SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND NEWS
General
There is an article on Space: Above and Beyond at the SciFi Entertainment
website. Pop over here to
read it.
For those who are interested in getting their own Chig toy, go to
your local toy store and take a look at the LEGO UFO sets. The Chigs
can be found in sets # 6915, 6975, and 6999.
The latest issue of the Australian Frontier magazine had
follow-ups to last quarter's brilliant "Defending S:AAB" issue. There
was quite a bit actually, starting with the editorial, which
described how they had had fantastic feedback, quite unexpectedly.
Katharine Maxwell, the editor, goes on to give the address of the
Space Ready Reserve, and to point out that interest from overseas
(from the point to view of a US show that is) can help.
Foxtel have just started showing Space again from Saturday
22nd January. (Australia)
Cast and Crew
The transcript for a TVGEN/Yahoo! chat with Morgan & Wong is available at the
website.
Lanei's character (Ensign Rager) in the New and Improved Star Trek
Encyclopedia, and at the very bottom of the article it says "Lanei
Chapman later had a regular role in Space, Above and Beyond". (So
they put a comma instead of a colon.)
Tucker's TV-movie "Blackout", which was supposed to be aired a
couple of weeks ago, has been rescheduled to early 1998. Nothing more
specific at this time.
Sightings:
- Kristen Cloke and Tucker Smallwood in "Millennium"
- Harriet Sansom Harris in "The Practice"
- Tucker Smallwood in "Blackout Effect"
- James Morrison in a "Frasier" rerun, syndicated
- James Morrison in a "Quantum Leap" rerun, Sci-Fi Channel
- John-bro Wilkie (Chig #3) will be playing an alien in an upcoming
"Star Trek: Voyager" episode ('The Killing Game')... (There's a photo
on Kate Duncan's site, linked from her News page.
- Michael Reilly Burke (aka Shane's old flame, John Oakes) guests on
CBS's "Promised Land",
- The guy who played "Mank" in SAAB (the guy who got Shane's Lavatory
Card) plays a reporter in "L.A. Confidential".
The Jan. 12th issue of Broadcast and Cable magazine published a list
of one-hour syndicated programs that debuted in 1997 with their
rating to date. Pensacola, Rodney Rowland's new series, is at No. 3:
- Earth:Final Conflict (4.1)
- Honey I Shrunk the Kids (3.4)
- Pensacola: Wings of Gold (3.3)
- Nightman (3.1)
- Team Knight Rider (2.5)
- Wild Things (2.5)
- Police Academy (2.4)
- Soldier of Fortune (2.2)
- Conan the Adventurer (1.7)
- Fame L.A. (1.6)
- Due South (1.4)
From: Kate Duncan
James Morrison is currently filming episode six ...of a new
sci-fi/thriller series "Prey" ...now in production for ABC and
planned as a mid-season replacement...James plays Lewis,
one of the "new species". Looks like he could be in two or
three more episodes.
Addendum on Prey, from Barry:
Prey is a Warner Bros. production and will be on ABC in January. James
has finished filming his first 2 episodes, "Infiltration" and
"Transformations", and will begin filming his third, "Veil", on
Friday, Dec. 5. These three episodes are the 6th, 7th and 8th
episodes in the show. At first, they planned on killing him in the
8th one, but now plans have changed and it looks like the door will
remain open to bring him back later in the show.
So far, ABC has ordered 13 episodes, and will probably run them from
January till the end of the season in May, then repeat them over the
summer if the show gets renewed and picked up for a full season in the
fall of 98.
I have had the pleasure of visiting the Prey set several times and a
few weeks ago I had the honor of meeting Mr. Morrison for the second
time. We had a nice chat as his scene kept getting delayed. :) From
what I can tell, the show has the potential to be really good, or
really bad. I've read a few of the scripts and have watched them film
quite a few scenes, but not having seen a finished product, I can't
comment on the quality. I guess we'll have to wait and see. The
premise is really interesting. James is the leader of a new species
of humans, much smarter than Homo Sapien, and they're all mean as
hell. Oh, and to make it real convenient, they want us gone. :)
I've started an unofficial Prey webpage at http://users.aol.com/preyfan
Fandom
If you are interested in playing a S:AAB RPG, visit
http://www.algonet.se/~k_sund/saab_rpg.html.
There you can find rules cores etc. for Death Out of Darkness, a RPG
project from the 57th Crusaders Squadron. For more information please
contact k_sund@algonet.se
