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On the menu tonight:

On this science fiction podcast, we have with us Keith R. Decandido.    Also on the menu tonight we have Star Wars Trivia, V gets Revealing, July 13 and Warehouse 13, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee get Makeovers, Terminator Salvation: The Machinma Series DVD, Miles is running for the Governer of Florida, Zombies have rights, and a man with too much time on his hands build Minas Tirith.

Show News:

* Shout outs! To Our friends on the Trekcast Forum.

* Shore Leave 32 – the line up.

 

Trivia:

 

Prize: A signed print of Sam Witwer as Starkiller from the Force Unleashed.

Question: Who was in charge of bringing down the deflector shield of the second Death Star?

You have one week to answer this question (until March 10th).  Send your answer with your mailing address to [email protected], call us at 18885084343, or DM us on Twitter at @scifidiner.

Podcast Promos:

DVD Geeks! Podcast and Radio Show

Trekcast!

The Main Course:

TV News

V will reveal more spaceship! Lizard skin! Anna’s true face!

You’ll see a lot more of the Visitors’ mother ship—and a lot more of their true alien selves—when ABC’s V finally returns on March 30.

Andrew Orloff, executive creative director/visual-effects supervisor for Zoic Studios, the visual-effects team behind V‘s spaceships and aliens, revealed his studio’s work on the upcoming episodes. (Spoilers ahead!)

“It’s just more,” Orloff said in an exclusive interview Sunday in Century City, Calif., at the Visual Effects Society awards, where Zoic was nominated for its work. “If you’re a fan of the show, you see the engine room of the ship in the last episode. We’ll keep continuing to open up and explore different rooms and parts of the ship that’ll be, I think, interesting for the viewers. It’ll drive the story forward, and for us,

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Tonight’s Diners: Scott & Miles

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On the menu tonight:

On this science fiction podcast, we interview Sam Witwer, Starkiller from the Force Unleashed, Crashdown from BSG, and Doomsday from Smallville.    Also on the menu tonight we have two listener e-mails to share, trivia with a very special prize, what TV shows are coming back, might come back, and have been axed, a New Flash Gordon Movie in the works, DVD news on 2012, Where the Wild Things Are, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and find out whether Kirk and Spock would have survived warp speed.  I also give my top 5 SciFi’s Sexiest women in our SciFi Five in Five.

Show News:

* iTunes – you can leave us a review!

* Find out other ways to support us

Trivia: IS BACK

Prize: A signed print of Sam Witwer as Starkiller from the Force Unleashed.

Question: Who was in charge of bringing down the deflector shield of the second Death Star?

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Podcast Promos:

The Seeker Cast

Toothless Audiobook Podcast

The Main Course:

TV News

Which of your favorite shows could live, which could die

ALREADY RENEWED

The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Renewed for a fourth season. – Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore will love this.

Eureka (Syfy) Renewed for a fourth season.

Stargate Universe (Syfy) Renewed for a second season.

Sanctuary (Syfy) Renewed for a third season.  Give me some more Heyerdahl!

Supernatural (The CW) Renewed for a sixth season.

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Tonight’s Diners: Scott & Miles.

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On this science fiction podcast, we have with us Shane Felux,  the director and producer of the Trenches webisodes.  We also hear from Dayton Ward. We are going talk about the Farpoint Con in Baltimore Maryland, Farscape, the International Space Station is now a Tie Fighter, Heroes Finale, Smallville Justice Society Episode, Planet Hulk DVD.

Show News:

* The Geek Squared Dollhouse Roundtable Podcast is now out. Scott was a part of this.

* Scott also appeared on Podcaster’s Emporium.

* Also check out Scott’s other Podcast the Haiti in Focus Podcast

Promos in the Show:

Balticon Podcast

The Signal Season Six Podcast

Our Interview:

WATCH TRENCHES NOW AT CRACKLE.COM Produced and directed by Shane Felux, creator of the internet phenomenon “Star Wars: Revelations” and the award-winning short “Pitching Lucas” (as chosen by George Lucas and audiences around the world), this latest film adventure takes you to a war-torn planet and the soldiers who fight for its control. But when the smoke of battle clears, these enemies find themselves facing a danger beyond their worst imaginings.

 

TV News

* Scott is watching

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Tonight’s Diners: Scott, Miles, and Mary, the DVD Geek’s Televixen

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On the menu tonight:

On this science fiction podcast, we have with us Mary, the DVD Geek’s Televixen.  We are talking Dollhouse Finale, Heroes, Caprica, Smallville and Human Target, and what else we are watching. Come see us at the Farpoint Con, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Show News:

* Farpoint Con – Meet up. Let us know if you are going. Link in show notes. Sam Witwer!!!!! Doomsday

* Subspace Communiqué – thanks for posting our Jared Formby interview

Improvise Joss Whedon – Make sure to check out Televixen’s new show in Chicago.

