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For the 15th anniversary of the "Battlestar Galactica" finale, I spoke with several of the show's writers and actors for an inside look at how it reached that conclusion. One of them was David Eick, the series' co-creator (with Ronald D. Moore). I asked the man who resurrected "Galactica" out of its campy 1970s roots why attempts to keep the franchise going faltered.

You see, "Battlestar" hadn't even been finished a year when a prequel spin-off debuted: "Caprica," an ensemble drama set more than 50 years before the series on the eponymous planet (one of the 12 colonies razed by the robotic Cylons at the outset of "Battlestar Galactica"). The series debuted in January 2010 and wrapped that November after a single, 19-episode first season -- its planned multi-year run aborted by low ratings.

Next, Eick and co. pivoted with "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome," a second prequel (but after "Caprica") set during the first human/Cylon war.

Barbie, the iconic fashion doll, has donned countless roles since her inception in 1959. From pilot to president, there’s little she hasn’t conquered. But beyond the confines of plastic and playrooms, Barbie ventured into the world of film, delighting audiences of all ages. While each movie has its charm, some shine brighter in viewers’ eyes. Based on popular opinion, this article unveils the top 10 Barbie movies in ranking order, offering fans a guided journey through Barbie’s most acclaimed cinematic adventures.

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Perfect for newcomers and seasoned fans alike, this list will rekindle fond memories and perhaps introduce you to a gem you might have missed. Dive in and let the magic of Barbie’s filmography sweep you away!

When you’re done, check out our complete list of all the Barbie movies in chronological order below.

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Peacock has ordered Supernatural Academy, a YA animated fantasy series adaptation of Jaymin Eve’s The Supernatural Academy books. The project was developed and written by Gillian Horvath and hails from executive producer Allen Bohbot and 41 Entertainment.

Supernatural Academy chronicles an otherworldly adventure of sisters marked at birth. One twin sister was raised in the Supernatural world, confident and popular. The other was raised in the human world, an offbeat outsider. Now they’re about to be reunited at the Supernatural Academy, and neither one of them is thrilled about it. These adversarial twins will have to learn to get over their differences and trust each other in order to save themselves – and save the world.

Set to premiere Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, Supernatural Academy features Larissa Dias (Supernatural), Gigi Saul Guerrero (Marvel Super Hero Adventures), Vincent Tong (Ninjago), Cardi Wong (Supergirl) and Shannon Chan-Kent (Good Trouble). Bethany Brown (Charmed), Brian Drummond...

The animated series adaptation of “The Supernatural Academy” books by Jaymin Eve has been ordered at Peacock, Variety has learned exclusively.

Variety originally reported the series was in the works from 41 Entertainment back in October 2019. The half-hour series will debut on Peacock on Jan. 20, 2022. The first season will consist of 16 episodes.

Like the books, the show chronicles an otherworldly adventure of sisters marked at birth. One twin sister was raised in the Supernatural world, confident and popular. The other was raised in the human world, an offbeat outsider. Now they’re about to be reunited at the Supernatural Academy, and neither one of them is thrilled about it. These adversarial twins will have to learn to get over their differences and trust each other in order to save themselves and save the world.

“It is so incredible to see my original story come to life in this high-quality animation project,...

Maid Trailer — Netflix‘s Maid (2021) TV mini-series teaser trailer has been released. The Maid trailer stars Margaret Qualley, Billy Burke, Andie MacDowell, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Tracy Vilar, Rylea Nevaeh Whittet, Bj Harrison, Erin Karpluk, Toby Levins, Alessandro Juliani, Hilaria Larriva, and Mozhan Marno. Crew John Wells, Helen Shaver, Nzingha Stewart, [...]

Continue reading: Maid (2021) TV Mini-series Trailer: Struggling Mom Margaret Qualley Cleans Houses While Chasing the American Dream [Netflix]...

This Supernatural review contains spoilers.

Supernatural Season 15, Episode 17

Only three episodes left after this, which means this episode had some serious ground to cover.

The episodes in this Covid-19-delayed portion of the season had thus far felt a little filler-ish. There was some character building and emotional admissions that made it all worthwhile, but still felt like we were holding back from really digging into the meat of what this season is all about — stopping Chuck. At least that changed by the end of the previous episode when Sam and Dean argued over Jack’s role in stopping Chuck, and the pressure was on when they found that their world was next on Chuck’s To Do list.

This episode, “Unity,” felt like we really hit Supernatural’s stride for the lead-in to the end. In a unique format for Supernatural, the episode is divided amongst the major players,...

Netflix is not renewing science fiction drama series “Away” for a second season, Variety has confirmed. The cancellation comes just six weeks after the show’s first season was released on Sept. 4.

