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We Give a Chuck Is on a Mission

Posted in Fan Effort, Geekdom, News, Television on April 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Hey Chuck Fans: Do you want to see the show come back for another season? If so, you just might want to join in on the “We Give a Chuck” fan campaign. Here is the mission:

The orders have gone out! Our mission is to get Chuck a Season Five. We, the fans, would love to see our favorite team in action next year. We have become attached to these characters and the wonderful actors who portray them.  Chuck has had a terrific run so far, but there are many amazing stories left to be told. And we’d like to see them. So please help us in this fight! Follow the directions on our campaign pages and spread the word through Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, message boards and word of mouth. Use the banner below to send people here so that they too can join us. This is a battle, but it’s one we can win if we work together.

We Give a Chuck

To learn more about “We Give a Chuck,” please visit here.

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How Strong Are Online TV Fandoms

Posted in Geekdom, News, Television, Tidbits on April 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The folks over at TVOvermind posted a very interesting list today that I just had to share. It seems they wrote an article about what the recent TV Guide cover poll taught readers about online fandoms – you can read that article here – and in light of that article a university student named Lethia Williams wanted to see if she could determine which show’s online fandom was the most passionate.

With the help of David Lemmons, a survey was put together and examined. From the 3,562 surveys in the study, coming from every continent around the world except for Antarctica, and from fans of more than 65 shows on each of the big networks and cable channels (and with 3,284 surveys being considered complete and valid), here are the results of the shows with the strongest online fandom:

1. Supernatural
2. Castle
3. Smallville
4. Community
5. Hawaii Five-0
6. Chuck
7. Bones
8. Leverage
9. The Vampire Diaries
10. Fringe
11. Burn Notice
12. Glee
13. Mad Men

Please visit here to read the rest of the TVOvermind article that discusses the outcome of this poll. You just might be surprised by what they discovered.

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Friday Night Lights Props Up For Auction

Posted in Auction, Breaking News, Geekdom, News, Television on April 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Friday Night Lights

Are there any fans of Friday Night Lights out there? I know you’re out there somewhere.

Well, if you are a fan and would like to own a prop from the critically acclaimed series, you are in luck. NBC is going to be auctioning off props from the show – items such as the coach’s sunglasses and Tim Riggins’ farm coat.

The auction is up and ready to go just yet, but keep checking back here for details.

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Legend of the Seeker Fan Effort

Posted in Fan Effort, News, Television on April 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Legend of the Seeker Cast

When your favorite guilty pleasure show is canceled, what do you do? If you are anything like the fans of the first-run syndicated series Legend of the Seeker that aired for two seasons from 2008 to 2010, you participate in the year-long fan effort to revive the show.

For those unaware of Legend of the Seeker, the series was based on The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind that followed the epic journeys of a young woods guide named Richard Cypher (Australian actor Craig Horner), a mysterious woman named Kahlan Amnell (American actress Bridget Regan), a wizard named Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander (New Zealand actor Bruce Spence), and a warrior named Cara (Australian actress Tabrett Bethell) as they defend against tyranny and destruction. Image a weekly TV series that was a mixture of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises.

The series was distributed in the United States by Disney-ABC Domestic Television with ABC Studios producing the series, making Legend of the Seeker their first venture into broadcast syndication. ABC Studios funded the project with the Tribune Company acting as the launch group for broadcast to syndication markets throughout the country and abroad. Unfortunately, near the end of the show’s second season Tribune decided not to purchase distribution rights for season 3.

Because the show garnered an average of 2.5 million viewers on a weekly basis in the US, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition and aired in over 60 international markets, fans decided to band together to fight for the show’s future. Over the course of the last year, the members of SaveOurSeeker.com have raised over $35,000 to promote the show in the following ways:

• Ads in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter;
• Donating 300 Season 1 and Season 2 DVD’s of the show to public libraries in the US and Canada;
• Placing a bus shelter ad in Burbank, California;
• Doing iTunes episode giveaways at Comic Con, DragonCon and NY Comic Con; and,
• Placing online banner ads on Facebook and Google.

While most TV campaigns are an uphill battle because it is difficult to convince any distributor or studio to continue with a canceled show, the members of SaveOurSeeker.com are dedicated to their cause.

If you would like to get involved in the fan efforts to save the TV series Legend of the Seeker, please contact them via email at contact@saveourseeker.com and/or visit their website here.

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Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: A Ballet for Every Woman

Posted in Breaking News, Convention/Event, Music, News on April 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Alberta ballet dancers with Sarah McLachlan (c) Phil Crozier/Alberta Ballet

The Alberta (Canada) Ballet offered a sneak peek of its upcoming Sarah McLachlan-inspired ballet in Calgary earlier this week, along with news that two additional dates have been added to its spring run. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: A Ballet for Every Woman is the company’s third pop-inspired dance production.

Artistic director Jean Grande-Maître decided to create the work after seeing the interest generated by his previous two ballets set to contemporary music. The Fiddle and the Drum was set to the music of Joni Mitchell, while Love Lies Bleeding, which reflected the life of Elton John.

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy will explore the “ever-changing lives of women,” with female dancers ranging from 11-year-old girls to an experienced, 53-year-old ballerina; and will feature 17 McLachlan songs drawn “from her earliest albums to her latest”. Among the songs used are the title track, Hold On, Into the Fire, Good Enough, Ice Cream and Building a Mystery. In fact, McLachlan contributed greatly to the creative process, helping choose songs, aided with the libretto, lent a hand with fund-raising and even provided some personal art that will be projected during the performance.

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy will debut in Calgary on May 4 and continues through May 7; an Edmonton engagement follows May 12 through 14 and the company is also in talks to tour the ballet across North America.

