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This Week in Geek

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  • CW is moving forward with casting for a Wonder Woman series. (EW)
  • Is Jonathan Hickman bringing the New Universe back to Marvel? (Bleeding Cool)
  • Who’s in the running to play Star Lord, the lead in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy? (Splash Page)
  • James McAvoy and Bendict Cumberbatch join a radio play of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. (io9)
  • It looks like Nick Fury won’t appear in Iron Man 3 but he will be in Captain America: The Winter Solider. (Splash Page)
  • Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are returning to the X-Men franchise in X-Men: Days of Future Past! (Splash Page)
  • Will Hugh Jackman be joining them? (Latino Review)
  • Charlize Theron is playing the lead in the U.S. remake of Chan-wook Park’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. (Latino Review)
  • Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, the team behind Safety Not Guaranteed, are working on a remake of Flight of the Navigator for Disney. (Latino Review)
  • Neil Patrick Harris has started a new web series called “Neil’s Puppet Dreams.”
  • Don Cheadle’s back as Captain Planet and he’s still a dick. (PostBourgie)
  • After Starz’s Spartacus ends, there might be a Julius Caesar spinoff (Vulture)
  • Cate Blanchett is going to play Cinderella’s evil stepmother in Mark Romanek’s live-action Disney remake. (io9)
  • Marvel Studios’ president Kevin Feige talks about a darker tone for Iron Man 3 (Screen Rant)
  • Zack Snyder talks about why he changed Superman’s costume for Man of Steel (amongst other things). (Comics Alliance)
  • For some ridiculous reason, Lenny Kravitz has been cast as Marvin Gaye in Julien Temple’s biopic. (Deadline)
  • The first official synopsis of Star Trek Into Darkness is released.  Still no idea who the villain is. (io9)
  • Sigh.  Looks like we’re going to have to wait a little longer for season three of Sherlock. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Sienna Guillory joins the cast of Luther for season three. (Screen Rant)
  • New trailers for Django Unchained and Freeloaders (Warning: NSFW)

Don’t Call Me During…: Midseason 2012 Edition

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The fall television season of 2011 will be remembered for Homeland. It was easily one of the best first season of a show I’ve watched from start to finish. I debated doing a post about my top ten TV shows of 2011 but got lazy. I couldn’t decide whether Homeland or Breaking Bad would take the top spot. I thought nothing could top the fourth season of Breaking Bad but some of Homeland’s individual episodes (particularly “The Weekend” and “The Vest”) are up there with the best episodes of the year (another post I was too lazy to write).

Ultimately, my top ten TV shows of 2011 without any elaboration are:

  1. Breaking Bad
  2. Homeland
  3. Louie
  4. Parks and Recreation
  5. Justified
  6. Game of Thrones
  7. Community
  8. Boardwalk Empire
  9. Sons of Anarchy
  10. Parenthood
Now that I’ve gotten that out-of-the-way, let’s talk about what shows could contend for a spot on the best television shows of 2012.  Since I don’t watch these shows live, there’s no sense in listing it by time. New series are in bold.

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