Convention
Images Are Up!
November 28, 2005: I've posted plenty of images from
this year's Official Farscape Convention in Burbank last
week. There are pictures of the Prop & Costume
display, the convention guests and the fans, too. Click
here to see the pictures.
 AmyJ's
Back!
November 12, 2005: At long last, we've restored AmyJ's
fiction to our pages. She has some fantastic stories - the
multi-award winning "Daddy's Girl", part of the
Elenor Crichotn series of five complete and inter-related
pieces, as well as several stand-alone stories. Be sure to
check out our Fiction
in Technicolor pages for these and other stories by a
host of outstanding authors!
 DVD
Commentaries Demystified
November 5, 2005: Farscape DVDs are
available for Region 1, 2, and 4. Each region features
different commentaries for different episodes. What's
worse, some of the regions have several editions of the
DVDs and they have different commentaries as well. We've
compiled a list of the various options to make it easier
to choose. Click here for
the overall summary of DVD Commentaries.
Claudia
Joins Stargate!
November 23, 2005: Claudia Black (Aeryn Sun) will be
joining the cast of Stargate SG-1 full time as the cheeky
Vala Mal Doran in the series' 9th season. Ben Browder will
be reprising his role as Cameron Mitchell. Stargate is
shown on the SciFi channel on Friday nights and new
episodes will be showing beginning in early January.
 "Peacekeeper
Wars" wins DVD award
November 10, 2005: "Farscape: The
Peacekeeper Wars" won for best miniseries
/made-for-TV movie at the second annual TV DVD Awards
presented Monday night in Marina del Ray, California. DVD
boxed sets featuring such classic television characters as
Lucy Ricardo, Mary Richards, Bart Simpson, Mr. Spock and
Capt. Kirk were also among the winners. For the
complete article, click
here.
Stargate
is Official for Season 10
 October
24, 2005: Stargate SG-1 wil be back for an
unprecidented 10th season on the SciFi Channel. Twenty new
episodes have been ordered, and, although
unofficial, rumor has it that Claudia Black (Aeryn
Sun) will reprise her role as Vala. Ben Browder (John
Crichton) is also expected to return as Cameron Mitchell.
For more information on Stargate, check out GateWorld.
 Will
Ben Write for Stargate?
November 9, 2005: The answer is, I don't know.
Yet. Soon, Gateworld
will be publishing an interview with Ben in which he'll
answer that and loads of other questions for Stargate (and
Farscape) fans. Meanwhile, check out their pre-interview
article. If you sign up for the Gateworld
newsletter, you'll receive "exclusive, full-size
screen captures" of the interview.
Also at Gateworld,
be sure to vote in their Claudia Black/Vala Mal Doran
poll.
 Creation
Entertainment Posts Pictures
October 26, 2005: Creation
Entertainment has posted image of some of the costumes
that will be part of the Farscape Costume Museum. They
will be auctioned off on Sunday at the Farscape
Official Convention being held November 18-20 in Burbank,
CA. Click
here for more information.The
World's Best Space Sci-Fi Ever: Your verdict
October 26, 2005: Farscape
has come in third, both in the US and and worldwide in
NewScientist's "The World's Best Space Sci-Fi
Ever" poll. Both Firefly (884 votes) and Serenity
(727 votes) came in ahead of Farscape which garnered 271
votes. Click
here for the rest of the story.
 Update
to the Artwork Gallery
October 23, 2005: We have another huge
update to the Artwork
Gallery. ScorpSik has shared over 50 of her anime,
sketches, caricatures, paintings and dolls. These are all
new to the gallery and have to be seen to be believed! In
a previous update earlier in the week, we posted some
super new work from Sean and Somniac.
ADV Press
Release has details of Starburst 3.1 DVD
October 21, 2005: In their latest press
release, ADV
Films has given out details of the first Season Three
Starburst Edition DVD. Included will be an exclusive
interview with Virginia Hey (Zhaan). There will also be
interviews with Claudia Black (Aeryn Sun) and Anthony
Simcoe (D'Argo). Guy Gross, Farscape's award-winning
composer, is featured, with an interview and a full-length
audio commentary about his score for "Eat Me".
Claudia Black supplies a commentary for
"Self-Inflicted Wounds, Part II". Rounding out
this packed collection are deleted scenes, the original
Farscape TV promos, a special Season 3 promo created for
the Television Critics Association, “Cool Farscape
Facts” by Paul Simpson (author of Farscape: The
Illustrated Companion), “Alien Encounters,” an
extensive production design gallery, updated character
histories, and previews of other coming attractions from
ADV Films.
Change in
FilmCon's guest list
October 23, 2005: Unfortunately, Dave and
Lou Elsey's appearance at FilmCon
5 has been canceled. The convention organizer was
unable to afford the sudden increase in airline fees
brought about by the rise in oil prices. However, FilmCon
has assured Karlsweb that they will try again in the
spring.
ADV Films
drops double-sided DVDs for Farscape Starburst Editions
October 15, 2005: Beginning with the seventh edition
of the Farscape Starburst Editions, ADV
Films will begin using single-sided, dual-layer disks.
The double-sided disks would occasionally skip for no
particular reason. Now, instead of getting two
double-sided disks in a package, you'll get four
single-sided ones. Farscape: Starburst Edition Vol. 7
will be released on December 13 and will retail for
$24.98. Thanks to TV
Shows on DVD for the information!
Two
Rockne TV Shows Are Coming to DVD
 
October 12, 2005: Another of Rockne S. O'Bannon's (the
creator of Farscape) prematurely cancelled shows, Alien
Nation, will be available on DVD on January 3, 2006.
It will include a Behind the Scenes featurette and a
commentary on the two-hour pilot by director Kenneth
Johnson (V: The Second Generation - a sequel to the
1983 mini-series V - coming in 2007) Alien
Nation ran form September 1989 to April 1990 on FOX.
Also coming
soon will be season one of SeaQuest DSV. This will
be presented as 4 double-sided DVDs and will include
exclusive never-before-seen footage. The series will be in
stores on December 26th, just in time to catch the
after-Christmas shoppers.
New
Images in Our Artwork Gallery
October 17,
2006: Farscape isn't just about a television program, it's also about the
people who love it. We have some great new images from ScorpSik (who now
has two pages of her own!), Sean and Somniac in our
Artwork Gallery. Check it
out and see this amazing artwork.
 Who
are those people, anyway?
October 10, 2005: I've had several inquiries about the
people in the top banners we use at Karlsweb. Just as a
brief explanation, these people play the characters in
Karlsweb's original fiction. For more of an explanation,
go to our
fiction pages (mostly restored) and our character
biography pages.
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