and a lot of Guiness, and the next thing you know. . ."
Coster-Waldau couldn't resist joking that his favorite scene is when Jaime pushes Bran, but then quickly changed his answer. He said, "Isaac [Hempstead Wright] was really annoying, so pushing him [was my favorite scene]. . . No no, Isaac is the sweetest kid, it was just a joke. I really like my last scene with Catelyn, it was great to do that."
Dinklage also revealed his favorite scene: "When I'm on trial, that was fun, because it was a long day and there were a lot of extras in that scene, and i felt like a master of ceremonies for a bunch of bored extras. It was entertaining off screen so that was fun."
After Ned Stark's shocking death, it was inevitable that Martin would have to field questions about why he kills off major characters in his novels. He said, "I've always believed that I want people emotionally involved, and when they're in a dangerous situation, I want the readers to be almost afraid to turn the page not knowing who's gonna win and who's gonna die. We've all seen books and movies when the heroes are in deep trouble, but you know he's gonna get out of it and those are fun, but they don't involve your emotions and that's what I'm looking for.
Both Harington and Dinklage couldn't resist joking when asked how they'd like the series to end; Harington remarked "I want Jon Snow to be on the throne, definitely", while Dinklage simply said "Dance number."
The creators wouldn't give away too much about what to expect from next season, but they did mention that season three wouldn't correspond as closely with the book series because A Storm of Swords is so long. They also teased that we'll meet new characters like the Red Priestess and Stannis Barantheon, and that the dragons and wolves will start growing up. Overall, we should expect a "season of exploration."