Moonlight / Primeval / Stargate - SciFi Channel's SciFi Friday Line Up May 8 '09

Due to the Star Trek Trekathon, SciFi Friday begins at 9pm on May 8 '09 on the SciFi Channel (US):

9:00P MOONLIGHT FATED TO PRETEND - Stargate Universe's David Blue guest stars



10:00P PRIMEVAL SERIES 1 EPISODE 5



11:00P STARGATE ATLANTIS (SEASON 2) AURORA - Mitch Pileggi guest stars



12:00A PRIMEVAL SERIES 1 EPISODE 5

01:00A STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) SUMMIT - Guest stars include Anna-Louise Plowman, Carmen Argenziano, Cliff Simon, Courtenay J. Stevens, William de Vry, Vince Crestejo and Kevin Durand



02:00A STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) LAST STAND - Guest stars include Anna-Louise Plowman, Carmen Argenziano, Cliff Simon, Courtenay J. Stevens and Vince Crestejo

Stargate Universe - SFX Magazine Issue # 183 - May 6 '09

At SFX Magazine:



Latest issue

SFX 183 – June 2009

On sale Wednesday 6 May 2009

We get the lowdown on the latest Stargate spin-off series, Stargate Universe!

FREE STUFF!
You loved our Doctor Who and Ghost In The Shell fridge magnets, and now you can add to your collection with a set of free Transformers fridge magnets with every copy of SFX 183!

TERMINATOR SALVATION
We chat to director McG and give you all the goss on the much-anticipated movie - including an exclusive look at some of the storyboards and a chat with the film's special effects makeup supervisor!

HARLAN ELLISON
Speaking of Terminator, we have an exclusive interview with the celebrated author on the truth behind that story about his legal action against James Cameron!

DRAG ME TO HELL
Sam Raimi's dipped his toes into the horror pool again! We talk to Raimi's second-in-command Rob Tapert about the Evil Dead director's return to old school horror.

KROD MANDOON
It's the new fantasy comedy starring Matt Lucas! We talk to creators Peter Knight and Brad Johnson.

BRITISH SCI-FI NOVELS
We run down the ten most influential novels in British science fiction - how many have you read?

CHINA MIEVILLE
The New Weird novelist talks to us about his latest book, The City & The City.

HEROES AND INSPIRATIONS
Jeff Wayne explains what spurred him on in creating the musical version of War Of The Worlds.

COUCH POTATO
Holodeck episodes of Star Trek - an ingenious way to add variety to the show or just a bit rubbish? The Couch Crew examines the evidence!

REWIND
It could have been one of the best sci-fi series ever to grace the BBC, but it was not to be. We look back on the one-season wonder Star Cops.

TIME MACHINE
Following on from last issue's retrospective on a radio show, this issue's Time Machine looks back on Gary Numan's classic concept album Replicas.

PROFILES
Patricia Arquette talks about the new season of Medium, Laila Rouass tells all about being the new kid on the block in Primeval, and Kate Griffin (aka Catherine Webb) explains why London is an endless source of inspiration to her.

BOOK CLUB
A more recent title than most of our Book Club choices, but it's a good one nonetheless - Jeff Noon's Vurt.

WISHLIST
Where next for James Bond? You gave us your ideas!

SPOILER ZONE
We've got the final episodes of Pushing Daisies and Battlestar Galactica and the season premieres of Reaper and Primeval, as well as the return of Saving Grace and ongoing coverage of Dollhouse, The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes!

All this and lots more...

