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by Rick Norwood
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May also sees season finales of The Vampire Diaries, Fringe,
Once Upon a Time, Grimm, and Supernatural.
SF on TV in May 2012
The season finales of Touch and Game of Thrones air in June, after
just 13 episodes of Touch and ten of Game of Thrones. Fringe has been
renewed for a short 13 episode fifth and final season. The 13 episode season, with every episode
shown three or four times, may become the new standard. If viewers are content to watch the same
shows over and over, why spend the money to make more? True Blood will begin a 12 episode series in June.
SyFy has decided not to make a television series out of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome,
but will air the pilot and may follow up with a direct to web series.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. Visit his web site at comicsrevue.com. |
Best bet for genre tv in May is the second season of Sherlock, which aired in
the UK in January. All three episodes come to PBS in May. On the other hand, if you are willing
to wait until May 22, you can get whole series on DVD and Blu-ray. It's not really science
fiction, but it feels like it is. By all accounts, the second season is as good as the first
season and, like the first season, the first and third episodes are much better than the
middle episode. The same three writers worked on the second season as the first, Steven
Moffat, who also wrote Doctor Who and The Adventures of Tin Tin,
Mark Gatiss (the one many people don't like), and Steve Thompson.
Thursday, May 3
 
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