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George Lucas, business genius

Say what you want about the prequel trilogy and Jake Lloyd, but you've got to admit that George Lucas may have quite a few good tricks up his sleeve if he's still doing good business 30 years after Star Wars.

Re-imagination Ideas For 80's Cartoons [GGTV]

Ever since news broke out that the makers of Batman: Gotham Knights and The Animatrix will be working on a new ThunderCats cartoon, I found myself wondering what other cartoons might be interesting to reboot. I know, I know, I've mentioned in the past both here and on The Geeky Guide to Nearly Everything that I'm not a big fan of remakes, but you have to admit that there's still the fanboy need to tinker. Thus for this week's Geeky Guide to TV, I came up with a few ideas of my own for cartoon re-imaginations.

The Thing About Endings [GGTV]

In this week's Geeky Guide to TV, Rocky discusses the various ways shows end, and the strategies show runners take in wrapping up months or even years of emotional investment by the fans.

A Post-Mortem of the US 2009-2010 Season [GGTV]

This 2009-2010 season of US network television has been pretty brutal for science fiction and fantasy shows. We've seen a lot of the geekier programs cut from the network line-ups with the lack of good ratings despite time-shifted audiences helping to boost the numbers a bit. Given all of our "losses" this season, your Geeky Guide to TV thought it might be helpful to revisit some of these geeky shows and figure out what went wrong.

Jamie Bamber to Star in New BBC Sci-Fi Series

The BBC has just announced the details of a new 8-part science fiction drama series called Outcasts, scheduled to debut in the UK this fall. Read more >>

Lost Auction Offers Fans Dharma Food

With the hit show Lost ending its 6-season run this year, naturally major events catering to the fans are being organized around the world. One of the more interesting ones that have come up is the Lost Auction scheduled for this year. The auction features a wide variety of items from the show that are bound to get fans excited. Read more >>

The Fantasy Worlds of Sam Raimi [GGTV]

In this week's Geeky Guide to TV, let's review the surprisingly geeky world of Sam Raimi, who has helped bring to life worlds of fantasy in the same way that Jerry Bruckheimer keeps giving us new iterations of CSI. It's either this or join the rest of the Craig Horner fans in trying to save Legend of the Seeker.

Spielberg's new dinosaur/time travel TV series gets a seasoned showrunner

Science fiction TV veteran Brannon Braga announced that he will be taking up the reins as Executive Producer and showrunner for the developing Steven Spielberg dinosaurs/time travel TV series on FOX, Terra Nova.  The series, which got a 13-episode order from the network, is looking to feature Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler as its lead. Read more >>

News Flashes: The new Captain America, who's returning for Pirates 4, new Star Wars, and more!

There are lots of cool stuff happening around the sci-fi/fantasy universe that we just can't post about all of them here on NWPH. So until you can send us some additional News Posting Elves to enslave employ, I bring you a list of links to some of the things SFF fans are chatting / tweeting / blogging about. Read more >>

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