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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 / 22:01, 19 November 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis
Wired posted a report on the Los Angeles screening of the four scenes from the upcoming Star Trek movie, which took place today at the Paramount lot. The screening, again presented by J.J. Abrams, was attended by actors Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Ben Cross and Chris Hemsworth. Here are few excerpts of the article.
"I wouldn't actually say that I felt intimidated by Spock partly because I felt so supported by J.J. Abrams," Quinto told Wired. "I also got to know Leonard Nimoy, who was really gracious."
Describing his take on the part of Captain Pike, Greenwood said: "I'm reprising Jeffrey Hunter's role, so I looked at what he'd done. Someone told me his son was trying to get a hold of me. I don't know if he had any concerns -- but I never heard from him."
More from Abrams, Quinto and Greenwood can be found here.
UPDATE : Wired posted a review of the footage. Here is an excerpt of their review :
"The verdict? While four five-minute clips do not a movie make, it's safe to say that Abrams' Trek will be younger, brighter, busier and more frenetically paced than any previous incarnation." the reviewer wrote "The performances are edgier and louder, but not better. The effects are spectacular and executed on a scale never attempted by any Trek film. And, while connected to Gene Roddenberry's creation, this film is deliberately and unquestionably built in its own universe -- constructing its story on the idea that the original Star Trek time line has been destroyed and must be reconstructed as closely as possible."
More can be found here (beware of spoilers)
UPDATE : Sci Fi Wire also posted a report on the Los Angeles screening, with another detailed review of the four scenes. Here is their review of scene 2 (beware of major spoilers) :
Footage: Cadet Kirk is smuggled aboard the Enterprise by his doctor friend, Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Karl Urban), who has injected him with something to simulate disease symptoms. It's an end-run around a Starfleet regulation so that Kirk--who was banned from the ship for getting into too much trouble--can be aboard as the Enterprise, on her maiden voyage, takes part in a rescue mission to Vulcan. We see much of the ship and the young crew and get a sense of the new dynamics among them. Ultimately, the rescue mission sparks something in Kirk's memory, and he rushes to the bridge to inform Capt. Pike that they are entering a trap set by the Romulans.
Our verdict: The scene showcases Abrams' new approach to Star Trek's main setting, the Enterprise. Much has been written about the ways in which the crew and Enterprise differ from those of previous TV and film incarnations, so I won't go over them. But I will say that Abrams takes seriously the idea that the Enterprise is vast, and we see many scenes filled with people in spaces that are very industrial (below decks, as it were) and immense. The bridge, by contrast, is sleek, white and filled with electronic screens, and the peppy crew looks the part in their red, blue and gold tunics.
There are some differences with classic Trek. Abrams' choice is to direct with an emphasis on energy and movement, and the camera seems never to stop moving. There's a lot of running and yelling and overlapping dialogue, which adds urgency but may be jarring to diehard Trek fans used to previous Trek films' more deliberate pace. This not necessarily a bad thing. (And continuity check: The first-season original episode "Balance of Terror" asserts that Romulans have never been seen, yet in this scene Kirk and Sulu plainly battle Romulans.)
The other issue is the humor. The original Trek had a gentle, dry sense of humor, exemplified in Spock's arid delivery and McCoy's country-doctor aphorisms. The humor in this scene, by contrast, is very broad and almost slapstick, particularly concerning Kirk's various symptoms (hands that balloon like mittens, a tongue that swells and lolls in his mouth) and in Urban's delivery of McCoy's lines, which exaggerate DeForest Kelly's cadences. Similarly, Anton Yelchin--an actual Russian by birth--delivers Chekov's lines in a stagy Russki patois that milks his mispronunciation of such words as "Victor" ("Wiktor"). Whether the rest of Trek's humor is as broad remains to be seen.
For Sci Fi Wire reviews of scenes 1,3 and 4, go here.
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