SG1 - Beau Bridges: "10.5 Apocalypse" Premieres 5/21 on NBC

[morjana]

A Press Release from The Futon Critic:

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/pr...=20060419nbc02

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
NBC'S '10.5: APOCALYPSE' TO PREMIERE MAY 21 AND 23 AT 9-11 PM ET/PT
Released by NBC

Thrilling Disaster Movie Event Stars Kim Delaney, Beau Bridges, Dean
Cain, David Cubitt, Oliver Hudson, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Carlos
Bernard, Frank Langella, Carly Pope, Barbara Eve Harris, Melissa Sue
Anderson and Tamara Hope

NEW YORK – April 19, 2006 – Just when you thought it was safe to go
back to the West Coast, NBC returns with the sequel to its smash-hit
disaster film "10.5" with the premiere of the thrill ride "10.5:
Apocalypse" (Sunday, May 21 and Tuesday, May 23 at 9-11 p.m. ET/PT).

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Morjana

[Pharaoh Atem]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/0...ocalypse.shtml


Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Beau Bridges ("Hank Landry") stars with Kim Delaney (CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue) in the new made-for-TV movie Apocalypse 10.5, which will air during May sweeps. The movie will premiere on NBC on Sunday, May 21 at 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.

[GatetheWay]

YAY! Can't wait for this mini series though it has nothing to do with BB. Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida) from 24 is going to be in it and I really want to see him again now that

Spoiler:

his character, who was my favorite, is dead *sniff*

[Pharaoh Atem]

YAY! Can't wait for this mini series though it has nothing to do with BB. Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida) from 24 is going to be in it and I really want to see him again now that

Spoiler:

his character, who was my favorite, is now dead *sniff*

nice TONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we miss you sniff

sorry i'm looking forward to seeing both in min series

[GatetheWay]

He's playing come kind of medic who gets involved with the president's daughter so maybe Beau and Carlos will have a scene together!

[the fifth man]

I'll probably end up tuning in to this. Give it a whirl.

[Formerhost]

Yay! Definitely something to wait for. I hope Hallmark channel here will show this miniseries in the near future, like they aired the previous one. I loved Beau Bridges in the first "10.5" miniseries!

[prion]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/0...ocalypse.shtml


Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Beau Bridges ("Hank Landry") stars with Kim Delaney (CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue) in the new made-for-TV movie Apocalypse 10.5, which will air during May sweeps. The movie will premiere on NBC on Sunday, May 21 at 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.

I wonder if this will be as bad as the first movie, but then again, if they destroy LA (again), might be worth perusing

[aerojad]

props to Beau and all but that first movie had to be one of the worst ideas ever thought of, and just reading the little I did on this, it looks like they're going out of their way to make it worse.

splitting of the North American continent? sure, this is all plausable, and does not at all make *my* head want to split.

[prion]

props to Beau and all but that first movie had to be one of the worst ideas ever thought of, and just reading the little I did on this, it looks like they're going out of their way to make it worse.

splitting of the North American continent? sure, this is all plausable, and does not at all make *my* head want to split.

Heck, I'm sure they can make worse movies than the first earthquake flick.

The thing is that if you really a quake of that magnitude to do that kind of damage, yhou could kiss the world goodbye. Total chaos as the stock markets would collapse, agriculture is toast, and well, the writer never think about think about things like chemical plants exploding, etc. when you don't have people manning them.

I always wonder why actors do this kind of schlock but with reality shows taking up far too much space on TV, you take what you can get. I mean that AE ATTACK movie on Scifi last night was sheer dreck, so in comparison, I'm sure this movie will look like Emmy material

[aerojad]

now that's frightful

[prion]

now that's frightful

Yes, there IS a worse movie! FATAL CONTACT, the bird flu movie which airs on ABC on May 9th, got ZERO (0, nada, zilch) stars froma major newspaper. It's THAT bad. Only reason to watch is the Auckland scenary...

[prion]

Really, most critics say it's so bad it's laughable. Read on with various excerpts....

http://www.nypost.com/tv/66106.htm

IF YOU NEED A GOOD LAUGH, CHECK OUT THE 'APOCALYPSE'
May 17, 2006 -- "10.5 Apocalypse" May 21 and 23 at 9 p.m. on NBC 1/2 star
WHAT can you say about the near end of the world - when all that stands between the entire United States cracking in half and falling into itself is a geologist with fabulous hair? One thing you most likely will say after watching NBC's "10.5 Apocalypse" is that it's a laugh-out-loud disaster.

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/televis...ocalypse_x.htm

Even badly recycled garbage has its uses.
Have no doubt about it —10.5: Apocalypse is trash, and stolen trash at that. Yet the sheer brazenness of its borrowed trashiness makes it oddly watchable.
In concocting this sequel to his 2004 hit, 10.5, writer/director John Lafia has patched together scenes from almost every disaster movie known to man. You name it, you'll find it here: Volcano, Earthquake, Towering Inferno, even this season's previous disaster clunker, Category 7: The End of the World.
Of course, "borrowing" is TV's default position. What makes 10.5 an unexpected if tiny pleasure is Lafia's decision to transport The Poseidon Adventure en masse — not to a ship, but to a Las Vegas casino that tumbles into a sink hole. Yes, my friends, they have to go up to go out.
The president (Beau Bridges) is determined to stop this from happening. But to do so, he has to get Daddy out of that sunken casino, with the help of two hothead brothers (Dean Cain and Oliver Hudson, who seem to be competing to give the movie's worst performance).

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http://www.insidebayarea.com/tv/ci_3841089

Check your brain at the door if you watch '10.5: Apocalypse' "10.5: Apocalypse" 9 tonight and Tuesday NBC-Channel 11

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http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/t...elevision_heds

Don't bother

"10.5: Apocalypse," 8 p.m. Sunday and May 23, WMAQ-Ch. 5: It's simple: The networks will never stop making these awful disaster pics unless we stop watching them. Fleeing from ABC's bird flu movie was a good start. Way to go. Now comes the two-part mini-series "10.5: Apocalypse," a follow-up to last year's "10.5," which was -- I kid you not -- based on the childhood nightmares of an executive producer

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...nt/Television/

10.5: Apocalypse (Saturday, Sunday, NBC, 9 p.m.) is a sequel to last year's memorably awful TV movie called 10.5. In that outing, there was a heck of an earthquake and California fell into the sea, or something like that. Now the remainder of the U.S is next for destruction. Those deadly underground rumblings resume. The American president (Beau Bridges) is getting a tad worried, so he asks "the nation's top seismologist," controversial scientist Dr. Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney), to figure out what's happening with these quakes. As luck would have it, Hill has a theory based on her father's (Frank Langella) much-discredited hypothesis. That hypothesis amounts to "run for your lives!"

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http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/...c9balta001.cfm

'10.5' is a disaster of apocalyptic proportions

I 'm nothing if not a public servant.
I want TV shows to be enjoyable for you, and I want to let you know which ones you should avoid.
With that in mind, I can't help but take it personally that despite my personal quest to get you to stop watching these terrible TV disaster movies, millions of people keep tuning in

[prion]

The critics were right. This movie is AWFUL. Every cliche in the book, and then some....

[TheWarrior]

Seen this advertised in the Sky TV Guide for June in the UK - I'll check the date it airs in the UK tomorrow.