Depois desse trailer, minha expectativa com Tron Legacy ficou ainda maior. A-do-rei!

Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole, John Noble, and Anna Torv in Fringe.

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Fringe, the consistently quirky supernatural drama, has won a third season from Fox.

A renewal for the series was expected: though it's slipped a bit in the ratings it's still given Fox a strong position on Thursdays, which have been very competitive this year. Fringe is up against a sharply divided field that includes The Office, Supernatural, CSI, and Grey's Anatomy. Though Fringe does lose some audience from its hit lead-in, Bones, it's clear Fox sees them as a good match. (I wonder if anyone's pondering a cross-over episode? I'd love to see Dr. Brennan talking to Walter about--well, anything.)

Kevin Reilly, entertainment president of the Fox Broadcasting Company, had already expressed confidence in Fringe last week, suggesting it was likely to return. "People haven't abandoned Fringe," Reilly said then, responding to the show's ratings erosion and lead-in fall-off. "It just may have moved to their second choice; they're picking it up on their DVRs or Hulu. When there's wiggle room in the time period, they come back."

"Fringe tapped into a deep creative mine this year that built momentum throughout the season and helped give us our first real foothold on TV's most competitive night," said Reilly this weekend. "The entire Fringe team -- from the producers and writers to the cast and crew -- has taken smart storytelling and top production quality to a whole new level. The rest of this season is mind-blowing, and we can't wait to get started on the third installment of this amazing journey."

We'll have to wait a little while longer. Fringe is currently on hiatus until April 7.

Fringe Renewed for Third Season originally appeared on About.com Sci-Fi / Fantasy on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 07:00:13.

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• Planet 51 (2009). Little kids might enjoy the gags, but there's not much here to entertain the adults. Lots of clips on the video page, so check out vids before you buy. Features: "Run Rover Run" game!, 3 extended scenes, Music video montage, 2 featurettes. More details below the jump.
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• Justin Time (2010). Wow, I can't believe no one has used the play on words "justin time" before for a movie about a kid named Justin who can manipulate time! Wait ... wait ... yes I can. From producer-director-writer Rob Diamond (known for festival-friendly indie dramas like Propensity and Tears of a King). If there were a Razzie for worst-Photoshopped poster, this would win, and from the trailer it looks like Clockstoppers with skiing instead of skateboarding; but, on the other hand, it does have Danny Trejo in it, so it can't be all bad. More details below the jump.
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This Week: Movies/DVD (Mar. 8-15) originally appeared on About.com Sci-Fi / Fantasy on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 04:13:59.

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Foi uma semana mais agitada que o normal e ainda cortada por uma viagem longa porém muito legal. Esse mês está sendo repleto de bancas de qualificação e defesa, o que também tem me tirado tempo de escrever aqui no blog. Retomo em breve pois tenho uma série de links e algumas ideias/insights por compartilhar.

Allison (Patricia Arquette) and Joe's (Jake Weber) wedding is revisited on Medium.

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TELEVISION—New episodes this week from:

• Chuck,
• Ghost Whisperer,
• Caprica,
• Medium, and
• Survivors.

Guest stars this week include Melinda Clarke (The O.C.) on Ghost Whisperer; Bruce Gray and Kathy Baker (Picket Fences) recurring as Joe's parents on Medium.

Synopses below the jump. For details see the listings (regular or alphabetical). Read more...

This Week: TV (Mar. 8-15) originally appeared on About.com Sci-Fi / Fantasy on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 00:55:19.

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 Go to Review The Survivors season one finale airs Saturday, March 20, and BBC America is wasting no time debuting the hot-from-the-oven second season of the reimagined series. Season 2 premieres stateside just a few days later on a new night, Tuesday, March 23.

Like another urgently told and highly personal postapocalyptic series, Jericho, Survivors makes for engrossing television, thanks in part to a pedigree with roots in the best of British sci-fi: the series has be recreated by the co-creator and writer of Primeval, Adrian Hodges, from an original series by Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks.

