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TOP TV OF 2009: WHAT’S THE BEST SCRIPTED TELEVISION SERIES OF THE YEAR?
E! Online’s best of 2009 poll continues today with your chance to name this year’s best scripted TV series. Good luck choosing just one!
Your choices range from beloved newcomers like Glee and Modern Family to old favorites like Lost and Grey’s Anatomy, and from edgy material like True Blood and Sons of Anarchy to high-society shows like Gossip Girl and Mad Men.
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LOST WRITER GEARS UP FOR AN APOCALYPTIC MYSTERY
Lost‘s mysteries may be winding up, but at least one of the show’s alums is whipping up a fresh batch of twisty science fiction mysteries. Upcoming film The Panopticon features the apocalypse, a predestination paradox, and an ambiguous hero.
Variety reports that Lionsgate is moving forward with The Panopticon, a spec script by Lost story editor Craig Rosenberg, who also penned the American version of the South Korean psychological horror film The Uninvited. Lionsgate has tapped The Haunting in Connecticut‘s Peter Cornwell to direct.
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5 REASONS ‘VAMPIRE DIARIES’ IS BETTER THAN TWILIGHT
Listen up, Twi-hards! “Twilight” may get all the headlines (“New Moon” Crosses $200 Mil Mark!” “Kristen Stewart: ‘I’m So Not Bella!'”). But “The Vampire Diaries”, also a tale of the deadly undead, has quietly built a loyal following, first as a series of young-adult novels and now as a CW TV series.
The two may seem the same — both are high-school-set dramas about a young mortal girl in love with a brooding vampire guy — but “The Vampire Diaries” is no “Twilight” wannabe.
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Hands down my two top choices for best scripted television show are True Blood and Dexter. Alan Ball has whipped Charlaine Harris’s novels into a Must See TV Sunday Event. Between the quick-witted dialogue and amazing cast that delivers it, True Blood hails supreme. Now comes Dexter. What can I say, the Season Finale was PERFECT. Just when you think the writers have exhausted every twisty plot tie-in between the characters that could be made, BAM, they write in more and it works beautifully and it’s quite thought provoking. What are your favorite scripted television shows?
If ‘Panopticon’ is anything even remotely mysterious and confusing as ‘Lost’ I will surely find the film worthwhile. So many movie plots are easily figured out way before the credits roll. There hasn’t been anything close to shocking the audience with a surprise since ‘The Sixth Sense’. I can’t wait to see how Panopticon turns out. What are your thoughts?
I have to agree that ‘The Vampire Diaries’ is so much better than Twilight. (Shields face from rotten tomatoes thrown at me from Twi-Fans). It’s no secret I’m not a Twi fan. I could write my own book on the why’s and wherefore’s but that should be saved for an OBS Speak Out Article, so I refrain from stating why here. I admit it did take me a while to warm up to ‘The Vampire Diaries’ at first, but it has wholeheartedly sucked me in. It doesn’t have the damsel in distress and I-can’t-live-without-you sappiness that the Twilight Saga exudes and superficially, the Salvatore brothers are tastier eye-candy. Isn’t that enough? Do you think The Vampire Diaries trumps Twilight?
