Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
The first part of the Today Show’s interview with JK Rowling has aired. The second part airs on Friday.
Summary article (for those of us who are still at work ::cough::) and video can be found on their website.
Here there be SPOILERS. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you.)
SyFy Portal has opened voting for the SyFy Genre Awards.
Time to go vote for your favorites.
David Hewlett has announced that he will be attempting a simul-chat for his movie A Dog’s Breakfast on Friday, August 3rd. (ADB is the film starring and made by many Stargate cast and crew.)
Fans who have downloaded the film will all press play at the same time and the chatting will ensue, with fans having the chance to ask questions as they go along.
(You might also want to check out David’s blog if you’d like to know when all the Stargate Atlantis stuff is happening at ComicCon.)
JK Rowling, chief instigator of the Potterdämmerung, will be appearing on NBC’s Today Show on Thursday and Friday. And (according to NBC’s teaser article) she’s now feeling free to discuss some key decisions.
Don’t go there if you’re not done reading!
Lots of little tidbits about Heroes, this week, and we haven’t even gotten to ComicCon, yet.
GateWorld has posted a new interview with David Hewlett about Seasons 3 and 4 of Stargate Atlantis.
Just a wee bit spoilery, but nothing more than you’ve already seen covered by others.
So, okay. They can’t give you a house with SARAH running things. But the smart folks at Eureka are offering a contest to help you turn your home eco-friendly with the Eureka $mart House Energy Efficiency Challenge. (Since Global Warming was the result of one of their experiments going wrong, they have to make up for it somehow!)
Sadly, this does require some decent and/or creative writing as you need to come up with 250 words about why you deserve to win. (Oh. And save the planet and all that stuff.)
Dare we think that the Emmy’s have finally woken up to some new shows with this year’s nominations? At least they’re finally giving some love to genre shows in the major categories.
A big shout-out to ILM-er and fellow Star Wars geek Masi Oka for his Heroes nomination. It’s always nice when a geek does good.
Apparently, J. Michael Straczynski owes a bit to the Babylon5 fandom for helping get the new DVD’s done. Warner Brothers managed to lose or destroy the show’s computer graphics, so they had to turn to fans who had worked up their own graphics in order to get the special effects done in time.
Hmm. Do the fans get any producer credit for that?
Wal-Mart recently announced its Harry Potter spoiler policy with a rather amusingly-written poem:
Wal-Mart’s Pledge to Harry Potter Fans
There’s plenty of excitement brewing,
As the final chapter draws near;
But hearing the story’s end from others,
Is what magicals and muggles all fear;
So at Wal-Mart worldwide we’ve decided,
To make a pledge to our customers that’s clear,
We’ll keep silent on what we discover July 21,
So you buy without fear of reveal here.
JK Rowling they aren’t, but it’s a great sentiment. Some stores are even handing out earplugs for the even more nervous.
Club Jade will also make all attempts to keep the spoilage off of our pages (if any of us can even stand to look for fear of getting spoiled ourselves) with plenty of warnings and links.