Claudia Black

Video: SG Actors Talk About "200"

Sci Fi Channel has put up short (several minute) videos of much of the cast of SG-1 talking about their experiences shooting the show that has lasted 200+ episodes. The interviews were filmed at the recent TV Critics Association party. Michael Shanks, Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Chris Judge, and Claudia Black all gave interviews. Michael gave a few spoilers: a mild one is that his 1-yr old daughter Mia will be in a Season 10 episode.

To view the videos, visit Sci Fi Stargate Video.

Thanks to SueB at Our Stargate for the tip!

Shanks on Season 9 and Claudia Black

Someone has added a video interview with Michael Shanks to YouTube.com. It’s not clear where the interview was first broadcast, though it seems to have been conducted early in SG-1 Season 10 filming, for an audience that hasn’t seen Season 9 yet. Michael talks about how much he enjoys working with Claudia Black, why he liked the first five episodes of Season 9 so much and the cast’s adjustment to Richard Dean Anderson being gone. You can view the interview here:

Part 1
Part 2

There aren’t any spoilers for Season 10 in the interview.

2006 SyFy Portal Genre Award Nominations

Nominations

BEST ACTOR/Television
Ben Browder, “Stargate SG-1”
Christopher Eccleston, “Doctor Who”
Nathan Fillion, “Firefly”
Matthew Fox, “Lost”
Edward James Olmos, “Battlestar Galactica”

BEST ACTRESS/Television
Caroline Dhavernas, “Wonderfalls”
Jennifer Love Hewitt, “Ghost Whisperer”
Evangeline Lilly, “Lost”
Mary McDonnell, “Battlestar Galactica”
Billie Piper, “Doctor Who”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR/Television
Adam Baldwin, “Firefly”
Jamie Bamber, “Battlestar Galactica”
James Callis, “Battlestar Galactica”
Terry O’Quinn, “Lost”
Michael Shanks, “Stargate SG-1”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS/Television
Amy Acker, “Alias”
Tricia Helfer, “Battlestar Galactica”
Rachel Luttrell, “Stargate: Atlantis”
Grace Park, “Battlestar Galactica”
Katee Sackhoff, “Battlestar Galactica”

BEST ACTOR/Movie
Christian Bale, “Batman Begins”
Nathan Fillion, “Serenity”
Daniel Radcliffe, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
Mickey Rourke, “Sin City”
Hugo Weaving, “V for Vendetta”

BEST ACTRESS/Movie
Zooey Deschanel, “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
Summer Glau, “Serenity”
Natalie Portman, “V for Vendetta”
Gina Torres, “Serenity”
Emma Watson, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR
Dakota Fanning, “War of the Worlds”
Carter Jenkins, “Surface”
Malcolm David Kelly, “Lost”
Daniel Radcliffe, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
Emma Watson, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

BEST WEB SITE
Bloody Disgusting
GateWorld
Kryptonsite
SciFi Wire
Whedonesque

BEST SPECIAL GUEST/Television
Claudia Black, “Avalon, Part 1,” Stargate SG-1
Michelle Forbes, “Pegasus,” Battlestar Galactica
Kelsey Grammer, “Death Takes a Holiday,” Medium
Christina Hendricks, “Trash,” Firefly
Connor Trinneer, “Michael,” Stargate: Atlantis

BEST EPISODE/Television
“Dalek,” Doctor Who
“Downloaded,” Battlestar Galactica
“Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2,” Battlestar Galactica
“Scar,” Battlestar Galactica
“Trash,” Firefly

BEST SERIES/Television
Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Firefly
Lost
Wonderfalls

BEST MOVIE
Batman Begins
Chronicles of Narnia
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Serenity
V for Vendetta

GENE RODDENBERRY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDJ.J. Abrams, producer/writer
Gene Coon, producer
Dan Curtis, producer
Stan Lee, comic book creator
Ronald D. Moore, producer/writer
William Shatner, actor

http://www.syfyportal.com/

From Mike at SyFy Portal

Hello, everyone!

