Varese Sarabande releases a new recording, conducted by Jerry Goldsmith, of Alex North’s rejected score for 2001: a space odyssey. Turned down by director Stanley Kubrick before the movie’s 1968 release, the rejected score has never been released in any form.
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Former Bourgeois Tagg frontman Brent Bourgeois releases his third solo album – and his first Christian music album – Come Join The Living World on Reunion Records.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 151st episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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The 24th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Lisa Howard, Von Flores, and Richard Chevolleau.
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The ninth episode of the Sci-Fi Channel original series Welcome To Paradox airs, a loosely-connected anthology of science fiction stories set in Betaville, a utopian future city whose incredible technology has frequently unintended side-effects. Henry Rollins (of Black Flag fame) stars in a story co-written by SF short story writer David Ira Cleary.
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The 58th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan also star.
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The 24th episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. John Savage guest stars.
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The 16th episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio, continuing Dirk Maggs’ adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel Life, The Universe, And Everything with most of the original radio cast. An archival audiobook recording of the late Douglas Adams allows the Hitchhiker’s Guide creator to play the part of Agrajag; Joanna Lumley (Sapphire & Steel, Absolutely Fabulous) also guest stars.
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The Duran Duran CD Astronaut is released.
China returns to Earth orbit with the launch of Shenzhou 6, which, unlike China’s previous manned space shot in 2003, is broadcast on live TV. Taikonauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng orbit Earth for five days. During this mission, the Shenzhou spacecraft displays a previously untested ability to change its orbit. According to some press accounts, the live broadcast of the launch – an unusual step for China’s space program – is accompanied by the sound of the original 1970s theme from Battlestar Galactica.
ABC airs the 28th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Cynthia Watros become series regulars; DJ Qualls guest stars.
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The eighteenth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-13. Yuri Lonchakov and Michael Fincke take up residence on the ISS for 199 days. Arriving with them on the ISS for a ten-day stay is space tourist and computer game mogul Richard Garriott (creator of the series of Ultima role-playing games, which feature his alter ego “Lord British” as their benevolent ruler), who returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-11 with the Expedition 16 crew. Like other “space tourists” before him, Garriott pays for his own Soyuz seat and mission training. While aboard, Garriott films Apogee Of Fear, which he later calls “the first science fiction film actually filmed in space”, with the help of his crewmates; NASA later objects to the movie when it discovers that its astronauts were recruited as actors and crew. Obviously bitten by the space acting bug, Fincke would later guest star in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.
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Big Finish Productions releases the audio drama box set Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 1, beginning a new storyline for Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor. Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Mark Bonnar, and John Woodvine guest star. Doom Coalition 1 is comprised of four single-CD stories: The Eleven, The Red Lady, The Galileo Trap, and The Satanic Mill.
The 94th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Chad L. Coleman (The Expanse, The Orville) guest stars.
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The 116th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. This is the premiere of the series’ sixth season.
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The 68th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on UK cable/satellite comedy channel Dave. This is the first episode of Red Dwarf XII, shot almost back-to-back with Red Dwarf XI.
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Fox airs the sixth episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. Kelly Hu (X2: X-Men United, The 100) and James Horan (Star Trek: Enterprise) guest star.
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