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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 GustavoLeao / 22:58, 19 January 2006 / General Star Trek
The latest issue of STAR TREK Magazine features an exclusive interview with STAR TREK producer Rick Berman. Here are a few excerpts.
Regarding former TREK producer Brannon Braga recent comments that he is "done" with STAR TREK (story), Berman said "Brannon mentioned that to me, and I looked at the whole statement somewhere on the Internet. It was very overrated. All that Brannon said was that he's on another project and he's not doing STAR TREK right now, and he thinks if someone asked him tomorrow to do STAR TREK again he's probably say the time wasn't right, but that he wouldn't rule it out. A lot more was made of that than should have been."
"As for myself, I have no idea if I'm done with STAR TREK. Since there are no STAR TREK projects in television even being discussed right now and since the idea of the next STAR TREK movie is far away, or does not seem to be imminent, for me to say 'I'm done with STAR TREK' isn't something I'm going to say. I can't make any kind of definitive statement on that."
Asked about how much influence he feels THE ORIGINAL SERIES has had on him over the years, he said "I was a fan of THE ORIGINAL SERIES in that I had watched a number of episodes, maybe a third of them, and I'd enjoyed them. I didn't closely follow it. Gene [Roddenberry] created THE NEXT GENERATION. He created every character and he set the tone and the style for it. Even though he stepped back after the second season, it was totally his creation. I watched much more of the original show than people think, though. If we were doing VOYAGER or whatever show and a question of continuity came up, we very often would find ourselves in the cutting room, screening a video or DVD of one of the original episodes.
"A lot of fans like to berate me with the idea that I don't care about the continuity of the series, but it was something that I in fact cared greatly about, and it was something we always tried not to hurt."
About future projects, Berman revealed "There's something going on with the Internet, something STAR TREK-related, but it's something that's way too early to discuss."
More from Berman, including his comments on the late Michael Piller, can be found at Sci Fi Pulse.
To read the full article, get issue #125 of STAR TREK Magazine at your local newsstand.
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His arrogance is so over-the-top, it's not even funny anymore. They should never put Berman and Trek in the same sentence ever, ever again.
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Why is this guy still associated with Star Trek? Beam Berman Out!
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