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Stargate Planner: Week of March 21-27

We’ll update this article if something comes to our attention during the week. Also, if you’ve got more to add, please don’t hesitate to announce them in the comment section below.

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Monday,   March 21 SGUStargate Universe on Syfy at 10 PM ET with “Alliances.”
Tuesday,   March 22 Stargate Universe on SPACE at 10 PM ET with “Alliances.”

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Robert Picardo will be guest starring as Vice Principal Nance in tonight’s episode of No Ordinary Family at 8 PM ET on ABC, “No Ordinary Animal.” From TV Guide: “Mrs. X (Lucy Lawless) takes a shot at eliminating the Powells for good by tapping the feral abilities of a beastly super-villain. Meanwhile, Daphne and Chris skip school to attend a Sara Bareilles video shoot; JJ’s tasks for the academic-decathlon team make him suspicious of Mr. Litchfield; and Katie learns shocking news about Joshua.” No Ordinary Family is about “a family that develops superpowers after a plane crash in the Amazon. The patriarch, Jim, discovers he has immense strength, and his wife, Stephanie, is blessed with amazing speed, while their 16-year-old daughter, Daphne, turns telepathic, and their learning-disabled 14-year-old son, JJ, becomes a genius.”
Wednesday,   March 23
Thursday,   March 24 Stargate Universe on Australia’s SciFi at 8:30 PM ET with “Alliances.”
Friday,    March 25
Saturday,   March 26 Beau BridgesBeau Bridges will be participating in the stage reading of the play K2 by Patrick Meyers at the Edison Theater in Mammoth Falls, California, at 7 PM. Tickets are $100. There are other activities including appetizers, drinks, desserts, a raffle, and fundraising, so check out Mammoth Times for more information. Synopsis: “Actors Beau Bridges and his nephew Marcel Lloyd portray two climbers, Harold and Taylor, who are stranded on an icy shelf at 27,000 feet up the world’s second highest mountain. A portion of the ledge crumbles away, they lose some of their gear and they have only one rope left to try and save both their lives.”

Family movie Change of Plans, starring Joe Flanigan, is available for pre-order in both DVD and Blu-ray formats at Walmart.com. Release date now set for April 26, 2011. (Thanks to @JennieDreyer and @susanshambaugh for the update!)

Alaina Huffman will be attending the Planet Comicon in Kansas City, Kansas, this weekend. Make sure to visit the website for details.
Sunday,   March 27

News Notes

Stargate Universe News

Solutions News Blog Round-Up

Our News Blog posts since the last Stargate Planner (most recent listed first):

Solutions LJ Companion Background Articles

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

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.

Trailer For The Other Side With Joe Flanigan

The trailer for the upcoming Syfy movie The Other Side, starring Joe Flanigan, is now up on YouTube. Joe filmed this movie in Ireland in August of 2010.

The premise of the movie is:

It was a groundbreaking device designed to glimpse alternate universes and government commissioned by a brilliant physicist. But the machine malfunctioned on its first presentation, transporting a group of observers into a nightmarish new dimension. The team quickly must use ingenuity and courage to outwit, outplay and outlast the native man-eating creatures of this bizarre new world while doing their best to repair the damaged machine. Even if they stay alive, without a working transport, they may never make it back home. •••• Starring Joe Flanigan (Stargate: Atlantis) John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings) and Catherine Walker (Leap Year) ••• Premieres on Syfy in 2011.

At the 2010 LA Creation Con, Joe said that he and the director decided to add a lot of humor that wasn’t precisely in the script. A bit of that is present in the trailer, but it overall has a more serious tone than Joe had described.

We’ll keep an eye out for any news of the movie airing on Syfy in the US, where it will premiere sometime this year.

