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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 / 11:25, 24 September 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis
IESB posted their complete interview with Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and here are few excerpts.
IESB: Do you approach Eagle Eye differently because it's not an existing franchise? It gives you more liberty I assume.
Bob: What it does is make us answer only to ourselves. When you are doing a property like Star Trek, we feel it doesn't just belong to us, it belongs to all the fans that really love it and there has to be a certain respect that goes into that and there has to be a certain openness to what longtime stewards of those properties believe and feel. When you do something original like this that's not a part of your process. It's more - it's a different thing, maybe there's more freedom.
Alex: It's obviously a different kind of responsibility in that there were certain thrillers going up that were the standard that we needed to hold this movie to, you know, what it felt like to go through that ride, or In the Line of Fire or any of those really great thrillers you remember for your whole life. That was the type of standard we were holding ourselves to in the development process and the shooting.
IESB: Of all the things you guys have produced or written in the past, which is the one thing that you think really felt similar to Eagle Eye?
Bob: Let's see, thinking about it, a lot of our work has the theme of what is the balance between technology and humanity. Fringe in a way is about that, Transformers in a way is about that, Star Trek is about that, so that theme keeps bringing us back. In terms of the fact that this is a thriller, I think...
IESB: Talking about things that excite all of us, give us a couple updates, when are we going to see the Star Trek trailer?
Bob: Before Christmas sometime I think.
Alex: I think they are still debating the date.
IESB: There are some rumors that it might be attached to Eagle Eye. That's not true?
Bob: I don't think it will be. I think there was discussion of that at some point but I don't think so.
IESB: And then, the Transformers 2 trailer, there is talk that it may be attached to Star Trek? Nothing before then, or do you think Michael will tease us early like he did last time with the Mars footage.
Bob: I actually don't know, I can't imagine you would have to wait until May, but who knows. I can't imagine that.
The full interview is here.
The Hollywood Reporter also posted a new interview with Orci and Kurtzman. Here is an excerpt.
THR: With "Transformers," your emotional through-line was "a boy and his car," and with "M:I-3" it was "Marriage: Impossible." What was your mantra for "Trek"?
Orci: For "Trek," it's how a family comes together. And then more specifically, the story of two brothers, Kirk and Spock. It's the first time Alex and I got to really write about our friendship, in a way. So that was a big inspiration for us -- the coming together of opposites in a partnership that takes you to places you can't even believe. I mean, that's us.
THR: Have you had any funky interactions with Trekkies since you got this job?
Orci: Only online. And not funky. You know: passionate, informed (laughs), emotional. Nothing that's made us uncomfortable. But someone on one of the chat boards mentioned that it looks like I was gaining a little weight and I should stay off the doughnuts. So that's the only thing that I've had to contend with. But you know, that's the price.
The full article is here.
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