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syfy renews 2 shows: Stargate: Universe & Sanctuary
Stargate Universe
  A Short while ago SyFy announced via twitter it's renewing SG:U & Sanctuary..

http://twitter.com/Syfy/status/6653171665
We just announced the renewal of BOTH #Stargate Universe and #Sanctuary! Thx to everyone who's been watching!

Further details from sifiwired.com:
http://bit.ly/5hOQgJ
Syfy announced it was renewing its new series Stargate Universe for a second season and it was also picking up Sanctuary for a third season. Both were given 20 episode orders which will begin airing in ...
Written by: solitaire [14th Dec 09, 01:15] Read more
 
Fox sends Dollhouse to the Attic...
Dollhouse
  It's official

Fox has cancalled Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse" but will still show all 13 episodes, it's been announced today.
In a statement on Fansite Whedoneque Joss thanks crew and the fans for their support:

http://whedonesque.com/comments/22328#349440

"Hmm. Apparently my news is not news.

I don't have a lot to say. I'm extremely proud of the people I've worked with: my star, my staff, my cast, my crew. I feel the show is getting better pretty much every week, and I think you'll agr...
Written by: solitaire [11th Nov 09, 17:15] Read more
 
From British Doctor to US Lawyer....
Doctor Who
  David Tennant is to make his US television debut as the lead role in a pilot for a comedy legal drama. The former Doctor Who will star as a top Chicago lawyer who suffers from panic attacks and coaches his clients to represent themselves in court.

The NBC hour-long show is titled Rex Is Not Your Lawyer.

Tennant has played the Doctor for the past five years but announced he was leaving last year. He will be replaced by actor Matt Smith next year. David Semel, who directed the pilot for succ...
Written by: solitaire [3rd Nov 09, 10:57] Read more
 
Red Dwarf is back in 2010.
Red Dwarf
  After the success of "Back to Earth" (Well.. people other than me liked it!) Robert Llewellyn confirmed today that Red Dwarf will be back sometime at the end of 2010.

He said in his twitter stream:
"Series 10 of Red Dwarf announcement just been made at DJ 09. To clarify the scripts have been commissioned, wont be filming til 2010" http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/4759566568

More info here:

A new series of Red Dwarf has been commissioned, its star Robert Llewel...
Written by: solitaire [10th Oct 09, 19:00] Read more
 
R.I.P. Patrick Swayze
The Beast
  Dirty Dancing film star Patrick Swayze has died aged 57, his publicist says.

Annett Wolf said that the US actor, who had been battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years, died with family at his side on Monday.

Swayze was diagnosed with advanced stage four pancreatic cancer in January last year.

The actor had been starring in US TV show The Beast since being diagnosed with the disease. He had also planned to write a memoir with his wife.

"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefull...
Written by: solitaire [14th Sep 09, 19:54] Read more
 
Primeval axed after three series
  Science fiction drama series Primeval has been axed after "three very successful series", ITV has confirmed.

Starring Ben Miller, Douglas Henshall, and ex-S Club 7 star Hannah Spearritt, the show followed a group of scientists studying prehistoric creatures.

"High quality drama remains a key part of the ITV schedule, although our current focus is on post-watershed production," ITV said in a statement.

The show had an average audiences of about five million this year....
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Tim Minear clarifies the situation regarding Dollhouse.
  Okay. So maybe I can help clarify this somewhat. Because we scrapped the original pilot -- and in fact cannibalized some of its parts for other eps -- we really ended up with 12 episodes. But the studio makes DVD and other deals based on the original 13 number. So we created a standalone kind of coda episode. Which is the mythical new episode 13. The network had already paid for 13 episodes, and this included the one they agreed to let us scrap for parts. It does not include the one we made to b...
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Is Dollhouse being sent to the attic?
  Rumors are floating around the web that fans of Eliza Dushku will only be able to see the last few Episodes when they buy the Series on DVD. Adding further fuel to the speculation that FOX is about to scrap another Joss Whedon show just as it hits double digits episodes....

Felicia Day (From "Dr Horrible" & "The Guild" fame) who stars in Episode 13, expressed regret at finding out that Episode 13 will not be aired in the US and will only be available on DVD.

