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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 / 15:53, 4 December 2006 / General Star Trek
Los Angeles, December 4, 2006 - Following the extraordinary success of
its interactive STAR TREK 2.0-which has generated 21.3 million lines of
chat and 5 million transactions in the virtual stock exchange known as
the Spock Market since its premiere in April 2006-G4 will launch an all
new interactive version of another television icon when it premieres
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 2.0 in January 2007. The show will
feature on-screen live chat, behind-the-scenes info, trivia games, and
interactive features that viewers can access via the G4 website,
g4tv.com. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 2.0 will premiere Monday,
January 15, 2007 at 9:00 PM ET/PT, and will air Mondays through Fridays
at 9 PM ET/PT, only on G4.
"The young male demo is driving today's media revolution," says Neal
Tiles, President of G4. "Increasingly, they are demanding a more
interactive, multiplatform experience. Our goal is to offer them TV that
guys can get their hands on-literally."
Shortly after its April 2006 launch, STAR TREK 2.0 quickly became G4's
highest rated strip series among its core Men 18-34 target audience.
Now, with the January 2007 premiere of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
2.0, all the interactive elements that STAR TREK 2.0 fans have come to
know and love will be featured in the four-wall "frame" of interactive
elements surrounding the classic STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
on-screen episode. These features include "Beam Me Up" live chat, Trek
Facts, Trek Stats and the popular Spock Market.
"Beam Me Up" Chat: Viewers can join a group of Star Trek fans, hardcore
Spock Market players and newcomers each and every night in the Beam Me
Up Chat room. This unique experience is fed from the Internet onto the
TV screen, giving each episode a stream-of-consciousness narrative from
real viewers that is different every time.
Trek Facts: Trivia, behind-the-scenes information from The Next
Generation and Star Trek-related news permeate every minute of TNG 2.0
via a news-ticker style crawl across the top portion of the television
screen.
Trek Stats: The accumulating tally of the beloved features and quirks
specific to the series will all have a NEXT GENERATION theme, including
the "Picard Maneuver" (in which someone tugs their uniform smooth) and
"Data Saves the Day" (self-explanatory).
The Spock Market: Viewers can make stock transactions on the G4 website,
g4tv.com, while an ever-changing stock ticker runs during each episode
on the right hand side of the television screen. The TNG 2.0 Spock
Market will feature 32 stocks (up from 24 on STAR TREK 2.0). Most of the
stocks will be new and specific to NEXT GENERATION-such as JLP (Jean-Luc
Picard) and DBC (Dr. Beverly Crusher)-along with a handful of classic
STAR TREK 2.0 stocks that have a "logical" reason for appearing in the
NEXT GENERATION universe, including COM (Communicators and
Communications, Inc.) and LOG (Starship Log). The Spock Market will
operate in the same manner as the STAR TREK 2.0 Spock Market, with
triggers hidden in each episode causing fluctuations in the valuations
of the stocks.
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