Reuters -- Time Warner Inc.'s pay cable network HBO sued satellite television provider EchoStar Communications Corp. for $90 million for charges including miscalculated payment on licensing fees, according to a copy of the suit. The suit, filed earlier this month in U.S. district court for the Southern District of New York, charges the company with [...]
Totally Frakked: Heroes -- Kapow!
January 24, 2007 By Leave a Comment
HeroesTitle: "Godsend"First Aired: 1/22/07 Those ass-kicking Heroes return to TV with all-new adventures for the first time in six weeks. For those of us left speechless last December by the revelation that beloved hero Peter is to blame for the destruction of New York City, the end of the wait seems heaven-sent. It’s been far [...]
Missing Link Found in Ancient Embryos
January 24, 2007 By 1 Comment
Written by: Ker Than (LiveScience Staff Writer) The discovery of spherical fossils that resemble tiny baseballs could reveal how the earliest known egg-laying organism developed from embryo to adulthood. In 1998, researchers discovered thousands of 600-million-year-old fossilized embryos in the Doushantuo Formation, a fossil deposit in South China. Two years later, the same team unearthed [...]
Slice of SciFi #93: Interview with Tracy Hickman
January 24, 2007 By 15 Comments
On This Week's Show: Interview with Tracy Hickman News Bytes: Children of Men wins University of Southern California's Scripter Award Nintendo's Wii outsells Sony Playstation 3 in 2006 Director Rob Cohen is after Universal to go ahead with Mummy 3 MovieTalk: Disney's Primeval, a story of a giant man-eating crocodile in the wilds of Africa, [...]
Combo 'Dresden'/'BSG' Kick Some Sunday Ratings Butt!
January 24, 2007 By 6 Comments
‘BATTLESTAR’ AND ‘DRESDEN’ LEAD SCI FI TO SUNDAY VICTORY New York, NY -- In the face of the AFC Championship game – the highest-rated program since last year’s Super Bowl – SCI FI delivered a decisive victory on Sunday, January 21, with the series debut of "The Dresden Files" and the midseason premiere of its [...]
Xombie Creator Gets Showcased In TV Interview
January 24, 2007 By Leave a Comment
James Farr, the creator of the popular Xombie online animation series was showcased recently in a television interview on KOTV out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. James talks with the interviewer about the success of Xombie, how he got started and what fans can expect from him in the future. You may remember that we did our [...]
79th Annual Academy Award Nominations
January 23, 2007 By 1 Comment
Here is your complete list of the 79th Annual Academy Award nominations announced just today at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California. Genre nominees will be in bold. Best Picture: "Babel," "The Departed," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Little Miss Sunshine," "The Queen." Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"; Ryan Gosling, [...]
Hollywood Icon Reaches Birthday Landmark
January 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Ernest Borgine, the big brawling teddy bear actor who is a living Hollywood legend will turn 90-years of age tomorrow, reaching a time in his life only a few achieve, one decade from that 100 mark. Most recognized as Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale from the huge 1960's TV hit comedy "McHales Navy," Borgine is an [...]
MGM Greenlights New Stargate Movies
January 23, 2007 By 9 Comments
Studio Continues Record Breaking Franchise by Releasing "Stargate: The Ark of Truth" and "Stargate: Continuum" LOS ANGELES, CA – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), announced this past week the extension of the hit "Stargate SG-1" franchise with two movies based on the popular series. Titled "Stargate: The Ark of Truth" and "Stargate: Continuum", the movies will [...]
Weekend Box Office Final -- January 19-21, 2007
January 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment
All genre films in Bold. The biggest news in B.O. this week is that the surprise hit of the season, "A Night At the Museum" has crossed that $200 million benchmark. It has become the little movie that could! The other big news is how "The Hitcher" has failed to unseat "Stomp the Yard" or [...]
Totally Frakked: Battlestar Galactica -- I Spy With My Giant Eye... The Way to Earth!
January 23, 2007 By 1 Comment
Battlestar GalacticaTitle: “Rapture�?First Aired: 1/21/07 Taking up residence in its new Sunday night time slot, Galactica returns in a big way in the first of nine fresh episodes. From the opening fade-in, in which we see the last Battlestar in orbit around Algae World facing off against the Cylon Base fleet, “Rapture�? barrels ahead at [...]
Totally Frakked: The Dresden Files -- Bird Flew
January 23, 2007 By 4 Comments
The Dresden FilesTitle: “Birds of a Feather�?First Aired: 1/21/07 Meet Harry Dresden. He’s a scruffy, scrappy, wisecracking Chicago detective. He loves women, and on this day, he’s been loving perky blonde diner waitress Laura. (A lot, as a matter of fact.) Your average, everyday sort of guy, right? No... Harry’s got secrets. For starters, he’s [...]
MeeVee Exclusive! THE DRESDEN FILES Interview
January 23, 2007 By 2 Comments
This Sunday night, the Sci Fi Channel hopes to create ratings magic by pairing up The Dresden Files, featuring the wise-cracking, crime-fighting, wizard Harry Dresden with sci-fi juggernaut, Battlestar Galactica. MeeVee caught up with the trio responsible for bringing Dresden to life: Executive producers/writers Robert Hewitt Wolfe and David Simkins, and series star Paul Blackthorne, [...]
The SCI FI Boys
January 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment
From the basement to the big screen, "The SciFi Boys" is an unforgettable look back at the visionary geniuses who revolutionized film special effects A band of visionary American filmmakers emerges from a far-flung group of youngsters devoted to creating homemade monsters and mayhem in "The Sci-Fi Boys," a two-hour documentary special airing Wednesday, February [...]
Slice of SciFi #92: Voicemail Show
January 23, 2007 By 9 Comments
This Week's Voicemail Show! This is the show for our fans and listeners! We're receiving so much voicemail and email feedback commentary that we can't even fit all of it into it's own show anymore. But that's okay... Keep it coming! Michael, Summer, Brian, Joe, and Tim hit the emails... and ohmigosh it's Evo! Philip [...]
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