Stargate Planner: Week of January 17-23

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Monday,   January 17 Today is David Blue‘s birthday.
Tuesday,   January 18
Wednesday, January 19 Today is Rachel Luttrell‘s birthday.
Thursday,   January 20 Tonight at 10/9c is the premiere of the new USA network series Fairly Legal in which Richard Dean Anderson will be making five appearances over the first season as David Smith. Fairly Legal is the new title of the series; it was formerly called Facing Kate. The pilot is 90 minutes and the remaining nine episodes will be one hour each. The premise: “Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi) is a firm believer that justice can always be found-even if it’s not always in the courtroom. Once a lawyer at her family’s esteemed San Francisco firm, Kate’s frustration with the legal system led her to a new career as a mediator. Thanks to her innate understanding of human nature, thorough legal knowledge, and wry sense of humor, Kate is a natural when it comes to dispute resolution. Except, it seems, when it comes to conflicts in her own life” (Show’s official homepage).

Beau Bridges will be among the hosts at the premiere of the documentary Elephants and Man: A Litany of Tragedy at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood.

From PR-USA: The film, executive produced by Melya Kaplan and directed by Jacek Kropinski, chronicles the history of elephants in captivity. Kaplan, founder of the nonprofit Voice for the Animals Foundation, contends that zoos and circuses are not capable of properly caring for elephants due to their size and their need for vast amounts of space in which to roam. Many celebrities have joined Kaplan in a campaign to persuade zoos to close elephant exhibits and transfer the pachyderms to larger sanctuaries.

The host committee for the premiere of “Elephants and Man” includes Cher, Alec Baldwin, Kathy Griffin, Billy Bob Thornton, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams, Ed Begley, Jr., Paul Haggis, Fisher Stevens, Ric O’Barry, Karen Black, Lainie Kazan, Ken Davitian, Sally Field, Beau Bridges and others. Special guests will include actresses Lily Tomlin and Tippi Hedren, who have been outspoken on the issue of elephants in captivity. They will participate in a panel discussion, which will follow the screening.
Friday,   January 21
Saturday, January 22 Today is Jennifer Spence‘s birthday.

Robert Picardo will be at the opening review of “Star Trek: The Exhibition” at the Louisville Science Museum, which formally opens January 23 and runs until May 22. This evening review is part of the Museum’s largest fundraiser event, which will include a screening of Quantum Quest, an “animated IMAX movie featuring the voice talents of several Star Trek alums, including William Shatner,” according to Louisville’s Courier Journal.
Sunday, January 23 Today is Richard Dean Anderson‘s birthday.

News Notes

Stargate Universe Press

It should be noted that whenever spoilers come out for SGU, they are placed in the episode guides in the Stargate Wiki without much fanfare here in the News Blog. To keep on top of such updates, visit the main page of the Stargate Wiki to see the “Recent Updates” list of links.

Solutions News Blog Round-Up

Our News Blog posts since the last Stargate Planner (most recent listed first):

Solutions LJ Companion Background Articles

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

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.

Stargate Planner: Week of January 10-16

We’ll update this article if something comes to our attention during the week. Also, if you’ve got more to add, please don’t hesitate to announce them in the comment section below.

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Monday,   January 10
Tuesday,   January 11
Wednesday, January 12
Thursday,   January 13
Friday,   January 14
Saturday, January 15

Corin Nemec will be appearing at the Salute to Supernatural convention in San Francisco, CA, today.

Box art for Stargate ResistanceStargate Resistance shuts down today:

Dear Valued Customer,

On November 16, 2010, the License Agreement between Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Inc. and MGM Interactive, Inc. expired. As a result, Cheyenne will no longer be able to offer Stargate Resistance for sale to new customers. However, in the best interests of our customers, game play will be provided for a period of 60 days (until January 15, 2011) to customers who purchased Stargate Resistance prior to November 16, 2010. Look for more information as it becomes available.

