Sci-Fi Saturday Night

In a departure from our usual format, almost the entire cast converged upon the Area 51 compound for the first time, but Java who was measuring Crop Circles. The super secret underground laboratory and Table Tennis Pavilion was also opened to our guests, writes Greg Norris and Laura Van Vleet and Browncoats Redemption Editor and Puffs Plus Poster Boy Andrew Marnik. In our round table discussion recap of the week, we talked about Double Midnight’s 8th Birthday Party, the rumors of Peter Jackson directing The Hobbit, the hue and cry for a producer for the oft discarded Wonder Woman Movie project. Fox is attempting to ruin another classic, The Martian Chronicles, The Henson Studios announce Dark Crystal II and the Green Hornet Trailer is released.

In our second half, Greg and Laura regale us with stories of Trek and Hollywood from their perspective and what it was like to work in that system. Andrew brings us an update on the finishing  being done on Browncoats Redemption and  preorders for the film.

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Film Maker, if that term can be applied here, Wickersham De Le Croix, joins us to discuss His 9th film in the centology, Dark Warriors of the Dark Kingdom. As a side note, he also drops a plug for Double Midnight Comics 8th. anniversary Party .

Talkin’ about what’s new this week, a porn Avatar movie, Buffy is too old school for sparkly vampires, Plan 9 From Outer Space to be colorized and remastered in 3-D, and some uber-cool merch on a site called Quantum Mechanix. On a sad note, UberCon’s Director, Alyssa Smith lost all her possessions in an apartment fire. To get more information and see a cool way to help, check Jess Hartley’s post here.

As a reminder, to win this week’s ” NOT A TRIVIA QUESTION” prize, simply make a comment about this weeks talkcast. The winner will be chosen at random.

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In this installment, we schmooze over the impending renewal of Torchwood, the announcement of Neuromancer , the movie, talk about Doctor Who, the Adventure Game and Walking Dead, the series announced on AMC. X begins a serious science discussion over the  changing landscape of Jupiter, which ends in a sing along of old Badfinger songs. Java’s pick of the week is Blood of the Innocent.

In the second half Raedia Albinson & Jackie Musto join us to talk about Silver Circle films new animated project and we learn all about” When they control the money, they control everything…”. A dystopian future with The Federal Reserve as villain (not as far fetched as you might think). Enjoy!

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Our show tonight begins with a look back as we say farewell to Jeanne Robinson. Joining us is George O’Connor, Producer/Director of the hilarious web series 664 – Neighbor of the Beast. In the first segment we talk about the ending of a shining star in our universe,  Jeanne Robinson and what having known Her and Spider has meant to all of us on the show. To lighten the tone we also take some shots at ABC, and the alleged rumor that Dennis Hopper spurred on UFO research with his inclusion of a scene in East Rider. The second half of the show is spent with George talking about his web series 664, how it began, where it is now, and where its going in the coming months. As is custom here at SFSN, no bloggers were hurt during the recording of this program. Enjoy!

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Tonight , our third Authors retrospective, the life and work of Fritz Leiber. During his nearly 60 year career he won nearly every peer award possible, and was dubbed the writers writer. To talk with us about him tonight is a man who if I said needed no introduction, the mere mention of his name would bring so many differing thoughts. The author of the short story anthology I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream , to talk about Fritz Leiber, Mr. Harlan Ellison.

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In tonight’s show we have special guests Michael Dougherty and Andrew Marnik from Browncoats Redemption. Also joining us for the hour is Chris Proulx From Granite State ComiCon.

An hour of inspired lunacy prior to the Sunday showing of new footage in Manchester, NH. Enjoy, we all did!

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In this edition we talk about phase one of our Charity Auction with Jan Schroeder. In depressing TV news, V gets a second season, FlashForward gets the ax and Heroes dies an unheroic death.

Possible new shows for the Fall Season

NBC – The Cape, Undercovers, The Event

ABC – No Ordinary Family

FAUX – Terra Nova

CW – (is this really a network?) Betwixt, Nikita

Chris Proulx dropped in to talk about The Granite State ComiCon and some of the special events happening. “Pat, can I get a ruling” is the new catch phrase. Discussion was somber about the death of Frank Frazetta, an artist who will be sorely missed. In the second half of tonight’s cast, we were joined by Ed & Adrienne Ludvigsen, creators of the alternate history internet game site, What Happened to Sarah.

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Much as I would love to describe what this was like, I cannot so please listen. It’s indescribably delicious. Featuring, Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson, Peter Vinton and Jan Schroeder , we all talk about the man, the myth, the legacy that is Robert Anson Heinlein through the wonderful eyes of one of his friends.

From all of the staff here, a deep thanks to Spider and Jeanne for their precious time.

Dream for Jeanne Auctions

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Our guests  for tonight’s ‘Cast Hunter Liguore, editor of The Last Man Standing Anthology. We had an absolutely charming discussion with her about her work, the anthology and what was coming up in the process. Travis Roy joined us from Granite State Skeptics to talk about his upcoming panel at Granite State Comicon on May 23, 2010.

In cinema news, we talked about movies clustering for summer 3012, to include Battleship, Dark Knight 3, ST2, Spidey Reboot and Avengers. The new trailer for Trek Nation is garnering some serious acclaim.  New footage of Metropolis has been found. Turning to TV, if there is a reason for genre television to die ungracefully, Heroes season 5 is it.Former writer and Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller will be back full time for Volume 5, though it may be too late for most of us. We had a round robin on an article about Joss Weadon’s Top 6 Character Deaths. SyFy’s latest idea, a cooking show? Enjoy.

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Our Auction for Jeanne Robinson Cancer Fund was officially posted on our website, and we got a few minutes to talk about what the pieces looked like. A shout out to Boing Boing and Cory Doctorow for their support and Browncoats Redemption for their help as well. We also talked about the Boston Independent Film Festivals premiere of Drones Directed by Amber Benson and Adam Busch wishing them the best of luck. In Doctor Who news, some new video games are coming out and The Doctor is being proposed as the Patron Saint of England. In related news it is with a sigh of relief that we report that FAUX has decided NOT  to do an Americanized version of Torchwood.  Genre TV has gotten uniformly bad numbers, which have been declining. According to Airlock Alpha rating have been as follows:

1. (1) Lost (ABC) — 5.6/9 — [85.5]

2. (2) Fringe (Fox) — 4.1/7 — [76.9]

3. (3) V (ABC) — 3.8/6 — [88.9]

4. (4) FlashForward (ABC) — 3.4/6 — [66.2]

5. (6) Vampire Diaries (CW) — 1.8/3 — [74.2]

6. (7) Supernatural (CW) — 1.5/2 — [81.0]

7. (8) Smallville (CW) — 1.2/2 — [84.2]

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After the trivia break, we spoke with DJ Sucklord. You can find his website here. It was, to say the least, an interesting conversation, with a PG-13 Rating.

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