Scrooged Warehouse 13 “Secret Santa” Written by Bob Goodman Directed by Jack Kenny “I got you something very special, and I think you’re gonna like it”. —Claudia I’m always wary of Christmas episodes. There’s always a danger that nostalgia will flop over into treacly sentimentality, that television’s tendency to homogenize everything will result in turning beloved holidays into something beige and corporate. That almost happens in this Very Special Episode of Warehouse 13, but not quite. And we can thank the witty dialogue and sardonic humor that characterize this show for saving it from that disgrace. “This is not the holiday…

Warehouse Workers Warehouse 13 Syfy Channel, Tuesdays, 9/7 c “Pilot” Story by Brent Mote and Jane Espenson Teleplay by Brent Mote and Jane Espenson and David Simkins Directed by Jace Alexander Last year network cable studio TNT gave us the third installment in their “Librarian” movies series, The Curse of the Judas Chalice. The premise of that science fiction/fantasy franchise is that librarian Flynn Carsen (Noah Wylie, ER) is sent on worldwide errands by his bosses, Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin, to retrieve ancient artifacts with otherworldly powers that threaten to disrupt our consensual reality. It’s a cute, cheesy, perfect-summer-film series, with…