Google, NBC Universal ink ad deal

Internet search leader Google Inc. and NBC Universal said Monday they're teaming up to allow Google to sell advertisements on some of NBC's cable channels such as MSNBC, Oxygen and the Sci Fi network.

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Battlestar Galactica to Lose a Main Character?

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More on the Battlestar Galactica DVD Movie

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A team of restoration and digital effects artists took the final episode of that trilogy ("Enlightenment" -- a well-written, high-concept adventure featuring a simulated sailing race in deep space) and laid in 21st Century CG visuals.

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Gene Roddenberry: The Star Trek Philosophy

In celebration of the DVD release of J.J. Abrams' reboot of the classic Star Trek franchise I thought that it would be cool to share some thoughts from the creator of the original Star Trek.....

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Ink Movie Review

Ink (2009) is a climax of audio and visual stimulation that takes you on a journey of the subconsciousness. The dark and light forces fight over the soul in a thrilling and thought provoking metaphysical world that is linked to the physical one.

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"Star Trek" fans know there were two pilots for the original series. The first, "The Cage," was rejected by NBC for being "too cerebral" (ah, some things never change).

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To be clear, Fox isn't getting off cheaply; when all is said and done it's going to be on the hook for at least a couple hundred million dollars in production and marketing costs. If the flick fails, it will hurt.

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As time goes by

I haven't written my column for a while, I had to decide if I wanted to continue doing this. Evidently no one read my last two entries...oh and I also discovered 'Newsvibe'. Anyway here goes.

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There's a big change behind the scenes at ABC's new series V, as TheWrap.com reports that a new showrunner has taken over. Rosenbaum who previously worked on The Shield and Chuck, will be the showrunner for V going forward

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Do you attend Star Trek/SciFi Conventions?

I love a good convention. my wife on the other hand couldn't stand them. I would drag her along so the photographer. After she attended a couple of them she found out what I had known all along. Conventions are fun. You can meet some of the most interesting people at conventions.

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Most major religions, going back thousands of years, tell stories about the End of the World. And post-apocalyptic fiction is perennially popular. So why, in the last twenty years, has the apocalypse ceased to matter?

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Great Sci-Fi Find: Being Human

I found a Sci-Fi gem this week and I felt the need to get the word out. The show is called Being Human. It is a short series of six one hour long episodes made in the UK that aired on the BBC earlier this year.

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A silent German film from 1927 may not be the most logical place to look for some fine female curves, but the groundbreaking Metropolis gave us the iconic, polarizing Machinenmensch femme-bot.

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Just In Time For Halloween

Just in time for Halloween is Jules Sparkles newest CD the deluxe edition of Far From NoWhere>Expected to also be available from amazon.con prior to Halloween.

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Science fiction writer Karl Schroeder, author of The Sunless Countries (reviewed here), is earning his masters degree in "strategic foresight," or futurism, at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He told us about how futurism is influencing his work.

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Getting Ready for Halloween Poll: What's the scariest movie ever?

"All Hallow’s Eve" is just around the corner! This means time to come up with a clever costume, stock up on treats to give out, and above all, get frightened by your favorite scary movie.

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Ninth Chevron Activated: A Review of Stargate Universe's Pilot Episode

I'll start off by saying that I purely got into this by accident. I dug the original movie as a kid, and watched a little bit of SG-1 in the beginning. After a while I lost interest and went about my business.

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I'm a little worried about ABC's thinking behind this latest move. As announced, the remake of the classic '80s mini-series V will launch on November 4th. But now, after four consecutive episodes, it's going on an extended hiatus.

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Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection offers a detailed account of the zombie outbreak, recording the behavior and anatomy of the undead. It's a survival story, but one in which the dead are more interesting than the living.

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The Nigerian government takes exception to it's country being portrayed in a negative way. A rose by any other name, I say...

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Now he's shown us that he's a radical leftist at heart and all his promises – every one of them – were lies. But he's still relatively harmless domestically because he's such an incompetent leader, unable to hold his course or persuade even his followers.

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My 13-year-old nephew is a voracious reader, but he tends to limit his reading to science fiction. He recently read "Brave New World," because he thought it was sci-fi. Any suggestions on how to expand his horizons to include other genres? —B.M., St. Paul, Minn.

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Two articles: HG Wells on Google: which of his predictions came true?

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Government involvement in alien-themed movies continues to the present day.

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Alien lovers who were disappointed with Hollywood’s latest extra-terrestrial offerings - tame Caribbean blue spandex aliens, recently previewed in James Cameron’s highly anticipated film ‘Avatar’ - can look forward to District 9.

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I have been hearing about this for some time, invisibility cloak. This has been reportedly right on the horizon, waiting for that one push to bring it to the forefront, well it's here! The ability to cloak any object to be completely invisible.

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Filming is underway for season five (called series five in the U.K.) of the adventures of everyone's favorite Time Lord, Doctor Who, and naturally, a few secrets of the next season have already been leaked.

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