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OK so I admit I'm one of that 2.6 million billion how many viewers that the Neilson's say have been watching, well partly watching partly listening to while checking email and net surfing, "Stephen Spielberg Presents: TAKEN!" (For more info goto Scifi.com/taken) on the Sci-Fi Channel here in the States. I realize other nations have similar channels called "Stars Network" or "Planet Channel" or something else that is Science Fictioney (is that even a word?) that will probably never show it. So I'm not going to rant or rave on it here. I will however rant on what they (The Sci-Fi Channel) have been plugging more than that little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike. Those of you stateside DIN readers might know that I am talking about the upcoming series "Tremors: The Series" due to hit your TV screens sometime in early 2003. My main question about that is WHY? Wasn't three movies enough? The first movie was OK by it's self, It's got Kevin "Six Degrees" Bacon, and I believe it was Country Music Star Reba McEntire's Big Screen Debut (Don't hold me to that I might be wrong). I don't remember How the creatures appeared, they were either space creatures or some sort of Dinosaur type creature that was awakened by a nuclear blast or mutated from exposure to Radiation or something like that. Then they made a second movie without Mr. Bacon or Reba even though I think her character survived the first movie, and was played by another actress or replaced by a second wife and explained away. Ain't sequel plots like that handy, "OH she died of cancer a year before this movie takes place, yeah that's it..." Plus the second movie showed more of the mysterious creatures and showed their whole bodies and a version of them that flies. UGH! I don't even know what movie number three had but it went down hill from the end of number 2. And now they have the NERVE to make a series out of it. OK so some very successful movies have made it to the small screen successfully like The Odd Couple, M*A*S*H and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure OK so the Bill & Ted series flopped about as twice as fast as the Ferris Beuller series, and that my friends is where I predict that this Tremors series is going to go. Right down the toilet and into the sewers where the Swamp Thing will eat it up faster than a Taco Bell soft shell taco and a Mickey D's Double Cheese Quarter Pounder. To be seen no more, except at semi-annual "Tremor's" conventions in Las Vegas.

Why, Oh Why do TV networks feel the need to cash in on something that might just be a one shot deal?

Ah Well I guess I will never know the answer to that one. OH wait I think I do. The common denominator for all the movies and the series is Michael Gross (Family Ties) his character was McEntire's Survivalist Gun Happy Husband.

Thank You and See Ya! Next Week,

Kirk

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