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Summary
- Airs Next: Syndicated at Monday 8:00 PM (60 min.)
- Status: Ended
- Premiered: September 4, 1995
- Last Aired: June 25, 2001
- Show Categories: Action/Adventure, Drama
Xena, the warrior princess is bent on overcoming her dark and hateful past. She must save innocents to redeem herself, in the eyes of the world and to herself. She is aided along the way by best friend Gabrielle, a struggling bard who later turns warrior herself.
Xena: Warrior Princess was a sometimes serious, often campy and an occasionally emotional rollercoaster ride of an action series.
THEME:
The voiceover during the theme is as follows:
In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings…A land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle. The power…the passion…the danger…Her courage will change the world.
FILMING LOCATION:
Xena: Warrior Princess was filmed on location in and around Auckland, New Zealand.
SERIES ORIGIN:
Spinoff from the series:
Hercules, the Legendary Journeys.
ANIMATED FILM:
Xena and Hercules can also be seen in the animated film:
Hercules & Xena: The Battle For Mount Olympus.
Summary
- Airs Next: FOX at Sunday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
- Status: Ended
- Premiered: September 10, 1993
- Last Aired: May 19, 2002
- Show Categories: Science-Fiction, Drama
This long running FOX drama lasted nine seasons and focused on the exploits of FBI Agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, John Doggett and Monica Reyes and their investigations into the paranormal. From genetic mutants and killer insects to a global conspiracy concerning the colonisation of Earth by an alien species, this mind-boggling, humourous and occasionally frightening series created by Chris Carter has been one of the world’s most popular sci-fi/drama shows since its humble beginnings in 1993.
So sit back and enjoy the fascinating world of The X-Files.
The entire nine seasons of The X-Files are now available on DVD!
Emmy Awards
2001 – Outstanding Makeup for a Series for episode DeadAlive
2000 – Outstanding Makeup for a Series for episode Theef – Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series for episode First Person Shooter – Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series for episode First Person Shooter
1999 – Outstanding Makeup for a series for episodes Two Fathers/One Son
1998 – Outstanding Art Direction for a Series for episode The Post-Modern Prometheus – Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series for episode Kill Switch
1997 – Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Gillian Anderson – Outstanding Art Direction for a Series for episode Memento Mori – Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series for episode Tempus Fugit
1996 – Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series to Peter Boyle for episode Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose – Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama Series to Darin Morgan for episode Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose – Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a series for episode Grotesque – Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series for episode Nisei – Outstanding individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series for episode Nisei
1994 – Outstanding Individual Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences for The X-Files
Golden Globe Awards
1998 – Best TV Series (Drama)
1997 – Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series (Drama) to David Duchovny
- Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series (Drama) to Gillian Anderson – Best TV Series (Drama)
1995 – Best TV Series (Drama)
Summary
- Airs Next: CBS at Monday 9:30 PM (30 min.)
- Status: New Series
- Premiered: September 22, 2008
- Show Categories: Comedy
Worst Week, from the mind of Matt Tarses (Scrubs), is an American take on the British series The Worst Week of My Life. This CBS single camera offering centers on a young couple dealing with the groom’s soon-to-be-in-laws during a family vacation.
13 episodes have been ordered for the first season.
CBS ordered the show to series on 12 May 2008. The show is being produced by Hat Trick Productions and Universal Media Studios.
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Summary
- Airs Next: FOX at Thursday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
- Status: Ended
- Premiered: March 12, 2004
- Last Aired: April 1, 2004
- Show Categories: Drama, Comedy
Welcome to the Wonderfalls guide.
Set against the backdrop of Niagara Falls, Wonderfalls is a quirky one-hour family dramedy about an underachieving twenty-something souvenir shop worker named Jaye Tyler. Her life is forever changed when inanimate figures – including toys, cartoons and anything in the form of an animal, begin to talk to her. In each episode, the creatures’ cryptic messages set into motion a chain of unpredictable events that invariably lead Jaye into the lives of others in need. Throughout the series’ bizarre situations and madcap adventures, Jaye seeks advice from her best buddy Mahandra and befriends Eric, a local bartender who tries to help answer her unrequited questions. Is the universe conspiring against her? Is this real or just her imagination? Should she struggle with fate or surrender to destiny? Whatever the outcome one thing is for certain – Jaye will discover that the world around her is a magical place and that the seemingly random events in her life are actually all part of something much greater.
Summary
- Airs Next: CBS at Tuesday 10:00 PM (60 min.)
