THE ZOCALO TODAY – October 23, 2004

What's New

I was away in Rome and Vienna for the first part of October. Had a
wonderful time in these beautiful cities. Here is what's going on
in the Babylon 5 works – and science fiction in general. Be sure to
visit the website at www.isnnews.net . There is a lot more
information there – and you won't want to miss anything.

BABYLON 5 NEWS: Ranger Andrew reports that the UK branch of Bravo is
showing Babylon 5 at 9 a.m. weekdays. It started with "Between the
Darkness and the Light" on Thursday 14 October and is now showing
Season 5.

BABYLON 5 COMIC BOOK: When asked about the B5 comic book JMS had
talked about quite a while back, JMS responded on the B5 moderated
newsgroup with the following :
It's now being written, having waited for some other developments to
take place, and will be turned into Wildstorm in the first part of
the year. (It's a 100 page graphic novel, so that takes a while.)

REMEMBERING RICHARD BIGGS: Donations in rembrance of Richard Biggs
may be made:

For the benefit of the sons of Richard James Biggs II
Washington Mutual Bank
840 N. San Fernando Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502

REMEMBERING TIM CHOATE: A memorial fund has been set up in lieu of
flowers for Tim. He was struck by a car while on his motorcycle on
his way to a play rehearsal. The address for the memorial fund is:
The Tim Choate Memorial Fund
P.O. Box 861355
Los Angeles, CA 90086
Proceeds will be placed in an educational trust for Flynn, who is 4
years old.

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

Here is a suggestion from Ranger Gary -- who answered his own
question -- and it is on the Discussion Page.

Spanning the last 20 years of Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV, which three TV
shows were most underrated/underappreciated and had the plug pulled
too soon (2 seasons or less)? Why did they deserve a longer life?

Alternatively, in your opinion which three shows during the same
period lasted way too long and never should have made it past their
1st season? Why should these 3 overrated TV shows should have
expired ASAP?

Send in your thoughts and comments to sgbruckner@... and I will
post them on the Discussion Page for everyone to share and enjoy.
See what has come in so far. If you see an old topic you want to
respond to, go right ahead. We enjoy hearing from you.

SPECIAL CAST ACTIVITY

STEPHEN AUSTIN - Stephen portrayed the wonderful Pak'Ma'Ra
Ambassador on Babylon 5. He is part of a month-long comedy tour of
military bases. Stephen has enjoyed performing at military bases
here at home and sent in this report to let us know what he has been
up to:

Hi All.
Computer time has been sparce and I don't have much now so I have to
make this quick.

After we left Kyrgystan we went to a base called "K-2" in
Uzbekystan. A former Soviet Air Base. Let me tell you, for an
old "cold war" vet such as myself, I never would have imagined ever
visiting here. Let alone being up close and personal with old Mig
25's and 27's. I'll post the pictures when I get home.

We had a great show at K-2 and then the next day left for
Afghanistan via C-130 transport. We'll we are all safe and sound. It
is a very strange feeling to be here. This is officially a War Zone.
Everyone wears a gun. Loaded and ready.

We've been based at the Bagwha Air Base about 30 miles outside of
the capitol city of Kabul. We had a show yesterday at one of the
forward Fire Bases "Camp Phoenix", just outside Kabul. Did it
outside on the back of a platform truck. A real "Bob Hope" kinda
moment. We had an audience of about 150. It was freezing but we went
on and not a single sole left until we we're done and then they
wanted to hang around and talk with us and get autographs. What an
experience.

This is a very windy and dusty place. For those in L.A. it's like a
constant Santa Ana Wind condition. It's tough on the throat.

Everyone here has been great to us.

We do a show tonight here at Baghwa and then tom. it's off to
Kandahar on the eastern part of the country. We do one show there
and then to Pakistan for a couple of days.

Gotta run. Miss you all. Be good to each other.

