Bring All Your TV Pilots to Me

You’d think after his critically loved pilot Locke & Key was passed on by FOX last year, Josh Friedman (FOX’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) would be wary of collaborating with them again. Then again, if they keep ordering all your series to pilot… Deadline reports that FOX has given a pilot order to The Asset, a character-driven drama which will center on a female spy working in the CIA. Yes, that’s still all we know about the premise. ( Read more... )

It’s been well over a year since Gatiss and Moffat’s Sherlock, a modern-day adaptation of the classic stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first graced our tv screens and since we last saw Sherlock and Watson in a potentially deadly standoff with criminal mastermind Moriarty.

But the season premiere of “A Scandal in Belgravia” doesn’t have quite the resolution to that confrontation as we might have expected all those months ago. Instead of a fiery boom, courtesy of a handgun and an explosive vest, we’re treated to a deliciously slow burning plot in what may be the series’ greatest episode yet. ( Read more... )

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What Do Awards Mean Anyway?

Even though nominations for the 2012 Golden Globes and Emmys won’t be announced until Dec. 15 and Jul. 19 respectively, thanks to a few other recently released nomination lists, I think we can now safely deduce which shows will end up as frontrunners in the race to television award glory. The Writers Guild of America, Producers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, American Film Institute, and TIME Magazine have all chosen what they believe to be the very best in television within the past year. ( Read more... )