Space: Above And Beyond. In 1995, a new series debuted on the network that had an unfortunate, but mostly earned reputation of killing many a promising sci-fi series (“Alien Nation” “Firefly” and a few others). This single-season series (it was planned for five) was the ambitious, Australian-lensed space war series called “Space: Above and Beyond”…
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The Twilight Zone’s “Six Degrees of Freedom” fails to fly…
****SOME SPOILERS**** A near-future mission to Mars, sponsored by the “Whipple” company is on the launchpad and ready to take off for the red planet. With less than a few minutes to launch, the crew, led by Commander Alexa Brandt (DeWanda Wise) gets word from Flight Control that incoming North Korean missiles have hit the…
Paley Fest 2019: “Star Trek: Discovery” and the new “Twilight Zone”…
Way back in March of 2006, a very good friend of ours (and convention pal) helped my wife and I secure tickets to an event for the Paley Center (then it was called the MTR; Museum for Television and Radio) honoring our favorite show at the time, Ron Moore’s revision of “Battlestar Galactica.” It was…