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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 / 16:01, 20 September 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis
In a new interview to Maxim.com, actress Diora Baird confirmed she is playing an Orion Slave Girl in the new Star Trek movie. Here are few excerpts of the brief interview.
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However, I don't think the Orion Slave girl was on more than one episode -- as a glorified belly dancer -- of TOS. Abrams couldn't come up with something new?
The original pilot episode, "The Cage", momentarily transforms human Vina into a belly-dancing "green animal woman", in an illusion scene that's created by the telepathic Talosians, as an attempt to seduce Captain Pike into believing that their menagerie could be anything he can imagine. The Talosians had tapped into Pike's own mind, to (correctly) surmise that a powerful inducement for the typical human male is the sight of a writhing female who holds promise of animalistic sex.
The second appearance of an Orion female, Marta in "Whom Gods Destroy", also served for a premeditated (and failed) seduction of a stalwart Starfleet captain (Kirk).
Today, we take for granted this potent sexual meme -- the "green chick" -- which stuck in our pop-cult mythos. So much so that, over the years, it has crept beyond Star Trek, and beyond a genre dominated by red-blooded males, into a wider urban vocabulary.
This iconic trope belongs to TOS. I don't expect Abrams to shy away from it simply because a faction of the sci-fi world+dog feels that the (still) popular storytelling device is too familiar.
We know ST:XI includes Pike, so the story could simply provide an account of why he might once have had a green chick in his thoughts (something that may center on young Kirk).
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