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As expected, SCI FI has announced that it has given the go ahead for the third series in the “Stargate” franchise. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Stargate Universe” will premiere in 2009 with a two-hour pilot followed by a one hour weekly series beginning in the summer. In contrast to it’s two predecessor series,…
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Scifi.com is reporting that NBC announced today that the Heroes spinoff series Heroes: Origins has been officially pulled from their production schedule. Origins, originally planned as a series of single-episode ‘cautinary tales’ featuring previously unintroduced characters within the Heroes universe, has been in a state of flux ever since the Writers Guild strike earlier…
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Legendary science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke has passed away and the world is a little less brighter for it. Clarke was 90 and had been suffering from the effects of post-polio syndrome. According to the BBC, Sir Arthur died of respiratory complications and heart failure. Sir Arthur was perhaps best known to…