Shamelessly checking Jenna Fischer‘s Myspace blog, I noticed this tidbit among the din of losing the Golden Globe…

This week we are shooting with hot shot director Joss Whedon! This has been especially exciting for me because I already knew Joss. (He has known my husband for a long time.) Joss has quickly become one of our favorite directors. The crew loves him. He’s a huge fan of the show and therefore gets really into every detail of the show. He watches us even when we are in the background of a scene and compliments our smallest of choices. It’s been a total dream. I’m currently the background of a scene and I can see him hunched over the monitors watching a scene and giggling like a little girl. I’m going to miss him.

Geek Icon Joss Whedon takes on the Office? How terrible cool for him! Joss, as you may or may not know, got his start writing TV on Roseanne.

Of course, there’s always talk of special directors working on TV shows and you’d be really pressed to tell the difference. I remember at the height of Quentin Tarantino’s pop stardom between Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown he directed an “ER” that was so amazingly exactly like every other ER that you’d never know or care someone more famous than normal was directing. That’s TV for you. If he does a good job, it shouldn’t be different from the rest of the show.

BBC news brings us news of a new animated series called “The Infinite Quest” starring none other than The Doctor himself, Doctor Who. Currently planned to be a 13 episode series it will feature the Doctor and his new sidekick traveling through many worlds to find an ancient spaceship.

Anthony Stewart Head, best known as Giles the Watcher in Buffy: The Vampire Slaver, will voice the vilain of the series, Balthazar. No confirmation of whether David Tennant and other stars of the live action series will be featured as the voices of their respective characters has been made at this time.

While I fully realise that none of our readers seem to care about Day Break I still feel the need to report on this amazing show in the hopes that someone will actually watch it.

Plans to release the episodes online have been finalised and this coming Monday, January 29th 2007, all 4 remaining episodes of the show will be available for download according to this episode guide on ABC.com.

As a follow up to my post from earlier this month my brother has some bad news. This week instead of Day Break NTV played 24. The Rogers Digital Cable listing, up to and including the time when the show played, showed that Day Break would play. Next week Day Break is shown as playing again with the description of the same episode that was meant to play yesterday.

So best case we get the new episodes one week later, starting February 8th, and worst case we won’t be getting them at all. This isn’t a big deal considering the episodes will be available online at ABC.com but is still relevant as the quality and convenience of a TV broadcast makes it worth keeping an eye out for.

Thanks again to Togast for this news.

Update!

Canadian viewers, along with all other non US viewers, will likely not be able to view new episodes of Day Break as they are released on ABC.com. Eager viewers will instead be greated by a message stating that Only viewers within the United States can watch these full-length episodes.

I’ll see if I can find a work around…

He-man.org is reporting the details of the release for the second and final volume to the New Adventures of He-man. The set is scheduled to be released on March 27, 2007.

I never received a press release for this volume, which is odd since I got one for the first volume. He-man.org does say that there will be more documentaries, art cards, easter eggs, profiles and more as extras in the set. Having just purchased the first volume, I can say that they definitely have put together a nice package. The art cards are definitely a nice touch. They allow modern comic artists to give a glimpse at how they would portray pieces of the He-Man universe.

In a move designed to avoid a situation like The X-Files(went on too long) or Alias (too short), TV Week reports that the producers of Lost are in negotiations with ABC to determine an end date for the series.

Lost has been very successful in its first 2 and a half years on air, but fans and critics worry the show may be wearing too thin or may pile on more mysteries than it can solve. A definitive end date would push writers toward a finish line they know when they’re supposed to cross. Its been suggested they go to 100 episodes or 2 more seasons, which may be a comprimise between those who want to end it before it wears out its welcome and those that might want to keep it on air until its dry.

Whatever the case, the good news for fans is February 7, 2007 is the date the show returns from hiatus; now over 70 days from the crash. ABC.com is running short clips until then.

Day Break may be returning to Canadian TV February 1st 2007.

Fans of ABC’s Day Break, starring Taye Diggs, were disappointed to learn of the show’s early cancelation last month. This show was slated to run its 13 episode course during Lost’s hiatus but was canceled after a mere 6 episodes due to poor ratings. As all episodes of this show have already been made there are plans still in the works for ABC to release the show online. Apparent problems with rights to music have hindered this process and it now seems they may be released online in late February.

The Canadian channel that played the show, Global TV, was even less forgiving than ABC and stopped airing the show 2 weeks earlier than ABC did. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Ever since Russel T. Davies and crew brought back the show to BBC One in 2005, response has been enormous, and things have started moving very fast for the UK’s hottest new producer. 2006 saw a second season of the “regenerated” Who, as well as its first (successful) spinoff, Torchwood. New Year’s Day 2007 saw both the Torchwood finale and a special for The Sarah Jane Adventures, based on a former Who companion from the seventies — Sarah Jane also made an appearance in this year’s Doctor Who. Still coming is a fourth series, based on K-9, “the daft metal dog”.

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This review is a bit late but not nearly as late as this second issue of the Gargoyles comic which was an absurd 4 months behind schedule!