[media-credit id=1 align="alignleft" width="153"][/media-credit]Author Susan M. Garrett died today after a months-long battle with cancer. Aside from being a professional writer (Intimations of Mortality, 1997, Berkeley, ISBN: 978-1572973138), she also wrote several unpublished novels and was actively involved in the fan fiction community, where she had a sizable fan base. At her heart, Susan M. [...]
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Get your geek on.Archive for August, 2010
Starting this Labor Day, PBS stations will start airing a slice of fandom with the one-hour documentary, Four Days at DragonCon. Filmed by Atlanta- based documentarians, Jack Walsh and Gordon Ray during the 2009 con, the film is set to debut 9 p.m. (ET) Aug. 28 on WPBA PBS 30 in Atlanta and then roll [...]
BSG’s Callum Keith Rennie is set to guest star on the “Alphas” pilot. (Image by kmgsquidoo via Flickr) The following press release is published as a service to the readership: New York, New York – August 12, 2010 – Syfy has announced additional casting for its previously announced pilot Alphas, inking actress Azita Ghanizada to [...]
The Syfy channel announced today that it has picked up Merlin for its third season with 13 new episodes planned for Bradley James as Prince Arthur on BBC/Syfy’s “Merlin.” (Image via Wikipedia) spring 2011 after first airing on BBC One in the UK starting in September 2010. “We are thrilled that Syfy will be broadcasting [...]
TV Guide published a list of the best-paid stars for the upcoming 2010-2011 television season, with Charlie Sheen topping the list at $1.25 million an episode – outpacing the next-highest paid performer, Two and a Half Men, co-star Jon Cryer’s $550,000 per episode salary by almost a million dollars an episode. Of the stars of [...]
TV choices continue to trudge through the dog days of summer; filled with endless reruns and so- Called “reality” programming. Despite a few bright spots on cable and network TV – most notably Sunday night’s vampire melodramas True Blood on HBO and the much-better than expected The Gates on ABC, as well as Friday’s quirky fantasy series, Warehoue [...]
DragonCon: New guests to include Scott Bakula, Stan Lee, Brandon Routh and James and Oliver Phelps
Following is an electronic press release published in its entirety as a service to our readers. Dragon*Con is Proud to Announce the Addition of Scott Bakula, Brandon Routh, James and Oliver Phelps, and More!Dragon*Con may only be twenty-two days away, but we are far from done! Just a few of our exciting new guests and [...]
Finally, someone is trying to bring back space opera to television, at least, according to Entertainment Weekly. In “The Ausiello Files” TV section, EW columnist Andy Patrick reports that Syfy has hired Bryan Fuller to adapt John Chrisopher’s novel, The Lotus Caves into s script for a possible series. Among SFTV fandom, Fuller is known both [...]
The following is a press release from Syfy, presented as a service to the readers: THIS DECEMBER… ‘TIS THE SEASON TO JOIN SYFY FOR FIRST EVER HOLIDAY-THEMED EPISODES OF HIT SERIES WAREHOUSE 13 AND EUREKA Judd Hirsch (Taxi) and Paul Blackthorne (The Dresden Files) Guest Star on Warehouse 13 and Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live) [...]