So (Lik...
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Big Bang Theory: Deal Is Done for Two More Seasons!
  Inside sources close to the show tell us exclusively that Sheldon and the rest of the Big Bang gang are confirmed to come back!

Earlier this morning CBS and Warner Bros. TV sealed the deal that renews CBS's hit comedy The Big Bang Theory for two more seasons of 22 eps each. News of CBS' intentions to renew BBT leaked earlier this month but the I's and T's had remained undotted and uncrossed until today.

Ratings and critical acclaim (fact: BBT is dead funny) for Bang have been through the r...
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ABC greenlights 'V' pilot
  With the Finale of BSG in a few weeks: Their is something to look forward to:

Sci-fi adaptation is reworking of 1980s miniseries

The visitors are back.

ABC has officially given a pilot greenlight to its reworking of "V," the 1980s miniseries about alien lizards coming down to Earth (Daily Variety, Oct. 10).

New adaptation of the franchise was written by "The 4400" co-creator/exec producer Scott Peters. Peters is on board to exec produce along with HDFilms principa...
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'Seeker' gets second look.
  Disney renews drama for second season.

Disney's experiment in reviving the firstrun syndie drama biz with the Sam Raimi-produced "Legend of the Seeker" has paid off with a second-season renewal on the Tribune Broadcasting stations.

Filmed in New Zealand and based on Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" book series, "Seeker" has delivered a credible 2.0 household rating or so in its run to date. It scored a 1.6 household rating for the week ended Jan. 11.

Its t...
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"Heroes" reboot for season 4
Nip/Tuck
  Sci-fi TV show Heroes is returning to its roots in a bid to turn round falling audience figures in the US.

Creator Tim Kring said series four will start "pretty much from scratch", after fans criticised a lack of direction in the second and third series.

US television network NBC says it is committed to Heroes, which starts its fourth season in the US on 2 February.

But primetime president Angela Bromstad admitted it may have taken on too much "in terms of characters and ...
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Dollhouse: Joss temporary suspends Production
  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A second mid-season Fox series, producer Joss Whedon's new drama "Dollhouse," has shut down production for a couple of weeks to work on scripts.

Filming on "Dollhouse" stopped Thursday after wrapping episode three. It came at the request of Whedon, who had had spent little time in the writers room lately, busy directing the first two episodes of the series. Not completely happy with the quality of upcoming scripts, he asked producing stud...
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Plans for new Torchwood revealed
The Jeff Dunham Show
  The new series of sci-fi show Torchwood will follow a single adventure instead of individual storylines, the BBC says.

Torchwood: Children Of Earth sees the team battling for the future of the human race against the fiercest force they have encountered.

"This series is one big serial and the most ambitious story we've ever made," writer Russell T Davies said.

Filming for the five-part series, which is due to be broadcast in 2009, has already begun in Cardiff.

John Barrowman...
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Ian McKellen cast in The Prisoner
  Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel are set to star in the ITV remake of the 1960s TV cult show The Prisoner.

Sir Ian will play the sinister Number Two who controls a mysterious place known as The Village.

Passion of the Christ star Caviezel takes the role of Number Six, who finds himself trapped there, with no memory of how he arrived.

It is understood that the six-part series will include scenes shot in Namibia and South Africa.

The original was famously filmed around the Italianate ...
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Natasha Henstridge braces for Impact
  Forewarned is forearmed :D

"In what is quite possibly the most ominous sci-fi news so far this year, Variety reports that Species minx Natasha Henstridge will star in Impact - a TV two-parter featuring a dwarf star hitting the Moon, followed by the usual apocalyptic pandemonium down on Earth.

Henstridge will be joined for the romp by David James Elliott of JAG and LA Confidential vet James Cromwell under the watchful eye of Smallville helmsman Mike Rohl working to a script by Superfir...
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SKY (UK) to Resurect Blake
  Sky One (UK) has provocatively given the go-ahead for the development of two 60-minute scripts which could see the return to the small screen of cult TV classic Blake's 7, the BBC reports.

Blake's 7 ran from 1978 to 1981 on the Beeb, and is best remembered among chaps of a certain age for the presence of Jacqueline Pearce as the deliciously villainous Servalan*, who alongside Paul Darrow as Avon and Gareth Thomas as Blake, battled gamely against wobbly sets and decidedly low-tech special effe...
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