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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 / 10:57, 8 June 2007 / General Star Trek
Trek Movie Report posted an exclusive interview with Battlestar Galactica Ronald D. Moore, in which he talks about the future of the Star Trek franchise on the big and small screen. Regarding the subject of Star Trek XI Moore told the site that he is a fan of J.J. Abrams. "He is tremendously talented and I think he is going to do a really good job," Here are a few excerpts.
TrekMovie.com: Last week your old DS9 comrade Ira Behr told me (story) that he thought the plans to return to the era of Kirk and Spock was the safe bet, but that it was also ‘marching backwards to the future', do you agree with that assessment?
Ron Moore: think I understand Ira's point and there is a lot of validity to saying they are stepping backwards, but at the same time I think it is the smart move to do it. I think the Star Trek universe has grown beyond what you can get your arms around. You can no longer truly enjoy it for what it is because it is so big and it has so many cross sections and so much continuity that it is maddening. I think only the truly hard core fans can keep all that together. So I think it is time to brush all that stuff over and say ‘what were the roots of all this again? , what was this really about?' It was about the 5 year mission with these guys on this ship and let's start over and tell a new set of tales. So I support them I think it is a really good move.
TrekMovie.com: Beyond the film, there are a lot of new genre TV shows getting the greenlight these days. Do you think that Star Trek and it's kind of futuristic space based sci-fi can work on network television today?
Ron Moore: I don't know I think that is tough. It hasn't been done and they have given it a try over the years, even the original Star Trek didn't make it on network TV. The broadcast networks needs such a large general audience and science fiction on TV has been such a narrower appeal. It is a strange equation of which I have never understood because if you look at the top ten feature films of all time it is almost all genre stuff...look at Star Wars. Why it doesn't work on TV I don't know.
More from Moore can be found at Trek Movie Report.
UPDATE : Moore also talked to IESB and said he is okay with a complete re-imagining of Star Trek.
"I'm very supportive in what they are doing," Moore tells the IESB. "I think starting over on Star Trek is the best possible route that you can go."
So does that mean Abrams should re-imagine it just like Moore did Galactica? "I think that you can re-imagine it, yes, I think that you can absolutely re-imagine Star Trek. Now I don't know that you have to, it doesn't have to be a Battlestar version of Star Trek...I don't know how radical is what J.J. Abrams has in mind," said Moore.
The original report (plus a video interview) is here.
UPDATE 2 : Collider also talked with Moore and asked him if Abrams had called him about the feature and what does he hopes to see with the new movie. Finally they asked him if they were to do a new Trek TV show after the feature film would he be willing to return to the franchise. See the video interview here.
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