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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 / 09:22, 19 October 2009 / Trek Books
The View From The Bridge Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood by Nicholas Meyer
Review by Jeff Ayers
Nicholas Meyer has directed several films that still resonate today. The fun pairing of Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud in The Seven Percent Solution, H.G. Wells chasing Jack the Ripper in present day (1979) San Francisco in Time After Time, and the bleak portrait of life in middle-America after a nuclear detonation in the television movie, The Day After. Of course, the most popular films, and the reason for his memoir, are the three Star Trek films he worked on. He directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. In addition, he helped with the screenplay for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Meyer's memories of working on the three Trek films deliver surprising revelations that even the hard-core Trek fan will have never heard before. Who really wrote Star Trek II? Where those really Ricardo Montalban's pecs?
Meyer provides wonderful stories and insight into the three movies he worked on. (Does this make him the man responsible for the odd numbered film curse?) One aspect that I found lacking was the emotional hook. While he does a good job talking about the making of his films, the parts that deal with his personal life are completely glossed over, such as his first wife's death. Keep that in mind when picking this up. You will learn a lot about Meyer the filmmaker, but virtually nothing about Meyer the person.
7.5 out of 10
Reviewer Jeff Ayers is the author of Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion trade paperback, and webmaster of VoyagesOfImagination.com
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