William Shatner getting all catty about George Takei’s wedding
This interview with Star Trek alumnus William Shatner (and since he was dis-invited to appear in J.J. Abrams Star Trek, I suppose we can refer to him thusly…) gets all passive-aggressive on George Takei about his former co-star’s recent wedding. Invited or not, Shatner clearly has some deep-seated issues with Takei.
He rails on about Takei’s [...]
Chinese network CCTV produces 50-hour Bruce Lee biographical series
Good Lord, this sounds awesome. A 50-part Bruce Lee television series called The Legend of Bruce Lee featuring Chan Kwok Kuen (aka Danny Chan, the Bruce Lee lookalike from Shaolin Soccer), starts Sunday on Chinese network CCTV.
Can’t wait til it hits the BitTorrent trackers!
“We’ve only seen the glorious side of Bruce Lee - he comes [...]
DVR tip: Super Smash Brothers pro-player Kan Hoang on ‘Survivor: Gabon’
Yes, reality television has all the intellectual value of competitive nose-picking, but fans of the pro-gaming scene might be interested in checking out tonight’s debut of Survivor: Gabon, featuring 22-year old Super Smash Brothers champ Ken Hoang. And lots of hot chicks, if that’s your thang…
Personally, I’m still chuffed that Malay contestant Yau-man Chan didn’t [...]
FUNimation acquires ‘Kaze no Stigma’
FUNimation is gobbling up anime properties left and right, which honestly I don’t have a problem with as they have been putting out some seriously kick-ass releases lately. The latest toon to disappear into FUNimation’s gaping maw is Gonzo’s Kaze no Stigma, directed by Cardcaptor Sakura director Jun’ichi Sakata. Here’s the synopsis straight from FUNimation’s [...]
TV Tip: ‘Samurai Girl’ starts tonight on ABC Family
If you’re sitting around with nothing to do tonight, you might want to tune into ABC Family…or at least fire up your TiVo. ‘Samurai Girl‘, the adaptation of Carrie Asai’s young-adult series of the same name airs tonight, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.
This has every reason to be totally ass-tacular, but Middleman turned out to [...]
Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto to attend NY Anime Festival as Guest of Honor
I don’t really watch Iron Chef, or its’ American spin-off Iron Chef America, anymore. Really, once you’ve seen a good dozen or so episodes, there’s just not much more to see - although the end products are uniformly fascinating, if frequently unappetizing (stay away from the ice-cream machine!)
That said, I was happy to see that [...]
MTV casting for ‘True Life: I’m a Fanboy’…this will only end in tears
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from running this site over the last seven years’, it’s that no matter how much I think I know about something, there’s always someone out there whose levels of obsessive compulsion dwarf mine.
If that someone is you, you might be interested in an upcoming episode of MTV’s ‘True Life‘, [...]
Kadokawa (hearts) piracy
I don’t think it requires a highly-paid media analyst to predict that the anime production companies who will still be around in 20 years are those which take advantage of what the internet does best, namely allow people to share information. Naturally, when one says ’share information’ it really means piracy.
An increasing number of media [...]
Yellow Menace Theater - Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire
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Korean TV steals peek at Beijing Olympics practice run, China not pleased
Man, China - you really need to take a breather. What with all your Obsessive Compulsive precautions to ensure a *perfect* Summer Games, and now you’re throwing a temper tantrum because the Koreans get a preemptive look-see at your opening ceremonies? Do you really think anyone who purchased tickets to attend the Games, is participating, [...]
