Miscellaneous TV News Trifecta
? Battlestar Galactica‘s Katee Sackhoff is voicing a Mandalorian in tonight’s episode of Clone Wars. The Mary Sue calls Sackhoff’s voice coming out of a Mandalorian helmet “pretty dang cool,” but I call it “someone’s long-awaited sexual fantasy.”
? NBC is making a Dracula show. It has nothing to do with Bram Stoker’s Dracula other than the title character. NBC is describing it as “”Dangerous Liaisons meets The Tudors” and as a big, sweeping international soap opera that is young, sexy and supernatural.” As someone who gets furious whenever Dracula isn’t portrayed as a bad guy, I may need you guys to provide an alibi when I blow up the pilot’s set. Er, if the pilot’s set happens to blow up. (Via Bloody Disgusting)
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? Sites keep posting this new pic of Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadow‘s movie (which is a movie based on a TV show, hence my sketchy, pitiful reasoning for including it here). He looks okay, which is to say better than before, when he was a White Walker and Edward Cullen’s love-child. So that’s the hard-hitting news, I guess. He looks marginally all right now. (Via Coming Soon)
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