This is very unfortunate because we cannot post this on our own site since we’re still trying to recover from the hack, but I’m releasing the SyFy Genre Awards nominees for 2006.

Please note that the voting is expected to start June 25 and last until July 25. However, because of the site hack and the fact that our programmer Leigh Ashton has been concentrating on getting us back online instead of devoting time he had scheduled to get the nomination forms up, a possibility remains that we may have to delay the start of voting.

I can assure you that Leigh is working very hard around the clock to try and get everything back up among all the other things that also have him occupied on his schedule. We know he will do his very best to get this back up.

This was going to come with some trivia notes about the Genre Awards and such, which we included in our all-staff posting. However, in trying to correct the hack, we did a system restore, which cost us several message board posts, including that one. So, I apologize for the lack of trivia.

We will keep everyone updated on when voting begins. But in the meantime, spread the news far and wide who’s been nominated!

For more details on the SyFy Genre Awards including past winners, click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyFy_Genre_Awards

[Thanks to Sueb45 for posting at Our Stargate.]

Winners of Saturn Awards Announced

32nd Annual Saturn Award winners announced May 2

Battlestar Galactica took home the Saturns for two of the categories in which Stargate had nominations: Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series and Best Supporting Actress on Television (Claudia Black was nominated, but Katee Sackhoff won).

Ben Browder was nominated for Best Actor on Television, but the award went to Matthew Fox of Lost.

To see the rundown of the winners, visit SCI FI Wire

Ten New Interviews Excerpted

We’ve extracted excerpts of ten recent interviews of SG-1 cast and crew, past and present, from the Stargate Official Magazine. Here are direct links to each:

Daniel Dares
Judge for Yourself
Got Carter
Creating Cameron
Vala Unveiled
Taking a Beau
Fraiser’s Unfaded
Noble Prize
Sha’re Shares
The Write Director

Enjoy, and be sure to pick up the March/April 06 Official Magazine Yearbook from Titan Magazines, which has the full interviews and many exclusive photos.

Sci Fi Monday Night Snippets

The theme of April 17th’s Sci Fi SG-1 marathon was “Those Darned Russians”; it featured four eps with Jack’s favorite comrades. Once again, there were interview snippets interspersed through the episodes. Thanks once more to Elyse from SG1_spoilme, here are the transcripts of those mini-interviews.

Chris Judge

Early on in the show’s run, we didn’t get to see a lot of the concept drawings, so the director would say ‘there’s a big ship, a BIG huge ship,’ so what you imagine is like a big ship, but we would see the final cut and it would be MONSTROUS. It would eclipse the horizon and so we learned early on, we had to kind of imagine bigger and better and I think that made us better as actors.

I think Richard Dean Anderson is so specifically identified with the show that, you know, when I said I was coming to join the cast of Stargate, they’d say ‘oh, the one with Richard Dean Anderson,’ and to turn up and have him not be here, it’s kind of weird, and even more peculiar to have Ben [Browder] in his place, for want of a better word, but he is someone as an actor and a character who can’t ever really be replaced.

Michael Shanks

God, we had one great location which was the sand dunes of Richmond which gave us this whole otherworldly feel, gave us back to our grassroots of the original Stargate movie, has unfortunately been developed. We’ve been doing the show so long we’ve actually watched the city grow over our locations that we started off in. The GVRD – which was our go-to place which is the Greater Vancouver Regional District Water Reservoir – and that’s gone by the wayside too, so we’re kind of running out – it’s odd to say in British Columbia – we’re running out of forest to shoot in.