PAT TALLMAN

For years, Pat Tallman has been involved with the Penny Lane
Organization. The provide social services for abused children.
Today, October 23 at 6:00pm, VOICES OF OUR CHILDREN, takes place at
the Center at Cathedral Plaza, L.A. This year's honorees include
Marg Helgenberger and Alan Rosenberg. This is an event where
celebrated Film and Television Actors gather to read poems and diary
entries from the lives of abused , abandoned and neglected children
served by Penny Lane. Tickets are $125/person; $1,200/table of 10.
Visit the Penny Lane website for more info.

Patty will be gearing up for her BE A SANTA program, so be sure to
visit www.thegalacticgateway.com to get more information on how you
can help in Pat's effort to make sure that each child at the PENNY
LANE facilities has a Christmas gift. More details will follow.

NEW SCIENCE FICTION PUBLICATIONS

Cult Times #110: CHARMED Executive Producer Brad Kern previews some
of the twists and turns on Season Seven. Also in this issue, James
Callis looks at taking on the role of arch-traitor Dr Gaius Baltar
made famous by John Colicos in the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
Navy NCIS Producer/Creator Donald P Bellisario explains how his new
show differs from the successful JAG, what the real NCIS does, and
why he still loves his old show Quantum Leap.

Starburst #317: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's Cylon Tricia Helfer talks
about becoming Number Six in the new Sci-Fi series. DEAD LIKE ME's
Laura Harris talks to us about life and life-after-life as the dead
attractive Daisy Adair in this hit series and STAR TREK's George
Takei talks about the recent reunion with the original cast. Also
included, Claudia Black is back as Aeryn Sun in The Peacekeeper
Wars, in the form of a two part epic.

TV Zone #182: FARSCAPE: PEACEKEEPER WARS: Producer David Kemper
talks about the mini-series and that the story's just beginning…
DOCTOR WHO: See a photo report on the making of the new series, with
exclusive pictures! This issue, the Doctor and companion Rose pop
back to Victorian times and meet Charles Dickens – played by none
other than Über-thesp Simon Callow…

Expose #89: CHARMED star Rose McGowan gives us an in-depth insight
into battling Evil in a tiny mini-skirt, where a red-headed witch's
Achilles Heel is her blood sugar levels. She tells us why, despite
her love of change, she'll be sticking with Charmed into Season
Eight. THE DEAD ZONE Producer Lloyd Segan looks back on the latest
runs of the psychic drama, from the unexpected `summer seven' of the
second season through to the postponed finale of Season 3.

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT:

ON NETWORK TV:

6:00pm on UPN
Star Trek: Enterprise
Home
Trip goes with T'Pol to Vulcan to meet her mother, T'Les.

8:00pm on ABC
Lost
Walkabout
Wild beasts invade the encampment in the middle of the night.

9:00pm on ABC
Lost
White Rabbit
Jack struggles to overcome the events that brought him to the
island.

ON CABLE:

10:00pm on ABC Family
Smallville
X-Ray
Clark's X-ray vision begins to emerge, and the power allows him to
witness an event that shocks him.

ON SCIFI:

7:00pm
Code Red: The Rubicon Conspiracy
A military man finds a base used for alien contact.

9:00pm
The Cell
A psychologist enters the mind of a serial killer.

ON SYNDICATED TV THIS WEEKEND: Andromeda

Andromeda
Decay of the Angel
(Brandy Ledford) learns her real identity with the help of a
mysterious visitor.

Angel
Sleep Tight
Angel's frightening behavior prompts Wesley to kidnap the baby to
keep him safe.

Mutant X
Kilohertz
The team tries to stop a new mutant who wreaks havoc.

INSIDE SCI-FI THIS WEEK:

FARSCAPE: PEACEKEEPER WARS: Lions Gate has announced that the four-
hour mini-series FARSCAPE: THE PEACEKEEPER WARS will be released on
DVD on January 18, 2005. The show will be presented in anamorphic
widescreen and in Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Surround, with English
and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features will include a featurette
exploring the makings of the show; an interactive art gallery;
another gallery with spaceship designs storyboards; and more
features to be announced at a later date. The DVD will be priced at
$19.98.

