Yes!

SCI FI Channel has given a green light to Warehouse 13, a two-hour pilot it describes as part The X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting.

So they hang around the warehouse bickering and emanating sexual tension, then have sex and the show goes all to hell?

Reaper: The CW has ordered new scripts for the show.

I just finished this week's Bionic Woman. Eh. No excitement there, but interesting enough. I did like them giving her an excuse for busting out a British accent. Though her American accent is generically sufficient to my ear. My ear is kinda broken.

Journeyman: I'm not sure where I fall in the "tell your brother" camp. I can see them playing the brother cranky enough that maintaining the secret provides some low-grade tension. I do not want them, however, to go anywhere with achey breaky relationship-in-jeopardy stuff.

Random Pushing Daisies note: I'm still on board with the twee (especially with Emerson and Lily to undercut it with sour words and dyspeptic expressions), and I just realized why I've been hovering over this thread all day -- I'm waiting for Jilli. Someone really needs to get on setting up a Jilli-watches-PD-cam so we can have a watch and post of her watch and post.

Someone over at TwoP brought up something I didn't realize about PD: it's just as fun to watch even if you catch the story in mid-stream. Most of my shows, if I come in at the end, I have only mild interest in seeing the earlier parts. Last night I saw from when Lefty got to the windmill, enjoyed every minute, and then went back to watch from the start with undiminished enjoyment.

As a rule, I am not a fan of the twee, yet it works for me on PD because underneath all the shiny candy-coated exterior, this show is freakin' DARK. I mean, Ned saw his mother die *twice*, killed his sweetheart's father, had his own father abandon him, and is basically in love with a dead woman. The deaths are pretty gruesome (I mean, mauled by a rottweiler to death? Yikes.) The protagonist, with whom we're supposed to sympathize, willingly lets another person die, knowing the consequences of his actions. The premise consists of our gang reaping the benefit off dead people. Then there are the aunts with their crippling agoraphobia. If this story was told straight, it'd make me want to put my head into an oven.

And yet, the mesh of the creepily weird/weirdly creepy and the oversaturated fairy-tale look and feel of the show is perfect in some mysterious way. I mean, obviously it's not perfect for everybody because I have a lot of fannish friends who ran screaming to the other direction after 15 minutes of the pilot and never looked back, but it's perfect *for me* and a big proportion of the Buffistas and, (surprise of surprises) a lot of viewing public. I'm still trying to get over that last part.

The Devil's insistence that Andie not be involved reinforces a theory I have... in I think the second episode, where Sam ends up working in the garden section and Andie's there? They came back to The Devil for the end scene, and he stuck a flower in his lapel. The same type of flower that Andie was just working with/standing in front of. I think she's involved somehow more than just "love interest".

I agree. My unspoiled speculation is that her late father will turn out to be one of the souls that Sam will have to catch.

My unspoiled speculation is that her late father will turn out to be one of the souls that Sam will have to catch.

If that's all it is, I will be pissed. I want a bigger payoff.

As a rule, I am not a fan of the twee, yet it works for me on PD because underneath all the shiny candy-coated exterior, this show is freakin' DARK

see, I think that's why I like it as well. Thanks for articulating!