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• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: Remembering Susan M. Garrett   2 weeks, 5 days ago · View

  Author Susan M. Garrett died today after a months-long battle with cancer. Aside from being a professional writer ( Intimations of Mortality , 1997, Berkeley, ISBN: 978-1572973138), she also wrote several unpublished novels and was actively involved in the fan fiction community, where she had a sizable fan base. At her heart, Susan M. Garret was a storyteller, “Officially, [...]

• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: Sneak Peek: PBS documentary 'Four Days at DragonCon'   2 weeks, 5 days ago · View

  

  Starting this Labor Day, PBS stations will start airing a slice of fandom with the one-hour documentary, Four Days at DragonCon . Filmed by Atlanta- based documentarians, Jack Walsh and Gordon Ray during the 2009 con, the film is set to debut 9 p.m. (ET) Aug. 28 on WPBA PBS 30 in Atlanta and then roll out [...]

• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: Syfy fills final cast positions on forthcoming 'Alphas' pilot   3 weeks ago · View

  

  BSG’s Callum Keith Rennie is set to guest star on the “Alphas” pilot. (Image by kmgsquidoo via Flickr)

  The following press release is published as a service to the readership:
  

  New York, New York – August 12, 2010 – Syfy has announced additional casting for its previously announced pilot Alphas, inking actress Azita Ghanizada to co-star in the wry [...]

• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: Syfy renews Merlin for 13-episode 3rd season   3 weeks ago · View

  The Syfy channel announced today that it has picked up Merlin for its third season with 13 new episodes planned for

  Bradley James as Prince Arthur on BBC/Syfy’s “Merlin.” (Image via Wikipedia)

  spring 2011 after first airing on BBC One in the UK starting in September 2010. “We are thrilled that Syfy will be broadcasting the third series of [...]

• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: Fangs dominate top genre TV star salaries   3 weeks ago · View

  TV Guide published a list of the best-paid stars for the upcoming 2010-2011 television season, with Charlie Sheen

  topping the list at $1.25 million an episode – outpacing the next-highest paid performer, Two and a Half Men , co-star Jon Cryer’s $550,000 per episode salary by almost a million dollars an episode. Of the stars of genre TV, only [...]

• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: When the new season of your favorite genre show starts   3 weeks, 1 day ago · View

  TV choices continue to trudge through the dog days of summer; filled with endless reruns and so- Called “reality” programming. Despite a few bright spots on cable and network TV – most notably Sunday night’s vampire melodramas  True Blood on HBO and the much-better than expected  The Gates on ABC, as well as Friday’s quirky fantasy series,  Warehoue 13 [...]

• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: DragonCon: New guests to include Scott Bakula, Stan Lee, Brandon Routh and James and Oliver Phelps   3 weeks, 1 day ago · View

  Following is an electronic press release published in its entirety as a service to our readers. Dragon*Con is Proud to Announce the Addition of Scott Bakula , Brandon Routh , James and Oliver Phelps , and More! Dragon*Con may only be twenty-two days away, but we are far from done! Just a few of our exciting new guests and performers are: Scott Bakula best known [...]

• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: Bryan Fuller to bring 'Lotus Caves' to Syfy   3 weeks, 1 day ago · View

  

  Finally, someone is trying to bring back space opera to television, at least, according to Entertainment Weekly . In “The Ausiello Files” TV section, EW columnist Andy Patrick reports that Syfy has hired Bryan Fuller to adapt John Chrisopher’s novel, The Lotus Caves into s script for a possible series. Among SFTV fandom, Fuller is known both as the [...]

• David Speakman wrote a new blog post: Syfy plans December holidays with Eureka, Warehouse 13   3 weeks, 2 days ago · View

  The following is a press release from Syfy, presented as a service to the readers:
  

  THIS DECEMBER… ‘TIS THE SEASON TO JOIN SYFY FOR FIRST EVER HOLIDAY-THEMED EPISODES OF HIT SERIES WAREHOUSE 13 AND EUREKA Judd Hirsch (Taxi) and Paul Blackthorne (The Dresden Files) Guest Star on Warehouse 13

  and Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live) and Matt Frewer [...]

• Ruth R. Davidson wrote a new blog post: Lazy Game Design   2 months, 1 week ago · View

  My daughter played “Batman: Strength In Numbers”. She outgrew it, and needed something more challenging. After receiving “Batman: Multiply Divide and Conquer”, she told me that the maze is exactly the same, and the villains she fights are also the same. This is lazy game construction. Leap Frog simply took the previous game and changed [...]