On the heels of Yahoo’s announced downsizing comes news that videogame maker Electronic Arts will cut its staff by six percent.  The move is being down to cut costs according to the Associated Press. EA is best known for its popular sports franchise games, Madden NFL Football and Tiger Woods Golf. The company has also [...]
Hick’s Picks 50
The Simpsons’ producer Producer Al Jean predicts there will be least three more seasons of the animated series. “The cast is signed for three more years, so I would now say it’s about a 90 percent chance we’ll come back for at least one of those three,” Jean said.  “I actually think it’s better than [...]
Apple Adds Podcast Application to iPhones
A proposed firmware upgrade means you’ll soon be able to listen to Slice of SciFi and any of our other FarPoint Media shows on your iPhone. TG Daily reports a new firmware upgrade will include the abiity to directly download podcasts to your iPhone. Earlier this year, Apple rejected the use of the Podcaster application [...]
Famous “War of the Worlds” Broadcast Celebrates 70th Anniversary
Seventy years ago today, Orson Welles scared the daylights of a nation, convincing millions of radio listeners that invaders from Mars were taking over the planet. One of the most famous broadcasts in radio history, “The War of the Worlds” was a radio adaptation of the popular H.G. Wells’ science-fiction novel for the “Mercury Theater [...]
New Images Show Volcanic Activity on Mercury
New images from NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft are yielding a wealth of new information on the smallest planet in our solar system. Earlier this year, a fly by of the planet took hundreds of high-resolution pictures covering 30 percent of the planet’s eastern hemisphere that had never been seen [...]
Netflix Adds Streaming Video for TiVo users
Coming soon to a TiVo near you: streaming movies from Netflix. The popular Internet movie rental service announced yesterday that it will begin offering TiVo users the ability to stream content by the end of the 2008. Beta testing of the service will begin immediately for selected users with a full rollout scheduled for December according to CNet [...]
New Smallville, Supernatural on CW Tonight
The CW’s Thursday line-up freatures all new epiosdes of “Smallville” and “Supernatural” this evening, starting at 8 p.m EST. SMALLVILLE†— (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) — Episode: “Identity†JIMMY TAKES A PICTURE OF CLARK SAVING LOIS — Jimmy (Aaron Ashmore) snaps a picture of Clark (Tom Welling) super-speeding to save Lois (Erica Durance) from a mugger [...]
SciFi Greenlights GameQuest
Twelve players will square off to find out who is the “best all around gamer” in the United States in SciFi’s new competition-based reality series, “GameQuest.” The network gave a green light yesterday to eight episodes of the series, which will air early in 2008 according to the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. “GameQuest” will feature [...]
Mendes Will Direct Preacher
HBO may have passed on adapting the popular comic book series “Preacher,” but that hasn’t kept the project down.  Variety reports that Acadamy Award nominated director Sam Mendes has signed on to direct the big-screen adaptation for the long-running comic book series. “Preacher” is a supernatural project, which would be new ground for Mendes. Mendes [...]
Empire Recreates Classic Trek Photo
Actors Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine have helped Empire Magazine recreate one of classic Star Trek’s iconic publicity photos for the cover of this month’s issue. Below are comparisons of the two images, courtesy of Empire‘s website. The new issue goes on sale in the UK Thursday and includes new photos from the upcoming J.J. [...]
NASA Wants Moon’s Sky Free of Junk
At any given moment, there are thousands of man-made objects orbirting our planet. Should an error occur and one come crashing back to Earth, we’re protected by our atmosphere. Our atmosphere will burn up most objects before they impact the ground, except for the largest of objects. But that’s not the case with the moon. [...]
Laugier Set for Hellraiser Re-Make
French director Pascal Laugier is in final negotations with Dimension to helm a remake of Clive Barker’s popular horror-franchise “Hellraiser.” Laugier has directed several horror films in France, including the controversial “Martyrs.” “This is a dream project for me,” Laugier told the Hollywood Reporter. “I know Clive Barker’s work very well, and I would never [...]
BBC Looks to Expand into Asia-Pacific Market
Viewers in the Asian-Pacific market can look forward to seeing more British television programming on their screens. BBC Worldwide is looking to expand their presense in the region according to Variety. “We are right at the beginning of this journey, and have a heck of a lot of catching up to do,” BBC Worldwide Channels [...]
Cohen discusses Futurama’s future
What does the future hold for “Futurama”? The popular animated series will see a new feature released next week and the fourth and (for now) final installment is in the final stages of production for a release some time next year.  What happens next is anyone’s guess according to executive producer David X. Cohen, though [...]
Netflix Opens Streaming Service to Mac Users
Mac users who have felt left behind on streaming movies via the popular Netflix rental service can rejoice today. The Internet movie rental giant announced yesterday it will begin offering Mac users access to streaming movies. The issue Netflix faced was there was no streaming media player for the Mac. Netflix has now announced the [...]
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