SciFi

Hajime Sorayama Japanese airbrush artist who loves drawing robots. Who is your favourite Fantasy/SciFi artist?

The US version of Life on Mars is now in production (after delays due to the writers strike). It is being produced for ABC by David E Kelley (LA Law,Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal) and the staring roles go to

Jason O'Mara (Sam Tyler)

and

Colm Meaney (Gene Hunt).

The US remake has been set in a 1972 Los Angeles.

Sorry isn't this Short Circuit?

Can't wait this trailer looks awesome....

ITV4 have brought the rights to a new TV series from the makers of Stargate called Sanctuary. The series is set in a mysterious and supernatural world and follows the adventures of Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping), her reluctant protégé Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne) and her fearless and somewhat reckless daughter Ashley (Emilie Ullerup), as they study and try to help the strange, terrifying and monstrous creatures that populate their world. The series commissioned by the SciFi channel originally was an internet webisode project that gained a lot of following. It also has a fan site here.

Sorry wrong Blake...

The BBC, on the strength of the Dr Who reprise, are now casting their beady eyes on another SciFi classic Blake's 7.

Producers Andrew Mark Sewell, formally Creative Director at BBC Worldwide and film producer, Simon Moorhead; have inked a rights deal with the estate of the late Terry Nation who created the series, which gives the go-ahead for a revived format designed to breathe new life into this popular cult science fiction series.

The original series ran from 1978-81 and had the ultimate in female vixens in the guise of Servalan.

Dimension Films has acquired the remake rights to Short Circuit.

The 1986 movie staring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg deals with a defense robot that gains self awareness when electrocuted. Steve Guttenberg plays Newton Crosby who spends the movie trying to stop his robot from being 'disassembled'. He also tries to assess how 'human' the robot has become by telling him jokes.

Newton Crosby: OK. Listen closely. There's a priest, a minister and a rabbi. They're out playing golf. They're deciding how much to give to charity. The priest says "We'll draw a circle on the ground, throw the money in the air and whatever lands inside the circle we'll give to charity." The minister says "No, we'll draw a circle on the ground, throw the money in the air and whatever lands outside of the circle that's what we'll give to charity." The rabbi says "No no no. We'll throw the money way up in the air and whatever god wants, he keeps!"

Number 5: Hmmmm. Oh, I get it! Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho! Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee! Nyuk, nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk!

Stephanie Speck: What's going on? Is he laughing?

Newton Crosby: Yeah! Yeah! And the joke wasn't even that funny, and I think I screwed up the punchline. Ha ha ha ha!

Number 5: "Whatever god wants, he keeps!"

The new X Files movie due out in the summer is shrouded with secrecy but a boot leg trailer has hit Youtube.

Due out July 25th, rumours have it that the story line is about either were-people or cat-people. One will have to wait and see.....

I see that Dr Who series four airs on the American SciFi channel from 18th of April (2 weeks behind the UK). I was wondering if any American bloggers have seen any previous series and what they think of the Doctor et el?

One of the new episode this series is called 'The Doctors daughter' which got me thinking about the Doctors family. We know that he had a granddaughter called Susan (Foreman) and that she falls in love with a freedom fighter in the 22nd century called David Campbell. But who were her parents?
In Terrance Dicks's novelisation of his serial The Five Doctors set twenty years after The Dalek Invasion of Earth, reveals that Susan and David have three children.

The Doctor maybe the last Time Lord, but he may not be the last survivor of Gallifrey.

New series coming to the SciFi channel in May:

Tin Man is a modern take on the Wizard of Oz story. A girl called DG is working as a waitress in a small town but is plagued by dreams of a lavender eyed woman warning her that a storm is coming.

Meanwhile sorceress Azkadellia, tyrannically leader of the Outer Zone (OZ) sends troops through a 'travel storm' to kill DG. She escapes through the storm and then meets up with Glitch (a man with half a brain) the other half was removed by Azkadellia). They in turn meet the Tin Man, a former police officer locked in an iron suit for denouncing Azkadellia's rule and then an empathic half-human, half-lion -- named Raw (Raoul Trujillo),whom they save from being eaten.

They set off to Central City to meet up with the Mystic Man after finding out that the lavender eyed woman may be her real mother.

On SKY tonight:
9:00 - 9:30
Battlestar Galactica: Revealed
One-off special recapping the last 3 series in time for the final series.

9:30 - 10:00
Battlestar Galactica: Phenomenon
All things Galactica are discussed as it investigates the impact the series has made on pop culture.

10:00 - 11:50
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Flash back to Lee Adama's first mission as commander of Battlestar Pegasus as a build up to the new series.