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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 / 14:52, 29 September 2006 / Feature Films
The latest issue of DreamWatch, just out in the UK, features a brief interview with TNG actor Brent Spiner, in which he talks about the prequel rumors for Star Trek XI and his story idea for a now-shelved new TNG movie. Here are a few excerpts from the article.
Spiner was very complimentary about producer J.J Abrams but when asked about the chosen direction of the movie he expressed his disagreement with the prequel idea. "I don't think it's a great idea to do a prequel to anything." Spiner told journalist Richard Matthews. "When has that ever been interesting? If Enterprise really said anything it was, ‘Don't go back, go forward.' That's part of the whole beauty of Star Trek; it's always been about ‘Go Boldly Where No One Has Gone Before', not ‘Go Back to Where They Once Were That We Never Saw.' I think that before that film gets made they'll have a completely different idea of what it should be."
Spiner again said that writer John Logan, who penned Star Trek Nemesis, had an idea for a movie that would have likely appealed to fans of all generations.
"One of the ideas that John Logan and I had about what the next film would have been was a Justice League of Star Trek. Something would bring all the great Star Trek villains together, from Khan to Shinzon, and Picard is the only person who could stop them and he actually has to go through time and pluck out the people he needs to help him. He goes back to the moment before Data blows up and takes him back to get Kirk and Spock, and go even further back and get Scott Bakula's character Archer. The problem with that more than anything is cost - how do you pay for that?"
More from Spiner, including his opinion on the cancellation of Threshold, can be found at Sci Fi Pulse.
To read the full article, get the new issue of DreamWatch magazine at your local newsstand.
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Spiner says Star Trek is supposed to be about "going forward". So whats his kickass idea? Bring back all the big villains from the franchise and face them off against all the good guys? How exactly is that moving forward?
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....Spiner gives the best justification for Trek XI yet.
Why is it that Spiner even thought that the phrase "the idea that John Logan and I had" should be said again? I liked Nemesis, but it is clear that lots of people here and everywhere despised it.
And the problem with Enterprise was not the prequel idea... it was Berman and Braga making it a prequel to the Berman and Braga Trekuniverse. Once Coto and the Stevenses got in there and they respected and liked TOS, the 4th season really was good.
Lastly-- anyone think like me that having a Data story as part of 3 of the 4 TNG movies was a bad idea? It was one of the weaker aspects of Generations, then we did it again in Insurrection, and then we did a neo-Lore story with B4 in Nemesis. Why did they take what was weak for one movie and make it the weakest aspect of 3 of them?
Killing Data was a relief to me, but in the scene where it is appearant that B4 would be back and the B story for the next 3-4 movies, I am so happy we are bailing on the TNG universe. If you want to talk about "where we have been before"-- it is the TNG movies and all the Data stuff.
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Spiner and Logan's Trek XI = fanwank.
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