“Away” stars Hilary Swank as astronaut Emma Green, who leads the first crewed expedition to Mars aboard the spaceship “Atlas,” called the Mars Joint Initiative. Green leads an international crew with members from China, Russia, India and the U.K who are all experts in the field. Tension rises within the crew when some members do not trust Green’s leadership after her response to a problem at the start of the mission. Its first season consisted of 10 episodes.

Besides Swank, main cast members include Josh Charles, Vivian Wu, Mark Ivanir, Ato Essandoh, Ray Panthaki and Talitha Bateman. Recurring cast members are Monique Gabriela Curnen, Michael Patrick Thornton, Martin Cummins, Gabrielle Rose, Brian Markinson, Fiona Fu, Nadia Hatta,...

As The 100 nears the end of its seven-season run, the creator and executive producer Jason Rothenberg was joined by cast members Marie Avgeropoulos, Lindsey Morgan, Richard Harmon, Tasya Teles, Shannon Kook, Jr Bourne and Shelby Flannery in a pre-taped panel for Comic-Con@Home to reflect about their time on the CW sci-fi series. In addition to that, Rothenberg gave audiences some vague hints about the backdoor prequel pilot to the series which aired earlier this month.

“We definitely started the season wanting to make sure we didn’t leave anything on the field,” said Rothenberg about wrapping up seven seasons. He added that he recognizes the series leaves a lot of unanswered questions throughout the seasons that he wanted to answer and said that the prequel episode helped “fill in a lot of the blanks”. For example, he pointed out that the episode addressed why the bunker was empty...

Some of The 100 cast and showrunner Jason Rothenberg took place in a pre-recorded panel today for Comic Con at Home in which they chatted about the legacy of this show and what to expect from the latter half of the show’s final season.

“We definitely started this season wanting to make sure we didn’t leave anything on the field, meaning there were certain unanswered questions over the seasons that we wanted to answer,” said showrunner Rothenberg about the plan heading into the seventh season. “And since I know people are seeing this after I think maybe the first 10 episodes have aired, you already have seen the prequel so you know that that episode kind of fills in a lot of blanks. Why was the bunker empty when they opened it in Season 4 just being one sort of question that I always had and we needed to answer this year.

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 1 of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”]

A love of horror runs in series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s blood, and it comes out in “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” his dark take on the classic Archie Comics title “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” In adapting his comic book for Netflix, he discussed some of those horror influences with Lee Toland Krieger, who would be setting the tone of the series by directing the first two episodes.

“He arranged a screening of clips from some of our favorite movies,” Aguirre-Sacasa said. “The three great witch movies are ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ Dario Argento’s ‘Suspiria,’ and Robert Eggers’ movie ‘The Witch,’ that came out a few years ago. And then even more recently, Ti West’s movie, ‘House of the Devil,’ and Oz Perkins’ ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter,’ starring Kiernan [Shipka] actually. In terms of devil movies, we talked about ‘The Omen,’ we talked about ‘The Exorcist,’ the...

Refusing to monkey around with its children's programming slate, Netflix has renewed the animated Kong: King of the Apes TV show for a second season. Will Kong, Lukas and their team save Earth from Botila's plans to replace nature with technology? Find out in 2017, when season two drops to Netflix. The first season premiered in April 2016.

From Executive Producer Avi Arad, the Kong: King of the Apes TV series is set in 2050. Netflix says Kong is still the strongest creature ever born with human traits that make him the ultimate iconic hero. The Kong: King of the Apes voice cast includes: Lee Tockar, Shannon Chan-Kent, Sam Vincent, Kathleen Barr, Alessandro Juliani, Viv Leacock, Tabith St. Germain, and Vincent Trong.

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If you’ve watched TV in the past 10 years, chances are you know Bear McCreary’s music. He’s become one of the most (if not the most) sought-after and prolific composers in television, ever since he came into his own writing the boundary-pushing score for the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. He counts The Walking Dead, Outlander, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. among his credits. And this March theater-goers got to experience his music with a big screen presentation; he composed the chilling and thrilling score for J.J. Abrams’ 10 Cloverfield Lane. Today McCreary is juggling so many projects that he can’t count all his current TV shows and movies and video games — “I can’t even tell. I honestly don’t even know,” how many projects he’s in the midst of, he said during an interview at Cafe Laurent in Culver City, CA. The...

"You are responsible!" blares a sign posted on a side street in West Philadelphia. Seconds later, a fire hose blasts the message away. How's that for emphasis? It's a perfect note on which to begin "Home Again," the fourth episode of the X-Files miniseries, which is unapologetically blunt with its themes and emotions. Written and directed by co-executive producer Glen Morgan — who, along with James Wong, penned many of the original series' strongest installments — this is a story soaked in blood, sweat, and tears.Let's start with blood. Joseph Cutler (Alessandro Juliani) is a mid-level bureaucrat in the City of Brotherly Love, tasked with rounding up homeless people to make way for gentrification. He's the kind of unsympathetic pencil pusher who might as well have "Just doin' my job" tattooed on his forehead. But surely even he doesn't deserve the punishment meted out in the episode's tense and atmospheric...

