Sony Pictures Japan have invited 30 Stargate SG1 fans to view the Season 7 premiere at a Stargate Promo Event on 16 November. The fans will also have the opportunity to chat to writer/producter Joe Mallozzi, who will be visiting Japan for the occasion.
Further details at:
http://www.axn.co.jp/special/stargate7.html
AXN/Sony's official Stargate site is at:
http://www.axn.co.jp/stargate/
Tobias Mehler, best known to fans of Stargate SG-1 as Lieutenant Graham Simmons, has taken up the lead role of D'Artagnan in a new 22-episode television series based on the classic story of the Three Musketeers.
In Young Blades, currently filming in Canada, Mehler will be working alongside fellow Stargate SG-1 guest star Zak Santiago (Rogelio in 'Evolution') and Mark Hildreth (who voiced one of the characters in the cartoon Stargate: Infinity).
For more on this series, go here.
To celebrate the close of another highly successful year of Stargate SG-1 production, Legends Memorabilia are holding another of their spectacular props auctions.
Highlights include costumes worn on the show by Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping and Chris Judge, a 'working' TER from the episode 'Show and Tell' and a 3' section of the Stargate: Atlantis gate.
For more on the auction, go here, while the items currently for sale can be found here.
Nominees for the 31st annual People's Choice awards were announced Tuesday. The nominees were compiled by Entertainment Weekly, the People's Choice production team and pop culture fans. The public can choose the winners online.
CBS will broadcast the ceremony from 9-11 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 9. Live in the East, it will be delayed in the West. James Spader (Daniel Jackson from the Stargate Movie) and his series Boston Legal have both been nominated for awards:
Favourite new TV drama: Boston Legal, CSI: NY, Desperate Housewives, Jack and Bobby, Lost.
Favourite male TV star: Jason Bateman (Arrested Development); Zach Braff (Scrubs); Matthew Fox (Lost); Matt Le Blanc (Joey), James Spader (Boston Legal).
 | Stargate SG-1 regular director and writer Peter De Luise relives his younger days with commentaries on episodes of the newly-released season 1 21 Jump Street dvd set.
This long-awaited set features all 13 episodes of the first season, as well as interviews with fellow cast members Dustin Nguyen and Holly Robinson Peete, along with show creator Stephen J. Cannell. |
Stargate SG-1 The Official Magazine launches on October 26 in the US and October 28 in the UK! - Cover Price: $6.99 (US)/ $9.99 (Canada)
Below are some quotes from the Michael Shanks/Daniel Jackson interview (used with permission) --
Michael Shanks/Daniel Jackson
He reflects on how the SG-1 team has adjusted to life without Jack O’Neill in season eight: "What you have is three people who respect each other. Orders aren’t necessarily given, because the chain of command is kind of vague. The ranking military officer is going out [into the field] with a scientist and an alien. It’s very important that everyone on the team has to take control of [their] job. Everybody implicitly understands what the other’s role is and what the arguments will be. So it’s just about redefining the team."
He reveals that we are to find out more about his character’s missing year. "We talked about needing some closure, some sort of explanation about what that universe was like and what conversations happened between Daniel Jackson and Oma Desala and why he ended up being descended."
He talks about his co-star in upcoming episode Prometheus Unbound, Vala, played by Farscape actress Claudia Black. "Claudia and I had this wonderful push-pull dynamic between us, which had a lot of different layers to it."
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Stargate SG-1 star Michael Shanks' home town of Kamloops, British Columbia, currently has another link with the show: the widely-experienced genre actress Marie Stillin (who numbers appearances in The Outer Limits, Andromeda and The Lone Gunmen alongside her recurring Stargate role as Tollan leader High Chancellor Travell) is appearing there in a two-person play, Elisa's Skin.
For more on this, go here.
Stargate SG-1's Don S. Davis guest stars this week on Andromeda at 7pm ET/PT on The SciFi Channel in the US! The episode airing is The Eschatology Of Our Present -- While flying a cargo mission for Dylan, Beka picks up an enigmatic message from Virgil Vox, Seefra's resident DJ. Vox's clue leads to an encounter with a man who claims to be Beka's father. Check out the episode site here.
With the second part of the Stargate: Atlantis two-part premiere episode 'Rising' airing in the UK this week, the spin-off show garnered excellent ratings for Sky One - the first part of the episode, shown October 12, debuted to an impressive 1.18 million viewers, 898,000 tuning in this week to see part 2.
Whether the Atlantis ratings will be maintained remains to be seen - 916,000 viewers had tuned in for new season 8 Stargate SG-1 episode 'Lockdown', thus giving the 'old' show a ratings win over the newcomer in only its second week of airing.
Dion Johnstone, best known to fans of Stargate SG-1 as Chaka, has almost completed a 7-month stint on stage at the world-renowned Stratford festival in Canada and it was recently announced that in 2005, he'll be back for more.
Dion will stay with Shakespeare, moving from playing Iachimo in 'Cymbeline' and the Dauphin in 'King John' to turn his hand to comedy, as he takes on the major role of Orlando in 'As You Like It' for the 2005 season.
