The last we saw of our band of zombie ambushed fellows, they were running for their lives from a horde of zombie wanderers. They ran from Hershel’s Farm, and headed into the woods and journeyed towards the prison. This next story arc for the show is pivotal and is one of the key areas where they are tested. In this sneak peek provided by the people over at AMC, we see the cast bloodied, injured, and  filming in the jail.

Fans get a lot of promises that this season will be darker and gritty than the proceedings season, and will be a standout masterpiece of the show as a whole. Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes) says that there is a big reason for why the survivors look as battered as the do. It’s all because of the direction of the show for Season 3:

“The pace of it is darker, harder, faster, deeper,” he says. “It’s incredibly dangerous, and it’s thrilling.”

Even though we have yet to see Michonne and The Governor, don’t be surprised to see a glimpse of her in trailer or sneak peeks for the show as it gets closer for the shows release this Fall.

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“The Prince of Winterfell” feels very much like a calm before the storm episode. We know from trailers (and from what the characters are saying and doing) that “Blackwater,” the much-hyped battle we’ve been waiting for all season, is on the way next Sunday, putting this week’s hour, by default, into prelude mode. So, with all the anticipation built up over what’s going to happen next week, how do you keep this week’s episode relevant and compelling and more than just a placeholder? Answer: don’t try. Just tell your story.

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If you had the opportunity to take something from the TARDIS, what would you choose?

Karen Gillan, who plays the companion Amy Pond in the longest running British sci-fi TV series, Doctor Who, tells us what she took after having filmed her last episode recently.  The Ponds (because that’s totally the way it works) will be leaving the show in the 5th episode of the upcoming 7th series, and Gillan just had to come out of it with a little gift from the TARDIS.

She spoke with the Daily Record at the Cannes Film Festival, talking about her last day on set:

It was a weird, serene day where everyone was feeling it. We don’t film in chronological order so the last shot we filmed was me, Matt and Arthur going into the TARDIS. Then Matt closed the door for the last time and we were in darkness. We hugged and started crying. It was kind of tears of happiness. It was a feeling of ‘Look at what we’ve done’. It was lovely.

Apparently she isn’t allowed to keep any bits and pieces from her costume because that stuff ends up going into exhibitions and stuff, but she did make it away with something.

I didn’t get to keep any Pond stuff because everything related to Doctor Who goes into exhibitions. [...] But I might have taken a little special something from the TARDIS. A pair of binoculars. They look really weird in my house, just sitting there.

Me? I’d use it to go back a few years and steal David Tennant and… Oh, you know.

Source: blastr

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Earlier today, on another site, I wrote that Community creator Dan Harmon was content with the show ”living fast, dying young, and leaving a pretty corpse”, infering that the show, under Harmon’s watch, had refused to pander, refused to jump sharks, or alter itself in an effort to find mainstream acceptance. This was proven by episodes like last nights outstanding Digital Estate Planning, an episode that almost wholly took place in an 8 bit video game.

Well, apparently either Harmon decided that he had said his piece and fought his last war in the name of Community, or the network (or the studio) decided that they wanted someone else to run the show, because according to The AV Club, Dan Harmon is officially out as show runner, and Community, as we have known it, may have actually died last night after all.

Taking over the show will be David Guarascio and Moses Port, formerly producers on ABC’s splendid Happy Endings, and two guys with an immense challenge on their hands. See, not only do they have to keep Community on the air, but they also have to live up to Harmon’s incredible standard and not lose the show’s extremely vocal and engaged fan-base who will salt the earth if they even sense a hint of the show straying from it’s base.

As for Harmon, well, he’ll remain as a consulting producer in a move that reeks of NBC and Sony begging, “fandom, please don’t send us truckloads of black felt goatees”, and he also has Rick and Morty, and a new-found ability to stir up feuds with Chevy Chase.

So, Community fans, are we willing to give the new guys a chance, or did the heart of our fair show just walk out the door, taking the dream of #sixseasonsandamovie with it?

In my opinion, the show will get a full season, meaning the initial 13 episodes and the back 9 (because NBC’s new slate of comedies is something worse than onerous) but it will be a shell of it’s former self and that’s less a shot at the new guys than it is an appraisal of Harmon’s value and skill. #AFullSeasonAndAShellOfItself is not as catchy a hashtag as the one the Community fans are working on now, #SixSeasonsAndWeLoveYouDanHarmon

Let us know in the comment section below what you think about all of this, and be sure to welcome Community to bastardom.

