- News for February 1 - 15 1999 -
SENTINEL MEDIA COVERAGE - Feb 15
USA Today: The Sentinel fan generated press ad announcing the new episodes of The Sentinel was featured again in the Life section of USA Today.
(Thanks Deana and Barb and the AdGroup)
Detroit Free Press:
Monday's best bets on TV
The Sentinel (9 p.m., WKBD-TV, Channel 50, UPN). The spunky cult action favorite goes to the hoop tonight with NBA stars Malik Sealy of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Muggsy Bogues of the Golden State Warriors and Lorenzen Wright of the Los Angeles Clippers when the clock stops at a pro basketball game where terrorists have taken hostages.
(Thanks Lori)
SENTINEL COVERAGE ON GOOD DAY OREGON (KPTV 12) - Feb 15
KPTV 12 ran a 90-second piece on the 10:00 news, February 14, at the end of the sports report, about the appearance of Portland NBA player Damon Stoudamire on Sentinel episode 4 Point Shot. They showed clips from the show, along with a short piece of the interview with Stoudamire. The report ended with a screen shot combining a shot of Stoudamire, the blue mat shot of Ellison (same as on the SOS logo) and the date, time etc. for The Sentinel.
Monday, Feb 15 they ran a 2 minute piece on their Good Day Oregon morning show, again focusing on Stoudamire's appearance on the show. They showed clips from the show (not all the same as the news coverage), and interview with Stoudamire, and ended with the hosts reminding viewers to watch the show to see what happens with Stoudamire.
The morning piece ran as follows:
Male Host: Guess what? I've got some entertainment news.
Female Host: You do?
MH: Yes, I do. You know, whenever you're watching a game of basketball, sometimes you hear a reference to "hey, the guy should win an Emmy award." That means he flopped, or he's taken a charge, or something. But this time there's a chance, however slight it may be, that Blazer Damon Stoudamire could be making his acceptance speech in the near future.
[Go to clips of Stoudamire playing ball in high school, college, getting drafted, playing in NBA. Voice-over about his playing career (snipped here)]
MH (Voice-over): He could take on the Paytons, Van Exels, Kenny Andersons and the like; now the guys like Hoffman, DeNiro and Hanks better take notice.
[Cut to DS talking to reporter.]
DS: Academy - Academy - Academy for me in the future.
MH (VO): He doesn't mean there's an Emmy in his future. Or does he?
[Cut to Sentinel clip.}
DS character: Hey, what's going on?
MH (VO): Our words exactly - what the heck's going on, Damon?
[Cut to DS interview.]
DS: Channel 12 gotta get some ratings, too, man, you know. You don't want to tell everything.
[Cut to Sentinel clip of DS character.]
MH (VO): No, we do, we do.
DS character: Where you takin' us?
MH (VO): To the heights of a new career, that's where.
[Cut to DS being interviewed, then back to Sentinel.]
MH (VO): And don't think you're alone, Damon. It seems like other Portland hoopers are being noticed in La-La land.
[Sentinel clip showing Blair and Darrell meeting Clyde Drexler's and Kiki Vandeway's characters.]
MH (VO): Why there's Clyde, and Kiki Vandeway (sp?).
[Sound comes up on Sentinel clip.]
Clyde's character, shaking Blair's hand: Simon told me I'd find you up here.
[Sentinel clip continues with voice-over.]
MH (VO): I don't know Simon, but Clyde, Kiki, Damon - who would have thought we'd find you there?
[Sound comes up on Sentinel clip, cut to DS character.]
DS character: Screw you.
[Sentinel clip of Kincaid firing his gun, then freezes on Kincaid image.]
MH (VO): What happens to Damon? Stay tuned tonight, right here on Oregon's 12, 9 o'clock.
[End of Sentinel clip, returns to studio shot of hosts.]
MH: Now, don't tell anyone. 9 o'clock, The Sentinel, tonight on Oregon's 12, find out what happened to Damon Stoudamire.
FH: A small part, but he looks like he does pretty well.
MH: Oh, he's good.
FH: Oh, well, I look forward to that.
(Thanks CJ)
UPN/VIACOM NEWS - Feb 12
From LA Times
UPN Names Former USA Networks Exec to Post
UPN has named Adam Ware, a former executive at USA Networks, to the newly created position of chief operating officer of the TV broadcast network.
Ware, 33, will report to UPN Chief Executive Dean Valentine and have responsibility over affiliate relations, business affairs, marketing and research.
Ware joined USA's broadcast group in June 1996 and left as an executive vice president. Before that, he was senior vice president of network distribution for Fox Broadcasting Co.
From Excite News
Theresa B. O'Neill Promoted to Vice President, Facilities Management, Viacom Inc.
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) - Theresa B. O'Neill has been promoted to Vice President, Facilities Management, Viacom Inc.
Ms. O'Neill reports to Ken Sullivan, Vice President, Facilities Management, Viacom, and is responsible for maintaining facilities support functions and administrative services for Viacom's operations at 1633 Broadway, which include offices of Showtime Networks Inc., Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster, MTV Networks and infoworks, the company's technology services arm.
"Terry has proven herself to be a talented administrator, particularly adept at coordinating a broad scope of projects and anticipating the ever-changing needs of the diverse business groups under her care," said Mr. Sullivan. "With the increasing scope of Viacom's 1633 Broadway operations, Terry's superior organizational skills and managerial ability will continue to serve the company well."
Ms. O'Neill, who has more than 28 years of experience in the field of facilities management, joined Paramount Communications Inc. in March 1984 as Manager, Building Services, and was appointed Director, Facilities Planning and Administration in 1985. She was later promoted to Senior Director, Administration Services in 1989, and joined the Viacom corporate staff after Viacom's acquisition of Paramount in 1994. Ms. O'Neill began her career with the CIT Financial Corporation in 1960.
Ms. O'Neill received a Bachelor of Professional Studies in Management from Pace University and an M.B.A. from Pace University's Graduate School of Business.
Viacom Inc. is one of the world's largest entertainment companies and is a leading force in nearly every segment of the international media marketplace. The operations of Viacom include Blockbuster, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, Paramount Parks, Showtime Networks, Simon & Schuster, 18 television stations, and movie screens in 12 countries. Viacom also owns approximately 80 percent of Spelling Entertainment Group, as well as half-interests in Comedy Central, UPN and UCI. National Amusements, Inc., a closely held corporation which operates approximately 1,200 screens in the U.S., the U.K. and South America, is the parent company of Viacom. More information about Viacom is available at the Company's Web site located at http://www.viacom.com.
(Thanks Noon)
UPN RENEWS DILBERT FOR 22 - Feb 11
By Jenny Hontz
Reuters/Variety
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - After just three episodes, UPN has renewed its animated comedy Dilbert for next season.
The netlet picked up 22 additional episodes of the TV show created by Scott Adams from his popular comic strip about workplace foibles.
Dilbert is the top new comedy this season at UPN in household ratings as well as all key adult and male demographics.
In three airings, the show has averaged a 3.3 rating and five share in homes and a 2.4/7 among adults 18-49.
Its best demographic numbers are among the young men that UPN is now starting to heavily target.
DILBERT RENEWED FOR FALL - Feb 10
From Ultimate TV
UPN announced today that it's already picked up its midseason animated show Dilbert for a second season. Tom Nunan, President, Entertainment, UPN, said "This pickup order rewards the ratings' promise Dilbert has shown."
In only three airings, the show has dramatically increased UPN's visibility on Monday nights, most importantly in the valued demographic of Adults 18-49 (the timeslot is up 140%). Dilbert is based on the popular Scott Adams comic strip and features the voices of Daniel Stern (The Wonder Years), Chris Elliott (Late Night with David Letterman) and Kathy Griffin (Suddenly Susan).
So far, Dilbert is the only show guaranteed a slot on UPN's schedule next season, though it's likely that Star Trek: Voyager will also return.
