Woke Up Dead, produced by Electric Farm (makers of NBC's web serial Gemini Divisions), stars Heder as Drex Greene, a nerdy guy who wakes up in a bathtub to discover that he's dead. His roommate (an aspiring filmmaker and requisite plugger of Kodak products) is convinced that Drex is a zombie, while medical student Cassie (Vernonica Mars regular Krysten Ritter) is only interested in his body (just not in the way he'd like). The first four episodes were posted yesterday, chronicling the last moments of Drex's life and his first few days of zombification:

[Woke Up Dead via Cinematical]

Megabot, Ep. 1

Should you like to see more, Atom will be hosting new episodes weekly. And oh yeah that's Fran Kranz, or Topher from Dollhouse as blue.

You gotta hand it to Singer - he's really ticking off everything on the "things to make" list. Movies, television and now this. Details on the project are scarce, but in an interview with SciFi Wire Stewart Hendler spilled the beans:

I'm doing a Web series with Bryan Singer and Warner Brothers which I can't talk about. I'm under NDA. It's sci-fi, it's set in the future, and it's got a Lost vibe to it. That's kind of all I can say, unfortunately. It's super top secret.

It's strange to hear such a big name associated with web video. Maybe Singer's merely promoting it? Either way I'm getting about as tired of hearing Lost used as a descriptive term for a new piece of genre material as I am hearing new movies being described as BladeRunner-esque.

First off, if those are arrow-carrying Moblins, then that's hilarious, because I always thought their spears were more arrow-like. Other great Z references in the gallery include mummies and the life potion — also, I spy a Blue Candle, so hopefully Neil will start burning down the forest and pissing off even more bad guys. The new series premieres in two weeks on Monday the 27th over at Atom. Don't miss it.

If you haven't seen the glory of Neil here's the first episode. It's full of self degrading, foul humor, and you won't be disappointed.

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Look for Neil and friends, including cast members Sandeep Parikh and Tony Janning, at San Diego Comic Con on Thursday at Booth 3445 at 1:40 and on Saturday at 4:30 Felicia Day will join up with the rest of the group for a Rock Band session. And, of course, there will be a panel on Saturday at 7:30 in Room 7AB. Let's hope they bring back Felicia Day as the flashing, cutter fairy. Hopefully her appearance at the Con solidifies her commitment to that wonderful character for future episodes.

The machinima series follows Moon's character, Blair Williams. So far, it looks like all the same storylines as the Terminator Salvation game, but it does have new kill bots, and I know you all love that. Here is the official description:

The Resistance is the last hope for survival. Commanded by the remnants of a decimated military system, resistance fighters battle the machines of Skynet day and night without quitting. Blair Williams is one of these fighters. Blair is in her early 30's and is old enough to remember a normal life but vital enough to learn how to fight. She is highly skilled and superbly courageous - traits that often get her some of the hardest missions.

We meet Blair at the beginning of one of these missions. She has been sent into the heart of downtown Los Angeles, a known hot zone, to seek out and destroy something called "The Ghost" - a code name designated to a machine designed to interfere with Command's communications. The resistance knows that Skynet is ever evolving and this must be just another tactic to bring down the leadership. Without the ability to talk to each other, the Resistance would simply fracture and collapse. It was already starting to happen.

The series is currently available on iTunes and Amazon.

The series will premiere on Dailymotion, who spoke to Black about dreaming up this odd little show about a space cabdriver. He promises lots and lots of cameos from well-known science-fiction franchises. And he explains how it literally became a space opera:

I'd cast Norm Thoeming as Harry, the driver, and he performs each week at I.O. in "Opening Night: The Musical". Knowing he had a musical background, I began to wonder if there was a way to incorporate that into the show - and slowly my mind came around to the idea of making it a musical. I'm writing all the music and lyrics and Norm and Monica Young (who's also a principal cast member) are just INCREDIBLE singers. They'll take on the brunt of the singing and I'll make sure just to write single words or lines for me to sing. I'm not exactly tone-deaf, but Norm and Monica could each do American Idol.

