Christopher Eccelston, better known at the 9th Doctor, is going to be in several episode of Heroes: Who Joins Heroes?
Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston will appear in several episodes of NBC’s hit Heroes as an invisible-man character aptly named Claude, after Claude Rains, star of the 1933 classic SF film The Invisible Man, Tim Kring, creator and executive producer, told SCI FI Wire. “So far, he’s been in four [episodes], and then we’re trying to work out his dates with his movie that he’s doing,” Kring said in an interview at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 17. “We’d like to have him come and play with us for a while.”
With George Takei slated to play Hiro’s father, the show is becoming quite the harmonic convergence of the scifi genre.
Eccleston was quite good as the Doctor, and I thought it was a shame that he only stayed in the TARDIS for one season. Still, his addition to Heroes is quite welcome.
Since there seems to be some confusion here, let me try to be as clear as possible about what I “know.” BSG hasn’t been cancelled. We’re waiting to see if the show’s renewed for season four. There is a very cool BSG “movie” in the works that will be shot if BSG gets picked up for season four. That, I’m afraid, is the sum total of my “intel.”
Which, of course, confirms known information, but it is nice to have it as straight from the source as is possible.
There is also the recurrent misuse of the color pink on such things as enemy ships, the costumes of ferocious aliens, and tribbles. It turns out that director Hal Sutherland is color blind, and when he did the color assignment he assumed that this particular shade of pink was a light grey.
NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly kicked off the network’s portion of the TV critics convention today by announcing that Heroes, My Name is Earl, The Office and Law & Order: SVU were given full season orders for 2024-08.
Given the show’s ratings, this is no surprise. Still, it is welcome news.
HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin’s best-selling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire into a dramatic series, to be written and executive-produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Variety reported. Fire is the first TV project for Benioff (Troy) and Weiss (Halo) and will shoot in Europe or New Zealand. Martin, a former TV writer, will write one of the episodes himself. The rest will be written by Benioff and Weiss.
The series will begin with the first book, 1996’s A Game of Thrones. Each season to follow will be based on one of the subsequent novels, which average about 1,000 pages each. Martin has nearly finished the fifth installment, but won’t complete the seven-book cycle until 2024. The author will co-executive-produce the series along with Management 360’s Guymon Casady and Created By’s Vince Gerardis.
Fantastic news and enough to guarantee that I keep HBO on my cable package!
Who is this mysterious fellow, you ask? Why, he’s a writer and co-executive producer of BSG and has numerous TV, movie and comic-related items on his resume.
– Future prospects for Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica” are not as bleak as the show itself, but they’re not as bright as the supernova of media coverage the series has received.
Despite stellar reviews, ratings are down, not necessarily because fewer people are watching, but because so many viewers are watching on DVR or via iTunes downloads, not on cable. Sci Fi Channel executives hope to reverse the ratings trend by moving “Galactica” to 10 p.m. Sunday this weekend, but they’re not ready to discuss the show’s future.
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“I can’t talk about season four,” said Sci Fi Channel executive vice president of original programming Mark Stern when I approached him at an NBC Universal party Friday night.
Because the contracts with the actors expire next month, Stern said a decision on renewal will come by mid-February.
A lot of people have said to me that it appears to be some indecision as to whether Battlestar Galactica comes back or not. Absolutely not. The way it works is you have a pick up date by which you have to make a decision about picking up shows for the next season, and you don’t need to make the decision until that date so we don’t make the decision until that date. Do I think Battlestar will come back? I’m pretty much certain Battlestar will come back. It’s doing incredibly well; it’s held its audience on Friday nights against broadcast competition. We’ve moved it to Sunday and paired it with a new show, which we’re hoping will bring in even more of an audience. I’m optimistic and I would be shocked if we did not renew Battlestar Galactica.
Ok, so first we have the whole Air Force Sergeant bit, and then I open up my Sci Fi Weekly Newsletter e-mail from Sci Fi Channel and I see this on the right-hand column:
What’s that sound you hear? Geeks shattering the sound barrier on their way to the 7-Eleven across from their parents’ basement?
Of course, it isn’t as if Tricia Helfer is bashful. Prior to getting into acting (and anyone who has watched BSG can confirm that she is a very good actress) she was a Victoria’s Secret model. Even a simple Google search on her name (let alone a Google Images search) provides some, um, less than innocent photos.
Of course, it all begs the question: why pose nude at this stage of her career? While I wouldn’t recommend to anyone that they use nudity as the means of launching their career, one can certainly understand that it is a way to bring attention to oneself (again, see the aforementioned Michelle Manhart story–indeed, Sean Hackbarth has video of her explaining that that is essentially was her motivation). One would think that Helfer would prefer to be taken seriously more for her acting talent at this stage of the game, rather than for other aspects of her career.
Helfer, who’s not recognizable as Six when not wearing a platinum blond wig, appears nude in the current issue of Playboy. She’d been approached to appear in the magazine when “Galactica” began, but after 10 years as a model, she wanted to establish herself as an actress. Now those concerns are gone.
“I’m certainly not opposed to showing a certain amount of skin,” she said. “I feel confident, and I’m one of those people who believe we all have the same parts. I don’t like it when it’s done in a gratuitous or nasty way, but I think some of my favorite shots are black and white nudes. … I think [my] pictures are classy and fun. I’m proud of it.”