TOP SF NETWORK SHOWS:
Lost 10.5
Joan of Arcadia 5.6
Smallville 3.7
Charmed 2.8
Source: Nielsen Galaxy Report, 9/27/04 - 10/3/04.

HARRY POTTER: According to Britain's The Sun, Jarvis Cocker is set
to write the soundtrack for "Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire".
Movie bosses apparently wanted a trendy British musician to score
the new film rather than utilising stalwart John Williams. The good
news is that Cocker was the top choice by the various cast,
including Radcliffe for the job. A film insider says: "He is a very
talented musician who is a big fan of movies and knows exactly how
they work. You may just think Jarvis is the bloke in specs who
fronted Pulp but he is a man with many hidden depths".

IRON MAN: It seems that David Hayter's latest draft of "Iron Man"
has won over New Line Cinema and the studio is immediately going out
with it to directors who can get the film up and running by early
2005. Sources have advised them that this draft of Iron Man is very
Tom Clancy-esque in tone and involves the conflict between Tony
Stark and his father Howard over Stark Industries. The Armored
Avenger's origin has been updated from the Vietnam back story used
in the comics. Although Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage had expressed
interest in the role, both are very busy on other projects, New Line
has several other movie stars in mind.

TOP SF DVD SALES:
1. Return of the King platinum edition
2. Star Wars trilogy
3. Angel season one
4. Shrek 2
5. Prisoner of Azkaban
6. Roswell season one
7. Aladdin
8. Day After Tomorrow
9. Futurama volume one
10. Buffy season one
Source: Amazon.com, top-selling genre DVDs, 10/18/04

FARSCAPE: SCIFI reports that FARSCAPE: PEACEKEEPER WARS delivered a
1.5 household rating and 1.7 million viewers in its Oct. 17
premiere, an 81 percent ratings improvement and a triple-digit
increase in key demographics versus the time period average for
October 2003. The second night, Oct. 18, drew even more viewers,
with a 1.9 household rating and 2.1 million viewers. Overall, the
four-hour miniseries, a continuation of the Farscape series,
averaged a 1.7 household rating and drew 1.9 million viewers in its
9 p.m.-11 p.m. timeslot, making SCI FI the number-one nonsports
cable network among adults aged 25-54 and 18-49 for the two nights.
Among viewers aged 25-54 and 18-49, SCI FI beat out TNT, TBS and
Spike TV. PEACEKEEPER WARS delivered a total audience of 6.9 million
viewers over the two nights, with four telecasts of the first two-
hour installment and three telecasts of the second.

NEW SHOW RENEWALS: According to the Hollywood Reporter, "Desperate
Housewives" and "Lost" have been picked for a full season. Also
getting a vote of confidence is NBC's "Medical Investigation," which
has received a back-nine episode pickup, too. A full-season order
for another hit new drama, CBS' "CSI: NY" is said to be imminent.

SMALLVILLE: SMALLVILLE continues to bring characters from the DC
Comics universe into the show. This year we have seen Lois Lane
(Erica Durrance) and last night, the future Flash, Bart Allen (Kyle
Gallner). The November 3 episode will bring one of Superman's
nemeses to Smallville, Mikail Mxyzptlk. Trent Ford ("How to Deal")
will guest-star as Mikail, a "foreign exchange student" who comes to
Smallville and disrupts the lives of Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and
his friend Chloe (Allison Mack). In Superman lore, Mxyzptlk is a
mischief-maker from the fifth dimension who periodically pops up to
torment the Man of Steel.

STAR WARS: Reports from Lucasfilm indicate that the anticipated
teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith will
have its theaterical debut with Pixar's THE INCREDIBLES in the U.S.
and Canada on November 5. Members of StarWars.com Hyperspace can see
it before then as the full teaser will make its world-wide debut on
the site the early afternoon (U.S.) of November 4. This exclusive
member-only preview will be in high-quality QuickTime format.
Subscribers to AOL will also be able to see the trailer in streaming
video formats starting November 4, and look for the trailer on TV
the evening of November 4. The public debut of the teaser trailer
will happen on November 8th at StarWars.com.