In season 1, a resilient group of survivors led by Abby Grant (Julie Graham), having experienced the shock of a mystery virus wiping out almost the entire human race, tried to bond together as a group with a shared stake in survival. But without the rule of law she never knew if the next person she encounters would prove friendly or hostile, and even in her own band the personalities and past experiences of the survivors created doubt and conflict, both open and hidden.

Season 2, only just aired in the UK, finds the group now struggling not just against the difficulties of day to day life amid the ruins of the post-virus apocalypse, but also against the threat of other emerging communities and the machinations of the sinister secret Lab that's been monitoring events all along.

Returning for the second season alongside Abby are Greg (Paterson Joseph), a loner, hiding the pain of his past; Anya (Zoë Tapper), a doctor who has seen too much; Al (Philip Rhys), a playboy who became a surrogate father to young and headstrong Najid (Chahak Patel); Sarah (Robyn Addison), a hedonist used to getting her own way; and Tom (Max Beesley), the former high security prisoner who always weighs how he'll be able to survive.

Curious what's going to happen? Episode synopses are included below the jump. Warning: spoilers ahead! Read more...

Survivors on Tuesdays for Season 2 originally appeared on About.com Sci-Fi / Fantasy on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 11:14:55.

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Tom Welling as Clark Kent in Smallville.

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As expected, The CW has renewed the newly energized Smallville for a tenth season, joining its housemates The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural on the network's 2010-2011 schedule.

What won Smallville back? Two sets of numbers:

• In its Friday night slot, Smallville has taken on all the guys who aren't watching CBS's high-estrogen supernatural ratings dynamo, Ghost Whisperer, and its new partner Medium. On Friday nights Smallville has been winning its time slot among men 18-34 and men 18-49, always a plus for network executives.
• Smallville has also dramatically improved The CW's ratings performance in the troublesome Friday 8:00 p.m. time period over last year: the network is up by 74% overall (over 3 million viewers) and 200% in men 18-34. Improved over what? Last year The CW was airing the last season of Everybody Hates Chris and a football sitcom called The Game. Both shows were canceled after The CW decided to forego half-hour comedies, so the network must be pleased that its shift in tactics for Friday nights is paying off.

What about casting? The show has pared down its regulars over the last several seasons, leaving a current starting lineup of Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Erica Durance, Justin Hartley, and Cassidy Freeman (plus Callum Blue as Zod, but the Smallville nemesis storylines have been one-season deals lately). The CW has confirmed only Welling for season 10, but Durance's contract runs through season 10 and Freeman's has an option for season 10 as well. Read more...

Smallville Renewed for Tenth Season originally appeared on About.com Sci-Fi / Fantasy on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 05:06:36.

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Remember this? Joseph Fiennes and Shohreh Aghdashloo in FlashForward.

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December was such a long time ago, even for people seeing visions of the future. In fact it's been 14 weeks since FlashForward, ABC's Lost-in-waiting, aired its midseason finale--long enough to air, say, an entire season of Merlin (or two seasons of Survivors).

It was a pretty risky move postponing the return, not just once but twice, of such an arc-driven, detail oriented show, and it's an open question whether FlashForward will be able to regain traction after so long a hiatus. (Optimist: "Battlestar did it!" Realist: "Battlestar did a lot of things.")

ABC is doing what it can. It's rush-released the DVD of the first ten episodes, so you can catch up on your own time (click here to compare prices on the DVD). You can also watch all ten full episodes online at abc.com. And it announced the intriguing casting of James Callis in a recurring role later in the season.

Meanwhile, for those who watch like their TV on television, ABC is airing a synopsis episode, "What Did You See?", on Tuesday Mar. 16, two days before the return episode, "Revelation Zero." This will be useful even for regular watchers, as the title indicates: did you catch, in other words, all the stuff the creators wanted you to notice?

The recap, ABC says, details the intricate plotlines, including FBI agent Mark Benford's apparent involvement in partner Demetri Noh's impending death; Bryce Varley's Japan trip to find the woman from his vision; Lloyd Simcoe and Simon's confession that their experiment caused the blackout; and Lloyd's kidnapping.

Think of it as the in-class review before the midterm exam.

FlashForward Eases Long Hiatus With Synopsis Episode originally appeared on About.com Sci-Fi / Fantasy on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 01:35:05.

