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  • Win FRINGE: SEASON 5 on Blu-Ray!

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    In conjunction with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, we’re giving away three (3) copies of FRINGE: SEASON 5 on Blu-Ray.

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  • Win FRINGE: SEASON 4 on Blu-Ray!

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    In conjunction with Warner Home Video, we’re giving away five (5) copies of FRINGE: SEASON 4 on Blu-Ray.

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  • Win FRINGE: SEASON 2 on Blu-Ray!

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    In conjunction with Warner Bros. Home Video, we’re giving away a copy of FRINGE: SEASON 2 on Blu-Ray.

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  • Contest Round-Up: 2009-09-09

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    Welcome to our weekly round-up of featured giveaways here at Quick Stop. Every Wednesday, we’ll present a new clutch of DVDs, books, and other cool stuff you can take a shot at winning. All you have to do is click on the graphics below to be taken to their respective contest pages. And good luck!

    In conjunction with Fox Home Video, we’re giving away two (2) copies of X-MEN: ORIGINS – WOLVERINE on DVD.

    In conjunction with Walt Disney Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of BEDKNOBS & BROOMSTICKS on DVD.

    In conjunction with Comedy Central Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of IMPORTANT THINGS WITH DEMETRI MARTIN on DVD.

    In conjunction with Warner Bros. Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of FRINGE: SEASON 1 on DVD.

    In conjunction with Buena Vista Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) sets of X-MEN: VOLUMES 3 & 4 on DVD.

  • Win FRINGE: SEASON 1 on DVD!

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    In conjunction with Warner Bros. Home Video, we’re giving away three (3) copies of FRINGE: SEASON 1 on DVD.

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  • TV Or Not TV: 5/4 – 5/10

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    Welcome to TV or Not TV where I am humbled by mother nature.

    This week I was able to get caught up on the new History Channel original series Life After People. This series, crafted after last year’s startling special, takes a unique look at what would happen if we people of the planet Earth just suddenly vanished. What would become of our cars, our buildings, our legacy? The results are very humbling.

    In the discussion of “saving our planet” I have long been a student of the philosophy that we are not needing to save our planet but instead we need to save ourselves. Yes, we need to treat mother Earth a lot better so that her environment will still be suitable for us. We, however, do not need to save the planet because as this show outlines pretty harshly the planet will in face go on without us.

    It is one thing, when watching this show, to see the computer generated scenarios of a Statue of Liberty crumbling, or the Houston Astrodome becoming a richly vegetated rain forest climate, but it is another thing to see the real evidence in today’s society where we see how the planet will reclaim that which we leave behind. A coal mining island in Japan, after only 35 years, is already falling apart and appears on the precipice of complete collapse. Mother Nature will quickly reclaim that which we turn our backs on proving that her creations are the only ones that can stand the test of time.

    If you haven’t seen this show I  strongly suggest you tune in to Life After People every Tuesday night at 10 PM to see this eye opening look at what the future may hold for that which we leave behind.

    Now let’s see what television transmissions we can choose from this week that will just be static two light years from now.

    MONDAY

    LIFETIME – 5:00 PM: It’s not every week that I make a recommendation for Lifetime, but a show called Cook Yourself Thin can’t go without mentioning in this day and age of the obese American.

    FX – 9:00 PM: Now that 24 is in the 21st of it’s 24 hours Jack has got to be getting a miracle cure any minute now, right?

    NBC – 9:00 PM: Allison is bailing on the DA’s office to work for a big corporate job on Medium. Do I sense a new Ms. Cleo?

    TUESDAY

    NBC – 8:00 PM: With only four contestants left standing on The Biggest Loser: Couples you’d think by now they’ve been through enough. Nope. They have to run a full marathon.

    FOX – 9:00 PM: Olivia starts having visions, Walter confesses his connection to the Z.F.T. manifesto and we finally get to learn what Peter’s secret side project is this week on Fringe? Whoah! It must be sweeps!

    HISTORY – 10:00 PM: As mentioned above, a new episode of Life After People premieres as it takes a look at what happens to Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles over the test of time.

    WEDNESDAY

    ABC – 8:00 PM: JD says farewell to Sacred Heart as the shows tries to wrap up what was envisioned as Scrubs final season. Will that actually be the case?

    FOX – 9:00 PM: I really don’t care who gets booted on American Idol tonight, I’m just interested in seeing Daughtry perform.

    ABC – 9:00 PM: This time next week I’ll be half-way into the season finale of LOST, so I’m eagerly anticipating what happens in this episode as the prelude to that.

