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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 / 23:26, 4 July 2009 / General Genre/SciFi
PreviewsWorld.com posted a new interview with Star Trek star William Shatner regarding his new line of comic books from Bluewater Productions and here are few excerpts from the article.
Along with "TekWar Chronicles," the "William Shatner Presents" line will also include the upcoming comic book series "Chimera," "Man O' War" and "Quest for Tomorrow."
"This is my first opportunity to take some of the stuff I've written and work with storyboard artists of the quality that I am working with and having regular satisfaction out of it," he said.
Regarding TekWar, he said "These novels were based on my unending interest in television, my fascination with television brings me to the point where it keeps me from going to bed at a decent hour. So I took that to the point where somebody could have visions, taking this futuristic drug 'Tek,' and I put a policemen, Jake Cardigan, who was unjustly accused of a crime who is rehired and brought back to society because of his detective skills. He works on two levels - one solving the crimes, second clearing his name from a crime he didn't commit."
Shatner also wrote a series of young adult science fiction novels, called Quest for Tomorrow. "This series is about teenagers. It's fast-paced with the goings-on and the intricate lives of teenagers that we examine. They're living in the future, but their angst is traditional."
The third series from William Shatner is Man O'War. "'Man O'War' is the term given to a warship, which is what our hero becomes reluctantly," said Shatner. The solar system is in turmoil. Earth is overpopulated, the off-world colonies on Mars and in the asteroid belt are keeping Earth's population alive, but the colonies which once offered so much promise are now tyrannical labor camps of slavery and servitude. "Man O'War attempts to have its own philosophy. If you wish to compromise, where does compromise take place, and when does compromise become a lack of ideals? Our hero, Benton Hawkes, is a diplomat who catches the fervor of revolution from the young Martians who are in revolt against Earth. Our hero is sent to Mars where he becomes infused with a fervor not unlike the American Revolutionaries."
Said Shatner of the finished artwork, "I think it's really excellent. The magic that I always intuitively saw as the artist would paint panels and try to fill panels as completely as possible, like a motion picture, requires great art to have your eye rove from panel-to-panel, to give the sense of motion."
The full interview is here.
Plus, Comic Book Movies also posted an interview with Shatner on designing the original TekWar TV Series and comic books from Marvel Comics.
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