Stargate Atlantis - Total SciFi Online: David Hewlett Interview

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David Hewlett: The Real McKay



He may have one of the biggest egos in both the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies, but you can always count on Stargate Atlantis’ Dr. Rodney McKay to help save the day. Steve Eramo recently spoke with actor David Hewlett about playing the self-centered yet likeable scientist.

A brief excerpt:

What did you think of the Atlantis series finale Enemy at the Gate?

I’m not a big fan of Enemy at the Gate. As far as trying to wrap up five years of a show, it just didn’t work. It felt like just another episode, but it really wasn’t. It was an opportunity to do something memorable, to give people something to talk about, but it was an opportunity missed.

I think [the penultimate season five episode] Vegas should have been Atlantis’ swan song. It was so cool, off-the-wall and different for us. I just loved it. The first time I read the script I thought, “This isn’t even an Atlantis episode,” and then I was like, “Well, good!” Can you imagine, people would have been freaking out – what the hell, Sheppard’s dead, and McKay is married? If I was running the show, that’s what I’d have done.

Then again, I’m not smart enough to have come up with most of the stuff those writers have come up with already, which is why I’m acting…

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Stargate Universe - Total SciFi Online: David Blue Interview

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David Blue: All Across the Universe

Posted on Tuesday 03 November 2009



From vampires to fashion photographers, David Blue certainly likes to cross genres when it comes to his television credits. Now he can be seen crossing galaxies as the character of Eli Wallace on Sy-Fy’s newest incarnation of the Stargate franchise, Stargate Universe. Abbie Bernstein met up with Blue to chat about his latest role…

A brief excerpt:

Did you have any opinions about your Stargate Universe cast mates – Robert Carlyle, Lou Diamond Phillips or Ming-Na – before working with them?

Absolutely! I watched ER from Season One to the end, and Chun Li in Street Fighter – oh, my God! – so I love Ming-Na’s work. Lou Diamond Phillips – I’ve been giving him crap, because everyone remembers him as Richie Valens [in La Bamba]; the truth is, I remember him from Stand and Deliver. Robert Carlyle – 24: Redemption, 28 Weeks Later, The Full Monty, Trainspotting – some of my favorite movies!

So as I always tell people, it’s not like the casting sold it for me, but it was the icing around the cake. I not only get to play a good role with an amazing script that drew everyone to it, but I get to work with these people, which is like a gift.

Stargate Universe is currently airing on Sy Fy in the US and the Sci-Fi Channel in the UK.

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Stargate Atlantis - UK Only! - Total SciFi: SGA Season 5 DVD contest

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Posted on Wednesday 13 May 2009

Win a complete set of Stargate: Atlantis Season 5 DVDs!

Stargate: Atlantis fans everywhere shed a tear earlier this year when the show broadcast its final episode. Now the final season is being released on DVD in five exciting volumes.

The 20 episodes on these volumes include such memorable adventures as `The Shrine', in which McKay is infected by a parasite, the utterly brilliant `First Contact', and `Vegas', in which Sheppard takes on the role of a down-at-hell detective.

Volume 1 is out now, with Volume 2 out on 25 May; Volume 3 on 8 June; Volume 4 on 22 June and Volume 5 on 6 July.

One lucky reader can win the entire set of Season 5 volumes. Just take a look at the following question:

Who played Dr. Jennifer Keller in Stargate Atlantis?

Email your answer to dwscifi [at] titanemail.com by 29 May 2009 and don't forget to include your name and address!

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Star Trek - Total SciFi: Zachary Quinto: Spock Rocking Feats

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Zachary Quinto: Spock Rocking Feats

Thursday 07 May 2009

There’s no doubt about it: Zachary Quinto has some very big ears to fill in the new Star Trek reboot. But, perhaps logically, the Heroes baddie makes for an ideal younger Spock in a performance that has earned him praise from no less than Leonard Nimoy. Ian Spelling caught up with Quinto on the eve of the nationwide release of Star Trek.

A brief excerpt:

The Shatner-Nimoy-Kelley chemistry was key to much of the success of the original Star Trek. How was the Pine-Quinto-Urban chemistry?

