According to a report from IGN, actor Tom Cruise is in talks to join the cast of the latest Star Trek film as Christopher Pike, the first captain of the Enterprise before Captain Kirk. The new film, which is going by the code name Star Trek XI at Paramount, is being directed by J.J. Abrams, a personal friend of Cruise. The report says Cruise would do the role...

Apr 5, 2006

Sci Fi UK, the sister channel of the U.S. channel of the same name, announced a deal Tuesday to produce its first original series. Well sort of original. The network has been broadcasting programming that was either all reruns or series originally made for North American or Australian audiences. The network is working with Canada’s SPACE: The Imagination...

Mar 9, 2006

When news broke that Battlestar Galactica’s third season premiere was bumped back to October from Sci Fi Channel’s traditional July kickoff, the fan rumor mill started churning. Perhaps the most interesting theory, as reported on Digg.com, is that NBC wants to move Battlestar Galactica to the Peacock network instead of Sci Fi. That move seems highly...

Nov 26, 2005

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 final hour of the American Music Awards on ABC and a November...

Oct 16, 2005

For those of you Firefly/Serenity fans who just can’t get enough, my friend Grace tracked down the names of the two music tracks that were used in the promotional trailers for the film. Here’s what she found in her (slightly) edited words: “The main theme is a song by Kasabian, called ‘Club Foot,’ the most recognizable part of...