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Dorian's emotional side gets the better of him in this week's Almost Human...

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1.7 Simon Says

Early on in this episode my hopes got raised that we’d be getting to the real reason that the Drn series was discontinued, but that wasn’t the case.

However, that didn’t make the outbursts from Dorian any less entertaining, as he suffers wild mood swings having not been given a full recharge.

Michael Ealy has been enjoying himself as Dorian, and this continues unabashed as he takes his character in some obtuse directions in scenes that could so easily have been unscripted.

Between the wilder side of the Drn series, we’ve got a longer plot arc about Dorian wanting to live outside the Police precinct, and a narrative that’s borrowed directly from the Keanu classic Speed (1994). All that’s missing...

Detective Kennex will struggle not to lose his head when Fox’s Almost Human tonight at 8/7c deals with a decapitation-happy bomber — and TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek.

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In the episode “Simon Says,” Kennex and Dorian investigate Simon (Prisoners‘ David Dastmalchian), a psychopath who straps bombs to his victims’ necks and then live-streams their final moments as some sort of macabre reality show. As seen in the featurette below — which features interviews with series stars Karl Urban and Michael Ealy, among others — Kennex himself may very well fall prey to Simon’s sick scheme.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Dexter, Falling Skies, Major Crimes and The Colbert Report!

1 | Anyone else relieved that the in-the-works Dexter spin-off will not revolve around cartoony creeper Zach Hamilton? (At least that’s how we’re interpreting this piece of news.)

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2 | How much more effective would The Killing‘s killer reveal have been had the show not telegraphed it to us throughout the final...

The season one soundtrack is finally coming out, and this time there is a definite release date: July 30. That's this coming Tuesday.

The 2 CD set will be available on LALALandRecords.com. Broadway World has the details.

La-La Land Records will release the long awaited soundtrack for Caprica: Original Soundtrack To The Syfy Television Series, composed by Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Da Vinci's Demons) on July 30, 2013. The soundtrack is a 2Cd set, limited edition 3000 units.

"I want to give special thanks to you guys, the Caprica fans. You've been so loyal and supportive to our series, and that means a lot to everyone involved," said McCreary. Caprica was an amazing new musical journey for me. I've written a National Anthem, a Tauron gangster rap, a drag queen burlesque, and an opera for Alessandro Juliani, just to name a few." -- Keep reading...

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A German librarian has written a book on how The Simpsons has changed the way gay people are perceived. I’m always mixed about The Simpsons and its heavy usage of stereotypes, but it hasn’t shied away from repeatedly showing gay people as just part of Springfield’s landscape.

A steel mill has to have the most uncomfortably warm dance floor.

On the other hand, GLAAD is angry with Showtime’s Ray Donovan for its pilot where the Hollywood fixer worked for a star spotted picking up a transgender woman. Despite doing great work with gay, lesbian and bisexual characters, Donovan is part of what GLAAD identifies as part of a bad trend of depicting transgender people as subjects of mockery and disgust. I’m surprised to see House of Lies in the condemnations, my initial impression was that it had a potentially strong transgender storyline with the son.

The jarring time jump, dealing with life-and-death crises and the ongoing separation from her husband and son finally take their toll on Kiera this week on Continuum — and TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek at the proverbial straw breaking the camel’s back.

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In Friday’s episode (Syfy, 10/9c), the occasion of her son Sam’s birthday steers Kiera on a path to an emotional meltdown — a spiral not helped any when Gardiner and his minions confront the mysterious “federal agent” about her litany of lies, in the...

As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been a Superman fan pretty much forever. Superman was my first encounter with superheroes, beginning with watching the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie when I was very small. Through the years, Superman has remained one of my favorite superheroes. Sure, I love Deadpool (obviously!), and I’ve always been a big X-Men fan… and Batman… and Spider-Man… and I could go on and on from there – but Superman, the most unequivocal and steadfast symbol of hope and ethical humanity in the whole collection, has always been there in the background, informing my appreciation of the rest of the bunch.

Some people say that Superman is a boring character. He’s too perfect. He’s incredibly powerful and can do almost anything, way beyond what most of us can fathom, and he’s constantly doing the “right” or noble thing. How interesting can someone like that be?...

Last week, we brought you that since-debunked rumor from another site’s “Trusted Source” about Bradley Cooper (The Words, Paradise Lost) supposed cameo appearance in director Zack Snyder‘s upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel as the villainous Lex Luthor.