Their official website has already been shut down.
Sunday, January 16

News Notes

News Flashes and Brief Follow-Ups

  • Franchise – Executive producer Joe Mallozzi wrote in his weblog, “I spoke to Brad about the future of the franchise. We discussed ‘the plan’, Universe mainly, but also talked SG-1 and Atlantis. No word on progress yet but, given the recent holidays, that’s to be expected I suppose. Hopefully, we’ll receive some positive news next week.”

Stargate Universe Press

It should be noted that whenever spoilers come out for SGU, they are placed in the episode guides in the Stargate Wiki without much fanfare here in the News Blog. To keep on top of such updates, visit the main page of the Stargate Wiki to see the “Recent Updates” list of links.

Solutions News Blog Round-Up

Our News Blog posts since the last Stargate Planner (most recent listed first):

Solutions LJ Companion Background Articles

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

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.

Reminder: Joe Flanigan in "Change of Plans" Tonight

Joe Flanigan as Jason Danville in CHANGE OF PLANS (Philippe Bosse/FOX)
Here’s a quick reminder to tune into FOX tonight at 8 PM ET/PT for the premiere of Joe Flanigan’s Change of Plans, a backdoor pilot that is part of Walmart’s and Procter & Gamble’s “Family Movie Night” series of movies that are meant to be “meaningful entertainment for the entire family.” Not only will the movie be on television tonight, but Walmart will give us another chance to support our Stargate star by having the movie’s DVD out in stores tomorrow!

From the movie’s home page:

Up to this point, Sally Danville’s life has played out just as she hoped it would. A beautiful and free-spirited musician, she and her fighter-pilot husband, Jason, live life on the go, free of domestic responsibilities. But with a single phone call from Child & Family Services case worker, Dorothy (Phylicia Rashad, The Cosby Show), she learns that things don’t always go according to plan. Sally (Brooke White, American Idol) is met with the news that her best friend from college has died in a tragic accident on a Peace Corps mission and has named Sally the legal guardian of her four kids – 3 of them adopted from third-world countries. Now Sally and Jason (Joe Flanigan, Stargate Atlantis) must quickly learn to parent this instant family and help the kids deal with the culture clash of life in America. The story is both humorous and heartwarming, revealing how fulfilling life can be when you look beyond your own plans and invest in the lives of others.

Stargate Planner: Week of January 3-9

Happy New Year 2011

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Monday,   January 3
Tuesday,   January 4
Wednesday, January 5 Today is Joe Flanigan‘s AND Paul McGillion‘s birthday!
Thursday,   January 6
Friday,   January 7
Saturday, January 8 Joe Flanigan stars in the new family movie Change of Plans tonight on FOX at 8 PM ET. This is a backdoor pilot, so make sure to tune in to show your support. Additionally, the DVD will be in Wal-mart stores tomorrow! The storyline: “Up to this point, Sally Danville’s life has played out just as she hoped it would. A beautiful and free-spirited musician, she and her fighter-pilot husband, Jason, live life on the go, free of domestic responsibilities. But with a single phone call from Child & Family Services case worker, Dorothy (Phylicia Rashad, The Cosby Show), she learns that things don’t always go according to plan. Sally (Brooke White, American Idol) is met with the news that her best friend from college has died in a tragic accident on a Peace Corps mission and has named Sally the legal guardian of her four kids – 3 of them adopted from third-world countries. Now Sally and Jason (Joe Flanigan, Stargate Atlantis) must quickly learn to parent this instant family and help the kids deal with the culture clash of life in America. The story is both humorous and heartwarming, revealing how fulfilling life can be when you look beyond your own plans and invest in the lives of others.”
Sunday, January 9 Michael Shanks in Arctic BlastRTL II in Germany will be airing Michael Shanks‘s Arctic Blast at 8:15 PM. (MSOL). The storyline: “When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice!” Shanks plays Jack Tate, “a brilliant, yet troubled physicist specializing in Earth Sciences” who saves not only the day, but the world!

News Notes

Solutions LJ Companion Background Articles

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

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.