FANS ARE RALLYING TO KEEP SENTINEL ON UPN - Feb 8
Albany Times Union
By Mark McGuire
Staff writer
The Sentinel is a nice little show, a very nice little show by UPN standards. But a better story than the plotlines in this unique cop drama is how it got back on the air for its fourth season.
The show was dead after three years. Technically, UPN didn't cancel it: It was "bumped" from the schedule until mid-season.
It didn't make a difference: canceled, bumped, shoved -- it wasn't on.
The Sentinel is the story of a Cascade, Wash., cop who had survived a crash in Peru as a member of Special Forces and walks away with magnified sensory powers. Paired with Lt. Detective Jim Ellison (Richard Burgi) is Blair Sandberg (Garett Maggart), an anthropology graduate student who is aware of the Peruvian Sentinel myth behind these powers and is studying the detective as a full-time observer.
It is a cop series, a buddy series, with a heavy accent on the mystical and special effects. But there is something else you should know about The Sentinel.
It has fans. Not a lot, but they are there -- and rabid. Throughout this country. Germany. Italy and Australia. And they're tenacious.
"We have a very vociferous fan base," said Burgi, the former soap star (Days of Our Lives, Another World, One Life to Live). "Their ferocity is something to be reckoned with. The people behind it are zealously passionate."
The show is back, for now. The Sentinel (Mondays at 9 p.m., WSBK, Ch. 38, WVBG, Ch. 25) is not a ratings winner. For one, it is on UPN. Secondly, it is normally up against Ally McBeal (Fox) and Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS). For the week of Jan. 25 it finished 111th out of 132 shows.
But it finished fifth out of 12 UPN offerings, which made its absence from the fall schedule upsetting to the cast and producers -- and excruciating to its small band of hard-core fans.
Daria Littlejohn, a 50-year-old illustrator from Dearborn Heights, Mich., is one of them. She was of the group that took an ad out for the show last Monday in USA Today (at a cost, she said, of $9,000; previous fan-paid ads have also run). Littlejohn was also with SOS -- Save Our Sentinel -- which was among those who demonstrated in January at the Television Critics Association gathering in Pasadena, Calif.
"There were over 250 of us there," Littlejohn said. "There would have been more, but a lot of people spent money in October for a Sentinel convention in Vancouver" (where the show is shot).
Burgi shook every hand of the fans, who were overwhelmingly female. "I like going into the fray," the actor said. "I enjoy meeting the people."
You have to ask Littlejohn, nicely, why this show? Why such devotion?
"I never really felt before like this for a show. I guess having met the people makes it even more special," Littlejohn said. "Each show in itself is like a mini-movie. The special effects, the storyline . . there is quality."
This is a relatively new battleground. There have been other fan-based movements like this before. Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. My So-Called Life. I'll Fly Away. All quality shows.
The Sentinel? Again, a solid show, but not in the realm of those above. The difference today is pockets of fans across the country are now bonded by a second technological tool: the Internet.
"It really surprised me," said Maggart, 29, the son of actor Brandon Maggart (Chicken Soup, Jennifer Slept Here) and half-brother of rocker Fiona Apple. "Not being too computer literate, the effect the Internet has, specifically in this situation, is incredible."
And loud. The Internet -- Web sites, e-mails and chat rooms -- amplify those frustrations throughout the general public. There is still bitterness between the network and fans -- and UPN and the show itself.
"I took it personally," Burgi said. "I don't think I have the same sense of blind trust or faith with the network. I wasn't dealing with people who were clear-thinking or compassionate with their employees."
UPN spokesman Paul McGuire (no relation) said the show was bumped for Seven Days. He said while plans were in place to bring it back, the fan revolt played a factor.
"They are fanatics. . . . It is definitely on the radar of the people involved," he said. "It reminds you of the power of the people watching the show. It is a phenomena."
And a welcome one at that. Fans of Cupid and other quality shows departed or on the rocks, are you paying attention? Guess what: You can have a voice.
