Season two will premier on Tuesday July 13th and run for 13 episodes this season.

All of the main cast members will be returning including: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek and Allison Scagliotti, along with series guest star, CCH Pounder.

This is great news for two reasons

1. More Warehouse 13!
2. Artie Lives!  I hope… With Saul Rubinek returning to play Artie I hope it means that he survived.  I can’t wait to see what little Warehouse toy he used that he was not supposed to have on him.

(via SCI FI Wire)

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Here are some Doctor who videos in excitement and anticipation for series 5.

New Doctor Who Trailer featuring the Doctor and Amy, watch the video below.

This one was not overly exciting but I liked seeing some of the Doctors more deadly enemies in it.

Series 5 Preview

This was a really neat collection of moments from the upcoming series of Doctor who.  In it we get to see a lot of the Doctors adversaries and even see the Doctor fire a gun.  I gasped at first which is kind of funny since we don’t even get to see what he is firing at.  It’s not like Batman was shown using a gun.

Is it me or are you also getting a Sylvester McCoy kind of Doctor vibe from Matt Smith?

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Then new season of Doctor Who is scheduled to air on BBC America April 17, 2010.  This season will start with the Matt Smith doctor with Steven Moffat as the head writer.

I can’t wait to see how Matt Smith does.  I’m expecting a more physically delivered performance from him based on the small sample of him as the Doctor at the end of The End of Time.

(via Variety)

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Out this week we have four DVDs to feature:  Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Ghost Hunters: Season Five, Part One, LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers,  Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant.  Do we Love It, Rent it, or Avoid Like Plague?

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• Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths:  In a parallel Earth ruled by the crime syndicate, the Justice League must fight their evil doppelgangers in a battle that would be dead even, except that their malicious counterparts are willing to do the one thing Batman and Superman never would… kill.  The special features include over 2 hours of bonus content!  I’ve really enjoyed DC’s direct to DVD projects like  Green Lantern: First Flight, Wonder Woman 2009, Justice League – The New Frontier.  Because of their past successes I would  buy this one sight unseen.
  • Buy it / Rent it

• Ghost Hunters: Season Five, Part One:  Always a great show.  This set includes episodes: Betsy Ross House, Star Island, Edith Wharton Estate, Club Dead, Soul Searching, Titanic Terror, Crossing Over, Garden State Asylum, Inhuman Entity, I am Not Guilty, Civil Wars Spirits, Essex County Penitentiary.
  • Buy it / Rent it
  • More Ghost Hunters on dashPunk

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• LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers:  This one is so weird that I couldn’t pass it by without mentioning it.  I get the feel that this will watch like the lego games will play which means I will at least laugh at it.  Clutch Powers and his team of LEGO experts on their adventure from LEGO City to the Space Police prison planet to the medieval world of Ashlar where they must help the rightful heir to the King’s throne find the courage to regain the kingdom from the evil wizard Mallock the Malign. Their brick-building skills will be put to the ultimate test as they face off against Mallock’s skeleton army. Get ready for an action-packed adventure like nothing you have ever seen before, The Adventures of Clutch Powers!
  • Buy it / Rent it

• Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant: Based on the first three books of the book series The Saga of Darren Shan by author Darren Shan.  A fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.  Still a renter, I’ve heard mixed reviews of the movie and even netflix thinks I will give it a 3.6 which is in the wild card part of the rating.
  • Buy it / Rent it
  • Theater or Renter: October 2009

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Simeon a Lucian Alliance soldier who will be a recurring antagonist for season two of Stargate Universe.

Described in his casting call as:

He was a seasoned criminal before being recruited by the Alliance.  He’s strong and intimidating but more crafty and wiry than big and muscular.  Scary in that you’re never sure what he will do.

Simeon will be part of a six to seven episode story arc where he holds secrets about Destiny that everyone wants.  Secrets that he is willing to die or kill for.  Eventually he will have to face off with Rush in a serious conflict.

His involvement in the story arc, espicaly his knowledge about Destiny looks like further evidence that the Goa’uld motherships attacking the Icarus Base are actually connected to the Lucian Alliance.

What tech or secret knowledge is on the Destiny that the Lucian Alliance would want and what would they use it for?

(via GateWorld)

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During the Congress hearing examining the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal Rep. Rick Boucher Presses NBC About Hulu Practices Toward Boxee.

