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 [...]
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Get your geek on.Archive for November, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
In what can only bee seen as a mercy killing by all but the show’s most rabid fans, ABC gave early notice it was pulling the plug on low-rated cult spy fi series, Alias. The last original episode will air in April or May of 2006. The show, coming of record series high ratings as [...]
A report in the Futon Critic shows CBS has yanked sci fi action series Threshold off the air next week and replaced it with a repeat airing of crime procedural drama, Criminal Minds. Nov. 22 was the debut of Threshold in the 10 p.m. Tuesday night time period, where it faced stiff competition from the [...]
After weeks of unofficial announcements, the Sci Fi Channel made it official Wednesday as it announced the renewal of its hit series Battlestar Galactica. It will keep its Friday 10/9c p.m. timeslot. Rumor is the delayed announcement had to do with contract negotiations with the series main stars and the producer/writing team of executive producer [...]
With a cancelation notice by ABC, Nightstalker became the first freshman sci-fi/fantasy show of the 2005-2006 season to be cancelled. The show only lasted for six episodes. Its last episode was the first part of a two-part cliffhanger. ABC says it has no plans to air the second half. The series also is one of [...]
It looks like Time Warner finally knows how to fully integrate AOL into its media offerings. The company plans to use AOL to launch six new advertising -supported on-demand Internet TV channels under the brand name In2TV. Each of the channels will feature programming drawn from more than 4,800 episodes from the Warner Brothers television [...]