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Live Community Screening of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Blu-ray December 12th
by Doc on Oct.19, 2009, under Movies, Video/DVD
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince reaches homes on December 8th (in several forms: Blu-ray, 2-disc Limited Edition DVD, Widescreen DVD, and Fullscreen DVD), and for those with the Blu-ray version and a BD-Live compatible player, you’ll be able to take part on a worldwide Live Community Screening on December 12th at 3pm EST/12pm PST, including star Daniel Radcliffe and director David Yates watching along with you and answering your questions. Read More for more details, and pre-order your Blu-ray copy today to make sure you have it in time!
Wil Wheaton on Big Bang Theory tonight
by Doc on Oct.19, 2009, under Television
On tonight’s Big Bang Theory, Wil Wheaton guest stars as himself, and it looks like he encounters Sheldon (Jim Parsons) at a gaming tournament and they face off against each other, and Sheldon has a bone to pick – apparently Wheaton no-showed at a signing that Sheldon attended, and Sheldon never forgets a grudge. From the images on SCI FI Wire (will they ever change that name too?), it looks like they are playing a card game like Magic: The Gathering (although the backs of the cards look different), and he’s wearing a Penny Arcade T-shirt whose name is not safe for work…
Red Dwarf: Back To Earth Blu-ray review
by Doc on Oct.15, 2009, under Television, Video/DVD
21 years after its very first series, Red Dwarf returned to TV, in the form of a three-part mini-series called Back To Earth, which came out last week on Blu-ray and DVD. Does it return to its early zaniness, or fall flat like its last series?
DVR ratings may keep Dollhouse alive
by Doc on Oct.13, 2009, under Television
Showing that DVRs are becoming more relevant, Dollhouse actually gained viewers in its premiere – a whopping 50% – after the DVR viewers were taken into account, tying Smallville for the biggest percentage gain of any show. And apparently this will allow it to air all 13 episodes. Update 10/15: It appears that Fox will keep it on the schedule for November sweeps.
Flash Forward gets full season pickup
by Doc on Oct.12, 2009, under Television
ABC has given a full season order for new series Flash Forward, having done well on Thursday night and even beating Survivor in its premiere.
Singer may return to X-Men franchise
by Doc on Oct.12, 2009, under Movies
Bryan Singer, who directed the first two X-Men movies but skipped on the third, says he is interesting in a return to the franchise. “I love Hugh Jackman. I love the cast,” he said, and enjoys making movies in the SF&F genres because he can deal with serious issues disguised as entertainment.
New Doctor, new logo
by Doc on Oct.09, 2009, under Television
Doctor Who will continue its tradition of changing its logo nearly as often as it changes actors. When the eleventh Doctor reaches the screen in 2010, so will a new logo, now available for download. It includes the initials “DW” stylized into the shape of the TARDIS.
LCROSS impacts, but fails to dazzle
by Doc on Oct.09, 2009, under Science
NASA’s LCROSS mission, a “cheap” $79 million attempt to determine if there is enougt water on the moon for future use, successfully impacted a Centaur rocket into the moon’s surface at Cabeus Crater, and then followed it with the scientific platform to detect particles in the plume and then likewise impact the surface. However, it failed to produce the “spectacular” plume images everyone expected. It remains to be seen what the scientific data shows. More information is available at the LCROSS mission site. Hopefully we did not anger our lunar overlords…
Roddenberry’s pilot movies Genesis II and Planet Earth on DVD
by Doc on Oct.07, 2009, under Movies, Video/DVD
Gene Roddenberry didn’t rest after Star Trek ended – he tried a few other things, and then tried to return to the genre with a post-apocalyptic vision of the future in the pilot movie Genesis II, where a scientist from the present day named Dylan Hunt (Alex Cord) who undergoes an experimental suspended animation procedure – only to remain frozen during a war and awakens 154 years later, and must decide whether the Pax or the Tyranian woman who helped revive him is worthy of his help. When that didn’t get picked up as a series, he took a page out of Trek history, and made another pilot movie, Planet Earth. Same situation, same protagonist (although now played by John Saxon), but set some time later and perhaps giving a better picture of how the series would be. Still it was not picked up. Read More for more info…
K9 now in production
by Doc on Oct.05, 2009, under Television
Park Entertainment has announced that the new Doctor Who spinoff, now just called K9, is in production. SCI FI Wire has has a trailer for it, but it doesn’t seem like the author of the article cares…the show is aimed more at children, probably at the same level as The Sarah Jane Adventures or even a bit younger. To deal with the fact that he is in the “present” time involved (if not seen regularly) in The Sarah Jane Adventures, the new series is set in the near future. And now he has ears!