Starz and Ubisoft are teaming up on the “Spartacus Gear of Legends” contest, calling on fans of the Spartacus TV series to design items that could be used in the Spartacus® Legends video game. The Spartacus Legends game will be arriving in 2013 and the contest presents fans with the opportunity to submit an item and vote on the best designs. Spartacus star Liam McIntyre and series creator Steven DeKnight will also have a say in choosing the winning designs.
The Details:
Held on the Spartacus Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/spartacus.starz/), the Spartacus Gear of Legends contest will open in two separate phases—one for weapon submissions and another for armor submissions. Gamers and fans will be able to submit designs that will be voted on by the community. One winning design will be chosen from each category and be integrated into the upcoming fighting game.
Per the Facebook page: “Set hands to purpose and create weapons worthy of Spartacus himself. In this task, your options are plentiful. Single sword, twin swords, hooked swords, sword and shield, trident, daggers or hammers.”
Phase one (the weapons phase) ends on October 26, 2012.
The Armor design phase opens on October 26 and closes on November 16, 2012.
The Game:
Developed in collaboration with the critically acclaimed television series from STARZ, Spartacus Legends invites you to take the role of the Lanista and own your very own stable of elite gladiators. Follow your gladiators’ journey from training to arena and watch as they strive to reach legendary fame—or meet death at the hands of another. Experience raw, visceral combat using multiple fighting styles and thousands of weapon combinations. Then compete with friends either offline and online to see if you have what it takes to conquer the arena once and for all.
Spartacus: War of the Damned Plot:
The upcoming final season takes place following the defeat of Roman commander Gaius Claudius Glaber. Spartacus and his men have amassed major victories against the Romans after the Battle of Vesuvius. These victories have not only forged the legend of Spartacus, but have greatly increased the ranks of the rebellion slaves to more than 30,000. Rome is indeed beginning to tremble at the threat Spartacus now represents.
Source: Starz and Ubisoft
—Posted by Rebecca Murray
Spartacus Contest – Design Gladiator Gear to Win
Celebs Recall Ghostly Encounters in The Haunting Of
Bio Channel’s debuting another ghost series with The Haunting Of premiering on October 27, 2012 at 10pm ET/PT. Medium Kim Russo is hosting the show which features celebrities talking about their paranormal experiences. Among the celebs participating in season one are Regis Philbin, Eric Mabius, Beverly Mitchell, Connie Stevens, Kelly Carlson, Gina Gershon, and Chazz Palminteri.
Per Bio, the one hour episodes will find the celebs returning to the locations where they had their encounters with something otherworldly.
The Plot:
During the precarious journey, Kim Russo will unlock the secrets that haunted each celebrity on that fateful day and explain the unexplained. Throughout the journey, Kim will also unveil shocking psychic moments and surprising personal revelations as she tunes into the celebrities’ personal lives and connects with their loved one’s who have crossed over.
Each episode will feature a different celebrity. Stories include: Eric Mabius who returns to his childhood home to confront the ghost he saw when he was child. Together with Kim Russo, they uncover secrets from the past. Regis Philbin and Kim return to the Whaley House, one of the most haunted places in America, to find out why a ghost appeared to him and why she left so suddenly. Michael Rapaport and a long-time friend revisit his former high school in Brooklyn where late students once haunted them. Kim communicates with the spirits at the school to relay answers to Michael’s questions. Beverly Mitchell goes back to the notoriously haunted Pennhurst Asylum where she once shot a film and was harassed by spirits. She and Kim confront the same entities and figure out why she was targeted.
Source: Bio Channel
—Posted by Rebecca Murray
Ashley and JP from The Bachelorette Wedding Details
ABC will air the wedding of JP Rosenbaum and Ashley Hebert this December in the special broadcast of The Bachelorette: Ashley and J.P.’s Wedding with Chris Harrison as host. The couple got engaged in August 2010 at the end of Ashley’s The Bachelorette season and are just the second Bachelorette couple to ever actually get married.
The wedding special will include behind-the-scenes video of Ashley getting fit for her custom-made gown as well as the couple’s visits to a wedding planner. The Bachelorette: Ashley and J.P.’s Wedding will also include footage of their bachelor and bachelorette parties leading up to the actually wedding.