    THURSDAY

    FOX – 8:00 PM: Tonight on Bones FBI agent Boothe gets a visit from Stewie from Family Guy. No, really… it happens.

    NBC – 9:30 PM: Jack learns something shocking about his parentage and Alan Alda guest stars on 30 Rock. Coincidence?

    ABC – 10:00 PM: It’s been over a decade since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and tonight we get to see just how far it has taken him in Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist.

    FRIDAY

    CW – 8:00 PM: Will this be the season or series finale for Everybody Hates Chris? Chris Rock himself has been quoted as saying it would be a good end point in the storytelling based on his life. It’s looking like the CW might agree.

    FOX – 9:00 PM: The same question as asked above can be asked for Dollhouse as well. Last week we finally learned who Alpha is, we learned why he kept Echo alive and now they’re both on the run. Will this be the show’s swan song or only the ending of this chapter (not counting the un-aired thirteenth episode)?

    SATURDAY

    HISTORY – 8:00 PM: Cashing in on the release of Star Trek the History Channel rolls out Ancient Aliens followed by Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier.

    FOOD – 9:00 PM: Duff and company get to go to Hawaii to create a special cake for the show LOST on Ace of Cakes. This hour special is nestled between two other hours of some of their other great entertainment themed cakes. I’ll be watching (and snacking) for the duration.

    SUNDAY

    FOX – 8:00 PM: Jodie Foster guests as a voice of Maggie (kind of) in tonight’s episode of The Simpsons.

    NBC – 8:00 PM: It’s the season finale of The Celebrity Apprentice with Annie Duke vs. Joan Rivers. After the venom that was spewed when Melissa got the boot this should be a good one.

    CBS – 8:00 PM: The Amazing Race has actually had an interesting season and this one comes to a close as the remaining teams are making the small jaunt from Beijing to Maui to cross the finale finish line.

    – Will Wilkins loved the new Star Trek movie, but since it’s not TV I can’t talk about it.

  • TV Or Not TV: 9/15 – 9/21

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    Welcome back for a very special TV or Not TV.

    OK, it’s not really all that special. This week we’re taking a look at the new shows on the ABC Fall Schedule. There’s a reason why, however, I’ve been saving ABC for last. They’ve got two new shows. Yes, that’s right, just two.

    Opportunity Knocks (Premieres 9/23) ““ This new show from Punk’d creative team Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg‘s is a reality show made me think they almost lifted Brian Lynch‘s Party Truck USA idea. Instead the show concept is this: semi-truck game show pulls up infront of your house and uses objects and clues in the house to quiz the family as to how well they know one another. Cash prizes involved. I’ll wait to see to base judgment.

    Life on Mars (Premieres 10/9) ““ This show is a BBC import. The Americanized version was executive produced by David E. Kelley and stars Jason O’Mara as a present day police detective who, after a car crash, wakes up as a detective in the 70’s. The show has had lots of buzz because Kelley’s pilot “didn’t hew close enough” to the BBC original, so Kelley walked. A new pilot, a change of location and an entire recasting of everyone but the lead means this is one you have to catch just to see what turned out in the end.

    Well, I hope you were able to get through all of that and now you still have an appetite for the TV viewing opportunities out there this week.

    MONDAY

    SCIFI ““ 7:00 PM: If you’ve put off getting caught up in LOST-mania but you’ve always wanted to watch it from the beginning, now is your chance. You can sit back, relax and enjoy four hours of lost every week on Monday night.

    ABC ““ 8:00 PM: Oh look, someone else is airing Batman Begins.

    CBS ““ 8:00 PM: Get ready for the return of The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men by watching tonight’s repeat of the season finale.

    TUESDAY

    NBC ““ 8:00 PM: Last year’s edition of The Biggest Loser using couples was a great one, so they are keeping the concept going with this year’s edition: The Biggest Loser: Families. Husband-Wife and Parent-Child teams vie to lose big and win bigger. This show is a great motivator and great entertainment.

    CBS ““ 9:00 PM: Will it be Dan or Memphis who walks away with the half mill tonight? Which one of the jury members will win the $25,000 pity prize from America’s vote? After tonight you won’t hear me say Big Brother again for at least four months.

    FOX ““ 9:00 PM: Let’s see if Fringe can keep up the creepy momentum that they started with the pilot.

    ABC ““ 9:30 PM: The ABC news department is stretching for ratings with Primetime: UFOs”¦ Seeing is Believing. I haven’t seen a hubcap hung from fishing line in a long time, this should be fun.

