Thursday, June 12, 2008

Smallville - Video: Pilot Episode

Courtesy of The WB, Smallville's pilot episode, starring Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Eric Johnson, Allison Mack, Sam Jones III, Annette O'Toole and John Schneider. Guest stars include John Glover, Sarah-Jane Redmond and Steve Bacic.

Baby Clark (Kal-El) arrives on Earth. Teen Clark starts high school, saves Lex's life after a car accident, and finds out about his past and birth parents.


David Boreanaz - Video: Monte Carlo Film Festival Day 2

Courtesy of HULU and TV Guide Online's Hollywood 411, Monte Carlo Goes Hollywood 2.

Hollywood 411's Marc Istook is 'working hard' as he rubs elbows with some of Hollywood's biggest TV Stars at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.

Interviewed are Pushing Daisies' Lee Pace, David Krumholtz from Numbers, CSI: Miami's Adam Rodriguez, Naveen Andrews from Lost, and Bones' David Boreanaz.



Stargate SG-1 / Sanctuary/ GateWorld - SyFy Portal - 2008 SyFy Genre Award Nominees

From SyFy Portal:

http://www.syfyportal.com/news425117.html

(Please follow the link for the complete article.)

SyFy Portal announced the nominees for the 2008 SyFy Genre Awards

Claudia Black for Stargate SG-1, GateWorld for Best Web Site, and Sanctuary Episode 8 for Best Web Production were among the nominees.

Voting begins June 25 at SyFy Portal. Readers can vote once per day for 30 days between June 25 and July 25, and winners will be announced during SyFy Portal's 10th anniversary celebration around Aug. 13.

For a complete list of nominees, visit the SyFy Genre Awards message boards by clicking here.

http://www.syfyportal.com/community/index.php?topic=10670.0

To see a video of the nominees, visit Veoh by clicking here.

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v141915548ecexE9f



BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS/Television


Claudia Black, Stargate SG-1
Summer Glau, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Tricia Helfer, Battlestar Galactica
Allison Mack, Smallville
Katee Sackhoff, Battlestar Galactica

BEST WEB SITE

GateWorld
SciFi.com/SciFi Wire
SupernaturalTV.com
TorchwoodTV.Blogspot.com
Whedonesque

BEST WEB PRODUCTION

Illiad, Star Trek: Odyssey
Returned, The House Between
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
Webisode VIII, Sanctuary
World Enough and Time, Star Trek: New Voyages

BEST SERIES/Television

Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Jericho
Lost
Supernatural

Stargate Atlantis - NEW Photos from 'The Daedalus Variation"

Courtesy of Andreas at GateWorld Forum (thank you Andreas!):

http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost.php?p=8316097&postcount=1

(Please follow the link for the full-size, high-resolution format of the following photos.)

Lt. Col. John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan)



Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett)




Ronon Dex (Jason Momoa)



Teyla Emmagan (Rachel Luttrell)



Shep



Ronon



Rodney



Shep

Sanctuary / Stargate - SciFi Now Magazine Issue 16

From Imagine Publishing:

http://www.scifinow.co.uk/index.html


(Sanctuary and Stargate are listed on the cover as content)



IT'S ALIVE!

Officially on sale 12th June, SciFiNow Issue 16 is the latest issue of the UK's fastest growing and biggest science fiction magazine. Here's a small taster of what's in store in our huge 148 page issue.

Inside:

• Our news this month brings you the latest on The Hobbit, the lowdown on the best films coming your way soon, and a look at the newest developments in genre TV.

• We take a look at Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, and the future of 3D cinema.

• A surprisingly sober glance at Will Smith's latest opus, Hancock.

• In-depth on the jolly green giant and his latest outing in The Incredible Hulk.

• An interview with one of the big names at Marvel - Brian Michael Bendis.

• The definitive glance at what the next season holds in store for genre television.

• Spy-Fi: Sci-Fi? SFN investigates, with the help of our readers.
• The most trustworthy reviews of the latest film and DVD releases.
• A wealth of book, comic and graphic novel reviews.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Supernatural, Gattaca and a colossal complete guide to Superman head up this month's Timewarp.
• The Fanboys section continues to cover all the hottest convention and memorabilia news, including the most vintage classic science fiction memorabilia money can buy.
• We nitpick our way through Wild, Wild West.
• Our history of literary sci-fi this month has an in depth look at one of our literary titans - Robert Heinlein..
• Also included, our indispensable guide to this month's essential sci-fi viewing.
• And all you could want from the UK's premiere science fiction, horror, fantasy and cult magazine.

This issue rockets through the air into all good newsagents on 12th June!