Amanda Tapping

I love it when it’s the four of us going off, wreaking havoc in the universe. And all of our little idiosyncrancies and dysfunctions coming together in, you know, a crisis moment and how we deal with it, how the interpersonal relationships play. I love it when there’s an episode about all four of us. Those are kind of my favorite stories. Of course now it will be all five of us. Six, if you count Beau. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger…

Sci Fi Monday Snippets

Tonight’s theme seemed to be “episodes graced by the presence of Harry Maybourne,” but the interspersed interviews with the cast didn’t really touch on that. Here is a transcript of the snippets, with grateful thanks to Elyse of sg1_spoilme for writing them and giving us permission to use them.

Ben Browder

“Directors are like your children. You love them all equally, plus Andy Mikita? He’s da man! (grins) Andy Mikita directed the first episode that I did in Stargate so he has a very special place in my heart. And then Will, and Peter (Deluise). The relationship between an actor and a director is sometimes really quick. They come in, and they go, and then they come back again. You’re constantly dating new directors… Did I just say that out loud?” (laughs)

Claudia Black

“I really liked watching the Earth-based episodes on Stargate. I know what it’s like when they always go out on location and they’re in another forest… you know it’s another forest planet. And you know the trials and tribulations of finding unique locations. I don’t know if it’s because I personally have spent a few years working on another show (Farscape) in an alien environment but I’ll just be looking for the episodes that allow me to explore that more.”

Stargate Atlantis (Season 3 Sneak-Peak)

[visual: Dex from a flashback; director’s board, gate opening, director’s board, wraith in gray dingy complex, Atlantis rising SCIFI SNEAK PEAK, then…]

Announcer: “And now, an exclusive SciFi Channel sneak peek at an all new season of Stargate Atlantis”

Joe Flanigan: “We did just finish an episode that was pretty big.”

[visual: Sheppard aboard Daedalus, explosions, cut to Dex in new scene, firing guns with both hands, flinging himself across room.]

Jason Momoa: “My character was beating the **** out of everyone.”

[Teyla stickfighting with Michael from “Michael”, cut to scene of Wraith henchmen walking through village]

Rachel Luttrell: “Martial arts, different fighting technique…”

David Hewlett: “We’ve, like, blown up everything.”

Torri Higginson, but as WEIR: “Apparently he’s found something of interest.”

Joe Flanigan: It’s about as big as an episode as we shoot.

Announcer: Stargate Atlantis. New episodes return this July. Part of an all new SciFi Friday.

Michael Shanks

“I strongly believe that the success of the show has been about good storytelling and the chemistry of the original cast, and it’s never going to be the same as the original group but we don’t want it to be. That was it’s own puritanical, wonderful thing. And this group – what is the most important thing is the audience needs to care about these people – if they don’t, then all the explosions and things blowing up is for naught. I mean these people are in jeopardy; you really have to worry ‘are they going make it?’ because I care about them, and the characters care about each other, then the audience will too.”

Beau Bridges

“I think what’s remarkable as a newcomer sort of on their team is they’re very relaxed as performers and comfortable in the skin of their characters. Through that relaxation you get a lot of sort of surprises, which I think is good. The guy who keeps us laughing, of course, is Chris Judge. Sometimes it’s hard to get down to the serious job of killing aliens when Chris starts fooling around, but he’s a professional, and we have a good time on the set.”

Shipper Monday: What Does It Mean?

U.S. Sci Fi Channel viewers were treated to (or subjected to, depending on your point of view) a “Shipper Themed Four-Play” for the SG-1 marathon on Monday April 3. Sci Fi showed four shippy episodes; interspersed through them were short interviews with the cast about the Jack/Sam ship or ship in general, with relevant scenes flashing on the screen under the voiceover.