    WEDNESDAY

    CBS ““ 8:00 PM: Two episodes of The New Adventures of Old Christine try to prime you for next week’s season premiere.

    HIST ““ 8:00 PM: How could you not watch Monster Quest tonight with a title like this? Bigfoot in New York.

    CW ““ 9:00 PM: If you missed this week’s new episode of 90210 yesterday than you can catch it tonight.

    THURSDAY

    MAX ““ 8:00 PM: Matt Damon steps away from F’ing Sarah Silverman long enough to try to uncover his real identity in The Bourne Ultimatum.

    NBC ““ 8:30 PM: Get ready for next week’s premiere of My Name is Earl and The Office by watching both shows season finales.

    USA ““ 10:00 PM: Unfortunately after tonight we’re going to have to wait until 2009 to see more of Burn Notice. Don’t miss it.

    FRIDAY

    You know the recommendations aren’t going to be good for a night when the writer leads off with”¦

    OXYGEN ““ 8:00 PM: The entertaining Legally Blonde and the dismal Legally Blonde 2 are back-to-back tonight.

    BRAVO ““ 8:00 PM: More proof that a sequel is too much of a good thing comes from Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Dangerous.

    BBCA ““ 8:00 PM: Forget all that other crap. Enjoy 80 minutes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and enjoy the universal language of pure comedy.

    SATURDAY

    TNT ““ 8:00 PM: Queen Latifah finds out she is terminally ill so she does what we all do, sells all her stuff and lives it up in Europe in Last Holiday. I’m not really recommending this, this is what we call filler.

    FOOD ““ 9:00 PM: Two hours of Dinner: Impossible lead up to Iron Chef: America. Keep healthy snacks handy or this could be trouble.

    NBC ““ 11:29 PM: James Franco hosts SNL. I predict a Seth Rogen surprise visit.

    SUNDAY

    ABC ““ 8:00 PM: Every fashionista and star f’er will be tuning in for the 60th Prime Time Emmy Awards. I’m not one of them. No, really, I’m not.

    NGC ““ 8:00 PM: At last Titanic: The Final Secret is revealed! Wait, was there something we still didn’t know? Turns out there was. The guy who found the famed cruise ship was actually on a secret Navy mission to examine submarines lost during the Cold War. Who knew?

    FOX ““ 9:00 PM: Robot Chicken did a much better Star Wars special, however you might find the Family Guy‘s Blue Harvest chuckle-worthy. Some items I found funny, a lot of it felt like too drawn out of a joke. You decide.

    – Will Wilkins really wishes there were better things to watch on Friday nights.

     

  • TV Or Not TV: 9/8 – 9/14

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    Greetings one and all as we start the next to last of our discussions on the upcoming new shows on TV. This week I am taking a look at the offerings that the FOX network is giving us (and in the way of new shows, there aren’t many).

    Fringe (Premieres 9/9) – When the previews for this show starting airing I had absolutley no clue what it is about. The only thing that we knew is that things blew up, bad things happened to people, and the show was executive produced by JJ Abrams. After seeing the pilot for Fringe (the name comes from fringe science, ie: regeneration, teleportation, etc.) I can tell you that it has the potential to be the successor to The X-Files as the show sets up the premise for good stand alone episodes as well as story arc episodes. The acting is good, the plot holds up, and the first five minutes of the show is truly frightening to watch (after you see it you will also wonder if Abrams and company have something against flying as the pilot for LOST was another example of why people are afraid to fly). FOX has a lot of faith in the show as it is one of the only two shows that they are trying their new “Remote-Free TV” advertising strategy that expands shows to have only 7 minutes of advertising time. I think their faith might be justified.

    Hole in the Wall (Premieres 9/9) – When I first heard this show name I thought it was something dirty or a situation comedy set in an old bar. It’s actually a game show where there is a moving wall that comes at contestants. The hole is a different shape that contestants must contort their body to fit through (like a plus symbol or the number four). Can’t fit? The wall will knock you into the pool of water behind it. This is a HUGE game show in Asia, so FOX thought they would try their luck with it here.

    Do Not Disturb (Premieres 9/10) – Let out a groan with me as FOX brings us another work place sitcom. This time instead of a news room the show is set at The Inn, a New York hotel voted one of the 10 best places to stay. It’s run by Jerry O’Connell who is dying to find another steady job since Crossing Jordan ended. Niecy Nash from Reno 911! is the head of HR who keeps O’Connell in check. I won’t even bother looking at the rest of the cast as I’m sure they’re going to have eye candy at the front desk, a newcomer to the big city handling bags or room service and the “awkward chick” working some other part of the hotel. It’s a sitcom and it is on FOX. Let’s face it, this won’t rock your socks off. Mind you I haven’t seen it, but I’d lay money on the fact that it will limp through the first season and go no further.

