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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 TRexx / 11:09, 27 August 2006 / General Star Trek
For the occasion of Fan Expo Canada, the Toronto Star spoke to Leonard Nimoy by phone from Lake Tahoe.
The retired actor pursues his interest in photography, and has cut back on his appearances at conventions. "I'm probably scheduled for four, five, six Star Trek events every year. Now this year, there happens to be more interest because of the 40th anniversary. That's kicked up some press interest and press interest kicks up other interest."
The thespian formerly known as Spock hasn't sought to be in the Star Trek XI development loop.
"All I know is what I've been reading, probably the same as you, that (J.J. Abrams) has been engaged and expressed interest in a Star Trek movie, and the idea expressed so far is that it would be a prequel that would deal with the time and place where Spock and Kirk first met in their academy days."
Who might be his choice of actor in the role of young Spock? "I haven't gone there yet, I think it's premature," said Nimoy. "Although I do, by contract, have the right to approve the casting."
It may be safe to assume that William Shatner has similar influence over Kirk's new face.
When asked about Abrams' film, Shatner replied, "I have no idea. All I know is I've received an okay from Paramount to go ahead with a series of books that I'm writing on the young Captain Kirk and the young Mr. Spock. I started work on that just recently. And that will be my idea of what the story should be."
During an interview last year on the Tony Danza Show (story), Shatner mentioned that he had pitched his young Kirk-Spock storyline to CBS Paramount as a television series to succeed Enterprise.
Both Shatner and Nimoy will be in Toronto next Sunday for Fan Expo Canada 2006, September 1-3, at the Metro Convention Centre. "It's a heart-warming, family reunion kind of event," Nimoy said. "It's like coming home."
See the full article at The Toronto Star.
Leonard Nimoy will appear at Congregation Beth Shalom on October 21 to present his one-man, multimedia show See What I See: Shekhina, reports The Signal. Nimoy's presentation kicks off the Congregation Beth Shalom Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series. Seating is extremely limited.
William Shatner's Captain's Glory is on shelves now in the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and Deutschland.
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Nimoy and Shatner had interesting contracts to be sure. Both have spoken of their clauses which gave each other equity in money and other benefits.
Also Nimoy's lawsuit against Paramount/Gulf & Western in the 70s established a new way in dealing with talent and their likenesses. Nimoy's lawsuit was in regards to the sale of merchandise with his likeness as the Spock character. Before, Nimoy, Shatner and the others did not get any share off the sales of those characters. After the lawsuit was settled so Nimoy would come back to ST-TMP, it changed the way that royalties were paid and how talent had control over their likeness. Depending on how far that control went-- they could have some say in how Spock and Kirk are casted.
It could also date to the original Star Fleet Academy (Star Trek 6) idea. There could have been contracts created which gave Nimoy and Shatner control in order to get them as an option for that movie.
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... if Shatner does not have the same approval rights. It was spoken of often in the eighties that Shatner and Nimoy had clauses that gave one another equal rights and monies.
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They had some seriously good lawyers. After reading Shatner's Movie Memories, this adds even more fodder to just how baroque those contracts of their's truely are; I wonder if there are any more contractual trap-doors, beneficial to Nimoy and Shatner, that we've yet to learn about.
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