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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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Fans of the Alias and Felicity television series should recognize actor Greg Grunberg, who has appeared in numerous onscreen venues directed or written by J.J. Abrams -- including an uncredited scene in Lost, and a cameo in Mission: Impossible 3. Grunberg also made an appearance in The Dead Zone, created by the late Michael Piller.
"Greg, who's my oldest friend since kindergarten, is someone who -- I love working with Greg. He's my good luck charm," hearts J.J. at Zap2It.
The betting odds are in favor of Grunberg gearing up to flesh out the cast of Star Trek XI, an enterprise that has already extracted his exhilaration: "I hope [J.J.] gives me a great role in that," enthuses Grunberg. "I would love it" (story).
Officially, Paramount is saying that the Daily Variety (story) jumped the gun and announced the Trek deal a bit too early, reports IESB. "Before J.J. gets on the phone, journalists are warned not to ask about Star Trek." Undaunted, our peripatetic pen-pals at IESB caught Grunberg at the 2006 Saturn Awards, where their Q&A wormholed from NBC pilot Heroes to ST:XI...
IESB: So, if [Abrams] calls and says he wants you in Star Trek...
Grunberg: I have to see... check my schedule. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?! I'd love to be in that movie.
IESB: Here's a question: Are you a Star Trek fan, originally?
GG: I'm not a Star Trek fanatic, but I sure... I enjoy the series. I mean, you know, I enjoy the show.
IESB: So, you wouldn't object to recasting Kirk and Spock, like that rumor was saying, going around?
GG: Well, they have to -- we're going back in time. I think it's like the beginnings, it's when they were young, so they're going to have to. I just think it's interesting: J.J., you know, here he is, he took the Mission Impossible franchise and humanized it -- and I think he's going to do the same thing, you know, for Star Trek, certainly. And he's writing with Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci], I mean, they all wrote Mission together. It's going to be incredible. You know it's going to be great. I think that's what's going to reinvigorate -- you know, the Star Trek fans are gonna go see it; half of them are going to hate the fact that they're bringing them back, and half are going to love it. But, J.J.'s just going to bring in a whole new audience, you know, to it.
See this exclusive video interview with Greg Grunberg at IESB.net
J.J. Abrams' Saturn Award-winning Lost - The Complete First Season DVD is on sale now in the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and Deutschland.
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Unless you want to inject the possibility that he was lying or answering through his hat, it looks like he just let slip a confirmation that they're re-casting the seminal Trek roles.
If anyone wants to see for themselves whether re-casting Spock, Kirk and McCoy can be done effectively (or if you prefer, what your personal reaction is to _an_ re-casting) visit www.newvoyages.com and download an ep.
As an Trekkie, I would 'ave to say, that ST:NV displays (to me) that it can be done, in that it was able to surmount my apprehension _against_ an re-casting.
Introspectively, it works primarily because it meets 3 criteria.
1. it's very respectful of the original TOS
2. the (re)cast members are unknowns.
3. It captures the look'n'feel of TOS down to recreations of original sets.
While 3 is not necessary for a new Trek movie, in that an TOS early-years movie need only 'look'n'feel' contextually like TOS (we've seen some excellent art posted here on Trekweb where uniforms look consistent with pre-TOS/post-Naval)
Myself, I would submit that criteria 1 is absolutely essential, and criteria 2 is preferable.
Abrams has vocalized his respect for the original series (and fans) so assuming he's not engaging in a feat of linguistic legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity, that's one down.
I'm now 'opeful.
Michael X.
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Quote from c.p. to GustavoLeao:
If the movie's good enough, no one will care.
You're absolutely right.
ENT didn't get booed and hissed out of existence because of its clothing or furniture, nor even by misplaced audience preconceptions -- ENT collapsed under incompetent storytelling.
I'm not the same person today that I was when I was just 17 or 20, so I don't expect young Kirk and Spock to be everything they came to be by the time they serve together aboard NCC-1701. In TOS "Shore Leave," for example, we're shown how much Kirk had changed since his Academy days, when he's confronted by a spunky young Finnegan. In "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Mitchell talks about their Academy shenanigans, and Kirks says "I wasn't that bad, was I?" Gene Roddenberry et al are telling us that the Kirk we see as Captain isn't the Kirk in Starfleet Academy.
Star Trek is now light-years ahead of where it was under Rick Berman, yet fans who have a myopic agenda will continue to grumble.
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It was the acting and the fact that Trek had declined to a point where no one cared.
The relative success of New Voyages is evidence of how subpar acting can be overlooked by fans, in favor of integrity toward the subject. Abrams claims no intention of subverting the material (quote).
Thirteen million viewers "cared" to tune in for the premiere of ENT, which underdog UPN had promoted as a prequel. It's what viewers were then dished, onscreen, that caused them to leave. People generally don't flee from a good thing.
The Nemesis flop effectively sealed the big-screen coffin for Picard and crew, who are also now long in the tooth.
Yet, Star Trek remains a pop-cult phenomenon: It's part of our casual jargon and recreation; it's the topic of University courses on philosophy and religion. It's a timless force that rides the classic elements from TOS, not TNG or other "modern" Trek.
Paramount has done everything right since canceling ENT. Now they've appointed a creative (Abrams) who's renowned as a character-oriented storyteller with humor and humanity, to produce a feature film that utilizes the franchise's big-gun icons: Kirk and Spock, the real McCoys.
If this and a solid story can't sell tickets to Star Trek XI, nothing will.
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