The official website describes it as "think Hitchhikers Guide meets Flight of the Conchords, and you're halfway there." That's a pretty tall order, so I'm interested to see what well be getting.

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The new scripted webseries, titled Ultradome, hopes to settle your burning genre battle questions once and for all, in hypothetical special effects showdowns.

My whole life has been spent engaged with friends in intellectual debate ... like whether Captain Kirk is tougher than Spock, or if Middle Earth is a more difficult place to live than Tatooine," Ventimiglia said. "With 'Ultradome,' we can bring these debates to the public and settle them in the most logical way possible: through armed combat."

Ventimiglia's DiVide Pictures and Agility Studios are producing these 3 to 5 minute throwdowns with plans to release the series this summer (once it finds a home).

Good luck and good fighting. And remember, no shoes or shirts, Dumbledore.

[THR]

The series picks up presumably after little Claire gave the creepy and googly-eyed Eric Doyle a new identity, so he could evade capture. That whole moment between the cheerleader and the puppet master was the perfect thank-you for him sex-trapping her birth mom, kidnapping her other mom and then forcing Claire to shoot herself in front of him. But as we've seen before, Claire's an idiot. Plus, of course, who needs common sense getting in the way of a plot?

So Doyle, now known as Jerry or something, decides the best way to prove to Claire that he isn't a monster is to record video letters to the scrunchy-faced teen, over his Real World audition tape — thus PROVING that he's changed. And also leaving a trail of evidence that leads right to his door, but you know: Who needs pesky logic?

We find our second favorite kidnapper and murderer at a cubicle job, and now suddenly he's the guy we're all supposed to be rooting for, because look — he's got short sleeve button-down work suits and rolly eyeball movements. Which automatically spells "underdog." He's got a boss who's a real so-and-so, you know what I mean? Seriously this guy carries around a putter and everything, who does this think he is, some sort of dick-boss stereotype? Look, there he is now again with that putter....Good god, wake me when the Constrictor is back — at least he's got the hugs o' death.

Soooo what happens next? Oh right, whats-his-face, the attempted murderer, is really struggling to avoid making everyone his slave, or "ripping their tongues out of their mouths." So it's a good thing Claire let him off the hook. The boss lady, who he's totally banging, is the only one who's nice to Puppet Man. Which is... convenient.

Here she is. Run away, lady, because this is a man who tries to have sex with women and then watch their daughters shoot themselves, but whom we're rooting for now, because of his unfortunate circumstances and bad outfit.

Puppet guy is in a difficult spot — he needs that jerk boss to write a letter to the police telling them he's okay and they shouldn't arrest his ass for one isolated incident that happened a few weeks back... he explains from a 13-year-old's bedroom.

Annnnnyways, his evil boss cackles when the Puppet Man asks for his letter and informs him unless he finishes these tasks upon his long list of chores (two whole sides, single-spaced) he cannot go to the ball. Sigh. So Puppet Guy vacates the trophy-laden office to go collect....

Fake flowers and towels.

Sadly when the Puppet Man arrives back at the evil boss' lair, he's fighting with his good-natured girlfriend. Which causes Puppet to go bonkers and make the boss smack himself in the face with his own putter. Oh, the irony-ish. What will happen next? Is he dead? Will Puppet win the heart of the flowered sweater lady, will he stop pretending that he doesn't have one of the coolest powers ever, and could have someone grab a ton of money and blindly walk it over to him, drop it in his lap with their eyes closed, and he could be in Mexico with no one the wiser?

But then we wouldn't have these video diaries. Stay tuned for next week.

The Terminators


With the addition of one "s," Asylum Production Studios reaps the Terminator hype benefits. Sadly, their cylon-faced, terminator-bodied being is about the worst thing I've ever seen. The Terminators: robot warriors for people who demand less from their Sci Fi Channel Originals.