Thanks to Elyse at the sg1_spoilme group, we have transcriptions of each of the actor’s answers to the “Jack/Sam ship” question:

Amanda Tapping

“Initially I thought it was kind of fun to play, and then I started to resent it because I didn’t want Sam to ‘the girl’ pining for ‘the guy’ and make it about that where it got in the way of what an incredible, strong and smart and savvy character she was. Obviously there’s a huge attraction between the two characters so now that the commanding officer is not in her direct chain of command, she can… maybe she can have some with him.” (big grin)

Ben Browder

“Shippers seem to exist for every show. Short for relationshippers, so, that raises the O’Neill-Carter question. I think that one of the great things about doing television is you can deviate away from just action, just talking and you know you also have the personal interaction, the romance, which can go on at the same time. I love that, but I don’t know whether we’re going to be seeing any out of Mitchell this year.”

Claudia Black

“Do you give the fans everything they’ve been asking for and everything they wanted and will they be satisfied? Obviously I haven’t been here personally to follow and track the potential relationship between O’Neill and Sam Carter, so the general rule is that the minute the characters consummate their unresolved sexual tension, it’s resolved… if television revolves around drama, you’ve lost your tension and your drama right there, so it’s tricky to keep that spark.”

Chris Judge

“For all you shippers out there. I find it interesting, because I don’t think Teal’c actually realized that Sam was a woman until like Season Four, so the whole relationship between Sam and Jack I think was lost on Teal’c. I think Teal’c is fairly confident that he’s going to wind up with Jack in the end. Wouldn’t that be funny? Wouldn’t that be funny for episode 300 that Teal’c and Jack get married? And produce a symbiote?” (lots of laughter).

We can only hope this particular theme is not a portent of things to come in Season 10, but, coupled with Ms. Tapping’s encouragement of shippers at the recent Creation Convention in Vancouver, it seems the writing is on the screen. We look forward to other upcoming “Themed Four-Play” Mondays; it can only get better from here.

32nd Annual Saturn Award Nominations

New names represent Stargate SG-1

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror films has announced the nominations for the 32nd Annual Saturn Awards on their website.

In the television categories, “Lost” and “Smallville” received a total of six nominations each. “Battlestar Galactica” garnered four nominations while “Stargate SG-1” and “The Triangle” received three nominations each. “Stargate Atlantis” received one nomination.

BEST SYNDICATED / CABLE TELEVISION SERIES
Battlestar Galactica
The Closer
The 4400
Nip / Tuck
Stargate: Atlantis
Stargate SG-1

BEST ACTOR ON TELEVISION
Ben Browder (“Stargate SG-1”)
William Fichtner (“Invasion”)
Matthew Fox (“Lost”)
Julian McMahon (“Nip / Tuck”)
Wentworth Miller (“Prison Break”)
Tom Welling (“Smallville”)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ON TELEVISION
Catherine Bell (“The Triangle”)
Claudia Black (“Stargate SG-1”)
Erica Durance (“Smallville”)
Allison Mack (“Smallville”)
Michelle Rodriguez (“Lost”)
Katee Sackhoff (“Battlestar Galactica”)

The Academy was founded in 1972 to honor and recognize genre filmmaking. Over the years, the Academy has expanded their reach to include other film genres. The organization also honors television, home entertainment and video games. Robert Holguin currently serves as President of the 34-year-old organization.

The Saturn Awards honor the most popular and successful film releases of the year. The genre film continues to dominate and control the box office with its imaginative and creative stories. These films are the crowd pleasers.

This year’s show will be hosted by top comedian Jeffrey Ross. The show will take place on May 2 in Universal City.

Browder and Black Together Again

Browder and Black in their SG-1 roles SG-1’s Browder Back With Black
SciFi Wire

SciFi Wire has published an interview with Ben Browder (Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell) in which Browder welcomes the return of Claudia Black to her role as Vala Mal Doran in SG-1‘s record-breaking tenth season which will start filming in the third week of February. Browder talks about his time as John Crichton on Farscape and determines who would win in a fight if his and Black’s characters from both shows were to meet. As far as Black’s return, Browder stated, “Anybody who has Claudia Black on their show, I think, is a very intelligent producer.”

Read the full article at SciFi Wire.

[Thanks to Sueb45 for the tip — DeeKayP]