Sci-Fi Storm

Miss T writes “As you will probably be aware already FOX have officially cancelled James Cameron’s Dark Angel, after only 2 series.

There are many fans of the show currently emailling, writing letters and signing petitions directed to FOX to renew the show for at least one further season or to produce a TV film to finish off the story.

The below petition at the time of writing this email, currently stands at 18,684.

http://www.savedarkangel.cjb.net/

Help save one of the best new sci-fi shows around at the moment, by adding your name to the petition.”

Update 6/6: Use the link http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?save3da instead…

Steve Baker writes “Not content with releasing the entire 36 episodes of the 1965
British puppet series “Thunderbirds” on DVD – it appears that
Carlton have managed to get TechTV to broadcast them too.

For a kiddies program, Thunderbirds can be suprisingly good
SciFi. If you have no idea what I’m babbling about – then you
DEFINITELY need to watch out for this one.”

The SCI FI Channel is going to air all 5 Babylon 5 TV movies (not including the pilot), including the Legend of the Rangers pilot that lost to the Patriots like everyone else in the playoffs… :^) It all starts at 1pm Sunday, 6/2.

I’ve included a new promotion on the left side of the screen for Showtime’s new series Odyssey 5. Click on the promo and enter to win a trip to see a space shuttle launch. Alas, the flash ad doesn’t seem to work with some browsers (notable Netscape 6.X and up). If you don’t see it (or have Javascript disabled), scroll down and you should see the plain vanilla version to click on…

Terra Lycos will be hosting a chat session with Richard Dean Anderson (Col. Jack O’Neill) and Amanda Tapping (Maj. Samantha Carter), stars of Stargate SG-1, at 8:00pm ET Wedensday, May 22nd.

UPN has two genre series for their fall schedule – the rumored new Twilight Zone with Forest Whitaker is the Serling-host role and produced by Pen Densham (The Outer Limits), and new series Haunted starring Matthew Fox (Party of Five), about a detective who can see dead people.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox, which is set to announce its Fall lineup tomorrow, will be delay the genre series Firefly and The Time Tunnel until midseason. Apparently they want more action for Firefly – no word on the reason for Tunnel.

Update 5/17: Looks like Firefly will be ready in time – and will be bumping Dark Angel off the schedule. Dark Angel was expected to be renewed.

ABC has announced their fall schedule, and Regis will be making room for Dinos. Dinotopia, the four-hour miniseries aired earlier this week, will become an hourly series in the fall. Also in the genre, both ABC and the WB will have series about a 30-something going back in time to high school – ABC’s That Was THen and the WB’s Do Over.

Gallifrey One is reporting that John Nathan Turner, who produced Doctor Who from 1979 until the conclusion in 1989, passed away yesterday from an unspecified illness. And the much-beloved Scotty, James Doohan, is back in the hospital with his second bout of pneumonia.

It appears there are not one, but two spinoffs in the pipeline for Stargate SG-1, if Gateworld is to be believed. Seems there is noth an animated series called Stargate: Infinity aimed at Fox Network’s Saturday morning lineup, as well as a potential live series called Stargate: Atlantis. There is some debate as to whether there might in fact be just one series, and people are confused into thinking there are two. And this is the first I’ve heard that the upcoming sixth season airing on SCI FI is in fact the last…