Inhabited Island 2


My golden haired Russian hero is back and pissed! Quiet Earth pointed out the latest TV spot for Inhabited Island 2. Maxim Kammerer, the aforementioned hero, crashlands on planet Saraksh, where the people of the planet are being unfairly treated by the Unknown Fathers. The second film picks up with Max fighting for justice on this alien planet.

Inhabited Island 2 tv spot

Human Condition
Finally take a look at the first episode for web series Human Condition, about looking for love in all the wrong robots. It's surprisingly pretty for a little webby, and has a nice little concept. I'd like to see what these guys could do with real funding and additional actors. The first episode is below.

condition:human Episode 1 from condition:human on Vimeo

Smallville's Phil Morris compared his new web series Emissary to the upcoming movie Black Dynamite (in which he costars), which Michael Jai White sold to studios on the basis of nothing more than a trailer. The problem with this is that while Black Dynamite has a straightforward concept that easily translates to the trailer format, the ludicrously high-concept premise of Emissary doesn't really sell itself well in a mere promo. It took Morris twice as long to explain the concept as it did to air the promo, which might suggest a trailer is not the best showcase for it.

The series - which plans to shoot in the fall, and premiere in spring next year - was created by Morris and Dekker Dreyer (and has artistic direction and idea contribution from comics legend Neal Adams) because Morris was sick of being typecast as "another badass African American detective." In Morris' words, the show is "about inclusion, about appealing to our better nature and being the best we can be," although in this case, that happens to mean being destined to be the latest "emissary," a line of "peak humans" who are hunted by those who want to steal their power.

What really sold Emissary at the panel is its cast, which is full of primarily sci-fi actors (including Battlestar Galactica's Chief, Aaron Douglas) who show a genuine love and reverence for the genre. With a concept as gleefully convoluted as Emissary, there really isn't much middle ground between success and failure; either these guys nail it, or it will live on as one of the most spectacularly absurd failures in science fiction history. Considering the creative team, I'm hopeful it's the former and not the latter... If nothing else, it's hard to imagine something that is so clearly and unashamedly a labor of love could ever be simply mediocre.

Whoopi's spooky webseries Stream has released its trailer, and Whoopi is freakin' out. The Star Trek alum plays a woman whose mind keeps slipping in and out of time. The batshit Whoopi is thrown in a mental institution, but her mind travels back to her teen years, hoping to figure out where everything went wrong for her and fix the problem. All 6 episodes will be streamed on Fear.net.

"Stream" Trailer:

"Stream" Clip:

Cawley stresses the project isn't a fan film, because it's a fully licensed production with professionals behind the camera and in front of it. But at the same time, the project, which may start streaming online as early as fall 2010, is very much in the spirit of Cawley's earlier fan films, in terms of referencing earlier works. Cawley's working on the script for the first episode now, but apparently it'll retell the classic Buck origin: he's a World War I airplane pilot, who gets caught in suspended animation until the 25th century, where he battles fantastical enemies.

The production will have a "retro-contemporary" look using modern techniques like CG to reproduce the look of the original comics. Cawley told TrekMovie: "We will be using the technology we have today, to present The Original version of The First Sci-Fi Hero ever! Previous filmed incarnations never really captured the original Buck from the comic strips, which is what we aim to do." He'll keep all the elements of the original storyline, including the "atomic disrupter pistol," the Earth Defense Directorate and Buck's friends Dr. Heuer, Wilma Deering and her brother Buddy Deering. And villains, including Princess Ardala and Killer Kane.

Buck will be played by Buddy Rice, who played James Kirk's gay nephew Peter in a recent Phase II storyline. Both Rice and Cawley stress this won't be for camp value.

