Nov 30, 2005

According to a report on SCI FI WIRE, the BBC has decided to snub U.S. television audiences as far as the new Doctor Who series is concerned. The series already has aired 13 new episodes in the U.K. and Canada. U.S. fans have long speculated that the new series starring Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor would have made a natural fit on either the Sci Fi...

Nov 29, 2005

In what is probably the worst-kept secret in sci fi TV, CBS confirmed what 1001-or-so fan sites already knew: Threshold, Brannon Braga’s latest science fiction TV show, is joining ABC’s Night Stalker in the dustbin of history. CBS sited low rating of the show in its new Tuesday at 10/9c p.m. timeslot. It aired there once, when the competition...

Nov 28, 2005

The show no longer appears on the ABC network. Almost all traces of it have been cleansed from the ABC website. But fans of the recently cancelled remake of Night Stalker have been thrown an Internet-flavored bone by the network. Although the network TV ratings were too low to justify continuing the Night Stalker story for free on TV, apparently sales on...

Nov 28, 2005

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Before I begin this review, I have to admit that although I am an avid reader, I have never read any of the Harry Potter books. And, although I have seen all of previous three films, I would not consider myself to be a Harry Potter fan. Although I am a fan of good juvenile fiction, the Potter series always struck me...

Nov 27, 2005

In hopes to bolster what it hopes will be the next multi-billion-dollar fantasy movie franchise, the Walt Disney Company says it plans to use Apple’s iPod video as a way to draw in a larger audience for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. According to a story Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Disney will be offering...