SF Signal: Tube Bits for 04/23/2008

Tube Bits for 04/23/2008

It's been rumored, rumored and talked about, and now it's official. Fox has renewed The Sarah Connor Chronicles for another season. The order is for thirteen more episodes, that will air at date to be determined. For me, I thought the show was O.K., becoming annoying near the end.

Continuing their expansion into other media, the Sci Fi Channel and Virgin Comics have announced a second comic title to be released this summer: Superbia. It's billed as "the Justice League meets Wisteria Lane", which I'm not sure is a selling point.

Stephanie Foster of Mister Article looks at the state of science fiction television and pronounces it 'amazing'. I wouldn't go that far, although Fox is loading up on the SF series for next season. I do, however, agree with the observation that getting people to recognize their favorite show is, or has elemenst of, science fiction meets strenuous resistence. When LOST aired the recent Desmond time travel episode, many people hated it because the SF elements were so overt, instead of in the background. Sigh.

Thanks to the New York Comic Con, we now know that the live action Star Wars TV show is scheduled to air in 2010. It will focus on the "greasy, seamy underbelly of Star Wars." And no, that doesn't mean Lucas' stomach after a roll in his pile of dough from the prequel movies. Cautiously optimistic here.

Well well, looks like we have a new SF disaster flick in the works, called Impact. Disaster refers to the genre, not the quality of the show. Of course, since it's a 4-hour mini-series for an unnamed cable channel, you may think it does reflect on the quality. But then there's this, the moon is hit by a piece of a brown dwarf which "triggers a series of anomalies on Earth, including cell phone service interruption, exaggerated tides and the occurrence of sporadic weightlessness." WTF? I think disaster is right on the money.

The AV Club takes a look at 16 unanswered TV questions. Alf, Mork and Mindy, Journeyman and other SF shows make the list.

Some tasty LOST info from the New York ComicCon: Lindeloff and Cuse, the exec producers, told the audience that the last scene has already been determined, that season 5 will premier at the end of January 2009! (you bastages!) and that the Orchid Training Video show at last year's San Diego Comic-Con will play a large role in the season finale for this year. Which means I'm expecting a mind blowing, time travel episode of epic proportions. Of course, LOST begins it's push to that finale this Thursday at 10pm ET.

Fast Company magazine has posted a very cool article called Rebel Alliance: How a small band of sci-fi geeks is leading Hollywood into a new era. Tim Kring, Damon Lindelof and Jesse Alexander are interviewed, and Joss Whedon is name dropped. But are they really leading Hollywood into a 'good SF' new era?

The script for Joss Whedon's highly anticipate new series, Dollhouse, has been leaked to a choice few. The verdict: awesome. Not really knowing either of those critics involved, I can't comment on their opinions. I can say, however, that if Whedon is involved, I expect great characters and stellar dialog.