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SF Universe - Science Fiction News

November 21st, 2008

ABC Drops Pushing Daisies

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Critically acclaimed fantasy show Pushing Daisies is no more, done in by second season ratings that never lived up to expectations. It was quite the bloodletting at ABC yesterday as word is that Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money also got the boot. E Online’s Kristin dos Santos confirmed the bad […]

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November 13th, 2008

Life on Mars Tonight: Tuesday’s Dead

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Tonight, Detective Sam Tyler has to deal with a strange hostage situation that may be connected to his own - strange situation. Also, he gets a phone call from what sounds like his mother in 2008 begging him to wake up.
Life on Mars will soon be leaving its Thursday night digs […]

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November 6th, 2008

Life on Mars: Things to Do in New York When You Think You’re Dead

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Tonight on Life on Mars, the 125th Precinct is caught in the middle of racial tensions between Black and Puerto Rican factions. A Black girl is thrown off a building and there’s a Puerto Rican murder suspect. The Black Liberation Army wants to handle the matter in its own way and […]

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November 4th, 2008

Pushing Daisies May Live Up to Its Name

The only fantasy-themed show to pick up an Emmy for anything other than sound mixing or special effects is on the ropes. ABC hasn’t made a decision on ordering the final nine episodes of the season but did change plans for the 14th episode. According to E’s Kristin dos Santos, the 13th and 14th episodes […]

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October 10th, 2008

Did You Check Out The New Shows?

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SFUniverse readers, did you take a gander at Life on Mars or Eleventh Hour? Has anybody looked at the British versions of these shows? I wonder how long a show like Mars can sustain its coma-based plotline. That seems like one you can only squeeze a couple of seasons out of. […]

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July 2nd, 2008

What Book Would You Bring to Lost’s Island?

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Move over Oprah, now Lost’s Sawyer will be telling folks what they should read. Yesterday ABC.com launched the Lost Book Club, a group for reading, downloading and discussing books referenced on the hit show.
Examples include Sawyer reading Watership Down, or Juliet’s book club reading Carrie. The network web […]

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February 27th, 2008

Rough Night for Sarah Connor Chronicles

ABC TV movie event A Raisin in the Sun led that network to a prime time victory Feb. 25. FOX, anchored by game show The Moment of Truth and high-profile sci-fi show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles limped to a fourth-place finish with a 4.5 rating/7 share for the evening. SCC narrowly lost to NBC […]

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February 22nd, 2008

Scooby-Doo’ed Is Now Officially A Verb

This thanks to the always stellar work of Jorge Garcia as Lost’s Hurley. This character is a true tragic clown and that’s not an easy dynamic to pull off. This episode had some great moments. Its cliffhanger wasn’t quite as strong as last week’s, but there’s no realistic way it could have been short […]

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February 11th, 2008

Howard The Duck Creator Dies At Age 60

Somewhere, a notoriously loud-mouthed duck has been struck speechless. Steve Gerber, one of the most influential creators and writers in comic books, died Feb. 10  in a Las Vegas hospital. Gerber had been suffering from pulmonary fibrosis. A friend of Gerber’s confirmed the sad news on Steve’s blog today. Gerber will be best remembered as […]

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February 3rd, 2008

Man Who Robbed Lost Star Reaches Plea

The man who robbed Josh Holloway (Lost’s Sawyer) at gunpoint in 2005 agreed to a plea deal that will earn the repeat offender 30 years in prison, Associated Press reports. It apparently wasn’t this guy’s first, or even fifth offense. His police record includes kidnapping, auto theft and first-degree robbery.
Armed with a semiautomatic .45-caliber pistol, […]

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