SGU Season 2 Stargate Universe

Here it is, the official trailer for Stargate Universe Season 2! See what the future has in store for Destiny and her crew, and make sure to watch the season premiere on Tuesday, September 28th at 9pm on SyFy.

Sharktopus - Syfy Movie September 2010

The film premiers 25th September (2010). Not sure about the actors that I saw in the clip, look a bit cheesy – but interesting ending….

The Navy-engineered half-shark-half-octopus killing machine B grade Scifi / Horror movie by Roger Corman is out this week. Often referred to as the “King of the B-movies” for his output of B-movies, Corman has mostly worked on low-budget films. Will the film be good? dont know…

Personally I have been looking forward to the concept, ever since the tweet by Karen O’Hara:

Sharktopus - Karen O'Hara Tweet

Syzygy Scifi Network

In 2006 Dave Andrews was working in Hollywood.  He was both an industry insider and an avid SciFi fan.  He saw that there was less and less satisfaction among the fan base at having only one single network to turn to for SciFi content.

The Syzygy network (pronounced si-zi-gee) is trying to get an independent Scifi Cable Channel sorted and are looking to get investment to make the idea a reality. In a way this may be a good thing for SciFi fans, as the complaints against the current SciFi network are constantly rising due to poor programming choices.

There were many different news networks, movie channels, sports networks, music networks and others.  It seems that just about every ethnic group, every religious organization, every sport, each gender… Just about everyone had many different options for television viewing.  Everyone except SciFi fans.  They had only one option to turn to; an option that they felt was turning its back on them more and more each day.

The Facebook group has a large base of  fan support – facebook.com/syzygynetwork

With many thousands of fans “liking” this facebook page, it’s actually the fans themselves expressing interest.; investors won’t have to take our word for it. This is a completely grass roots effort with not a single penny being spent in marketing. We know we can get hundreds of thousands of fans with a multi-million dollar marketing effort, which we will certainly do in the 3 to 6 months leading up to launch (the day the network becomes publicly available). What we need is to prove that SciFi fans are so dedicated that we can get great numbers interested just by word-of-mouth.

And from their Facebook Page:

The Syzygy Network is a new cable network coming in 2012. This network will be entirely dedicated to Science Fiction and Fantasy fans.

We will diligently hunt down the most obscure scifi from around the globe and bring it to the network, as well as airing well-known titles. We’ll bring you new programming as funding allows, including our own productions and those of other companies.

However I dont know how the state of affairs will turn out, as increasingly a number of online sources enable SciFi fans to pick and choose what they want to watch. Will the channel succeed? Only time (and ultimately ratings) will tell.

Dave Andrews has promised to do an interview for us, so keep on the look out – will publish it soon.

No longer are our magnificent Monday night ‘Heroes’ going to be confined to merely mortal NBC TV (and SciFi Channel reruns). Our favorite Heroes and villains are coming to DVD this August with tons of bonus features.

The 7-disc set, available on DVD and HD DVD on August 28, 2007, will include the never-before-aired 73-minute premiere episode and over 50 deleted scenes.

The Heroes Season 1 DVD set is priced at $59.98 and is available for preorder on Amazon.com for $38.99 until July 24, 2007.

Here are some of the Heroes Season 1 DVD extras:

• Unaired Pilot: The Tim Kring cut with audio commentary — A full 73 uninterrupted minutes of the original, unaired, extended pilot episode, as Heroes’ creator Tim Kring first envisioned it, with a character never seen.

• The Making of “Heroes”: From concept to pop culture phenomenon, a behind-the-scenes look at the hottest new series on television.
• Special Effects: The secrets behind the eye-popping visuals that give the Heroes their amazing powers.
• The Stunts: A backstage look at the show’s hair-raising stunts.
• Mind Reader: Matt Parkman’s mind reading abilities reveal your inner Hero with a series of simple tests.
• Profile of Artist Tim Sale: A look at the Eisner Award-winning comic book artist (Spiderman, Batman, Daredevil) behind much of the Manga-influenced artwork used in the show.
• The Score: Go behind the scenes with Wendy Melvin and Lisa Coleman (of Prince’s The Revolution) as they create their ASCAP Award-winning musical score.
• Extra Scenes: 50 deleted and extended scenes.

There was a bit of a surprise when Katee Sackhoff told reporters that her time on the new NBC series “Bionic Woman” went from “one episode” to “recurring.” But all of that can be explained in one simple sentence: Sackhoff simply wowed network executives.

“She absolutely steals the screen in ‘Bionic,’” Angela Bromstad, president of NBC Universal Television Studio, told TV Week’s James Hibberd.

Some of the clips featuring Sackhoff, best known to genre fans as Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in SciFi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica,” have been released to the Web by NBC Universal as a way to promote the series, which will make its debut this fall. In it, Sackhoff plays the original bionic woman who gets in a rooftop bionic battle with Jamie Sommers, played by series tar Michelle Ryan.

Sackhoff’s character originally was slated to be offed in the pilot, but executives liked her so much that she is now going to be pulling double duty between both shows which are filmed in Vancouver and produced by NBCU.

Sackhoff apparently isn’t the only BSG alum to be making the show either… two more actors familiar to “Battlestar” fans who have some type of role in the pilot.

The Bionic Woman airs Wednesdays this fall at 9/8c on NBC. See NBC.com’s Bionic Woman web page for more info.

[Via syfyportal.com]

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I know that the whole “man goes back in time to alter events” idea has been done a lot and to various degrees of success but hopefully NBC’s Journeyman will be one of the better versions.

NBC has picked up the show which is about a man who can go back in time and alter events. It’s a romantic sci-fi fantasy so there is a different slant on the niche.

Scottish actor Kevin McKidd, most recently seen playing the role of Lucius Vorenus in the BBC-HBO co-production Rome, will play the lead role of Dan Vasser in the series. Moon Bloodgood (Day Break) is also on board in the starring role of Livia Beale.

Expect to find Journeyman in the 2007-08 TV season.

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Sci Fi.com and Sci Fi Magazine are asking Internet users if they should pick up a new sci-fi comedy called Outer Space Astronauts.

Visitors are given access to 5 vignettes from the show on the SCI FI Pulse Broadband Network and asked to fill out a survey explaining what they think. Sci Fi says it will also take traffic into account when deciding whether or not to pick up the show.

Think you know how to program the American Sci Fi Channel better than NBC Universal? After they started airing wrestling on the Sci Fi Channel… who doesn’t.

You can watch the Outer Space Astronauts clips here.

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