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The WB Making a Comeback

You read the headline right, The Warner Brothers Television Group is bringing The WB back but in a much more hip and less expensive way. The network will be coming back exclusively to the internet. Warner plans to stream all of the Warner created shows that aired on The WB network within the 1995-2005 life of the television network. This includes a bunch of shows we could care less about such as Gilmore Girls and What I like About You. There’s been no word about shows that aired on the network that weren’t Warner created such as our beloved Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The network also plans to introduce new series to this new web iteration of the network. The new series will be short with each episode running around 5 minutes with 10 episodes planned. The site is tentatively wb.com. The network plans a beta test next month with a major rollout set for this fall. All of the shows will stream for free with the site being ad supported. 

We’ve been major advocates for internet TV here at Mania for a long time and couldn’t be more excited to see another major network jump in. With Warner Brothers launching wb.com and NBC’s Hulu.com now in beta the future looks exciting for this new medium. Head on over to www.mediaweek.com to read the full story.

So, there’s really not much happening this week as many shows have ended their run for the season. The obvious bright spot is LOST, a series that’s quite possibly on its best run of the three years it has been on. LOST is definitely my pick of the week. Jericho is also on a fantastic run and this week looks to be really exciting. It’s a must see with only a few episodes left. Reaper and Smallville both return for a short run this week too. I did watch New Amsterdam, Fox’s new series last week, but had way too much to cover to review it. Let me just say, it felt like a police detective procedural with a small fantasy twist. I also found it a bit too saccharine in it’s story of a man who must find his true love so he can die. If you’re interested, it new this week too.

Monday

NEW AMSTERDAM (FOX, 8PM EST) SOLDIER’S HEART

Skeptical of a confession by a homeless Gulf War veteran (Orlando Jones) who says he murdered a psychiatrist, Amsterdam probes the doctor's own research for clues about the killing.

Tuesday

JERICHO (CBS, 10PM EST) TERMINATION FOR CAUSE

Jake and the Rangers battle against Goetz (D.B. Sweeney) and Ravenwood, and one of the Rangers takes a drastic course of action. Major Edward Beck: Esai Morales. Kenchy: Aasif Mandvi.

Wednesday

GHOST HUNTERS (SCI FI, 9PM EST) TWO TO TANGO

The team probes the Burlington County Prison Museum, a historic jail in Mount Holly, N.J. Also: a Connecticut home is investigated regarding claims involving disembodied voices and objects that move of their own accord.

Thursday

SMALLVILLE (CW, 8PM EST) HERO

Former Smallville resident Pete Ross (Sam Jones III), now a roadie for the band OneRepublic, accidentally chews kryptonite-laced gum and gets superpowers. Clark and Chloe try to warn him about the effects, but Lex finds out and uses Pete for his nefarious schemes. Kara: Laura Vandervoort. Jimmy: Aaron Ashmore.

REAPER (CW, 9PM EST) HUNGRY FOR FAME

Sam tries to stop an untalented musician (Jamie Kennedy) from selling his soul to the Devil to become a star. Meanwhile, Sock is shocked when his mom (Marilyn Norry) returns from a quickie marriage in Vegas, and he refuses to accept her new husband (Henry Mah), so he moves in with Sam.

LOST (NBC, 9PM EST) JI YEON

Juliet is forced to reveal startling news to Jin when Sun threatens to go to Locke's camp; Sayid and Desmond begin to get an idea of the freighter crew's mission when they meet the ship's captain.

Friday

MOST HAUNTED (TRAVEL, 10PM EST) HEVER CASTLE

Hever Castle in Kent and its connection to King Henry the VIIIth and Anne Boleyn.

Saturday

JOHN CARPENTER’S GHOSTS OF MARS (SCIFI, 8PM EST)

The year is 2176: Mars has been terraformed into a nasty but habitable desert, and some 640,000 colonists — mostly miners — live in a matriarchal society where tough cookies like leather-clad top cop Helena Braddock (Pam Grier) run the show. The story opens in the capitol city of Chryse: Officer Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge) has been called before a tribunal to explain how she came to be the sole survivor of what should have been a routine mission to collect notorious killer James "Desolation" Williams (Ice Cube, in a role that would once have been played by Kurt Russell) from the local jail at Shining Valley mining outpost and bring him back for trial. Ballard was part of a team headed by Braddock; her teammates included high-strung rookie Bashira (Clea DuVall), relentless horn-dog Jericho (Jason Statham) and quiet but dependable Descanso (Liam Waite). But when they arrive at Shining Valley, the streets are deserted and the buildings crammed with headless corpses. They're tempted to blame Williams, but he's tightly locked up in a cell. Also among the inmates is Dr. Whitlock (Joanna Cassidy), who only arrived the previous night but seems to know more than she's telling about whatever swept through Shining Valley. The cops eventually discover that the killers are zombified miners, who've been taken over by the "ghosts" of Mars' indigenous population. They've been transformed into pasty-faced ghouls with monsters-of-metal wardrobes, scary body piercings and sharpened teeth — in fact, en masse they resemble a Marilyn Manson lookalike convention — who won't stop killing until every last human colonist is dead. And now they're outside the fortified police station, hell-bent on getting in.

Sunday

KING OF THE HILL (FOX, 8:30PM EST) BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

It’s not a new The Simpsons, but we will take what we can get.

A child is missing in Arlen, so an emergency community meeting is held. At the meeting, a relationship expert (voice of Ed Begley Jr.) embarrasses Peggy by questioning her parenting skills, and Peggy becomes hypervigilant about Bobby's and Hank's every move.