{"id":3493,"date":"2009-04-23T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T03:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T01:15:03","slug":"catching-up-with-michael-shanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/catching-up-with-michael-shanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up with Michael Shanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelshanks-online.com\/news\/index.shtml\">MSOL<\/a>, the official website of <em>Stargate<\/em> star Michael Shanks, has closed their <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/04\/ask-michael-shanks-your-questions\/\">fan Q&amp;A form<\/a>. The site administrators are now busy collating and sorting all of the questions, and then they&#8217;ll send them to Shanks for his answers. While we&#8217;re waiting, the actor&#8217;s many international fans will get to see his recent work on television or visit with the actor himself as he makes his next personal appearances.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Desperate Escape\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/desperateescape.jpg\" alt=\"Desperate Escape\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fans in Canada will be treated to the television premiere of <em>Desperate Escape<\/em>, the movie in which Shanks co-stars with Elisabeth Rohm. The film will be shown on The Movie Network tomorrow, April 24, at 7 PM with a repeat on Tuesday, April 28, at 10 PM. Make sure to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themovienetwork.ca\/details\/?49337\">the network&#8217;s website<\/a> for additional airing times.<\/p>\n<p>The synopsis: &#8220;Taken to the hospital unconscious, a woman wakens with amnesia, unsure if the man who claims to be her husband is really him; desperate to discover clues to her life, she uncovers her alleged husband&#8217;s dark secret.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Living Out Loud\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/livingoutloud.jpg\" alt=\"Living Out Loud\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Next weekend, fans in the US will get to see Shanks in the television premiere of the Hallmark Channel movie <em>Living Out Loud<\/em>. A very nice review of his performance was posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifitalk.com\/profiles\/blogs\/michael-shanks-gives-solid\">Sci Fi Talk&#8217;s Tony Tellado<\/a>, who has interviewed Shanks several times concerning his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson (as a matter of fact, there&#8217;s an upcoming audio interview on April 28 at 10 AM).<\/p>\n<p>Tellado has stated that he&#8217;s a fan of the actor&#8217;s work and provided this review of his performance in the film about a wife and mother who is diagnosed with breast cancer and the impact this trauma has on her family [beware: movie details]: &#8220;Michael Shanks plays her husband, Brad who is a work-aholic who has to make difficult choices due to her illness. Michael rose to the occasion and credit him for taking this supporting role. I liked his character&#8217;s journey and how he played it out for us. Michael embodied his character with humanity and empathy, as a husband who shows shock, frustration, and stands by his wife by making a career decision. Michael made him a very real human being. Their love story is also central to this movie and the changes that they have to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The movie premieres on the Hallmark Channel next Saturday, May 2, at 9 PM (Eastern), or you can catch the repeats on May 8 at 9 PM or on May 17 at 9 PM. The film&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hallmarkchannel.com\/publish\/consumer\/home\/shows\/living_out_loud.html\">website<\/a> has more on the production, including video interviews with the stars!<\/p>\n<p>During the weekend of May 9, we&#8217;ll know if Shanks has won a Canadian <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/04\/stargate-garners-many-leo-nominations\/\">Leo Award<\/a> in the category of Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama for his work in Brad Wright&#8217;s <a href=\"\/wiki\/Stargate:_Continuum\"><em>Stargate: Continuum<\/em><\/a>. Hopefully, the actor will be present at the award ceremony to personally receive his well-earned recognition! And speaking of personal appearances, if you haven&#8217;t already done so, make sure to stop by <a href=\"\/features\/creation_vancouver_09.shtml\">Michelle&#8217;s Vancouver Con Report<\/a> to find out more about Shanks&#8217; role in the CBS pilot <em>The Eastmans<\/em> in which he had his third paramedic role. The report also includes a <a href=\"\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=25\">Photo Gallery<\/a> of Shanks and his fellow Stargate cast-mates.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/stargateactorappearances.blogspot.com\/\">Stargate Actor Appearances<\/a>, Shanks&#8217; next public appearance will be for all his UK fans at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com\/\">London Film and Comic Con<\/a> from July 18 to 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSOL, the official website of Stargate star Michael Shanks, has closed their fan Q&amp;A form. The site administrators are now busy collating and sorting all of the questions, and then they&#8217;ll send them to Shanks for his answers. While we&#8217;re waiting, the actor&#8217;s many international fans will get to see his recent work on television &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/catching-up-with-michael-shanks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching Up with Michael Shanks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-sg-1","tag-michael-shanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7517,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/7517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}