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Posted on 08/11/2010 6:02:47 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Syfy is enlisting Judd Hirsch (Taxi), Paul Blackthorne (The Dresden Files), Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live) and Matt Frewer to create stand-alone holiday episodes of Warehouse 13 and Eureka that will air in December.
On Warehouse 13, Pete and Myka will go on a mission to hunt down "a malevolent Santa Claus." Meanwhile, in time for Hanukkah, Artie and his estranged father, Isadore Weisfelt, reunite after 30 years. Hirsch will be appear as Artie's father, and Blackthorne will play a businessman terrorized by a thief dressed up as Saint Nick.
On Eureka, "as the Global Dynamics employees celebrate the season at the company holiday party, staff member Dr. Noah Drummer (Chris Parnell) nearly absconds with a volatile experiment. The halls get seriously decked when Dr. Drummer's unstable hydrogen crystal starts to grow at a frightening rate."
Frewer, who was an early regular on the series, will return as the character Taggert.
I always liked Judd Hirsch, esp. as Alex Reiger. He and Danny DeVito made TAXI.
Eureka can ditch Baltar and I won’t shed a tear...........I hate that little twerp.....
Santa Clause as bad guy in both shows. Leftwing influence is showing.
I don’t care if Mrs. Fredrick is celebrating Kwaanza, I just wanna see Pete and Myka kiss under the mistletoe!
Nice. I hate the summer-only series. I’d rather have two half-series six months apart.
Who’s Baltar?
Heck, why not show Santa as a mad-dog killer? He’s just a Dutchman’s imaginary friend, and as Christian as the Easter Bunny. Not bloody likely you’ll see much about Christ over Christmas from anyone besides Charlie Brown. Santa is just one more way for the Macys and Gimbels of this world to continue turning the one holiday eponymous with Christianity into a cheap opportunity to make a buck.
I want to see those shows do a Ramadan special where a mad Islamic blows up something.
Oh wait... that’d never get approved
Greater imagining is hard to imagine! Thanks for the enws.
Mega dittoes from both of us. We were so disappointed that he wasn’t either offed, or sucked back to the past, instead of being cured by the nanobots.
James Callis, ‘Baltar’ from Battlestar Galactica; now playing Dr. Grant on Eureka.
It's probably full of nargles...
This one time at band camp I got a rash on my nargle.
Ok. I know who you mean now. I remember him from Flashforward.
I remember Baltar from the orignal Battlestar Galactica. Never got into the new one, as soon as I found out Starbuck was a girl now. My wife liked it at first, but even she lost interest after a while.
Sounds like you and your wife were separated from me and mine at birth.
Besides, the 'Cylon in his head' thing reminded me too much of 'Scorpius in John's head' that Farscpae drove into the ground beyond all reason.
Like Daleks, Terminators, and Replicators, it just won't stay dead.
ya’ll are missing the point by getting sidetracked about the shows.
Santa was to take the place of Christ at Christmas, happy, jolly man who knows all, sees all. Then after decades of that working and pushing Christ out of his birthday now the attack on Santa being bad. (Because we can’t have people/ideals with good role models)
I HATE all the bad Santa’s movies and hate that ya’ll will watch the show and just continue to support whatever crap they shove down our throats.
You’re over reading things and making assumptions. Just because there’s A bad Santa in one of these eps (doesn’t say anything about Santa in Eureka) doesn’t mean it’s any statement against Santa.
Even the bad Santa movies aren’t necessarily stating against, the flagship of those movies (Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thorton) is actually a redemption movie, Billy Bob is a safe cracker who does mall Santa gigs to case stores and rob them on Christmas Eve, but he’s developing massive guilt from what he does and over the course of the movie actually learns to be a nice person, turns in his partner, helps a kid, and is even willing to die for what he’s learned to believe in. It’s easy top see the previews for the movie and make assumptions, and some of those assumptions would probably even be true, but it doesn’t push any kind of “Santa is bad” agenda, and I doubt either of these shows will either.
And the fact that Bad Santa takes place in Phoenix and is one of the only Christmas movies that has no snow really appeals to this desert dweller.
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