Mark McGuire is the Times Union TV/Radio writer. His column generally appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Call him at 454-5467 or send e-mail to mmcguire@timesunion.com.
(Thanks Rosemary)
FUTURE IS TENTATIVE FOR SENTINEL - Feb 7
The Arizona Republic
By Kate O'Hare
Tribune Media Services
Saved from TV limbo by an eight-episode order from UPN, Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, creators and producers of The Sentinel, admit the show's future is uncertain.
"Our only shot here, this eight, is our reprieve," DeMeo says. "It's a crazy business."
The Sentinel, which airs Monday at 8 p.m., stars Richard Burgi as veteran police detective Jim Ellison, whose 18-month isolation in the Peruvian jungle allowed him to develop vastly enhanced senses. Acting as his partner is an anthropologist, Blair Sandburg (Garett Maggart), who helps him understand and channel his abilities to fight crime. The show began its fourth season on Jan. 18with a repeat of the show's pilot; the first of the eight new episodes aired Feb. 1.
"All we can do as creators and producers is try to make them as good as we can," DeMeo says, "and hope we get a response. Like Danny said, we love the show. Each one of these eight episodes is real special. They're all stories that we really like, they're stories we've wanted to do for a while, that we're finally doing now.
"We're doing a ghost story; we're doing an episode where we have Robert Vaughn as a guest star. He did a great job; it's a fun episode. He's playing an actor who used to play a detective on TV, and then he gets involved with a crime and the police department.
"In our final episode that we're shooting this year, we have Leigh Taylor-Young coming back as Sanburg's mom."
Says Bilson, "We did another episode with NBA players. We did one last year, we're doing one this year, a big extravaganza." (That episode, "Four Point Shot," is scheduled to air Feb. 15.)
But what would Burgi have liked? "You know, whisked away by giant Andean condors, plopped into a seething froth of Amazonian piranhas, something like that would be, I think, fitting and wonderful. I'm sick of Sandburg in my apartment, time for him to move out! I don't have a life!"
Speaking of Sandburg and Ellison in close quarters, among the show's Internet fans, discussion constantly circles about supposed homosexual undertones.
"Yeah," Bilson says. "Actually, in the last episode, you find out they are lovers."
"He's kidding, of course," DeMeo chimes in. "When we read that, we always laugh about it. To us, it's so obviously just a perception. There's no intent there at all, but hey, whatever gets viewers to the show, great."
Do the actors have any fun with this idea? "Not on camera," Bilson says, "but off camera there's lots of fun with that. If you ever saw the gag reel, there's so many scenes of them kissing."
"We were just talking about the homoerotic thing the other day," DeMeo says, "and we said, 'Why don't we make the last shot of the show, the lights come on, and the two of them are in bed together with the sheet pulled up . . .' "
"Smoking a cigarette," Bilson says.
"Smoking a cigarette," DeMeo says, "and 'The End.' "
"Anyway," Bilson says, "it has nothing to do with the show. It's a show about two friends. The appeal of the show has always been, at least with the fans, the friendship. . . . They go through all this stuff, and they always honor their friendship in the end.
"In the finale we're doing, that's exactly what happens. Sandburg makes a major sacrifice for his friend. It's going to be a really nice way to end."
Finale? Are you giving up? "What we're doing in the last episode, if it is the last one, it completely closes up everything we opened up in the pilot, yet leaves a window open for us to continue," Bilson says.
(Thanks Pam and Suz)
SENTINEL MENTION IN SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER - Feb 5
From a San Francisco Examiner story about the cancellation of Cupid:
"...Viewer anger is palpable throughout the Internet. But while e-mail campaigns can help save shows like UPN's The Sentinel, they don't have the same success rate at the Big Four."
