Trucker suspended for behind-the-wheel TV viewing

A court has suspended the license of a truck driver who careened down a highway while watching episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" on a laptop computer atop his dashboard.

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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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Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

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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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The man knows how to write dialog, how to make badasses of the doofiest of nerds, how to make sexpots of the most unlikeliest of actors. He is a ginger titan, a colossus bestriding the tube of boob. Joss Whedon knows how to make great television.

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Adrien Brody will star in "Robert Rodriguez's Predators," a reboot of the sci-fi franchise. Topher Grace is in negotiations to join the action-adventure movie, to which Alice Braga ("I Am Legend"#, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali #"The 4400"#, Walt Goggins #"The Shield"#, Rodriguez mains …

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Hot girls like fantasy entertainment too. Trust us! Just because a hot girl likes to lounge in lingerie, that doesn't mean she can't appreciate an all-night frag session.

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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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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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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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Carradine, the brother of late actor David Carradine, is supposed to play Matthew Harding, a powerful businessman.

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More revealing is that unlike most shows on the network, Warehouse 13, the first show launched since the rebranding, is attracting nearly as many women as men.

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Can't wait to see the first trailers...

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Syfy is reteaming with director Bryan Singer ("Superman Returns," "X-Men") for a six-hour limited series in the vein of "The Da Vinci Code" and "National Treasure."

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Artificial intelligence (AI) will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts SciFi and AI notable Vernor Vinge who has warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.

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David Tennant has already filmed his final episodes as the Doctor, the time-traveling champion in Doctor Who, but his past is still our future. He explained to us what happens in those episodes, and why they're the most emotional yet.

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It's hard to believe the live-action-meets-puppeteering sci-fi series Farscape is a decade old, but that's the occasion that brought Brian Henson and stars of the show to Comic-Con International Friday to announce a new complete series DVD set.

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The new actor to play the lead role on Doctor Who, Matt Smith, has begun filming his first episodes. Thus, the paparazzi were able to snap some photos of his outfit. Despite being the youngest actor to play the role, he's dressed like the oldest.

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TiVo Alert: Torchwood Children of Earth

Just a quick alert for those U.S. fans of Torchwood who also have TiVo. If your Season Pass is just for Torchwood it will not record the upcoming Torchwood: Children of Earth special that starts Monday on BBC America.

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Battlestar Galactica attracted a lot of fans and a lot of kudos during its run, and engendered this sub blog about it. Here, in my final post on the ending, I present the case that its final hour was the worst ending in the history of science fiction on the screen.

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The Doctor Who franchise is jumping to a U.S. publisher for a new regularly scheduled comic book due to arrive in stores this week.

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What I somehow missed in all the hoopla about that is that Syfy is also in talks with creator Don Bellisario about a possible relaunch of Quantum Leap. Or a sequel or, really, whatever Bellisario would be interested in.

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Over the last few hours I've been following rumors of a Star Wars live action television series which will be shot in Australia — well I've just confirmed from a source who has a friend that works at ILM that this rumor is in fact true! My understanding from what I've bee …

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The original television series on Fox was one of the cases where the spin-off actually exceeded the quality of the movie it was based on.

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Fox's surprise show renewal Dollhouse had the largest share of its viewing by DVR for the 2008-9 season; 41% for the adults 18-49 demo and 32% for viewership overall. One of Fox's public reasons for renewing Dollhouse was its high share of DVR viewing.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before, you'd need a really good starship - and to launch Star Trek, the pop culture phenomenon that entertained and inspired millions, you'd need a pretty darned good one! And that is exactly what the United Space Starship Enterprise delivered.

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