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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 / 17:07, 7 June 2006 / Feature Films
TrekWeb reader Christopher Allan Smith (MotherFraker) sent in the following report about Star Trek XI:
Recently, Jeff Goldsmith, Senior Editor for Creative Screenwriting
Magazine, interviewed Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci about MISSION:
IMPOSSIBLE 3 after a screening of the movie in May sponsored by the
magazine. In the magazine's podcast, dated May 26, the duo gave the
clearest indication yet of their plans for Star Trek XI.
Below is a word for word transcription of everything they said when
asked about their pending Star Trek work. To this listener, it's the
clearest indication yet they are not re-imagining (as this listener had
hoped) but building on the current canon. Enjoy.
Question: I know you can't say much, but is there anything you could
even tell us to interrelate you pick a starting point so vast and so
rich as Star Trek?
A: There are pockets within the universe, and we know the mythology
well, and we are fans of the novels that happen between the movies and
all that kind of stuff, which aren't even counted as part of the
mythology sometimes and we do know that there is a space to begin to
see a lot of the origins of a lot of the things we know and we're going
to start there. We're very mindful of being totally true to the
mythology and totally true to what's come there, and in a way try to
embrace the fact there's such a rich history to it that this is not a
case of trying to come in and be so clever that you're going to
reinvent everything. It's a case of coming in and using the stuff you
know is great and you know really works and not violating anything
that's come before it.
Question: So, are we able to say that this is going to be with
characters we know or new characters which preceed the characters we
know?
A: It will be a bit of both, I think. It will be both.
Link to magazine: http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/current.html
iTunes info: Go to Podcasts, Search for Creative Screenwriting, Episode
Dated May 26, 2006.
Podcast Timestamp 38 min. 33 seconds.
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