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People love to talk about a new Golden Age of Television, where buzzwords like Peak TV get thrown around to describe any number of respected, popular, or critically acclaimed television shows. Certainly, there’s something to be said for the quality of a show like Mad Men or The Sopranos. Even more recent shows from the shared Vince Gilligan universe have their champions, with devoted fans extolling the virtues of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul long after the final episodes air.

It’s good stuff, to be sure, but it’s not really peak television. Everyone knows television peaked in the early to mid 1990s when a wave of first-run syndicated action adventure comedies propped up the mid-afternoon schedules of every local broadcast channel and basic cable outlet. Thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Netflix’s new series Fubar, it all might be coming back.

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Subject: Michael Biehn, 53-year old American actor (turned writer and director)

Date of Assessment: March 2, 2011

Positive Buzzwords: Intensity, ability to speak wordless volumes, James Cameron

Negative Buzzwords: Lack of star power, James Cameron

The Case: Upon initial contemplation of this week's subject, the first question that springs to mind is this: What the hell ever happened to Michael Biehn? Such an involuntary reaction is based upon an assumption that Biehn's a relatively lost visage of the 1980s; but anyone who's been paying attention would realize that Biehn's been (for the most part) working steadily as an actor even though his big-time blockbuster roles have long since ceased to exist. Naturally, he came from humble beginnings by steadily landing a lot of television work, including both regular series (even an "ABC Afternoon Special") and made-for-tv movies before moving into feature films. Upon arrival within the celluloid realm, Biehn initially appeared to...

When it comes to credibility among sci-fi and horror movie fans, it's hard to do better than Gale Anne Hurd. She co-wrote the first "Terminator" film (and executive produced all of them), and has been a producer on "Aliens," "The Abyss," "Alien Nation," "Tremors," both recent Hulk films (odds are you liked one or the other) and a lot more. Hurd's TV resume is skimpier - one season of the syndicated drama "Adventure Inc." with Michael Biehn - but she should make a much bigger splash with her new project, the zombie epic "The Walking Dead," which debuts on AMC on...

CANNES -- Fireworks International exploded into Cannes with its new action series Adventure Inc., and its star Michael Biehn was working the Croisette hard to promote the show. Produced with U.S. syndicator Tribune Entertainment, Adventure is based on real-life explorer Barry Clifford, who specializes in locating ancient wrecked ships and acts as consultant on the show. Each episode sees Biehn's character go in search of missing persons or artifacts, often using high-tech equipment to advance his quest. "It sounds very serious, but it's all fun," Biehn said. "We were looking for a sort of Romancing the Stone sensibility." The first season will run 22 one-hour episodes, half of which have been completed. Shooting has so far been based in Toronto but will shortly move to the English port of Bristol before moving to Marseilles, France. The producers leased a salvage boat that serves as the anchor point for each adventure.