Sci-Fi Storm

This is the best news I’ve heard in a long time.
Warner Brothers is producing a new series of Looney Tunes shorts – including one with Duck Dodgers in Attack of the Drones, which will spoof many recent SF movies. It’s all to build up for the live action/animated feature Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

We are closing in on B-day (the day when the Babylon 5 Season 1 Box Set is released) – November 5th. Also up that day: Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 and Star Blazers: The Comet Empire Set. Tomorrow brings us the Farscape Season 1 Box Set, and this Friday gives us Spiderman (Giftset, Widescreen amd Fullscreen).

Update 10/29: I forgot – Friday 10/5 also gives us The X-Files Sixth Season.

dugh writes “It seems that Richard Harris, AKA Albus Dumbledore, has died.” I just got home to the news.

UPN has officially ordered 9 more episodes of the new The Twilight Zone, bringing the total to 22 episodes for the season. It called it “the most successful pairing with a Star Trek series” claiming it held on to 73% of Enterprise‘s audience. For the most part, to me it seems very similar to the recent Outer Limits, but with shorter stories (generally 2 per hour). It’s generally good, but there are episodes I don’t care for. What’s your opinion?

I actually thought that the BBC had already settled this, but the BBC is reporting that it has won the rights to keep the familiar blue Police Box (a.k.a. the Tardis) as a trademark. Apparently the Metropolitan Police, which had hundreds of the boxes until the 1960s, objected to the marketing of the object by the BBC, which it has been doing since the 1970s.