Author: Will Harris (Page 137 of 261)
Will is a member of the Television Critics Association and has written for Decider.com, the Onion A.V. Club, The Dissolve, Indiewire, Rhino.com, TV Week Magazine, The Virginian-Pilot, Popdose.com, and EW.com along with writing for Bullz-Eye.com and Premium Hollywood.
Yes, I know, it’s cutting it pretty darned close to wait until the last couple of days of January 2008 to run a Best of 2007 list, but that’s the problem with these TV DVD sets: there’s a whole lot of viewing involved to get through them, and you don’t want to give anyone the short end of the stick just because your schedule didn’t allow you to give their set a look. With the confidence that I’ve had a chance to check out the majority of the cool stuff that came out in ’07, however, I hereby present my personal picks for the Top 20 TV DVDs of last year. And when you’ve read through my list, check out Bullz-Eye’s Best of the Best staff picks for 2007! (Oh, and don’t forget to pop back by to tell us if we missed anything!)
She’s been doing television since the 1950s, but believe it or not, Shirley Jones has never done a soap opera…’til now, that is. Jones, best known to TV geeks as the matriarch of the Partridge family, will be popping up on NBC’s “Days of Our Lives” as Colleen Brady, starting January 31st and sticking around ’til February 7th. (Not only that, but she’ll be sporting an Irish brogue!) I had a chance to sit in on a teleconference with Ms. Jones recently, where I asked her a bit about her current gig, her most famous gig, and her favorite unheralded performances.
Bullz-Eye: Hi, Shirley, how are you doing?
Shirley Jones: Good, thank you.
BE: So…are you now or have you ever been a soap opera addict yourself?
SJ: No. (Laughs) In a word, no. You know, I intermittently have watched, I guess, all of them maybe once or twice. But, no, I’m not a soap opera person, mostly because I…you know, I work myself during the day. So I’ve never had time really to get involved. But I loved doing this. I ended up loving doing it. I was terrified in the beginning and, you know, took on a challenge which I wasn’t sure I could meet. But I feel that I did, and now I’m very happy about it.
BE: I know that “Days of Our Lives” is your first daytime soap, but you have done nighttime soap before: you were on an episode of “Melrose Place.”
SJ: Yes. I did “Melrose Place,” and I did a thing for Lifetime in Australia just last year (“Monarch Cove”), you know, and it was called a nighttime soap. It didn’t do much… (Laughs) …but it was fun to be in Australia for two months!
BE: Did you find the melodrama any different from daytime to nighttime?
SJ: Not much. I think maybe it was a little less melodrama at night than in the daytime, I guess. But, you know, people love this. I mean, I guess it’s some form of escape for them, just as well as going to a Disney film. I mean, it’s an escape in its own way.
According to TVShowsOnDVD.com, NBC-Universal is releasing a DVD set of episodes from the new and incredibly disappointing “Bionic Woman” series, optimistically titling it “Volume 1.”
All right, I’m laying it right on the line: this stinks of NBC scrambling to create a dedicated audience for a show that doesn’t have one. And don’t tell me it does have one, because if there’s one thing that these neverending “Moonlight” and “Farscape” responses have taught me, it’s that a show’s fans are always surfing the ‘net, looking for new information or opinions about that show. If what they find is positive, they say so; if it’s negative, they say even more so. I’ve made a lot of disparaging comments about “Bionic Woman” here on Premium Hollywood, and nary a one of them have been contested by diehard fans of the show…which leads me to believe that there is no such animal.
If you were a fan of Sci-Fi’s one-season wonder, “The Dresden Files,” you may know that the show’s original pilot – “Storm Front” – was dropped from air in favor of a completely different pilot. Well, it turns out that Sci-Fi picked up the rights to show that pilot.
So when can fans expect to catch it?
Try March 7th at 3 AM.
C’mon, Sci-Fi, what’s up? Do you have a personal vendetta against the show or something? I realize it wasn’t quite in line with the books that inspired it, but I still thought it was a highly enjoyable series, with just enough humor to take the edge off the macabre. Surely you could’ve found a better timeslot than the middle of the freaking night!
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