MACGYVER: MACGYVER is finally coming to DVD. TVShowsOnDVD.com!
reports that there are some high-speed plans for this show, starring
Richard Dean Anderson. Look for that series to not only arrive on
DVD in 2005, but to quickly hit a fast track and demand space on
your shelves at home. Plans can always change (expect us to repeat
that another dozen or so times), but you can potentially look for
quarterly releases to arrive in January, April, August, and
December.

TOP SF SYNDICATED PROGRAMS:
Stargate SG-1 1.7
Twilight Zone 1.6
Andromeda 1.5
The X-Files 1.5
Mutant X 1.4
She Spies 1.4
Buffy 1.2
The Outer Limits 1.1
Angel 1.0
Ripley's 0.7
Source: Nielsen Galaxy Report, 9/27/04 - 10/3/04

THE 4400: According to the Hollywood Reporter, the USA Network has
ordered a second season of THE 4400, the record holder for the
highest-rated series debut in basic cable history. Paramount
Television will begin production of 13 episodes in February in
Vancouver in anticipation of a June launch. "4400" became a surprise
hit for USA in July, premiering to 7.4 million total viewers,
eclipsing previous record holder "The Dead Zone" by 1 million (HR
7/14). The six-hour series, which starred Joel Gretsch and Peter
Coyote, chronicled UFO abductees who returned to Earth with
mysterious powers.

VAN HELSING: Released on DVD yesterday, VAN HELSING will contain a
featurette on how filmmakers brought the movie's signature monsters
to life. Doug Griffin, the film's motion-capture supervisor, that he
and the technical magicians for the project came up with a few new
tricks, such as grafting the real-life head and hair of an actress
onto the computer-animated winged body of a vampire bride as she
flies over a village set that was photographed in Prague months
before. VAN HELSING, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale, is
available in regular DVD and a three-disc "ultimate collector's
edition". The DVDs include hours of featurettes and behind- the-
scenes features. The "ultimate collector's edition" also includes
an "Explore Frankenstein's Lab" feature, mini- documentaries on each
character, a "Track the Adventure: Van Helsing's Map" game, a music
feature and a time-lapse chronicle of the transformation of
Dracula's Coffin Room into his Lab.

DOCTOR WHO: The new DR. WHO television series from the BBC has been
updated and now shows this new logo for the upcoming adventures of
the Gallifreyian Time Lord. The site credits the graphic design team
at BBC Wales (specifically Louise Hillam, Alison Jenkins and Hywel
Roberts) with designing the logo and Luke Davies and Paul Humphrey
at Insect Design for designing the background. Christopher Eccleston
(28 DAYS LATER) portrays this new incarnation of the Doctor. The BBC
has ordered 13 episodes of the show to test the waters and see if
interest is there to make more. At the present time the show is
slated for Broadcast on the British channel sometime in the spring
of 2005.

THE TIN MAN: The Sci Fi Channel has signed a development deal with
Steven Long Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle for a four-hour
miniseries, which is said to put a sci-fi twist on "The Wizard of
Oz". Mitchell and Van Sickle, whose credits include "Medical
Investigation" and "The Pretender," would executive produce and co-
write "Tin Man." In "Tin," a young girl named Dorothy gets lost in
an alternate universe policed by law enforcement officers known as
Tin Men. In true "Wizard" fashion, she tries to find her way home
with the help of three strangers she meets in the mysterious land
known as Outer Zone, or O.Z.

