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Stargate Planner: Week of April 5-11

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

Calendar

Monday, April 5 Burn Notice Season Two DVDs are out in the UK, including the four episodes in which Michael Shanks guest starred as burned spy Victor. Shanks also did the commentary for the season finale, the transcript for which you can read here at Solutions.
Tuesday, April 6 Robert Picardo‘s Sensored comes out on DVD and Blu-ray. Visit the movie’s official blog for more details.
Wednesday, April 7
Thursday, April 8 Michael Shanks guest stars on Supernatural as Rob in the episode “99 Problems”. The episode’s promo and description are here in our Blog. Be watching The CW at 9 PM ET.
Friday, April 9 Stargate Universe returns to Australia’s Sci Fi Channel at 8:30 PM with “Space”.

Stargate Universe continues with “Divided” on Syfy at 9 PM ET and on Space at 10 PM ET.

Also starting today and running through April 11 is the Terraformers II convention in which Robert Picardo will appear with former Star Trek stars who’ve also appeared in Stargate Marina Sirtis and Connor Trinneer. There are other conventions happening this weekend, so check Stargate Actor Appearances for appearances by Rene Auberjonois, Michael Welch, and Christopher Heyerdahl.
Saturday, April 10
Sunday, April 11 Corin Nemec‘s web series Star-ving is up for the Audience Choice Award from the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards. We’ll find out today if he won. Keep your fingers crossed!

News Notes

Stargate Universe creative consultant John Scalzi has been nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Novella category for The God Engines. For the list of all the nominees, visit The Hugo Awards home page. “The Hugo Awards Ceremony will be held at Aussiecon 4 in Melbourne on Sunday, 5 September 2010,” according to the website. Good luck, Mr. Scalzi!

Reminders

You only have a few days to get your questions in to Elyse Levesque (Chloe Armstrong of Stargate Universe) at Joseph Mallozzi’s weblog. He’ll be sending all the questions to her later this week.

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.

Ask Elyse Levesque Your Questions

Elyse Levesque (MGM)Stargate Universe executive producer Joseph Mallozzi is opening up his weblog for questions directed to Elyse Levesque who plays Chloe Armstrong. His invitation is in the April 4 entry:

Let’s kick off today’s entry with a BIG guest blogger announcement. Actress Elyse Levesque, Stargate: Universe’s Chloe Armstrong, has kindly agreed to swing by and field your questions. So if you’ve go ‘em, post ‘em!

I’ll be sending them her way later this week!

To ask your questions, visit the April 4 entry at the link provided and scroll all the way down to the comment form. Fill in the form and submit. Since Mallozzi screens all of the comments, yours might not appear immediately.

Stargate Universe will return to Syfy next week, Friday, April 9, at 9 PM ET with “Divided”. Levesque and her co-stars are currently filming episodes in Season Two.

13-4-13: Stargate Universe 1.0, Feature Wrap-Up

SGU Season One Cast

It’s hard to believe, but that time has arrived! We’ve reached the final installment of our Thirteen Weeks for Thirteen Years (13-4-13) series. You know what that means? That means that new episodes of Stargate Universe resume next week on Friday, April 2, at 9 PM ET/PT on Syfy! Canadians watching Space will also see it on April 2 at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT. Australians getting Sci Fi will see it April 9, and UKers getting Sky One, April 13! (For more information on these schedules, visit the Stargate Universe main page in our Stargate Wiki.)

In the meantime, let’s look back at the beginning of the third series in the Stargate franchise. Premise-wise, Stargate Universe had been in the making for several years, first as a stand-alone Stargate movie, then as a series. Brad Wright told The Official Magazine, “The germ of Stargate Universe began as a movie by Robert Cooper [series co-creator/executive producer], as do many of our ideas. We always come up with a movie, pitch it to MGM, and they say, ‘Terrific, let’s make it a TV show.’ When we were spinning the film idea, we knew deep down that Universe was really a series because it had so much scope.