Now, in legitimate Man of Steel casting news, Variety reports that Richard Schiff (The West Wing, The Cape, Burn Notice) has joined the cast as Dr. Hamilton. For the uninitiated to DC Comics lore, Emil Hamilton who is either referred to as Doctor or Professor Hamilton, who is usually a scientist at S.T.A.R. Labs, and has been both Superman’s ally and a villain.

On television, Hamilton has been portrayed by John Pleshette on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, by Alessandro Juliani on Smallville, voiced by Victor Brandt on Superman: The Animated Series and Robert Foxworth on Justice League Unlimited. The character has so...

In a late casting announcement for Zack Snyder's Superman reboot Man of Steel, Variety is reporting that Richard Schiff is to play "a character dubbed Dr Hamilton."

This is almost certainly the comic book scientist Professor Emil Hamilton, who was initially a villain inventing devices to take down the hero before reforming to become Superman's advisor. Alessandro Juliani portrayed the character in Smallville.

Schiff's credits include The Lost World: Jurassic Park (where he was ripped in half by two tyrannosaurs while trying to tow a trailer from a precipice) and as a series regular in The West Wing.

Other uncorroborated chatter, via Cosmic Book News, recently suggested that Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, The Hangover Part II, The A-Team, Limitless) will appear in the Warner Bros film as Lex Luthor, in a cameo role that will presumably set up the sequel. A pretty good casting choice but so far just a rumour.

Clark (Tom Welling) brings Lois (Erica Durance) food when she falls asleep at her desk working on a story. She's going for a promotion, what so she can get that sorted before she gets married, ha. Clark tells her that her heart is in journalism which is a bit of an obvious comment to make. She hasn't been home in five nights and she's noticed he's been out saving the world a lot too. Like being in Bangkok right now, where he got the Chinese food. Martha (Annette O'Toole) sends them a wedding gift: the deed to the Kent farm. Lois thinks maybe she wants them to begin their married lives there, but Clark thinks maybe she wants them to sell it. Clark Luthor (Cl) returns to Smallville. As does the dreaded Realtor, Marge Manners to appraise the farm. Clark finds his things wrecked in the barn and meets Cl,...

Clark (Tom Welling) stares at Lois (Erica Durance) as if he's never seen her in a dress before. Chloe's (Allison Mack) never seen him this happy before. Oliver (Justin Hartley), Tess (Cassidy Freeman) and Emil (Alessandro Juliani) all toast the happy couple. Chloe: "to friends." Next day, Clark wakes to see an 'S' emblazoned onto the ceiling of his room and a ring on his finger. Then discovers Chloe in a wedding dress in the closet. She too wears a ring. "What did we do." Chloe tells him not to say 'consummate'. The farm is trashed. Alcohol isn't meant to affect Clark and Clark sees the champagne was a gift from Zatanna. They were put under a spell when they drank. The mind wipe affected them all. Clark finds his wallet on the limo and 'Just married' is written all over the limo. Chloe looked very Sarah Jessica Parker in her wedding attire.

I go on vacation and all this happens:

Eric Stoltz might be coming back to weekly TV. He has been cast as the lead in a new Lifetime pilot, Modern Love. Report from Deadline.com:

[Modern Love] follows newspaper science editor Simon McElvane (Stoltz) as he faces a deteriorating marriage, the ramifications of potentially starting over and balancing his relationship with his adopted 15-year-old daughter. Unexpectedly handed the job of editor of the newspaper’s Modern Love column, Simon discovers he has a lot to learn about life and love.Nwcn has a video report from the set of Grimm in Portland. Sasha Roiz mentioned they’ve started working on episode four today.

Sasha will be back on Warehouse 13 next Monday. Alessandra Torresani will join him the week after that.

Esai Morales did a few more interviews while promoting Gun Hill Road in San Francisco. There is one at SFBayTimes.com...

Clark (Tom Welling) takes another look at the engagement ring, when waiting for Lois (Erica Durance). He's made reservations for dinner at an expensive restaurant, but she prefers to just have dessert at home. He promises her dessert even if he he has to fly to Madrid for cherries and hot chocolate. Lois wants to spend time with him, yet she was stopping him at every opportunity when he was coming up with all the suggestions and having booked a busy restaurant too. She'd like to pretend for one night that the world isn't crazy. The government has updated their status from vigilantes to terrorists. Clark calls Lois at the phonebox and tells her to look up, he throws petals from the sky and then proposes on bended knee. Now that's how a proposal should be, unashamedly romantic: raining petals from the night sky. Clark tells her she's "the woman...