TOP 10 BEST SELLING SF BOOKS:
1. The Da Vinci Code
2. The Dark Tower (Dark Tower 7)
3. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
4. Angels & Demons
5. The Grim Grotto (Lemony Snicket 11)
6. The Two Swords (Forgotten Realms)
7. Song of Susannah (Dark Tower 6)
8. Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
9. The Polar Express
10. The Time Traveler's Wife
Source: Amazon.com, 10/18/04

CAPTAIN KIRK SINGS: AP reports that Star Trek's Captain Kirk,
William Shatner, will release a new 11-song CD of music this month.
The new album, Has Been, features Shatner's choppy words set to
music that he co-wrote and performs with Ben Folds, who produced and
arranged the new album. Musicians Joe Jackson, Aimee Mann, Henry
Rollins and Brad Paisley also make appearances. The songs vary from
pianos to soul, from gospel to cowboy, and Shatner's lyrics explore
his fear of aging, the death of a loved one, reconnecting with
estranged children and the fickleness of fame.

THE ISLAND: According to the Hollywood Reporter, Djimon Hounsou and
Steve Buscemi have joined the cast of THE ISLAND, from DreamWorks
and director Michael Bay. Hounsou (Constantine) will play the head
of security for the utopian community where the story takes place.
No details were available on the Buscemi role. THE ISLAND stars Ewan
McGregor and Scarlett Johansson in a story by Caspian Tredwell-Owen
about a "harvested being" (McGregor) who becomes self-aware and
tries to escape the utopia where he is being kept. Johansson plays
the only person he can trust and the carrier of the sponsor's child.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci also co-wrote the script.

FANTASTIC FOUR: 20th Century Fox has released the first look at
Julian McMahon in character as Victor Von Doom from the FANTASTIC
FOUR movie. Doom is a billionaire industrialist and old college
rival of Reed Richards. In addition to funding Richards' trip to
space, he also accompanies the future Fantastic Four on the ship.
Australian McMahon currently stars in the FX series Nip/Tuck,
playing Dr. Christian Troy. His other credits include Profiler and
Charmed.

DEAD ASLEEP: Jonathan Liebesman, director of DARKNESS FALLS, will
direct DEAD ASLEEP for New Line Cinema. The Hollywood Reporter also
indicated that the story was written by Carter Blanchard and centers
on a small town that becomes infested with a species of killer bugs
that come out at night. They burrow inside their victims' bodies,
killing people from the inside.

ALIEN: The UK Teletext reports that British director Paul W. S.
Anderson ("Alien vs. Predator", "Resident Evil") is to write the
sixth movie in the "Alien" franchise. Anderson, has apparently been
asked by Twentieth Century Fox to pen a new script featuring the
creatures on their own (ie. no Predators). It is unknown as yet
whether that includes the return of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)
or not. The deal is simply to pen the script, not to direct as such
although that may happen thanks to the success of AVP.

SMALLVILLE: With the passing of Christopher Reeve, SMALLVILLE was
left with deciding on how to handle his character, Dr. Swann. Alfred
Gough, executive producer of SMALLVILLE told The Post Gazette that
they've decided that Swann, like the actor who played him, will pass
away. Margot Kidder, who's already filmed two episodes as Bridgette
Crosby, Dr. Swann's emissary, will continue as a link between the
young Superman (Tom Welling) and Dr. Swann's research about the
teen's alien origins, on the show. When Reeve couldn't do the season
opener, they bought in Margot Kidder, the actors co-star in
the "Superman" feature films. It now seems as if she is going to
stick around. "We thought she was a good person to help fill in
around Dr. Swann, give him some other people [to work with]," Gough
said, "and our plan was to bring Chris back later in the season and
have him in a scene with Margot and Tom." Now Kidder's character
will carry the Dr. Swann story forward. When asked about the effect
Reeve's death would have on the show, Gough said, "It won't have a
hugely dramatic effect on our story lines, because, with the
introduction of Bridgette Crosby, it still gives you a link to that
person," Gough said. "But there is some key information he was going
to provide, so now she'll provide it."