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA): What about Boxee? Mr. Zucker you probably are in a better position to answer that. Did Hulu block the Boxee users from access to the Hulu programs?

Zucker (NBC): This was a decision made by the Hulu management to, uh, what Boxee was doing was illegally taking the content that was on Hulu without any business deal. And, you know, all, all the, we have several distributors, actually many distributors of the Hulu content that we have legal distribution deals with so we don’t preclude distribution deals. What we preclude are those who illegally take that content.

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA): “Well would you have negotiations with Boxee upon request?”

Zucker (NBC): “We have always said that we’re open to negotiations.”

I’m overjoyed to see congress pressing NBC about their issues with Boxee and Hulu.  They have had past issues with streaming content online and now with Comcast set to take over I fear those issues will only get worse.

Boxee uses a web browser to access Hulu’s content – just like Firefox or Internet Explorer. Boxee users click on a link to Hulu’s website and the video within that page plays. We don’t “take” the video. We don’t copy it. We don’t put ads on top of it. The video and the ads play like they do on other browsers or on Hulu Desktop.

The big difference between boxee and other browsers are that boxee took the effort to make their product available on other platforms that connect easily to the TV.  This is unfortunately perceived as a threat by those studios who don’t get the change in the way audiences want to consume their media.  We go into more detail on Speculative Fiction Today #405 “Many Mini Chucks”.

Zucker’s response makes me cringe because it sounds like the health care debate all over again.  One side says hey lets negotiate on this and the other side says they are more then willing to negotiate yet their actions shows no intention of doing so.

(via Boxee Blog)

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Doctor Who By Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is penning an episode for Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who.  The episode is to air early in Season Six.

– it’s quite possible that I might have written an episode. And if I had, it would originally have been called, ‘The House of Nothing,’ but it definitely isn’t called that any more.”

That rocks!  I can’t wait to watch the episode.

What do you think the episode could be about with the working title The House of Nothing?

(via DoorQ)

Spider-Woman Enlists With Avengers

Spider-Woman: Marvel announced she will be joining the Avengers team when the comic re-launches as part of their new Heroic Age line up of comics.

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Captain America’s in prep:

Joe Johnston gives some updates on Captain America:

• • “We’re in prep,”
  • The film, he says at this early stage, will begin “in 1942, 1943″ during World War II. “The stuff in the ’60s and ’70s [comic books] we’re sort of avoiding.

I like hearing that they are at least considering beginning Captain America during World War II.  I wonder how much of the film will be about the super soldier program?

(via /Film)

Teen Wolf TV Director

Teenwolf:  The television series remake adds Russell Mulcahy to direct the show based on the original movie. (via SciFiPulse)

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V Cast

“V” Adds Three Cast Members:

• Nicholas Lea will play Erica’s ex-husband for a two-part arc.
• Charles Mesure has a recurring role as mercenary Kyle Hobbes.  He is an in-demand black ops expert who forms an unlikely alliance with the resistance.
• Lexa Doig as Dr. Leah Pearlman.  Dr. Pearlman is an OB/GYN treating Valerie Stevens who discovered she was pregnant.(via Slice of SciFi)

Hobbit Delay

First of the Hobbit Movie probably won’t be out until fourth quarter of 2012 (via /Film)

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Alice in Wonderland: Cheshire Cat and the White Rabbit character posters (via /Film)

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog two is still in the works.  Zack Whedon in and interview lets us know

• They are meeting every so often to talk about the project.
• “There are a handful of songs in some state of being written,”
• “I think that we will focus on that more now that Joss [Whedon] is done with ‘Dollhous’e and has a little more time to focus on other projects.”

It hurts to think that Dollhouse is done but on the plus side I like hearing that Joss will have more time to work on the project.  How long before we will get to see a Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Two?  Probably quite a while but I would rather wait for a brilliant sequel then to rush into something unsubstantial.

Meanwhile, for those of us wanting more Doctor Horrible can follow along in the comics.  Whedon has plans for more Dr. Horrible comics.

• A collection of all the ‘Dr. Horrible’ mini comics from online
• “…A new story about the Evil League of Evil.”

I’m excited about a story in which we would get more about the members in the Evil League of Evil especially those featured at the end of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.  He will definitely do more Bad Horse.  I’m hoping something more about the Evil Whinny.

Read Zack’s other comics here:

• Captian Hammer: Be Like ME!
• Moist: Humidity Rising
• Penny: Keep Your Head Up

(via Whedonesque)

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