“Torchwood” Begins Filming Series Three

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The good news for “Torchwood” fans is the series three has begun filming in Cardiff.  The popular “Doctor Who” spin-off series began shooting its third season this week.  As previously reported, the third series will be a single-storyline, five-part shortened season for the hit spin-off.  The five episodes are set to air as a “Torchwood” [...]

Paglia Teases What’s to Come on “Eureka”

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With only four episodes left until the summer season of “Eureka” comes to a close, producer Jaime Paglia says that fans can look forward to even more twists, turns and surprises to come. He also said these four episodes will set up the second half of the season, which will air sometime next year on [...]

Downey Discusses “Iron Man 2″, Dismisses “Dark Knight”

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It’s been a very good summer for comic book movie fans. It started off with a bang with “Iron Man” and reached a zenith with the release of “Dark Knight.” However, the man who kicked off the summer as Tony Stark and his alter-ego Iron Man, Robert Downey, Jr. says that he doesn’t see what [...]

Babylon A.D. director “very unhappy” with final product

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When a movie studio refuses to do advance screenings of a movie for critics, you know something’s probably not right.  But when the movie’s director comes out and says he’s unhappy with the final product, you know there’s definitely something very, very wrong. “I had something much better in my hands but I just wasn’t [...]

Hick’s Picks 44

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At the recent FanExpo in Toronto, “Smallville” co-star Laura Vandervoot revealed that at one time, producers contemplated a spin-off featuring her character of Supergirl.    The spin-off didn’t happen and while the show is taking a new direction this fall, Vandervoot revealed she will be back for one episode to wrap up the Kara/Supergirl storyline. When asked [...]

How will Daisies fare upon its return?

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When it returns to the airwaves on October 1, ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” will have been off the air for ten months.   A combination of factors from the writer’s strike to the overruns in filming caused the ABC series to air only nine episodes last year before it shut down production on the first season. The [...]

Warner will follow Marvel model to develop new superhero films

For the past couple of months, we’ve brought you reports of the on-again, off-again “Justice League” movie. And there has certainly been no end of rumors that a “Batman vs Superman” movie was just months away from going before the cameras. Fans might have been encouraged by the Easter egg in the near-future post-apocalyptic thriller [...]

SciFi opens a new Stargate

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As one Stargate closes, another appears to be opening. According to the Hollywood Reporter, SciFi will give a green light to a third “Stargate” series, “Stargate: Universe.” “Universe” will premiere as a two-hour movie early next year and will assume a regular hourly slot in the summer. Brad Wright and Robert Cooper, co-creators of “Stargate: [...]

Atlantis to End After Season Five

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“Stargate: Atlantis” will come to a close at the end of its fifth season. The spin-off to the hit series “Stargate SG1″ was not picked up for a sixth season by the SCI FI Channel, but will live on in a two-hour movie that will air some time in 2008 on SCI FI. The film [...]

Fans Petition WB for Long Cut of Watchmen

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On this weekend’s show, we’ll discuss the lawsuit that could potentially delay or keep “Watchmen” from hitting the big-screen next year.  Beyond the questions of when “Watchmen” may or may not hit movie screens comes the question that most fans have been wondering about since we first got news about the production–how long will the [...]

Classic Dr Who Available on i-Tunes

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While it may not be the entire (available) 26-season run of the original “Doctor Who,” i-Tunes users can now download a selection of classic “Doctor Who” serials. Priced at $1.99 per episode, the selection covers most of the first six Doctors and offers an interesting selection of titles currently on DVD and some that have [...]

Joss: No Serenity sequel on the way

If you’re holding your breath for a sequel to “Serenity,” you may want to exhale. According to Joss Whedon, the creator of the first film and the series it was based on “Firefly,” while he and the cast are ready and eager to make another installment, there aren’t any studios willing to take up the [...]

Universal options Wheel of Time

Robert Jordan’s popular fantasy series “The Wheel of Time” has been optioned by Universal Pictures in a seven-figure deal according to Variety. The potential big-screen franchise will begin with an adaptation of the first novel of the series, “The Eye of the World.”  Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will produce for Red Eagle Entertainment, which [...]

Falls answers questions about Journeyman

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Last season, NBC introduced viewers to Dan Vasser, a newspaper reporter who was mysteriously travelling through time, in the series “Journeyman.”   While many readers and listeners of Slice of SciFi became passionate fans for the show, the show didn’t catch on with the larger viewing public and was cancelled after 13 episodes. And while those [...]

Doctor Who, Stardust win Hugos

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For the third year in the row, the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form has gone to “Doctor Who” writer Stephen Moffatt. Moffatt took the award for last year’s Doctor-light episode “Blink,” featuring the weeping angels who killed victims by sending them back in time to live our their lives. The winner for the [...]