STAR-SPANGLED SEX SYMBOL. 'WONDER WOMAN' RETURNS TO UK TV...

American beauty! Lynda Carter as WONDER WOMAN. Image: CBS TV.

America's greatest, sexiest comic book heroine-the eternally stunning Amazon Island princess who decided to save the world, WONDER WOMAN, as iconically personified by the attractive and spirited form of once beauty queen Lynda Carter, still "the body" in my book-move over Elle MacPherson!, returns to British TV from today, three times a week (Monday-Wednesday) on the UK's HORROR CHANNEL. Its seventies kitsch at its best and brightest, what with its aliens, monsters, bonkers computers. crazed baddies and beat-up-able baddies who truly underestimate the powers of our patriotic super lady on a weekly basis.

Becoming a true TV sensation of the time- a role model for young girls and women, and admired by red-blooded males- Carter's three-year reign as the TV incarnation of WONDER WOMAN has not been challenged, remaining the ultimate version of the character to audiences around the world. There have been further attempts by film and TV companies to renew her crime-fighting antics, including one failed pilot episode a few years back starring Adrienne Palicki, but Carter's innocent and strong performance, alongside her formidable figure and stunning looks, has proved a tough act to follow. But with box office potential still to be mined, there are Hollywood business hopes, what with the continued re-imagining success of her JUSTICE LEAGUE colleagues Batman and Superman, that DC COMIC's top female icon will eventually return to live-action adventure.

Wonder Woman Opening Theme Season 1 - YouTube

SELECTED TARGETS! 'PERSON OF INTEREST' RETURNS TO UK TV!

A worthy mission statement for shadows John Reese (Jim Caviezel), Detective Joss Carter (Taraji P. Henson) and tech legend Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), with the return of PERSON OF INTEREST. Image: CBS.

Ten great episodes in to their best new US TV purchase in quite a while, FIVE unceremoniously and unexpectedly pulled a mid-season plug on Jonathan Nolan’s excellent, high quality techno vigilante action thriller, and then said it would be back sometime in the new year! Thankfully, it recommences from this Sunday 27th January, and, I have to say that, in retrospect, it was a fine cliff-hanger point to end it, what with the mysterious ex-CIA agent “John Reese” (Jim Caviezel, certainly proving himself worthy of being the next James Bond-if only he wasn’t American!) being critically wounded by an assassin’s bullet shot and rescued in the nick of time by the always excellent Michael Emerson, bringing a mysterious and tightly controlled aura to his performance as Reese’s underground paymaster and master of the worlds surveillance technologies, Finch.

Season 1 recap - The story so far | Person of Interest | Channel 5

Back in action for the next episode, Reese and Finch have new potential victims of the future predicting system to either save or stop (including DEXTER’s David Zayas, ALPHAS Malik Yoba, DOLLHOUSE’s Amy Acker and 24’s Sarah Wynter), whilst the secrets of the duo’s slowly flashback emerging past continue to resonate and have consequences for them and all whose paths are interconnected, including pursuant lady cop Joss Carter (Taraji P. Henson), who seems to be more aligned with their cause with each passing episode investigation.

Season One preview: PERSON OF INTEREST Preview Trailer - YouTube

Expect PERSON OF INTEREST to continue cementing its reputation as one of the best new glossy action adventure series in a while, bringing technological sophistication (both format and visualisation), big-budget looking action and old style heroics.

Check out our previous article for more on the series: FUTURE CRIME! WATCHING OUT FOR THAT "PERSON OF INTEREST"...

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE, FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES IT'S 'ELEMENTARY'!

Deductive duo Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu are on the case as the modern Holmes and Watson in ELEMENTARY. Image: CBS.

With no sign of a deer stalker or pipe to muse with, ELEMENTARY, Jonny Lee Miller's US take on the modern Sherlock Holmes, as previously given a fresh new spin of creative success in the UK courtesy of Benedict Cumberbatch's five parts brilliant, five parts nauseating portrayal of the Baker Street sleuth re-imagining, finally makes its anticipated debut on the UK's SKY LIVING HD from tonight.

As regular readers of the KOOL TV site will know, I'm strictly a classic Holmes kinda guy, but SHERLOCK was enjoyable enough, and ELEMENTARY, developed by Hollywood producing talent Rob Doherty (whose work includes STAR TREK; VOYAGER, as well as the quirky MEDIUM and TRU CALLING), looks similarly pleasing fare, albeit possessing the same kind of flashy, rapid and wonky storytelling visuals capable of sending viewers to the brink of insanity, a la many over the top CSI episodes! Away from Martin Freeman's meek but interesting performance as Watson, I think that the lovely Lucy Liu, playing Dr. Joan Watson, will prove to be the shows key asset, propping up Miller's relatively youthful performance, and providing a more spunky and seasoned incarnation of the Doctor (bearing tatoos no less!) than we've seen before. Intriguingly, Watson mark femme has an interesting character development to her bow, being a brilliant surgeon in exile after a previous patient death, and now acting as Holme's carer/companion as he's let loose within the streets of Manhattan to help the NYPD solve their most baffling cases. It's an intriguing change to the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's companion figure that will surely give this US version a noteworthy creative boost. I also look forward to seeing who will be the show's eventual Moriarty figure...

Trailer: Elementary Trailer Season 1 - YouTube

Early world on the opening episodes (involving a series of home invasion murders, a child abduction and the death of a Wall Street executive) confirm the aforementioned hectic pace, and a lively chemistry to the new TV pairing- big stared Miller giving a performance more lively and comparable to Downey Jr. than Cumberbatch- almost akin to the halcyon days of the bizarre investigated by Mulder and Scully from THE X-FILES, if not quite as compelling. Back here in Blighty, SHERLOCK's svengali Steven Moffatt, at work on what will be a long gestating third series of his own for the private investigator, need not have any worries that this long distance show will damage his own brand of "unique" storytelling, the overall Holmes franchise (oh, how I hate that word!) or the reputation of the Conan Doyle estate. Though whether ELEMENTARY will continue its adventures beyond it's premiere year on CBS is not yet known.