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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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The latest issue of Starlog magazine, out in the U.S., features a new interview with Star Trek actor Simon Pegg, the new Scotty. Here is an excerpt from the article.
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Yesterday morning, August 26, HardCoreNerdity.com posted an exclusive audio interview with Simon Pegg, recorded at Toronto's Fan Expo. Pegg mentions that he approached the Scotty character "from scratch."
None of the Trek sites have scoped this interview yet, so here's a transcribed excerpt from the 30-minute MP3 podcast (which also has segments with BSG's Edward James Olmos and Aaron Douglas)...
HardCoreNerdity.com: Star Trek's always been about hope for the future, and there's been some talk that the reasons Star Trek had been on the slide for the last few years is that maybe it's a little too quaint. Maybe, in the post-9/11 world, we're a little too cynical that this kind of world could possibly exist in the future. What do you think about that?
Pegg: I dunno -- I think it's a shame if that's the case, because I think that's what marked it out when it first started. Gene Roddenberry created this vision of an integrated universe, it was way ahead of its time; it had the first interracial kiss, on television, was on Star Trek. The very notion of -- I love the fact that the engineer was Scottish, because Scotland has a history of incredibly innovative engineers. And he [Roddenberry] did paint this really clever future-verse. I think that to suggest that we can't still get there is just kind of giving up. So, I hope that's not the case.
Obviously, JJ's Star Trek is going to be, you know, it's going to have JJ's stamp on it. It'll be like -- it'll be contemporary, and gritty, but it'll be -- it's very much Star Trek. The bridge was the bridge, it was incredible, but somehow it didn't look like it was built in the '60s. The production design was so cleverly pitched, in that it was completely credible, but still very much like you'd expect. It's very clever. I don't know if I should have said that!
HardCoreNerdity.com: Franchises have been benefiting a lot from reboots lately -- Batman Begins, Casino Royale -- do you think Star Trek will have that kind of feel, and do you think it's gonna reinvigorate it?
Pegg: I hope so. I think it's very much in that vein. It's very much about getting back to what made it good in the first place. That's what both those films have done -- in Casino Royale and Batman Begins -- they stripped it back down to the beginning and what appealed at the very conception. What happens with things that exist for a long time is they become augmented, and gimmicky, and things change, and they kind of -- they're added to and added to -- to try and make them better -- and it ends up just toppling over, under the weight of its own sort of self-parody -- whereas this is really getting back to it.
I know there's some consternation within the fanbase, but they're gonna see new Star Trek with the original cast. I don't know what's not to be fucking excited about! I am, and I'm in it. And it's in the hands of a person who really cares about it. We had advisors on-set the whole time. If we needed to know what happened on a -- if there was an away mission, and only a certain amount of people went, then who carried the tricorder -- we got it all from the people that really know. And JJ was absolutely at pains to make sure that it's totally and utterly -- and there's a lot in it for the fan. There's a lot of little ironies in there that you'll pick up on if you know the series, and you know the mythology. It's going to be crackin'!
HcN #16: Simon Pegg Talks New Star Trek!
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