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Long Way Down book released in UK

The book detailing Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s epic journey from John O’Groats, Scotland to Cape Agulhas, South Africa has been released in the United Kingdom. The going rate on Amazon.co.uk is £10.

Amazon.ca is showing an October 30 release date and wants $28 CDN for it.

Amazon in the U.S. has no listing for it at all.

The Amazon UK site is also taking pre-orders for a 3 December DVD release of the television series. Rumour has it the series will air on BBC 2 in the UK starting on October 28.

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Gate into Season 4

Big thanks to Dunc for giving me (um, us!) a Stargate category! I am truly honored that blabbing incessantly about a show for long enough will eventually be recognized.

So a few things going on in Gateland…
– Still no final ratings numbers for Adrift. What does this mean for how we’re looking to SciFi’s eyes? (Y’know, the people with their hands over the button that could nuke the series?) Torture! [Note: This blog entry contains the beginnings of a discussion about this week’s episode. Be careful if you don’t want to know!]
– Well, David Nykl (Zelenka) is fairly optimistic. Let’s hope he’s right!
– Back to Joe Mallozzi, he has posted a more in-depth discussion about this week’s episode, Reunion.
– And some really funny Q&A videos with Jason Momoa (Ronon) and Joe Flanigan (John). Be careful what handle you use when sending in those questions! You could be teased mercilessly.

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Impending strike starting to wreak havoc?

The release date for Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has been pushed back six months over what is speculated to be fear about next summer’s impending actor’s strike.

Other productions which could be impacted include Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the next James Bond movie.

The actor’s strike looks set to take place in June next year and will in fact manifest itself as a combined strike by the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America (West) against the Producers Guild of America. The predicted strike has already sent Hollywood into a frenzy of planning, with many studios reportedly accelerating production of films to avoid gaps in their release schedules.

The strike is over royalties from sales of movies over the internet and on DVD, which are not covered in the current deal between the various guilds.

Grrrr. Argh.

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Save your pennies

A rare set of the Harry Potter book series, signed by J.K. Rowling, is to be auctioned off for charity.

They will be auctioned off on eBay in aid of local charity Books Abroad which supplies books to children in 80 countries worldwide.

The Potter books are expected to raise at least £20,000.

Also, the release dates for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix have been confirmed as November 12 in the UK and December 11 in the United States (no word official word on Canada yet).