3-10-09

Zap2It has an interview with the creator of How I Met Your Mother that includes some very minor spoilers for future episodes and the direction of the show (including how they handled the pregnancies of the 2 actresses).

Wired has an interview with the director from Torchwood's season 3 mini-series and Doctor Who's upcoming regeneration episode.

3-9-09

Castle premieres tonight. I really like Nathan Fillion, but haven't decided if I'm going to watch or not. To decide for yourself, see reviews at Zap2It, NJ.com, and SF Gate.

Orson Scott Card is going to write a young adult fantasy steampunk series.

Firefox is changing the content of new "empty" tabs that are opened.

DVRs for the week:
Mon 6pm Kyle XY
Mon 8pm Chuck, Big Bang Theory & House
Mon 830 How I Met Your Mother
Mon 9pm Heroes & 2.5 Men
Mon 10pm Medium & possibly the Castle premiere (ABC)
Tues 8pm Reaper
Wed 10pm CSI: NY & Life on Mars
Thu 8pm Bones
Thu 9pm CSI & Supernatural
Thu 10pm Eleventh Hour & Private Practice
Fri 7pm Battlestar Galactica
Fri 8pm Ghost Whisperer & Sarah Connor Chron
Fri 9pm Dollhouse
Fri 10pm Numb3rs
Sat SYN Legend of the Seeker
Sat 6pm Ashes to Ashes

03-06-09 (I love date progressions)

CSI's April 16th episode is going to be for Battlestar Galactica fans - with guest appearances by actress Kate Vernon and the show's creator Ronald D. Moore, and a plot that takes place at a convention.

Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies, Wicked) and Victor Garber (Alias) are set to appear in a quirky new TV show that is supposed to be very good. Unfortunately, it is for Fox.

Alex Proyas (Dark City) is adapting Heinlein's Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag for the screen. I'll be curious to see how he does the adaptation without repeating himself, since he sites the book as an inspiration for Dark City.

3-5-09

I'm feeling nostaligic for Calvin & Hobbes (the comic, not my cat) after reading this link at John Scalzi's blog and tracking back to the original gallery of grown-up Calvin & Hobbes images.

Barnes & Noble just bought Fictionwise. I wonder how it will end up changing in the long run. For the short run, see the FAQ at Fictionwise.

NASA asked the public to vote on the name for the next ISS module, and the current leaders are Serenity (thanks to the Firefly fans) and Colbert (a write-in request by fans of Stephen Colbert).

Harry Potter 6 has a featurette and a new trailer online. This in the same week they announced release dates for the final 2 movies.

3-4-09

Amazon just released a version of Kindle for the iPhone. So now I can read all those eBooks that are only available in Kindle format without shelling out the extra money for a 3rd device (who really needs a Pocket PC, iPhone, and a dedicated eBook reader like the Kindle even if they do read as many eBooks as I have recently?). Everyone is reporting on this - see sources at: Techdirt, VentureBeat, ZDNet, PC World, NY Times, CNet Crave, CNet Fully Equiped, and SFGate.

Spectrum 16 awards have been announced for art.

Blood Ties is finally coming to dvd this June.

Random House is launching a free eBook library with 5 pdf books by Naomi Novik, Robin Hobb, Harry Turtledove, Kim Stanley Robinson, and T.A. Pratt. (Now that I have Red Mars as a hardcover, an audiobook, and an ebook, will I finally get around to moving it off the To Be Read pile and actually reading it?) Per Tor.com's article, they will make the books available on their suvudu.com site, through Stanza (for the iPhone), and other content portals.

Brian Fuller has expressed an interest in making a new Star Trek TV series in the campy 60s style.

Another device is being developed to play internet-sourced TV on the TV. I wonder if they will have the same rights problems that Hulu has had.

3-3-9 (Square Root Day)

The US version of Life on Mars has been canceled. It will continue to air until the finale in April. According to EW, they gave enough notice to make the finale conclude the series. It managed just one episode more than the UK version (17 eps in one season vs. 16 eps over 2 seasons).

I guess the V remake is real. They announced their first casting today: Scott Wolf.

Space.com has a picture picked by the public as the next target for the Hubble.

3-2-09

SF Site has listed their Reader's Choice Best of 2008.

It sounds like we won't see the Pushing Daisies season 2 dvd until ABC airs the final 3 episodes (which they haven't scheduled) or their rights to them expire in September.

An "super" antibody has been discovered that might help create a universal vaccine for the flu. Two such discoveries in a month must mean they're getting close, right?

DVRs for the week:
Mon 6pm Kyle XY
Mon 8pm Chuck & Big Bang Theory
Mon 830 How I Met Your Mother
Mon 9pm Heroes & 2.5 Men
Mon 10pm Medium
Tues 8pm Reaper (season premiere)
Wed 9pm Lost
Wed 10pm Life on Mars
Thu 7pm Burn Notice
Thu 8pm My Name is Earl
Thu 9pm CSI
Thu 10pm Eleventh Hour
Fri 7pm Battlestar Galactica
Fri 8pm Ghost Whisperer & Sarah Connor Chronicles
Fri 9pm Dollhouse
Fri 10pm Numb3rs
Sat SYN Legend of the Seeker
Sat 6pm Ashes to Ashes (premiere of BBCA Life on Mars sequel)