The Weekly Round-Up for Feb. 1 to 5
Here are the sci-fi based entertainment news items for this week:
TV SERIES NEWS
A new series finale date for the ABC series Lost was announced earlier this week: Sunday, May 23. Mark your calendar!
The final episodes of Saving Grace will air on TNT starting on March 29 at 9 PM with back-to-back episodes. The remaining 7 episodes will play out over the spring in its regular 10 PM timeslot (with a slight interruption by the NBA playoffs in between).
The new series Happy Town, a mid-season series, has been given a premiere date: April 28 at 10 PM. The series stars Geoff Stults, Sam Neill, Lauren German, Steven Weber, Amy Acker, Robert Wisdom (among others). The series is being touted as a creepy show (ala supposedly Twin Peaks) about a small town still haunted by a number of unsolved kidnappings.
The March 5 episode of Ghost Whisperer will be the series 100th episode and it will feature a major characters death.
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
The Tara Bray Smith young adult novel Betwixt will come to the CW and is to revolve around three teenagers who learn of their true, “changeling” nature and their uncertain, intertwined destinies after attending a secret summer rave in the woods.
Emily Rose (Jericho and Brothers & Sisters) will appear in the Syfy series Haven, which is based on the Stephen King novella The Colorado Kid. She will play FBI agent Audrey Parker, who investigates a murder in the small town of Haven, Maine and finds herself caught up in a web of supernatural activity among its citizens.
MADE FOR TV MOVIES NEWS
The Syfy made-for-TV movie Beauty and the Beast will premiere on Saturday, February 27, at 9PM. The movie stars Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes) is a young Beauty with a gift for healing who helps a deformed Prince (Rhett Gilles, Wraiths of Roanoke) regain his throne and defeat the ruthless nobleman who wants to be king — and then together they try to destroy a power-hungry witch.
Other made-for-TV movies to come from Syfy include:
Red – A young woman who is a descendant of the real Little Red Riding Hood brings her fianc home, where he meets the family and learns about their business hunting werewolves. He’s skeptical until bitten by a werewolf. When her family insists he must be killed, Red tries saving him.
Hansel – Twenty years after his encounter with the witch, a grown-up Hansel returns to the haunted forest, seeking revenge. But there’s a surprise waiting his sister Gretel (who he thought had been killed) is the witch’s protge.
8th Voyage of Sinbad – Sinbad searches for the golden head of the long lost Colossus of Rhodes and, instead, discovers an island where the mythical Minotaur still rules, protecting a vast treasure. Sinbad and his crew have to battle the creature and its minions to get the treasure and save their own lives.
Aladdin (working title) – After accidentally releasing an evil genie from an ancient lamp, Aladdin must find a way to imprison the genie again before it wreaks havoc on the world.
Black Forest — A group of nave tourists take a sightseeing tour into a supposed enchanted forest, where they encounter evil creatures from the world of fantasy. Trapped in the Black Forest, their only hope of survival is fighting their way out.
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Kate Beckinsale will appear in a cameo role in the 3D fourth Underworld movie that is scheduled to hit theatres on January 21st 2011.
CASTING SCOOP
Fred Willard and Swoosie Kurtz will guest star in an upcoming episode of Chuck, as a Hart to Hart-esque spy couple now over-the-hill but still in the game.
British actor Bill Nighy is set to guest star in the fifth season of Doctor Who, playing a Vincent Van Gogh exhibition curator set in 19th century France and the present day.
Margaret Cho will guest star in an upcoming episode of Ghost Whisperer.
Dawn Olivieri (Heroes) will play Janice Herveaux, the sister of werewolf Alcide (Joe Manganiello) and Brit Morgan (The Middleman) will play Alcide’s psycho ex girlfriend Debbie Pelt on True Blood.
Charles Measure (Crossing Jordan), Nicholas Lea (The X-Files), and Lexa Doig (The 4400) are joining the cast of the ABC drama V.
RUMOR PATROL
Olivia Wilde (Tron Legacy) is in negotiations to star in the comic adaptation of Cowboys & Aliens the sci-fi Western that explores what would happen if the traditional Old West enemies – cowboys and Native Americans – found the prairie attacked by aliens in mid-1800s Arizona. Wilde will play a character named Ella who joins up with a mysterious gunslinger (Daniel Craig).
Logan Lerman (Jack & Bobby), who will star in the upcoming movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, may be up for the role of Peter Parker in the Spider-Man reboot.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
The following movies, special and new series will debut and/or air this weekend and throughout next week:
The movie The Cursed will air on Syfy on Saturday, February 6 at 9 PM and follows a writer who awakens a malevolent creature in a Tennessee town with a dark past. The cast includes Costas and Louis Mandylor.
The new series Past Life will debut on FOX on Tuesday, February 9 at 9 PM. This series follows a woman who “solves crimes that put souls to rest”. The series will then move to its regular timeslot on Thursday, February 11 at 9 PM.
NEW EPISODES OF EXISTING SHOWS
Here are the new episodes of the sci-fi based dramas that will be airing this coming week:
Saturday, February 6:
Demons on BBC America at 8 and 9 PM (Series Finale at 9 PM)
NOTE: A repeat of Legend of the Seeker will air in syndication this weekend. Check your local listings for date, time and channel.
Sunday, February 7:
Super Bowl Sunday
NOTE: A repeat of Legend of the Seeker will air in syndication this weekend. Check your local listings for date, time and channel.
Monday, February 8:
Chuck on NBC at 8 PM
Heroes on NBC at 9 PM
Tuesday, February 9:
Lost on ABC at 9 PM
Wednesday, February 10:
Human Target on FOX at 8 PM
Being Erica on SOAPNet at 10 PM
Thursday, February 11:
The Vampire Diaries on The CW at 8 PM
Supernatural on The CW at 9 PM
Friday, February 12:
Smallville on the CW at 8 PM
Spartacus: Blood and Sand on Starz at 10 PM
NOTE: Please check your local listings for the correct air dates and times for all of the above. Have a great weekend!
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