(Thanks Kay)
TV GUIDE ONLINE PREVIEWS MURDER 101 - Feb 5
From the Sci-Fi Hot column
Final Exam
The Sentinel"I love helicopter rides," Garett Maggart enthuses. "I'll get in one whenever I can." The Sentinel's Blair Sandburg logs plenty of air time in "Murder 101" (Mon., Feb. 8, 9 pm/ET, UPN). Blackmailed by a student in a fake term-paper scam, Sandburg finds his academic career is threatened by some wealthy, amoral alumni. The action-packed episode finds Sandburg and Ellison (Richard Burgi) in a series of explosive fights and taking to the skies in a chopper. But apparently the bookish Sandburg isn't as fond of heights as the adventurous actor Maggart.
Sentinel co creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo recently screened "Murder 101" for some lucky fans in California to celebrate the show's return to the air.
(Thanks Beth)
PHIL VERSUS THE FANS - Feb 3
In an article entitled: Time slots doomed hip, sexy 'Cupid' - Jan 29 - television critic, Phil Rosenthal, wrote to following:
"UPN hosted a rally a couple of weeks ago for some of the hundreds of fans who successfully campaigned to return The Sentinel to the air. Nice people, but as one critic remarked when we peeked in, "You wouldn't want to leave your kids with them."
The following is from a followup article - Readers take best shot at criticizing the critic - Feb 3 - where his readers get a chance to respond. Among the letters printed were the following regarding his Sentinel comments:
Time for a little mail bashing:
Your unkind comment (Jan. 26) regarding Sentinel fans was a little beyond appropriate. I am a very strong supporter and have taken part in the renewal campaign to bring it back. I am also a professional woman with a postgraduate education, the administrator of a large program for disabled children, and people entrust me with the care of their children. I resent your remark about the fans at the rally.
Merry SchainblattGranted, any group of fervent fans might be an intimidating sight at first glance, and I still remember the tragedy of Rebecca Schaefer's death by the hands of an over-fervent fan, as I'm sure you do. But just last year these same Sentinel fans raised over $53,000 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in connection with a Sentinel convention in Vancouver. And a University of British Columbia scholarship fund is being set up by Sentinel fans to give something back to the city that has hosted production of a show we enjoy.
Linda Darling
The column also featured a pic of Jim and Blair with the caption: "Readers speak up for The Sentinel, starring Richard Burgi and Garett Maggart"
Also featured was another curious response:
[Re: a January 25 review of UPN's Dilbert that joked about how UPN
does business] You're a big (bleeping) moron for writing this kind of glib (crud).
Your pal, Dean Valentine, CEO and President - UPN
Phil Rosenthal's column appears weekdays in the Sun-Times. Write him at 401 N. Wabash, Chicago 60611. Or e-mail him at prosen@suntimes.com.
(Thanks Barb)
The ad (above) appeared in TV Guide announcing the encore of last season's cliffhanger episode, Sentinel, Too - Part One.
(Thanks Sherry and Jean C)
SENTINEL MENTIONED IN 'BEST OF TELEVISION 1998' - Feb 3
Mania Magazine
article
by Michelle Erica Green. Mania's Best of Television 1998
Quoted section with mention of The Sentinel - though the whole article is worth a read:
Unlike The X-Files, La Femme Nikita never resorts to parody, relentlessly taking itself seriously, which gives it a kind of integrity and power very rare in genre television. Among cult audience shows, I'd put this and newly-returned The Sentinel at the top, closely followed by Earth: Final Conflict which has taken many surprising turns this season, and the surprising The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, which is dark and interesting. (A brief farewell bow to Highlander which left on a strong note; it's too soon to tell whether The Raven will be a worthy successor.)
(Thanks Becky)
UPN REVAMPS LINE-UP AGAIN - Feb 3
From Variety
By Josef Adalian
CBS, UPN shuffle skeds, set new series
Eye sending out 'Nanny' with a bangMidseason shuffling continued Tuesday with CBS and UPN skedding March premiere dates for new series.
Starting March 24, the John Larroquette laffer Payne will move into the Eye's Wednesday 8 p.m. anchor position. The Nanny - which is about to go on hiatus for the sweeps - will return on the same night in its new 8:30 p.m. slot.
