Television

Actually, we were out Sunday night and forget to set the DVR. Oops. Here's a mostly positive recap from TV Geek Army. It seems the boys went for a spin in the Batmobile and Jason Mewes showed up and stole someone's credit card. Just another day on the job. By all accounts, this was a better episode than the first.

After debuting to encouraging ratings, the entire first episode of Kevin Smith's Comic Book Men reality show is now streaming, so you can catch up with all the inaction you missed.

Hollywood never sleeps; that's why they need their daily coffee run.

Rick and Herschel enjoy a heart to heart talk in this brief teaser. Hm. Another 6 episodes of heart-to-heart talks? Egads. Michonne, do not forsake us!

AMC has released a teaser poster for the midseason return of The Walking Dead on February 12 with Sheriff Rick Grimes taking aim. After the rather Shane-centric first half of the season, will we see Rick getting back in the saddle? Unsurprisingly, AMC has also announced a longer season 3 -- 16 episodes as opposed to 12. The season will be split in two, and writers Nichole Beattie (Rubicon, John from Cincinnati) and Sang Kim (Crash, Hawthorne) are joining the staff.

Warner's search for a new superhero that can fill the ache left by the end of Smallville's run has landed on Green Arrow. The CW has ordered a pilot written and executive-produced by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim (GREEN LANTERN) and Andrew Kreisberg Fringe).

Another gender clash in the comics world....so soon??? YES. The title and trailers for that Kevin Smith Secret Stash comic book store show we mentioned a while ago have been revealed and it's called COMIC BOOK MEN, a fact which saddened Jill Pantozzi -- she and other comics-wise females had auditioned for the show:

Ever heard of a UK import called "Misfits?" I've heard it described as "Heroes, but better." Actually, I'd say closer to a mash-up of Heroes, Smallville and the Nathan Barley/Snuffbox school of very dark British humor. And yes, it is better than Heroes. Especially Heroes after the first season.

With the growing ascendancy and popularity of the "nerd" archetype, especially as exemplified by the hugely popular THE BIG BANG THEORY, a bunch of television programs exploring and/or exploiting this personality type are on the drawing board. Some of them might be fun, but some of them are probably going to make nerd blood boil and dominate late night discussions at SF conventions for months to come. Herewith, a field guide.

By Todd Allen Looks like the reality television is getting into Geek.  "Fandom Rising" is an attempt by the creators of Jersey Shore to do...

This is going to sound silly, but up until 1978, the BBC didn't put a high priority on keeping archives of their old TV series. As a result, a _lot_ of TV shows from the dawn of British television through the mid-1970s have been erased and gone missing. Roughly speaking, about 40% of the first six seasons of Doctor Who have gone missing. It's so bad, only 6 of the 21 storylines with second Doctor Patrick Troughton have all their episodes in possession of the BBC.

Among the lists of Twitter-base comedies, roast spin-offs and other hapless men in a hostile world of supermarkets and doorknob comedies,Comedy Central announced one deal based on a webcomic, namely CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS, the generally amusing stick-figure theater comic by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin and Dave McElfatrick, all of whom will exec produce. The show is described as "a half-hour animated show featuring the twisted humor of a world populated by glorified stick figures." The CYANIDE crew has already been producing shorts and an iPhone app, so this is just anther step in their world conquest.