From Boing Boing: 2005 Risks in Global Filmmaking Map is a likely first stop for the producers of TAR to start mapping out places to take people around the world and torture them for our amusement. I sat up until 3 friggin’ 30 last night watching the webcast from the Emmy awards that featured Dennis Miller, TAR producers, and former TAR racers in a panel discussion. It was mostly a stitch, but Bertram Van Munster really didn’t want to talk about that car accident in Botswana when the cameraman got hurt. Assume “out of court settlement,” I guess. And they’ll…

One of the rare treats being a digital cable household in this area means we get BBC America, and thanks be to St. TiVo, I get to watch one of my favorite “Britcoms” when it occasionally shows up on the local PBS channel, The Vicar of Dibley. This show came out about 10 years ago, and following the British model, it aired 3 series (that’s “seasons” but with several years’ lapse between each) and several holiday specials. Recently, TiVo snagged the Christmas and New Years‘ specials – the Yule special before we left on vacation, and the New Years’ one…

Joey and a few other bloggers say The Worst Line in “Revenge of the Sith”… is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m with the WBEZ announcer who broadcast to all and sundry on Saturday that the worse line is actually “Hold me… like you did by the lake on Naboo.” We might get to see the movie again this weekend in the company of friends. Heh.

What can one say about a movie franchise that’s been a part of one’s life for, oh, nearly thirty years or so? Well, not much. My husband David and I went to see Revenge of the Sith yesterday, as stated. Before the movie, we had a really nice, leisurely meal at Brass. After the movie, we came home. In between, we waited to see how Anakin would end up in the Darth Vader armor with the menacing breathing and codpiece and buttons on his chest and all. Once upon a time, in a locality far, far away, each installment of…

FIREFLY (FOX) – The Sci Fi Channel has landed the repeat rights to all 15 hours of the short-lived FOX series (and basis of the upcoming “Serenity” feature film). The network’s July schedule lists the series as joining its Friday lineup on July 22 at 7:00/6:00c where it will precede original episodes of “Stargate SG-1,” “Stargate Atlantis” and “Battlestar Galactica. Via ***Dave :: Shiny! Can I get a “woot?!?” We’ve been pining for new episodes of Stargate and Atlantis and now we will be in the habit of re-watching Firefly again. Yes, yes, we already have the DVD, but sometimes…

my husband David gripes about the coming series finale of Enterprise. I’ll be very sorry to see the end of this series, not only because it’ll be the first time in years that there is no Star Trek-universe series in production. I’ve really enjoyed the current season, even after wandering away in boredom after the previous one. And the last few episodes have actually been enjoyably kick-ass. The TWOP recapper Keckler thought the episode was a simplistic snooze worthy of a D and fake fangirly hyperbole, I disagreed only because they had the presence of mind to cast Peter Weller…

…with the outcome of the finale of the seventh season of Amazing Race. Even though they didn’t actually “race around the world” and the teams had timetables going into the final legs (ugh, that sickens me, a purist). And I really couldn’t be happier for Uchenna and Joyce, coming in first and making that big vein pop out in the side of Rob’s head. And I really couldn’t be happier for Rob and Amber coming in second, although I could make an exception if they’d come in third instead. And I really couldn’t be any more “meh” for Ron and…

Dammit, I want a piece of the totem pole from the finale of TAR3, where Gerard had to spin animal faces to work out the correct order that animals had been special guest stars that season (that was a season with humorous donkeys, camels, and so forth): Amazing Race Charity Auction on eBay The 2 hour finale is tonight. There’ve been spoilers circulating forever that indicate that one of my least favorite teams evah win it all; if this happens it won’t cause the psychic wounds that Flo’s win did, but I’ll be all pissed off and resentful going into…

Former Farscape star Claudia Black told SCI FI Wire that her character in the upcoming ninth season of Stargate SG-1 will bedevil Michael Shanks’ Daniel Jackson for the season’s first six episodes. Oh, good. David and I really, really enjoyed their interaction in last season’s “Prometheus Unbound” and we’re looking forward to Claudia’s new ones. Can’t wait to see Vala alternately beat up and jump all over Dr. Daniel Jackson. He needs a little shaking up, we think. Best quote of that episode, by the way, has become a family joke. “[significant pause]…ow?”