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The Chronicle, Sci-Fi Channel
IMDb; TV Tome
Based on a series of books called "News From the Edge," which I've never read but would like to someday. There's this tabloid called the World Chronicle, which reports all kinds of strange, supernatural and paranormal kinda stuff, aliens and monsters and ghosts and whatnot. Which is all quite real, though most people don't believe in it. This new reporter named Tucker doesn't believe at first, but he soon has to. And he's partnered with this photographer named Wes. And there's another reporter at the Chronicle, Grace (who we like), who was abducted by aliens before. And there's this pig-guy named Sal (a former subject of one of the paper's stories) who like does research and stuff. And the editor, Donald... has a bit of a mysterious past... And um, Tucker has a girlfriend who is a reporter for a more respectable paper or whatever, who doesn't believe in all this supernatural stuff... Anyway, it's a cool and funny and strange show. And then it got cancelled, leaving it on a cliffhanger which may never be resolved, which completely sucks. Grace has retreated to the past with some guy from the future who's like in the witness protection program or something... Meanwhile, some cop or whatever wants to shut down the Chronicle and put Donald in jail. So... I dunno what else to say.... except that the show was created by Silvio Horta, which I basically mention just because I like the guy's name.
Forever Knight, CBS/USA
IMDb; Sony Pictures; TV Tome
Reruns on Sci-Fi Channel, sometimes.
This was originally a TV movie called Nick Knight (IMDb). Later it was made into a series and the first couple eps were actually a remake of the movie, with mostly new actors. A Canadian show which first came to the U.S. as part of CBS's Crimetime After Primetime, easily the best series to come out of the lineup; it later moved to USA network, which I guess produced at least one season, at the end. Anyway, Nick Knight is a detective in the Toronto police department; he's also a vampire who is searching for a way to regain his humanity. Nick's first partner, Schanke, doesn't know Nick is a vampire or anything like that. (Nick got a new partner when the show moved to USA network, but I haven't really seen any of that yet.) The only human who knows the truth about him is a doctor named Natalie (who we like). She's like a coroner or pathologist or whatever, and tries to help him with the whole regaining humanity thing. There is also a vampire named Janette (who we like), who's an old friend of Nick's, and runs a nightclub for their kind; she doesn't really get the whole wanting to regain humanity thing. Um, but there's also this vampire named LaCroix, who brought Nicholas across centuries ago (made him a vampire), with whom Nick and Janette used to travel and stuff. LaCroix shows up once in awhile to make trouble. He wants Nick to give up this silly quest to become less than what he is. And Nick is always remembering stuff that happened to him in the past, which somehow relates to whatever case he's working on in the present. Anyway... it was a pretty good show I guess... Dunno what else to say at the moment....
Reruns on Court TV.
About a branch of the FBI, the Violent Crimes Task Force. Anyway, for most of the series the lead character was Samantha Waters, who we very much like. Very beautiful woman, such soulful eyes... she always looked so sort of sad, but still.... Anyway, I think this show barely qualifies to be in the paranormal category, but Sam had a psychic talent for getting flashes of things that had happened around places or things. I can't really explain. She was a profiler for the VCTF, and worked with some other folks there to solve murders. There was one nut who they called Jack of All Trades, who had killed Sam's husband and seemed to think he was in love with her or something. I dunno. He killed alot of people, major recurring villain who they tried for a long time to catch. Later on Sam left the show and was replaced by another profiler with a similar gift. But I didn't like her as much (though she was also quite attractive), and never really watched her episodes. In fact I missed a great many of of Sam's eps, as well. But still, a pretty decent show.
Special Unit 2, UPN
IMDb; TV Tome
There's this secret police unit in Chicago that hunts paranormal creatures called "links" and either captures and locks them up, or kills them. Although some links seem to work with SU2, including Carl the Gnome, a thief who is free basically because of the help he lends to the good guys, providing them information and whatnot. But the two main characters are detectives Nick O'Malley and Kate Benson. Anyway, it's a cool and funny show, lasted a couple seasons. Dunno what else to say.
Supernatural, WB / CW, Thursdays 9pm
CW; IMDb; TV.com; TWoP; Warner Bros.; WB; Wikipedia
Okay, there was this couple, John and Mary Winchester, and they had two young sons, Dean and Sam. One night, some sort of evil forces killed Mary, and since then, John has been searching for them. In the course of his search, he and his sons encountered plenty of supernatural things, and did whatever they could to put a stop to whatever evil things they were doing, I guess. I dunno, we never got to see any of that. Cuz right after Mary dies, the show skips forward to Sam, all grown up, finishing up college, and preparing to enter law school. However, Dean (who never stopped working with their father) shows up and asks for his help in finding their father, who left a message, but has disappeared. Sam wants no more part of that old life, but he agrees to help this one last time. They don't find their father, but they do get rid of a spirit that had been killing people, and find another clue about their father's whereabouts. Sam goes back to school, but it seems the same evil forces that killed his mother all those years ago, now killed his girlfriend, Jessica. So he leaves again with Dean, to look for their father, and along the way, y'know, do the same sort of stuff the three of them did while the boys were growing up...
Anyway, the show's pretty cool. It kinda reminds me of a more grown-up version of So Weird (see juvenile fantasy & sci-fi). But then it probably reminds me of alot of supernatural type shows, even some cartoons. Which is a good thing, in my book. Not sure what else to say right now....