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Robot dog K9 will be reunited with Doctor Who in the new series after 24 years apart, say the show’s producers.
K9, who helped Tom Baker’s Time Lord between 1977 and 1981, will join new Doctor David Tennant for one episode.
The show, to be screened on BBC One next spring, sees the team investigate sinister events at a modern-day school.
It will co-star Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Anthony Head and Elisabeth Sladen, who is returning as 1970s Doctor’s assistant Sarah Jane Smith.
K9 and Sarah Jane will join the Doctor and his current sidekicks, Rose and Mickey, in a fight against the evil Krillitanes.
Producer Phil Collinson said it was “great” to be welcoming back K9.
“A whole generation fondly remember him as an ever faithful companion and best friend to Tom Baker’s Doctor,” he said.
“I hope the new generation of viewers will fall in love with him in the same way.”
When will it end? Google are rolling out an endless line of different (albeit high quality) products. GMail, GoogleEarth, GoogleDesktop and now GoogleTalk… there seems to be no end in sight.
When coupled with the fact that Google apparently want to enable the entire city of Los Angeles for WiFi (yes, the entire city), one could almost be forgiven for thinking some kind of world-takeover was in progress.
Today though, Google is set to take on online voice and instant messaging service like MSN, Ventrillo and Skype. They have just released a free piece of software in BETA called GoogleTalk which lets GMail account holders talk to each other via a PC, microphone and speakers.
Anyone interested? Of course you are. The advantage is its a lot, lot cleaner than MSN Messenger (although MSN does some more clever things). The interface here is delightfully simple and clean.
http://www.google.com/talk/
It is with great and heartfelt sadness that I must report the death of Brock Peters at age 78.
Best known to Star Trek fans as Joseph Sisko on Deep Space Nine, Peters touched the hearts of many fans with his talented and wonderful acting.
A wonderful man with an extensive career. Please take a moment to reflect on the achievements he made during his career over at IMDB
World Exclusive footage from the Red Carpet at the world premiere of Serenity.
Without a doubt the most anticipated movie of the autumn, “Serenity” is the sci-fi epic from Buffy creator Joss Whedon. A spin-off of the brilliant, if somewhat short-lived series “Firefly” that was cancelled prematurely, Serenity is a low-budget movie designed to bring some closure to the series, and also to bring the possibility of a greater re-birth in some form.
After 44,000 people struggled to get tickets for the World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the movie started attracting plenty of media attention, culminating for the moment in the Premiere last night… Sci-Fi Heaven.net was there in the first audience ever to see the movie.
Here’s how it is.
“Zelenka and McKay have a complex relationship based on the character foibles of each of them. Neither one of them wants to let on that there’s more than just professional competition between them. As always, character is revealed in circumstane. “
A very low quality copy of the new (rumoured to be international) Harry Potter movie trailer has surfaced online. If you’re willing to put up with the low quality audio and video, then we have mirrored the file here.
Goblet of Fire Movie Trailer 2 [LOW QUALITY]
We’ll get a high-quality copy up as soon as we can, but as of yet there isn’t one in existance.
From what we can tell (since its not unlike to standing in the night, looking through a dirty window and into an unlit room, while a heavy hurricane tears past), the movie appears to be quite impressive, adopting a more epic scale than its predecessors.
Roll on November.
We’re giving you the chance to have your questions put straight to David Nykl (Dr. Radek Zelenka, Stargate Atlantis).
How to enter? Simple. Just post your question in a comment. Click on “Read More…” to do so.. The six best questions will get put straight to David Nykl.
Well, about five episodes have aired. They don’t have the scripts for most of the second half of the eighth season and yet… they have the episode titles. Gateworld reports that the…
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SCI FI Wire is reporting that Alien vs. Predator 2 is indeed going to be made and will is likely to revolve around a battle in our world.
“We will do another one of those for sure. It was a big success. […] It’s likely that we will bridge the gap, and the beginning of that will be setting it in our contemporary universe.”
20th Century Fox Film Co-Chairman Tom Rothman told SCI FI Wire at the Saturn Awards in Los Angeles. He laughed when the characters were likened to terrorists.
“They were always terrorists, yes, but only metaphorically.”
The original movie opened to lacklustre reviews. In fact, that’s putting it mildly. Some of the more controlled reviews featured gems such as:
“Alien vs. Predator is a cool-looking lunchbox that’s full of rocks.”
“Unintentional laughs outnumber legitimate scares.”
“Unwatchable!”
What “success” is Mr. Tom Rothman referring to? Talk about flogging the dead Alien.