“Oddly enough we pitched Universe a couple of years before we actually thought we were going to end up doing it. We went to the Syfy Channel with the idea and it appeared to be really well-received, but then a very long time went by without us hearing anything more. At one point we thought, ‘Oh, well, it looks like it’s not going to happen,’ and then we received the series order. It came as a little bit of a surprise. Honestly, I expected Atlantis to go another year, and then we’d either have another year before Universe started up, or we would just wind up doing a couple more direct-to-DVD Stargate movies. Now, however, we’re doing Universe, which, believe me, is great.”

Getting down to the driving force behind the change in Stargate‘s proven 15-season signature of maintaining a sense of humor while not taking themselves too seriously, co-creator Robert C. Cooper explained to the Canadian Screenwriter Magazine, “What I really wanted to do was to shake up the approach to the show. I wanted us to move stylistically in a very different direction. We had made a plot-driven, action adventure show previously. The characters were fun and interesting, and one of the key reasons people liked the shows was because of the characters, but when people tuned in they knew what to expect: the crew would get into some trouble, go through the gate, have an adventure and then come home after saving the world. I don’t mean it in a derogatory sense, but it was a comic-book adventure, with larger-than-life bad guys, all about bad vs. good—very broad, primary colours. I felt like we had done as much of that as we could possibly do.

“I pitched the idea of doing something slightly more real as a character drama. It’s a sci-fi show: you’re still dealing with space ships. But I wanted the characters to feel real.”

Reaction to this change in format has been mixed, but ultimately, the first season of Stargate Universe has been deemed successful enough that a 20-episode second season was ordered (and is currently filming). Stargate Universe indeed is quite different in style, but still at the heart of it is the foundation laid in the previous twelve years’ worth of work done for both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

Universe Season 1.0

If you haven’t had a chance to watch SGU 1.0, there’s going to be a marathon on Syfy to lead into the new episodes on Friday, April 2, starting at 11:00 AM ET!

The SGU Ensemble Cast

Cast interviews have been aplenty for the newest Stargate! Here at Solutions, we’ve reported on several, both here in the Solutions Blog and at our less-formal LJ Companion. Recently, we’ve added tags to both places that will lead you directly to the reports. We’ve also started actor and character biographies in the Stargate Wiki. Click on the following links to get you to your favorite’s entries (clicking on the image will get you to our Gallery’s larger version):

Robert Carlyle as Dr. Nicholas Rush

Robert Carlyle
(Dr. Nicholas Rush)
 Louis Ferreira as Col. Everett Young

Louis Ferreira
(Col. Everett Young)
 Brian J. Smith as Lt. Matthew Scott

Brian J. Smith
(Lt. Matthew Scott)
Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong

Elyse Levesque
(Chloe Armstrong)
 David Blue as Eli Wallace

David Blue
(Eli Wallace)
 Alaina Huffman as Lt. Tamara Johansen

Alaina Huffman
(Lt. Tamara Johansen)
Jamil Walker Smith as MSgt. Ronald Greer

Jamil Walker Smith
(MSgt. Ronald Greer)
 Ming-Na as Camile Wray

Ming-Na
(Camile Wray)
 Lou Diamond Phillips as Col. David Telford

Lou Diamond Phillips
(Col. David Telford)

Solutions

Did you enjoy our journey through the years of Stargate in this Thirteen Weeks for Thirteen Years series? Would you like to see more series of this type in the future? If so, what would you like to see? Let us hear from you in the comment section below, or contact us through our e-mail address. Thanks. 🙂

SGU: Elyse Levesque Cast as Chloe Armstrong

Elyse Levesque

Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly has been given the exclusive on the casting of Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong, daughter and aide of Senator Armstrong, a member of the United States committee who is given access to the secret off-world base that is home to the project studying the ninth chevron on the Stargate.

Ausiello describes Armstrong as “the wild and immature daughter of a U.S. Senator.” Ms. Armstrong will have to grow up quickly once she becomes stranded on the Destiny along with many different types of people and without her father to guide her. Before having to struggle to survive on a one-way trip to a distant galaxy, Ms. Armstrong wished to follow her father in his political footsteps.

Levesque was born 10 September 1985 and has recently appeared in the telemovies Journey to the Center of the Earth and Storm Cell. Fans of Smallville might be familiar with Levesque when she appeared in two episodes as Casey Brock.

Spoilers are subject to change as the episodes are in production.