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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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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"Storm Front, Part I" Rushes Into Digital Future at Paramount Premiere, Plus ENT DVD Info

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STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE goes where no one has gone before yet again when it premieres this Friday. The show has switched to high definition digital video, and Paramount invited TrekWeb to a special screening co-hosted by the camera's manufacturer, Sony, to see the final result last night. ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT weekend anchor Kevin Frazier emceed the festivities.

The showing of "Storm Front, Part I" in the Paramount Theater attracted a large crowd and much of the cast and crew. Among the cast attendees were Scott Bakula, Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating, Linda Park, John Billingsley, and Anthony Montgomery. Producers Brannon Braga, Peter Lauritson, and Manny Coto took part in a panel discussion afterward, along with director photography Marvin Rush, director Allan Kroeker and two representatives from Sony.

"We've been examining and considering and weighing the possibilities of switching to digital for some time," producer Rick Berman said as he prefaced the episode. "But it really wasn't until this year that we discovered that with these Sony digital, high-def cameras that you'll see tonight, that we could give our audience the quality of image that they've been used to getting for all these years."

"We had tested the technology a few years ago, and at that time, no offense," Braga opened the panel sitting next to Sony general manager Andrew Stucker. "But at that time we didn't feel like the quality quite met the standards of the 35mm we were using. This year, it was virtually indistinguishable and in many ways, better. We have a lot of flexibility in the way that we shoot now, we save a lot of money in the budget, and there was no reason not to make the change."

Visually "Storm Front" is hard to distinguish from what we've been seeing on ENTERPRISE's first three seasons. Rush noted that one of the big advantages of the Sony CineAlta 24P camera is its ability to utilize natural lighting. The premiere features several sequences under the cloak of darkness and the detail offered by the HD camera is superior to traditional 35mm film, according to Marvin Rush, who pointed to a scene of Trip and Mayweather rummaging around with flashlights that required no additional lighting. The "splash" of the flashlights themselves was picked up entirely by the technology.

Rush himself offered a ringing endorsement of the switch, starting off by saying it was possibly the easiest transition in television history: "We set up the CineAlta camera, we put it on our set, and we turned it on. We shot it the same way, we lit it the same way, except for shooting a little faster [there were very few differences]."

Setting up lighting is typically one of the more time-consuming parts of a television shoot. It could take over an hour to light one shot, during which time the cast retires to their trailers until the stage is ready. Rush explains that the new technology allows the director to see a live monitor of the footage, as it will appear in the finished product. This lets the production team see immediately whether a scene has been completed to their satisfaction and move on or take more footage if necessary.

"This camera has tremendous capability on the bottom end, and we exploited it," Rush concluded. "It's better than film."

Scott Bakula says he and the cast were initially skeptical about the change, which required them to begin shooting earlier owing to the time saved in setting up the equipment.

"Seeing that 'previously on ENTERPRISE' clip, which was in our 35mm, and honestly I was nervous about going this way, but as I was watching that I realized that I could not tell. And they were right next to each other. So I stand corrected, and if Rick were here [Rick did not attend the panel], I would stand more corrected."

"I don't have as much time to talk to my kids anymore," Bakula joked about the long waits between takes that have been slimmed down by the new camera. "I think we were all scared at the beginning of the year because we had to get there early and Marvin just yanked the camera out and started shooting... that episode was a seven day shoot and when you think about all the locations and all the intensity and all the prep that went into that, that's a lot of work. We worked hard while we were there, there wasn't much standing around, but at the end of the day the days go faster."


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Must have been some change... | Report this post to moderator
By: J2M (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:11:40 on Oct 06, 2004

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we were watching the episode on a full-sized theater screen via a 2K DLP digital projection system.

If I remember correctly Steve, around 4 months ago, you were watching VHS copies of ENT a few weeks late, on an old TV set.

Now you get to see the episode before schedule, on a state of the art projection system, with the production staff and cast around you.

Talk about improving...! ;-)

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    By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:22:18 on Oct 06, 2004

    Well I wouldn't say my television image was ever very poor, but certainly this was an improvement for me personally! I also just got a 5.1 surround sound system to replace the long-blown speakers in my TV so everything should sound better at home now.

