Sci-Fi Storm

Elisabeth Sladen is getting a second chance at a spinoff series – The Sarah Jane Adventures was announced for the CBBC with a 60-minute special early in the new year, and a series later in the year. Joining her is Yasmin Paige (The Misty Show) as her 13-year-old neighbor, Maria. They join together to fight alien forces within Britain. Update: For those that are unaware, they tried to spin Sarah Jane off before in 1981 with K9 and Company, which also explains how she had a version of K9.

The Trek Movie Report has some video previews as well as a list of stations that will be airing the newly remastered original Star Trek. Also interesting: Apparently none of the stations will get a true HD copy to air. CBS sites lack of storage capacity at the stations and few of them HD-capable, and claim they would when “enough stations” have upgraded – but the stations are saying they want it in HD.

Producer Russell T. Davies says they are already planning the 4th series – with a just a drive to Manchester, 9 episodes were already planned. In addition, the actor who will play William Shakespeare has been announced: Dean Lennox Kelly, recently of British shows Sorted and Shameless.

Again, for a limited time, you can download the Season 3 trailer (5MB, WMV) for Battlestar Galactica. Be kind – please only download once and save, send it to friends, etc. Update: Link removed.

From the Whedonesque blog: The SCI FI Channel will run 11 episodes Firefly series on September 18th starting at 8am. I wonder if anyone keeps records of the “most watched cancelled show in history”…

The NBC series Surface only lasted 15 episodes, but it seemed to be well-liked (it received the plurality of votes in our unscientific poll [Doc: Polls are no longer available on the site]), but suffered the same fate of its contemporaries (and most network SF) and was cancelled. Out now is the Surface: The Complete Series DVD set, which brings all 15 episodes and a few extras to the masses.

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SCI FI Wire has provided some cast updates for the upcoming The Lost Room, along with a couple more details, including that it is a six-hour miniseries (which I’m sure is open-ended for a series run). It stars Peter Krause (Six Feet Under) as a homicide detective that discovers the key to the room. Also appearing are Julianna Margulies (er), Roger Bart (Desperate Housewives) and Elle Fanning (Charlotte’s Web). New cast announcements are Kevin Pollack (The Santa Clause 3) as a wealthy businessman after the key; Margaret Cho (Face Off), who will sell information on the objects for the right price; Dennis Christopher (Circuitry Man), as the county coroner; and Ewan Bremner (Trainspotting) as a petty thief.

The SCI FI Channel has a new show coming in December called The Lost Room. The premise reminds me of Friday the 13th: The Series: There are about 100 seemingly simple objects – a pen, a bus ticket, a key, etc. – that all have a special power. Finding all of them and returning them to the Lost Room (where they originated from) could lead to Divinity – or something much, much worse. For a limited time you can download the trailer (4MB, WMV only) from Sci-Fi Storm. Update: link removed – need to save bandwidth.

Can’t wait for October 6th? For a limited time, you can download from us a 3-minute recap video (11MB, WMV format only) which includes some brief glimpses of the upcoming season. Update: link removed – need to save bandwidth.

A broadcast syndication package has been shopped around by CBS Paramount for the original Star Trek series – and now we (apparently) know why: it’s getting a makeover. Details are still questionable, but reportedly it will include all new CGI-rendered space sequences and an HD transfer. Perhaps they can fix all the consistency problems with phasers vs. photon torpedos?