Category Archives: television

The Following may struggle to find one

January 25th, 2013 | Posted in Edgar Allan Poe, horror, television, thrillers

Whether you’re signing a lease agreement or a multi-million dollar service agreement for new software, contracts are a fact of life in any business. A contract review requires diligence and an eye for detail. Managing expectations, focusing on outcomes and getting the key information from vendors can also help achieve better outcomes in contract management. […]

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New Television Programs Draw Upon Prior Genre as Inspiration: Do No Harm and Bates Motel

January 6th, 2013 | Posted in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hitchcock, horror, television

Two new genre television series begin this year that draw upon older material for inspiration. One is Do No Harm, an NBC program that demonstrates our ongoing fascination with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde story. The Facebook page for the program provides this description: Dr. Jason Cole is a highly respected neurosurgeon who has […]

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Super Bowl XLVI Commercials of the Fantastic

February 5th, 2012 | Posted in fantasy, horror, television, Uncategorized

The intersection of the fantastic and popular culture was evident at the Super Bowl with the following commercials:

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Call For Papers – Mythic Characters and Places Made Real: TV and Film In Situ

December 26th, 2011 | Posted in call for papers, film, myths, television

CALL FOR PAPERS Mythic Characters and Places Made Real: TV and Film In Situ An area of multiple panels for the Film & History Conference on Film and Myth September 26-30, 2012 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA www.filmandhistory.org Deadline: June 1, 2012 Popular media increasingly are becoming the foundation for “non-mediated” experiences with local, material culture. Now, […]

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SyFy’s Face Off: Reality Show of the Fantastic

February 28th, 2011 | Posted in makeup artists, television

There aren’t a whole lot of reality shows that are of any interest to me. Our current fascination with pop culture voyeurism is troubling, particularly in regards to some of the reality shows (and their “stars”) that my teenagers find captivating. One recently came to my attention that is worth watching for fans of the […]

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Fantastic Super Bowl Commercials

February 7th, 2011 | Posted in fantasy, television

The Super Bowl for 2011 included a few good commercials. Two of them were fantastic, and by that I refer to the fact that they drew upon the genres of the fantastic, in these instances from fantasy. Here are the two standouts for TheoFantastique. First was a commercial for the Volkswagen Passat that featured a […]

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Mark Dawidziak and Reflections on Kolchack: The Night Stalker

February 8th, 2010 | Posted in 1970s, horror, television, The Night Stalker

One of the enjoyable memories of frights for monster kids of the 1970s was Carl Kolchak who filled the role of The Night Stalker. Each week he used his journalistic skills and savvy to research the paranormal and the monstrous. I was privileged to learn more about this great series through an interview with Mark […]

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Michael Karol: The ABC Movie of the Week

February 3rd, 2010 | Posted in 1970s, horror, science fiction, television

In my research on the fantastic I have come across a lot of good materials, and the individuals who bring these materials into being. Last year I came across Michael Karol and his book The ABC Movie of the Week Companion: A Loving Tribute to the Classic Series (IUniverse, 2008). Michael is an award-winning writer […]

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Caprica: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

January 26th, 2010 | Posted in Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, science fiction, television

Caprica, the new science fiction television series on the SyFy Channel, recently debuted, and it continues to generate positive commentary. The series is a prequel to the successful Battlestar Galactica series from the same network, a reworking of the campy 1970s series. Religion Dispatches assembled a group of scholars who shared their thoughts on Caprica […]

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Scott Poole: Satan in America

November 6th, 2009 | Posted in film, horror, Satan, television, W. Scott Poole

I first heard of W. Scott Poole through the Religion Dispatches website that involves scholars interacting with pop culture and religion. Scott wrote an article on Jennifer’s Body that I commented on here, and which attracted a lot of interest at the now defunct HorrorBlips. Scott is associate professor of history at the College of […]

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