In general, the sci-fi world is very quiet at the moment.
With most shows (except Stargate and Battlestar Galactica) on summer hiatus, not much is happening. Exciting, isn’t it? We’re not dead, but the genre is sleeping at the moment. ;-)
Never fear though, Sci-Fi Heaven will have some exciting new treats coming up to break the tedium. Keep checking back for new competitions, caption contests and editorials.
JoWooD regrets to be forced to cancel the development agreement with Perception, the Australian developer currently responsible for the Stargate-SG1: The AllianceTM license title. “The title in its current form, initially scheduled for an October 2005 release, does satisfy neither our quality requirements nor the fans expectations. We will not release anything that does not do justice to this well known license†says Albert Seidl, CEO JoWooD Productions Software AG. “In recent months we have invested a lot of time and resources in helping Perception finish the development, but we now simply have lost confidence in their ability to finish this project in time and sufficient quality.â€
While the space agency NASA is still searching for life on the planet Mars, NASA may may have put it there already.
The British newspaper The Sunday Times reports a bacteria from Earth might have escaped to Mars.
NASA believes the two rover spacecrafts Spirit and Opportunity, scuttling across the red planet, are carrying a bacterium from Earth.
The new caption contest has been upload, and our Star Trek: Enterprise DVD competition closed. All entrants please check your email to check if you have won!
Also, to all of those waiting for Stargate DVDs, they’ve now arrived in the office and will be shipped out shortly.
Picking up the pace, SG-1 looks like its getting back on track.
Avalon Part Two picks up right at the end of Part One, and very quickly resolves the cliffhanger set by its predecessor. Not that that’s a bad thing, as its resolved quite nicely. Daniel’s knowledge saves the day initially, and then Mitchell’s skill at sword fighting keeps them all alive. It’s a nice little sequence with the Knight, but why was it even there? It served very little purpose other for a nifty action sequence and a somewhat cheesy flashback to Mitchell failing in his life. Meh, I suppose I can live with it.
Nathan Fillion today made a rather bizarre request of the Firefly and Serenity community – to boycott a comic store.
The actor who plays Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the show and movie, posted this on the official forum.
It is times like these that I feel like Malcolm Reynolds. This is something that would surely get you kicked into an engine. I just went to a comic store to purchase the Serenity comic for my mom. The sweetheart that she is, gave her issues (with her favorite character on the front) to relatives who were having trouble tracking one down. Please bear in mind that Canada is a wonderous place where the service industry is polite and helpful, and that this experience is not the norm. The store I chose, which shall remain nameless (Warp 1 Comics), at an undisclosed location (just off Whyte Ave), has the singlemost sanctimonious, condescending, dishonest a$$hole I’ve had the misfortune of meeting. My brother and I called ahead to find out they had one issue left, but upon arriving, found out they are gouging people $20 bucks for the damned thing! “That’s what they’re worth.” he sneered at me. I asked him to show me a listing of some sort to back it up. “Well, I just know what I paid Dark Horse for it.” He wouldn’t show me that, either. I am aware that Dark Horse wasn’t expecting these books to sell as well as they are, and that they are going into a second printing, but I just picked up three of them two days ago at cover price at another store. My brother piped up with a, “What an interesting attitude you have.” Let me tell you folks, this fella had an attitude, and a smirk that you wanted to knock off his face with a baseball bat dipped in dog poop. Of course, my brother couldn’t help letting this guy know who he was trying to hose by holding the issue next to my face. “This guy look familliar? This isn’t some JoJo off the street! He knows what he’s talking about!” Check this out- the reply of this one-eyed crap-catcher, who shall remain nameless (Darryl) was, (and imagine a dullards voice- how we make people we don’t like sound in a story) “Well, then you can call Joss Whedon and ask him.”
Wouldn’t a smart business man ask me to sign an issue and sell me one at a fair price? Wouldn’t that fetch a prettier penny than ripping me off for one issue? Congratulations, dude! You are now on the Browncoat $hitlist.
Never have I tried to wield power in this way, but if being Malcolm Reynolds has taught me anything, it’s to follow my over-developed sense of vengeance. BOYCOTT WARP ONE COMICS! If you are in the neighborhood, drop by to tell “Patchy” that Browncoats don’t take $hit from anyone. Tell your friends not to shop there, and lock ’em in the airlock if they do. Copy this post and e-mail it to fellow Edmontonians. Bump it to keep it alive.
Thank you. Thank you for letting me rant. If you feel I’m overboard, please feel free to, as Joss would say, contemplate silently.The Captain