Sci-Fi Storm

The upcoming Starz mini-series Camelot now has some actors associated with it. Joseph Fiennes (Flash Forward) will be Merlin against Eva Green (Casino Royale), who will play Morgana. In addition, Jamie Campbell Bower (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, New Moon) will play the (young) King Arthur and Tasmin Egerton (St. Trinians) will play Guinevere. No idea if this is going to follow the classic stories or be totally original yet…Egerton is no stranger to the stories, having also appeared in The Mists Of Avalon as a young Morgaine (a.k.a. Morgana, a.k.a. Morgan le Fay).

HO! The cult fave 1980s cartoon Thundercats is coming back, all new. Warner Bros. announced that the cartoon will return in 2011 on the Cartoon Network. Interestingly, they are calling it an “anime”, although it is being produced directly for the U.S. market.

EW.com has picked their list of the greatest 100 characters over the last 20 years. Here is a quick summary of genre-related characters:

91. Hancock from Hancock
89. Wikus van de Merwe from District 9
87. Tony Stark from the Iron Man series
72. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace from Battlestar Galactica
63. John Locke from Lost
59. Master Chief from the Halo series
53. Edward Cullen from the Twilight saga
36. Gollum from The Lord of the Rings
33. Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
19. Morpheus from The Matrix series
5. The Joker from The Dark Knight
3. Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series

And #1 on the list – Homer Simpson…

So the shock should be over now. No surprise that the finale of Lost had the highest ratings for the night and was the highest rated episode in two years – but it may not have been as high as some expected. Perhaps some of the thunder was lost by the finale of Celebrity Apprentice given that Brett Michaels’ medical problems have been big news. But anyways, there is much to talk about, and I’ll start off some discussion points below. Feel free to chime in. But BEWARE – there are spoilers below, so if you haven’t watched yet, what are you waiting for?!? Come back later…
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Hopefully our calendar feature reminded you, but the finale of Lost is on at 9pm ET tonight – and I understand Europe is getting it around 5:00am BST, so you better get up real early…

Heroes creator Tim Kring, while taking a polite swipe at NBC for canceling his program watched by “45 million TV viewers around the world” each week, hinted at plans to keep the Heroes universe alive in some form, perhaps in the alternate media forms where it has helped gather its following. Read on for his complete statement.
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Just in: as expected, Chuck and V have been renewed, with the expectation of 13-week orders each for now. Flash Forward, however, appears to be not so lucky.

Update: Heroes has also been canceled, although there may be some sort of conclusion later on.

The ratings for V improved 14% this week with the strong lead-in from Lost, perhaps lifting it from the renewal bubble that a lot of shows are hanging around – including its sibling Flash Forward. So perhaps one of ABC’s serialized SF shows can survive to fill the Lost void?

If you were hoping for another flash, think again…ratings for Flash Forward dropped 19% this past week to 4.7 million viewers, and could signal the end of this show when the season concludes.

The finale for Lost on May 23rd was already clocking in at two hours, but ABC has now added another 30 minutes after the episode completed post-production. The show will now run from 9:00-11:30pm ET, and push back local news and the “Aloha to Lost” Jimmy Kimmel special.