The Big Five O

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Our Thanks to the following listeners and supporters of our show for leaving voice mail:

Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica

James Williams from the Lifetyle Podnetwork

* has been instrumental in helping shape this podcast – listened back when we were the Dining at the End of the Universe Podcast

* Podcaster’s Emporium – a podcast every podcaster needs to listen to

* I love the Lifestyle Chill Podcast – especially when life gets stressed

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Tonight’s Diners: Scott & Miles

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On this science fiction podcast, we will be interviewing Jared Formby from the Trekcast Podcast, the Hey Star Trek Blog, and the Ferengi from the Star Trek Experience.  We’ll also be talking about the launch of Caprica, Avatar’s success, and a SciFi underwater Western called  Dark Life, and a lastly we’ll be talking about the Surrogates DVD release.

Promos this Week:

Film Sack Podcast

Or

Chronic Rift Podcast

Show News:

* Farpoint Con – Meet up. Let us know if you are going.

* Beta Testing Star Trek Online – Miles

* Retrospectives –  Farscape – Kevin Batchelder from The Scapecast

* Kevin Bachelder from Tuning into SciFi TV and many other podcasts gives us the five most overlooked genre shows.

Trivia Question from last week: (will run for two weeks.)

Question: What do Star Trek Voyager, BSG & Heroes all have in common?

Prize:

Star Trek Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of Empire (Mass Market Paperback)

And

Star Trek: Vanguard: Precipice

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Five Minutes of SciFi News in Five Minutes

TV News:

Our initial thoughts on Caprica. James Marsters will appear in the March 5 episode of Syfy’s Caprica.

Movie News:

It’s official: Avatar is now the highest-grossing movie EVER

It’s official: As expected, James Cameron’s Avatar on Monday officially pulled ahead of Cameron’s other big movie, about some boat, to become the biggest-grossing movie of ALL TIME.

BoxOfficeMojo reported that Avatar‘s worldwide...

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On this science fiction podcast, we will be interviewing Star Trek Novelist David Alan Mack, giving away two of his novels, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, finally we are getting more Firefly, whadda ya mean we’re getting a fifth season of Heroes, NBC’s Day One literally becomes Day One, Sami Rami tucks in Spiderman 4 and says night night to it, Avatar once again makes James Cameroon the King of the World, and Defying Gravity and Gamer are out in DVD.  We’ll give you our thoughts!

Our Interview:

David Alan Mack: is the national bestselling author of nearly twenty books, including Wildfire, Harbinger, Reap the Whirlwind, Road of Bones, and the Star Trek Destiny trilogy — Gods of Night, Mere Mortals, and Lost Souls. His first original novel, the supernatural thriller The Calling, debuted in July 2009 to critical acclaim.

In addition to novels, Mack’s diverse writing credits span several media, including television (for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and the Internet.

Recently published novels by David Mack include The 4400: Promises Broken, Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice, and the expanded edition of his Mirror Universe tale The Sorrows of Empire. Coming in 2010 are More Beautiful Than Death, an adventure inspired by the 2009 feature film Star Trek; and the SF espionage-thriller Zero Sum Game, the second book of the Star Trek: Typhon Pact miniseries.

Mack has been to shows in every Rush concert tour since 1982, and he finally met two-thirds of the band in 2007. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.

Promos this Week:

Trekcast Podcast

Scapecast Podcast

Show News:

* Farpoint Con – Meet up. Let us know if you are going. Link in show notes.

* Beta Testing Star Trek Online – ask the listeners are you playing this?

* Retrospectives –  Farscape – Kevin Batchelder from The Scapecast

* Best of 2009 – Miles – best movies of the past decade – SciFi in Five – at the end of the podcast.

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Tonight’s Diners: Scott, Miles, & Mary The DVD Geeks Televixen

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On this science fiction podcast, we interview Miracle Laurie from the cast of Dollhouse (she plays November/Mellie/Madeline).  She chats with us about what we have to look forward to these next three episodes, some favorite moments from the past two seasons, and much, much more.   Mary the DVD Geeks Televixen is here as well as we chat about our favorite moments.

Promos this Week:

Dollhouse Podcast Promo

Show News:

* David Alan Mack, author of the Star Trek Novel Vanguard.

* Any questions for him let us know!

* Fringe Casting With Wayne and Dan – Fringe Quote of the Week

* A SciFi Diner Retrospective: We are looking at having some podcast episodes focused on past shows like Farscape, Sliders, X-files, etc.  Want us to talk about a show you loved in the past? Let us know!

