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
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By Steve Krutzler / 00:08, 23 August 2004 / TrekWeb Features
David Livingston has directed 59 episodes of STAR TREK. Coming up through the ranks as a line producer on THE NEXT GENERATION and supervising producer on DEEP SPACE NINE and VOYAGER, Livingston is a fixture on the newly released DVDs of all three series.
His TREK resume includes "The Mind's Eye," "You Are Cordially Invited," "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges," "Scorpion, Part 1," "The Killing Game," "Equinox," "Shuttlepod One," and "The Council." He's finishing "Borderland," the first in an ENTERPRISE story arc guest starring Brent Spiner, today.
TrekWeb caught up with Livingston at an exhibition of his original photography called "The Sign," not far from the eponymous landmark, last week.
TW: Give us a little background on the subject of the exhibit.
DL: I moved to Beachwood Canyon four years and when I did I became entranced by the Hollywood sign. The house that I live in is actually a Hollywoodland house which was the original development in 1923; eventually the housing development went bust and the letters started falling down and the community of Hollywood wanted to preserve it as a landmark. Periodically it’s fallen down and they’ve rebuilt it. Finally in the 70s they built the present sign, which celebrities would donate X dollars and buy a letter. There was a benefit held at Hugh Hefner’s mansion; Alice Cooper bought a letter, Hefner bought one.
When I moved here I always wanted to do this photo essay and I took some film shots but I wasn’t really satisfied, they were OK, I get frustrated because I don’t like dealing with labs and I don’t do the darkroom. In December I bought a digital camera and it was liberating because now I could do it all at my desk. I shoot on my Canon Rebel, I process everything through Photoshop on my Mac and I print it all out. All the prints here I made except the enlargements and then I had them mounted and laminated.
TW: Why the sign?
DL: The sign is bizarre. These letters that mean so much to so many people. There’s thousands of people each year who come to Beachwood and they ask me ‘how do I get closer? Can I climb up, can I touch it?' And you get arrested if you do and I’ve been threatened with arrests several times. But it means something, kind of the dream that Hollywood represents, it’s not just letters, it’s a symbol of attaining something and that’s the draw, because all it is is silly letters, nine letters.
When you drive up Beachwood that’s all you see, the sign. Now it represents whatever Hollywood is, Hollywood is ephemeral, it’s not real, it’s in your head, in your heart. And the Hollywood sign is the physical representation of it and it draws people. I got obsessed by it. Every photo has the sign in it in one shape, way or form. Except ChinatownLand, which was an homage.
TW: One of your pieces conjures the memory of the actress who jumped off the sign. Is that why it's blocked off now?
DL: Peg Entwhisle committed suicide in the 1920s, but [mostly] they don’t want people climbing around and marking it up and putting graffiti on it. It’s very hilly and there are snakes. I think there are eleven camera and ground sensors. When you go up there and they see you they say that you’re subject to arrest in 30 seconds and a $219 fine. [But] you just have to know where to point your cameras. And I know; some of these right after I took it I got yelled at.
TW: So many of these were illicitly snapped?
DL: They were surreptitiously taken. There’s a lot of ways. An L.A. councilman came to the exhibit last time and [when I told him] he deputized me. [Laughter]. I haven’t been busted yet. There is a Hollywood Trust that charges if it’s used in movies but you go to Hollywood Blvd and there are post cards but there’s no way to enforce that. Literally thousands of people every year come up the hill and I tell them how to get up there.
TW: All the post effects were done in Photoshop?
DL: 90% or more are shot on digital, some were done in iFoto before I got Photoshop. I like to work in color saturation. My printer holds it all.
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