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Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (11/08/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Tues: 8/7 -- V -- ABC Thurs: 8/7 -- Flashforward -- ABC 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

It's starting in 3 minutes..."V"...the strange remake of "V"...the series that is so evocative of Obama's "hope and change". Just starting a discussion thread as this serial opens.

The jury is still out on whether Matt Smith will be accepted as the new Doctor. On the one hand, David Tennant is a name that has become firmly established in the cultural vernacular that anyone following in his footsteps would struggle. Then again, Matt Smith is just one of many changes being made to the show which is now in the hands of Steve Moffat, a man that many fans consider to be the best writer of the re-vitalised series.

"Doctor Who's" star may have said goodbye to the Tardis, but he still feels a deep pang of sadness at leaving what he describes as "the best job in the world." However, the series is in good hands with Steve Moffat taking over control of the show and introducing a new Doctor for an even newer generation of fans.

Here are my selections for the most pretentious science fiction - fantasy TV shows (RELAX - THE CYNICISM IS ALL IN FUN!): 5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003) - Pretty much a chick series. 4. V (original - including miniseries' - 1983 - 1985) - Nazi lizard people invade the earth. 3. Alien Nation (1989 - 1990) - A message series with one message - racism is evil. We get it. Next. (amazingly enough, this series spawned five made for TV movies, which were viewed by all 500 of its fans) 2. Beauty and the Beast (1987 -...

ABC has posted the first eight and a half minutes of its upcoming reboot of V, the alien-invasion series that kicks off on Nov. 3. Not much we haven't seen in promos before, but the clip introduces the main characters briefly before getting right into it: The arrival of 29 ginormous alien spacecraft over the major cities of the world, including New York.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (10/25/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Thurs: 8/7 -- Flashforward -- ABC 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Dollhouse -- Fox 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (10/18/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Thurs: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Dollhouse -- Fox 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Given the complex mythology built up around Stargate SG-1, Atlantis and now Stargate Universe, it's easy to forget that the whole thing started in 1994 with director Roland Emmerich's movie, starring Kurt Russell as Jack O'Neill and James Spader as Daniel Jackson. In the years since, Devlin has told us that he still wants to produce the two sequels he and Emmerich always envisioned, and Emmerich told us over the weekend that he's also game, though that means overcoming some rights issues and his natural aversion to doing sequels. "Whew, it's a tough one," Emmerich told us in an exclusive...

Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Thurs: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Dollhouse -- Fox 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Sat: 9/8 -- Robin Hood -- BBCAmerica

Hard to believe, but Friday marks the 50th anniversary of “The Twilight Zone,” the twisty-turny, highly influential science-fiction anthology series. (Or does it? No, wait, it does.)

Well this is the official live thread for Stargate Universe. I hope it is good and it looks good.. The reason no extras from the local Renaissance fairs...

This week in Scifi: Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Thurs: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri:All 9/8 -- Stargate Universed -- SyFyB Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (09/20/09) This week in Scifi: Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Thurs: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri:All All Day -- Stargate Sg1 -- SyFyB Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

First it was November, and then it was this fall. Now “Battlestar Galactica: The Plan” won't air in 2009 at all according to the Syfy channel and Chicago Tribune columnist Maureen Ryan. The much anticipated movie, which is a new take on the pivotal events of “Battlestar Galactica,” will tell the story of the attack on the Twelve Colonies from the point of view of the Cylons. Fans are eagerly anticipating the release and with much reason. The show ended in April, which left a lot of fans wanting more after only four seasons. Edward James Olmos, the director and...

It doesn't take much to stir up fandom, but if there's one word of advice: Be wary of uncorroborated information. CinemaSpy this week kicked up some concern that the new "Battlestar Galactica" spinoff series was in trouble. Using a single anonymous source they said had been "100 percent accurate" in the past, the site described the behind-the-scenes of the show that is set to premiere in January as if it were a part of the new Roland Emmerich film "2012." "A trusted industry insider informed CinemaSpy on Saturday that production faces suspension on 'Caprica' due to serious script problems/shortfalls, and...

The world was starting to become a different place in 1991 when "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" was released. Not only were fans reeling from the 1989 disaster that was "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," but the collapse of the Soviet Union created the possibility that enemies didn't have to be enemies forever. That mindset was brilliantly expressed by the writing team of Leonard Nimoy, Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn (and we guess a little by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, something that has been historically disputed by Nimoy) with the Federation, and especially Capt. Kirk, having to...

Which is the real Enterprise? That's the challenge being thrown down by filmmaker and Star Trek expert Robert Meyer Burnett (Free Enterprise), who posted the composite image below on his Facebook page. Burnett has his own opinions on the matter, which anyone who's ever talked with him would know; after all, he helped design Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas.

OK, so JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and a talented cast (to whom, if things are really fair, a lot of the credit must be given) successfully rebooted Star Trek. Obviously there will be another film, and if nearly thirty years of films in the franchise have taught us anything, it is that making a crappy Trek film is all too easy. So what next for the series? More Shakespeare? Or something else? Based on recent comments, it sounds like Star Trek 2 (or whatever it will be called) could get all sorts of modern, at least from a...