The entire cast chemistry is, safe to say, really genuine. Everybody in this movie does such a great job, it’s exciting to watch. All of us came from different experiences but there was such a unity right away. And I think that comes across, I really do.

Chris [Pine] and Karl [Urban] are both hysterical. I think the work Karl does in this movie is exceptional, a really, really great embodiment of Bones – he’s made it his own, yet pays a clear respect to DeForest Kelley.

Actually everybody made me laugh my face off! J.J. Abrams is hysterical. John Cho is one of the funniest people in the world. And Simon Pegg - you don’t come much funnier than that! This is a cast with real humour and zest – they’re people who really love life.

Star Trek - Total SciFi: George Takei: Captain Sulu to the Rescue!

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George Takei: Captain Sulu to the Rescue!

Posted on Wednesday 29 April 2009

Just as Star Trek has reinvented itself over the years, so has George Takei. The actor is obviously best known to Trekkers for his iconic portrayal of helmsman Hikaru Sulu in the original series of Star Trek (and subsequent movies), but he won new admirers with his role as Hiro’s father Kaito Nakamura in Heroes and even more fans with his unforgettable turn in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! With the Original Series and the first six movies out now on Blu-ray and Alternate Realities out on DVD, Takei talks to Matt McAllister about the eternal appeal of the show.

A brief excerpt:

It was a very optimistic show in many ways…

Oh yes. The 1960s was a dreadfully turbulent time for the United States racially, and racial conflicts were bursting out in the form of race riots in our major cities. I, as an Angeleno, I still remember the terror of the Watts riots in 1965. And at that time Star Trek had not only a multi-racial cast but also an inter-racial kiss between a black woman, Uhuru, and a white man, Kirk. Now, 40 years later, we have an enormously popular black president of the United States. What was hopeful back in the 1960s has become a powerful reality today! And thus Star Trek still remains very relevant.

I think it’s that human spirit of wanting to see a glimmer of hope – something President Obama is talking about in our current economic turmoil. That hope is essential. We need to have confidence in our ability to overcome challenges. I think it’s that core philosophy and those core values that has helped to maintain Star Trek’s popularity.

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Battlestar / Doctor Who / Star Trek - Total SciFi: Contest - Vote for Favorite SciFi TV Theme Tune

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Vote for your favourite sci-fi TV theme tune – and win great prizes!

From the Theremin-laced tunes of the 1950s to the current trend for more subtle, evocative title music, science fiction shows have given us some truly great theme tunes.

But what is the greatest sci-fi theme tune ever written? Just trying to whittle it down to 10 candidates proved difficult enough, and there are undoubtedly some strong contenders that haven’t made the cut.

Where, we hear you cry, is Knight Rider? Or Stingray? Or Lost in Space? Or Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? Or Enterprise? OK, maybe not Enterprise…

However, after several hours of screaming, pushing and sumo-wrestling, we have finally agreed on the following shortlist of 10 candidates. All are theme tunes that are both influential and instantly hummable, and reflect the broad range of theme tunes from the history of SF television, from The Twilight Zone and Star Trek right through to the recent reboot of Battlestar Galactica.

Now we want readers to let us know which is their all-time favourite theme tune from the shortlist below. And as an added incentive, one lucky random winner will bag a cinema voucher, a subscription to the Titan Magazines title of their choice and a goody bag. Your vote counts!

SCI-FI THEME TUNES: THE SHORTLIST

1) Battlestar Galactica (remake)

2) Buffy the Vampire Slayer

3) Doctor Who

4) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

5) Quantum Leap

6) Red Dwarf

7) Star Trek (Original Series)

8) Thunderbirds

9) The Twilight Zone

10) The X-Files

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Heroes - Total SciFi: Jack Coleman Interview

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Jack Coleman: The Company Man

Posted on Wednesday 11 February 2009

Noah Bennet, otherwise known as HRG (‘horn rimmed glasses’), is definitely one of Heroes’ most fascinating characters. A lot of that is down to Jack Coleman’s terrific performance, with the actor subtly managing to subvert his wholesome looks and calm demeanor to give the character an extra cold-blooded menace. “I think there’s been an evolution in his soul,” he tells Abbie Bernstein.

