Blog Archive: February 2022

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Babylon 5 Reboot Delayed

Via a patreon post J Michael Straczynski has announced an expected one year delay to the Babylon 5 Reboot, courtesy of CW having been put up for sale.

Deadline have reported 2022 CW pilot orders and Babylon 5 was not among them.

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The Orville Delayed

Seth MacFarlane has tweeted slightly bad news with a delay to season 3 of The Orville: New Horizons. Previously scheduled for March 10 it has been pushed back to June 2.

Good news to go with the bad, he has shared a sneak peak.

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What is Don't Look Up?

Back in early December we commented on the interesting critic response to Don't Look Up and wondered if it might a politicised reaction to a suspicious, but not widely commented on behind the scenes element, pay.

Since then it has made to Netflix, we've been able to watch it, it has broken Netflix records and become their all time second most watched Original, just behind Red Notice, and today it received four BAFTA nominations.

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A Look at La Brea

The New Daily have published an article on sci-fi sinkhole drama La Brea which is filmed in Melbourne and regional Victoria.

It covers notable locations where filming has taken place and they talk to one of the main cast, Australia's Rohan Mirchandaney.

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BAFTA Darling Dune

A welcome sight in the newstream this morning is a small avalanche of articles whose titles declare Dune leading the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award nominations.

Dune received an impressive eleven nominations out of a total of twenty-five categories.

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Disney's Temperature

Disney have given the go ahead for a TV series adaptation of young adult sci-fi LGBT novel, The Temperature of Me and You.

The novel only released on January 25. Quite a fast turn around as adaptations go but the book was published through Disney and likely they were just waiting on decent book reviews before pulling the trigger on this series.

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The Adam Project

Vanity Fair have published photos and plot details about upcoming Netflix time hopping film, The Adam Project.

Main character Adam (Ryan Reynolds) from the year 2050 goes rogue into the past searching for lost girlfriend (Zoe Saldana), crashes in 2022, and receives help from his younger self.

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Starfleet Academy Series

Paramount are developing a new Star Trek series, Starfleet Academy.

Other than being set where you'd expect from the title, there are no details at this early stage, but their hope is to begin work on it this year.

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Nebulous Fleet Command

An upcoming indie space real time strategy game you might not be aware of is Nebulous: Fleet Command which is being developed by a Navy officer.

Graphically it looks dated compared to other 3D space titles but it is still in development and beneath the surface is an impressive depth of gameplay that could have great appeal to fans of shows like The Expanse.

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Moonfall Manfest

In an Entertainment Tonight Online exlusive, Moonfall's Roland Emmerich has revealed that Halle Berry's character was originally to be a man.

Then he made a "relatively conscious decision" to consider female actors for the role.

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