On This Week’s Show: Interview with Dean Haglund, X-Files favorite “Ringo Langly”, and creator of the ChillPak

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Contest: Figure out the significance of this picture of Evo… it’s not a geek thing
We indulge Evo in his need to play the “Star Wars Name Game”
The SciFi Podcast Network — are you listening yet?
Summer saw the […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin, Mr. Sevens, S.K. Sloan
Listed are the top ten news stories for the week ending July 02, 2005 in a News Flash

Source: Star Trek.com
Submitted by: S.K. Sloan
John Fiedler, known to Star Trek fans as Hengist, the weasly administrator of Argellius II who was actually possessed by an evil entity known as Redjac, has died of cancer. He was 80.
Fiedler was perhaps even more well known as the voice of Piglet in Disney’s “Winnie the Pooh” features […]

Source: Yahoo News (Reuters-Science)
Written by: Guy Faulconbridge
Submitted by: S.K. Sloan
Science’s quest to find a cheap and inexhaustible way to meet global energy needs took a major step forward on Tuesday when a 30-nation consortium chose France to host the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor.
After months of wrangling, France defeated a bid from Japan and signed […]

Source: Sci-Fi Wire & The Horror Channel
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Paul Giamatti (Sideways), David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) and Molly Shannon lend their voices to SCI FI Channel’s upcoming animated series “Amazing Screw-On Head”, which is currently in production. The half-hour sci-fi comedy is slated to debut in 2006.

Submitted by: Mr. Sevens & Kyle Nin

Fans of USA’s The 4400 and The Dead Zone should know that no new episodes will be aired on July 3, instead a re-airing of The 4400 season premiere will show and an all day marathon of The Dead Zone will air. New episodes for both series return July […]

Source: CNN Money
Written by: Krysten Crawford (CNN/Money Staff Writer)
The U.S. Supreme Court rules against file-sharing service Grokster in a closely watched piracy case.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that software companies can be held liable for copyright infringement when individuals use their technology to download songs and movies illegally.
The unanimous decision handed the music and […]

Source: The Sci-Fi Channel & The Hollywood Reporter
Submitted by: Les
Written by: S.K. Sloan
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lou Diamond Phillips is joining the ensemble cast of the Sci-Fi Channel’s new six-hour miniseries, “The Triangle.”
Phillips will star with such A-List Hollywood names as Sam Neill, Eric Stoltz and Bruce Davison. He will play Greenpeace worker Meeno […]

Source: TV Shows on DVD
Written by: Mr. Sevens
The good folks at TV Shows On DVD report that Universal Studio’s Home Entertainement has given exclusive rights to Best Buy to sell Battlestar Galactica-The Complete First Season two months before other retailers.
Early ‘Galactica’ DVD Release For Best Buy Battlestar Galactica will be released in Best Buy stores […]

Source: BBC
Submitted by: Nina
Comedian Stephen Fry is in talks with the BBC about the possibility of writing an episode of Doctor Who.
The acclaimed author, director and actor may contribute to the series, which returns later this year with David Tennant as the next Time Lord.
A BBC spokeswoman said: “We are in talks with Stephen about […]

Source: Coming Soon & IMDb
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Edited by: S.K. Sloan
20th Century Fox is going to film Eragon, based on the Christopher Paolini-penned bestselling fantasy novel. Stefen Fangmeier will direct the film. The movie is reportedly shot in Hungary’s Mafilm Studio near Budapest, a favorite site for dragon pictures.

Meet The Signal: the first podcast dedicated to the ‘verse of Firefly and Serenity.
Les Howard and Brad LeClerq seem to have something interesting and fun going. I know I’ll be listening…

On This Week’s Show: Jack Marshall, Star Trek: New Voyages Executive Producer and Series Director.
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Evo wants to be Buckaroo Banzai, and Summer points out that the similarities are far more uncanny than he initially believed.
Podcast Awards. Inaugural People’s Choice awards now open for nominations… weren’t you going to nominate us?
The SciFi Podcast Network — […]

Source: The Planetary Society and NASA
Written by: S.K. Sloan
The Planetary Society has announced that its $4,000,000 Cosmos 1 solar-sail powered spacecraft has ended in failure.
As we have been reporting on Slice of Sci-Fi’s Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact segment, The Planetary Society beat NASA to the launchpad for the historical launching of the first spacecraft to be […]

Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch
Original Story by: Kevin Kidd of the Suburan Journals
Jefferson County Journal
Submitted by: Les
Movie audiences aren’t familiar with the story of Captain Bob McCain and his crew of intergalactic rogues, but if Jim Yelton and Steve Newton have their way that will change.
Yelton, 33, of Arnold, and Newton, 35, of St. Louis, […]

