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June 30, 2018

Charmed Getting HD Remaster

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Now that there’s a new Charmed on the way, the original show is getting a fresh coat of paint. CBS Paramount, owners of the series, have announced they’re in the process of converting the original film negatives to HD….a project, I’m assuming, mainly exists so we can finally see THIS in high definition: The weird thing about this announcement is that it only confirms the HD remaster and not how it will be distributed. Imagine a Blu-Ray reissue of the Book of Shadows package, this time less prone to scratches because Blu-Ray is more durable. Wouldn’t that be keen? But there’s no mention of Blu-Ray or anything else. If you’ve ever watched a rebroadcast of a 60s or 70s TV show, you may have noticed some of them are now in HD widescreen. Any old show shot on film can be rescanned this way. But not all of those shows have had their HD remasters pressed onto discs, and some of them aren’t even available to purchase digitally. In some

May 17, 2018

Witness The Rebirth of Charmed

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The CW finally released the trailer for their Charmed reboot this morning. All throughout the Upfronts I’ve been drumming my fingers on the table, waiting for the Charmed trailer to show up. I don’t know if it speaks to the lack of quality in the lineup that this was my most anticipated trailer of the season, but here it finally is, nearly four minutes of the Charmed Ones’ return to television. https://youtu.be/loWpbevW9xg Um….hmm. Gotta be honest, I’m not sure how to feel about this. All they had to do to please me was make it better than the original, and unfortunately I still can’t determine if it is, because they threw me a curve I wasn’t expecting. The original sisters looked to be in their thirties when they started out, late twenties at the earliest. These girls are in college, and INCREDIBLY green…which in the right hands could be more interesting, but I’m not convinced these are the right actors to pull it off. They’re TOO young….or maybe I’m just

May 11, 2018

The CW Renews iZombie, Reboots Charmed And Roswell

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Fans of The CW’s iZombie (including myself) can breathe easier. The network announced today it is keeping the adventures of Liv Moore and her friends, enemies and frenemies going through 2019. I believe this will officially be the longest creator Rob Thomas has ever kept a series on the air — the famous Veronica Mars, which launched the career of Kristen Bell, lasted just three seasons. The least surprising news of the day is The CW’s series orders for their Charmed and Roswell reboots. The network is expanding to Sunday nights, and it makes sense to use familiar properties in an unproven night….so they did. We don’t know what they look like yet (trailers have yet to be released), but we sure hope they’re good. The CW also ordered “All-American,” about a football player who is transferred to an upper-class high school…..it’s boilerplate teen-soap stuff and doesn’t sound very interesting. One wild card happens to be “In The Dark,” a dramedy about “a flawed and irreverent blind woman” who’s determined