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This coming Friday night, on April 11th, MSNBC will be premiering the new documentary Meeting David Wilson. It was written and directed by David A. Wilson, a black journalist from New Jersey who took time off from his career to research his family’s history. His quest eventually led him to the plantation in Caswell County, North Carolina where his great-great grandfather was once a slave before the Civil War.

And then David A. Wilson of Newark, New Jersey wound up meeting David B. Wilson of nearby Reidsville, whose great-great grandfather had owned David A. Wilson’s ancestor.

The film is already getting rave reviews. I’ll certainly be tuning in because I’ve known Reidsville’s David Wilson for a long time. He owns Short Sugars Drive-In in Reidsville, a place famous across the country for its barbecue (and where we shot the final scene of Forcery a few years ago).

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Basic cable television network Spike – formerly known as “Spike TV”, formerly known as “The New TNN”, formerly known as “The National Network”, formerly known as “TNN”, formerly known as “The Nashville Network” a Gaylord Production from Opryland USA, “That’s all!” (five hundred points to whoever can tell what that’s a reference to) – starts running ALL SIX MOVIES of the Star Wars saga, in their proper chronological order, beginning tonight at 8 p.m. EST/7 Central with Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Then tomorrow night at the same time will be Episode II: Attack of the Clones followed Sunday night with the world broadcast premiere of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and fittingly the cycle repeats next weekend with Episode IV: A New Hope, then Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and finally Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Premium channels like HBO have ...

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For Christmas I got Lisa a Nintendo Wii. Had to camp out all night during cold rain in front of a GameStop store the week before to get it (this was when they had the vouchers thing going, and I wound up getting a Wii for Lisa and a Wii voucher for my sister, who got hers a little over a week after Christmas … am I a great husband/brother or what? šŸ™‚

Along with the Wii I bought a card worth 2000 Wii Points, to spend on extra games or whatever through Nintendo’s online store for the Wii. And until now we hadn’t used it at all (guess we’ve been having too much fun with everything else on the Wii). So yesterday I loaded up the points and “went shopping”, and even though it cost 500 points I thought it would be neat to have the Internet Channel installed. ...

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Last week on Lost, Sayid and Desmond were still on the freighter and the captain made it clear that their mission was to capture Benjamin Linus. Then while being taken to new quarters they were introduced to the ship’s janitor: “Kevin Johnson”.

It was Michael (Harold Perrineau).

When we last saw Michael, it was the finale of Season 2 and he was in a small boat along with his son Walt headed on a compass bearing of 325 away from the Island, after making a traitorous deal with the Others. Linus told Michael that they would soon find rescue.

Now one month later in story time (though what we know of time on the Island now, that doesn’t really mean anything), Michael is back.

Speculation has been rampant for months about “Meet Kevin Johnson”, tonight’s episode and the last completed before the writer’s strike. The cast list alone already ...

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Lost has come completely unhinged. I mean that in a good way.

Two weeks ago we got “The Constant”, which many regard as the finest episode of the entire series to date. One guy I know swears he watched that one at least 20 times already. Some people said that last week’s “The Other Woman” wasn’t quite up to snuff with how incredible the rest of Season 4 has been, but coming right on the heels of “The Constant” that was a forgivably tall bar to try to surmount.

And tonight we get “Ji Yeon”, which was a Sun and Jin episode. Which I’ve always enjoyed immensely. Except right now, right after this episode, I’m still trying to figure out what the heck it was that we just saw.

Good Lord… this is going to be a crazier mind-mush to figure out than “Through the Looking Glass” was.

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So how does the prospect of being in a television commercial that will be broadcast all across the state of North Carolina sound to you? How would you like to earn money from the gig? Well, have we got something for you!

As of tonight I’m putting the word out via this blog and a few other places that we are making a wide-spread casting call. There is a very cool project that the KWerky Productions/Knight Vision Media staff is working on right now.

And for it we need actors and actresses of all ages and all physical types. We especially need young children, from ages 5 to 12-ish, who have a bit of patience and aren’t easily intimidated especially by loud noises. Good screamers are particularly needed. The child actors will be compensated also for their time.

Interested? Then you need to send me an e-mail at kwerkyproductions@gmail.com and ...

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It was 40 years ago tonight, on February 4th 1968, that the British network ITC broadcast “Fall Out”, the psychedelic final episode of its popular series The Prisoner.

To this day, “Fall Out” is considered the most controversial and outright bizarre series finale of a television show ever produced. The episode literally broke ITC’s phone system after it was overwhelmed with calls from confused viewers. The Prisoner creator and star Patrick McGoohan had to go into hiding for several weeks after the episode’s airing because people kept coming to his house to demand that he explain it to them.


Even forty years later, “Fall Out” is no less startling. The entire episode is indulged – perhaps too indulged – in visual allegory and auditory assault. Taken literally, there’s not much in “Fall Out” that makes much sense (along with pretty much every other episode of The Prisoner). ...

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Excellent episode!

Who would have thought that Jacob lives in a mobile home? šŸ˜›

Seriously though, it built extremely well on where things left off with “Through the Looking Glass”. This story is moving along at a very nice pace toward what looks to be rather forbidding territory.

Creepiest line of the show: “Are they still alive?”

I’m gonna have to watch this again, ‘cuz there was so much to absorb.

EDIT 10:18 p.m. EST: Oh yeah, here’s the John Locke music video from last night set to Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”…

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In the Season 3 finale of Lost, ABC’s hit show about the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, something loomed for the castaways that never, ever happened with Gilligan’s Island: the promise of real rescue.

But as everyone who watched the mind-blowing “Through the Looking Glass” knows by now, that may not necessarily turn out to be a good thing.

Eight months later, and the Lost Season 3 finale is still one that has folks reeling in disbelief.

And now, tonight, Lost is back.

Season 4 kicks off with “The Beginning of the End”, which is said to be a Hurley-centric episode (so the season premieres in their order have gone pilot episode, Jack, Jack… now Hurley?! Ooh-kay…).

This is the first of eight episodes that were finished before the Writers Guild of America strike. From here on until Lost‘s sixth and final season, there are supposed ...

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