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by Rick Norwood
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The series finale of Stargate SG1 got the most viewers ever, more than two million. (To put this in context,
a network show with less than 4 million views is almost always cancelled.)
This month Dr. Who returns to the SciFi Channel for a third season. And in the UK, Dr. Who will
be back for a fourth season, with a new companion and a new Christmas special.
On TV in July
Not science fiction really, but I've been watching South Park, The Hits: Volume 1 on DVD. If you
have not already watched South Park, and if you have a thick skin and a strong stomach, I recommend you
give it a try. At first, you will not be able to believe how gross it is. If you are able to move beyond that,
you will begin to notice the sharp satire, great music, and strong storytelling. Not to mention the moral, which
is often surprisingly conservative. I particularly liked the one about too much bad language on
television. And "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", the title of which actually makes perfect sense.
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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. |
The fourth season of Battlestar Galactica will be the last. Also, the between season movie about
Battlestar Pegasus, "Razor," formerly announced as direct to DVD, will be shown first on the air. Turns out that original
series creator Glen Larson owns the movie rights, including direct to DVD movies, and he does not like the grim tone of
the new series. (He may also not like the fact that the new series has gotten much better reviews than his series ever did.)
In addition to twenty-four season two episodes of Heroes, during the slow time around Christmas, when most
series air reruns, there will be 6 stand-alone episodes, Heroes: Origins.
Sunday, July 1
 
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