Among the celebs on the guest list are past Bachelor and Bachelorette couples and participants.
Details on Ashley and J.P. [Courtesy of ABC]:
“Ashley and J.P.’s love story has come full circle at last. Ashley began by being one of the favorites to capture Brad Womack’s heart on the 15th edition of The Bachelor in early 2010 and narrowly missing her goal of finding a future husband. She got her second opportunity to find love on the seventh edition of The Bachelorette, after determining to find balance between her career and personal life. However, her search for ‘Mr. Right’ had to survive a shocking and emotionally taxing journey. Initially Ashley’s own sister even had her doubts about J.P., but all was quickly forgiven. Finally, Ashley got her fairytale happy ending as she gave J.P. her final rose and he proposed. Since then they have been inseparable. Ashley, 28, graduated from dental school at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently completing a specialty in pediatric dentistry at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. J.P., 35, continues as a successful construction manager in New York City. Now they’re really ready to begin their life as man and wife and to have a family of their own.”
Source: ABC
‘The Walking Dead’ Cast Prove They Are Really Wimps
The cast of The Walking Dead hit the red carpet for the show’s season three premiere at Universal Studios Hollywood, and then those who were brave enough made their way through the Halloween Horror Nights “The Walking Dead: Dead Inside” maze. But, apparently, by the looks of this video, battling zombies on a weekly TV series didn’t prepare the cast of The Walking Dead for actually coming face-to-face with ‘zombies.’
“The Walking Dead: Dead Inside” maze was created using molds from the original props from the show and includes zombies Walking Dead fans will recognize from the series. Even the barn where the cast spent much of season two wound up in this year’s maze.
The Walking Dead‘s Laurie Holden (‘Andrea’) made it through the maze and then claimed it was even “scarier than the show!”
Cops Ready to Patrol Again in December
Fox has set a December 15, 2012 premiere date for the 25th season of the reality series, Cops. The first episode of season 25 kicks off by following cops in Toledo, Ohio, Sacramento, California; and Portland, Oregon. Episode two, titled “Ho Ho Ho!,” will focus on Portland, Alameda County, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada police officers. In addition, the upcoming season will include law enforcement officers from Kansas City, Florida, New Jersey, and Virginia. The show even returns to Broward County, Florida, where the very first episode was filmed.
And while other shows get excited about their 100th episodes, Cops will be celebrating their 850th episode in February 2013.
The Plot:
For nearly a quarter-century, Cops has followed law enforcement agencies in more than 140 U.S. cities and has filmed in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. It was the first American television program to follow police in the former Soviet Union. A true pioneer of the reality television phenomenon, creator and executive producer John Langley is often credited with introducing the signature “video vérite” style of Cops, a camera technique that notably influenced TV advertising, news reporting and other network and syndicated programming.
Source: Fox
—Posted by Rebecca Murray
Phillip Phillips Album Coming in November
The majority of the tracks were written or co-written by Phillips, with his brother-in-law Ben Neil helping out on the guitar on a few songs.
Phillips’ first single, “Home,” debuted the day he was named AI season 11 winner. “Home” set a new record for an Idol winner’s “coronation song” by racking up over 278,000 downloads.
More on Phillip Phillips [Courtesy of Interscope Records]:
“Phillips first began making music when he was 14, thanks largely to his older sister’s boyfriend (and now husband), Ben Neil, who taught him how to play guitar. Phillips kept on studying guitar on his own (‘mostly by playing along to the karaoke machine’) and soon found himself mastering riffs from classic-rock tracks like Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ and Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Crazy Train.’ Several years later, Phillips formed an acoustic band with his sister and brother-in-law and added singing to his repertoire. After graduating high school, Phillips began studying industrial systems technology at Albany Technical College in Georgia and continued playing music with his brother-in-law. With encouragement from his family and friends, Phillips took a break from working in his family’s pawn shop and auditioned for American Idol in summer 2011–and soon found himself tearing through powerful, full-throated performances of songs by artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, and Wilson Pickett on the Idol stage.”