A brief excerpt:

HRG has displayed some caution in dealing with certain characters before. At this point, are there still people he’d rather not mess with, or is he just taking on everyone?

When he was messing with Nathan Petrelli, that was strictly under Company orders. [Season Three had] an episode where we go back in time a little bit. You see HRG as the Company Man, a guy who was a true believer and determined to do his job and do it right. You see him reading the riot act to Elle about how you’re supposed to behave as an agent and all this kind of stuff, and it’s not until a little further down the pike that you see how, once he realised that they were going to take Claire, and Claire was now going to be a guinea pig for the Company, that’s when everything turned.

So, yes, there are definitely people that HRG would prefer not to screw with, but there’s nobody that he won’t screw with, I think, if he feels that he needs to protect either himself or his family.

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Dollhouse - Total SciFi: Eliza Dushku Interview

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Posted on Tuesday 03 February 2009

Eliza Dushku: Echo in the House

“Welcome to our Dollhouse!” Eliza Dushku beams. She’s speaking about the elaborate set for Joss Whedon’s new drama about a mysterious agency that hires out people with specially-tailored personalities - including Dushku’s character Echo. The Dollhouse set itself is elegant and multi-layered, with a variety of interconnecting spaces that make it easy for cameras to slide through. The actress took time out to tell Abbie Bernstein more about the show.

... So, to sum up, how would you describe your experience of working on Dollhouse with Joss Whedon?

It’s one day at a time. We have an awesome team of writers. People are excited. My confidence and my enthusiasm and my excitement have only gotten more fierce. It’s like a dream to be working with someone who has such a serious soul and such as serious voice, and he knows what he is saying and what he is creating and how important and how relevant it is.

And Joss is a liberated, clever guy. He wants people to think that he is super-cynical, but he is not at all. He has this view of the world that I feel is so extraordinary, because nothing is black and white. He can play in that grey area and with good versus evil so spectacularly that every script and every piece of material that I get from him is a joy.

Dollhouse begins airing on Fox on February 13 2009.

Demons - Total SciFi: Philip Glenister Interview

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Posted on Thursday 22 January 2009

Philip Glenister: On the Hunt for Demons

Playing Rupert Galvin, an American vampire smiter, on ITV's new series Demons is a complete change of pace for Philip Glenister, who took the role after playing Gene Hunt on Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes for three years. Despite turning down the opportunity to reprise the role of Hunt for the American version of the show, he's still found himself portraying a transatlantic character. He spoke to Total Sci-Fi about his new role…

A brief excerpt:

Do you think that Demons is suitable for the Scooby Doo audience?

We are making a family supernatural thriller and it is dark in places but there is also humour. Kids love to be scared but at the same they want to have some fun.

My daughters are six and three and they are obsessed with Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures. They love being scared – when they know it is comic book scary. I’ll never forget watching Doctor Who with my friend Paul when I was a lad. We’d half hide behind the door when the Daleks were on.

There used to be a series on Saturday nights years ago on ITV called Thriller. It was all different stories. They released them on DVD recently and I had to get it. I remember the music used to really freak me out. There were these great stories and there was one that I remember where this guy gets locked in this house in this chamber and he is left there to die. It’s a bit like being buried alive. I remember being completely freaked out by this story.

Dollhouse - Total SciFi: Amy Acker Interview

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Amy Acker and Joss Whedon

Posted on Tuesday 20 January 2009

Amy Acker: What’s Up, Doc?

The people who made Angel really love Amy Acker. When Joss Whedon hired her for to play Fred Burkle in the show, co-creator/executive producer Joss Whedon declared: “She’s stolen all of our hearts – and now we’re afraid she won’t give them back!” Acker was a regular on Angel for four years, before being hired by erstwhile Angel showrunner Tim Minear to play Nathan Fillion’s wife on the short-lived Drive, and had a recurring gig as a badass spy on Alias in between. Now she’s a regular on Whedon’s new Fox series Dollhouse as “house” doctor Claire Saunders. Words: Abbie Bernstein

A brief excerpt:

Do you sort of feel like working with Joss is being ‘back to normal’?

