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Tap Into SFP Radio Featuring Amanda Tapping

For episode 42 of SFP Radio we feature our exclusive interview with producer and star of Sanctuary Amanda Tapping.

During the course of this 25 minute interview Amanda talks about the challenges of both producing and starring in a show, and gives some subtle hints about how she feels her character of Doctor Helen Magnus will develop over the course of the second season.

Tapping will also give some clues on up and coming guest stars for the series, and talks about some of the people she’d like to have come on the show.

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In Review: The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap Parts 1 & 2 (Season 3 episodes 7 & 8)

Synopsis: When investigating a haunted house Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde begin to question whether science is the key to all things.

Review: This is not your average episode of Sarah Jane Adventures. In fact this particular story missed a pretty big trick and should really have been show last week on the lead up to Halloween weekend. As apposed to this week.

The team is without Luke for both parts of the story, which in a way is a good thing because the story is left to focus on Clyde, Rani and Sarah Jane Smith. Clyde as ever provides much of the humour with some very bad jokes about goulash.

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Singers Battlestar Galactica Movie Underway?

Art Work from the Original Battlestar Galactica

According to a report found at The Examiner.com Bryan Singers planned Battlestar Galactica movie, which is rumoured to be more in the spirit of the original series is underway.

According to the Newspaper Bryan Singer is already hard at work on the movie, and is working along side Battlestar Galactica creator Glen A. Larson on the project.

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New Not-for-Profit Foundation, Sanctuary For Kids

launched by TV Actor / Executive Producer Amanda Tapping

Foundation will raise funds for children in crisis by auctioning rare props, set visits and ‘priceless’ items from sci-fi TV series Sanctuary

Vancouver, BC – Television Actor and Executive Producer Amanda Tapping announced today the launch of a new not-for-profit foundation, Sanctuary for Kids (S4K) that will support local and international charities providing vital aid to children and youth in crisis.

Sanctuary for Kids was inspired by the sci-fi TV series Sanctuary, for which Amanda Tapping is Executive Producer and the series lead actor. The foundation will harness the tremendous and supportive sci-fi community and provide access to rare and experience-based online auction items from Sanctuary to raise funds for children’s charities. The first auction will take place November 12 – 22, 2009.

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UK Television To Bring You Superheroes With ASBOs

While NBC in the USA continue to bring forth Heroes. We here in the UK are on the verge of moving on, and are doing so by bringing forth a new group of teenage anti heroes for a brand new E4 Comedy series, which looks set to well and truly spoof the Superhero genre, only in a very British way.

The new series, which is titled Misfits is described as darkly funny and centres on a group of young offenders – Curtis, Alisha, Nathan, Kelly and Simon – who discover superhuman abilities after they’re caught in a storm while picking up rubbish and cleaning graffiti as part of their community service orders. Read more »

Producers Discuss New BBC Drama ‘Paradox’

A few months back we reported on a new series called Paradox, which is a fast-paced detective thriller with a science-fiction twist.

The series stars Tamzin Outhwaite (The Fixer, Hotel Babylon) as Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint, who is thrown together with Space Scientist Dr. Christian King (Emun Elliott) when a series of rogue images are transmitted from space into his laboratory. The fragmented images appear to be of a major incident but, shockingly, they also suggest it is yet to happen – it’s in the future.

With each episode of this high-concept and intriguing series set to a relentless ticking clock, Christian, Rebecca and her team, DS Ben Holt (Mark Bonnar) and DC Callum Gada (Chiké Okonkwo), face a race against time as they only have 18 hours to put together the clues of this most complex of jigsaw puzzles and try to prevent almost certain tragedy.

As to how and why these images are being transmitted to them is a mystery, which means that Flint and her team are forced to intervene in the course of destiny. The underlying question posed throughout Paradox is: “If you could see the future, would you change it?”

This new five-part drama is the creation of Lizzie Mickery (Messiah, The 39 Steps and The State Within) and is directed by Bafta award-winning Simon Cellan Jones (Generation Kill, Our Friends In The North) and Omah Madha (Law & Order – UK, Burn Up).

In a recent interview the production team, which is made up of producer Marcus Wilson (Whitechapel, Life On Mars), executive producers Murray Ferguson (Afterlife, Persuasion) from Clerkenwell Films and Patrick Spence (Five Minutes Of Heaven, Occupation) from BBC Northern Ireland, Lizzie Mickery and Simon Cellan Jones – discussed the ambition and vision behind this thrilling five-part series.

“We knew there was an appetite for a big, bold, fresh take on the cop show,” explains Murray Ferguson, chief executive of Clerkenwell Films. “Something that might be different from the traditional formula of investigating a crime that has already taken place. Read more »

Ghost Rider 2 Not Reboot Says Goyer

Following up on his initial announcement that he was supervising on the second Ghost Rider movie, writer and producer David S. Goyer confirmed that the second film would not be a reboot, but in fact would continue from where the first movie left off.

In a recent interview for MTV Goyer revealed that the second movie will take place eight years after the first one, and that Nicolas Cage would reprise his role for the film.

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Third Transformers Movie To Have Less Action

Director Michael Bay revealed recently that his third Transformers movie will be less about action and more about exploring the origins of the characters.

In one of the special features on the DVD, which is titled All Spark Experiment, Bay makes it known that he’d like to take a deeper look at some of the origins of the Transformers. Read more »

DC Taking Considered Look At Death Count In Their Comics

As a casual comic reader I’m all too aware of the death count in comics. In fact when I read stories about say the death of Batman, my mind’s eye often looks back to the movie Hot Shots where we had Charlie Sheen dressed as a Rambo-like solder killing all the baddies, and you have the video game-like death counter ticking over for each kill he makes. That scene puts me in mind of the comic writers at DC and Marvel.

That said, when it comes to DC comics. Death seems to have become more of a specter, which hangs over most characters, and this is something that DCU’s editor in Chief Dan DiDio says he’ll be looking at once the current Blackest Night mini event concludes. Read more »

Doctor Who: Dreamland Air Date Announced

UK fans who have been waiting patiently for new Doctor Who episodes have a double treat this month due the premier of both Waters Of Mars on 15, November. But also Dreamland on Saturday, 21 November.

Dreamland for those not in the know is an animated homage to the popular 50s B – Movies, and is only available via the BBC’s digital Red Button service or through the Doctor Who website (bbc.co.uk/doctorwho). Read more »

DC Comics And Beyond: Comics Reviews

Okay, enough with the Halloween and scary stuff!  Let’s look at some other books this week.

1. Stumptown #1. A while back, I read a very interesting murder mystery set in Antarctica called White out (coming soon to a theater near you, by the way).  It was suspenseful and intriguing, so I bought the sequel, Whiteout: Melt, and it was just as good.  So I now tend to follow Greg Rucka wherever he writes (the one exception being Queen & Country, but someday I will get into that, I’m sure).

Just like Ed Brubaker’s Criminal series, Rucka can tell fascinating stories about ordinary, everyday people as strongly as he can spin yarns about superheroes.  And since I like variety, I love to come across something new to read.

Well, this week Oni Press has released Rucka’s latest non-superhero book, called Stumptown.  It is the writer’s first creator-owned series.  Here’s the summary:

Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she’s less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke — she’s into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex’s luck is about to change. Sue-Lynne, head of the Wind Coast’s casino operation, will clear Dex’s debt if she can locate Sue-Lynne’s missing granddaughter. But is this job Dex’s way out of the hole or a shove down one much deeper? Read more »