Tons of clips in today's update, so keep scrolling till you see Patton Oswalt. ;)

The second part of the interview The Gaming Liberty did with Bear McCreary has been posted (hit the link for the whole thing). No updates on Blood and Chrome after all. Here are a couple of quotes about Caprica & BSG (note - he is working on an *extended* Caprica soundtrack):

Retroplayer - So with Caprica being cancelled without the chance of a second series and BSG over are you proud of the work you did on them overall? How do you feel looking back?

Bear - I’m very proud of the work I did and contributions I made in helping to create a universe on those two series. I feel that BSG had such a profound influence on my life that even to try and talk about it is a fools errand. It changed me personally,...

A bunch of updates today.

First, there are two things to check out on TV this Saturday.

Hiro Kanagawa, Alessandro Juliani and Dmitry Chepovetsky guest star on Chaos, in episode "Eaten by Wolves," which airs tomorrow at 8 Et/Pt on the CBS network. The press release for the episode is here.

Red Faction: Origins, directed by Michael Nankin and starring Robert Patrick, Kate Vernon and Sgu's Brian J. Smith airs at 9 pm on Syfy. Bear McCreary produced the score by Jonathan Ortega. Worthplaying.com has an interview with Kate Vernon, who tweeted the other day that the film might get picked up to series. The trailer is embedded below.

Fort McCoy with Eric Stoltz will next be screened at the Stony Brook Film Festival in New York on July 22, possibly with daddy Graystone in attendance. Details at Stallercenter.com.

The trailer for Gun Hill Road with Esai Morales has premiered exclusively on Apple.

Riese: Kingdom Falling – Season 1

Stars: Christine Chatelain, Tundra, Amanda Tapping, Sharon Taylor, Ben Cotton, Patrick Gilmore | Created by Ryan Copple, Kaleena Kiff

Riese: Kingdom Falling is a digital series distributed by Syfy.com, created by Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff. The first chapter of five episodes originally went online on the creators’ website and YouTube during the fall of 2009 under the name Riese: The Series; its success led to the creation of a second chapter and drew the attention of Syfy who bought the broadcast rights, recut, rearranged and renamed the existing episodes, added new footage and hired Stargate and Sanctuary actress Amanda Tapping as narrator. Syfy started airing the renamed Riese: Kingdom Falling from October 2010.

Riese: Kingdom Falling takes place in Eleysia, a dying kingdom where distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. Rituals and mythology have resurged,...

Don’t miss the beginning of the end. The CW’s Smallville series is coming to a close and returns tonight with an episode that takes us back to the alternate universe in “Kent.” This is the first of the remaining five episodes to the series. Check out the episode synopsis, previews, and sneak peek below:

Smallville: Episode Synopsis (Season Ten, Episode Seventeen)

Clark Returns To The Alternate Universe And Runs Into Jonathan — Clark (Tom Welling) is shocked to find a mirror box in the barn. Clark Luthor surprises him and sends Clark Kent back to the alternate reality where Clark runs into a very angry Jonathan Kent (John Schneider). Meanwhile, back in our reality, Clark Luthor visits Tess (Cassidy Freeman) and tells if she doesn’t side with him he’ll kill her. Lois (Erica Durance) asks Emil (guest star Allesandro Juliani) to help her bring Clark back.

Two Clarks are facing off each other in the next episode of "Smallville". Clark Kent finds that the other side's mirror box is still fine. While still processing the fact in his brain, he is surprised with the presence of Clark Luthor who sends him back to the alternate reality.

In the alternate reality, Jonathan Kent is very angry with Clark. Meanwhile, back in our reality, Clark Luthor visits Tess and tells if she doesn't side with him he'll kill her. Lois asks Emil to help her bring Clark back.

John Schneider returns as Jonathan Kent and Allesandro Juliani guest stars as Emil. "Kent" episode will air Friday, April 15 at 8 P.M. on The CW.

You will believe that two men can fly (sorta) when Smallville returns for its final batch of episodes this Friday, April 15th with "Kent," and we've got an exclusive look at all the doppelgänger madness!

John Schneider's Jonathan Kent returns to the fold for his potentially final appearance, this time as his psychotic Earth-Two counterpart in a world where Clark Kent was raised by Lionel Luthor instead.

Lucky you, you don't have to wait a whole two days!  We've got the CW's first clip from Friday's episode, where Tom Welling acts opposite himself once more as Clark discovers his alternate-reality duplicate menacingly hanging around the Kent farm.

From the official press release:

Clark Returns To The Alternate Universe And Runs Into Jonathan - Clark (Tom Welling) is shocked to find a mirror box in the barn. Clark Luthor surprises him and sends Clark Kent back to the alternate reality...

If you can’t tell by now, I’m a huge fan of the steampunk sci-fi series Riese: Kingdom Falling which is currently showing on Syfy.co.uk and will air in movie form of the Syfy channel next month. If you haven’t seen it yet, the series follows Riese, a wanted princess of the Kingdom of Eleysia that has been overthrown by a powerful society called The Sect. The evil empress Amara has proclaimed Riese a traitor, who must evade her pursuers with nothing but her wits and the help of her wolf companion, Fenrir.

