Sci-Fi Storm

(I know its a bit late – been busy). Tonight on the SCI FI Channel is the series finale of Farscape, and the season 6 finale of Stargate SG-1, with the return of Dr. Daniel Jackson facing the powerful Anubis…

Dave Berry writes “This past week has been filled with very positive news about
`Lost in Space’ and Irwin Allen fandom. The Boston Globe on
Monday reported that fans can expect to see `Lost in Space’
return to the airways on the SciFi Channel in the near future” Read More for the full (long!) story…

(continue reading…)

Seems Tobey Maguire may not be able to return for the impending Spider-Man sequel. Apparently the rough stunt work required by the first movie and Seabiscuit have left him with an aching back, and shooting is scheduled to begin April 12th. Rumors are running that the real life boyfriend of co-star Kirsten Dunst, Jake Gyllenhaal (The Good Girl) may take his place.

Updated 3/19: USA Today says it ain’t true…at least that he’s not coming back. He does have a sore back, but should be fully recovered.

Fire up your TiVos, set your VCR clocks, do whatever you need – Children of Dune begins tonight at 9pm EST, and for the next two nights. And you can catch up on Dune today starting at 3pm EST.

SCI FI Wire is chock-full o’movie goodness today. First, Morgan Freeman’s Rendezvous With Rama project is still alive, but waiting on a final script who can “see the science aspect of this”; Halle Berry will purr on-screen as the title character in Catwoman; Columbia has started development on Men in Black III; and John Rogers (The Core) has finished the screenplay for Issac Asimov’s Foundation.

For the first time since switching DSL providers, my DSL line has gone down, naturally after I left for work. So the stores will be offline until I can get back and figure out what happened…Update: Should be fixed now, but it might take a while to see (and you may need to exit your browser). Apparently with a power outage yesterday, when everything came back up my IP changed (damned dynamic IP – never had to worry about that before) and I didn’t have the right logging turned on to detect it…

The SCI FI Channel has announced an auction of Children of Dune memorabilia to benefit Reading is Fundamental. Auction is supposed to have started at 8pm EST today, but nothing is up yet. And don’t forget, the mini-series starts 9pm EST Sunday.

BaronMoritani writes “The Children of Dune miniseries trailer entitled “Inheritance” was pulled by SCIFI.COM due to the preview containing major spoilers including the death of a main character. Luckily, you can still view the trailer by going here: http://groups.msn.com/TheLandsraad/_whatsnew.msnw

The Children of Dune miniseries premieres in the USA on Sunday, March 16, at 9p.m. Eastern standard time.

For more information go here:
www.scifi.com/dune

The information must flow …”

I think he’s had more stuff produced after his death than before. Two Gene Roddenberry kid stories – the only two he ever wrote for kids – have been acquired by Digital Production Solutions to be turned into either 3D animated series or movies. The stories are Starpoint Academy, about an elite academy training cadets to be Astro Rangers, and Gene Roddenberry’s Char, about an intergalactic princess raised as a normal girl on 24th-century Earth.

Pre-orders for Stargate SG-1 Season 3 and all 6 remaining seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are now available from Amazon.com. Also available for pre-order is the latest movie, Star Trek: Nemesis. Head over to the Sci-Fi TV Store for release dates and details.