“Fatal Error”8 p.m. Sunday on TBS
Alas, ‘Error’ is no Irwin Allen thriller. Just an amateurishly executed disaster.
MOVE away from your Web TV screen! Drop your remote control! Don’t pay your cable bill!
You could be just a click away from death and we don’t mean brain death!
Unless you watch “Fatal Error,” TBS’ first made-for-TV movie, in which Janine Turner and Antonio Sabato Jr. save the 500-channel universe from dueling media titans, a techno-nut, and a virus that makes the Y2K thing look like a ladybug.
It’s deleting people even before Robert Wagner officially wires the world to his brave new vision.
“The X-Files” might have been able to raise some real goosebumps with this premise, but doing low-budget, low-IQ high-tech just raises the question of whether Antonio Sabato Jr., the actor-underwear model we thought was a hottie property, has already cooled off in Hollywood.
He plays a doctor forced to be an ambulance jockey because he broke the rules when a virus took out his fiance along with an African village.
When a roomful of lawyers crumbles, he doesn’t cheer. He proceeds to tell an Army viro-biologist (Janine Turner) what she’s missing. In the post-mortems, we mean. “We’ve got one hell of an Irwin Allen movie happening here, gentlemen,” she snaps.
Alas, “Error” is no Irwin Allen thriller. Just an amateurishly executed disaster.
“Whoever created this is a genius. A twisted genius,” says one of our heroes.
But with little more than their quaint hunches and the help of a blind computer wizard who identifies this killer ap, they make the world safe again for couch potatoes.