For more on the festival, go here, while Dion's official website can be found here.
 | The stars of Stargate SG-1 are featured on TV Guide once again, this time the Canadian version, in the cover feature for TV Guide's article entitled "SciFi - Just when you thought it was dead"... subheading "Stargate SG-1 & the other 5 top Sci-Fi shows". Canadian residents should look for this edition next week.
Thanks to Michael Shanks Online for the tip. |
"You have to place yourself into a parallel universe looking through the Stargate. There's that element of fantasy or pure denial of looking at what's right in front of you and making yourself believe something else. I think that crosses over between sci-fi roles."
Grace Park, best known to fans of Stargate SG-1 as Lieutenant Satterfield in the season 5 episode 'Proving Ground' talks with about.com about her role as Boomer in the new Battlestar Galactica series, being the rookie and the commonalities of sci fi shows.
For more of this interview, go here.
According to the website TV Shows on DVD, MacGyver is finally coming to DVD! They say "there are some high-speed plans for this show, starring the ever-popular Richard Dean Anderson. Look for that series to not only arrive on DVD in 2005, but to quickly hit a fast track and demand space on your shelves at home. Plans can always change (expect us to repeat that another dozen or so times), but you can potentially look for quarterly releases to arrive in January, April, August, and December." Read the entire article here.
German City Con have announced that Michael Shanks will now be replacing Amanda Tapping as part of their line-up for the upcoming convention in December 2004, in what looks like being his only convention appearance in Europe for the time being.
"Since Michael has become a parent himself a few weeks ago, he understands Amanda's situation better than anyone else. Michael did not plan to go to on conventions any time soon, but after talking the situation through with his family Michael decided that he wanted to do GCC 2004 for Amanda and the fans, who expected to see a member of SG-1," say the convention organisers.
For more on the convention, go here.
Hot on the heels of her appearance hosting the new Sci Fi Channel show Proof Positive, Amanda Tapping has announced more news - she and her husband are expecting a baby in March 2005!
Unfortunately this means Amanda's planned schedule of appearances at conventions in the UK, Germany and France over the next few months will be dramatically affected as she takes things easy on doctor's orders.
For more news on this, and a message from Amanda, go to her official site, here.
Everyone here at SDJ.com would like to congratulate Amanda, her husband and family on this great news and wish them all the best!
Why the frenzy over Farscape? Metromix.com has published an article about the upcoming SciFi Channel Farscape Miniseries, including a comment from Stargate SG-1's own executive producer Brad Wright:
"Ben Browder and [female lead] Claudia Black are terrific," "Stargate SG-1" executive producer Brad Wright said in an e-mail. "The show itself was always a mystery to me. I didn't get it. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance because I couldn't get past the muppet."
To read the entire article, go here.
 | A 2-hour dvd of the discussion panels with Stargate SG-1 stars Michael Shanks and Chris Judge, Stargate: Atlantis actors including Joe Flanigan, Torri Higginson and David Hewlett, and writer/producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper at the Comic Con 2004 convention is available now to pre-order from the MGM superstore. |
Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge and Teryl Rothery join a stellar line up of SciFi stars for the Grand Slam Summit March 11-13, 2005. For more information visit Creation Entertainment's website here.
Stills galleries, menus, clips and more can be found here.
The cast and crew of Andromeda celebrated the filming of their 100th episode on October 3rd at Sugar and Sugar in Vancouver, Canada. Fan favorite Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson) was in attendance with his wife, Lexa Doig, who portrays Andromeda on the show. Other actors well-known to Stargate fans were also in attendance, such as Brent Stait (Ferretti), Brandy Ledford (Zaren) and Steve Bacic (Camulus). Atlantis director David Winning also attended. You can view photos from the event here.
Thanks to Sue from the Our Stargate Forum for the tip!
The premiere of Boston Legal starring James Spader and William Shatner (and featuring another actor known to Stargate fans: Rene Auberjonois) dominated its 10 p.m. time slot with 13.8 million viewers overall and the No. 1 rating in the key 18-49 demographic, exceeding No. 2 "Crossing Jordan" on NBC by both measures.
By comparison, "The Practice" averaged 9.1 million viewers during its final season in the same time slot last year.
James Spader is also featured in Entertainment Weekly's special Celebrity Photo Edition this week. You can catch a glimpse of his full page spread online here.
Don't forget! Boston Legal, starring James Spader and William Shatner, premieres tonight on ABC in the United States at 10 pm ET. The Orlando City Beat says:
ABC's new Boston Legal is a spin-off of Kelley's The Practice, a somewhat successful show that ran out of juice a couple seasons before getting cancelled this past spring. Kelley's smart though. Two of the actors won 2004 Emmys for their oddball performances and those are the two starring in Boston Legal.
Emmy winner number one is James Spader (Secretary, Pretty in Pink). Spader plays Alan Shore, a lawyer who will step outside the ethical boundaries to win a case. Emmy winner number two is William Shatner (Star Trek), who plays Denny Crane, Shore's boss. He's either a brilliant tactician who likes to pretend he's nuts, or he's just nuts.
To read the rest of the article, go here.
You can read an interview with William Shatner by The Telegraph: Star's Trek Into Legal Drama.
Catch a review of the new show here. And another one from the Philadelphia Inquirer here.
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