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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
Nov 08 | Unreality-SF.net has interviewed Star Trerk author James Swallow about some of his upcoming projects. He talks about Titan: Synthesis and Seven Deadly Sins: The Slow Knife, as well as some forthcoming Doctor Who and Stargate stories.
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By GustavoLeao / 13:15, 9 December 2008 / General Genre/SciFi
DreamWatch Total Sci Fi posted a new interview with Battlestar Galactica actor Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh) and here are few excerpts (beware of minor spoilers)
The first half of season four ends on another cliffhanger. Any hints on where the story goes from there?
I can't say too much, but I can say it ends. You know, over the years when we first started doing this, I myself told them my passion as an actor is doing different things. And this has been one long five-year movie.
I've said to Ron [Moore] a few times over the shooting, "You said at the beginning of the show there's going to be a beginning, a middle and an end. Are you going to stick to that?" And he's replied, "Yeah, we definitely intend that it finishes." Even though the network is putting on great pressure because, you know, it's a money making thing; it's a licence to print money.
I think it's pretty nervy of the network to let them pull the plug before the mandate is over, because we all have a year left on our options. But the story of Battlestar will soon be over.
But [the Battlestar TV movie that will follow the final season] The Plan is one of those things where you go, "Wow, they've got this huge movie now." So even though they're not going to go beyond this end point, they can go back to a lot of different places and shoot stories within that.
But as far as you know The Plan is going to be the last TV movie?
Yes, that's as far as I know. There are no rumours of any new films coming out. The rumours were gone when they tore the sets down.
It was amazing to go and stand and watch the sets come down, the CIC [Combat Information Centre, or the bridge] especially. You don't realize how much a part of the fabric of your life this show has become until you wander into the studio and see it halfway torn down. There are just the steel girders in half of the CIC there now. So, they're not going to go back and shoot a movie in the CIC. Tigh's quarters are gone, Adama's quarters are gone, all those great sets are gone.
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