Fear not, followers of the Antares. ABC has not canceled "Defying Gravity." Not yet, anyway. That news may not be as comforting as it was intended to be, though, as the summer science-fiction series has vanished from the ABC schedules after only eight episodes, leaving its viewers dangling by a thread at the prospect of discovering the truth about the Antares mission and the mysterious "Beta." Set in the near future, "Defying Gravity" is considered a "Grey's Anatomy" in space with complex character backstories and intermingled relationships thrown into a life-or-death scenario. And, since its premiere on ABC, the show...

This week in Scifi: Sun: 9/10 -- Defying Gravity -- ABC Tue: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Fri: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFyB Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Vampires and witches, time travelers and alien invaders, superheroes and a Stargate—they're waiting just around the corner as a new TV season begins. Check out the teaser trailers for all the new shows and returning favorites after the jump.

This week in Scifi: Sun: 9/10 -- Defying Gravity -- ABC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Fri: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFyB Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

When the announcement was first made that "Torchwood" would return for a third season on BBC One, fans received the news with whoops of cheers and excitement. What could be better? The "Doctor Who" spinoff series, which broke BBC Three records when it launched in 2007, would migrate to the big leagues of prime time terrestrial television.

This week in Scifi: Sun: 8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC 9/10 -- Defying Gravity -- ABC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

London, England (AHN) - Star Trek fans can now spritz their way just a little closer to their favorite characters with the release of newly releases scents designed to appeal to fans. The three scents take their names from popular character or aspects of the show. One of the colognes, Tiberius, is named for the middle name of Captain James T. Kirk, the character played by William Shatner in the hit series, England's the Telegraph reported. The Shatner-inspired scent combines citron, black pepper and cedar to evoke a "casual yet commanding" aroma, according to creators Genki Wear. It's billed as...

The Lies Are Out ThereIs Hollywood's love affair with aliens based simply on its desire to make money, or has it been used by the US government and military for their own mysterious ends? By Robbie Graham and Matthew Alford July 2009 FT248 The flying saucers have landed again… in Tinseltown, at least. For over 60 years, UFOs have left their mark on the Hollywood box-office in some of the most lucrative movies of all time, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Independence Day (1996), Men in Black (1997), and in the latest and...

This week in Scifi: Sun: 8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC 9/10 -- Defying Gravity -- ABC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Fri: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

John Scalzi's Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design I'll come right out and say it: Star Wars has a badly-designed universe; so poorly-designed, in fact, that one can say that a significant goal of all those Star Wars novels is to rationalize and mitigate the bad design choices of the movies. Need examples? Here's ten. R2-D2 Sure, he's cute, but the flaws in his design are obvious the first time he approaches anything but the shallowest of stairs. Also: He has jets, a periscope, a taser and oil canisters to make enforcer droids fall about in...

Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp’s Malthusian fable of post-Apartheid Johannesburg: District 9, a violent science fiction movie set in a Johannesburg slum inhabited by 1.8 million feckless refugee space aliens, is the critical and commercial ($37 million opening weekend) hit of the moment. Yet, few Americans (except the black critic Armond White, who has made himself wildly unpopular with fanboys of District 9 by pointing out the film’s strikingly caustic portrayal of black Africans) seem to grasp writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s subversive perspective, even though the exiled Afrikaner keeps giving interviews more or less spelling it out. The American press constantly...

This week in Scifi: Sun: 8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC 9/10 -- Defying Gravity -- ABC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Fri: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

They worked for "Battlestar Galactica" so why not for the Stargate franchise? Syfy has ordered 30 webisodes to accompany the upcoming launch of "Stargate: Universe," the third live action series based on the 1994 science-fiction movie. The series features a group of explorers who embark on a new mission after a ninth chevron is discovered on the stargate. On the other side of the event horizon, they make a remarkable discovery; a lost ship of the Ancients called Destiny. With its systems powered up, its reluctant crew are forced to complete the mission originally given to the craft thousands of...

The upcoming re-imagining of the alien invasion series "V" looks set to bring a modern spin on the classic tale, but that doesn't mean it will forget its roots entirely. According to SciF Wire, the series is considering bringing in some of the show's original stars, and they already have some names in mind. "Jane Badler has approached our producers and has been in touch here and there," executive producer Scott Peters confirmed. What's keeping the writers from integrating her into the show though isn't a lack of enthusiasm, but instead the need to give her, and any other original...

'BBC America has picked up the US rights to air the upcoming fifth season of Doctor Who, it has been announced. The new run, which sees Matt Smith take over from David Tennant in the lead role, is currently being filmed in Cardiff, Wales. The thirteen-episode fifth season will air on BBC America and BBC America HD in Q2 2010 shortly after its UK premiere.'