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      By: J2M (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:05:58 on Oct 07, 2004

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      Well I wouldn't say my television image was ever very poor, but certainly this was an improvement for me personally!

      More than that, watching the episode with the (almost) whole cast next to you and be able to chat with them afterwards must have been something !

      By the way, I'm surprised nobody brought the subject up (maybe someone has, and if so, I'm sorry to repeat it), but what about the opening credits sequence ? Has it changed ? Did they keep the song ?

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      By: JediFonger (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:58:25 on Oct 06, 2004

      hi steve,

      i hope you are referring to a REAL 5.1 surround sound system not one of those el cheapo few hundred bux ALL IN ONE boxes like Bose. and yesh you can hear a big difference. a truly 'minimal' sounding speaker system alone (just the 6 speakers alone) costs $1,000.

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        By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:08:41 on Oct 06, 2004

        No, I am talking about the cheap no-name brand on sale at Circuit for $94 so I could use my $100 gift card and put out no cash for it. I figure it's far superior to the blown speakers in my television set!

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          By: JediFonger (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:20:45 on Oct 07, 2004 | Edit History (1)

          not by far steve... not by far. ah well. most trek DVDs ain't mixed in 5.1 anyways though ent will be right?

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            By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:29:37 on Oct 07, 2004

            it's NOT superior to my blown speakers? could've fooled me! :-)

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              By: JediFonger (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:50:16 on Oct 07, 2004 | Edit History (1)

              nah i was just lamenting the fact that if you expect $100 to give you the same surround sound as your local cineplex or one of those home cinema demos @your local electronic store you will be sadly disappointed. also it's funny other people (not you) have spent $5k+ on big widescreen/plasma but just a coupla hundred to get speakers they can hear sound out of! that's crazy and insane if you really want that full and true cinema experience since sound is 50% if your media watching experience. yesh you have 5 channels of semi-directional sound vs your broken speaker from the TV but it just doesn't compare to fully dynamic ranged 'open sounding' speaker that is meant for true 5.1 experience =). i can tell you from experience myself that going from tv to 5.1 is one thing but going from cheap 5.1 to a 'minimal' quality set of speakers is truly awesome. many enthusiast will tell you their own home cinema RIVALs that of any of the local cineplexes because those big companies don't maintain their audio system very well cause they don't care. i can't tell you the amount of time i've been to cinemas with blown subwoofers/woofers and tweeters that just sound awful and distorted and you can hear the physical material pushing and pulling cause it's been broken but never replaced.

              perhaps not now but hopefully your wife (cause it's a wife issue now) will allow you to upgrade to a 'real' 5.1 surround sound setup. you should spend 60+% if your total budget on speakers alone cause they are the final step before they reach your ears.

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                By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:16:52 on Oct 07, 2004

                Honestly I'm not that big into home audio/video. I see big movies in the theater and lately find myself rarely watching movies from my DVD collection. TV is about all I watch and most of it isn't in surround anyway (news for instance). I'd much rather spend the thousands that some spend on that equipment on a condo, a house, a boat, trips, eating at nice restaurants, or any number of priorities. I like having a nice sound quality, but as long as it sounds good that's all I'm concerned with. In this case, my TV speakers are blown and I can't buy a nice expensive TV anytime soon so the $100 surround receiver and speakers did the trick.

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Aha! There we go! | Report this post to moderator
By: Dodgy (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:17:54 on Oct 05, 2004 | Edit History (1)

STEVE, HAVE YOU SEEN THE EPISODE???
STEVE, HAVE YOU SEEN THE EPISODE???
STEVE, HAVE YOU SEEN THE EPISODE???

What's it like? Please!


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    By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:32:09 on Oct 05, 2004

    Check out the last two paragraphs of the article. I'll leave the more detailed reviewing to O. Deus when the season gets underway. It's pretty much an action-packed plot-twisting episode, like most season openers.

