Gotham - The Series Trailer

This is the age of comic book movies and tv shows and for a geek like me that's a very good thing. After so many movie adaptations here comes a tv series about the origins of Batman and many other well known characters. I'm really looking forward to this, the trailer looks promising and the cast is fantastic, it's good to see Donal Logue in another great show after Vikings. Check it out:

More trailers, again...

24 was one of the first tv shows that changed my mind about TV in general, it was fast, bold, brutal and very entertaining, I loved all the way through and I never cared about the over the top action scenes or the main character's immortality, 24 is not about accuracy, it's about fun. Many years after the final episode in just a few weeks we get a special 12 episode season called Live Another Day - which really sounds like a title for a Bond movie - and it looks like Jack Bauer is going to kick ass again!

The second trailer for today is from Hercules which is looking a lot better than the other Hercules movie just a few months ago. The movie was shot here in Hungary and I had the chance to have a walk among the sets after the shooting, it looked cool there and it looks cool in the trailer too.

Guillermo del Toro's The Strain

Here is the first teaser for the upcoming Guillermo del Toro tv series, The Strain, they are in the middle of shooting the series so we won't see the final product for a while for sure, but this short little teaser is effective enough to keep me interested.

Mob City - Trailer

Intense little trailer for an upcoming TV show called Mob City, produced by TNT. Since Boardwalk Empire became such a hit new (and let's not forget the Sopranos) oldschool mobster shows are coming out every year like Vegas or Magic City. The trailer looks pretty cool with a nice visual style and lots of brutality, I'll check it out for sure when it comes out.

Best Opening Credits for TV Shows - Part 2.

Here are some more of the best openings for TV shows.

The first one is from a new show, The Newsroom. The first season had a simple, not too interesting opening sequence, but I guess they realized their mistake and renew the opening for the second season. Great, intimate images, colors, nothing flashy, perfectly composed, this is how you do it:

The next one is opening sequence of the HBO series called The Pacific. It's a WW2 miniseries with great production value, but the opening in itself is a little masterpiece. The live footage mixed with charcoal drawings fits perfectly the mood of the series, you can see that they really put a lot of effort in it. Check it out:

Lastly here is a series which I'm not really fond of, but it has a really cool comic book style opening, so if not the series at least intro is worth checking out, Strike Back, here it is:

Korgoth of Barbaria

Aaron Springer's and Genndy Tartakovsky's name might be familiar for people who used to watch Cartoon Network back in the 90's with Dexter's Laboratory and Power Puff Girls on air. Aaron went on directing Spongebob and Squarepants episodes and now is working on Gravity Falls, another animated tv series. Genndy created Samurai Jack but later moved on from tv series and directed his first feature animation: Hotel Trasylvania, it's really good, check that out too. What I have here is something what could have been an instant cult classic animated series, instead it became a cult classic pilot episode with the most ridiculous and over the top macho action you can imagine. 22 minutes of pure barbarism. As one of the commenters on youtube said: "the greates show that never happened". Way too cool to miss it!

Best Opening Credits for TV Shows - Part 1.

Here is a little subjective list about TV Show opening credits. The main titles can be remembered or forgotten all together. It’s not necesssarily going to improve the show or make it a hit, but for sure it helps build up it’s reputation. There a few TV Series where they did not have to change the main titles through out the seasons, because it was already good enough. The best example for this would be the main titles of Dexter, the TV Show. The images and music works perfectly together, reflects on the whole series and give a great atmosphere.

The second memorable intro would be the one for the Game of Thrones, a great series with great story and characters. The main titles are animated, we are flying around a 3D map of the world, you can see each kingdom and city from the series, a great setup for a great TV Show.

The third and last one for today is the intro for Masters of Horror, a tv series involving a lot of legendary names in the horror genre. Some episodes are great, some are just average, but the opening titles give the perfect setup for the grimm stories we are about to see.