Stargate Planner: Week of May 3-9

You might be interested in these news tidbits and announcements that have been noted on this editor’s calendar and notebook for this week. If you’ve got more to add, please don’t hesitate to announce them in the comment section below.

Calendar

Monday, May 3
Tuesday, May 4 Stargate Universe “Human” on the UK’s Sky One at 8:00 PM.
Wednesday, May 5
Thursday,
May 6
Today is Kavan Smith (Maj. Evan Lorne)‘s birthday! His most recent project of note is Red, Syfy’s adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. SyfyMovies posted a twitpic that includes Smith along with other cast members. Red is due to premiere in 2011.
Friday,
May 7
Stargate Universe “Lost” on Australia’s Sci Fi Channel at 8:30 PM.

Stargate Universe “Sabotage” on Syfy at 9 PM ET and on Space at 10 PM ET.

Saturday, May 8 Sean Patrick Flanery in the premiere of Syfy’s Mongolian Death Worm at 9 PM PT.
Sunday, May 9 Robert Picardo, Armin Shimerman, and John Billingsley are three of the four “Bald(ing) Eagles of Star Trek” who are taking part in a birdwatching adventure to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Los Angeles’ Audubon Society. There may still be time for you to join them, so check out the links in the article for more information.

News Notes

On our Stargate Wiki front, we’ve created episode guides for the first ten episodes of Season Two of Stargate Universe. This means that all episodes in the first half of the season have names. Filming for the first five episodes has pretty much been wrapped up, and these episodes will next go into the post-production process that includes adding visual effects and a soundtrack.

Last week, we posted a few background articles in our LJ Companion that you might be interested in. These articles don’t have a companion piece in our News Blog here:

  • Stargate Planet has a brief interview with Patrick Gilmore, who has had several Stargate roles and can currently be seen as Dr. Dale Volker on Stargate Universe.
  • Voting closes May 28 for the Vancouver YWCA’s Connecting the Community Award for which Amanda Tapping has been nominated.
  • Website benzinga.com has a press announcement that states that Joe Flanigan‘s latest film A Good Day For It (you might be able to catch a glimpse of Flanigan in the trailer at this link), which also stars SGA’s Robert Patrick (Col. Marshall Sumner), has been picked up for distribution.
  • A new trailer for David Hewlett‘s movie Splice has been released and it is very intense, so be warned. The movie is coming to theaters June 4.
  • Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talks a little about his cameo in SGA’s “Brain Storm” in this video Q&A.
  • The Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan conducted an interview with George R. R. Martin, the author of the fantasy book series on which Jason Momoa‘s HBO series Game of Thrones is based. The new show is coming in early 2011.
  • Smallville executive producer Brian Peterson gave Digital Spy a few hints about the show’s upcoming season finale “Salvation” in which Stargate stars Michael Shanks, Alaina Huffman, and Britt Irvin will reprise their superhero roles. “Salvation” is scheduled to air on Friday, May 14, on The CW at 8 PM ET.
  • Comic book author Brandon Jerwa did an interview with First Comics News concerning Issue #3 in the Stargate: Vala Mal Doran series being published by Dynamite. To see a list of all of Dynamite’s Stargate comic books, click on this link.
  • Rachel Luttrell posted to her blog in the middle of last month to give her fans an update on what she’s been doing. She’s working on her own production, a project called Nothing Ventured, and is about to record a CD later this month!
  • A picture of Torri Higginson has been used to illustrate an article in the LA Times entitled “Three local companies receive NEA grants to help kids brush up on their Shakespeare.” Higginson is portraying Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the A Noise Within theatre in Glendale, California, until May 21.

Reminders

For news as it happens, make sure to visit the Stargate Twitter Superfeed for tidbits directly from the Stargate stars and production crew. And don’t forget our new feature Beyond the Event Horizon, which consists of “home pages” with dynamic feeds from our LJ and Blog for the stars of SG-1 and Atlantis.

Our LJ Companion has news bites, polls, and glimpses into the lives of the actors that we don’t necessarily cover here in our more formal news blog. Make sure to visit the LJ’s feed on our front page or visit the site directly to see its mostly fun little tidbits.

For the latest in convention appearances, which are subject to change, make sure to visit Stargate Actor Appearances.