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by Rick Norwood
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On more solid ground: Enterprise will move to 9 P.M. in March, so it won't compete with
Smallville. Will Smallville viewers switch channels to watch Enterprise or stay
tuned for Angel? My recommendation is to switch. Stargate Atlantis will debut in June. Christopher
Reeve will return to Smallville. Andromeda has been renewed for a fifth season, but that will be
its last. The Babylon 5 spin-off, Crusade, will be out on DVD in 2004. The Lone Gunman will not.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
Rumors abound on the internet. Battlestar Galactica has been given the go-ahead for six episodes by
Ron Moore. Rick Berman will be fired from Star Trek. Star Trek Enterprise will finish up
the Xindi story line in eleven more episodes and that will be the end of Star Trek for the foreseeable
future. Babylon 5 will return with new episodes by J. Michael Straczynski. Rumors, all rumors.
And all is silence as to if or when the episodes of Jeremiah that have already aired in Canada will be shown in
the US. Very strange. There have been numerous interviews with and articles about Sean Astin and his plans
after The Lord of the Rings. None of them that I've read even mentions Astin's role as
Mr. Smith on Jeremiah? What is going on?
The Saturday reruns of Enterprise have proved unreliable -- last Saturday they aired an episode of
Voyager -- so I am listing Enterprise on Wednesday, opposite Smallville. The only
shows I recommend are Enterprise and Smallville. It is typical of programming strategy that the
two best SF shows on TV come on at the same time.
Monday, February 2
 
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