The 14th episode of the Battlestar Galactica spinoff series Caprica, a non-space-based tale of the creation of the Cylons over half a century before the events seen in Galactica, premieres on cable channel Syfy. Peter Wingfield (Highlander: The Series), Chris Heyerdahl (Sanctuary) and Ryan Robbins (Falling Skies) guest star.
Cable channel AMC premieres the second episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name.
Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 season of Doctor Who. This release continues the double-disc format of the 2009 specials soundtrack, and includes most of the music recorded for the entire fifth season.
The 15th episode of the Battlestar Galactica spinoff series Caprica, a non-space-based tale of the creation of the Cylons over half a century before the events seen in Galactica, premieres on cable channel Syfy. Peter Wingfield (Highlander: The Series) guest stars.
Cable channel AMC premieres the third episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name.
Cable channel AMC premieres the fourth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name.
British toymaker Character Options releases a wave of five action figures depicting the New Dalek Paradigm introduces in the 2010 season of Doctor Who. These toys reflect the extremely colorful redesign – somewhat controversial in Who fandom – of the Doctor’s arch enemies.
Cable channel AMC premieres the fifth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name.
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 2-CD set featuring – for the first time – the entirety of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. For the first time, the complete score is presented, including alternate takes and arrangements. The limited edition of 5,000 sells out in four months, and the album later gets an unlimited reissue with slightly different cover artwork on the Intrada label.
Years in the making, the live-action adaptation of the classic anime series Space Battleship Yamato premieres in Japan, starring Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki and Tsutomu Yamazaki. The movie takes some liberties with the basics of the Yamato storyline laid out in the early 1970s, but is surprisingly true to the look established in the animated series.
Cable channel AMC premieres the sixth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name. This episode brings the first season to an end.
Japan’s AKATSUKI unmanned space probe fires its thrusters to slow down enough to be captured into an orbit around Venus, a maneuver which will take place mostly in the planet’s shadow, out of communication with Earth. But when ground controllers reacquire communications with AKATSUKI, it is in safe mode, and not in its predicted orbit around Venus. The main orbital engine, damaged by overheating due to salt deposits on a fuel valve, fired for less than three minutes and cannot safely be fired again, leaving AKATSUKI into a solar orbit. Mission planners put AKATSUKI into a hibernation mode to preserve it for another opportunity to orbit Venus in 2015.
Syfy airs the 53rd episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom) guest stars in a Eureka holiday special.
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Part of the 26th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-20. Dmitri Kondratyev, Catherine Coleman and Paolo Nespoli take up residence on the ISS for 159 days, becoming part of the Expedition 26/27 crews. All three return to Earth in May 2011 aboard the same vehicle.
The first episode of Dirk Gently airs on BBC4, adapting Douglas Adams’ novel “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” for the small screen. Stephen Mangan stars as Dirk, with Darren Boyd as Macduff. A series of three further hour-long episodes will follow in 2011.
The 772nd episode of Doctor Who (the 74rd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1, the first Christmas special under showrunner Steven Moffat’s reign. Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins guest star.
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