You can read the full article here.

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Become A Legendary Women Blogger

Posted in Bloggers, Breaking News, News on April 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Have You Ever Considered Being a Blogger?

That is the question being asked by Legendary Women, Inc. who are looking for capable writers to submit audition pieces to their board for review. 

According to this announcement, you can blog on basically any subject you want from movies to music to science to law, as long as it can be related back to women’s issues and feminism in some way.

Also, your subject matter needs to be appropriate—-no libel against a group or person and no untoward sexual content or cursing.

If you’re interested, they ask that you send in a 500-750 word “test piece”. Submit it to the following email: legendarywomeninc@gmail.com

Good luck!

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The Guild Wants You

Posted in Breaking News, Convention/Event, Geekdom, News, Online Series, Web Series on April 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The Guild

If you will be in the Long Beach (California) area on April 23, you just might get a chance to be an extra on Season 5 of The Guild, the popular online web series from the mind of actress Felicia Day.

Here are the details straight from the Facebook page of The Guild:

“Be an extra on Season 5 of The Guild! We’re filming on April 23 at the Long Beach Comic Con and you can be a special “convention extra” by using code “guild23” when you buy your ticket. Anyone attending the April 23 convention may end up in the background, however we have a limited number of spots for a specific scene we’re filming at 7:30 AM. Your name is automatically on the list when you use the code.”

Here is the link to buy your ticket. Good luck!!

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Matthew Morrison’s Album and Tour Dates

Posted in Appearances, Concert/Tour, Geekdom, Music, News, Television on April 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Matthew Morrison

Actor-Singer Matthew Morrison (Glee) will be embarking on a concert tour of his own this summer, featuring songs from his self-titled debut album that is being released on May 30.

The full concert listing follows:

June 18 – Minneapolis at the Orpheum Theatre

June 19 – St. Louis (Missouri) at the Fabulous Fox Theatre

June 21 – Rosemont (Illinois) at the Rosemont Theatre

June 22 – Columbus (Ohio) at the Palace Theatre

June 23 – Detroit at the Detroit Opera House

June 27 – Philadelphia at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts

June 28 – Newark at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center

June 29 – Boston at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre

July 1 – New York City at the Beacon Theatre

July 2 – Atlantic City (New Jersey) at the Caesar’s Circus Maximus

July 6 – Washington D.C. at the DAR Constitution Hall

July 7 – Greensboro (North Carolina) at the War Memorial Auditorium

July 8 – Duluth (Georgia) at the The Arena at Gwinnett Center

July 10 – Tampa at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts

July 11 – Orlando at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center

July 13 – Boca Raton (Florida) at the Mizner Park Amphitheatre

July 14 – Jacksonville (Florida) at the Moran Theater

July 16 – Grand Prairie (Texas) at the Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie

July 17 – Austin (Texas) at the Bass Concert Hall

July 19 – Phoenix at the Comerica Theatre

July 20 – San Diego at the Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay

July 23 – Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live

Mark your calendars!

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What Happened at WonderCon

Posted in Convention/Event, Messages, Movies, Music, News, Television on April 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This past weekend (April 1 to 3) I went to WonderCon in San Francisco, attending a number of panels focusing on television and films. I also had the unique opportunity of sitting in on three roundtable interviews in one of the (many) press rooms.

First on the list was a Behind the Music panel, featuring composers on television shows such as Sean Callery (24), Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisies) and Nathan Barr (True Blood) (among others). This lead to an introduction of the new summer series from TNT Falling Skies that comes from the mind of Steven Spielberg, which featured executive producer/writer Mark Verheiden, writer Melinda Hsu-Taylor and actor Drew Roy as well as a sneak peek at the upcoming April 7 episode of Nikita.

The day concluded with a panel for the upcoming box office film Green Lantern, featuring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. I will coverage on the composer’s panel here shortly and please look for my story on the Falling Skies panel over at NiceGirlsTV.

On Saturday, the big panels were all focused on some of the biggest upcoming box office films, including Cowboys & Aliens, The Three Musketeers, Hanna, Priest and Immortals. While all the fun was going on in the main ballroom for these movies, I was in the press room, getting a chance to participate in the press room roundtable interviews for the three latter movies. Tomorrow you can read up on my Hanna press room coverage – which included my getting to speak with Saoirse Ronan and director Joe Wright – here at Rueben’s Ramblings.

Actors Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet, actress Lily Collins and director Scott Stewart were part of the press room for Priest while actress Isobel Lucas, actors Luke Evans and Henry Cavill and producer Mark Canton and director Tarsem Singh were among the Immortals press room. I will have those stories up here soon.

The 3-day event ended with panels on Sunday for the long-running British sensation Doctor Who, which included writer Neil Gaiman, director-writer Toby Haynes and actor Mark Sheppard (who will have a recurring role in the new episodes that start airing April 23); an advanced look inside the new FOX drama Terra Nova that debuts this fall that included actors Jason O’Mara and Stephen Lang, executive producer Brannon Braga and director Alex Graves and a look back at the second season of Human Target with actors Mark Valley and Jackie Earle Haley and actress Janet Montgomery. The stories for the Sunday panels will be up on NiceGirlsTV as soon as possible.

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New Trailer for Falling Skies

Posted in News, Television on March 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been hearing about and seeing snippets of teaser trailers for TNT’s epic new alien invasion series that will debut this summer, starring Noah Wyle (ER), Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation) and Drew Roy (Secretariat).

A longer trailer was released by TNT yesterday, including some behind the scenes interviews with the cast. You can check it out here.

All I can say: Is summer here yet?

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