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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 / 16:41, 11 December 2007 / General Genre/SciFi
The latest issue of Starburst magazine, just out in the UK, features an exclusive interview with Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore, in which he talks about the fourth and final season of the show. Here are a few excerpts, cortesy of Sci Fi Pulse.
One aspect of season four which has many people talking is the addition of Star Trek Deep Space Nine actress Nana Visitor who will be playing a recurring role throughout the season and will get to spend a lot of screen time with Laura Roslin.
"Nana Visitor [Major Kira Nerys on DS9] is playing Emily," says the executive producer. "She's another cancer patient in sickbay and who Laura Roslin meets when receiving her chemotherapy treatments, which we call diloxin on our show.
"Not surprisingly, the president is making regular visits to sickbay this season, and in this story we introduce Emily, who is terminal and much further along in her illness then Laura. Faith is about the relationship between the two women. Nana is going to be terrific for this role, and it's great to see her again."
Season Four also brings us yet another incarnation of Tricia Helfer's Number Six character, "she'll be playing Natalie, yet another incarnation of Number Six. I've spoken about the growing conflict and division within the Cylon world, and two of the primary players in that are Cavil [Dean Stockwell] and Natalie. This Number Six is different from the other Sixes we've dealt with in that she's a bit more assertive as well as authoritative and not afraid to take charge."
"At the start of this year we all got together and said, OK, we want to be here by the end, and this is the outline of Season Four in very general terms," he recalls.
"We then talked about the first half of Season Four in detail, but chose to postpone any decisions to do with the second half until later on. Experience has taught us that as you start dealing with the first half of the season, a lot of things change. You're constantly deciding and discovering new things, so it's wise not to get too specific about the latter half until the first half is locked into place. That said, the macro goals that we set for ourselves as far as where we want our story to finally get to, are still in place and we're still moving towards those ideas."
More from Ronald D. Moore can be found at Sci Fi Pulse.
To read the full article, get the new issue of Starburst Magazine at your local newsstand.
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