News, spoilers and updates in the Stargate world
Now that we’ve been given all of the episodes for Season One of Stargate Universe, it’s time to select our favorites. Pick your Top 5 favorites from the poll below. You can visit this poll anytime by visiting our SGU Hiatus Page.
If you’re looking for polls for Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, visit our Polls Archive. These polls are from our 13-4-13 feature that we did at the start of this year, and the links to each article are included with the polls for the sake of completeness.
The Australian is reporting that the movie Arctic Blast, which stars Stargate‘s Michael Shanks, will be making its premiere in Australia in August. Here are the details:
THE Tasmanian film Arctic Blast will have its premiere at the fifth Canadian Film Festival in Sydney in August. The sci-fi action thriller, directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, is an Aussie-Canadian co-production starring Canadian Michael Shanks (Stargate SG-1) and Australia’s Indiana Evans, Alexandra Davies and Robert Mammone. The eco-thriller, about a solar eclipse blasting super-chilled air towards the Earth, is Trenchard-Smith’s first Australian film in more than a decade. “I am proud to have made a movie with a climatologist as the hero,” he says. “Shooting in Tasmania with a crew of young enthusiasts and fellow old lags was a blast, an Arctic blast in fact.” Sydney’s Canadian Film Festival runs from August 2 to 8.
Possible Worlds Blog, the go-to site for the Canadian Film Festival, reports that the movie will premiere Wednesday, August 4, at Dendy Opera Quays, 9/2 East Circular Quay, Sydney. The night’s festivities include “a welcome drink at 6:00pm, followed by the screening at 6:30pm. Tickets are $14 and available from Dendy Opera Quays from July 1st (phone 02 9247 3800 or visit www.dendy.com.au).”
The Official Stargate Magazine will cease publication after its September/October 2010 issue, its 36th, according to an announcement in the July/August issue of the magazine (see image at right). The glossy, color magazine is produced in London by the science fiction publisher Titan Magazines and has been released bi-monthly for nearly six years. The magazine started while Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis were still on the air, and now will be outlived by Stargate Universe.
Its issues have been rich in photos, interviews, analyses, retrospectives, and news, although much of the latter has repeated what was already available on-line.
Titan Magazines is part of Titan Publishing, and its sister company Titan Books publishes the Stargate novels. There is no word from the company on why the magazine’s run is ending. Given the current difficult market for print media and magazines in particular, the publication may be yet another victim of the economic times.
If we hear more, we’ll announce it here. Back orders of the magazine may be purchased here at Titan Magazines.
According to the announcement, Anderson will be in at least five episodes of the new series, which is due to premiere this fall and stars Sarah Shahi (Life) as Kate Reed, “a top-flight litigator who leaves her firm to become a mediator.” He’ll be playing David Smith, “a charismatic but secretive man who enters Kate’s life shortly after the death of her father. In short order, it is revealed that David has deeper connections to the Reed family.”
Co-stars include Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica), Virginia Williams (Monarch Cove), and Baron Vaughn (The Awkward Comedy Show).
The show began production on June 16 in Vancouver. There will be 11 episodes in addition to the 90-minute pilot. We don’t know which of these episodes RDA’s David Smith will appear in, but we’ll be sure to report on it when we do!
The movie is directed by Marcus Nispel and goes back to the original version of Conan the Barbarian established by his creator Robert E. Howard in his books. It now enters post-production and will be ready for release during the summer of 2011. According to IMDb, Conan is “the tale of Conan the Cimmerian and his adventures across the continent of Hyboria on a quest to avenge the murder of his father and the slaughter of his village.”
Momoa’s next project, as far as we know, is to reshoot scenes from the pilot of HBO’s new series Game of Thrones in Belfast due to the recasting of Daenerys Targaryen, Momoa’s character Khal Drogo’s wife in the story.
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. We’ll update this article if something comes to our attention during the week.
| Monday, June 21 | |
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| Thursday, June 24 | Stargate Universe “Water” on New Zealand’s Prime TV at 8:30 PM. |
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| Saturday, June 26 | Cyphan Con at the Westin Chicago North Shore in Wheeling, Illinois, started yesterday, June 25, but Stargate’s Jewel Staite is available only today. She’ll be giving photo ops from 11:30am-1:00pm and will be conducting her Q&A from 2:30pm-3:30pm, followed directly with an autograph session until 6:30pm. |
| Sunday, June 27 |
Stargate Universe press:
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:
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.