Speaking of SMALLVILLE, over at
http://www.thewb.com/Shows/Show/0,7353,%7C%7C126,00.html you can
catch a trailer of The Flash episode, "Run" set to air on Wednesday.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: This original series from SCI FI, is set to
debut this week on United Kingdom's Sky One, and in January in the
United States. Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore said in a recent
interview, "For those of us who take our sci-fi with a pinch of
salt ... there are far more interesting things going on
here." "There is great safety in genre and, at a time when the
American media stands accused of soft-peddliung news and hard-
selling patriotism, 'Battlestar Galactica' is taking some risks.
Conceptually, the best science-fiction has always been socially and
politically relevant," Moore said. "The original 'Star Trek' was
famed for that, as was 'The Twilight Zone.'"

TOP SCIFI CHANNEL PROGRAMS:
Stargate SG-1 0.9
Andromeda 0.8
Escape From Mars 0.8
Fatal Error 0.8
Terminator 2 0.8
Cube 2 0.8
Rage: Carrie 2 0.7
Hackers 0.7
Pitch Black 0.7
Total Reality 0.7
Source: Nielsen Galaxy Report, 9/27/04 - 10/3/04.

LOST: Variety reports that ABC's LOST has brought on writer-producer
Carlton Cuse (Nash Bridges) as an executive producer. Cuse will run
the series with Damon Lindelof, who co-created the show with Alias
mastermind J.J. Abrams.

JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL: Screen rights to JONATHAN STRANGE &
MR. NORRELL have been acquired by New Line according to Variety.
Susanna Clarke's best-selling fantasy novel, is set in 19th-century
England and deals with a master practitioner of real magic and his
apprentice, who share an uneasy alliance when they channel their
powers in the war effort against Napoleon. Clarke, a former cookbook
editor at Simon & Schuster, will be a producer on the film, along
with Nick Marston. Strange will be produced through Cuba Pictures, a
company formed as an offshoot of the British literary agency Curtis
Brown.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: It was DreamWorks' SHARK TALE again in the #1
spot at the box office this weekend. While most industry experts
were expecting Paramount's TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE to open
strong, the puppet movie failed to pull the expected numbers,
emerging with $12.3 M. DreamWorks' SHARK TALE locked up the lead
spot for the third weekend in a row. Buena Vista's FRIDAY NIGHT
LIGHTS also retained its same spot from last week at number two. The
rest of the top 12 fall out in routine fashion. SKY CAPTAIN is at
tenth spot and is just about to drop off the list; it will probably
exit theaters with around $40 M total for its grosses, well short of
the film's estimated $70 M budget. Playing at less than 700
theaters, Focus Features' SHAUN OF THE DEAD is still doing alright
while RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE breached the $50 M barrier at
fifteenth overall. Here are the estimated box office receipts of the
top twelve films from October 15 through to October 17 with their
weekend gross and the movie's total domestic gross to date:
1. SHARK TALE $22,100,000 - $119,820,000
2. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS $13,060,000 - $38,662,000
3. TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE $12,300,000 - $12,300,000
4. SHALL WE DANCE? $11,623,000 - $11,623,000
5. LADDER 49 $8,607,000 - $53,851,000
6. TAXI $7,700,000 - $23,701,000
7. THE FORGOTTEN $6,000,000 - $57,153,000
8. RAISE YOUR VOICE $2,975,000 - $8,119,000
9. THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES $1,685,000 - $5,677,000
10. SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW $1,310,000 - $35,991,000
11. SHAUN OF THE DEAD $1,106,000 - $11,266,000
12. I HEART HUCKABEES $920,000 - $2,606,000

STAR WARS: Hollywood is finally awarding George Lucas a lifetime
achievement award. The American Film Institute announced Friday
they'd bestow him that honor. Lucas will join the ranks of Jack
Nicholson, Alfred Hitchcock, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Barbra
Streisand and Robert DeNiro. Lucas, who's responsible for
creating "Star Wars," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "American
Graffiti," is getting the 33rd AFI Lifetime Achievement honor just
as he wraps the last and sixth part of his "Star Wars" series,
scheduled for next summer.

