SF Signal: Tube Bits For 11/03/07

Tube Bits For 11/03/07

The November 8th issue of TV Guide magazine will feature four different covers celebrating the comic influence Heroes. Each cover was designed and drawn by a comic book artist: Tim Sale, Jim Lee, Michael Turner, Phil Jimenez, and Dave Stewart. The actual artwork hasn't been released yet, but we'll e able to see the covers next week. Stay tuned.

I'm not sure whether to be giddy or just sad: Sci Fi Channel has a pirate fantasy movie in the works called Drake, and will star Adrian Paul and Temuera Morrison (that's the Highlander vs. Jango Fett for those scoring at home). Apparently, Paul's character is trying to find the Tree Of Life to save his daughter, and must fight the Spanish Armada, sea monsters, a mystical Persian sorceress, the legendary Norse God-creature the Nidhogg, and a Star Wars character. See what I mean? It's got pirates and it sounds interesting, but it's on Sci Fi. How many ways can they think of to make this blow? Aside from cheap SFX that is. Let's hope it turns out well.

Where do you go to find the lead character for the Knight Rider re-make? Why, All My Children of course! Justin Bruening is set to play Michael Knight's son in the reboot of the 80's talking car who secretly wants to be a Cylon series. Hasselhoff was also a soap star when he was tapped to be Michael Knight. Hopefully Bruening has a long singing career in Germany to look forward to.

Following on from recent MST3K news, I see that Frank Conniff (TV's Frank) has his own animated series called Cartoon Dump. Not to be outdone, Best Brains, the, err, brains behind MST3K are working on their own animated series featuring everyone's favorite set of robots on MST3K.com. Nice!

BuddyTV has a short look at the upcoming Sci Fi original movie Tin Man. Now, I want to like this, I really do. I like the ideas they have for the new version, but I am expecting Sci Fi to screw this up as well. Remember, the creative team behind the new Flash Gordon is also the team for Tin Man. Doesn't exactly instill confidence, does it?