Colin Morgan as Merlin Season three of the television show Merlin begins airing on SyFy on January 7th and TheCinemaniac.com got a chance to see the first episode, and chat with the stars Colin Morgan who plays the title character Merlin, and Bradley James who plays Prince Arthur. The season opens with a epic battle in the wood with Prince Arthur once again being saved by Merlin... Read More

TBS new series Glory Daze is about a group of freshman students who decide to pledge a fraternity in the mid-80s.  The series centers on Joel (Kelly Blatz), a sweet geek who’s not quite sure about pledging, Eli (Matt Bush), a sex obsessed virgin, Jason, a prudish young republican who plans to pledge the “preppy” fraternity, and Brian, a star baseball player whose... Read More

This week Glee started a storyline covering the topic of Bullying.  In the episode the bullying of Kurt, the show’s openly gay character, goes from simple taunting to full-on physical attacks.  The story was inspired by the recent string of suicides caused by bullying. Read More  Read More

This fall one of the most anticipated new shows is on NBC Monday Nights.  I am of course talking about The Event.   The Event follows in the steps of such shows as Lost, V, and other recent serialized shows.  Unlike some of the past shows (I’m looking at you Flash Forward) The Event promises to offer answers more often than not.  To learn more hit... Read More

USA’s newest series Covert Affairs has had it’s ups and downs in its freshman season.  While the pilot was great the following couple of episodes were merely ok, but recently the series has been hitting it out of the park, and tonight’s episode, titled “Communication Breakdown,” looks like a Grand Slam. Dubbed “the Auggie episode”... Read More

I recently got a chance to see a rough cut of NBC’s new fall series The Event, and for now all I’ll say is it did what a good pilot should, it made me want to see the next episode immediately. Today NBC has released some interviews with the cast and director of The Event from this past weekend’s Comic Con. And stay tuned here for more on The Event. Sarah Roemer... Read More

In the next week several new series are premiering on Cable. Each of the new series is somewhat of a crime procedural, but each one brings a little something different to set it apart. SyFy’s new series, Haven, adds some supernatural elements, TNT’s new series, Rizzoli & Ives, adds some female buddy elements, and USA’s new series, Covert Affairs, adds some... Read More

Over the past three seasons USA’s Burn Notice has continued to evolve as a series. What started out as a MacGyver-ish, mostly episodic series, has evolved into a series with a long-series spanning mythology. For those of you just tuning in here’s a quick recap: Micheal Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) was an American spy until he was burned and stranded in his home town of... Read More