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For some weird reason I had totally forgot that a new Terminator TV show was in development. I have watched the first three episodes and was surprised it’s not as bad as I expected.

I’m not too hot for the cast, Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker and Summer Glau. But if you were craving for a new action show, you will be served. Forget about the slow paced Heroes, or the mind bending Prison Break. This show has a very long name; Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and takes itself very seriously. Sarah Connor is still ready to fight robots to make sure her son his safe and Skynet never comes to existence and destroy the human race. She is sure she can still stop it what ever happens and she is not giving up. Similar to the plot of the previous terminator movies, future Skynet sends assassins to kill John Connor (leader of the human resistance), and the future John sends a reprogrammed Terminator to protect him. It’s a constant struggle that could last until the day Skynet takes over in the present. Those events happened in the third Terminator movie, so you could say that this movie is not a direct sequel but is evolving in a parallel storyline.

The movies deserve the name of classics and this series is a nice nod to expand the universe. You can be sure that I will be tuning in every week to get my fix. The next new episode will air on FOX, on Monday February 4th.

I can’t believe how many shows I keep missing out, only to discover years later. Hopefully this time around this show has not been cancelled yet and I even discovered they were renewed for a fourth season. The show is called The 4400 and I’ve heard of it in a while but it’s never interesting to jump into a show when it’s been airing for three years. I caught glimpse of it on the Space channel and was immediately interested to hear that these people had special abilities. Little more was needed for me to run out and seek all three seasons and watch every available episode back to back.

The premise of the show is simple and they were nice to add a reminder of that during the latter season. Over the past 60 years, people have been abducted (just disappeared) only to be returned all together in a ball of light. At first they were welcomed in fear and apprehension of not knowing what their purpose was and how the mysterious abilities they had were to play in the world we live in.

You don’t have to be a science fiction lover to enjoy what the show has to offer. But I will admit that it does not really improve the genre. After catching up in a record time last night. I went over to see when the fourth season would start and it seems to be TONIGHT at 9PM. Talk about weird timing… perhaps the future has a plan for me… And how can you say no to some Darth Vader mind choking and ultimate fight against good and evil. You’re served with mind readers, future viewers, healers and all sort of crazy powers. You can watch the season three finale on USA’s website and be sure to tune in to see how the battle of the future is settled in the past.

Illico is the brand name of the digital TV service offered by Vidéotron. This company is located in Québec and is a pretty serious cable provider that offers television, Internet, phone and even cellular service. Two years ago I took their service for regular phone and have been pleased by it ever since. I don’t talk much on the phone myself but my parents don’t seem to complain at all. The transition was seamless to them. I also had their Internet service for a long time but got sick of the bandwidth cap and paying extra charges for those.

When it comes to television I decided to try it out and see what’s on TV. To my surprise there is not much out there. I got used to have my shows over the Internet, in a way I could pause and check them whenever I wanted. For that I should of purchased a PVR (personal video recorder) from them… I don’t see the point of paying some extra for a functionality I could get elsewhere. Until now, what I truly enjoy is their On demand service, where you can rent shows or movies and play them as a DVD. Then again I have no interest in paying each time I want to watch something. I guess I’ve been spoiled a bit. All that taken in consideration, the only reason that motivated me to pay cable is to get a foot inside to see what’s on television. Hopefully the day I’ll buy and HDTV the transition shouldn’t be too hard.

Vidéotron gives you a wide variety of channels and on the pricing they let you customize the programming so you could pay a minimal price and still get the channels you really watch. Overall, even someone with all the channels will find a few moments where there is nothing interesting. When it comes down to it I watch a bit of G4techTV, and a lot of shows over the web.