Source: Hanson Robotics
Edited and Submitted by: S.K. Sloan
In an unparalleled technical collaboration, a team of artists, writers, engineers, literary scholars, and freethinkers are creating a lifelike, android portrait of one of America’s well-known science-fiction writers Philip K Dick. The robot will be featured at WIRED magazine’s NextFest, June 25-27, 2005.
The late Philip K. Dick created […]

Source: SciFi Wire
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Selma Blair, star of the upcoming horror remake The Fog, told SCI FI Wire that she liked director John Carpenter’s honesty about why he’s producing the remake: for the money.
“I appreciate it,” Blair said in an interview. “You can sense bulls–t. … You hear that all day. So you just […]

Source: Media Week
Original Story by: A.J. Frutkin
Submitted by: Mr. Sevens
Most analysts credit ABC’s Lost with spurring next season’s flurry of network sci-fi dramas. But the events of Sept. 11, 2001, also may have impacted the trend.
In ABC’s Invasion, a Florida community faces the unsettling aftereffects of a hurricane. On CBS’ Threshold, government officials try to […]

Source: Coming Soon
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Branden Fraser was in Shanghai this weekend and mentioned that a script for The Mummy 3 exists, but he was not allowed to announce it officially. Fraser expects part of Universal’s third installment to be shot in China/Asia.
Fraser previously starred in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns opposite Rachel Weisz, […]

Source: BBC
Submitted by: Williams
Over one hundred episodes of the classic “Dr. Who” television series are missing from the BBC archives.
The BBC has plans to resurrect some of its missing classic Dr. Who television programs. However, only two elements of the programs have survived: the off-air sound mixes and “snap-shots” of the lost films.
The BBC will […]

Source: comingsoon.net
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Alan Cumming has announced on his official website that he will not be returning as Nightcrawler in 20th Century Fox’s X-Men 3:
EX X MAN!! Alan will NOT be appearing in X3. Fox has not picked up his option to play Nightcrawler for a second movie.
The third installment starts filming in August […]

Source: movies.about.com
Morena Baccarin, the actress playing Inara on Firefly and the upcoming movie Serenity mentioned in an interview that the cast is signed on for doing two more movies.
On the question if there is a chance for Firefly/Serentiy to return after the movie she answered: “You know, that’s something that we don’t really know. We’re […]

Source: ComingSoon.net
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
NBC Universal will present an unprecedented motion picture preview “roadblock” as all nine of its networks simultaneously telecast the world premiere of the first trailer for Universal Pictures’ King Kong, the dramatic adventure helmed by Oscar®-winning director Peter Jackson, on Monday, June 27, from 8:59:30-9:02 PM ET.

Slice of SciFi Show #12
On This Week’s Show: Chris Mulrooney, co-founder of Trek to the Troops AFE Tour joins us to talk about the project, and who’s signed on so far. Visit the website, or leave Chris a voicemail: 928-899-9880
Other Topics:

Michael discusses the “Dr Who” episodes he recently watched, and the new US fans they’ve […]

Source: BBC News
Submitted by: Williams
The BBC has commissioned a third series of Doctor Who in addition to the second series already planned.
The announcement comes days before the current series - a huge ratings success for BBC One - reaches its end.
With Christmas specials scheduled for 2005 and 2006, fans can look forward to 28 new […]

Source: CNN.com
Submitted by: Cougar
Bill Shatner still has that sharp wit and wry twinkle in his eye and he proved it this past week at the AFI Lifetime achievement awards ceremony.

Source: Zap2it
Original Story by: Kate O’Horn
Submitted by: Mr. Sevens
After playing a holographic doctor for seven seasons on UPN’s “Star Trek: Voyager,” now Robert Picardo is giving Dr. Atkins and Dr. Phil a run for their money with a guest role on the Sunday, June 19, episode of “The 4400” on USA Network.
In “Weight of the […]

Source: Variety & SciFi Wire
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Russell joins the big leagues in MI:3 and Burton goes back to animation.
Felicity’s Russell Joins Mission Impossible III Cast
Keri Russell has joined the cast of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible 3, reuniting the actor with director J.J. Abrams, whose Felicity TV show first brought Russell widespread acclaim, Variety reported. Russell […]

According to this post over at Fireflyfans.net, Universal has been taken aback at the response to the SERENITY advance screenings…
and might be considering an release date earlier than the scheduled September 30th.
link via WHEDONesque

Source: WIBW News Topeka and AP Wire
Submitted by: Lesmond
With the success of the latest “Star Wars” film at the box office, these would appear to be good times for science fiction.
But one sci-fi fanatic at the University of Kansas in Lawrence says the genre is on life support and needs to be rescued.
James Gunn runs […]

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