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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 TRexx / 00:59, 21 April 2006 / General Star Trek
Variety has reported that Mission: Impossible 3 helmer J.J. Abrams will produce and direct the eleventh Star Trek feature film, targeted for release sometime in 2008.
Abrams' executive-producer partners from TV series Lost, Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk, have been named to co-produce the as-yet untitled Trek flick. Burk also worked as a co-producer with Abrams on Alias.
M:I-3 writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are aboard to pen the ST:XI script with Abrams, for a story that "will center on the early days of seminal Trek characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer space mission."
Daily Variety journo and Paramount specialist Dave McNary credits this new deal to the studio's bullishness on the upcoming (May 5th) M:I-3, and that it underscores the brand revitalization goals of executives Brad Grey and Gail Berman.
See McNary's original scoop in "Trekkies have a new leader" at Variety.com
The CBS Star Trek site affirms, "Although there isn't an official Paramount press release announcing the movie, it is a confirmed project under development. The former Star Trek producer [Rick Berman] is not involved in this project." Under Sherry Lansing's tenure, Berman had been trooped with producers Jordan Kerner and Kerry McCluggage (story). The script for that production -- The Beginning, penned by Erik Jendresen -- was recently announced as abandoned (story).
Harve Bennett had proposed Star Trek: The Academy Years for the sixth movie, and got the green light from Paramount. "When they said I could do the next Star Trek movie, they wanted an anniversary piece -- and wanted it done in nine months," recalled Bennett for a 1999 article at StarTrek.com. "I figured it would take three months for a script, considering that the fastest I'd ever done one was six weeks. Then I figured that it would take a minimum of six months for the opticals, so I passed."
Ralph Winter went on to produce Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, but Bennett's Academy idea would again come under serious consideration.
"Before Sherry Lansing left [Paramount Pictures] last year, we had a meeting, about two years ago, in which I proposed that now was the time to do Starfleet Academy. And she loved it," Bennett told Trek Nation just earlier this year. "We would have made it. But then she said the television department had asked her not to do it, because Enterprise was being produced and they thought that should be the prequel. Therefore, we did not do that. Could we make it now? If somebody wants to, I'm there."
According to Paramount spokeswoman Nancy Kirkpatrick (via Yahoo/AP), neither William Shatner nor Leonard Nimoy has yet been approached for Abrams' project. "We certainly are hoping to bring Star Trek back to its former glory."
Energize.
UPDATE:
GEORGE TAKEI STATEMENT ON VARIETY STORY:
This is a startling new development for the "Star Trek" franchise and I am very excited about the news.
When we filmed the pilot in 1965, we were praying it would sell -- to think that in 2006 Paramount would be revving up to make the 11th "Star Trek" feature film would have been beyond the most fantastical of thoughts back in 1965.
I wonder what Sulu would have been up to in those early days at Starfleet Academy?
We've lived much longer than we ever thought, and will continue to prosper in so many unimagined ways in the future.
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