Sci-Fi Storm

This year’s Christmas Special, “The Runaway Bride”, is in the can, and filming has begun on the third new Doctor Who series. As previously mentioned, Freyma Agyeman is joining full time as medical student Martha Jones. No word if any other classic bad guys will return, but we will see William Shakespeare, and travel to New York circa 1930…

Sorry this is a bit late…been busy…anyways, the release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie has been set for November 21st, 2008. Ambitious, considering there is no director attached yet, or cast signings. Order of the Phoenix is due out next July. In the meantime, American authors Stephen King and John Irving “opened” for J.K. at a story reading ay Radio City Music Hall, pleaded with her to not kill off her boy wizard…

Actress Helena Bonham Carter (Planet of the Apes, Merlin) has signed on to join the cast of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as the Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange. Have you noticed more characters in the later books are getting astronomical names? Remus, Sirius, Bellatrix, Luna, Regulus…

20th Century Fox Television and UHD have announced that the short-lived but well-loved series Firefly has been remastered from the original prints into 1080i high-definition, and will debut on Sept. 24th on the UHD channel.

The SCI FI Channel has announced a deal with CBS Paramount for rights to a number of properties, including Star Trek: Enterprise, Haunted, Jake 2.0, Threshold, and a number of other series, miniseries, and made for TV movies.

The SCI FI Channel’s “broadband channel” site SCI FI Pulse is now offering original webisodes of its new series Eureka, with its own plot line. Read More for the press release.

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