I am – Hercules!!

Though Nickelodeon only started transmitting Avatar: The Last Airbender less than two years ago, M. Night Shyamalan has already announced that he is mounting a series of three live-action movies based on the highly-rated franchise. Though animated in Korea, it’s actually an American production originating in Burbank, Calif. AICN’s own Moriarty says of the new set streeting today:

… this show is smartly designed, and it’s written smart. There’s no talking down to an audience, at least not in the episodes I saw. … I was able to pick up with the first episode of season two and not feel like I was really missing anything. … the closest thing I’ve ever seen to Miyazaki on television. … It’s not an expensive show, but it’s so smartly stylized that the inexpensive animation never comes across as a negative. The show definitely has a sense of humor, but it also has some thrilling action scenes that are not just place-holders. There’s a sense that the show really is progressing, that these characters are growing. It’s all heading somewhere, and isn’t just some stagnant meandering repetition of a basic formula. None of the five episodes I saw struck me as being the same story, and that’s rare enough with this sort of program.

Read Moriarty’s entire review of the set here.

Hopeless Pictures, also streeting today, is a zippy semi-improvisational 9-episode animated sitcom from the Independent Film Channel. It's about Mel Wax, the head of an independent film studio. Multi-episode arcs deal with an attempted hostile takeover, an out-of-control overseas production, and the collapse of Wax’s marriage. It stars Michael McKean, Jennifer Coolidge and Bob Balaban - three actors who have appeared in all of Christopher Guest’s fauz-documentaries – with support from Jonathan Katz (playing a professional therapist), Lisa Kudrow, Buck Henry, Martin Mull, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, John Michael Higgins, Paul Dooley, Emmy Laybourne, David L. Lander, Nora Ephron, Rob Reiner, Paul Weitz andPaul Reubens.

You can buy Walker: Texas Ranger: The Complete Second Season, strap your DVD remote on a giant lever, and pretend you’re Conan O’Brien as you call up random scenes. This completely awful martial-arts actioner was co-created by Paul Haggis, who wrote on tons of awful TV (“The Love Boat,” “Diff’rent Strokes,” “Who’s The Boss,” “Michael Hayes,” “Family Law”) for the first 50 years of his life, then went on to write two Oscar-winning scripts (“Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash”), as well as “Casino Royale,” “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima.”
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UPDATED!! About 10 seconds ago, Amazon launched its 136-title “Huge TV Sale.” Some prices: $14.97 Green Acres Season One $14.97 Green Acres Season Two $14.97 Green Acres Season Three $14.97 The Magnificent Seven Season One $15.97 Arrested Development Season Three $15.97 The Bob Newhart Show Season Four $15.97 The Mary Tyler Moore Show Season One $15.97 The Mary Tyler Moore Show Season Two $15.97 The Mary Tyler Moore Show Season Four $15.97 Tru Calling Season Two $15.97 Reba Season Two $15.97 Reba Season Three $15.97 Reba Season Four $16.47 The Bob Newhart Show Season One $16.47 The Bob Newhart Show Season Two $16.47 The Bob Newhart Show Season Three $16.47 The Mary Tyler Moore Show Season Three $16.47 Reba Season One $17.47 Rat Patrol Season One $17.47 She Spies Season One $17.97 Errol Morris’ First Person: The Complete Series $19.97 Alien Nation: The Complete Series $19.97 Angel Season Two $19.97 Angel Season Three $19.97 Angel Season Four $19.97 Angel Season Five $19.97 Arrested Development Season One $19.97 Arrested Development Season Two $19.97 The Big Valley Season One $19.97 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season One $19.97 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Two $19.97 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Three $19.97 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Four $19.97 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Five $19.97 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Six $19.97 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Seven $19.97 Dark Angel Season One $19.97 Dark Angel Season Two $19.97 Dead Like Me Season One $19.97 Dead Like Me Season Two $19.97 Dharma & Greg Season One $19.97 Fame Season One $19.97 Harsh Realm: The Complete Series $19.97 Hill Street Blues Season One $19.97 Hill Street Blues Season Two $19.97 Jeremiah Season One $19.97 The Lone Gunmen The Complete Series $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Two $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Three $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Four $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Five $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Six $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Seven $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Eight $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Nine $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Ten $19.97 M*A*S*H Season Eleven $19.97 Malcolm in the Middle Season One $19.97 Millennium Season One $19.97 Millennium Season Two $19.97 Millennium Season Three $19.97 NYPD Blue Season One $19.97 NYPD Blue Season Two $19.97 NYPD Blue Season Three $19.97 NYPD Blue Season Four $19.97 Over There Season One $19.97 The Pretender Season One $19.97 The Pretender Season Two $19.97 The Pretender Season Three $19.97 The Pretender Season Four $19.97 Remington Steele Season One $19.97 Remington Steele Season Two $19.97 Remington Steele Season Three $19.97 Remington Steele Seasons Four and Five $19.97 Roswell Season One $19.97 Roswell Season Two $19.97 Roswell Season Three $19.97 That ‘70s Show Season Two $19.97 The White Shadow Season One $19.97 The White Shadow Season Twp $19.97 The X-Files Season One $19.97 The X-Files Season Four $19.97 The Young Riders Season One $24.97 Firefly: The Complete Series $24.97 Space Above and Beyond: The Complete Series $24.97 That ‘70s Show Season Two $24.97 That ‘70s Show Season Four $24.97 That ‘70s Show Season Five $24.97 The X-Files Season Three $24.97 The X-Files Season Five $24.97 The X-Files Season Six $24.97 The X-Files Season Seven $24.97 The X-Files Season Eight $24.97 The X-Files Season Nine $27.97 That ‘70s Show Season One $29.97 Murder One Season One $29.97 Murder One Season Two $29.97 Poltergeist Season One $29.97 The Shield Season One $29.97 The Shield Season Two $29.97 The Shield Season Three $29.97 The Shield Season Four $29.97 Stargate Atlantis Season One $29.97 Tru Calling Season One
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