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      By: Dodgy (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:49:51 on Oct 05, 2004

      Yeah, i read those two. But that is what i am concerned about. I am already sick and tired of Alias. Does it make ANY sense?


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        By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:59:25 on Oct 05, 2004 | Edit History (1)

        Sure it makes sense. It's a perfectly fine season premiere. The Nazi what-if scenario is fun to play with and the tie into the TCW is plausible and entertaining. But I think the meat of the season is going to start around weeks 3/4.

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no pics? :( | Report this post to moderator
By: NCC-1701 (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:34:37 on Oct 05, 2004

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Hope you had a good time... ;-) | Report this post to moderator
By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:20:34 on Oct 05, 2004

Sounds interesting. I remember reading something on a digital media trade website from a couple years ago where the Trek production staff lambasted the technology and said that they had planned to stick with 35mm for some time. But of course, technology and time flies. ;-)

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Just look for the channel not showing the second presidential debate.

The debate is on at 9 pm ET. ENT is on at 8 pm ET.

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    By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:00:28 on Oct 05, 2004

    Not everybody lives on the coasts.

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      By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:17:03 on Oct 05, 2004

      This has nothing to do with "coasts".

      Does not PT run ENT at 8 pm local (which would be 11 pm ET)? CT runs ENT at 7 pm local. And when I've been out in Colorado for weeks at a time, I've noticed that MT would actually run primetime stuff at 6 pm local.

      The debate is at 9 pm ET or 8 pm CT or 7 pm MT or 6 pm PT.

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        By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:26:44 on Oct 05, 2004

        ENT may squeak by the debate for many, then. I think central is the only zone that runs prime time an hour early, so I would think there'll definitely be some areas of the country where the debate overlaps ENT.

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          By: David Henderson (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:09:23 on Oct 05, 2004

          > I think central is the only zone that runs prime time an hour early, so I would think there'll definitely be some areas of the country where the debate overlaps ENT.

          No, the Central and Eastern time zones show network programming at the *exact same time*. 8pm ET is 7pm CT. So Enterprise will be on at 7pm CT (8pm ET), and the debate will be on at 8pm CT (9pm ET). There will be no overlap.

          There will also be no overlap in PT, where network programming is delayed for three hours. The debate will be on from 6-8pm PT (9-11pm ET), and Enterprise will be on from 8-9pm PT (11pm-12am ET).

          The only confusing situation is in MT. Networks always say "8, 7 Central", without mentioning Mountain Time. They used to say "8, 7 Central and Mountain", which indicated that Central would get the show at the exact same time as Eastern, and Mountain would be delayed one hour. I have no idea whatsoever whether this is still the case, and since it takes a whole big process to try to view the TV Guide for a different ZIP Code, I'm not in any hurry to do research on it.

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            By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:39:13 on Oct 05, 2004

            I meant 7p as being an hour earlier than 8p. Yeah I don't know about mountain time. I would presume it'll air at 8p local and thus overlap with second half of debate??

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          By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:09:17 on Oct 05, 2004

          MT runs it an hour earlier locally (generally 7 pm local) or 2 hours different from ET. I have seen them run stuff at 6 pm local, which was nuts. I noticed that Denver had an ad for ENT's premier (only) scheduled for 8 pm local (10 pm ET).

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            By: MCCSaxman (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 15:11:45 on Oct 05, 2004

            As someone who lives in the Mountain time zone now, west of Denver in ski country. I am not sure when the Denver station will be airing Enterprise. According to the UPN website everything is as if they are not airing the debate. So if they aren't airing the debate it will be on at 7:00 MDT, however if they are airing the debate who knows.

            As for the time zone thing and when what is being aired, unless the program is live the Mountain time zone is aired starting at 7:00 MDT.

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              By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:28:42 on Oct 05, 2004

              Yes - the schedule over there indicated normally it's at 7 pm local rather than "8 pm" local, which to East coaster me was always weird because "primetime" was always defined as 8 pm+. LOL.

              I've spent a couple weeks in both Denver and Florissant (30 miles west and about 2000 ft higher than Colorado Springs). That was fun! Image

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