Joe Flanigan Interview for “Change of Plans”

Procter & Gamble and Walmart have put up the full website for their upcoming film, Change of Plans starring Joe Flanigan, Brooke White, and Phylicia Rashad. The site has plenty of pictures and video, including an interview with Joe Flanigan in which he talks about his childhood, over images that must be from his personal photo album. To see the interview, visit the Change of Plans site, then click on Videos, then Interviews, then Interviews – Joe Flanigan.

There’s a second interview right after that one that features Joe speaking French, or at least trying to!

Or, visit the videos directly: Joe Flanigan Interview, Joe Speaks French.

Joe appears in many of the other videos, so check them all out.

Change of Plans airs Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 8 pm on Fox in the U.S. The day after airing, a special 2-disc DVD/CD bonus pack will be available through Walmart.

Stargate Planner: Week of December 13-19

We’ll update this article if something comes to our attention during the week. Also, if you’ve got more to add, please don’t hesitate to announce them in the comment section below.

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Monday,   December 13
Tuesday,   December 14
Wednesday, December 15 Today is Michael Shanks‘s birthday!
Thursday,   December 16

SGU Season One episode “Subversion” on New Zealand’s Prime TV at 8:30 PM. Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks guest star.
Friday,   December 17
Saturday, December 18
Sunday, December 19

News Notes

News Flashes and Brief Follow-Ups

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Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo in GAME OF THRONES (HBO)
  • Jason Momoa – His Conan movie was renamed to Conan the Barbarian, but still has the same release date in the United States: August 19, 2011. For his other project, HBO’s Game of Thrones, there are some rumors going around that HBO might already be renewing the new series for a second season, even before the first has been aired. Speculation as to why this might be the case can be found at the fansite Winter Is Coming. This fansite is very active in posting the latest news on the new HBO series and this editor highly recommends it. There’s also a recent article that includes an image of Momoa as Khal Drogo entitled “MGoT update: Join the Dothraki horde.”
  • Michael Shanks, Lexa Doig, Steve Bacic – Filming has wrapped for Hangar 14. Shanks plays a bad guy, a Russian gangster named Demetrius, and Doig plays a SWAT team member along with Steve Bacic, Michael Jai White, and the movie’s star, former wrestler Steve Austin. Doig published a few pictures on her Twitter while on the set of the movie: “Me as SWAT chick” and “The Boys :).” Currently, IMDb lists Doig in her role, but not her husband Shanks! The storyline: “A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.”
  • Stargate Universe – Our Stargate Wiki now has all of the transcripts for the first half of Season Two. SGU will be returning to Syfy in the Spring, possibly early April 2011.

Stargate Universe Press

It should be noted that whenever spoilers come out for SGU, they are placed in the episode guides in the Stargate Wiki without much fanfare here in the News Blog. To keep on top of such updates, visit the main page of the Stargate Wiki to see the “Recent Updates” list of links.

Solutions News Blog Round-Up

Our News Blog posts since the last Stargate Planner (most recent listed first):

Solutions LJ Companion Background Articles

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

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.

Stargate Planner: Week of December 6-12

We’ll update this article if something comes to our attention during the week. Also, if you’ve got more to add, please don’t hesitate to announce them in the comment section below.

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Monday,   December 6 Today is Torri Higginson‘s birthday!
Tuesday,   December 7

Sky1/UK: SGU 2.10 “Resurgence” at 9 PM.

Lou Diamond Phillips‘s voice can be heard in the new release of the audiobook version of Tom Clancy’s Dead or Alive, the fourteenth book in the Jack Ryan series. Both the printed and audio versions of the book are being released today.
Wednesday, December 8
Thursday,   December 9

SGU Season One episode “Pain” on New Zealand’s Prime TV at 8:30 PM.

Today is Beau Bridges‘s birthday!
Friday,   December 10 See Michael Shanks, Alaina Huffman, and Britt Irvin in their superhero roles in the Smallville episode “Icarus” on The CW at 8 PM ET! (story).
Saturday, December 11 Today is Ben Browder‘s birthday!