Stargate / Star Trek/ Moonlight / Primeval - SciFi Channel's SciFi Friday Line Up May 1 '09

From SciFi.com's schedulebot, SciFi Channel (US) SciFi Friday line up for May 1 '09:

6:00P STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) THE BROCA DIVIDE - Guest stars include Teryl Rothery, Steve Makaj and Gerard Plunkett



7:00P STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION SUDDENLY HUMAN - Chad Allen guest stars

8:00P STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION REMEMBER ME - Guest stars include Eric Menyuk and Bill Erwin

9:00P MOONLIGHT THE MORTAL CURE - Guest starring Stargate Universe's David Blue



10:00P PRIMEVAL SERIES 1 EPISODE 4



11:00P STARGATE ATLANTIS (SEASON 2) CONVERSION - Guest stars include Kavan Smith and Mitch Pileggi



12:00A PRIMEVAL SERIES 1 EPISODE 4

01:00A STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) NEMESIS - Guest stars include Colin Cunningham and Gary Jones - Superb episode



02:00A STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) SMALL VICTORIES - Guest stars include Colin Cunningham, Gary Jones and Dan Shea - Superb episode

Stargate / Star Trek / Moonlight / Primeval - SciFi Friday Line Up Apr 24 '09

From SciFi.com's schedulebot, the SciFi Channel (US) SciFi Friday line up for April 24, 2009:

6:00P STARGATE SG-1 (SEASON 10) UNENDING



7:00P STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION MENAGE A TROI - Guest stars include Majel Barrett, Frank Corsentino, Ethan Phillips and Carel Struycken

8:00P STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION TRANSFIGURATIONS

9:00P MOONLIGHT LOVE LASTS FOREVER - Guest stars include Stargate Universe's David Blue



10:00P PRIMEVAL SERIES 1 EPISODE 3



11:00P STARGATE ATLANTIS (SEASON 5) BRAIN STORM - Guest stars include Bill Nye, Dave Foley, Marshall Bell, Gary Jones and Neil deGrasse Tyson



12:00A PRIMEVAL SERIES 1 EPISODE 3

01:00A STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) EXODUS - Guest stars include Carmen Argenziano, Peter Wingfield and Peter Williams



02:00A STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) ENEMIES - Guest stars include Carmen Argenziano and Peter Williams

Stargate / Primeval / Moonlight - SciFi Channel (US) SciFi Friday Line Up Apr 10 '09

From SciFi.com's schedulebot, the SciFi Channel (US) SciFi Friday line up for April 10 '09:

6:00P STARGATE SG-1 (SEASON 10) LINE IN THE SAND - Tim Guinee, Eric Breker, Aaron Craven, Greg Anderson guest star.



7:00P MOVIE STARGATE: CONTINUUM



9:00P MOONLIGHT FLEUR DE LIS



10:00P PRIMEVAL SERIES 1 EPISODE 1



11:00P STARGATE ATLANTIS (SEASON 2) TRINITY - David Nykl, Mitch Pileggi, Christopher Gauthier and Chuck Campbell gues star



12:00A PRIMEVAL SERIES 1 EPISODE 1



01:00A STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) OUT OF MIND - Suanne Braun, Tom Butler and Samantha Ferris guest star



02:00A STARGATE SG-1 (SEASONS 1-5) INTO THE FIRE - Tony Amendola, Suanne Braun, Tom Butler, Colin Cunningham, Samantha Ferris, Steve Makaj guest star

Primeval - Season 1 Premieres SciFi Channel Apr 10 '09

Primeval, the '07 UK scifi series, premieres on the SciFi Channel (US) on Friday, Apri 10 '09 at 10pm. Starring Douglas Henshall, Andrew Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Lucy Brown, Juliet Aubrey, Ben Miller and James Murray.



World-renowned evolutionary scientist Professor Nick Cutter and his team are recruited by the British Government to investigate a series of dinosaur sightings. From a Gorgonopsid rampaging through the Forest of Dean to a swarm of giant spiders in the tunnels of the London Underground, they find themselves doing the "Monster Mash" with some seriously beastly opponents.

The seemingly impossible becomes a terrifying reality as long-extinct creatures rip through human territory. Meanwhile Cutter and his research assistant, Stephen Hart, struggle to find answers. Enlisting the help of zoologist Abby Maitland and student palaeontologist Connor Temple, the four work to uncover the secrets of the temporal anomalies. Yet it soon becomes clear that all traditional methods of research are extinct.

The team is abetted by shadowy government officials James Lester and Claudia Brown, who instruct them to keep the danger secret from the public. Yet inevitably, the past threatens to invade the present and destroy the future. And Cutter's crew faces a life and death race against time.

