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We loved the way “Reaper” ended its first season on the CW last year, so the wait for its return has been quite grueling — Thankfully, the CW has indeed confirmed the return of the program this March. E! Online reports that the show comes back on Tuesday, March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day!) with a strong lead-in, the new 90210 series. The show will air at 9 PM Tuesdays for 13 straight weeks without reruns, giving them a chance to build a nice story arc. No word on Kevin’s status with the show, we believe he’ll at least remain as exec producer, and we’ll still hope to see him possibly return for another directing gig (if they’re not already all in the can, anyway). The season cliffed out on a doozy involving Sam’s parents, so we’re looking forward to the plans for season 2. Check out “Reaper” on the CW this March!

Looking at the almighty Box Office Mojo website, we can see that “Zack & Miri Make a Porno” has officially become the highest grossing View Askew flick so far, surpassing “Dogma”. “Zack and Miri” has grossed $30,839,277 to date, beating “Dogma”s gross of $30,652,890. As always, these numbers greatly improve once we get to DVD releases and foreign sales, though these numbers take into account ONLY the US theatrical box office take.

Netflix recently challenged programmers to come up with a better movie recommendation system than their own site/service provides. One guy from the reel.com days (man, we remember that site!) has developed his answer to the challenge and dubbed it “Clerkdogs”. The title is an homage to “Clerks” and “Reservoir Dogs”. Read more about it at the LA Times Blog and then give it a shot. We’re huge fans of the Netflix service here, by the way, so if any of the fine folks behind them are readers, kudos to you, friends.

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