http://www.kelowna.com/2009/09/27/sc...y-and-success/
Sci-fi series eats up incredible hours, money and success
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | 3:40 am
Canwest News Service
Brad Wright, Rob Cooper and their Canadian creative team have quietly managed, over the past 12 years, to make 300 hours of television, using nearly $1 billion of an American studio’s money.
"They write us a huge cheque at the beginning of every year and we go off and make our show — it’s great," says Cooper, at Burnaby’s Bridge Studio soundstages that have housed Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis and now Stargate Universe.
The shows, produced by MGM Worldwide Television, air on Syfy channel in the U.S., Canada’s Space channel, and around the world.
It all started in 1997 when Wright, then a producer-writer on MGM’s Vancouver-filmed Outer Limits, pitched the idea of a TV adaptation of the 1994 movie Stargate. The studio paired him with American Jonathan Glassner, who left after two years and story editor Cooper took over.
"I haven’t left the lot since Outer Limits," says the Toronto-born Wright, who came to Vancouver in the 1980s to work on the Canadian series Neon Rider.
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http://www.kelowna.com/2009/09/27/wh...ean-up-to-now/
Why Stargate’s a shaggy Rob story
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | 3:40 am
Canwest News Service
During filming this week of the 18th episode of the new sci-fi series Stargate Universe, actor Robert Carlyle looks shaggier than he did in the show’s pilot episode.
That’s the actor’s own choice, based on his memories of watching the Apollo moon landings on TV as a kid in Scotland.
“I was always fascinated by these squared-jawed marine types that went up, but when they came down — whoosh,” Carlyle gestures to his own bristly chin and long hair. No squared-jawed type himself, the wiry actor stars as the new show’s anti-hero, abrasive and misanthropic scientist Nicholas Rush, who finds himself stranded with a mismatched collection of civilians and military types aboard a space ship built by ancient aliens.
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Sci-fi series eats up incredible hours, money and success
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | 3:40 am
Canwest News Service
Brad Wright, Rob Cooper and their Canadian creative team have quietly managed, over the past 12 years, to make 300 hours of television, using nearly $1 billion of an American studio’s money.
"They write us a huge cheque at the beginning of every year and we go off and make our show — it’s great," says Cooper, at Burnaby’s Bridge Studio soundstages that have housed Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis and now Stargate Universe.
The shows, produced by MGM Worldwide Television, air on Syfy channel in the U.S., Canada’s Space channel, and around the world.
It all started in 1997 when Wright, then a producer-writer on MGM’s Vancouver-filmed Outer Limits, pitched the idea of a TV adaptation of the 1994 movie Stargate. The studio paired him with American Jonathan Glassner, who left after two years and story editor Cooper took over.
"I haven’t left the lot since Outer Limits," says the Toronto-born Wright, who came to Vancouver in the 1980s to work on the Canadian series Neon Rider.
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http://www.kelowna.com/2009/09/27/wh...ean-up-to-now/
Why Stargate’s a shaggy Rob story
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | 3:40 am
Canwest News Service
During filming this week of the 18th episode of the new sci-fi series Stargate Universe, actor Robert Carlyle looks shaggier than he did in the show’s pilot episode.
That’s the actor’s own choice, based on his memories of watching the Apollo moon landings on TV as a kid in Scotland.
“I was always fascinated by these squared-jawed marine types that went up, but when they came down — whoosh,” Carlyle gestures to his own bristly chin and long hair. No squared-jawed type himself, the wiry actor stars as the new show’s anti-hero, abrasive and misanthropic scientist Nicholas Rush, who finds himself stranded with a mismatched collection of civilians and military types aboard a space ship built by ancient aliens.
REST AT LINK ABOVE
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and reviews of all the rest of eps will go here too, as the SGU Pilot Review Hub is for the pilot only.
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