Heroes season 2 premieres tonight at 9/8c on NBC. Check out the preview video of 6 minutes of the first episode below. Obviously, this video contains some minor spoilers. Stick around at dingoRUE for a live blog of the show from the east coast when it airs, immediately following the Prison Break Season 3 episode 2 recap.
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Three of the major networks have announced an enhanced web presence of their television content on the Internet in recent days.
NBC will offer NBC Direct beginning in October. It will allow users to download shows, which it says will offer higher quality and more reliability than streaming videos currently do. The first shows to use this service will be Heroes, The Office, Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Late Night, and The Tonight Show.
This announcement follows on the heels of NBC and Fox’s Hulu, scheduled for launch later this year, which will offer video content to AOL, MSN, Myspace, and Yahoo.
ABC announced a deal with AOL TV to offer its shows online one day after they air on TV. Users will be given the option of either streaming the videos or downloading them. Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Pushing Daisies, Cavemen, Big Shots, Carpoolers, Dirty Sexy Money, and Private Practice are among the shows included. NBC, CBS and Fox also have deals with AOL.
Lastly, and least excitingly, Fox has announced a deal with iTunes to allow users to download four season premieres for free: Prison Break Season 3, K-Ville, American Dad, and Bones.
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ABC previously announced that Lost Season 4 would be delayed until January or February 2008, with a shortened run of 16 episodes. Want to get your Lost fix before then and catch up on an old episode? Find out more after the jump.
Prison Break Season 3 Episode 1
At the conclusion of the second season of Prison Break, Lincoln Burrows was set free, but Michael Scofield found himself back behind bars in Panama. We know he’s gonna break out. It’s just a question of when and how. Some of you may have already watched the first 17 minutes of tonight’s episode online, but either way, there’s still a lot of ground to cover.
The show starts in the middle of a mass of unruly bodies. Lincoln is talking to a night clerk about his brother being innocent and informs him he’s being held in Sona. He informs Link that Sona is the worst of the worst, the guards left a year ago because of a riot, that the government doesn’t get involved, and what goes in doesn’t come out unless it’s dead. Back to the mass of bodies, we see a fight and an ensuing death, where the victim’s body is just left where it falls. The counsellor in the morning requests a move to a facility that’s more moderate.
Lincoln asks about the money, which unsurprisingly seems to have disappeared. He is advised that Michael will be free but still face charges in the US.
Bellick looks rather pitiful. He asks for a mess hall and some water and tells the wrong person to bite him. He’s told to drink the muddy water, which gets stomped in his face. He is befriended by a prisoner who doesn’t have very good news about what life is like there.
Alex Mahone is in there with them, and he’s feeling guilty but to make matters worse, also out of pills. He wants to work with Michael, but the thought of working with the man who killed his father doesn’t sit well with him.
Link visits Michael in Sona. His question after finding he’ll be transferred is about Sara Tancredi, but we know Sara’s not returning.
Michael is informed that it’s orientation time, which he’s not interested in but is informed he doesn’t have a choice. The man who arranges this orientation seems to be very much in charge of the place. He’s well aware of the prison break. When he approaches the guy standing next to Alex, the guy proceeds to pee his pants, receiving a reaction of having his ass kicked, to which Scofield responds, “I think he gets the message,” completely unafraid of the guy attempting to intimidate everyone.
And in walks T-Bag. The gang’s all here, and it’s unlikely any of them will be pleased to see this guy.
Michael receives an offer from an attorney “of sorts” of assistance to breakout once he gets past the wall. He promptly walks away. He’s then attacked by a guy who accuses him of stealing from him, and upon checking his area, it’s realized that he did, or at least that’s what someone wants everybody to think.
The prisoner who was Bellick’s friend, if there is such a thing in a place like this, finally gets fed up with the conditions of not being able to eat anything and jumps out the window and proceeds to run. He is shot and killed, a clear sign of how they treat people who attempt to escape. This is about the only involvement the government has in this place.
A woman matching Sara’s description has been found… at the morgue. Lincoln goes there and confirms it’s not her. I don’t think they’ll kill her off just yet. They’ll probably at least leave the window open.
Michael is told there’s a system in Sona and that he’d better adhere to it, a system where they must fight to resolve their disputes. He then tells the man who thinks he’s in charge that he knows he set him up because he’s the only one with a problem with him.
Link gets a call from his son LJ, who just so happens to be in Panama, too. He says he got his number from Sara.
Before the fight, Alex offers some advice: fight dirty and go for the kneecap. These two will be on the same team eventually, perhaps starting now. When the fight begins, Scofield yells he’s not going to fight, then follows it up by going for the kneecap, making quick work of his opponent. He attempts to turn around but is told that only one man leaves alive.
