Good cop and bad cop have left for the day. »

The Shield is back tonight.
It was more than a year ago when the show ended its fifth season with a heartbreaking finale that saw Lem – The Shield’s true moral center, voice of reason and most guilty conscience – murdered at the hands of Shane. Tonight we get to see the fallout of Lem’s death, [...]

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Please accept these updates of “old” content instead of actual instances of “new” or “interesting” content. »

Contrary to the belief of exactly no one who asked, Burbanked has not gone away, been placed on hiatus or put into turnaround. I have been a busy little fellow lately, and unfortunately my duties around here get back-burnered whenever that happens. In this past week of lazy non-blogging, however, several items that I’d mentioned [...]

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A nice little bit of *spoilery!* news for all fans of The Shield. »

Lurking as I occasionally do in the message board backwaters (you know, the ones that don’t hate me), I do find exciting little tidbits of news sometimes.
Yesterday, courtesy of eagle-eyed shieldforum.com poster JayB, we got news that The Shield, in a promotional agreement with Anheuser-Busch, will be offering Web-exclusive content in the form of [...]

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Check out a new promo for season six of The Shield. »

This aired a few nights ago during the season finale of Nip/Tuck and some infinitely more technically adapt fellow than I has uploaded it to YouTube.
It’s brief, it doesn’t show much, it’s a “teaser” in every sense of the word – but dang, if it isn’t creepy as hell, too! Take a look:

Of course [...]

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Mission: Hollywood – the smoke, the mirrors…and you. »

Hearing what we’re about to tell you may just shake your entire belief system to its core, but we feel that you’re mature and responsible enough to handle it, so here it goes:
Some things in Hollywood are not real. They’re, you know, fake.
Okay. Still with us? We apologize for throwing the harsh, bitter water of [...]

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Friday linktrash – one man’s recyclables are another blog’s content. »

Links are like a lot of things in life. You set them aside, make a big pile, walk by them every so often and think, “Gee, I should really do something about that…” So we’ve chosen the blogovironmentally-sensitive route: we’ll let you have the links to do with what you will. Now they’re your problem.
You’ve [...]

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The Shield will be back on FX through 2008. »

As some of you may remember, I am one very serious fan of the FX series The Shield, and wrote a spoiler-filled review** of this season’s shattering finale in March. And now, according to Variety, FX has ordered a seventh season of this amazing, Vic-tastic show before they call it quits.
It’s excellent news for a [...]

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