SUPERMAN: With the passing of Christopher Reeve recently, it seems
strange talking about a "new" Superman, but rumors have been
confirmed that unknown actor Brandon Routh will be donning the cape
and tights for the upcoming SUPERMAN film directed by Bryan Singer.
Here is a coincidence for you. Brandon `B.J.' Routh stands at 6' 2"
and just days ago celebrated his 25th Birthday on October 9th.
Sadly, this is the same day that Christopher Reeve had fell into a
coma and later died. Routh was born in Iowa, which is the same state
that George Reeves was born, one of the original silver screen
Superman stars.

I'M BACK! There is a lot to catch up on. So much happened in the two
weeks I was in Rome and Vienna. It was a great trip, but I am glad
to be back home. I even met a B5 fan at one of my classes! Michael
is in Moscow! Cool. I will be pulling together the upcoming news and
hope to get back to regular publication tomorrow. Have a fantastic
Sunday.

TOP SF NETWORK PROGRAMS:
Lost 11.9
Joan of Arcadia 5.7
Smallville 3.8
Charmed 3.3
Source: Nielsen Galaxy Report, 9/20/04 - 9/26/04.
CONVENTION CALENDAR
October 29-31 2004
Vulkon
Place: Sheraton Nashville Downtown
Guests: Kate Mulgrew, George Takei, Garrett Wang
For more information, visit their website at
http://www.vulkon.com/nashvillescifi2004/.


October 29-31, 2004
Chiller Theatre
Place: Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel
Location: E. Rutherford, N. J.
B5 Guests: Mira Furlan, Pat Tallman, Bill Mumy, Walter Koenig, Brad
Dourif
For more information, visit their website at
http://www.chillertheatre.com/.


November 2, 2004
Stargate - Scotland
Place: Quality Central Hotel
Guests: Teryl Rothery and Ronny Cox
For more information, visit www.wolfevents.com


November 5-7, 2004
United Fan Con XIV
Place: Springfield Marriott, Springfield, MA
Guests: Gates McFadden, Tony Amendola
For more information, go to their website at
http://www.unitedfancon.com/

November 5-7, 2004
Wolf SG-8 - Equinox Equalibria
Place: Thistle London Heathrow, England
Guests: Michael Shanks, Chris Judge, Teryl Rothery, Jacqueline Samuda
For more information, go to http://www.wolfevents.com/

November 13-14, 2004
Concept 2440: Montreal's Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy
Convention
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Place: Day's Inn 1005 Guy Street
Guests: Peter Williams, Douglas Arthurs -- and more
For more information, visit their website at
http://www.conceptsff.ca/. .


November 19-21, 2004
Vulkon
Place: Orlando North Hilton
Altamonte Springs, FL
B5 Guest: Peter Jurasik, Malachi Throne (Centauri Prime Minister)
Other Guests: Leonard Nimoy, Don S. Davis, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea
For more information, visit their website at
http://www.vulkon.com/orlandoscifi2004/.


November 19-21, 2004
Best of Both Worlds 23
Place: The Chifley On Northbourne, Canberra, Australia
Guests: LOTR - Bruce Hopkins, David Weatherley, Brett Beattie, Jed
Brophy, Stephen Ure, John Howe, Ben Wootten
For more information, contact alc@... or visit
http://www.bobw.com.au/.

November 26-28, 2004
Slanted Fedora
Place: Indianapolis, IN
Site: Indianapolis Omni North
B5 Guests: Mary Kay Adams
Other Guests: Garrett Wang, Robin Curtis, Robert O'Reilly, J.G.
Hertzler, Max Grodenchik, Dwight Schultz, Aron Eisenberg, Casey
Biggs, Tony Amendola, Julie Benz, Greg Evigan, Dee Wallace Stone
For more information, visit their website at
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Sandy

Sandra Bruckner
Editor/Publisher
ISN News: The Zocalo Today
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