UPN, meanwhile, is adding on March 8 the hidden camera vehicle RedHanded to its Monday lineup in the 8:30 p.m. slot. Animated sitcom Home Movies will take over the Monday 8:30 p.m. berth on April 26. Also, back-to-back segs of America's Greatest Pets will be slotted in the Friday 8:30-9:30 p.m. frame as of March 5.
As always, midseason reshuffling translates to hiatuses for the current timeslot occupants.
The Eye web's Maggie Winters, which has been averaging a weak 8.3 million viewers Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m., will have its final scheduled broadcast tonight. CBS says the show is going on hiatus, but sources say it's unlikely Maggie will be back this season; a pickup for next fall is considered a long shot.
CBS has already announced that this is the final season for The Nanny. The web is expected to give the sitcom a big promo push leading up to the hourlong finale planned for late April or May.
As for Payne, the Eye will give the series two preview airings before its official launch: Monday, March 15, following Everybody Loves Raymond at 9:30 p.m. and Wednesday, March 17, at 8:30 p.m. following a special one-shot Wednesday episode of Cosby.
The latter move may also serve as a test to see how Cosby performs on Wednesday nights. There's been speculation that CBS may shift Cosby to Wednesdays next fall in order to move the freshman King of Queens to a Monday anchor position.
CBS Tuesday also said it plans to rest Walker, Texas Ranger for six weeks this spring to test Sons of Thunder, an hour-long actioner based on last year's successful Walker two-hour telepic. Thunder will premiere in Walker's 10 p.m. Saturday slot on March 6, with a repeat Walker serving as a lead-in.
Walker will return in time for May sweeps on April 24.
UPN, meanwhile, is putting the sitcom DiResta on hiatus to make room for RedHanded and Home Movies. The weblet says the Friday drama Legacy will go on hiatus for seven weeks as of March 5, coinciding with the return of America's Greatest Pets.
(Cynthia Littleton in Los Angeles contributed to this report.)
(Thanks Barbara and Kathy)
SENTINEL UPCOMING EPS IN FEBRUARY SWEEPS ARTICLE - Feb 3
Houston Chronicle entertainment section
By Mike McDaniel
> TV Goes For Broke - Series Fine-tune Plot Lines to Enhance Sweeps Viewing
An article about the February sweeps and what shows are doing to beef up their stories. Following a couple of paragraphs describing story lines on X-File and Friends, Mike list several shows and their plots. He begins the descriptions by saying, "Here's a glimpse at what' s ahead on favorite series."
The Sentinel. A fanatical militia group takes over a nationally televised basketball game. Clyde Drexler, Damon Stoudamire, Kurt Rambis and Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues guest=star. Feb. 15, UPN/20.
(Thanks Jamie)
E! ENTERTAINMENT REPORT ON SENTINEL, TOO - PART TWO - Feb 1
"In Voyager, Jeri Ryan has gone where no men, or women, have gone before..."]
[picture of Jeri Ryan as Alex Barnes]
"but now, a loyal following of TV viewers has enticed Jeri to reprise her more down-to-earth role on UPN's sci-fi action series The Sentinel. Patrick Stinson has more."
[title - 'back by popular demand' and footage of the temple and Jim-in-the-bath scenes]
Patrick Stinson (VO): " Jeri Ryan returns to The Sentinel for another guest appearance as Alex Barnes, a nefarious character with extra-sensory abilities."
[snip of Alex talking to Jim about how her sensory awareness has doubled, etc., ending "I want you to see what I see."]
PS (VO): "What Jeri's fans will see on The Sentinel is a character and a setting far different from her full-time job on another sci-fi show, Star Trek: Voyager."
[clip of Jeri in 7 of 9 outfit, putting on lipstick and mugging for the camera, cut to interview of Jeri dressed as Alex.]
Jeri Ryan: "My first scenes were literally in 50 degrees and, I mean, pouring down rain, and I'm rolling around in the mud and running through the woods and climbing on a downed chopper and things like that, but it's... I mean, we're having a good time."
