Munsters from Mars
Rumors of The Munsters remake for NBC have been all over the internet for the past couple months. Helming this project is Bryan Fuller, the man who made death cute with shows like Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies. Now don’t take that the wrong way, I really dug those shows. The only other name [...]
Lookee! for 2/4/11
Fascinating. Science writer Lee Billings has been guest blogging for BoingBoing this week, dissecting NASA’s big Kepler news and exploring other exoplanetary pursuits. Have ya heard the one about Bill Murray at a Bears playoff game? A Song of Ice and Fire comics coming from Dynamite and Bantam. Man this is gonna suck, OR, All [...]
Adios 2010, Hola 2011
Happy New Year! 2010′s gone- out with a hectic bang on my end of the screen- and I finally have Time Enough at Last to wish you a most agreeable 2011. Speaking of which, why not relax with a Twilight Zone marathon today? It’s a time-honored New Year’s tradition on local television here in NYC, [...]
These Aren’t the Opening Credits to The Walking Dead on AMC
…but I sure wish they were. Fan Daniel Kanemoto made this.
Forbidden Planet NYC on Sci Fi Science
Mark your calendars, my fellow science nerderinos. I’ve just learned the dates FP and some of our customers and staff are set to appear on The Science Channel’s new season of Sci Fi Science. What is Sci Fi Science? Well… Science fiction isn’t just for the movies! Cyborgs, shape shifting, the colonization of space and [...]
Vulcan Haircut in My Mind! Vulcan Haircut in My Mind!
Seeing this this morning on Blastr immediately provoked memories of Pavement: On another note, I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve spent well over twenty years attempting to grow Trek sideburns to disastrous effect. Which is okay, really, as some Starfleet Captains just plain forget to grow them. Even when said Captain is not only [...]
Yaphet Kotto as Picard, Wesley Snipes as Geordi LaForge? The Star Trek TNG That Might Have Been
Letters of Note has discovered and posted this intriguing internal Paramount communiqué from 1987. The casting memo, summarizing potential actors in the running for various roles in the studio’s then-forthcoming relaunch of the Star Trek franchise, lists quite a few surprising names, with a few others notably absent. Thankfully this only documents the Next Gen that [...]
Congratulations to Dean Haspiel
The Daily Planet would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Dean Haspiel, cartoonist extraordinaire and overall swell fella, on his Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Main Title Design for his work on Bored to Death, airing on HBO. Dean-o, listed as illustrator/artist of the sequence, shares the nomination with its director [...]
Futurama to Return With New Episodes
Good news, Gang! A new season of Futurama is on its way, set to premiere in a few short days on Comedy Central. “Futurama” is back! Everybody’s favorite zany group from the future has returned with twelve brand-new episodes, premiering on Comedy Central June 24th at 10PM. Twentieth century boy Philip J. Fry is still [...]
Comic Fans! Bored to Death? Get Paid For It!
Do you wanna make more money being bored? Sure, we all do. Now here’s your chance to turn your passion into some moolah… and possibly be immortalized on a hit television show. Comer & Gallucio Casting is looking for comic collectors and enthusiasts to serve as extras at a comic convention scene for Bored to [...]
Farscape Signing at Forbidden Planet NYC
Time to anounce another keen event going down at the store this week, this one celebrating the fantastic new Farscape comics published by BOOM! David Alan Mack and Will Sliney are the script writer/artist team behind the Farscape Ongoing series and Keith R.A DeCandido pens the new Scorpius adventures. All three gentlemen will be on-hand [...]
Stan Marsh Vs. Facebook (AKA The Master Control Program)
South Park, a program which I ashamedly admit I’ve only had a modest interest in since its debut despite a circle of friends who swear by its perpetual gut-busting charms, recently aired a spot-on episode titled “You Have 0 Friends” equating the ubiquitous behemoth Facebook to Tron’s Master Control Program. Stan is digitized a la [...]
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
What little free time I’ve had since this past Monday has been occupied by just one thing: Baseball. It’s one of the only forms of entertainment I enjoy more than comics, SF and other geeky stuff, and provides me with a much welcome escape… from the world of capes and spaceships and Mandalorians. Now the [...]
Walking Dead TV Series Given Greenlight by AMC
It’s official. According to Variety shooting on the Frank Darabont-helmed Walking Dead series (not just a pilot, as previously reported) will begin shortly, and is scheduled to air this coming October. AMC has ordered a total of six episodes of the series that revolves around a group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Darabont penned [...]
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 [...]