As a teaser for the shows forthcoming episodes, the folks at Syfy have sent us a clip from the series entitled “Herrick Arrives”, along with the synopses for episode 3-5. Check them out below:

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Episode 3: Riese was correct in assuming that the doctor may...

Syfy.co.uk is proud to present the award winning digital series Riese: Kingdom Falling, now playing at www.syfy.co.uk/shows/riese

The story follows Riese, a wanted princess of the Kingdom of Eleysia that has been overthrown by a powerful society called The Sect. The evil empress Amara has proclaimed Riese a traitor, who must evade her pursuers with nothing but her wits and the help of her wolf companion, Fenrir.

Narrated by Amanda Tapping (Sanctuary), the series also features a well known array of talent including Christine Chatelain (The Bone Collector); Sharon Taylor (Stargate Universe); Ben Cotton (Harper’s Island), Allison Mack (Smallville); Ryan Robbins (Caprica); Patrick Gilmore (Stargate Universe); Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica) and Emilie Ullerup (Sanctuary).

Catch a new episode of Riese, the epic 10-part steampunk web series at www.syfy.co.uk/shows/riese

Riese is set in a futuristic Steampunk dystopia...

Riese: Kingdom Falling is a new steampunk science fiction-fantasy series, originally produced for the web, which is set to air on the Syfy channel in the UK from tonight. The series tells the story of a traveller named Riese, a wanderer, who flees across the wartorn lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Hunted by a terrifying religious group, The Sect, Riese must evade the assassins that have been sent to kill her and discover their true objective.

Shot on the REDone, Riese: Kingdom Falling includes actors and actresses from tons of other science fiction and fantasy television series, inclduing Sanctuary’s Amanda Tapping, Ryan Robbins and Emilie Ullerup; Stargate Universe’s Patrick Gilmore and Peter Kelamis; Stargate Atlantis’s Ben Cotton; Battlestar Galactica’s Alessandro Juliani and Smallville’s Allison Mack.

Check out the trailer and pics below, and don’t forget to tune into Syfy tonight...

"Kent" is the title of the April 14, 2011 episode of the CW's Vancouver-lensed 'Superman' TV series "Smallville", written by Genevieve Sparling, Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson, directed by Jeannot Szwarc :

"'Clark' (Tom Welling) is shocked to find a mirror box in the barn. 'Luthor' surprises him and sends Clark back to the alternate reality where Clark runs into a very angry 'Jonathan Kent' (John Schneider). Meanwhile, back in our reality, Luthor visits 'Tess' (Cassidy Freeman) and tells him if she doesn't side with him he'll kill her, while 'Lois' (Erica Durance) asks 'Emil' (Allesandro Juliani) to help her bring Clark back."

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Clark Returns To The Alternate Universe And Runs Into Jonathan - Clark (Tom Welling) is shocked to find a mirror box in the barn. Clark Luthor surprises him and sends Clark Kent back to the alternate reality where Clark runs into a very angry Jonathan Kent (John Schneider). Meanwhile, back in our reality, Clark Luthor visits Tess (Cassidy Freeman) and tells her if she doesn't side with him he'll kill her. Lois (Erica Durance) asks Emil (guest star Allesandro Juliani) to help her bring Clark back. Jeannot Szwarc directed with story by Genevieve Sparling and teleplay by Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson.

Reise: Kingdom Falling is an award-winning Canadian steampunk web series making its screen debut on the SyFi Channel from March 29th. We’ve got a new trailer and some stills to show off. So if the whole “steam-punk” thing is your bag (it’s a very popular style at the moment) this might be worth checking out.

Looks pretty cool. The title reminds one of that Rammstein song “Reise, Reise”. Top track.

Synopsis:

Syfy.com premieres the steampunk digital series Riese: Kingdom Falling, winner of Streamy Awards for Best Cinematography and nominee for Best Sound Design and Art Direction. The series was created by Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff and produced by Galen Fletcher and Nicholas Humphries.

Riese: Kingdom Falling takes place in Eleysia, a dying kingdom where distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. Rituals and mythology have resurged,...

Here comes the weekly round-up.

The Caprica auctions are in the final week. Propworx has posted a video featurette with a preview of the items (holobands included). You can bid on them on Ebay, as usual. The auctions end this Sunday (March 20).

The Caprica Times has an interesting article about the use robots in society. You can check it out here: Cylons in Society: Robots in Airports.

BSG and Caprica's costume designer Glenne Campbell will take part in a panel discussion, Outfitting the Fleet: The Costume Design of Battlestar Galactica, on March 26 (next Saturday) at the Emp|Sfm Building in Seattle. Details and tickets at empsfm.org.

