June 10, 2008
Casting has been rampant for the new season of Heroes as the show prepares to pack the screen with new foes for the heroes to face in Volume 3: Villains. Most recently it was announced that Babylon 5 actor Bruce Boxleitner is joining the show, likely as a politician, while Friday Night Lights actress Brea Grant has come on to play a speedy bad girl named Daphne. Both characters are expected to be villainous.
Also added to the line-up of villains: Veronica Mars actor Francis Capra, who was announced today to be joining Heroes in its third season.
March 19, 2008
When I think of Beverly Hills 90210, I tend to picture mullets, sideburns, "Donna Martin Graduates," and 45-year-olds playing high schoolers. One thing I most definitely do not think of is the late, great teen noir show Veronica Mars. However, the executives at the CW must find the two shows similar, because they've recently hired Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas to help develop a brand new 90210 spin-off. Thomas will write the pilot episode of the series, which will have only a tenuous connection to the original teen soap. Now that more details have come out about the CW's update of the drama, it's starting to feel like 1992 all over again.
December 24, 2007
Check out all our lists for BuddyTV's Top 7 of '07 to relive the best and the worst of the year in television.
Debbie Chang ranked Veronica Mars 3rd. She says...
Veronica Mars is smarter than me. It's true. She is. And that is why I must place Veronica Mars near the top of my list of best shows of 2007.
The year 2007 brought us the second of the third-season mini-mystery arcs on Veronica Mars, this one involving the murder of Dean Cyrus O'Dell (guest star Ed Begley, Jr.). Though not as meticulous or satisfying as the amazing 22-episode long mystery of who killed Lilly Kane (Amanda Seyfried) in the first season, Dean O'Dell was still a sympathetic enough character to make the mystery of his death compelling.
December 24, 2007
Check out all our lists for BuddyTV's Top 7 of '07 to relive the best and the worst of the year in television.
Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) of Neptune, California is one of the most kickass female protagonists among kickass female protagonists. Although the series ended prematurely after only three seasons on the air, Veronica Mars ended with a vengeance in the episode entitled "The Bitch is Back."
December 24, 2007
Check out all our lists for BuddyTV's Top 7 of '07 to relive the best and the worst of the year in television.
Sheriff Don Lamb (Michael Muhney) was one of the unsung heroes on that gem of a teenage noir series Veronica Mars. Although Lamb didn't have the investigative chops to compete with either Mars, Keith or Veronica (Enrico Colantoni and Kristen Bell) in the field, he had enough bluster and bravado to never back down from them and to counter all their quips with equally sarcastic snarks of his own.
December 11, 2007
Everybody's favorite teenage detective may not be on TV anymore, but that doesn't mean you have to deprive yourself of some snarky noir action. BuddyTV is giving away two copies of the third season of Veronica Mars.
The third season had two small mystery arcs, the first one involving the Hearst College rapist, and the second one a whodunnit involving Dean O'Dell's murder, plus five standalone episodes. There are a ton of extras in this six-disc set, including the video used by Rob Thomas & co. to pitch a fourth season of the show, in which Veronica Mars goes to the FBI.
Read on to see how you can win.
September 23, 2007
Michael Muhney, best remembered as Sheriff Don Lamb on the cancelled Veronica Mars, certainly has his hands full with several key projects both on the big and small screens. Most recently, he just signed on to play one of the leads in a new Lifetime series. Muhney joins veteran actors Beau Bridges and Anne Archer on the legal drama, Family Practice.
Family Practice is a new pilot from Sony Pictures TV and Jeffrey Lieber, co-creator of the highly popular Lost.
September 10, 2007
In BuddyTV's 2007 Fall TV Guide, we diligently went through all the new shows to uncover the common trends of the new season. The three main trends we found fall into the following categories: Canceled, but Not Forgotten, Revenge of the Nerds, and Chucks, Trannies, and “Young Folks.”
If you're anything like me, there's a hole in your Tuesday night viewing schedule where Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars used to be. But never fear, because even though those two great shows are gone, their casts and creators live on all over the new fall TV season. Here's a quick rundown of where to get your GG/VM fix.