Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Uh oh. Things are looking a little shaky over on the Bionic Woman set. Producer Glen Morgan has left and there are rumors that the show is shutting down production to accommodate changes in direction.
Given the good buzz the show has been getting, probably not a major issue, but still interesting to watch.
Club Jade favorites Heroes and Veronica Mars took home several E! Online Tater Tops Awards.
Heroes won for Best Breakout Star, Best Guest Star, and Best New Show. While Veronica Mars took home honors for Drama Mama, Biggest Disappointment, and Star You’ll Miss Most.
Long live couch potatoes!
Ads running in the Los Angeles Times for the upcoming Natalie Portman film Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium will feature scratch-n-sniff ink that smells like a cake.
This is something I could totally get behind….
Curse my inability to function on little sleep! Just now getting around to posting the Stargate tidbits from Dragon*Con.
The Stargate Stuff
– Tok’ra Spice Clarified – Vanessa Angel, who played the much-maligned character of Anise on SG1, cleared up some things about her character. She was apparently hired to do nine episodes that season and then join the show as a regular; supposedly to cause some jealousies amongst the team. However, she became pregnant three episodes in and just couldn’t complete the role. She also considered Anise to be extremely thoughtful and deliberate and “outside of emotion.” Explains much about how bizarre her character was! (Of course, nothing explains those outfits.)
– Filming in the Arctic – Why did Christopher Judge not appear in the scenes recently filmed in the Arctic? Two words: polar bears. He said he pretty much stopped listening after that, but had his decision cemented by the various bathroom issues one encounters there. He stayed home and played golf.
– The Return of Beckett – Paul McGillion again expressed his appreciation for the fans’ push to bring Carson Beckett back to life. He again teases that the way they bring him back is “very interesting.” (Must be the stock publicity answer for this one.) And he has yet to see if he’s coming back in Season 5.
The Non-Stargate Stuff
– Rage of Angels – Christopher Judge’s in-development series will also have a comic book and game associated with it.
– Eureka – Both Lexa Doig and Michael Shanks teased about how much fun they had doing Eureka. Lexa is hoping her character can come back. Michael didn’t think his could. Hmm…
– More Lifetime Movies! – Both Lexa and Paul have completed movies for Lifetime. Both movies are planned for October air dates.
If only they’d done these kinds of studies in my statistics class! I might have gotten a better grade.
So is the fabled Red Shirt Phenomenon on Star Trek real? According to a recent statistical analysis, yes, but not as much as one might think.
If you’re wearing a red shirt and beam down to the planet, you have a 53% probability of dying. However, if Kirk gets lucky with the local space hottie? That drops way down to 12%; which puts you in about the same range as the yellow and blue shirts.
They should put this into the Starfleet manual. (via)
The Heroes World Tour has finally gotten underway. And the crowds that showed up in New York apparently rivaled the kinds of lines not seen since Episode III lineups were all the rage.
Official videos and pictures from the New York City event can be seen on NBC’s website.
TV Guide interviews Michael Shanks who talks about his and his wife’s upcoming roles in Eureka, the Stargate movies and keeping fingers crossed on Christopher Judge‘s new series, Rage of Angels, that has been given the “verbal go-ahead” from MGM.
(Of amusing note to the shipper population, the article accidentally refers to Michael’s Stargate character as Daniel Carter.)
Apparently Kevin Smith’s quest to be the busiest man in geekdom has fallen apart.
SyFy Portal reports that the director was unable to make his schedule sync with the show’s production schedule.
Now who’s going to stick up for the contractors in the fleet?
Heroes Season 2 is rapidly approaching. NBC launched a teaser site yesterday for the Japanese-influenced storyline with the first in a series of mockumentaries on Takezo Kinsei; the sword master whose story will be a major plot in this new season.
Narration provided by Gimli, himself, John Rhys-Davies.
‘Tis the season for fun TV announcements. Is it the fall season yet?
– Ripper has supposedly passed one more small hurdle towards becoming reality
– Kevin Smith attempts to cover all branches of geekdom by directing an episode of Battlestar Galactica, an episode of Heroes: Origins, and the pilot for Reaper. Does the man ever sleep?
– David Tennant is staying with Dr. Who
– Genre actors get some props as scene-stealers
– And “Watch With Kristin” gets a sneak peek at some of the folks passing through the island on Lost