The Gate to the Sanctuary event is in Sydney today. Guests include Amanda Tapping, Carmen Argenziano, Chuck Campbell, and Robin Dunne.

Sunday, December 12 The Gate to the Sanctuary event is in Melbourne today. Make sure to visit the website for the schedule.

News Notes

News Flashes and Brief Follow-Ups

Christopher Judge in SCI FI SERIES (Martin Firrell)
Christopher Judge in SCI FI SERIES (Martin Firrell)
  • Christopher Judge – Some of the latest tweets of artist Martin Firrell show that he’s interviewed Christopher Judge for his Sci Fi Series. The feature isn’t on the website yet, but Firrell teased the fans with a picture (right). He said, “Christopher judge – aka Teal’c – gorgeous interviewee – all of us in the studio in thrall to him. INDEED!” Firrell has previously done features with Joe Flanigan, Ben Browder, and David Nykl and is attempting to schedule interviews with Michael Shanks and Torri Higginson.
  • Joe Flanigan – Joe Flanigan‘s backdoor pilot Change of Plans will be premiering on FOX on January 8, 2011, and now there’s a new and not-yet-finished webpage that features the project. The link to this page has been added to Flanigan’s Beyond the Event Horizon page here at Solutions. (Thanks to wraithfodder for the tip.)

Stargate Universe Press

It should be noted that whenever spoilers come out for SGU, they are placed in the episode guides in the Stargate Wiki without much fanfare here in the News Blog. To keep on top of such updates, visit the main page of the Stargate Wiki to see the “Recent Updates” list of links.

Solutions News Blog Round-Up

Our News Blog posts since the last Stargate Planner (most recent listed first):

Solutions LJ Companion Background Articles

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

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.

Stargate Planner: Week of November 29-December 5

We’ll update this article if something comes to our attention during the week, so if you’ve got more to add, please don’t hesitate to announce them in the comment section below.

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Monday,   November 29
Tuesday,   November 30

Syfy: SGU 2.10 “Resurgence” at 9 PM ET, with a repeat at 11 PM.

Sky1/UK: SGU 2.09 “Visitation” at 9 PM.
Wednesday, December 1
Thursday,   December 2

SGU Season One episode on New Zealand’s Prime TV at 8:30 PM.
Friday,   December 3

Sci Fi/Australia: SGU 2.10 “Resurgence” at 8:30 PM.

Space/Canada: SGU 2.10 “Resurgence” at 10 PM ET.

Today is Rainbow Sun Francks‘s birthday! He’s currently shooting episodes of Canada’s The Listener as a new member of the cast in the show’s second season.
Saturday, December 4
Sunday, December 5 The Star Trek Cruise launches today, but unfortunately for their fans, Robert Picardo, John de Lancie, and Marina Sirtis all had to cancel due to work engagements.

News Notes

News Flashes and Brief Follow-Ups

Rachel Luttrell

  • Rachel Luttrell – She’s got a recurring role as a cop in Steven Seagal’s new show True Justice that’s shooting in Vancouver. At first we thought it was a single guest spot, but according to Luttrell herself in a recent interview at Demon’s FM, the role is recurring. We don’t know how many episodes she’ll be appearing in, but we’re hoping she’ll give us the heads-up once the show begins airing next year. Luttrell also said that her new romantic jazz CD will be coming out in time for Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2011).
  • Erick Avari – SciFi and TV Talk Blog: Stargate SG-1’s Erick Avari – Full Circle.

Stargate Universe Press

It should be noted that whenever spoilers come out for SGU, they are placed in the episode guides in the Stargate Wiki without much fanfare here in the News Blog. To keep on top of such updates, visit the main page of the Stargate Wiki to see the “Recent Updates” list of links.

Solutions News Blog Round-Up

Our News Blog posts since the last Stargate Planner (most recent listed first):

Solutions LJ Companion Background Articles

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

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.