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Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (02/07/10) Mon: 8/7 -- Chuck -- NBC 9/8 -- Heroes -- NBC Thru: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Sat: 8/7 -- Survivors -- BBC America Syndication: Legend of the Seeker -- Check your local listings

William Tenn/Phil Klass died on Sunday, February 7, 2010 at age 89. He leaves his wife, Fruma and his daughter, Adina.

Vampires, aliens, Cylons and more—the latest sci-fi TV shows have something for everyone. But which something is your favorite something? Which series has become appointment TV?

Farscape creator Rockne S. O'Bannon has a Twitter feed, and he's been busy updating it with teasers for his comic book and the much-anticipated webisode sequel series:

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (01/31/10) Mon: 8/7 -- Chuck -- NBC 9/8 -- Heroes -- NBC Thru: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Caprica -- Syfy Syndication: Legend of the Seeker -- Check your local listings

Venezuelan leader and noted loony, Hugo Chavez is claiming that the earthquake that devastated Haiti was caused by a United States attack using a new secret weapon called a “cavitron.” Chavez said he learned of this weapon when his intelligence service secured a copy of a secret report revealing its existence. “This attack on innocent people is further evidence of the diabolical motives of the United States,” Chavez maintained. “There are even reports that American Red Cross workers now in Haiti are armed with hand-held cavitrons with which to further subdue the survivors.” Chavez called for “the progressive forces of...

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (01/24/10) Mon: 9/8 -- Heroes -- NBC Thru: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 - Caprica -- SyFy

It likely will cost Syfy on premiere night Jan. 22, but there appears to be some tremendous interest in the "Battlestar Galactica" prequel series "Caprica." Since releasing the entire pilot episode online several weeks back (and months after first releasing it on DVD), more than 1.5 million people have watched the "Caprica" pilot through the Internet or on DVD, according to trade publication Multichannel News. The episode has been offered through Syfy.com, Hulu, and other places.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (01/10/10) Sun: 9/8 -- BSG: The Plan -- SyFy Mon: 9/8 -- Heroes -- NBC Fri: 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Schedule for tonight: 8:00/7:00 Doctor Who: The David Tennant Special 8:30/7:30 Doctor Who: The End of Time Part 2

This story contains some spoilers for the "Doctor Who" episode "The End of Time, Part 1," that aired Dec. 25 on BBC and Dec. 26 on BBC America. Are some of the things you're hearing about "Doctor Who" post David Tennant, Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner sounding a little retro to you? Well, that's by design. Steven Moffat is looking to restore the BBC icon to its classic roots that some are describing as an effort to integrate fans of the original "Doctor Who" series. However, others say it's more about what Moffat likes.

Coming up as we approach the New Year—a new fiendish series (Demons), a worthy original or two (Better Off Ted), some finales (Doctor Who, Eastwick) and a couple killer marathons (True Blood, Twilight Zone).

Hello my fellow Whovians.. This is the live thread for the End of Time.. To me Dave did a awesome job as Dr Who.. For the record I have never seen the early episodes of Dr Who before it came back with Chris.. rant on HELLO SCIFI CHANNEL, STOP SHOWING CRAP!! STOP SHOWING WRESTLING OR JAMES BOND!! SHOW SOME REAL SCIFI FOR ONCE!! HECK I WOULD BE HAPPY IF YOU SHOW LOST IN SPACE.... rant off

It's not even David Tennant's final episode, yet "Doctor Who" is making history for BBC America. "Waters of Mars," the latest "Doctor Who" special that had originally aired at the end of November in the United Kingdom, attracted 1.1 million viewers for BBC America Saturday, marking that cable channel's best primetime numbers ... ever.

Dan O'Bannon, the unassuming sci-fi screenwriter and quirky horror specialist behind the "Alien" film franchise, died Thursday in Los Angeles after a short illness. He was 63...

Friday nights might not be too hot when it comes to network television, but it might be because viewers are heading to cable instead. Syfy's fall one-two Friday punch of "Stargate: Universe" and "Sanctuary" earned season renewals late Sunday, confirming what many observers had predicted would happen all along thanks to strong ratings from both shows. In fact, both SGU and "Sanctuary" even beat out network programming more than once, including the Joss Whedon series "Dollhouse" on Fox, which has since been cancelled.

