First of all, the DVD for Stardust is released this week. Pick it up at the
SFTV Amazon Store in
regular DVD or in
HD DVD. If you saw it in the theatre, you will likely be picking this up. If you didn't get around to seeing it, you should definitely pick it up.
On to the SFTV Roundup....
STARTREK.COM Team Let Go!
First of all, the
Star Trek.com website has had several brushes with being shut down in the last couple of years with the restructuring of Viacom/Paramount/CBS but it has managed to continue and still be a very good and informative web site for all things Star Trek. Unfortunately, it appears that CBS Interactive, which is in charge of the site has decided to restructure and has
fired the entire production team for the site with no warning!
The Trek Movie Report website has
an article about it and will likely have further updates down the road. You'd think someone would realize that they have this movie called
Star Trek coming out a year from now and they might want to keep the site current? My kudos go out to the people who have been keeping the site active and current. Here's hoping someone gets a clue and brings them back on board.
Tin Man's Surprising Success, SciFi Update
As mentioned here previously, the first part of the SciFi's
Tin Man miniseries did surpisingly well, setting records for the channel. The other two episodes did pretty good as well as SciFi indicated in their
official press release touting it. Of course, the next day SciFi announced their new reality series,
Run for the Money, that had everyone going Huh? It is described as "
Run For Money is an action-packed, edge-of-your-seat reality competition show that pits a group of contestants against each other in the quest for cash prizes, while being stalked by relentless "hunters." Based on a successful Japanese format from Fuji Television, the action takes place over 60 minutes of real time in various landmark locations. As the clock winds down, the competition gets harder as more hunters appear on the streets, the game perimeter gets smaller, and tasks are assigned that test fraying nerves. Contestants earn money for every second they "stay alive" and may opt out at their choosing. If they keep playing and are overrun by a hunter, they lose everything. The last person standing takes the prize." I guess it will pair up well with ECW...
GHI & Guinea Pig
SciFi is debuting two new shows in January,
Ghost Hunters International and
Guinea Pig. Ghost Hunters International is a spin-off from Ghost Hunters, which has been very successful of late on SciFi, drawing better numbers and younger demographics than Stargate Atlantis. Guinea Pig is about "In the name of science and adventure, extreme-performer Ryan Stock and his partner AmberLynn Walker, push the frontiers of what the human body can endure. By making the world-class good sport Ryan a human guinea pig." Guinea Pig debuts on Tuesday January 8th at 9 pm ET/PT while Ghost Hunters International debuts at 9 pm ET/PT Wednesday January 9th.
Stargate Atlantis and Flash Gordon Return, Galactica set for March
The holiday break for SciFi Friday ends on
January 4 when Stargate Atlantis and Flash Gordon resume their current seasons. SciFi will continue to run Flash at 8 pm ET/PT with a repeat of the previous Atlantis episode at 9 pm ET/PT. SciFi has a marathon of Season 4 Atlantis episodes during the day if you need to catch up. On the following Friday, SciFi will add
Haunted to their SciFi Friday lineup at 7 pm ET/PT. It stars Matthew Fox and aired on
UPN in 2002 where it was canceled after 7 of the thirteen produced episodes had aired. According to ads they have been running,
Battlestar Galactica will begin its fourth season on SciFi in March. With the season finale of Atlantis likely on March 7th, March 14th is a good bet for the return of Galactica.
Strike Schedule Updates
The latest schedule announcements from the networks give us the following start date for some new and returning shows coming up in the new year. With shows like Chuck, Heroes, Reaper, Bionic Woman, Journeyman, and Pushing Daisies having aired all of their produced episodes, there's a lot of change coming in the genre show area.
NBC will have
Medium back on the air on Monday nights at 10 pm ET/PT starting January 7th.
CBS has the return of
Jericho for its seven episode second season on Tuesdays at 10 pm ET/PT starting February 12th. Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, and Numb3rs will remain on Friday nights. All three appear to have a few number of episodes left. All three CSI's have a few episodes left as well.
ABC will bring back Lost for eight episodes on Thursday nights at 9 pm ET/PT starting January 31st. They also have
Eli Stone scheduled to debut the same night at 10 pm ET/PT.
FOX has
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Mondays at 9 pm ET/PT with the first episode debuting Sunday, January 13th at 9 pm ET/PT and the second episode in its regular time slot on January 14th. FOX will also debut
New Amsterdam on Fridays at 9 pm ET/PT starting February 22nd.
The CW has run out of Reaper episodes but still has a good number of Smallville episodes left and a few Supernatural episodes.
On cable, ABC Family brings back Kyle XY on Monday, Jan 14th at 9 pm ET/PT.
BBC America is currently running Season 2 of Life on Mars on Tuesday nights and, as reported previously, will have season 2 of Torchwood starting January 26th.
USA Network has new episodes of Monk and Psych starting January 11th.
You can see those currently on YouTube below with both the Doctor Who series 4 trailer and the Torchwood series 2 trailer as they aired on the BBC:
