The Ultimate Fighter Season 4 Starts Filming

May 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Season 4 of The Ultimate Fighter has already started taping in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Boston Herald reports, “The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback is set to debut Thursday, August 17 at 10 p.m. on Spike.

The fourth season will focus on veteran MMA fighters whose dream of winning a UFC title have never come true. There will be 16 MMA veterans (eight middleweights and eight welterweights) who will be competing for a UFC title shot and a “six-figure contract.” The fighters are already gathered in Las Vegas for production of the series, which began yesterday.”

The Boston Herald further reported that instead of having coaches, TUF 4 will have advisors for the 16 fighters, and these advisors will include Randy Couture, Georges St. Pierre, and Mark DellaGrotte.

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Blade Goes Into Production

March 21st, 2006 | 0 Comments

Blade: The Series is finally in production for Spike TV with a premiere set for July 5 (don’t forget the two-hour premiere on June 28). The new series will be based on the comic book about a half-man half-vampire who battles evil vampires.

The two-hour movie will focus on Blade’s new partnership with a woman mired in the world of vampires as she investigates the death of her brother.

Grand Theft Auto The Series

March 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Executives at Spike TV said recently that they may create a show that would be, according to Variety, “a sort of live-action take on the video game Grand Theft Auto.” Whether this means the show would be based on Grand Theft Auto or just use similar elements from the video game is unknown. In fact, pretty much everything about this is unknown since the idea is just that, an idea. Still, if anyone were going to attempt this, it might as well be Spike TV, since a show based on the violent and graphic video game I used to watch my roommate play for hours on end would be right at home on that network.

Spike Picks Up Blade Series

February 1st, 2006 | 0 Comments

Spike TV—which had previously announced a two-hour TV movie based on the Blade movies and Marvel Comics franchise—has given the green light to 13 hours of the vampire drama as a TV series from New Line TV, Variety reported.

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