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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 / 17:39, 21 July 2008 / Feature Films
Wired.com posted a new interview with actor Simon Pegg, the new Montgomery Scott in J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie. Here are few excerpts of the interview.
Wired.com: Speaking of Star Trek ... in an episode of Spaced, your character Tim says that there are some things in life that are just fact. And one of those facts is that every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shit. But now you're about to star in Star Trek XI.
Pegg: Obviously there are exceptions to every rule. It isn't a universal constant. I have been made to participate in my own wrong proving. Fate put me in the movie to show me I was talking out of my ass.
J.J. Abrams has this habit of putting me in the position of making me eat my own words. When I was doing press for Shaun of the Dead, a journalist asked me if I was going to go off to Hollywood now. I said: "I'm not gonna just run off and do some film like Mission: Impossible III." I just made up a film. Four months later, J.J. calls me and asks me if I wanted to be in Mission: Impossible III and I was like: "Yes!" Oh what a fool.
This odd-numbered film is going to be amazing.
Wired.com: The historical character of Scotty is a bit of a stereotype. He's a Scottish engineer, named Scotty, who loves to drink. Did you need to update the character at all in the way you played him to make him more PC?
Pegg: In some respects he's a racial stereotype. But, I know plenty of Scottish people who like a bit of a drink and have the surname Scott.
It's very important to be sensitive and not make generalizations about groups of people, but you can be oversensitive. Scotty's a very affectionate stereotype. He's a popular character in Scotland. He's not a negative stereotype -- he's a fun stereotype. The differences between ourselves can be very funny. But Scotts are the first people to laugh at the fact that they drink and fight a bit.
It's also not an accident that the chief engineer on the Enterprise is Scottish. An enormous amount of extremely important inventions came out of Scotland. The Scottish engineer is in the tradition of John Logie Baird, who invented the TV, or Alexander Graham Bell.
Wired.com: So you were OK with playing him as a stereotype without parodying him?
Pegg: Certainly not parodying him. It was just a question of playing him. I approached the part like James [Doohan, the original Scotty] did when he got the part. To look at who he is. He's an accomplished engineer, a bit cheeky, likes a drink and a brawl.
Wired.com: Right, but it's hard to imagine how you can play the part without mimicking the original character. The same thing goes for Chris Pine, who plays Captain Kirk in the new film. How do you do Kirk without doing Shatner?
Pegg: Going into it I thought the same stuff. How are all these other actors going to take on characters where the actor is as famous as the character? Shatner and Nimoy, they inhabited those roles with such conviction and such skill. All you can do is play the part in the spirit of those actors -- not take it lightly or parody it. Watching Chris Pine, and all the actors, I had skin-tingly moments. I saw them doing their stuff and thought: They've got this so fucking right. Chris had that swagger, and confidence, and big-balls-ness, and I think he nailed it.
The full interview is here.
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