Adding to the chaos, Cutter is also struggling with a private dilemma. After disappearing for eight years, his wife, Helen, mysteriously returns with possible answers to help halt the invasion of prehistoric creatures. But is she willing to share the secrets? And if not, then why has she returned?

Combining dazzling special effects of Walking With Dinosaurs and Jurassic Park style, action and thrills, plus a haunting love story, Primeval asks a horrifying question — has mankind come to the end of the evolutionary road?

Primeval - SciFi Weekly: Cast and Crew Interview

From the SciFi Channel's SciFi Weekly:

(Please follow the link for the complete SciFi Weekly interview.)



PRIMEVAL: DOUG HENSHALL, TIM HAINES, ADRIAN HODGES

Go behind the scenes with the cast and crew of the imported blockbuster British series Primeval as they explain how they transformed the entire U.K. into Jurassic Park, and find out what made them say, "We don't have anyone kissing our dinosaurs."

[NOTE: Primeval premieres on BBC America Saturday August 9 '08 at 9pm. For more infomation, please visit the BBC America Primeval website.]

August 04, 2008

The star and creators of the hit British family dinosaur series talk about the show finally jumping the pond to U.S. audiences on BBC America

By Mike Szymanski

Will a creature jump out of the pool? Doug Henshall ("Dougie" to his pals) remains a safe distance out of the sun and away from the edge of the pool at the Beverly Hills Hilton during a recent interview. He notes that in his popular British show Primeval, a prehistoric monster of some sort could jump out of the pool and gobble up a few of the sunbathers, and after three seasons of filming the show in the United Kingdom, it keeps him a bit on the edge.

In an interview with SCI FI Weekly, Henshall is joined by co-creators Tim Haines and Adrian Hodges. Haines is the guy behind the factual series Walking With Dinosaurs, which scientifically re-creates how dinosaurs walked, looked and sounded. Hodges is now working on a remake of a post-apocalyptic remake of a 1970s TV series called Survivors, based on the SF novel by Terry Nation and scheduled to be broadcast this fall.

The trio said they hope that Primeval will catch on quickly with U.S. audiences when it kicks off on Aug. 9. Also starring Lucy Brown and James Murray, the series follows a ragtag team of scientists led by Henshall's evolutionary zoologist character Dr. Nick Cutter as they battle creatures that come through these unexplained anomalies that are ripping holes in the fabric of time.

One problem has been that both in the U.K. and the U.S., people are comparing the show, and Henshall's character, to a certain "Doctor."


Douglas Henshall, how have you been avoiding the Doctor Who comparisons during interviews here at the Television Critics Association press tour?

Doug Henshall: Well, of course Doctor Who is enormously popular where I'm from, and it's becoming known here, too. And, it's the one question I've been getting asked about the most—people comparing the show to that Doctor, and for that reason I've been comparing it to the American show that people would get, The A-Team, because it's an ensemble piece. I was mainly trying to avoid the comparison of the show we don't want to mention, and so I picked something very different, and our show is more of an ensemble like that show was. In our show our characters all have different skills and need to work together. That's how the shows are alike, we each come from different backgrounds to work together.

Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines, you have now included as one of the new writers Paul Cornell, who not only wrote for Doctor Who but also wrote more than a dozen novels about Doctor Who and his spinoff companion Bernice Summerfield. Is there any chance a Doctor Who character could pop in on the world of Primeval?

Tim Haines: No, absolutely not will we have a Doctor Who character pop in on Primeval. They have very different worlds and realities—

Adrian Hodges: Anything can happen on Doctor Who—

Haines: That's right, and the world of Primeval is more reality-based.

Hodges: Now, that doesn't mean there were a few times that we were tempted to sneak in a few sly references, like having someone say, "There's the doctor," and the "Doctor who?" But no, every time I was tempted to even put in a vague Who reference, I stopped myself. The worlds are very different. ... At one point we considered a sly Doctor reference when someone got angry at another character and threw a box set of Doctor Who at them, but we thought not.

**snippage**