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Robert Carlyle took home the lone genre award in Saturday’s 25th Annual Gemini Awards, winning for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role as Dr. Rush in Stargate Universe. SGU received 9 total nominations, with another 3 belonging to Sanctuary. Louis Ferreira (Colonel Young) was also nominated for the Lead Actor award.

Nicholas Rush goes to check on Dr. Perry in Ginn’s quarters. To his surprise he finds her on the ground and potentially dead. He calls for back-up quickly. Will he and the team be able to help her, or is it too late? Find out on Syfy on Tuesday, 11/16 at 10pm ET.
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Not one, but three separate preview clips for next week’s episodes of Stargate Universe, Ghost Hunters and Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files…
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As they discuss whether or not to keep Chloe and Lieutentant Scott in isolation due to their blood tests the topic of conversation shifts focus as Colonel Young tells Tamara his wife wants a divorce. Tamara tries to provide comfort but doesn’t exactly have the words. Will she find the right response or allow her actions to speak louder than words? “Trial and Error” airs Tuesday, November 2nd at 9/8c on Syfy.
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Lieutenant Matthew Scott awakens to be pleasantly arriving home sweet home in Cloverdale, only to awaken once again in a manner unexpected and realize he’s been infected by an alien organism and the rest of the team is frantically trying to figure out how to save him. Take a look at the sneak peek clip to truly envision Scott’s rude awakening.

Airs Tuesday, October 26th, at 9/8c on Syfy
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SyFy announced today that their original series Haven, which concludes it’s first season tomorrow, has been renewed for a 13-episode second season, which is expected to air next summer, and all three stars (Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, and Eric Balfour) will return.

To tide you over for a few minutes at least, here are a couple of previews for Caprica‘s season premiere and one for Stargate Universe…
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Just a reminder that Stargate Universe returns on its new night Tuesday (tomorrow) at 9pm ET on SyFy. Catch a preview below:

SyFy unveiled a list of upcoming guest stars on Stargate Universe (which starts again on Sept. 28th), and one character that fans have been clamoring for – Dr. Rodney McKay – will finally make an appearance, with David Hewlitt reprising his Stargate Atlantis role. Also announced are Victor Garber (Alias), as an alien ambassador; Robert Picardo reprises his role as Richard Woolsey, who last was head of the Atlantis expedition; Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13) as Senator Michaels, who replaces the deceased Senator Armstrong as the head of the off-world spending committee; French Stewart (3rd Rock From The Sun) as Dr. Andrew Covel, head of research at the SGC (and the original Lt. Ferretti in the Stargate movie); and Robert Knepper (Heroes) and Julie McNiven (Supernatural) in multiple episodes as Lucian Alliance members.

Season 1.5 of Stargate Universe was released a couple of weeks ago on [sfs=1031]Blu-ray[/sfs] and [sfs=1032]DVD[/sfs], and I’ve had a chance to catch up and review the DVD version.

SG-U is a different beast from the previous efforts. It tries to expand the plot that was the genesis of Stargate Atlantis – a team finds itself extremely distant from home at the other end of a one-way stargate trip, mostly in isolation. Whereas Atlantis was still able to receive supplies from Earth (and eventually solved the general problem between starships and the stargate bridge), the team this time is totally isolated except for the ability to use the consciousness transfer stones – which themselves bring up several plot points which are addressed in the series instead of simply ignored. This time as well, the “team” is a combination of military and civilian characters thrown together by circumstance rather than by mission, forced into that circumstance to escape an attack but also through the non-altruistic intents of Dr. Geoffrey Rush (Robert Carlisle), who would rather prove his theories and general greater intelligence than solve problems. And instead of a floating city, they are stranded on an empty Ancient ship (of ancient Ancient design 🙂 ) called the Destiny, where they have very little control over the ship, and few resources.
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A little more news coming out of Comic-Con: Caprica will return in January for the second half of its freshman season (is it really still the same season if it airs a year after the first half?) and Ronald D. Moore is confident that with the plot picking up we will see a second season; and in Stargate Universe‘s second season, we can expect to see Dr. Rush (Robert Carlyle) return to his self-deterministic ways when he discovered the bridge of the Destiny; Eli get a new love interest and also visit his grandmother (in Carlyle’s directorial debut), and the discovery of a larger overall mission for the residents of the Destiny. Also interesting was a discussion about the unique shooting style, with multiple hidden cameras on set.