It's a nice twist to have good guy terminator as a girl in the shape of Summer Glau, who stars opposite Lena Headey of 'The 300' fame, one of the seemingly ever-expanding list of British actors currently starring in leading roles in US TV shows.
Talking of those Brits, Kevin McKidd, of 'Rome' and 'Trainspotting' is another in 'Journeyman', which has him as a time-travelling San Francisco reporter and it's pretty good. Actually, it's better than pretty good and I'm not just saying that because it's about a reporter (he spends next to no time in the news room), but sadly it is already facing possible cancellation after just a handful of episodes.
I digress, it looks like 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' will arrive earlier, according to a Media Week story, than predicted on Virgin 1 because of the writers strike, which has to be good news.
Virgin Media TV managing director Jonathan Webb certainly thinks so: "Terminator will ignite our schedule." Proof positive of a schedule that is not on fire.
At the moment, the Virgin 1 schedule seems to consist of episodes of the David Mamet created show 'The Unit', which is fine -- except these all previously appeared on another Virgin Media channel Bravo (the one for men), as well as lots of 'Star Trek' (episodes of 'Deep Space Nine' and 'Enterprise').
Virgin 1's only other first-run show has been 'The Riches', which although critically well received and starring more leading Brits (this time Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver), but doesn't seem to have caught the audience's attention.
'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' fills in the gap between the second (good) and third (not so good) 'Terminator' movies. That's right, it's time to get back to saving the human with combat shotguns, car chases and pyrotechnics. What could possibly go wrong?
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