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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 / 18:03, 15 June 2008 / Trek Books
IGN posted an extensive interview with legendary Star Trek writer D.C. Fontana. Here are few excerpts of the article.
If she had to pick, Fontana says Mister Spock is probably her favorite character to write. But he's a tough character to pen, to be sure, particularly as there must always be the temptation lurking in any writer to unveil his famously hidden emotions.
"You can't do that. You can't do that," says Fontana. "You have to play around that. Remember, he's half human, plus Vulcans are not totally emotionless. They're logical, they keep their emotions reigned in, but it is not that they do not have emotions. So you have to skirt that issue very carefully. And I always liked Spock because he was the alien outside observing us humans. He had the capacity to comment on our foibles from an alien point of view, which was always useful. And then of course the triumvirate of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy was always good. They worked well together. The actors worked well together, and I'm trying to remember if it was Gene Coon or someone else who wrote kind of a verbal fencing scene between McCoy and Spock. And we said, 'Oh, this works. We've got to let them do that more and put that into play so that the actors can then run with it.' And then more and more people did it."
Regarding her current comic book mini series for IDW, a sequel to her third season episode "The Enterprise Incident", titled Star Trek Year Four The Enterprise Experiment, Fontana explains "Of course the comic book now is sprung from this. "'The Enterprise Incident' became The Enterprise Experiment, so we get to look at a little more of a continuation of this female character and the Romulans, who I always thought were wonderful. The only reason that we didn't do them more on the series was because of all the ears, which was expensive and time-consuming makeup, even to do a couple of key characters properly. So that was a consideration as to why we went more with Klingons, who were easier to do in make-up, than the Romulans, who were harder and more expensive."
The full interview is here.
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