Doing the Dollhouse pilot, I felt like I was just so happy to be with him. And actually, a lot of the crew is from Angel [including line producer Kelly Manners, director of photography Ross Berryman and stunt coordinator Mike Massa]. So it felt like, ‘Where’s Alexis Denisof?’ [laughs]

What do you think of the overall Dollhouse premise?

I think it’s going to be really cool. You can do anything with these people – they can be anyone, and you’ve got all these really good actors getting to play these different parts. I’m just excited to see where they go with it.

Dollhouse begins airing on Fox on February 13 2009.

Twilight - Total SciFi: Robert Pattinson: All Vamped Up

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Posted on Friday 19 December 2008

Robert Pattinson: All Vamped Up

When he beat off famous names to take the part of vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen in the screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s award-winning novel, Twilight, relative unknown and Brit Robert Pattinson had no idea what to expect. Over a year later, the 22-year-old has won a place on bedroom walls of teenage girls across the world, and become a mover and shaker in Hollywood, and all without wearing a pair of fangs. How did that happen? David Grove caught up with him to find out more ...

... Are you looking forward to doing a sequel?

Yes, we all are. When I first got this part, I hadn’t read the book, and then I read the first book, and then the other books and it amazed me how this world that Stephenie created just kept expanding and expanding. The possibilities are limitless and I love the second book.

When I signed on to the film the Twilight phenomenon wasn’t as big as it is now, so this has caught all of us by surprise. The whole thing is twice as crazy as it was when we started work on the film. I’d like to do more films until we get to that Midnight Sun story because that’s all about my character and I’m really interested to find out more about Edward.

Battlestar Galactica - Total SciFi: Michael Hogan: Saul Man

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Posted on Wednesday 03 December 2008

Michael Hogan: Saul Man


Michael Hogan, the surly Saul Tigh from Battlestar Galactica, answered a few questions during his guest of honour appearance at the recent MCM Expo in London. He talked to Den Patrick about eye patches, the end of the CIC and being a frakking Cylon.

... Have you been happy with the progression of your character throughout the series? Especially now that Tigh has been revealed as a Cylon…

I’m definitely happy with the progression of the character throughout the series… until he became a Cylon [laughs].

Ron Moore and David Eick have always picked up the phone when I’ve called with a concern throughout all of the five years. So I’ve learned over time to go with them if they insist on something.

The issue I’m really talking about is when they send Tigh down to New Caprica. Well, Tigh wouldn’t leave that ship, and for very good reasons. But they insisted Tigh go down to New Caprica. Well, look at what they wrote for season three; as an actor, you couldn’t get a better meal than that.

So with the Cylon thing, I did initially think it was a cheap shot. Someone told me that there was this poll on the web and people voted on who was most likely to be a Cylon on Battlestar Galactica. Saul Tigh was the second from the last!

Now that’s pretty cheap. I mean, do you make him a Cylon just because it would be a surprise? But, no, they [Moore and Eick] had thought it out. And knowing, after all those years, when they said they wanted me to be a Cylon, I said, “OK, I’ll argue it, but I don’t have any facts to argue with.” This was just a gut a thing ...

Battlestar Galactica returns in 2009.

Sarah Jane Adventures - Total SciFi: A Sarah Jane Adventure

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A Sarah Jane Adventure

Posted on Monday 03 November 2008

There’s a house on a road in West London where Sarah Jane Smith lives. In the attic is an alien super-computer called Mr Smith and a genius boy built by an alien race. Welcome to the world of children’s TV, Russell T Davies style. Sarah Herman packed up her sonic lipstick and headed down to Cardiff to see what all the fuss is about.

The road sign says we’re standing on Bannerman Road, Ealing, only something’s not quite right. We’re not in Ealing, at all. We’re in Penarth, Cardiff. Number 13 – a large, red brick house – leers above us on the pebbled driveway, towering over its neighbours. Parked neatly outside the front room’s window is an emerald green Nissan Figaro, keys in the ignition, a LEGO man dangling from the keychain. A hushed silence descends on the street as the cast and crew of The Sarah Jane Adventures prepare for another take.