Michael knocks him down again and tries to walk away again. At this point, a knife is thrown in from the crowd. Mahone jumps into the fight because Michael was about to be stabbed from behind, and he obviously has no problem killing the guy, justifying his interference by saying that weapons are against the rules.
Outside the gate, a woman screams that she wants to bury the dead men. Earlier, Bellick was forced underground, where he met a man (James Whistler) who asked him to help him out in exchange for food. He handed him a cryptic message that was stuffed in one of the dead man’s pockets. As it turned out, the man looking for help is the one Scofield was approached about earlier, and he has to stay in prison to break him out (big surprise) because LJ and Sara have been kidnapped as leverage.
This was a great to start to what I expect to be another great season.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Prison Break Season 3 episode 2, which airs Monday at 8/7c on Fox.
Bionic Woman Episode 1
Bionic Woman is a “reimagining” of the 1970s TV show where a woman has bionic strength. We start off with soldiers walking through a bloodbath. They come upon a woman (who we half an hour in learn is named Sarah Corvis, played by Katee Sackhoff, best known as Captain Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in Battlestar Galactica) bent over a mutilated body. She says she didn’t want to and is out of control, then asks the head soldier (Jay, played by Will Yun Lee) to tell him he loves her, she lunges at him, and he shoots her. He then tells her he loves her.
It’s three years later at a bar in San Francisco, and we then shift to an apartment. Why we went from that to this wasn’t made apparent until much later in the episode. Becca Sommers (played by Lucy Hale) and her college aged sister Jaime (played by Michelle Ryan, best known as Zoe in EastEnders, a British soap opera) get into a typical teenager/parent argument, with the exception that for whatever reason it’s about Becca having a court order against using a computer hooked up to the Internet, which Becca conceals by hiding it out the window. On the way to school, they get into an argument about their father, who disappeared and left Becca to be raised by her sister.
Jaime sneaks into her college class late, and they coincidentally enough happen to be discussing people enhancing their bodies through medical means. But she’s dating the professor, Will, who says he’s with her because she’s different and unplanned by his father. Upon meeting him for a date, she leaves her sister with her friends, essentially babysitters.
At dinner, Will asks her to go to Paris with him, and she lets him know she’s pregnant. He asks her to marry him, which makes perfect sense since they’ve been dating all of 5 months, 14 days. While driving home, he’s trying to pick out baby names… and then out of nowhere here comes the car crash we’ve been waiting for. As it turns out, the wreck wasn’t exactly what you would call accidental. Out of the car steps Sarah. Jaime’s still conscious but seriously injured and in need of massive reconstructive surgery. As luck would have it, her boyfriend is a doctor with the capability to give her bionic powers.
Afterwards, the military group responsible for the project calls a meeting to decide what to do with the “subject.” The concept of killing her is brought up, as is making her combat ready, to which Will is obviously opposed. In the meantime, they hold her captive, hoping she won’t realize they can’t possibly hold her captive. While evaluating her, they see she draws Sarah, who they thought they killed three years ago. Will helps Jaime to escape, and on the way home, she realizes just what she can do. Her initial reaction is freaking out, but she decides to accept it and test herself by jumping from one rooftop to the next.
Will is displeased when compared to his father. Jay later visits his father (Anthony Anthros, played by Mark Sheppard) in the slammer 1000 feet underground, in an attempt to figure out how Sarah’s still alive. He’s apparently unable to get a useful answer.
Sarah stops by the bar and makes sure Jaime knows she knows who she is and what she’s capable of. Upon leaving the bar, Jaime makes quick work of a thug who pulls a knife on her, stopping just short of killing him. Tough chicks kick ass. She doesn’t think so, though, and is afraid that she fought him without having control over what she was doing until she managed to stop herself.
She goes to see Will to find out what he knows, mentions the name Sarah Corvis, and immediately after, Will gets shot by Sarah, who seems tough until she sees Jay and takes off. Jaime chases after her and finds out that Sarah was the first bionic woman, who is slowly replacing her weak human parts. A tough chick fight ensues. Jaime starts off getting her ass kicked but eventually gets into the groove and dishes as well as she got.
At the end of the episode, after being threatened by Jonas Bledsoe (played by Miguel Ferrer, Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan), who’s apparently the head of this whole operation, her response is, “If we do this, whatever this is, we do it on my terms. If that’s not okay with you, I know what I’m capable of now, so you send whoever you send, and I’ll bury one guy after the next.”
We then close things off with Anthony getting out of jail.
So what did I think? The first episode, attempting to establish the basis for a story line, was at times all over the place and hard to follow. Not a particulary thrilling start, but this looks like it’s worth watching, so I look forward to seeing what the future episodes have in store.
Bionic Woman premieres on NBC Wednesday September 26th at 9/8c, but thanks to Amazon Unbox, the pilot is available to watch online for free. To download it, go to Amazon Unbox
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