This 'n' that
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- February
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Every now and again, I have to clear out my drafts folder with all the tidbits I’ve been saving up and never gotten around to posting.
So here’s several news items that have come to light in the past week or so:
• The SciFi Channel has ordered a 13-episode season of a new scripted drama that will be 90 percent CGI, as far as the sets are concerned, in the style of 300 and Sin City. Amanda Tapping, late of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, stars as Dr. Helen Magnus, and Robin Dunne, who once upon a time was on Dawson’s Creek, plays her protoge, Will Zimmerman. They “are on a quest to track down, aid and protect all manner of strange creatures that walk the earth. The show started out as an Internet-based high-def series. Tapping will, however, still make guest appearances on Atlantis in its next season.
• Now, I have no clue what companies offer this channel, because Cablevision sure as heck doesn’t, but Chiller will be running episodes of Profit (Adrian Pasdar of Heroes starred) and Millennium (Lost’s Terry O’Quinn, The Shield’s CCH Pounder and Lance Henriksen starred; the folks behind The X-Files were behind it)). Millennium starts on Monday and will air at 7 p.m. and 3 a.m., M-F. Profit will start Thursday, airing at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. The schedule is a little confusing for it; the first three episodes will air back-to-back on Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., from 4 to 7 p.m. and midnight to 3 a.m., “followed by never-before-aired episodes in weeks to come.”
• Entertainment Weekly recently named the sexiest aliens. First on the list? The Cylon trifecta of Tricia Helfer (Number Six), Grace Park (Sharon Valerii) and Lucy Lawless (D’Anna Biers). I’m shocked, shocked I tell you! Also shocking entries on the list: Jeri Ryan (Star Trek Voyager’s Seven of Nine), Milla Jovovich (Leeloo from The Fifth Element), Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax from Star Trek DS9). Then some odd ones, such as Jeff Bridges from Starman.
• Down in Fraggle Rock! Yay! Fraggle Rock and Farscape, along with other Jim Henson Company TV and feature film work are available for download on Apple’s iTunes store, SCI FI Wire reported. I loooved Fraggle Rockk as a kid, in HBO’s early days. Is it possible the Fraggles celebrate their 25th anniversary this year?? Yikes. The shows will be available for $1.99 an episode.
• ABC Family is picking up a few series, The Hollywood Reporter reported. (It’s totally goofy, but I love saying the “Reporter reported.”) Roomies and The Middleman. In the latter, Natalie Morales will star as “a twentysomething struggling artist recruited by a secret agency to fight comic book-type villains” and Matt Keeslar plays the Middleman himself, “a sci-fi superhero who serves as her guide.” Six episodes were ordered. Roomies, shockingly, is about a group of friends who are roommates.
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on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pm by Amy Vernon.
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