[clips from the shoot-out in the jungle with her escaping on the chopper, and then JR hugging Tony Westman, director of S2p2]
PS (VO): "These are indeed good times on the set of The Sentinel, cast and crew have had their spirits buoyed by loyal fans who helped get the show back on the air after it was canceled last summer."
[clips of Jim in the tank, Tony Westman filming, cut to Richard Burgi]
Richard Burgi: "I was very grateful how people responded to the show, and, you know, just a way of receiving, you know, the input of the audience."
[cut to Michael Lacoe, producer]
Michael Lacoe: "The core of the fan base is largely female, and they're the ones that kind of rose to the challenge and came forward very vocally and put in ads at their own expense and dug into their pockets and put their money where their passions were."
[clip of Alex kissing Jim in the tank]
PS (VO): "Cast and crew, meantime, are facing their new lease on life with plenty of passion as well."
[cut to RB]
RB: "A lot of lip-locks, a lot of head-locks, a lot of love, a lot of sorrow, a lot of crime-fighting, action and adventure."
[clip of Jim and Alex meeting and kissing on the beach]
PS (VO): "The Sentinel airs Monday nights on UPN. I'm Patrick Stinson for E News."
[host reaction: <wide eyes>"Oh my!"]
(Thanks to Carla and the Official Richard Burgi Fan Club)
SENTINEL NEW SEASON MEDIA COVERAGE - Feb 1
Ultimate TV - Feb 1
The Sentinel was the lead story on Ultimate TV (featuring the front
page banner at left) and also the lead show in the "What's On" section. Front page has a large
Sentinel graphic and the "What's On" section has a small picture of Blair, with a headline
reading "Preview the season premiere of The Sentinel" which featured the trailer in RealVideo.
(Thanks Patrick, Debbie and Rebekah)
LA Times TV Times - "Watchable" section. For Monday, it read:
The Sentinel, 9 p.m., UPN - Hypersensitive Ellison (Richard Burgi) discovers another aspect of his powers, then follows the evil sentinel Alex (Jeri Ryan) to Peru, where she plots to sell nerve gas to drug lords.
It was accompanied by a picture of Jim in the sensory depravation tank and Alex sitting next to him holding out a cup.
(Thanks Kim)
Philadelphia Inquirer - Lee Winfrey's TV TODAY - Feb 1
The Sentinel. (9-10 p.m., Ch. 57) -- Richard Burgi returns as detective James Ellison and Garett Maggart as his sidekick, Blair Sandburg, as this fantasy series premieres its fourth season. UPN.
(Thanks Deana)
| The picture (right) is from the March issue of Starlog, issue #260, in the Medialog
section on page 8:
Character Castings: Jeri Ryan returns to guest star on The Sentinel in a resolution of last season's cliffhanger, airing February 8 on UPN. she's "The Sentinel Too." (Thanks Laura)
Classic R&R radio in Dallas/Ft. Worth,was playing 30 second spots on tonight's show every 30 minutes! (Thanks Sallye)
Northwest Florida Daily News - Feb 1 (Thanks Jill)
Vancouver Province - Feb 1 (Thanks Dianne)
Also a mention in the Washington Post ... in the "highlights" section, and the column's picture was for The Sentinel - evein if it was a picture of Jeri Ryan. (Thanks Maya)
Boston Sunday Globe - Jan 31 "Good and evil sentinels meet for the ultimate duel as Alex Barnes (guest star Jeri Ryan) battles Detective Jim Ellison (Richard Burgi) when "The Sentinel" returns in an all-new episode tonight" (Thanks fuzzi) |
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SENTINEL FANS ADVERTISE SERIES RETURN - Feb 1
Fans of The Sentinel have again combined to sponsor their own print ad announcing the season premiere of the series, the culmination of the hard fought fan campaign.
The ad, (pictured below) which ran on page 6D of the "Life" section in USA Today included a photo of the cast kindly provided by Paramount and UPN.
(Thanks again to Barb and the AdGroup)