They’re busy filming scenes for the first two-parter of the show’s anticipated second series, which, by the time you read this, will have started airing on CBBC. The first batch of alien-annihilating antics beamed down back in 2007, with a 60-minute New Year’s special followed by a full 10-episode series in the autumn. The show, aimed primarily at a younger audience than its big brother, Doctor Who, raked in record-breaking audiences for a BBC kids’ programme, and with a DVD box set out in November it’s certainly not going the same way as Sarah Jane’s disappointing 1981 pilot, K-9 and Company.

... Fan favourites

In fact, part of the programme’s appeal lies in its relationship with Doctor Who and the rich televisual history it draws on. Fan favourite aliens such as the Sontarans and the Slitheen make the show a must-see event on weekly TV schedules for most Who obsessives. “A lot of adult fans write to us, and really enjoy the programme,” Sladen says. “They’re either old Doctor Who fans or they’ve been brought to it by their children.”

... The series one boxset of The Sarah Jane Adventures is available to buy on 10 November.

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series two episodes is currently airing on Mondays on CBBC and BBC One.

Fringe / Star Trek - Total SciFi: Roberto Orci Interview

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Posted on Friday 31 October 2008

Roberto Orci: A Lot of Fringe, a Little Trek

Roberto Orci has been an executive producer/writer on Alias, screenwriter on films including The Legend of Zorro and Transformers, and is now co-writer/producer of the upcoming Star Trek film, with his writing partner Kurtzman and the film’s director/producer J.J. Abrams. Orci, Kurtzman, and Abrams together created the new Fox drama series Fringe, about three characters investigating alarming incidents that involve unusual or “fringe” science. Words: Abbie Bernstein

A brief excerpt:

How did Fringe come about?

RO: "We [Orci, Kurtzman and Abrams] literally sat in a room and said, "Let’s come up with a show right now." We were working on Star Trek, we were sitting around on set so much, we thought, "Since we’re all sitting in here with this extra time, let’s use that time wisely." The three of us talked about the shows that we love and the ideas that we had and we really kind of crashed them all into each other. We’re all fans of stuff like The Fly and Altered States, so we’ve all been pursuing ideas that resemble this. This was just finally the venue for all three of us to get it out of our systems."

Sarah Connor Chronicles - Total SciFi: Summer Glau/Garret Dillahunt Interview

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Posted on Tuesday 23 September 2008

Summer Glau and Garret Dillahunt: Talking Terminator

In person, Summer Glau looks petite and delicate. Indeed, she looks petite and delicate onscreen – until her cyborg character begins kicking major butt in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Garret Dillahunt, who plays the cyborg known as Cromartie, tasked with terminating John Connor, is a bit taller and broader, but still doesn’t appear capable of the havoc wreaked by his character. Both actors are happy to talk about Terminator’s second season, which has just begun airing on Fox. Words: Abbie Bernstein

...Were either of you worried that your character might shapeshift into another actor, as Terminators sometimes do?

Garret Dillahunt: [laughs] I guess I’m not really worried – I’m prepared. Obviously, no one is safe. We’re doing a lot of fun stuff this year that flashes back to the actor’s face he stole, stuff like that, which is going to be a lot of fun and I think we’re going to try to cross-pollinate with webisodes.

Summer, on Firefly your character River’s relationships with people around her changed through the course of the series. It seems it’s a little more difficult for the cyborg Cameron to have relationships that change. Or do you think there are changes that are just more subtle?

Summer Glau: I can tell you, relationships do change in the second season. I can’t say how, but everything is changing. She’s growing quite a bit, it’s very surprising. There have been hints of what’s going to happen to her - nothing is going to be the same. I think it was a triangle the first season. It’s a power struggle between Sarah [Lena Headey] and I in trying to influence John. I think that it’s always a triangle, and now that Riley [Leven Rambin as John’s potential love interest] has come on the scene, Cameron is definitely [displeased].

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is currently airing on Fox.