We could be about to see a Buck Rogers explosion, what with a new comic series on the way and a Frank Miller-helmed movie supposedly still in the pipeline. But the Cawley webseries might hit before the Miller movie (if it even still happens), and garner more attention than a comics series. I'm happy to see anything that brings more prominence to space opera on film, since the visual genre has lagged behind the space opera book genre in recent years. But I'm wondering why space opera always has to look retro, especially with J.J. Abrams' Trek going back to an old-school version of the future as well. [TrekMovie]

Chapter 2: We Do What We Have To Do

So the first question is, what will Mills have to do? Oh, it's kill that one guy with the military haircut that isn't a dick, which Angela gives away in the first second. So who cares what she has to do? And so much for the surprise, Angela.

Angela stares at Mills, fascinated by her secret serum, her beauty, perhaps she wants to skin her and wear her about her body to as a substitute for her lost youth. But enough about Angie, Mills tells us what happened right after we left off, at the chem lab with the military people, when she learned how to disappear. Aaaaand flashback.

Back into the lab, Mills makes a stabby at military haircut's arm with the secret serum. Mills struggles to the floor and falls in a sexy pose.

Military Haircut moves fast around the room screaming, "While I was passed out, a bad make up FX class came in and experimented on me."

And more explosions or Earthquakes — KABOOM! Mills stands up and says, " Zow my god, my breasticles, where are they? Oh thank you jeebus, they're still attached." Then the other one waves a gun at her and green-face, but is pushed down forever more, not to be heard from again.

Oh no green face, the guy formerly known as "military haircut," took off after Mills. Activate nork intuition — they tell Mills to hug-stab green-face, and now he's dead, and my life is changed forever. Oh no, wait — Angela told us this was going to happen. Mills holds dear sweet green-face till he dramatically presses against her and falls to the ground. "I was but a pawn in this gray world until I met you," she coos in his ear. "We will meet again riding unicorns naked over a golden valley, now close your eyes my love close them tight, look upon this barren and ugly world no more."

Angela is not impressed with her Mills' story nor her sadness for hug stabbing green face. "LIAR." she screeches from across the room. Angela, the siren, knows everything, and stands on the table wailing a terrible wail and pointing her wrath and vengeance upon poor Mills. "You kept the special sauce, you fiend."

Alas, she lied and the old lady knows it.

Chapter 1: Private Mills

A seecrat government corporation gets a bunch o' young marine types to volunteer for the secret serum — no, not that "secret serum," get your head out of the gutter! This stuff gives you special abilities, so they can hunt the Heroes, which is fine by me. Kill them all dead, please. The experiments happened at Pinehurst and created what look like a super secret-strong army of guys who like to wrestle and do other manly things, like push-ups.

Uh oh, looks like Private Mills just can't get enough of that serum, and she's in trouble with Angela Petrelli now. Angela has to mind-sex her up, to find out what she knows. Private Mills reacts to Angela's touch and sheds a tear. Just one tear, Mills, just one. Don't let her back in!

Cut to a flashback, where we Mills stealing the "broken" serum that Angela was mind-sexin' her about, with "girls are dumb" boy and a poor man's Matt Damon buzz cut, who is for some reason shirtless. Already I can tell Buzzcut loves Mills so much it twists his soul even to hear her name spoken aloud. "Mills," the wind whispers to him, as the other boy chirps about how girls are dumb. Oh, and they're all sweaty.

Oh noes, there's a splosion, and "girls are stupid" boy disappears under rubble or something. Buzzcut is injured on his legs and Mills comes to his aid. "I love you," she whispers. "I heard your soul calling my own from across this world and came to it. We are all each other has in this collapsing apocalyptic society obsessed with money and food. Let's leave this place and move to the wilderness of Montana and raise a family, teaching them the ways of the wild. We'll read to them from Emerson and Whitman and live free of the shackles of society." She didn't actually say that, but Buzzcut did sneak a peek at her rack while she hovered over him, and I think her norks whispered "Mills" to him.

