Ryan Kwanten’s a Hollywood star

Ryan Kwanten has impressed Hollywood bosses with his part on True Blood.

The former soap star, who plays Jason Stackhouse in the US vampire drama, has received lavish praise from the show’s creator Alan Ball.

“One of the things I really appreciated about Ryan is his willingness to look foolish,” Alan told the Australian Herald Sun.

“Jason is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and a lot of actors might need to wink at the camera to let the audience know that, ‘I’m not really this stupid’.”

As Jason, Ryan – who played hunky lifeguard Vinnie Patterson in Home And Away until 2002 – has to take his clothes off to play slow-witted ladies’ man Jason.

“Ryan is smart and talented and skilled and he makes it (Jason) look effortless, but he’s really nothing like Jason in real life,” Alan added.

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MILLENNIUM – Time is Wasting Away

MILLENNIUM is the series that follows the investigation of an ex FBI Special Agent, Frank Black, into serial murders which often involved with paranormal & supernatural occurrences.

Produced & broadcasted by FOX Network as an American thriller-horror-drama it ran for 3 full seasons with 67 episodes. It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia & around Seattle, Washington. It seemed to be borderline Sci-Fi & Investigative Drama. Premiered 1996 – 1999.

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Woot, yay Ryan. He is adorable and he plays stupid very well. I’m glad he got his own star. I think he deserves it. What do you think?

I never saw Millenium. Are you a fan? Was it a good series?

Learn Sign Language from Sanctuary’s Creature from the Black Lagoon

Bigfoot, a werewolf, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon walk into an episode of Sanctuary, and what do they do? Mostly, they trade sign language, perform mundane medical procedures, and wait for the episode’s true villain to emerge.

I’m not sure what I could have hoped for from this classic monster match-up — certainly not a cage match, but maybe abnormals playing poker? Alas, Sanctuary has not time for such frivolities. Our rubber-suited movie monster is Jack, a creature called a Plesky who has been living in captivity with werewolf Henry’s pal Rachel. Rachel has been socializing Jack and teaching him sign language; he’s basically like Koko the gorilla if Koko occasionally shot out deadly spores. Yes, Jack has shot his deadly, deadly spores into Rachel, who will die if Magnus and her team can’t find a cure.

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We review the 2009 sci-fi pilots you’ll never see

Just before every fall TV season begins, the excitement of new possibilities swirls through the air as we anticipate what new shows are in our future. That excitement fades once we realize that only a couple of shows are actually worthy and is dashed once we see promising shows like Eastwick and Dollhouse killed off.

So now that the cancellations have begun, let’s take a look at the season that might have been. Here are four pilots the networks passed on, with our take on whether they missed an opportunity to unleash something great (or even just mildly entertaining) on viewers:

Back, CBS
Boldy Going Nowhere, Fox
Captain Cook’s Extraordinary Atlas, ABC
No Heroics, ABC

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12 Sci-Fi Shows That Were Canceled Too Soon

Joss Whedon has become something of a tortured artist since ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ ended its highly successful seven-season run in 2003. Since Sunnydale was destroyed and ‘Angel’ got pulled right when it was finding its own identity post-’Buffy,’ Whedon has yet to find another long-running hit. It’s still hard to believe that a show as great as ‘Firefly’ only lasted one season!

Whedon’s bad luck continues with the recent announcement that Fox is pulling the plug on ‘Dollhouse,’ a series that had enough of a following — and potential — to warrant another season. Would ‘Dollhouse’ have really hit its stride further down the road? We’ll never know. Here are some other sci-fi television series that met their makers too soon.

‘Angel’
‘Bionic Woman’
‘Birds of Prey’
‘Brimstone’
‘Firefly’
‘Invasion’
‘Jericho’
‘The Lone Gunmen’
‘Millennium’
‘Star Trek: TOS’
‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’
‘Tru Calling’

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Some of the Sci-Fi Pilots – it’s a shame we won’t ever see them. A few of them don’t sound that bad.

As for the shows that were canceled too soon, I at least agree with Angel, Firefly, Bionic Woman and Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Which pilots do you think would have been good shows?

And which of the canceled shows were your faves?