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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 / 08:54, 28 June 2007 / Star Trek: Nemesis
MTV posted an exclusive interview with Star Trek XI screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Here are few excerpts from the article.
"It'll probably just be called 'Star Trek,' " Kurtzman revealed of the film, which will depict the early relationship between Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock.
"Really, we've just tried to capture the spirit correctly," said Orci.
"It's family, it's friendship, but it's also so much more."
"I think there's a humanistic approach to 'Star Trek' that you feel in every narration," Kurtzman said of the antagonistic friendship between Kirk and Spock. "Alien races are coming together and forming odd bonds of friendship and family. That's the core of the spirit of Star Trek."
"He created a side of 'Star Trek' as a response to the Cold War," Kurtzman observed of Gene Roddenberry positive vision of the future. "In a way, he made a fantasy of finding a way for everyone to come together - and that has managed to stick through all the versions of 'Star Trek.' "
These days, the Cold War is ancient history. So instead, the writers are attempting a similar approach feeding off fears of terrorism.
"The world's changed, but it also hasn't," Kurtzman said of their approach. "We live in a world where it's about ultra-paranoia of others, and that is as it was back when Roddenberry invented 'Trek.' In a way, it's more timely now than ever to be doing this. ... There was paranoia about the Cold War. That was their version of terrorism. We're living in a very parallel environment right now."
There is the possibility of a return from legendary TOS stars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, who the writers say they "had a meeting with, just to express our admiration and promise that we would treat ['Trek'] with reverence."
But according to rumors, Shatner is reportedly upset that only Nimoy will get a cameo.
"We were very surprised about that," Kurtzman said.
"We're certainly hoping to include him in the shoot," Orci added. "Because we have nothing but reverence and awe for the man."
Asked if the new, young Kirk also be so melodramatic as Shatner, Orci said"It's tough, because so many of the people that portrayed the characters in 'Star Trek' were distinctive. A lot of the writing created Shakespearean-type characters, such that you could imagine it going both ways. You could imagine it being open to interpretation, or you can imagine it being really faithful. We're trying to figure out how to do it."
The full interview can be found at MTV.
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