Todd’s Serial Blog

I am pumped for this coming weekend.  The new Indiana Jones movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is coming out and I can’t wait.  I am an Indy fan from way back.  Growing up I saw the movies, read the adaptations and read the comic books.  He was up there with my other heroes; Batman, James Bond, and Mike Hammer (I started reading Mickey Spillane in High School, talk about being an 80’s teenage anachronism).  It has been getting both good and bad reviews so far but as the headline at CNN.com puts it, the movie is critic proof.  I am not going to make the mistake I made with the first Star Wars prequel and expect too much from this installment.  I am not expecting the second coming, but I am looking for the same old, same old.  As long as there are some fun serial inspired action scenes mixed with funny wisecracking one liners and a raided tomb, I’m happy.  Most importantly Indy can’t actually get the prize at the end either, his perpetual underdog status is his most appealing trait.

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It is a wonder how anything gets on the air these days.  If you have been over at the Bijou blog site these days then you saw their recent progress report on getting the new Matinee at the Bijou on the air.  Like the old Springsteen,  One Step Up, where for every step forward they make, they’re pushed back two.  They can’t get a corporate sponsership because corporations don’t accept unsolicited proposals.  They can’t get an agency to present the proposal because PBS shows are automatically rejected due to lower ratings.  PBS affiliates could help but only if Bijou could appear at the same time on all of the stations but the preferred slot of Fridays at 10 has too much competition to be accepted. And so on and so on.

Man alive, you would think that having been one of PBS’ most popular shows, people would have been all over this to bring it back on the air, but it’s almost like a conspiracy to keep it from ever getting up and running.  I am intrigued by their new plan of getting the Bijou on one of the new emerging  cable channels, like The Smithsonian Channel or Retirement Living TV.  Here’s hoping.

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Feeling a little down about the state of serials today, or lack there of? Well Sci-Fi Channel has a temporary cure.  The Adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, an import from England, is a half hour show featuring one of the most popular companions in Doctor Who history solving mysteries and saving the world from invasion with the help of her scientifically created adopted son and the spunky daughter of her clueless next door neighbor.  Best of all each two part story ends at the halfway point with a cliffhanger ending so you have to tune in again next week to see how they survived.  If you want to check it out it’s on Fridays at 8 and 8:30 PM, but you better hurry, the season ends at the end of this month.

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