Chuck is back and kicking ass and, in this Monday’s upcoming episode titled “Chuck Vs. First Class” Brandon Routh returns this time along with Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk. Will movie Superman meet TV Superman’s girlfriend? Here’s the skinny on what it’s about:

Chuck must go on his first solo mission to Paris, but he’ll be lucky to survive the flight. Kristin Kreuk (Smallville), Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), and Stone Cold Steve Austin guest star. CIA agent Daniel Shaw (guest star Brandon Routh) assigns Chuck (Zachary Levi) to his first solo mission in Paris, ignoring Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and Casey´s (Adam Baldwin) wishes. During the flight to France, Chuck befriends Hannah (guest star Kristin Kreuk) and flashes on another passenger – the imposing Hugo Panzer (guest star Stone Cold Steve Austin). Meanwhile, Casey helps Morgan (Joshua Gomez) battle Jeff and Lester for control of the Buy More. Scott Krinsky, Vik Sahay and Mark Christopher Lawrence also star.”

After the jump, we have clips from the episode. Make sure you’re tuned in this Monday at 8pm EST. read this entry »

Every couple of years, one of the television networks trots out an end of the world miniseries. Meteors used to be the destruction method of choice but in recent years they’ve gotten away from falling rocks. But now, death by flaming boulder is back in vogue and NBC is trotting out a new miniseries called Meteor next weekend starting on July 12th.

In the embed after the jumpwe have five clips from Meteor, duck and cover as rocks fall: read this entry »

Knight Rider returned to NBC tonight in a 2-hour made for TV movie which may or may not end up being a series. But then if you’re any kind of science fiction geek, or if you grew up in the 80s, you probably already knew that. Actually if you grew up in the 80s, then you’ve probably spent the last two weeks gently caressing your vintage, metal Knight Rider lunchbox in anticipation. I know I have been.

Unfortunately, the whole thing got off on the wrong foot right out of the gate. Within the first five minutes Knight Rider gave us threesomes, lesbian cops having one night stands, and brutal death. Not exactly family television. NBC does know this is a show about a talking car… right?

To me that was the real problem with this new Knight Rider. It never quite knew what to be. It tries to walk a strange middle road between being the fun, cheesy, show we remember from the 80s, and being some sort of strange ripoff of the show Las Vegas. Luckily, it got better as it went on and when KITT finally gets his driver and heads out into the boonies the original show used to spend so much time in, things start to have that old familiar Knight Rider hum… assuming you can ignore all of the script’s ridiculous plot holes.
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