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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 Steve Krutzler / 06:48, 4 March 2006 / People
Leonard Nimoy will join others Thursday, March 9th, to celebrate the career of B-movie producer Jack Broder at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Broder, a Russian-Polish immigrant, came to America in the 1920s and established a successful chain of movie theatres in Detroit before earning the distribution rights to the Universal Pictures library in 1947. He then parlayed that success in distribution into a foray in production with a string of films in the 50s and 60s, ranging from horror to sci-fi to crime dramas, all released under his Realart Pictures banner.
The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood will present a Tribute to Jack Broder on Thursday with a double feature of Kid Monk Baroni and Bela Legosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. Nimoy took on his first starring role in the film, about "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York. The film also stars Bruce Cabot, Allene Roberts, Mona Knox and Jack Larson, who
went on to fame as Jimmy Olsen in The Adventures of Superman.
In
between the two films there will be a discussion with Leonard Nimoy, Jack Larson
and Mona Knox from Kid Monk Baroni and Judd Bernard, the unit publicist on Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. The second film stars, of course, Bela Lugosi, and the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis
lookalike team of Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, not to mention several
gorillas and a chimpanzee.
Tickets are $9 for the double feature and Q&A and can be purchased at Fandango or the Egyptian Theatre box office, at 6712 Hollywood
Boulevard in Hollywood. The event starts at 7:30 pm.
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