* Our scifi five in five: Give us your five favorite or five worst scifi television shows or movies of 2009 or of the decade.  We’ll play them at the end of our show

* Geek Squared Podcast – A Dollhouse Roundtable.  Be looking for Scott as he shares his thoughts about Dollhouse on the Geek Squared Podcast.

The Show:

In our show, Mary, the DVD Geeks Televixen, Miles and I chatted about our favorite episodes of Dollhouse Season 2.  Episode 4 Belonging focused on Sierra, Episode 10 The Attic, and Episode 8 A Love Belonging were among out top ones.  We also talk about our favorite actors/actresses this season with Fran Kranz aka Topher, Dichen Lachman aka Seirra, Miracle Laurie (of course) aka Mellie/Madeline/November and Enver Gjokaj aka Victor.  We also discussed what we are hoping to see in the show’s final three episodes.

The Wrap

This week,

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Tonight’s Diners: Scott, Miles, & Dave Gray

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On the menu tonight:

On this science fiction podcast, we give our thoughts on Avatar.

Promos this Week:

Aussie Geek Podcast Promo

Podcaster’s Emporium

2 Schooners

Show News:

* David Alan Mack, author of the Star Trek Novel Vanguard.

* Any questions for him let us know!

* A SciFi Diner Retrospective: We are looking at having some podcast episodes focused on past shows like Farscape, Sliders, X-files, etc.  Want us to talk about a show you loved in the past? Let us know!

* Our scifi five in five: Five favorite or five worst scifi television shows or movies of 2009.  We’ll play them at the end of our show!

* Triva: Will back in January.

The Main Show:

Our Avatar Review:

In our review of Avatar, we share our expectations as we went into the theater and our initial thoughts as we left.  We tear apart the plot and praise the wonderful world James Cameron has created using the CGI and his incredible attention to detail.  We also comment on the acting and the messages of the film. Is it worth seeing? Hell yes.

Domestic Total as of Dec. 27, 2009: $212,711,184

Distributor: Fox

Release Date: December 18, 2009

Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure

Running Time: 2 hrs. 40 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Production Budget: somewhere around 300 million

 

 

TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES

Domestic:

$212,711,184

34.1%

+ Foreign:

$410,864,537

65.9%

 

= Worldwide:

$623,575,721

 

 

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Tonight’s Diners: Scott, Miles, Dayton, and Kevin.

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Tonight’s science fiction podcast all about the shows we’re watching and responding to listener feedback.  We call it the SciFi Diner After Hours or perhaps more appropriately titled The SciFi Diner Leftovers.  We talk about all sorts of TV.  Some of the shows we cover are Flash Forward, ABC’s V, The Big Bang Theory, Chuck, Fringe, Modern Family, Full Throttle Saloon, Pawn Stars, The United States of Tara, Firefly, The X-files, Dollhouse, Legend of the Seeker, Supernatural, and Stargate Universe.

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On the menu tonight:

On this science fiction podcast, we chat with Kevin Dilmore about how he got into  writing and linked up with Dayton ward.  The rest of our show, the four of us discuss our SciFi Christmas Lists.  We wrap up with the SciFi Five in Five and Dayton and Kevin giving us their top five, ahem six, aliens.

Our Interview:

Kevin Dilmore talks about how he got into Science Fiction and how he got into writing.  He discusses what the “Golden Age” of Science Fiction is.  He discusses he writing experience and how he got hooked up with Dayton Ward, with whom he has co-authored many books.  He also talks about what is up-and-coming for both he and Dayton.

Promos this Week:

Trekcast Podcast

Tuning into SciFi TV Podcast

Show News:

* Exciting people coming onto our show…. Richmond Peck from V, Brian Jacobs Smith from SGU, David Alan Mack, author of the Star Trek Novel Vanguard. Miracle from Dollhouse.

* Any questions for these guys let me know!

* Fringe Casting With Wayne and Dan – Fringe Quote of the Week

* A SciFi Diner Retrospective: We are looking at having some podcast episodes focused on past shows like Farscape, Sliders, X-files, etc.  Want us to talk about a show you loved in the past? Let us know!

* Our next show will be focused on the be Science Fiction TV and Movies of 2009.  Let us know your top shows.  What is the best of 2009?

Trivia Question from last week:

Question: What does Firefly, Terminator, 4400, and Dollhouse all have in common?

Prize: The Justice League DVD

Winner: Ken Robinson

SciFi Christmas Lists

Dayton’s

* Star Trek Online

* All three Star Trek: Original Series seasons on Bluray

* The Original Series Bridge mural for your wall.

* The Filming model of the original Enterprise

* The 1960’s Batmobile parked in his driveway.

Kevin’s

* Light Saber Chop Sticks – the Star Wars Chop Sabers

* All three Star Trek: Original Series seasons on Bluray