- John Hansen
- September 23, 2025
Fall TV preview 2025: 10 shows I wouldn’t mind watching
Here’s a look at 10 television series on my radar in Fall 2025 plus a whole bunch of murder mysteries that I might sift through.
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- John Hansen
- August 25, 2025
‘TMNT’ goes wildly off track with Season 5’s ‘lost’ episodes (2008)
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2003) Seasons 1-4 are “TMNT” done right, and Season 5 (2008) is “TMNT” done so wrong that its biggest upside is
- John Hansen
- August 18, 2025
No Shredder, no problem: ‘TMNT’ Season 4 (2005-06) is a scary smorgasbord
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Season 4 (2005-06, Fox) continues its style of adapting the Mirage comics but tightening the narrative links between street-level villains, outer
- John Hansen
- July 28, 2025
Old friends, new enemies enhance ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (2004-05)
There might not be another franchise that skirts the edge of copyright law quite like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which famously started as a “Daredevil”
- John Hansen
- July 14, 2025
What are they doing with Turtles in space?! A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 2 (2003-04)
Although the Mirage comics are great, they are also experimental and stream-of-consciousness in those heady early days, and they mark the first time young writers
- John Hansen
- July 7, 2025
Mirage (almost) comes to our screens: A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 1 (2003)
I owe an apology to “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2003-09, Fox). It landed at a precise time when I wasn’t into kiddie versions of all-ages
- John Hansen
- June 30, 2025
The epic ends in a thrilling way in ‘TMNT’ Season 10 (1996)
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” goes out on a high note with Season 10 (1996, CBS) despite the fact that a brand-new writer, Jeffrey Scott, pens
- John Hansen
- June 23, 2025
Not the Dreggs: ‘TMNT’ reaches new heights in Season 9 (1995)
As “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” was dropping in the ratings in the age of “Power Rangers” and “Batman: The Animated Series,” it was stepping up
- John Hansen
- June 16, 2025
Red sky at night, animators’ delight: A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 8 (1994)
By 1994, I was losing interest in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” If memory serves, I recorded it via VCR timer and labeled the tapes with
- John Hansen
- June 9, 2025
‘TMNT’ ‘Wises’ up for surprisingly strong Season 7 (1993, CBS)
In what seems like a conscious effort after the “European Vacation” sideseason (a.k.a. Season 7, part one), story editor and lead writer David Wise brings