Sci-Fi Storm

Because the new episodes of The Invisible Man and Lexx were delayed from last week, they will be airing this Friday at 8pm and 10pm, respectively.

Don’t forget: Enterprise debuts tonight at 8PM EDT/7PM CDT on you local UPN station with a two-hour premiere. I wonder how many times my local station will pre-empt it for Bruins hockey this year…

More: The official StarTrek.Com site has a launch site for Enterprise, and Vidiot, a.k.a. Mr. Video, who has been documenting Trek on the Internet for as long as I can remember (starting with the Postscript The Next Generation episode guide) has what is to be the opening and closing credits on his website.

Feel free to drop some reviews here…but please, mark them with spoiler warnings…

FX Network will start airing Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes weeknights at 4pm and 7pm starting next Monday, September 24th…now you can catch up on episodes…

Neverworld, a new pilot about a young man in a parallel universe created by Robert Nathan (writer from Law & Order) and executive produced by him and Kelsey Grammar (Frasier) through Paramount, has been picked up by Fox for a Fall 2002 debut, according to Variety.

Ain’t It Cool News is reporting a rumor that there may be a crossover between Enterprise and Roswell (both UPN shows since the latter was claimed of WB waivers) – sort of. Seems Roswell character Max (Jason Evans) will audition to play an alien on Enterprise at the Paramount Pictures lot. Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Riker from ST:TNG) will play the director – he also will reported by directing this Roswell episode, and he is currently the executive producer. Take it with a grain of quadro-triticale though…

Update 8/30: Jonathan Frakes has confirmed this will happen on Zap2It…

A couple of tidbits from various sources about the upcoming Enterprise: Jolene Blalock, who will be playing the Vulcan T’Pol, nearly turned down the job – in fact, she passed on the script three times without even reading it. She’s glad she changed her mind…and several crew members will be joining. Jeffrey Combs, best known as the various Weyoun clones on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is joining as an unnamed Andorian, along with Steven Dennis, frequent bit actor on Star Trek: Voyager, will play another Andorian named Thalos. A third character, a nurse named Nancy Struthers, will be added as well, but no actress has been named.

The Sci Fi Channel has announced that it will rerun episodes of its top-rated series Farscape at 8pm Monday-Thursday, starting August 27th.

The SCI FI Channel has just picked up it’s third first-run MGM series. Stargate SG-1, currently in its 5th season on Showtime and in syndication for seasons one through four, will have it’s 6th season on SCI FI, with production starting in January 2002. SCI FI will also rerun previous seasons during the week starting late in 2002.

Cary Elwes, best known for his roles in The Princess Bride and Robin Hood: Men in Tights, is now taking a more serious turn by joining The X-Files as FBI assistant director Brad Follmer and the ex-boyfriend of Special Agent Monica Reyes, played by Annabeth Gish, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Tribune Entertainment has announced the greem light for three genre pilots, according to Variety (via Sci-Fi Wire). They include MechWarriors, based on the BattleTech games and produced by guys at Foundation Imaging (remember Hypernauts?), Pendragon, about the establishment of Camelot, and Beyond with James Van Praagh, a psychic “reality” show that sounds vaguely like a Crossing Over with… clone…