Links 3/11/10
Coming soon: Battlestar Galactica MMO. Slated to be a browser-based space strategy game, offered exclusively on syfy.com for its first 30 days, this is being developed by obscure (and relatively unproven) Norwegian developer Artplant- which leads one to assume their app (or bid) wowed the Bigs behind such a high-profile and expensive license.
Comic Book Resources [...]
Pic Parade
Let’s explore some corners of Geekdom from the last few days through pictures, shall we?
HBO Picks up A Game of Thrones (pilot + 9 episodes)
Mr. Spidderman at the Wailing Wall during Purim.
Nick Simmons, son of KISS frontman Gene, plagiarizes Bleach manga, among others, in Incarnate #1, his comic from Radical Publishing. Amidst the uproar he [...]
Have a Cluckety Cluck Cluck Day
The final season of LOST kicks off tonight, and though I am a fan I will not be watching as I’ll be managing FPNYC, hawking wares, getting ready for a big Wednesday, and generally covering for other Lostie employees. Who’s a sweet fella? This guy. There will, however, be a screening of [...]
Links for 10/22/09
According to The Hollywood Reporter Executive Producer and showrunner Marc Guggenheim has left ABC’s FlashForward, a new borderline sciffy series I’ve been digging immensely. David Goyer, who along with Brannon Braga is co-creator of the show based on Robert J. Sawyer’s 1999 novel, has been handed the reins. SciFi Wire gives the change a thumbs [...]
The Neverending Question: Gaiman and Doctor Who.
No, the neverending question seemingly is not how many girls has James Bond impregnated, but will Neil Gaiman write an episode of Doctor Who?
The question has been asked hundreds and hundreds of times but recently on io9.com’s Morning Spoilers edition they picked up on someone on some Doctor Who message board saying Gaiman would write [...]
AMC’s Prisoner Reboot set for Nov. 15.
So, AMC has finally announced the premiere of their reboot of the classic Science Fiction series. This update has Number 6 (Jim Caviezel) retired to The Village where Ian McKellan’s Number 2 controls everything with a smile on his face and a giant bubble. The miniseries will be a three parter starting November 15th, and [...]
RECAP: Smallville premiere.
Friday evening saw the premiere of season 9 of Smallville, and the ratings were not that great to be honest. Like Dollhouse, only 2.8 million people tuned in to watch the show. I DVR’d it. So warning, Spoilers below.
We open on Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) trying to track down Lois Lane (Erica Durance) who in [...]
What to Watch.
This week is chock full of season premieres. Here are a listing of some of the genre-friendly things I’ll be setting my DVR to.
This is the first time I’ll admit on the Internet that I’m a fan of Ghost Hunters. The show on Syfy follows a bunch of New Hampshire plumbers who use scientific devices [...]
PUSHING DAISIES Wins 4 Emmys.
The most creative show that was formerly on television, Pushing Daisies, won four Emmys Sunday night, including the absolutely adorable and totally awesome Kristin Chenoweth taking Best Supporting Actress in a comedy.
Series creator Bryan Fuller spoke about the award wins:
It’s a tremendous honor to see ‘Daisies’ win in so many categories — and in the [...]
WATCH THIS: “Bored to Death” on HBO.
Jonathan Ames, novelist, writer of Vertigo’s The Alcoholic and now television producer has a show on HBO starting this Sunday at 9:30pm. Bored to Death is based on a short story by Ames in which he gets bored and decides to pretend he’s a private detective. Naturally, this is a TERRIBLE idea, and all kinds [...]
In which we talk about Superman-related actors.
Its nice to see people branch out. Especially when you see such fine people as Kristin Kreuk jump the ship that is Smallville and move to Chuck with other Superman alum Brandon Routh.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Kreuk will play Hannah a new love-interest for Chuck in a multi-episode arc where she goes to work at [...]
Warehouse 13 gets highest ratings in SyFy history.
SCIFI Wire talked about how well the show is doing ratings wise.
Warehouse 13 continues to set rating records for Syfy. The show’s sixth episode, “Burnout,” which aired on Aug. 11, was the most watched series telecast in the network’s 17-year history, with a total viewership of 4.4 million.
The previous record for the most-watched [...]
Superman coming to “Chuck.”
Brandon Routh is joining Chuck, according to Michael Ausiello of EW.
Routh’s character, Shaw, is a mysterious new spy who takes control as the new leader of Operation Bartwoski, becoming a mentor to Chuck and a rival in his affections for Sarah. He first appears in this season’s fourth episode.
Bottom line: Who better to teach Chuck [...]
View from Inside of the new TARDIS.
Since I’m such a fanboy, something grabbed my attention today during my morning reading of the ole blogosphere. io9.com has a rumor of what the newly redesigned interior of Matt Smith’s TARDIS will likely look like:
A poster at Gallifrey Base claims to have gotten a good look inside the new TARDIS set, which we’ll see [...]
Russell T. Davies and David Tennant interviewed on BoingBoing TV.
As we’re winding closer to the end of Russell T. Davies run on Doctor Who more and more interviews are popping up featuring the two. This one done with BoingBoing TV’s Richard Metzger and gives a slight spoiler as to what happens in the last episodes of iconic series.
