By Chris McQuillan on Oct 31, 2005 in News and Analysis | 1 Comment
Stargate SG-1 Solutions has written a blog post detailing some possible rumoured upcoming cast changes involving potential departures from Daniel Jackson and Samantha Carter, and the arrival of Claudia Black as a full time regular.
Please. God. No. If you want to remove Jackson and Carter - fine. But please, not Vala.
By Chris McQuillan on Oct 30, 2005 in News and Analysis | 1 Comment
Ex Astris Scientia has a rather humourous Enterprise Plot Count.
10. Being Vulcan, T’Pol is immune against an infection/injury/radiation: 4
9. T’Pol is going to be recalled, but stays aboard: 7
8. Archer pisses off the Klingons: 7
7. A method to track cloaked or vanished ships is developed: 8
6. Reed has visible fun blowing up something or talks [...]
By Chris McQuillan on Oct 30, 2005 in News and Analysis | 0 Comments
Well, sci-fi is pretty dull at the moment. Doom isn’t worth talking about. No Star Trek. Stargates and BSG on hiatus. The only thing of interest was that Kevin Kilner was in Threshold last week. Go Boone! Speaking of Threshold, there’s talk online that Threshold will actually change its [...]
By Chris McQuillan on Oct 25, 2005 in News and Analysis | 5 Comments
It’s a sad state of affairs when the mind-numbing gun-em-down monster flick based on a video game grosses more than the intelligent, witty, character-driven Serenity.
Grr to you, America.
By Chris McQuillan on Oct 17, 2005 in News and Analysis | 0 Comments
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) has announced its plans to air a Doctor Who spin-off series.
“Set in modern-day Cardiff, Torchwood stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack from Doctor Who; it’s in the Christmas special and second series of Doctor Who that the story of Torchwood – a renegade group of investigators – is seeded.” - [...]
By Chris McQuillan on Oct 15, 2005 in News and Analysis | 0 Comments
From Zap2It
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ABC won the Wednesday Nielsen race for the fourth week in a row, but improved performances from “Criminal Minds” and “CSI: NY helped CBS keep things interesting.
For the night, ABC averaged an 8.7 rating/14 share among households. CBS was a solid second at 7.9/12. FOX, 6.3/10, took third ahead of NBC’s 6.0/9. UPN’s 2.9/4 [...]
By Chris McQuillan on Oct 14, 2005 in News and Analysis | 12 Comments
Want to see what it’s like to input the numbers ever 108 minutes? Download the Dharma Initiative Countdown Clock for Windows and try it for yourself!
Kalrac wrote this program that simulates the clock of The Swan. Every 108 minutes, the user has to input the correct restart code. Get it right, and the [...]
By Chris McQuillan on Oct 10, 2005 in News and Analysis | 0 Comments
There are reports coming in that Serenity has managed to knock Pride and Prejudice off the top spot, and earn #1 in the UK Box Office. Official figures are yet to come in, nor even estimates, but its a figure that has begun circulating around the net.
UPDATE: Exact figures
Weekend Total: £958,816
Screens: 355
Screen average: [...]