Source: Interscope Records
—Posted by Rebecca Murray
American Idol Audition News
The Details:
– A song must be performed a cappella
– One video per person
– You must be 15-28 (on June 5, 2012) and a legal US citizen or a permanent U.S. resident who is eligible to work full-time in the United States
Submit your video to www.americanidol.com and visit that official site for the full list of rules and regs.
Season 12 of American Idol debuts in January 2013 with Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj, and Randy Jackson judging contestants.
Source: Fox
—Posted by Rebecca Murray
Defiance Debuts a New Trailer
Syfy’s just released a 30 second new teaser clip from their 2013 series, Defiance, starring Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, and Graham Greene. The series breaks new ground by being the first-ever “convergence of television and Massive Multiplayer Online gaming,” with storylines that will connect the game and the TV series.
The Plot:
Set in the near future, Defiance introduces an exotically transformed planet Earth, its landscapes permanently altered following the sudden – and tumultuous – arrival of seven unique alien races. In this somewhat unknown and unpredictable landscape, the richly diverse, newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully. Each week, viewers will follow an immersive character drama set in the boom-town of Defiance, which sits atop the ruins of St. Louis, MO, while in the game, players will adventure in the new frontier of the San Francisco Bay area. The dramatic tapestry of the series and the intense action of the game will exist in a single universe where their respective narratives will inform one another and evolve together into one overall story.
Watch the trailer:
Source: Syfy
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 3 Premiere Recap and Review
“Weapons, food, medicine, this place could be a gold mine,” says Rick (Andrew Lincoln) to his band of survivors after discovering a semi-abandoned prison in the very first episode of Season 3 of AMC’s cable channel hit horror series The Walking Dead.
Rick, Lori, Glenn, and the other survivors have managed to make it through winter by going house to house and eliminating the few “walkers” who might be occupying the buildings. However, as the audience sees in the first few minutes of the episode, the army of zombies that chased them off Hershel’s farm at the end of season 2 is still wandering the area and pursuing any possible food – including them. This keeps the group constantly moving and never able to stay in any shelter for very long.
While Rick and Daryl (Norman Reedus) are hunting for some food they come across a prison that seems to be abandoned, except for the walking dead roaming the grounds. Rick and the others decide to clear out the “walkers” and make the prison their new safe house which seems ideal, especially with Lori’s baby due in a few weeks.
Meanwhile, Andrea (Laurie Holden) has teamed up with a new character, a sword-wielding survivor named Michonne (Danai Gurira) who saved her in the forest from some very hungry zombies at the end of Season 2. A strong friendship and bond seems to have developed between these two women, which becomes clear when Michonne delays leaving the immediate area.
Their hiding place has been increasingly invaded by hungry flesh-eaters, and unfortunately, Andrea is still too sick to travel. However, she insists they leave now while they still have time to slip away unnoticed by the “Walkers.”
The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 1 Recap
“Seed” brings the horror series back to the small screen in action-packed, zombie-slaying carnage that almost equals the finale of Season 2. The execution of the zombies outside the prison and on the grounds is very well planned and handled by Rick, Daryl, Glenn, and the other survivors. Once inside the prison, a handful of the survivors go searching the different dark cell blocks not knowing how many flesh-eaters might be lurking around the next dark, damp corner. It’s both suspenseful and terrifying and reminiscent for anyone who’s ever gone through a haunted house near Halloween for a thrill.
The production design for this series is still excellent, with all kinds of different zombies roaming the woods, houses, and a prison. A truly original scene in the episode is during the second fight as they’re moving deeper into the prison. Rick and his group come across some “walkers” in riot gear, making it incredibly hard to destroy them. The prison, which promises to be the location for some of the drama for at least the first half of Season 3, is extremely well-designed and looks about as real as any prison in a big-screen Hollywood film.
With a baby on the way and zombies lurking and roaming in different parts of the prison, as well as a member of Rick’s survivors attacked by a hungry, ugly flesh-eater (no, it will not be revealed here who it was), Season 3 is looking to be a truly scary, dark, engrossing and perhaps the best season yet of this apocalyptic series.
GRADE: B
‘SNL’ Takes on Action Heroes
What do Liam Neeson, Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Uma Thurman, and Steven Seagal have in common? They’re all spoofed in this skit from the October 13, 2012 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Christina Applegate.
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