Those lucky enough to be subscribers will have made a huge 30% saving, so why not pop on over to our eShop and join them today at:

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Stargate SG-1 - Videos: Christopher Judge & Michael Shanks - Monte Carlo Film Festival '08

From TV Fest '08:

http://www.tvfestival.mc/2008/en/presse/videos/


While I was typing the content for the June 11 video, the June 12 video was posted.

From June 11, a 1 minute 30 second video of brief clips of red carpet arrivals at the Monte Carlo Film Festival. Featured American TV celebrities (that I recognized) include:

Law and Order - Anthony Anderson, Alana De La Garza and Linus Roache

House - Lisa Edelstein

Desperate Housewives - Dana Delany

I think Michael Shanks (brief glimpse) -- confirmed, not Michael Shanks. (My apologies)

CSI - George Eads (killer smile)




Christopher Judge





Gina Holden




From June 12, a two minute video of brief clips of red carpet arrivals at the Monte Carlo Film Festival. Featured American TV celebrities (that I recognized) include:

Numbers - David Krumholtz




Christopher Judge



Gina Holden

Days of Our Lives - Deidre Hall

Without a Trace - Eric Close

Lost - Jorge Garcia and Naveen Andrews

Desperate Housewives - Dana Delany

Law and Order - Anthony Anderson and Alana De La Garza

CSI: Miami - Adam Rodriquez

House - Lisa Edelstein

I think Jodie Foster

CSI - George Eads


From the June 10 video, a one minute 31 second video of brief clips of red carpet arrivals at the Monte Carlo Film Festival. Featured American TV celebrities (that I recognized) include:

Without A Trace - Eric Close

Pushing Daisies - Lee Pace

Numbers - David Krumholtz

CSI: Miami - Adam Rodriquez

Bones - David Boreanaz

Lost - Jorge Garcia and Naveen Andrews

House - Lisa Edelstein

Stargate: Continuum - MGM Stargate: Director's Cut: Continuum (Pt. 1)

From MGM Stargate:

http://stargate.mgm.com/news_detail.php?id=86

(Please follow the link for the complete article.)

Director's Cut: Continuum (Pt. 1)

June 12, 2008 (General)

As Stargate Continuum gets closer and closer to launch, director Martin Wood talks about the fun he had fitting 11 years of history into one excellent adventure.




Photo courtesy of MGM Stargate

“The whole thing for us was to make the biggest Stargate that’s ever been made aside from the original feature,” says Wood, of what exactly he wanted to achieve in making Stargate Continuum. “The biggest that we could in the time and with the money that we had.”


Few could argue that the veteran director has failed to achieve his ambition. After all, Continuum stretches from the icy expanses of the Arctic ocean right into the farthest reaches of the stars – and also gives viewers a very definite idea of ‘what might have been’, if not for SG-1 as we know it. Continuum is a classic Stargate SG-1 adventure, and the director is in no doubt as to what makes it such.

“The team that we had,” he says immediately. “Having Richard Dean Anderson in the show, having our core team, and getting to have everybody back. It was so funny because all the people that I’ve worked with for 11 years were standing on the set and I was saying, ‘I did three shows with you and five shows with you and a season with you…’ It was such a classic Brad Wright run-and-jump-and -sit-and-cry type of story, that makes it classic SG-1 immediately, and then having that team and all those characters back – it will remind everybody what’s happened over the last eleven years. I think that’s part of the brilliance of Brad Wright and Robert Cooper when they write these things – Brad is so intimately aware of 11 years of evolution.”


**snippage**

In the next installment, Martin Wood tells us about filming in the Arctic circle for those memorable icy scenes!

Story by Sharon Gosling

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer - Video: 'Witch'

Courtesy of HULU, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer's 'Witch,' starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head and Kristine Sutherland. Guest stars include Elizabeth Anne Allen, Robin Riker, Jim Doughan ... Mr. Pole and Nicole Prescott.

In an effort to inject some normalcy into her life, Buffy tries out for the cheerleading squad, only to discover the competition wants her dead.

SciFi Talk: Pollen and The Ring of Harmony - Author Audio Interview

From SciFi Talk:

http://scifitalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=348405



Wed, 11 June 2008

Francis T. Perry Williams

In Pollen And The Ring Of Harmony, Francis T. Perry Williams weaves a tale of an alien visitor who teaches all of us to think green and save the Earth. We discuss the novel and his background as a former actor on such shows like Laverne And Shirley and Happy Days. Visit the official site, Pollen And The Green Army. Special thanks to Phenix And Phenix Publicity. Music is Elf Song by Victor Stellar.


Podcast Link

Firefly - Video: 'Objects in Space'

Courtesy of HULU, the Firefly series finale episode, 'Objects in Space,' starring
Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau and Ron Glass. The excellent Richard Brooks guest stars.

Awesome episode!

A bounty hunter named Jubal Early sets his sites on capturing River Tam and manages to sneak aboard the Serenity to do so.