Nine months after bringing the pilot episode to DVD, and just weeks from its highly-anticipated debut, Syfy president Dave Howe told reporters Monday the network was going to release a censored version of the pilot online so that anyone with an Internet connection can watch it for free. The move is a bold one for Syfy, and Howe admitted to Airlock Alpha that it could make the audience tuning in for the same episode in January smaller than reality.

Close your eyes and make a Christmas wish. What's the best present you can imagine a network could put in your virtual Christmas TV stocking? How about the final original episodes of Dollhouse and Sanctuary for the year, a Vampire Diaries marathon, 20 Pixar Short Films and ... something many of us have been waiting for ... one of the final Doctor Who specials starring David Tenn

12/19/09: Dr Who: The Waters of Mars 9/8 - BBC America 12/26/09: Dr Who: The End of Time 9/8 - BBC America and to my fellow SciFi Freepers: "QISmaS Quch Daghajjaj" (Merry Christmas in Klingon)...

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (12/06/09) Sun: 9/8 -- Alice -- SyFy 10/9 -- The Prisoner -- AMC Mon: 9/8 -- Alice -- SyFy Tue: 9:30/8:30 -- Outer Space Astronauts -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com Also starting this Thursday on the SciFi Channel, the Twilight Zone Marathon...

We got a kick out of watching The Muppets sing Bohemian Rhapsody again and again as much as anybody, but after a while we needed something a bit more ... well ... sci-fi. Luckily, there are enough video artists mashing up Queen with Star Trek, Star Wars, Lost and much more to keep us headbanging all day.

If you've got a spare $70,000 and are as big a fan of Stargate as Jacob Yarmuth of Louisville, Ky., you too can build a home theater that duplicates the gateroom of Atlantis.

In anticipation of Syfy's upcoming Battlestar Galactica prequel series Caprica, QuantumMechanix is selling this beautiful "Evolution of the Cylon" poster, tracking the rise from humble toaster to toothsome Six.

While the UK fans of "Doctor Who" have had to wait and experience a new episode every three months, its American fanbase will be able to leap through the final episodes and witness the regeneration in a matter of weeks. BBC America, the carrier for the BBC series "Doctor Who," has confirmed that the final three episodes featuring David Tennant as the legendary Time Lord will commence broadcast a week before Christmas and will co

We were a bit skeptical when we first heard earlier this year about a web series based on the classic sci-fi comic Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. James Cawley, whose Cawley Entertainment Company had obtained the rights to the character created back in 1928, said he was aiming for a "retro-contemporary" look to the show. But what exactly did that mean? And he also announced that he hoped to release 20 Buck Rogers episodes a year, starting in late in 2010.

When we last saw Capt. Jack Harkness he was in a bad way indeed. His grandson was dead (at his hands), his daughter no longer wanted to know him, his lover and teammate Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) had been killed and he had lost all faith in the world. So, not a good place to be in. But, that won't stop him from making a comeback.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (11/29/09) Sun: 10/9 -- The Prisoner -- AMC Fri: 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

PARIS (AFP) – The planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels could rise by more than a metre (3.25 feet) by 2100, scenarios that just two years ago were viewed as improbable, scientists said on Tuesday. In the widest overview on global warming since a landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2007, the authors said manoeuvering room for tackling the carbon crisis was now almost exhausted. The 64-page "Copenhagen Diagnosis" aims at the December 7-18 UN conference in Denmark, tasked with forging a planet-wide deal on greenhouse-gas...

Want to show off your sci-fi love, but don't want to get a tattoo like the hardcore fans we showed you last week? Then a vanity license plate is definitely the way to go—and it's a heck of a lot less painful, too!

There are only two more adventures to go before we see David Tennant pass on his sonic screwdriver to Matt Smith. The first part of "The End Of Time" is scheduled to be a darker festive adventure for UK viewers as it takes on the traditional primetime slot on Christmas Day.

I thought I would start a thread for all of you Science Fiction and Fantasy readers. I know it has been done in the past, but it seemed like a good time to run it again. If you have any favorite books or stories to recommend post it for others to share. I have received some excellent advice on some good reads. Maybe you have a good title or author to recommend.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (11/22/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Tues: 8/7 -- V -- ABC Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

I want to watch a sci-fi show, not a gay make out on tv.

