Some days you eat the Borg; some days the Borg eats you…
BBC America has announced that it will be carrying Primeval Season 5 beginning November 12th. I am very glad to hear it, but as someone who just spent the last week or 2 in the UK, I seriously want to know when we will be getting either Misfits or Car Wars over here. The new season of Misfits rolls out on October 30th in the UK (I was watching season two reruns), while the Driving Wars premiere episode just happened this past Wednesday, but those are two programs I would love to be watching on a regular basis. It looks like I may be able to buy episodes on iTunes for Misfits at least, but not so much for Car Wars.
Yes, it is true; the game is migrating to the small screen. Black Rock Shooter on TV will lead the winter lineup in January on Fuji TV’s set of programming. Hatsune Miku sings the theme song for the series with the musical group Supercell and the composer Ryo, and a one hour OVA was previously put together by Studio Ordet with a release to magazines. As of a few days ago, a game edition of Black Rock Shooter with animation by ufotable also hit the shelves. If you are a fan of the game, keep your eye out for the Anime.
I enjoy webisodes of programs like Eureka or Battlestar Galactica, where an ongoing TV series has bonus content you can only watch on the web (or wait for the DVDs to come out). It often includes background into things they don’t cover in great detail on the TV shows, or a chunk of the story arc that takes place between two seasons of the main program, bridging the gap to tell you how we got there. There have also been several programs that got their start that way, most notably Sanctuary. Now it seems a new one is coming out, Bryan Singer’s HPlus, and judging by the trailer it is going to be a monster. Thanks to Sci-Fi author Steven Hunt for the heads up on this one. The premiss is H+ is a direct neural interface that connects your brain into the Net and allows you to process information and be productive like never before. It gives you such an advantage over the competition that everyone has to have it, and all but a tiny percentage of the population has it installed. And then the system crashes, killing everyone who has it; this series is about what happens next.
A trailer from the first episode of the second half of Doctor Who Season 6 called Let’s Kill Hitler: enjoy!
According to the folks at io9, next season will see a Marvel Superhero on Castle sometime in the next season. I am having a hard time imagining who it could be, because Castle is a reality based series; it has to be someone without actual superpowers, or perhaps an actor playing an actor in a costume playing a superhero, if that isn’t too recursive. It should be fun, whatever it is.