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The Henson Company and Boom! studios celebrate ten years of Farscape, broke a world record, geeked out on the new Farscape comics (and webisodes!), and confirmed that the Fraggle Rock film and Dark Crystal sequel will hit theaters in 2011. More »
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The best part of falling for a show is discovering that the actors in it are just as shamelessly fannish as you are. Lo and behold, there are a lot more actor geeks than you think! More »
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We caught up with Stargate stars Ben Browder and Amanda Tapping at the Sci Fi/EW party at Comic-Con, and got a chance to ask them some fun questions. We talked to Browder about what it's like to embody the heroic archetype, and whether he'd ever want to play a supervillain. And Tapping told us the difference between Stargate and her new show, Sanctuary. More »
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After chatting briefly with the extremely nice (and still-ultra-hunky) Ben "Farscape" Browder at Comic-Con, I realized what society needs most right now: A reboot of 1990s space opera Farscape. Supposedly the Sci-Fi Channel is airing 10 Farscape webisodes, but those have yet to materialize and besides they are not enough. There are a lot of cool ways this underrated show could return to TV as something darker, less campy, and more socially relevant, just like Battlestar Galactica did. And with all the good alien ensemble dramas evaporating from TV (later days, Star Trek: Enterprise and Stargate), now is the time to strike. More »
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Cancelled Sci Fi Channel show Farscape may make a comeback online. Star Ben Browder says he's into reprising the role of John Crichton for 10 webisodes, if executive producer Brian Henson and creator Rockne O'Bannon can work out the details. The writers' strike derailed these revival plans, but now Browder is eager to get back to them. [Sci Fi Wire] More »
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