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Uma madrugada, uma canção que não quer sair do repeat mental, uma ironia. A simplicidade dos elementos - não necessariamente nessa ordem - desvelam o óbvio. It's late in the night, dancing is done The music has died, you're ready to run But you don't have a clue, this party hasn't ended yet Not for me and you, now you're just pretending You're hiding from yourself, Yes you are, yes you are

Desde o início do mês tenho recebido uma série de chamadas para eventos. A maioria deles eu publico na íntegra no Blog do MDCL, no entanto darei destaque a alguns mais pertinentes à área de tecnologias aqui. >> AEJMC - A AEJMC 2010 Convention - Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication está com chamada aberta até dia 1o. de Abril. O evento acontecerá entre os dias 4 e 7 de

Muito interessante esse vídeo de visualização de dados sobre o estado da Internet, produzida pela JESS3, agência de web design, branding e visualização de dados. Os números e estimativas são relativos ao ano de 2009, no entanto, em nenhum momento aparecem as fontes de onde saíram tais números, o que gera uma certa desconfiança, principalmente para utilização dos mesmos. JESS3 / The State of The

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Um espectro ronda a vida de todo escritor que se preza ou se despreza: o bloqueio criativo. Encarar a página em branco com a cabeça vazia, ou com a cabeça cheia mas os dedos dormentes, ter uma necessidade aguda de escrever e ainda assim ser incapaz de fazer as palavras encontrarem o caminho até o papel. Being there, done that. Mas, neste início de 2010, eu tropecei com uma síndrome que nunca tinha enfrentado desde que aprendi a ler assistindo Vila Sésamo, lá pelos idos de 1975, e que é o reverso exato do writer’s block: o reader’s block.

O ano começou bem, com Duma Key, de Stephen King, e Singularity Sky, de Charles Stross, e eu fechei janeiro com um saldo de dez livros lidos, o que não é nada perto de gente como meu amigo Fábio Fernandes, que nesse mesmo tempo já tinha mandado goela abaixo quase cinquenta livros, mas é uma média aceitável para mim. Por outro lado, se eu examinasse a lista com mais cuidado, teria soado o primeiro sinal de alerta: desses dez livros, só dois – justamente os dois que eu citei – eram de ficção.

Em fevereiro, meu ritmo de leitura despencou ladeira abaixo. Abri o mês lendo City at the End of Time, de Greg Bear, e fecho o mês lendo… City at the End of Time, de Greg Bear. Ok, parte da culpa cabe ao livro. Bear costuma ser um escritor genial,  City at the End of Time tem uma premissa fascinante e é recheado com ideias que exsudam sense of wonder. No dia em que conseguir terminá-lo, espero até comentar por aqui. Mas a história vai se desdobrando num ritmo de conta-gotas e as descrições, longas e arrastadas, não são exatamente o que se poderia chamar de um tributo a Page Turner. Mas seria injusto fazer dele o bode expiatório das minhas parcas leituras no mês. Até porque tentei entremear o romance de Bear com outros livros e praticamente nenhum deles engrenou até agora.

Eu me pergunto para onde foi o tempo que normalmente dedico a leituras, e porque levou com ele aquela sensação de arrebatamento que faz as páginas voarem diante dos meus olhos. Não foi excesso de trabalho. Só agora, no final de fevereiro, é que eu peguei um trabalho que consome dias inteiros. Não foi o carnaval, que eu passei em casa, revisando o meu romance. Não foi nem mesmo a revisão, que é bico comparada à tarefa de escrever o romance, coisa que eu fiz no ano passado e não impediu que eu chegasse em dezembro com quase cem obras de ficção devidamente degustadas, fora os livros de não-ficção.

Postei um comentário sobre isso no Twitter e recebi centenas de respostas de leitores que estavam passando pela mesma situação no mesmo período. Tá, não foram exatamente centenas. Na verdade, foram só três. Mas é o bastante para me fazer pensar que o problema não é localizado, mas fruto de algum tipo de conjuntura cósmica ou astrológica.

Deve ter a ver com as manchas solares.

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