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Also the sci-fi channel is showing ECW...

Which has pissed off a lot of people. I don't know what they are thinking, unless it was a decision made above their heads (which I'm thinking maybe the case - that it was an NBC/Universal decision rather than a Sci-Fi Channel decision).

I watched this Darkplace show last night. I was laughing so hard. It's a parody of all of the British horror shows, and they nailed it perfectly (I lived in English for quite some time and were exposed to many of them). Bad acting, bad sets, bad dialogue, continuity errors, etc.

Since the thread is going back and forth between TV/Films and print, I have to say, if people haven't picked up any of Harry Turtledove's alternate history books, they should, very interesting (make sure and go chronologically as far as the books are concerned - he spends a lot of time creating deep backgrounds for characters, and assumes you've read previous books in many cases). I would also throw out the Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars trilogy (and the companion book).

Not a lot of Sci-Fi writing has interested me of late, so I've found myself going back to stuff that was written when I was a kid but didn't read back then - Heinlein, etc.