    Dollhouse (Mid-Season Replacement) – All right, I admit reviewing the show now is a stretch because it isn’t coming out in the fall, it is slated for January no matter what. Dollhouse however is the other show that will be “Remote-Free TV” so I thought it was worth mentioning. The show is also from TV guru Joss Whedon and features Buffy alumni Eliza Dushku. We’ll talk about what the show is like when we get closer to January, but it is one of the ones that I’m looking forward to.

    And on that note, queue the schedule…

    MONDAY

    FOX – 8:00 PM: Finally we will know how Cameron fared in the Jeep explosion and we get to see where this story will continue to go on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

    HIST – 8:00 PM: A computerized rendition of the Zapruder film leads is the basis for two hours of The Kennedy Assasination: Beyond Conspiracy.

    FOX – 9:00 PM: I dared them to get better, and they may have just done it. Prison Break has now become Mission Impossible and The Dirty Dozen as the gang is back together and now they have to break in to a facility while in a virtual prison while they find the pieces they need before pulling the big job.

    SHO – 10:00 PM: It’s the season finale for Weeds and based on what we saw this season it may be the last episode. For me this season came off as hollow and I’m glad at this point that it is over.

    TUESDAY

    FOX – 8:00 PM: The hype is over, Fringe is here. Enjoy.

    CBS – 8:00 PM: Will the 75 year old former Marine finally leave the Big Brother house? I hope so.

    FOX – 9:35 PM: Behold the glory of Hole in the Wall!

    CW – 9:00 PM: Yet another show on the CW catering to the younger generation with Privileged. The touching story of a nanny in charge of twin sisters who party harder than the Hilton sisters and Olsen Twins combined.

    WEDNESDAY

    FOX – 8:00 PM: The show is officially in the crapper when someone is found decaying in an outhouse on Bones.

    FOOD – 8:00 PM: Alton Brown takes to the seas saling through the Leeward Islands and on to the British Virgin Islands as he looks for America’s culinary origins and fine Caribbean cuising in Feasting on Waves. How does this guy keep getting Food Network to pay for his vacations?

    FOX – 9:30 PM: Do Not Disturb may be the name of the show or what you wish you had done instead of watching.

    THURSDAY

    There is plenty else on, but even 7 years after 9/11 I still remember the day vividly and I am thankful I am one of the few people I know that did not lose anyone on this tragic day in American history. As such I only wish, for this day, to recommend the following:

    HIST – 8:00 PM: Rick Rescorla, the director of security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, predicts the attack on the World Trade Center and leads 100’s out of the South Tower before dying in its collapse.

    HIST – 9:00 PM: 102 Minutes that Changed America – Films, photos and recordings from unique and rarely seen or heard archives chronicle the terrorist attack on New York City’s World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001.

    HIST – 10:41 PM: Witness to 9/11 – Interviews with individuals who provided video footage for 102 Minutes that Changes America.

    FRIDAY

    NICK – 8:00 PM: Christopher Meloni proved in both Harold & Kumar films that he has comedic chops. This gives me hope that his playing a coach that has to take a gangly kid from mathlete to athlete to fufill his own dream in Gym Teacher: The Movie will be more than a movie with a catchy title.

    USA – 9:00 PM: Monk is trapped acting as a 9 year old child after a hypnosis session goes bad. Same thing happened with my brother when he used hypnosis to try to quict smoking.

    FOX – 9:00 PM: Wayne Brady is back for another season of Don’t Forget the Lyrics!

    SATURDAY

    FX – 8:00 PM: The Wachowski Brothers wrote this film adaption of the Alan Moore comic V for Vendetta. I really enjoyed it, you might to.

    NBC – 11:29 PM: Sure he can swim like a dolphin, but can Michael Phelps bring home the gold on SNL tonight? My hopes are not high.

    SUNDAY

    FOX – 8:00 PM: FOX really wants you to watch Fringe. So much so that they are re-airing the season premiere tonight.

    TNT – 8:00 PM: Take in each of the Wilson brothers seperately starting with Owen in Wedding Crashers followed by Luke in Old School.

    IFC – 9:00 PM: Not a big fan of Wedding Crashers? You can still get your Owen Wilson on with the very quirky The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

    – Will WIlkins is the product of fringe science.