Sci-Fi Storm

I don’t have a full transcript yet and I’ve been pretty busy today, but I was on a conference call with Eureka star Colin Ferguson and creator/producer Jaime Paglia this afternoon talking about the final season of Eureka, which starts Monday, April 16th, at 9/8c on Syfy. In case you weren’t following all my sporadic tweets on Twitter, here are some highlights:
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In this clip from Friday’s all-new Grimm, things don’t go as planned for Nick when his romantic trip is interrupted.

Check out “Domestic Disturbance”, Friday at 9/8c on NBC!
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In the season finale of Lost Girl, Bo’s personal life gets even more complicated when she learns devastating details about her past, including the identity of her real mother. Catch the all new sneak peek and watch what happens when Dyson believes to be in bed with Bo. The season finale of Lost Girl premieres Monday, April 9th at 10/9c.

What? You can’t wait for more Lost Girl? You don’t have to…Season 2 premieres the following week 🙂
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We still need to wait until June for the second season of Falling Skies, but we don’t have to wait until then to get a taste! Check out the first 3 minutes right here!
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In next Monday’s season finale of Being Human, Josh contemplates over how he plans on killing Ray while Sally recommends that he wear a different shirt to avoid getting gun powder over her favorite shirt. Watch the all new sneak peek to see what other suggestions Sally has in getting rid of Josh’s little friend. Catch the season finale on Syfy on Monday, April 9th at 9/8c.
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In the following video clip, the actors of Eureka talk about their experiences over the last seven years of filming the show. The final season of Eureka begins April 16th at 9/8c on Syfy.
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You may have heard about an unproduced script for the original Star Trek from writer Norman Spinrad, who also wrote “The Doomsday Machine”. It had been rediscovered, and Spinrad began selling digital copies and was going to direct the episode for Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, the fan-led continuation of the original series. That was, until CBS decided they couldn’t.

CBS owns all the TV rights, including any scripts produced and paid for of the original series, whether they were filmed or not. They haven’t really interfered with STNV, and in fact have a good relationship, especially since STNV hasn’t really profited on it’s production. And they didn’t seem to care when an unproduced script from Star Trek: The Next Generation by David Gerrold got the STNV treatment. But apparently CBS thought this was different, serving a cease-and-desist notice to STNV to stop production and to Spinrad to stop selling.

Both appear to have happily complied, although Spinrad’s own response on the matter (the date on it is confusing – he updated the original post, and it retains the original date) is a bit more lawyer-ish, and as part of the settlement, he apparently cannot comment further on it.

So it appears that the project is dead, at least for now, until CBS changes their mind.

In next Monday’s Lost Girl, Saskia unexpectedly drops by to see Bo and tries to convince her to a night on the town but Bo declines. Watch the sneak peek as tensions heat up when Saskia doesn’t quite know when to quit. Check it out at 10/9c Monday, April 2nd, on Syfy.
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Actor Warren Stevens, who made many, many guest appearances on television in the 60s and 70s, and can best be remembered by SF fans as Doc in Forbidden Planet as well as Rojan, the Kelvan Empire commander who tries to take the Enterprise to the Andromeda galaxy in the original Star Trek episode “By Any Other Name”, passed away at the age of 92.

Well, it looks like the last chance at rescue for 20th Century Fox TV’s Terra Nova has come and gone. Netflix, the internet video subscription service, had been in talks to take over the series if they could reduce the per-episodes costs. But apparently the numbers still didn’t work for the expensive show, and Netflix passed on it.

It’s uncertain if Fox still has hopes – they have not formally released the actors yet, but star Jason O’Mara is filming a western pilot for CBS and Allison Miller is filming the Matthew Perry-starred NBC comedy pilot Go On, so they aren’t at least sitting waiting for the phone to ring.