Sci-Fi Storm

With the success of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (which came on second behind Hostel this week, beating King Kong again, and could become Disney’s highest-grossing live-action movie of all time), work is beginning on the next installment, Prince Caspian. It appears they will follow the order generally recommended, as opposed to the “chronological order”, which would have started with The Magician’s Nephew. This makes sense since you’d want to do the stories that deal with the same characters done together so they don’t age too much, and some stories like The Magician’s Nephew and The Horse and His Boy don’t share characters (at least ones where you’d have human actors) to any great extent as they are more separate stories. And C.S. Lewis has already solved the potential casting problems – new kids rotate in for the later stories…

For those in the U.S. who have been waiting on the DVD set of the first season of the revived Doctor Who, you are going to have to wait a bit longer. It seems that the set has been delayed from the originally announced Feb. 14th date. Some speculation is that the delay could be tied to getting a TV network to pick up the show – a broadcaster would prefer to air the series before the DVDs are out.