Set your DVRs, this could be HBO’s next comedy hit.

‘Glee’ premieres next Wednesday, September 9th on Fox

Watched the pilot today and this seems like it could be the next great show on Fox.  Its a little bit darker, older, and more serious version of High School Musical, which is actually a good thing.  If you like music, you’ll like ‘Glee.’

Directors cut of the pilot below via Hulu:

Variety reports that HBO has picked up eleven episodes of Boardwalk Empire, which features Buscemi as Nucky Johnson, a businessman turned rum runner during Prohibition, based on a pilot directed by Martin Scorsese. [via Slashfilm]

Looks like this could be their next Sopranos.

Lena Headey of ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ cast in ‘Game of Thrones’ for HBO

Soon you won’t be seeing her with a gun but rather with swords and sorcery in HBO’s new medevil fantasy series ‘Game of Thrones.’

[via The Watcher]

‘Game of Thrones’ is based on the fantasy novel series ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ by George R.R. Martin, and the script is supposed to follow the books very closely.

Synopsis:

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.

Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

[via Towerofthehand]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles may be back, what would happen if Fox continued the series, and why the series was cancelled…

TV Addict interviews Thomas Dekker (John Connor) and he reveals a bit of info on what the writers were thinking, as well as what is happening with the franchise.

Since you brought it up, just how cool was season three going to be?
I’ve divulged too much in the past [so I have to be careful as to not piss off Josh] but I mean it was going to be really interesting because there were questions in the future like is Sarah Connor at the age she would be in the future or is she already dead? I know which one that is, and it was the more interesting of the two to me. Plus what is she doing in the past? Also my sort of relationship with Allison and finding Cameron would play a large part in the season, do I go with the robot I know or do I go with the human that doesn’t know me? The fact that Danny Dyson became a very important part of it was also very exciting because it harkened back directly to the second film.

Has there been any talk of continuing the story in a different form, a comic book perhaps?
They’ve spoken about doing a TV movie. Well, not a TV movie, but kind of like a direct-to-DVD movie [Think: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s THE PLAN]. Obviously it’s difficult because the show is based on a movie and they just had one come out, so it’s kind of hard to make a movie with our show because everyone has kind of forgotten about us. But they’re hoping, at least when I spoke to [Producer] James Middleton that’s where they are with it.

When did you find out that TERMINATOR had been officially terminated?
Obviously we’d seen the ratings and we had an inkling about it. But it was tricky, because the show was so popular overseas. In the end, it really came down to DOLLHOUSE or us and that was sort of what happened. I think we were too expensive and DOLLHOUSE was a lot cheaper. -TV ADDICT

‘Fringe’ Tweet-peats

Fox teams up with Twitter to have twitter updates on a scrolling bar near the bottom of the screen of commentaries from cast and crew during repeat episodes starting Thursday at 9pm.  Glee follows this tweet-peat with its Friday pilot re-air.

I think this is a great idea to get more people to watch repeat episodes, as its pretty much a real time dvd commentary track.  Great job, Fox!

[via THR]

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January Jones (aka Betty Draper) on the cover of Interview August 09