Presto chango — Mills misses getting smashed to bits, by teleporting across the room. Buzzcut and Mills both appear to be shocked by her new power. Buzzcut looks bewildered, and Mills calls him David.

End Scene.

Above are a bunch of stills from the webseries. Looks like they are building a Hero-hunting squad thanks to Private Mills, but what will her almost-lover do now that he knows she's a "special?" I'm sure we'll find out, one way or another.

Watch the full episode over at NBC.

Whoopi is producing and starring in her own web series called either Stream or Strange, for Fearnet. She plays Jodi, a woman coming to terms with her lifelong fears. The series begins on January 15th and will air six five-minute episodes. But will she get Hasselbeck to cameo in it as one of her fears?

But for now, let's take a minute to remember the strange mannerisms and cryptic advice that Whoopi brought to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Here she is, teaching Wesley how to be the Pick-Up Artist:

[Variety]

At first glance, it's pretty hard to watch. It's one of the grimmest things I've ever seen, and I've watched student productions of Samuel Beckett's Endgame. The first couple of three-minute episodes seem to consist of just Schofield acting his heart out in a grim post-apocalyptic, dystopian world. (You can take a drink now.) It's not entirely clear to me what the plot of Kirill is, but it seems as though Schofield's character is trying to communicate with our time, 50 years in his past, and warn us about some future disaster. And (shockingly) the Large Hadron Collider is involved.

MSN UK will post two three-minute episodes per week, for the next five weeks. And there's some kind of vague interactive component, to do with MSN's instant messenger tool "Live Search" and MSN's social network. Maybe you can communicate with a dying blogger in a ravaged world 50 years from now? Your guess is as good as mine. Here's the trailer:

[MSN]

The casting call is Sept. 24th in Los Angeles, CA.

NBC is looking for actors to play:

Rachel Mills: A 20-something lady who is ex-military, beautiful, athletic build and mysteriously trouble.

David Sulivan: a late 20's to 30-something male. All-American and Rachel's love interest. David is a good guy that suffers from a Dr. Jekyll-Hyde transformation.

Ryan Hanover: another 20-something who is quick tempered and has "plenty of attitude." An asshole jock type, but not super muscular (squeal, please make him gay with an attitude).

[Heroes Spoiler]

The Resistance will track down the members of a secret society called The Order which is hunting down ladies with a rare blood trait, no idea why they are doing this but you can assume if there's a resistance to them, then they're up to no good.

We've already got Gemini Division and 2009: A True Story to name just a few. I don't know if I can keep track with all of these half dressed ladies of the near future.

Producers Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfriedtracing told Wired.com that each video will be a startling 10 minutes long. Still, the two are optimistic for the series and even plan on including "real people."

Beckett told Wired.com:

We know where Resistance is going to go from a plot and character standpoint, but we produce the show in a way that makes the audience feel like they're going on the journey with the characters. For example, we'll say, "Come hang out with us at the Santa Monica Pier," and we'll bring our actors in character, in costume, to the pier.

The series premieres September 20, Lonelygirl15 was a huge hit, so we'll have to wait and see. But more importantly we've got to start thinking about new names for our resistance groups. I can't deal with any more "The Resistances," please leave your suggestions for a good alternate name for an undercover guerrilla warfare team that fights the man in the comments, please. [via Wired.com]

The first episode, "Ikarus part 1," is actually a prequel to the main series. The series is somewhat confusingly made up of three actual episodes, and a handful of "interspace" episodes, which are either prequels or stuff that takes place outside the main action. Like the exclusive clip we featured from this series a while back, the first episode features low production values and occasionally dodgy acting. But it's also edgy and freaktastic, especially the way the male characters constantly sexually harrass Aeriana, the deaf pilot who's also a hacker. And I'm looking forward to learning more about this hard-edged dystopian post-Earth solar system, especially after the intriguing glimpses in the opening credits. [Venus Rises]