- Status: Returning Series
- Premiered: September 1, 2002
- Show Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure
Without a Trace is a fast-paced procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of the special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques to peel back the layers of the victims’ lives and trace their whereabouts in an effort to discover whether they have been abducted, been murdered, committed suicide or simply run away. The team reconstructs a “Day of Disappearance” timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance, following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is. Senior agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) heads the dedicated team that knows too well that every second counts when someone vanishes. His squad includes Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), an agent who doesn’t let her good looks get in the way of being tough; Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a no-nonsense investigator; Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano), an intense and private agent; and Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close), the newest member of the team, considered a lightweight by the squad because his only experience involves fighting white-collar crime.
In six seasons, much has happened. Martin Fitzgerald is no longer considered the lightweight he once was, having earned the respect of the team through his solid work. Jack Malone has been through many ups and downs and now finds himself in a bad position following the mishandling of a case. Vivian Johnson has proven herself, and a new agent has been welcomed into the ranks — Elena Delgado (Roselyn Sánchez), a Hispanic female agent who came on in the program’s fourth season as the squad faced ever-increasing demands on its time and resources. A former member of the NYPD, she is already known to Danny and their connection grows as the series progresses.
Without a Trace aired Thursday nights on CBS from its premiere in 2002 until the 2006-2007 season. CBS moved it to Sunday nights for one season, before moving it back to its regular Thursday slot for season six. The program now airs in its new timeslot of Tuesdays at 10 P.M. Viewers can catch the seventh season of the program in this timeslot beginning September 23, 2008. Repeats of [i]Without a Trace[/i] also air regularly on TNT. The first and second seasons of the program have been released on DVD in the United States, with latter seasons available only in other markets.
Summary
- Originally on: TNT
- Status: Ended
- Premiered: June 12, 2001
- Last Aired: August 26, 2002
- Show Categories: Action/Adventure, Science-Fiction
This is the story of a New York detective, Sara “Pez” Pezzini. Her search for justice brings her into contact with the Witchblade, an ancient, intelligent, living weapon so powerful it can battle Earth’s darkest evil forces. Week in and week out, “Pez” employs her skills as a police detective to fight crime. She finds she must employ the Witchblade to combat a much greater and frighteningly organized conspiracy of evil that threatens the very soul of humanity. As Sara tries to keep the secret of the Witchblade, do her job and have a personal life, she finds that her most formidable adversary may be the Witchblade itself.
Summary
- Airs Next: HBO at Sunday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
- Status: Ended
- Premiered: June 2, 2002
- Last Aired: March 9, 2008
- Show Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure
In chronicling a multi-generational family business dealing illegal drugs and the efforts of the Baltimore police to curb their trade, this series draws parallels between these organizations and the men and women on either side of the battle.
The words of Gary W. Potter, Professor of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, in writing about the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s, can also be used to illuminate some of the central premises of the show:
“There is precious little difference between those people who society designates as respectable and law abiding and those people society castigates as hoodlums and thugs. The world of corporate finance and corporate capital is as criminogenic and probably more criminogenic than any poverty-wracked slum neighborhood. The distinctions drawn between business, politics, and organized crime are at best artificial and in reality irrelevant. Rather than being dysfunctions, corporate crime, white-collar crime, organized crime, and political corruption are mainstays of American political-economic life.”
Tim Goodman, the television critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, summed the show up perfectly when he wrote: “This show is precisely the reason you pay for HBO.”
In New York’s Newsday, Diane Werts says: “Most TV crime series aspire to John Grisham’s level. ‘The Wire’ aspires to Dostoevsky’s.”
Season Themes
Season One centers around a family of drug dealers and the innerworkings of their empire. It also follows the detectives who are trying to catch the high members of the empire. Season Two steps away from the drug trade (while still mentioning characters from the previous season) to a case of dead prostitutes which turns into a look at the corruption surrounding the Port. Season Three investigates politics and finishes the main stories that were left open in season one. Season Four focuses on four middle school students and their journeys through the public school system and continues to address the politics of an inner-city and the issues of an election. Season Five is rumored to be about the media’s role in Baltimore. Season Five will be the show’s final season.
Theme Music
In the Season One opening credits, the Blind Boys of Alabama did Tom Waits’s “Way Down in the Hole”. The Season Two opening credits feature Waits’s version of the song. According to creator David Simon, “It was our way of saying: This is the same show (song) but this year, the tale itself (singer, tonality) will be different.” The Neville Brothers’s version of the song opens Season Three. The theme which plays over the end credits was composed by the show’s music supervisor, Blake Leyh.