The following notice just appeared in executive producer Joseph Mallozzi’s Weblog:
A short and early blog entry today as I’m heading off to the first stop in Robert C. Cooper’s farewell victory tour. ”What’s that?” you say. You didn’t know he was leaving? Well, yes. Sad but true. His appearance at this year’s Comic Con panel will mark his final Stargate-related contribution, so if you happen to be in the San Diego area in late July, make sure to say goodbye and thank him for fourteen years and countless hours of gate-tastic entertainment. But, please – no tears. If you start crying it’ll only be a matter of time before he starts crying as well (the ole softy) and that’ll just embarrass him.
This notice is the first we’ve heard about Cooper’s departure, so we’ll have to keep our eyes open for more details as they become available. The San Diego Comic Con will be held July 22-25. Visit their website for more information about the schedule and panel configurations.
Cooper started with Stargate SG-1 in its first season and eventually became one of its executive producers and showrunners. He co-created Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe with Brad Wright and executive produced both shows as well. Make sure to read about him in our 13-4-13 Feature, as well as in our Stargate Wiki. For a complete history of articles that include Cooper, click on this link.
Now that the Season One finale of Stargate Universe has aired, we’re looking at a summer-long hiatus! What are you going to do? We’re inviting you to hang out with us here at Solutions at our new SGU Hiatus page!
The new page gives you dynamic SGU-related goodies, such as MGM’s official countdown and the feeds from three different sources close to Solutions’ heart: our News Blog, our LJ Companion, and the SGU Destiny LJ Community, which has strong ties to this editor.
We will continue to keep track of the actors and the production by monitoring the Internet, including executive producer Joseph Mallozzi’s weblog. Spoilers for Season Two episodes will be put in our Stargate Wiki, while we report news and other items of interest here in our News Blog or in our LJ Companion. There are some fun and games and other fannish things going on at the SGU Destiny LJ Community that you might like to join in on or keep track of, such as Caption This!, rewatches, fanfiction, and member artwork.
So, make sure to bookmark the new SGU Hiatus page and jump in!
NOTE: The page can be reached through the secondary menu above by clicking on “SGU”.
Okay, looks like the guest bloggers are coming up fast and furious. I’ve collected your questions for Jennifer Spence and will be sending them her way this weekend. Next up…
The lovely Louis Ferreira, SGU’s Colonel Everett Young, is looking forward to hearing from you. If you’ve got questions and comments for Destiny’s commander, start posting!
To submit your questions, do the following:
Mallozzi reviews all comments before they get posted, so it might take a little while for your entry to make it through.
The numbers for last Friday’s Stargate Universe episode “Incursion Part 2” have been added to our summary table below. Thanks go to Travis Yanan at pifeedback.com for the data this week:
Season One Viewer and Ratings Summary |
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| Episode | Rating/Share | Viewers in Millions | |||
| HH | 18-49 | Live+Same Day | Live+7 Days | ||
| Air (Parts 1 and 2) | 1.5/3 | 0.9/3 | 2.346 | 2.8 | |
| Air (Part 3) | 1.5/3 | 1.0/3 | 2.447 | 3.0 | |
| Darkness | 1.3/2 | 0.9/3 | 2.099 | 2.6 | |
| Light | 1.3/2 | 0.8/3 | 2.015 | 2.7 | |
| Water | 1.3/2 | 0.8/2 | 1.974 | 2.6 | |
| Earth | 1.1/2 | 0.7/2 | 1.626 | 2.3 | |
| Time | 1.1/2 | 0.7/2 | 1.802 | 2.5 | |
| Life | 1.2/2 | 0.8/3 | 1.891 | 2.4 | |
| Justice | 0.9/2 | 0.5/2 | 1.340 | 2.0 | |
| Space | 1.0/2 | 0.6/2 | 1.486 | 2.1 | |
| Divided | 1.0/2 | 0.6/2 | 1.600 | ||
| Faith | 0.9/2 | 0.5/2 | 1.422 | ||
| Human | 0.8/2 | 0.4/1 | 1.313 | ||
| Lost | 1.0/2 | 0.6/2 | 1.578 | ||
| Sabotage | 0.9/2 | 0.6/2 | 1.391 | ||
| Pain | 1.0/2 | 0.6/2 | 1.554 | ||
| Subversion | 1.0/2 | 0.5/2 | 1.454 | ||
| Incursion (Part 1) | 0.8/1 | 0.4/2 | 1.178 | ||
| Incursion (Part 2) | 1.0/2 | 0.5/2 | 1.469 | <<<< NEW DATA | |