True Blood - Total SciFi: Stephen Moyer Interview

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Posted on Wednesday 03 September 2008

Stephen Moyer: There will be Blood

True Blood is HBO’s fang-tastic new vampire drama, based on Charlaine Harris’s popular series of books, The Southern Vampire Mysteries. Abbie Bernstein caught up with one of its stars, Stephen Moyer, to talk about vamping it up…

True Blood isn’t Stephen Moyer’s first time as a vampire. However, this is the first time he’s had to wear fangs, he explains with a laugh. “I did play a vampire in 1998, in a [BBC] series called Ultraviolet, and I have these canines that you can see.” He displays his teeth in a cheerful smile, displaying surprisingly large real canines. “So we decided [in Ultraviolet] not to give me fake teeth. But in this one, we have different teeth. It’s quite funny. As a kid, I had to wear a retainer to push the teeth straight. And [wearing the True Blood fangs is] like having a retainer. You kind of have to [puts on lispy voice] talk like this and you have to learn to talk with them in!

“It’s quite difficult, but we’ve all got much, much better at talking with them in,” he continues. “There was more looping [re-recording of dialogue] at the beginning, but people have got better, and we’ve kind of reduced the size of the teeth a little bit, so actually, there’s very little looping now...”

True Blood begins on HBO on 7 September 2008.

Supernatural - Total SciFi: Contest for Season 3 DVDs - UK Only!

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Posted on Tuesday 26 August 2008

The DVD is out now, but Total Sci-Fi has 5 copies to be won. Just take a look at the following question:

In which 2005 horror movie did Jared Padalecki play a character named Wade?

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Fringe - Total SciFi: Joshua Jackson Interview

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Posted on Thursday 14 August 2008

Joshua Jackson: Beyond the Fringe

From ice-hockey-playing child star to Dawson’s Creek pin-up, Joshua Jackson has walked the streets of Hollywood in a back-to-front fashion. From movies to TV and theatre, and then back to movies, in recent years he has managed to avoid the mainstream hysteria courted by other actors of his age and caliber. But that could all be about to change. The 30-year-old Canadian is embarking on a TV series journey that could be the making of him, all over again. As the star of J.J. Abrams’ new pilot show, Fringe, he should be preparing for a media circus. Bryan Cairns caught up with him to find out how he got involved…

These days, most of your credits are for feature films. What attracted you to the TV series Fringe?

Very simply, the appeal is good work with good people. The script is excellent and the character is Indiana Jones-ish. The whole piece is slightly darker than that but the character is adventuresome and smart. Usually on TV, you can be the smart guy but you have to wear glasses and sit in the car or you can be the adventuresome guy and look like Superman and be a lunkhead. This is a nice change.

You can’t really get any better than J.J. Abrams as a producer on television or film. Alias was pretty damn good, Lost is excellent, and Felicity was good as well. He’s definitely made his mark on television. That is the difficulty of television, maintaining quality and being able to keep cranking these things out. That is the thing that has held me back over the last few years from working in television, is knowing the amount of work that goes into it and how difficult it is to keep something good, fresh and interesting for the audience...

Eureka - Total SciFi: Eureka Season 3: Geniuses at work

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Eureka Season 3: Geniuses at work

The titular town of the cult Sci Fi Channel series Eureka is populated by eccentric geniuses who devote their time to coming up with all sorts of odd inventions. With the show back for a third series, Abbie Bernstein caught up with showrunners Jaime Paglia and Charlie Craig and star Colin Ferguson who plays Sheriff Jack Carter - a regular guy trying to adapt to Eureka’s eccentricities.

Season 2 was somewhat darker than Season 1. Will Season 3 be lighter?

Charlie Craig: I think [the darker tone] was a fun, interesting place to go. We didn’t apologise for it at all.

Jaime Paglia: But when you’re planning a season, you say, ‘Alright, now what do we want to do?’ And we just started coming up with funnier stuff this time. I think of our show as a comedy, not as suspense.

Charlie Craig: Yeah. ‘Dramedy’ is what we were trying to go for, and I think that we went a little more into drama last season. Again, I think it was great to do for our characters, but I think we all sort of had an inclination to come back more to the funny side this time.