Sci-Fi Storm

Just to let you know of a couple of updates in the Sci-Fi TV Store. The first season set of Star Trek: The Next Generation is now listed for pre-orders (tentatively due March 26th), as are the next two Doctor Who DVDs (tentatively due April 2nd): Caves of Androzani (Peter Davison’s last appearance as the 5th Doctor) and Rememberance of the Daleks (Sylvester McCoy with the last appearance of the Daleks).

Forgot about this one…the 20th Anniversary Tron DVD hits store shelves tomorrow (January 15th) – be sure to order yours today from Amazon.com. Features include widescreen, all new “Making of…” special, deleted scenes, deleted soundtrack music, and more.

Paramount has announced they will release a Season 1 DVD set of Star Trek: The Next Generation on March 26th, and then each subsequent season released every other month. The first set will consist of 7 DVDs with all 26 episodes with remixed Dolby 5.1 sound and 4 brand new documentaries. As soon as Amazon lists them, I’ll add them to the Sci Fi TV Store.

It awards time again, and I’m not talking about whats on TV. Nominations are now open for the 2001 Hugo Awards. The Hugos are the fan-voted awards from the World Science Fiction Society, done every year at the Worldcon. which this year is at ConJosé in San Jose, California, August 29th – September 2nd. And hey, there is a Web Site award this year…nudge nudge wink wink…

Will there be more Qunatum Leap? Executive producer Donald Bellisario says it isn’t likely. In an interview on TV Guide Online, he says that Universal, who owns all the rights, ” has never shown an interest.” Too bad – Scott Bakula playing a different character each week made for some of the best acting on TV.

I’ve heard this from several places that it supposedly was in USA Today: Apparently members of the Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, New Mexico held a bonfire – fueled by Harry Poter books and various Star Wars, Tolkien, and even Shakespeare items. The words “Satanic deception” and the teach “children how they can get into witchcraft”. Funny, no matter how much I say “up” to my broom, it doesn’t move.

The famed Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5, the best fan site for the show, is finally back online after disappearing for quite a while. Go there to find the details, but the moral of the story is – when the place your server is housed goes out of business, don’t wait until your site disappears to get your stuff back… :^)

Some new DVDs have been announced: [asin=B00005UO7S]Legacy Collection 6[/asin] of the Robotech: Robotech Masters series; [asin=B00005UW77]Set 5[/asin] and [asin=B00005UW78]Set 6[/asin] of Space: 1999; and [asin=B00005UO7R]Farscape #10[/asin]. So head over to the Sci-Fi TV Store and pre-order them today:

OK, I’m back…and here is the news (gleaned off of SCI FI Wire): Seems a TV series for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is slated for Nickelodeon over the coming year; Perpetual prosthetic actor Ron Perlman has signed for Star Trek: Nemesis, and guess what – he’ll be wearing prosthetics, plus Steven Culp (Thirteen Days) and Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers) have also signed; Potter and the Chamber of Secrets production has been plagued by thefts – this time some still photos have been stolen, while Maggie Smith (Prof. McGonagall) looks forward to seven films, unlike Richard Harris (Prof. Dumbledore);

I’m not expecting much blockbuster news this week…the weekend is already gone, but here are a couple of Tidbits: You can catch the latest Men in Black 2 trailer at the official website; reports are that Canadian actress Bredalee Doen (no IMDB info?) who was to appear in The Matrix Reloaded lost her part when she was arrested and deported by Australian authorities for an expired visa; and Fox will be producing a new half-hour kids Sci-Fi series called Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension, and is a combination of live action and animation.