The idea of bringing back Khan is enough to give any Star Trek fan goose bumps. He was harsh, calculating and is considered the greatest villain of the franchise. But, although no decisions have been made on if there is even a place for Khan in the new movie, director J.J. Abrams has hinted he could be back. "We're not even at that stage yet," he said. "But the fun of where we are on the sequel is we could use some of what was done before in a new way. But we haven't even figured out what we would...

Sorry for being late.Here's the live thread...

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (11/15/09) Sun: 8/7 -- The Prisoner -- AMC Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC 8/7 -- The Prisoner -- AMC Tues: 8/7 -- The Prisoner -- AMC 8/7 -- V -- ABC Thurs: 8/7 -- Flashforward -- ABC 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com Also today on SyFy: Stargate Ark of the Truth Stargate Continuum Mission to Mars Serenity

If you watched Torchwood's last season, the Children of Earth miniseries, it felt a lot like the end of the whole thing. Well, that may not be the case, TV Guide reported (mild spoilers ahead): Torchwood might not have concluded its run at the end of the thrilling miniseries Children of Earth after all—Ianto's tragic death not withstanding. The new year could bring some "very good news" for fans of the sexy sci-fi series, creator Russell T. Davies tells TV Guide Magazine. "The recession has hit British television, but fingers crossed, it will be a go. We expect things to...

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (11/08/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Tues: 8/7 -- V -- ABC Thurs: 8/7 -- Flashforward -- ABC 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

It's starting in 3 minutes..."V"...the strange remake of "V"...the series that is so evocative of Obama's "hope and change". Just starting a discussion thread as this serial opens.

The jury is still out on whether Matt Smith will be accepted as the new Doctor. On the one hand, David Tennant is a name that has become firmly established in the cultural vernacular that anyone following in his footsteps would struggle. Then again, Matt Smith is just one of many changes being made to the show which is now in the hands of Steve Moffat, a man that many fans consider to be the best writer of the re-vitalised series.

"Doctor Who's" star may have said goodbye to the Tardis, but he still feels a deep pang of sadness at leaving what he describes as "the best job in the world." However, the series is in good hands with Steve Moffat taking over control of the show and introducing a new Doctor for an even newer generation of fans.

Here are my selections for the most pretentious science fiction - fantasy TV shows (RELAX - THE CYNICISM IS ALL IN FUN!): 5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003) - Pretty much a chick series. 4. V (original - including miniseries' - 1983 - 1985) - Nazi lizard people invade the earth. 3. Alien Nation (1989 - 1990) - A message series with one message - racism is evil. We get it. Next. (amazingly enough, this series spawned five made for TV movies, which were viewed by all 500 of its fans) 2. Beauty and the Beast (1987 -...

ABC has posted the first eight and a half minutes of its upcoming reboot of V, the alien-invasion series that kicks off on Nov. 3. Not much we haven't seen in promos before, but the clip introduces the main characters briefly before getting right into it: The arrival of 29 ginormous alien spacecraft over the major cities of the world, including New York.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (10/25/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Thurs: 8/7 -- Flashforward -- ABC 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Dollhouse -- Fox 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (10/18/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Thurs: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Dollhouse -- Fox 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Given the complex mythology built up around Stargate SG-1, Atlantis and now Stargate Universe, it's easy to forget that the whole thing started in 1994 with director Roland Emmerich's movie, starring Kurt Russell as Jack O'Neill and James Spader as Daniel Jackson. In the years since, Devlin has told us that he still wants to produce the two sequels he and Emmerich always envisioned, and Emmerich told us over the weekend that he's also game, though that means overcoming some rights issues and his natural aversion to doing sequels. "Whew, it's a tough one," Emmerich told us in an exclusive...

Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Thurs: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Dollhouse -- Fox 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Sat: 9/8 -- Robin Hood -- BBCAmerica

Hard to believe, but Friday marks the 50th anniversary of “The Twilight Zone,” the twisty-turny, highly influential science-fiction anthology series. (Or does it? No, wait, it does.)

Well this is the official live thread for Stargate Universe. I hope it is good and it looks good.. The reason no extras from the local Renaissance fairs...