TV on DVD: September 1, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, BBC, Cable, CBS, FX, MTV, NBC, The CW, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• America (Television Movie)
• Ben 10: Alien Force (Volume 4)
• Brothers & Sisters (Season 3)
• Clatterford (Season 2)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Season 9)
• Degrassi: The Next Generation (Season 8)
• Desperate Housewives (Season 5)
• Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
• Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
• The Game (Season 1)
• Heroes (Season 3)
• People Like Us (Complete Series)

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New HBO Series Offering a Grim Future?

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Prime Time, HBO, Gossip

U.S. homeowners are facing crisis. The American economy is failing. The time-honored tradition of the Presidential debates has become little more than a clever PR tactic, and we’re in the middle of one of the most intense election years the States have ever known. If you’re among those who think the world is going to hell in a hand basket, or even if you’re not, HBO’s new futuristic series may just appeal to you. It could also offer a not-so far-fetched look at our potential future.

In Americatown, the world has advanced 25 to 40 years into the future (the exact year remains unclear), and the great country of America has weathered at least one too many massive catastrophes. In the series, the decline of the country has sparked massive immigration that gives rise to Americatowns all over the world. Think Chinatown, with buffalo wings and beer.

“By presenting Americans as immigrants in the near future, as both underdog and hero in the drama of global dislocation, we substitute a mirror for the rancor that informs much of the partisan debates on immigration,” said series writer Bradford Winters.

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Don’t Count Out Recount

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Cable, HBO, Gossip

From the first trailer, I was intrigued. In the next moment, I was checking the upcoming TV schedule to be 100% sure my DVR would capture the movie at the first possible opportunity. And I’ve got to tell you, I just can’t wait to watch HBO’s Recount.

I had the dubious pleasure of living through the 2000 presidential election - and all the many, many television hours this momentous and highly historical race entailed. Every four years in November, we as a nation go forth to various polling locations to exercise our Constitution-given Democratic freedoms. But on the evening of November 7, 2000 most people went to sleep without knowing just who the hell the President of the United States would be. But eventually, the decision was made…and so was history. The eight years that followed were rife with events which could keep Hollywood script writers busy for the whole of the century. It was a defining moment, it was the catalyst which undoubtedly led to two earth-shattering wars, and it is still something which (at least, for me) remains shrouded in mystery.

No longer will this remain the case…perhaps. The HBO film Recount will take us back to the past, but what sort of picture will this flick paint?

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