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Sci-Fi Saturday (TV): Flash Forward, Heroes, BSG, Virtuality, Lost, Doctor Who + more
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Sci-Fi Saturday (TV): Flash Forward, Heroes, BSG, Virtuality, Lost, Doctor Who + more June 20, 2009 by Rosario T. Calabria , Filed under: Sci-Fi , trackback [image] Our weekly wrap up of TV news starts off with big updates and previews from the shows with ST09 stars, Heroes (with Zach Quinto) and Flash Forward (with John Cho). We also have details on Ron Moore’s BSG and Virtuality TV movies, news updates on Lost and Doctor Who and much more. TV NEWS FlashForward’s First Season Is Mapped Out Marc Guggenheim, executive producer of the upcoming ABC Sci-Fi drama "FlashForward", told SCI FI Wire that the series will tell a complete ...
"Virtuality" Promises Cynical Media Melodrama - In Space [Review]
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Virtuality is a reality-TV space opera and the newest television idea from Ron Moore, co-creator of the recent Battlestar Galactica reboot. But the show may never make it past the pilot that airs tonight. Is that really a loss? The setup for the show is immediately intriguing. The Phaeton is a spaceship on a ten-year voyage to the nearest star system with a habitable planet, in search of alien life. Its crew of 12 are funding the voyage by filming their adventures for reality TV, and their only escape from each other is into hyper-realistic virtual reality programs. So even as they try to capture the gritty ...
Briefing For Ron Moore’s ‘Virtuality’ TV Movie (and possible series Pilot) Airing Tonight
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Erik Jensen, who plays the ship’s engineer Dr. Jules Braun on the show, talks about virtual reality element of the show. [ SCI FI Wire ] Plus stars Siena Guillory (who plays Rika Goddard, the ship’s exobiologist) and Clea DuVall (Sue Parsons, the ship’s pilot) talk about the approach they took to portraying their characters. [ io9 ] Rounding out the interview links, The Futon Critic also conducted one with the cast and crew. Check it out here . The Emmy Award-winning crew behind "Battlestar Galactica" is involved in "Virtuality", and VFX supervisor Gary Hutzel talked about the VFX of the series with Airlock Alpha . Keeping ...
Virtuality: An interview with Michael Taylor
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Writer and co-creator of Virtuality, Michael Taylor was kind enough to sit down for a brief phone interview with me: Galactica Sitrep: What was your starting point for the idea/concept? What interested you the most about a long term space mission? Michael Taylor: It started with producers Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman. Lloyd had this idea for a space show about a long space mission, where the ship would whip around the sun and go off on a long voyage. In my back pocket I had an idea for a Mars Colony story. Lloyd then suggested Ron and get together to work on it. Ron came in and was fascinated with idea of what ...
