Well slap me silly and call me confused! NBC has ordered up at least 4 new scripts for their new remake of the “Knight Rider” series. It appears that NBC execs are happy with the tracking the show is getting with the young, testosterone-driven male demographic, even though across the board the talking car’s ratings are…..meh.
E! Online is asking a sci-fi question. “Which Sci-Fi Series Should Return Next?” It’s a good question, and their choices aren’t bad either. Can anyone say FIREFLY? Make your voice heard HERE.
YouTube, the largest video-sharing Website, has started to run full-length TV shows from CBS Corp’s archive, in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing. One program of interest to SF fans will be the original, uncut episodes of “Star Trek.”
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the giant panda, an achievement which may aid efforts to protect the endangered species, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
U.S. video game magnate Richard Garriott blasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket on Sunday watched by his father (Owen Garriott), a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War. The Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft lifted off in clear weather from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppes just after 1.00 p.m. (3 a.m. EDT). The Soyuz rocket is expected to dock with the International Space Station in two days.
It’s a sad day in the entertainment industry when a film like “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” stays on top of the box office charts for two straight weekends in a row beating out a high-powered spy thriller coming from the dynamic combo of Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe in “Body of Lies.” The high-intensity, low-budget horror film “Quarantine” registered second place. We’ll have the full Top Ten for you on Tuesday.
Due to the recent Wall Street debacle, billonaire Sumner Redstone is selling sell more than 20 percent of his stake in Viacom Inc. and CBS Inc. to help pay down debt to comply with his credit agreement covenants. Many Hollywood investors are hoping to see an upturn in the market beginning today with positive signs coming from the EU and Asian markets upturn last night.
Tim Robbins (“Shawshank Redemption,” “War of the Worlds”) is known in Hollywood as an Academy Award-winning actor, director, activist and hockey fanatic. On Friday, he got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Cloris Leachman, probably best known and most loved for her role has Frau Blücher in the Mel Brooks classic film “Young Frankenstein,” has been chosen as grand marshal for next year’s Rose Parade. The actress, who has an Oscar and eight Emmys, will head the 120th Tournament of Roses on January 1, 2009 in Pasadena. The parade’s theme is “Hats Off to Entertainment.” The 82-year-old “Dancing With the Stars” contestant said Friday she’s thrilled to be grand marshal of a parade that — in her words — “is older than I am.” Leachman won an Oscar as best supporting actress for the 1971 film “The Last Picture Show”; her Emmy wins span from Mary Tyler Moore’s classic sitcom in the ’70s to “Malcolm in the Middle” in 2006.
Fox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel “The Forever War,” with Ridley Scott (“Blade Runner,” “Alien”) planning to direct. The book and film centers on a soldier who battles an enemy in deep space for only a few months, but upon returning to his home planet 20 years has passed.