UPDATE: Yeah, Harmon got fired and Sony never tried to negotiate or let him know that they were moving in this direction and he has never spoken to Bob Greenblatt of NBC, the man who said Harmon would still be involved in some way. Harmon will have a title, but does not seem at all interested in being involved with the show in any way, and honestly, why the fuck would he. This all from Harmon’s statement on Tumblr, which you can read here. It is long, and it is funny, and it is sad.

Dan Harmon got did dirty so Sony and NBC can make a desperate stab syndication by broadening Community’s appeal, something they new Dan Harmon would never go for. That’s what makes Dan Harmon the hero of this particular story, and honestly, with regard to making the show accessible or broadening it’s appeal. F-U-C-K accessibility. I understand the business sense of it, but really, if things are too smart for dumb people, dumb people should get smarter, not get dumber things that drag down everyone else’s happy. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to build a blanket fort now and wish for another timeline.

Source: The AV Club

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LOGO and Joss Whedon are teaming up to run a marathon of Whedon’s top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes tomorrow, Saturday May 19th, beginning at 10 AM.

In celebration of the marathon, LOGO has posted 5 episodes on their website that highlight, “studs”. That’s right ladies and gents, we’re not just fixating on sexy cosplay girls this week, we’re helping everybody get their oogle goodies.

As for the episodes on Whedon‘s list, well, they contain few surprises, with The Body, Once More with Feeling, and Hush perpetually included on any list focused on the best of what used to be Whedon’s most well known work. The full list is below, and though I scratch my head a little at Restless and wonder how on earth the somewhat controversial, but brilliant for its ambition, Normal Again failed to make the list, that is the fun of these things — there is no 100% correct list.

Whedon’s Top 10 episodes of Buffy:

Prophecy Girl, Innocence, Becoming Part II, The Wish, Doppelgangland, Hush, Restless, The Body, Once More With Feeling, Conversations with Dead People

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Once again this NerdBastard went into the breach that is CW‘s “Arrow.” After watching this trailer I fear for my nerdy comrades that might accompany me into this dark and dangerous battle.

Until this trailer I held some small hope, a kernel of nerdy optimism, that ”Arrow” might fly true and strike the target dead center. DOn’t get me wrong, I’ll tape the show and watch it much like I did for “The Cape,” but my hopes are now razor thin, my confidence at an all time low, and my nerdy heart meter is beeping slowly . . . so very slowly.

The series, which will air on Wednesdays at 8:00-9:00 p.m., stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Colin Donnell as Tommy, Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, with Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen and Paul Blackthorne as Detective Quentin Lance.

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In a land far away known as Britain there was a man.  He was a great and wise man who looked upon the garbage that was the television programming of the day and came up with a wonderful idea – Sherlock Holmes in the modern day.  That man’s name was Steven Moffat, and his name shall endure through time as a legend of television genius.

Or least that’s the way it plays in my head… But in truth, Sherlock has been kicking ass and taking names.  So much so that the American television company CBS decided that ‘they must have it!’  And so was born Elementary, a blatant rip-off of Moffat’s production on the BBC.

Heck, why not steal the idea?  CBS had already approached Moffat and the BBC with the proposal of doing an adaptation.  When that didn’t fly, what other choice did they have?  Of course, this led to threats of lawsuits from the BBC, but plagiarism is always a delicate thing.

Now, the first pics and footage for Elementary have been released and, naturally, everyone wants to know what the Great Overlord Moffat has to say.  In a recent interview with the Insider, he had a few comments about the new show:

“What we did with our Sherlock was just take it from Victorian times into modern day. They’ve [Elementary] got three big changes: it’s Sherlock Holmes in America, it’s Sherlock Holmes updated and it’s Sherlock Holmes with a female Watson. I wonder if he’s Sherlock Holmes in any sense other than he’s called Sherlock Holmes. It’s almost like they should have made Watson a woman but kept the show in Victorian times. Actually … that would actually be quite interesting.”

…I don’t want it to sound like Mark and I don’t want other people to try this. We welcome it, but don’t damage the brand.”