And a bunch of stuff has happened on other fronts since last week. Let's start with the festivals.

Fort McCoy, with Eric Stoltz, will be screened at the WorldFest Film Festival in Houston next month. Dates and tickets available here.

Gun Hill Road...

A bunch of updates today, in random order:

Esai Morales is taking part in this year's Record-a-Thon, a marathon week organized by Rfb&D (Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic) to bring accessible materials (audiobooks & audio textbooks) to people with visual and learning disabilities. Esai posted photos and a clip on his Facebook page.

Spoiler TV has a behind-the-scenes video from the new season of United States of Tara, with Patton Oswalt.

Avan Jogia has shot a brief anti-homophobia ad for the Straight But Not Narrow campaign, which he also launched. You can check out the clip at On Top Magazine.

Red Riding Hood, with Kacey Rohl and Michael Hogan, opens in theatres later this week. Collider has a bunch of clips from the movie. Spoiler TV has a nice still with Kacey Rohl and Amanda Seyfried.

Genevieve Buechner and Richard Harmon will both attend the first screening of Judas Kiss at the Phoenix Film Festival.

Following the lead of Syfy in the United States, Canada's Space Channel has obtained the rights to broadcast the Vancouver-shot web series Riese: Kingdom Falling.

Riese: Kingdom Falling is a fantasy-adventure that chronicles the life of a mysterious wanderer (the titular character, played by Christine Chatelain). Riese is on the run with her trusted wolf companion, Fenrir. They are fleeing their dying land of Eleysia in search of freedom and are hunted by assassins of a terrifying religious entity called The Sect. Riese is also trying to piece together her mysterious past.

Reise: Kingdom Falling is narrated by Amanda Tapping. Tapping is the star and an executive producer of the Space original series Sanctuary. That show is also shot in Vancouver and started out as a web series. After eight webisodes it made the leap to television thanks to support from, among others, The Movie Channel/Movie Central...

The 13th Colony has announced a video series, the 13th Colony Video Files, which will walk us through some of the Caprica and BSG filming locations in Vancouver. Episode 1 is already on YouTube.

Beginning of Line has posted an update on the video contest for the "Caprica: Season 2" opening credits: Sasha Roiz has agreed to pick the winner from the last three finalists. If you would like to submit a video, you first need to get in touch with BoL and say so by February 11, and then send the clip by February 20. Details at Beginning of Line.

Week five of Caprica auctions started today. You can see the new items on Ebay, as usual.

Esai Morales has confirmed that he will attend CineFestival in San Antonio (Feb. 3-6). If you're in the area, tickets are available here.

Eric Stoltz was one of the presenters at the Valley Performing Arts Center on Saturday.

A lengthy round of updates today.

The campaigns to bring Caprica back for another season are still very much alive and kicking. The second round of apples will be shipped to Mark Stern this Thursday, and the letter campaign just got easier. If you want to send a letter to Syfy and NBC, head over to Caprica Times or the Battlestar Cafe for the addresses and info on the fastest way to do it.

Bear McCreary tweeted some great (unofficial) news about another Caprica CD, so keep an eye on him on Twitter for updates. These days, he is writing the score for Summer Glau's new show, The Cape, which kicks off on Sunday, January 9 at 9 pm on NBC. On other fronts, The Walking Dead season finale aired yesterday and Eureka is back with a holiday episode tomorrow night.

Caprica starts airing in Asia this week. The show will...

"Riese: Kingdom Falling", a 10-part Syfy web-only fantasy series, follows the wanderer 'Riese', who flees across the lands of 'Eleysia' with her wolf, 'Fenrir'.

Hunted by the evil religious group, 'The Sect', Riese must evade the assassins sent out to kill her while trying to discern the organization's true objective.

Guests on the series include Vancouver-based actors Amanda Tapping, Ryan Robbins, Patrick Gilmore, Peter Kelamis and Ben Cotton.

Main cast includes Christine Chatelain as 'Riese', Sharon Taylor as 'Amara', Patrick Gilmore as 'Trennan', Ben Cotton as 'Herrick', Ryan Robbins as 'Rand', Alessandro Juliani as 'Garin', Emilie Ullerup as 'Aliza' and Allison Mack as 'Marlise'.

"Riese" is noted for using Red One, digital video cameras, as well as being the first live action sci-fi web series to feature the 'steampunk' genre.

"Riese" is co-created by Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff for producers Galen Fletcher and Nicholas Humphries.

Caprica 1x14, "Blowback," finally had its international premiere yesterday, for lack of a better word. The episode was written by Kevin Murphy and directed by Omar Madha, and it's definitely one of the best episodes so far. If you have seen it, wherever you may have seen it, you can rate it below.

