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This week in week sci-fi news we have rumors on who is the new Bilbo and who isn’t the new Spider-man. Plus Details on the Fraggle Rock musical and Watchmen as well as images and videos Hellboy, Star Wars Clone Wars and more. In TV news there is a Garbage cast member to join Sarah [...]

Some parents and children share a common love of baseball or stamp collecting. For our six year old Nicky, it is a shared appreciation of autograph collecting and Star Trek. When the new Star Trek was announced back in in 2006, my wife Mary Jo and I thought it would be an interesting quest to [...]

Back in March we reported location shooting for the new Star Trek feature was taking place at Cal State Northridge. Now some new photos from that shoot, including some aliens, have shown up online.
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This week, we have news of the Phoenix Lander’s astonishingly successful landing on Mars which brought a little piece of Trek along with it to the red planet. This plus how you can go to the moon, orbital skydiving world records, some purported”real” alien footage, and our gadget of the week: Sony Video Glasses! Read [...]

An evening of “Lost” helped ABC win the ratings battle for Thursday, May 29, even though the show’s ratings were down from last year, according to Zap2it.com. The Alphabet Network brought in a 6.4 rating/11 share for the night, ahead of second-place Fox who attracted a 5.9/10 viewership. CBS came in third, followed by NBC and The CW. ABC also won the coveted adult 18-49 demographic with a 4.0 rating. A rerun of “There’s No Place Like Home: Part 2,” which aired two weeks ago, landed in second place at 8 p.m. with a 4.5/8 rating, following Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance,” which garnered a 5.8/10. “Part 2″ won the 9 p.m. hour with a 7.1/12, beating “Dance,” which increased to a 6.0/10. At 10 p.m., “Lost” again took the hour, this time with a 7.6/13. The bad news is that these …

The fall 2007-08 television season started with quite a line-up: in addition to the existing TV series such as “Stargate: Atlantis,” “Heroes” and “Battlestar Galactica,” viewers received an impressive assortment of new shows to whet their science-fiction appetites. Unfortunately however, the vast majority of these because causalities of this schedule, and their ranks now include the wonderfully crafted (and shortened) second season of “Jericho,” time traveling “Journeyman,” “Bionic Woman’s” revved up reincarnation, immortality incarnate “New Amsterdam” and more recently “Moonlight.” So I ask you this: is this the end of long-running sci-fi? Each of these cancelled shows launched with an inspiring write-up, particularly “Bionic Woman” which, after only a handful of episodes, failed to deliver …

Shirley Manson, lead singer of the musical group Garbage, has been tapped to play a corporate CEO in the next season of Fox’s “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. She’ll portray Catherine Weaver, head of a high-tech company who’s very likely to be another foe to the show’s heroes as they attempt to fight the future of machine domination of humanity. The role will be the singer’s first big acting gig. Songs she’s voiced include “Stupid Girl” and “Only Happy When It Rains.” “Sarah Connor” will have a 13-episode commitment when it returns to Monday nights in the new season on Fox as one of the few new genre shows to make the cut and receive a sophomore season. “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” stars Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, …

The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for “There’s No Place Like Home: Part 3,” the season finale from the fourth season of ABC’s “Lost.” The season one finale of “Lost” pretty much set a new standard for disappointment despite hype. Having Jack, Locke, and Kate peering down the hatch was both anti-climactic and, frankly, quite boring. Season 2 overall was a forgettable disaster. Then came the Season 3 finale, in which the flash-forward was introduced, and the presence of an enigmatic coffin with the body of someone we certainly had to know, but could only speculate on the possibilities. The third season finale was the first sign that “Lost” had recovered the creative vision that made it the runaway hit it became in its inaugural season. Season 4 has been extremely well written, well …

This week in the Watch, we have news on Patrick Stewart wrapping up his Macbeth gig, Wikipedia giving Wil Wheaton trouble, Brent Spiner meeting his Italian dubber, an update on Simon Pegg’s next movie, Blalock talking T’Pol, Russ back directing, new work for some Trek villains, and more.

Battlestar Galactica is back after taking a week off with “Sine Qua Non” which has Adama and Tigh not exactly seeing eye to eye (and that would be Tigh’s left eye of course). More info and vids from that episode below, plus news on more webisodes, TV movies, deleted scenes, and Ron Moore’s other projects [...]

SCI FI Channel announced summer premiere dates for new and returning series, including Ghost Hunters International, Stargate Atlantis, Eureka and a new version of Scare Tactics.

Fox previewed Fringe to a group of TV writers on May 29, offering a look at a rough cut of the SF show’s two-hour pilot and releasing new details about the series, which comes from J.J. Abrams (Lost). (Major spoilers ahead!)