Ouch.  Not as negative as it could have been, but still some stinging remarks there.  Honestly, in my opinion, the only real thing this new version has going for it is that Lucy Liu is hot.  But considering that the likelihood of her getting naked on prime-time television is next to nil, that advantage is quickly lost.

Elementary premieres this Fall, so watch it if you dare.  And good luck CBS – you’ll need it.

Thanks to blastr for giving us the skinny.

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The picture above is this NerdBastard’s thought on Angie Harmon (Rizzoli & Isles) as She-Hulk after a rage induced rampage, you know, just like when Bruce Banner wakes up alone, with only a stretched pair of purple pants to keep him company.

Angie’s tweeter fans have kn0wn of Harmon’s desire to play She-Hulk and her love of the Avengers Movie. Angie posted a picture of her She-Hulk smashes sidewalk pose and a fan color-tweaked and re-posted the picture.

This NerdBastard will readily agree that the picture isn’t very sexy or She-Hulk-y besides the coloring . . . rip the shirt and skirt . . . and longer hair would go a long way to making the cut, but when I checked out some of Angie’s pictures online this NerdBastard does think she could pull of the Jennifer Walters part of the She-Hulk character.

Harmon had this to say about the character:

“I have to be her,” Harmon said. “You don’t understand. I have to be her. It’s the best quote ever when The Hulk turns around and goes ‘I’m always angry.’ I was like, Ohmygod! I stood up in the theater and literally cheered. I did.”

And she’d be fine wearing She-Hulk’s skimpy costume? 

”I would rock that like there is no tomorrow. I would kill that outfit. I’d put these 36Cs on display. Boom!” she said. “And what about her libido? That’s my favorite part. She-Hulk, bed! She-Hulk, screw! Can you imagine? Then she just picks him up and throws him around the room like the Hulk did with the bad guy. [Makes smashing noises.] But apparently, she’s normal size.” Well, no role is perfect.

Via: EW.com

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Are you burnt out on revamped, re-imagined, overdone fairy tales? Too bad! They just keep coming. This summer sees the release of Snow White and The Huntsman, a decidedly action packed version of the classic fairy tale, and the CW is bringing Beauty and the Beast back to TV with their updated series airing this fall.

First, above you’ll see our first look at Kristin Kreuk and Jay Ryan as the Beauty and the Beast, and uh, well yeah. She’s surely beautiful, not denying that, but what’s with his scar? They must be focusing on his inner beastly qualities. Like maybe he’s a huge asshole, or something. I don’t know, but that scar does more to make him appear rugged and handsome rather than beastly. And then I remind myself this will be a show on the CW, so of course he’s to be more hot throb than disfigured monster.

This series isn’t anything completely new, in fact it’s basically an updating of the 1987 Beauty and the Beast which starred Linda Hamilton as Catherine Chandler and Ron Perlman as Vincent, or the Beast. It also stars Brian J. White, Max Brown, Nina Lisandrello, Nicole Anderson and will air Thursdays at 9 p.m in the fall.

So, bastards, will you be giving Beauty and the Beast a shot?

Secondly, four new TV spots have been released for Snow White and The Huntsman, opening nationwide June 1st.

Honestly, I think this movie looks pretty darn good. Sure, it stars Bella Swan– I mean Kristin Stewart, but it also has Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron. Do you think you’ll see Snow White and The Huntsman when it comes out? Or is this one to see in the dollar theatres, or hell, even wait for it to hit he Redbox?

Sources: CBM, Blastr

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This must be my day to post stuff about CW‘s new show “Arrow.” On top of the still picture above that was released earlier today, there is now a teaser clip. Oliver has just returned from the island he was shipwrecked on and sneaks into one of his warehouses to set up “Green Arrow” shop.

This NerdBastard is reserving judgement until we see a little more. A lot of folks, mainly Smallville fans are lamenting the casting and the story line changes in comments sections everywhere.

The story line:

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea, and best friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he’s become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance. As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow – a vigilante – to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be – flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle – while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to under cover of darkness. However, Laurel’s father, Detective Quentin Lance, is determined to arrest the vigilante operating in his city. Meanwhile, Oliver’s own mother, Moira, knows much more about the deadly shipwreck than she has let on – and is more ruthless than he could ever imagine.

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