International Airings
Australia — Monday at 12:00 p.m. on Ch.9. Currently airing Season 3.
New Zealand — Wednesday at 11:40 p.m. on TV2, beginning December 15, 2004.
Summary
- Airs Next: NBC at Thursday 10:00 PM (60 min.)
- Status: Ended
- Premiered: June 8, 2006
- Last Aired: August 31, 2006
- Show Categories: Drama
Money changes everything.
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to become a millionaire overnight? A group of 20 friends and acquaintances is about to find that out as they win $386 million in lottery on NBC’s hot summer drama, Windfall.
At the heart of the events is a close-knit group of four friends. Peter (Luke Perry, Jeremiah, Beverly Hills, 90210) and Nina Schaefer (Lana Parrilla, Boomtown) and their two kids are a seemingly happy family. Underneath, Nina still harbors feelings for her ex-boyfriend from college, Cameron Walsh (Jason Gedrick, Boomtown), rousing the suspicions of his wife Beth (Sarah Wynter, 24).
Sean Mathers (D.J. Cotrona, Skin) is an ex-con with dark secrets that are in danger of being revealed when he wins the jackpot. Damien Cutler (Jon Foster, life as we know it) is a rebellious teenager who seeks independence of his parents. Frankie Townsend (Alice Greczyn, The Dukes of Hazzard, Quintuplets), a 16-year-old girl, finds herself in the middle of a family feud when her separated parents fight over the money.
Rounding out the cast are Malinda Willliams (Soul Food) as Kimberly George, a 22-year-old single mother hoping to start a new life far away from the trailer park, and Jaclyn DeSantis (Luis, Road Trip) as Maggie Hernandez, a nurse who can’t wait to spend her share of the fortune.
Windfall is created by executive producer Laurie McCarthy (Felicity) and co-executive producer Gwendolyn Parker (Without a Trace, The Handler).
Summary
- Airs Next: NBC at Monday 9:30 PM (30 min.)
- Status: Ended
- Premiered: September 21, 1998
- Last Aired: May 18, 2006
- Show Categories: Comedy
Will & Grace is a hilarious series about two best friends. The twist is that Will is gay. Grace is a straight interior designer. More than friends, but less than lovers, the two share a special bond and their personalities easily balance one another’s. In addition to the stable Will and Grace, the show features Will’s flamboyantly gay friend, Jack and Grace’s sarcastic, spoiled, and boozy assistant, Karen.
Will & Grace is the only series of such length (8 years) to have all of its episodes directed by the same director, in this case the talented James Burrows. Will & Grace is also one of the three series in which all of the main cast memebers won Emmy awards, with the other two shows being The Golden Girls, and All in the Family.
Throughout its 8-year run, Will & Grace has been nominated for 83 Emmys, 24 Golden Globes, 14 SAG Awards and six People’s Choice Awards. Among its 12 Emmy wins, the show won as Outstanding Comedy Series in 2000. In 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006, it had more Emmy nominations than any other comedy series. Additionally, it’s been nominated for an American Comedy Award, three GLAAD Media Awards and a Founders Award from the Viewers for Quality Television.
NBC Broadcast History
September 1998-November 1998 – Monday 9:30
December 1998-March 1999–Tuesday 9:30
April 1999-May 1999 – Thursday 8:30
September 1999-May 2000 – Tuesday 9:00
October 2000-January 2004 – Thursday 9:00
January 2004-April 2004 – Thursday 8:32
April 2004-September 2004 – Thursday 9:00
September 2004-December 2005 – Thursday 8:30
January 2006-May 2006 – Thursday 8:00
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Summary
- Airs Next: ABC Family at Monday 8:00 PM (60 min.)
- Status: Ended
- Premiered: June 20, 2005
- Last Aired: May 26, 2008
- Show Categories: Drama, Soap
“Wildfire” follows troubled Kris Furillo who, after serving time at a teen detention center, is given the opportunity to start a new life. Her talent with horses is recognized by a volunteer and local trainer Pablo, who arranges a job for her at the Ritter’s family run ranch, Raintree. Thrown into a completely new environment, Kris must learn to deal with the challenges of fitting in, while trying not to disappoint the one family willing to give her a chance. The Ritters are facing challenges of their own even as they reach out to help Kris. Patriarch Henry Ritter and his daughter Jean are in a critical stage of their battle to save the ranch from financial ruin. Kris and Wildfire must help them get back on the map in the world of horse racing.