Space posted the Innerspace podcast on their website the other day and it's definitely something worth checking out, especially if you're also a fan of Stargate Universe. You can find it at Spacecast.com. Among other things, they explain why Caprica isn't available for viewing on their site and voice their surprise at Syfy's decision to pull the show off the air and alienate their BSG fan base the way they did.

They have also apologized to the Canadian viewers who missed last week's episode because their DVRs hadn't registered the last minute schedule change in time.

There is a new video up at the official site. In it, the producers and cast talk about religion on Caprica, specifically monotheism and the Sto's role in it. The clip is embedded below.

Caprica 1x13, "False Labor," airs tonight at 10 pm.

Elsewhere, Wired has a great interview with Ron Moore. You can read it here: Ronald D. Moore on Why Galactica Steered Clear of ‘Technobabble,’ Aliens

SpoilerTV has the teaser for next week's episode of The Event, with Paula Malcomson, and also a brief snippet about Michael Hogan's upcoming appearance on Smallville, in episode 10x09, "Patriot."

Riese: Kingdom Falling, a new web series with a bunch of familiar faces (Ryan Robbins, Leah Gibson and Alessandro Juliani, among others) has launched today on Syfy's site. You can catch it on Syfy Rewind.

Katee Sackhoff makes her first appearance on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation this Thursday at 9 pm on CBS.

In another well-calculated step in expanding the SyFy original content, the network will relaunch the Streamy-award winning webseries, Riese: Kingdom Falling on SyFy.com beginning today. The series features SyFy stars from Stargate Atlantis, Sanctuary, and Battlestar Galactica and a narration by Sanctuary’s Amanda Tapping. There are ten installments to the series, running at about seven or eight minutes each, which will be released every Tuesday and Thursday beginning today.

Check out the official press release below along with the series promo and making of featurettes!

Don’t miss Riese, debuting on SyFy.com today at 12/11C.

Riese: Promo

Syfy.Com Will Premiere Riese: Kingdom Falling, Critically Acclaimed, Award-winning Steampunk Digital Series, Beginning Tuesday, October 26

Narrated By Sanctuary’S Amanda Tapping

Stars Christine Chatelain (Sanctuary), Ryan Robbins (Caprica), Sharon Taylor (Stargate Universe), Ben Cotton (Harper’s Island), Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica) and Allison Mack (Smallville)

New...

Mo Ryan at TVSquad.com posted the news earlier today about the pilot for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (Spartactica for short) getting the green light. The press release is at the end of the post. Here is the part that concerns Caprica's future, from Mark Stern:

"To be really categorical about it, this is not about finding something else so we can get rid of 'Caprica," Stern said. "I don't know the fate of 'Caprica' yet, but, if anything, 'Blood & Chrome' going to series would only be a great opportunity to pair it with something.'

And we'll find out exactly what the new round of conceptual ping-pong with the Battlestar verse means for Caprica by November 15. If someone bothers to mention it, that is.

Interestingly, TVShowsonDVD.com reports that the Caprica Season 1.5 DVD can already be pre-ordered on Amazon. With six episodes left to air,...

Riese is finally coming back online next week and the early promos (above) are getting us fired up again. Fans rumbled a bit when sci-fi Riese was abruptly taken offline during its first release last fall. In the puzzling game of online distribution, it’s something many series creators have come to accept as part of the web series territory. Having just signed an international distribution and sales deal with Fireworks, creators Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff had to pull it down to allow for a deal with SyFy to go through. Now the 10-episode steampunk inspired drama heads to SyFy.com as Riese: Kingdom Falling starting Tuesday October 26, with new episodes out every Tuesday and Thursday. SyFy was a natural fit for Riese, with its cast of Sanctuary and Battlestar Galactica vets like Amanda Tapping (Sanctuary), Christine Chatelain (The Bone Collector); Sharon Taylor (Stargate Universe); Ben Cotton (Harper...

Marking a major expansion of its original content, Syfy.com will premiere the award-winning, steampunk digital series Riese: Kingdom Falling beginning October 26, on syfy.com/riese every Tuesday and Thursday, it was announced today by Craig Engler, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Syfy Digital.

The critically acclaimed Riese: Kingdom Falling is distributed by Fireworks International, the television and digital distribution arm of ContentFilm plc. Each episode runs approximately seven to eight minutes.

Narrated by Amanda Tapping (Sanctuary), the 10-part series stars a cavalcade of talent from the world of popular speculative drama including Christine Chatelain (The Bone Collector); Sharon Taylor (Stargate Universe); Ben Cotton (Harper’s Island), Allison Mack (Smallville); Ryan Robbins (Caprica); Patrick Gilmore (Stargate Universe); Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica) and Emilie Ullerup (Sanctuary).

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a...