Nov 23 | Chuck returns to NBC with a special two-hour show on Sunday, Jan 10, 2010, before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night. It's return to prime time television can be attributed to a successful fan renewnal campaign last year. CHUCK is a one-hour, action-comedy series that follows Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi, "Less Than Perfect") -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. This upcoming season will include some special guest stars, including Brandon Routh of "Superman Returns" who will play CIA agent Daniel Shaw in an episode, and the addition of SUBWAY restaurant as a major advertiser to the show. Chuck averaged a 4.0/6 rating last season, about eight percent better than the recently cancelled "Trauma". Ratings-challenged Heroes moves back an hour when Chuck returns on Monday nights. STAR TREK VOYAGER's Robert Duncan McNeill serves Chuck as a supervising producer and director.
Nov 17 | Originally hired as co-executive producer to help with the second half of the show's first season, Kevin Murphy has now taken the reins of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel on Syfy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He now serves as an executive producer along with Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson and oversees the day-to-day functions of the show.
Nov 12 | Star Trek star Zachary Quinto is loosely attached to star in the romantic dramedy Whirligig, reports Risky Business.Quinto would play the lead role in the independent Canadian film, which is aiming to shoot early next year. The movie centers on a man who, in a misguided attempt to woo an older woman, befriends the woman's adopted son.Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series "The Listener."
Nov 11 | The CNS Foundation, is hosting an on-line charity auction at www.charitybuzz.com. One of the items they are auctioning is a signed movie poster of the new Star Trek movie which has all the cast members and writers. The president of our organization is Carol Abrams, JJ's mother, and she arranged for the donation from Bad Robot Production Company. J.J. Abrams is also a major donor to their organization. The funds raised will go to help find a cure to neurological disorders in children. The auction link is here.
Nov 10 | Candice Bergen, Charles Lisanby, Don Pardo, Gene Roddenberry, Tom and Dick Smothers and Bob Stewart have been selected as the next inductees into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. They will be honored at a Jan. 20 ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "This year's inductees have challenged and shaped popular culture, changed television for the better and entertained us royally while doing so," TV Academy Chairman-CEO John Shaffner said. More info at the Hollywood Reporter
:
New Computer Voice. Do You Want Marina Sirtis as the Computer Voice in Star TreK XII?
By Steve Krutzler / 14:22, 7 June 2004 / Enterprise
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE actor Dominic Keating speaks this morning in a new interview with BBC Cult about his role as 'Malcolm Reed' and the future of his show, which airs its season finale "Zero Hour" in the United Kingdom for the first time this evening.
"It's a good finale - my girlfriend said she saw it in America a week and a half ago, and said it was absolutely terrific," Keating says. "I think it rounds off the season really cleverly, with a lot of action and adventure and suspense, and a lovely twist at the end that just makes you scratch your head and wonder at what you've just seen."
Keating says he and the rest of the cast grew nervous during this previous season, wondering whether STAR TREK was going to be abruptly cancelled.
"There was a time about five, six months ago when we were all on set with one another, and we were looking around at one another going, 'Damn, this might be it, on our watch'," he says. "So there was a period of time when I was rather worried. I signed for seven years, and they kept telling me it was going to be for seven years and it looked like it was going to be three and that was it. I was getting my head around the fact that I wasn't going to have all that secure work for the next three years, and the house I'd bought, and thinking, "Ooh, I wonder if I can afford that mortgage", so it was quite a relief when we did get the pick-up."
The actor says that the relationship between UPN's new management (since the merger with CBS) and Paramount Television has degraded, leaving ENTERPRISE in something of a quagmire. The BBC asked him whether he thinks the show will fulfill its original seven-year hopes.
"I would say no, unfortunately," Keating responds. "There's two arguments here. One is that Paramount has made a lot of money out of the show for the last seventeen years, and the back lot at Paramount is basically run on the back of STAR TREK. So without it there's a big hole there, a massive hole... The new management has been put in place at UPN to try and eke out a new demographic and bolster up failing audiences, and we don't fit into what they imagine. But in the same bracket we happen to be their number one drama. So it's a double-edged sword. As much as they'd love to get rid of us, they can't."
The actor further likens ENTERPRISE to a "poor cousin that came to dinner at the moment" when describing the show's current relationship with UPN brass. Keating also becomes the latest to suggest that ENTERPRISE co-creator and executive producer Brannon Braga may take a less involved role in the show's fourth season, with Manny Coto perhaps taking over as show runner.
"He's done it for about fifteen years and I think he's tired," Keating says. "It bodes quite well. [Manny Coto]'s got a good eye for it, and he's certainly a good writer, and with Brannon overseeing the whole thing, I think we could come up with something quite interesting."
For the complete interview, check out this page.
| ENTERPRISE Mission Schedule | Logs by Season: 1 2 3 4 | ||
| Episode Number | Title | Airdate |
 Reply |
 Quote |
|
Reply |
Quote |
|
Reply |
Quote |
It's interesting that I had been reading how UPN was slowly moving towards attracting a female demographic, along the lines of Dawn Ostroff's former job as head of Lifetime.
Yet when it comes to ENT, rather than broaden the demographic to include women, they would rather leave it swinging out there to remain with this fictious "male" demographic focus? Certainly TOS and TNG had a BROAD audience in order to pull in the numbers. I can't understand this idiotic "all or nothing" attitude with respect to Trek. It has always appealed to both men and women, boys and girls and now they have gone on a crusade to chase away the females, and won't even bother to try to embrace them instead - ie., be inclusive as Trek has always been about.
It must be the drugs they are taking. 
And from above:
"He's done it for about fifteen years and I think he's tired," Keating says. "It bodes quite well. [Manny Coto]'s got a good eye for it, and he's certainly a good writer, and with Brannon overseeing the whole thing, I think we could come up with something quite interesting."
ANSWER: Um no, Braga has to go. This show is absolutely going in circles and is so twisted around that it doesn't know whether it's coming or going and the show-runners don't seem to give a damn. It is like they are biding time until their contracts run out in 2006. Meanwhile, they take the franchise down with them by this type of benign neglect.
--------
"I think the show talked to people through the characters. They're stories that speak to the heart. They talk about love, they talk about friendship, they talk about loyalty, they talk about patriotism, exploration, curiosity, reaching out... And I think all those things still touch people. Even when you look at a 30-year old show, it still has something to say." - D.C. Fontana, Sci Fi Channel Special Edition TOS 1998
----
Outer Space. The last frontier.
These are the trips of the Star Trek Enterprise.
Its 5-year plan...
Calls for us to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations.
To boldly fly where no man has gone in space.
Patrick Stewart on SNL 2/5/94
|
Reply |
Quote |
| 
