Sci-Fi Storm

Meg Wyllie, who played the head Talosian known as “The Keeper” in the Star Trek pilot “The Cage”, passed away on January 1st. Her acting career went back to 1957 with numerous TV guest appearances.

The MGM Sci-Fi Newsletter has put up an interview with Jeremiah exec producer J. Michael Straczynski where he discusses his inspiration for the series.

Seems that the new Battlestar Galactica is back in limbo. SyFy Portal is reporting that after producer Bryan Singer (X-Men) bowed out due to his schedule, reception has gotten a little cold. Rumors were around that UPN was considering it, but sources say otherwise – UPN doesn’t want to become a “Sci-Fi” network.

Showtime has finally put up a web site for the new JMS series Jeremiah, which debuts Sunday, March 3rd, at 8pm.

Seems our beloved genre is slowly getting mainstream appeal. ABC has commissioned three pilots. Veritas is an Indiana Jones-style father-son archaelogy team (Hope it doesn’t repeat Tales of the Gold Monkey lack of success); Astronauts, about a group competing to be on a Mars mission; and Paranormal Girl, about a teen with wierd powers helping the FBI.

According to Crashdown.com, UPN apparently has cancelled Roswell, and has cut two shows off the current season, dropping it to 18 episodes. Apparently the cast has been told, but no official announcement has been made yet.

Updated 1/30:, and now its retracted…

There’s a storm brewing in the eddies of spacetime. Seems that not only has Fox is developing a new Time Tunnel series based on the original by Irwin Allen, but ABC, where the original aired, is also developing a series based on the 1964 book by William Jenkins, and both seem ready to go to court. At issue is whether the original series was truely based on the book, which would mean 20th Century Fox’s rights (they produced the original series) would have expired.

I got e-mail from Eric Excstein, Editorin-Chief of UnderGround Online, about an interview with Enid-Raye Adams, who played Firell in Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers. Read More for the e-mail, or just follow the links…

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Perhaps there is life after the final leap after all. The Sy Fy Portal web site is reporting that Universal is showing an interest in a two-hour telefilm. Apparently Scott Bacuka’s return to the spotlight as Captain Archer in Enterprise has something to do with it, and his Golden Globe nomination I’m sure didn’t hurt…

The Comics Continuum is reporting that Jeremiah will debut on Sunday, March 3rd at 8pm on Showtime with a two-hour movie, and then it will appear regularly on Fridays at 10:45pm, placing it after Stargate SG-1, at least until that show transfers to the SCI FI Channel this summer. In the meantime, Showtime also announced that it has ordered a full season of Odyssey 5, about a shuttle crew who sees a cataclysmic event on Earth but are able to return 5 years in the past and try to stop it from happening. It will star Peter Weller (Buckaroo Banzai) and Sebastian Roche (Merlin).