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (08/09/09) This week in Scifi: Sun: 8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC 9/10 -- Defying Gravity -- ABC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Fri: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

This week in Scifi: Sun: 8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Fri: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/26/09) This week in Scifi: Sun: 8/7 -- Dr Who: Planet of the Dead -- BBC America 8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Fri: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy 9/8 -- Torchwood -- BBC America Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

The plucky kid with the pod racer from "Star Wars: Episode I" is not a kid anymore. And Jake Lloyd wants you to know that having a major role in a George Lucas film really put a damper on things when he was growing up. OK, fine: The guy doesn't really deserve our pity, but think of it from his point of view. Ten years old, getting blamed for ruining the Star Wars series. (Well, that was mainly the fault of George Lucas, but the kid was there, wasn't he?) And people just won't let it go. The Sci-Fi Australia...

Tron: Legacy is the name (for now anyway) of the Tron sequel coming out next year. Last year at ComicCon Disney played a test reel and now they FINALLY released it this year at ComicCon we we can all see it clearly than from cell phone recordings of it. Download and watch here: http://www.flynnlives.com/media/video/0xendgame.aspx They also re-created Flynn's arcade at ComicCon and had a life sized model of the new lightcycle. Videos of this are at: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41803 production art at http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41791

Six months after Matt Smith was unveiled as the new Time Lord, the actor finally began filming scenes for his Doctor Who debut this week.The 26-year-old actor and the doctor's assistant Karen Gillan, 21, were spotted on location in Cardiff filming their first scenes together. A sneak peek of the new show, which won't be broadcast on BBC until 2010, gives fans a chance to see the Doctor's new costume.

Six months after Matt Smith was unveiled as the new Time Lord, the actor finally began filming scenes for his Doctor Who debut this week. The 26-year-old actor and the doctor's assistant Karen Gillan, 21, were spotted on location in Cardiff filming their first scenes together. A sneak peek of the new show, which won't be broadcast on BBC until 2010, gives fans a chance to see the Doctor's new costume.

Forty years ago this week, science fiction writers were media celebrities—at least for a few hours. When Neil Armstrong stepped on to the surface of the moon on July 21, 1969, his “giant leap for mankind” was not just a fulfillment of President Kennedy’s promise of a lunar expedition before decade’s end. It also validated the starry-eyed dreams of a legion of pulp fiction writers. Long before NASA was founded, the ABCs of sci-fi (Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke) and others of their profession had been chronicling the exploration of the universe in works of imaginative fiction. The moon landing was their...

The top 10 Hottest Babes on Star Trek (TOS) 1. Kelinda from By Any Other Name This is probably the only episode in which Kirk not hits on a woman, but hits a woman. That’s okay because Kirk apologizes to her, over and over. Barbara Bouchet (born 1945) played Kelinda. 2. Lt. Marlena Moreau fom Mirror,Mirror In the alternate Terran Empire Universe the rank of captain has its privileges, and one of is Lt. Malena Moreau. Lt. Moreau did not love Kirk; she wanted to sleep her way to the top, as much as 1960s TV allowed to show. Apparently...

A couple of years ago the television show “South Park” put out a 3-part episode entitled, “Imaginationland” that went on to win an Emmy. In the episode, terrorists have taken over our imaginations in Imaginationland and the US government enlists the help of some Hollywood filmmakers to help come up with ideas to help stop the terrorist. One of the directors they enlist to try to help them was Michael Bay. Michael Bay offers some great actions sequences which anger a general to say, “Those aren’t ideas. Those are special effects!” A confused Michael Bay replies, “I don’t understand the...

This week in Scifi: Sun: 8/9 -- Merlin -- NBC 9/10 -- Meteor -- NBC Tue: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy Fri: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

This week in Syfy: Why the heck did they re-brand the SciFi channel as syphie? I mean, series, what a hugh mistake!Assuming Kevin is on vacation, I did want to remind everyone that the new season of Eureka premiers Friday at 9 PM ET.

Practically an Indiana Jones in space, Dr. Daniel Jackson is at the core of the Stargate franchise by discovering the secret of the device's operation in "Stargate SG-1" and later provided some much needed input to get "Stargate: Atlantis" off the ground when it first premiered in 2004.

A few months ago, we pointed out 18 Sci-Fi Twitter Feeds You Should Be Following, which included a lot of well-known Tweeters that you've probably read about elsewhere. Since then, the number of sci-fi luminaries on Twitter has grown tremendously, so we've put together a new list of interesting people you should be following, including both newcomers and some overlooked gems:

Is American mega pop star Britney Spears set to return to the big screen, seven years after starring in the box office flop Crossroads? According to reports, Spears has been offered a part in the upcoming Holocaust film The Yellow Star of Sophia and Eton, which integrates time travel, concentration camps and a love story.

The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) was quite a disappointment to sci-fi fans. Viewers gave it just over 2 stars at Amazon.com. That’s slightly worse than Assignment: Outer Space (1960) and more than a point and a half behind Kronos (1950). If you haven’t heard of either, don’t worry about it. The point is that there are probably better movies at the outdoor even if you’re not planning to watch the movie.