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Douglas Netter, the executive producer of the science fiction series Babylon 5 and its various spinoffs after the series’ run, from Crusade through the 2007 direct-to-DVD project Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, dies at the age of 96. A former executive vice president of MGM in the early 1970s, Netter also produced such TV projects as The Sacketts, Five Mile Creek, Hypernauts, and Captain Power, the series which introduced him to future Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski.
The 113th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW.
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La-La Land Records releases a 3-CD box set of music from the 1970s Lynda Carter Wonder Woman TV series, featuring music by Charles Fox, Artie Kane, Robert Prince, Johnny Harris, Robert O. Ragland, Angela Morley, and Richard LaSalle. 
The 834th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 135th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star.
The CW airs the 68th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin.
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The 114th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV, Masters Of The Universe, Universal Soldier) guest stars.
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The 835th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 136th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. Michelle Gomez guest stars.
The CW airs the 69th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. This is the third season finale.
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Actor Jared Martin, star of the cult classic genre series The Fantastic Journey and War Of The Worlds, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 75. In the 1960s, Martin had the good fortune to befriend and room with fellow college student Brian De Palma, and was given a role in some of De Palma’s early films. He moved on to roles in such movies as Westworld, though he may best be known for a recurring role in the prime time soap Dallas. After leaving acting as a full-time profession, he continued to mentor younger filmmakers, especially those coming from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The 115th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. This is the finale of the series’ fifth season.
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The 836th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 137th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. Nigel Hastings guest stars.
The 837th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 138th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. Michelle Gomez guest stars.
India’s space agency, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization), successfully launches its first heavy-lift rocket, the GSLV Mark III, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. A massive launch vehicle capable of hefting 4-ton payloads into a geostationary orbit, GSLV Mark III’s first payload is the Indian government’s GSAT-19 communications satellite. ISRO also has its eyes on manned spaceflight, with later GSLV payloads potentially including a crewed vehicle to low Earth orbit.
Actor Adam West, forever known to millions as the star of TV’s Batman in the 1960s, dies at the age of 88 after a short bout with leukemia. After years of paying his dues with guest starring roles, bit parts and commercial appearances, West beat out actors such as Lyle Waggoner for the role of Batman, but after three seasons on TV and a movie produced by the makers of the TV series, Batman had run its course, and West found himself battling typecasting, accepting work in subpar projects and returning to the role of Batman both as voice work (for the Super Friends animated series) and live action (the lamentable 1979 Legends Of The Superheroes specials). Voice work became a mainstay of West’s career, and he landed a long-running recurring role on Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy animated series.
The 838th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 139th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas. Michelle Gomez guest stars in a story that sees the return of the Ice Warriors and another character not seen since the 1970s.
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Story: Original Split Enz bassist Mike Chunn, who played with the New Zealand supergroup in its formative art-rock-turned-theatrical-extravaganza phase (1972-77) charts the formation, the heady rise and eventual success of the group, with comments from all of his bandmates and his own insider perspective.
Review: Can there ever really be enough books about the musical career of the Finn Brothers? (For this reader: no. As it so happens, the first book ever reviewed in this section was a book on this very topic.) And strangely enough, the aforementioned book about Crowded House quoted this book heavily: primary source material if ever there was some. And source material doesn’t get much more primary than the memoir of one of the founding members of Split Enz.
Intrada Records releases the first volume of Alan Silvestri’s music from the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on CD (following an earlier digital release with fewer tracks). There will be three further volumes in the series.
Actor and director Stephen Furst, well-known to the American viewing public as hapless Flounder from the 1970s frat movie Animal House and as Dr. Axelrod from St. Elsewhere, dies at the age of 63 from complications from a long battle with diabetes. Furst co-starred as much-put-upon Centauri diplomatic aide Vir Cotto in all five seasons of the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5; he also directed episodes of Babylon 5 and its follow-up, Crusade, as well as voicing Booster in the animated Toy Story TV spinoff, Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command. He also directed (sometimes under a pseudonym) such Syfy original movies as Path Of Destruction and Basilisk: The Serpent King.
The 839th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 140th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas. This episode is written by playwright Rona Munro, writer of the final story of the original 20th century run of Doctor Who.
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The 840th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 141st episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas. Michelle Gomez and John Simm guest star in part one of a two-part story.
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Intrada Records releases the soundtrack compilation Stargate SG-1: Music From Selected Episodes, collecting Richard Band’s scores from the early seasons of the sci-fi series.
The 841st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 142nd episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas. Michelle Gomez and John Simm guest star in part two of the season ten finale.
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British actor Trevor Baxter, best known in genre circles for a one-off appearance in the 1970s Doctor Who story The Talons Of Weng-Chiang as Professor George Litefoot, dies at the age of 84. Though his guest role on Doctor Who lasted six half-hour episodes, his double-act chemistry with fellow guest star Christopher Benjamin was memorable enough that there was brief discussion at the BBC of possibly launching the two Victorian-era characters in their own TV spinoff. That idea was quickly shelved, but Big Finish Productions, the makers of audio Doctor Who, would revive it in the 21st century, leading to the popular audio series Jago & Litefoot, which ran for nearly a decade. Baxter’s list of guest starring roles spans almost the entirety of classic British TV, and he acted on stage on the West End and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was also a prolific playwright in his own right.
In a specially shot trailer aired after BBC1’s live coverage of the Wimbledon men’s tennis finals, the first female Doctor Who is unveiled in the form of actress Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch, Black Mirror, Attack The Block). Her first appearance in the role proper will presumably take place at the end of outgoing star Peter Capaldi’s final episode, to be aired on Christmas Day 2017. The transition to a new Doctor also includes the transition to new showrunner Chris Chibnall, whose first season will be broadcast in 2018. 
Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau, a fixture of genre TV and movies since the late 1950s, dies at the age of 89. The star of such series as Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999, Landau was also a renowned acting teacher, and was in demand both before and after his TV heyday with roles in North By Northwest, Crimes And Misdemeanors, and Ed Wood, in which his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in his waning years brought him an Academy Award. He worked steadily through his eighties, in both on-screen roles and voice roles, with some projects yet to be released at the time of his death.
Pioneering horror film director George A. Romero dies at the age of 77 after a battle with lung cancer. In 1968, his low-budget shocker Night Of The Living Dead all but gave birth to the zombie horror genre. Some of his later films attempted to tackle different subject matter, meeting with box office indifference until he returned to the zombie genre with Dawn Of The Dead (1976), which earned back more than 100 times its production budget. High-profile works after that included the Stephen King-written Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), and a third film in his zombie cycle, Day Of The Dead (1985). Sticking this time with his connection to the genre, Romero continued to be involved in spinoffs for comics, internet shorts, and further films, including Road Of The Dead, a movie he promoted shortly before his death. His movies remain immensely influential in the horror genre.
Actress Deborah Watling, best known for her 1960s stint as Victoria Waterfield, an orphaned girl taken aboard the TARDIS as a companion in Doctor Who, dies at the age of 69 from lung cancer, only six weeks after being diagnosed. Joining the show in the pivotal Evil Of The Daleks serial in 1967, and remaining through the end of the six-part Fury From The Deep in 1968, Watling was technically a series regular for only a year, though that time coincided with a run of stories now widely regarded as classics, pitting the TARDIS team again Cybermen, Ice Warriors and Yeti. She also appeared in Out Of The Unknown and Danger UXB, and reprised the role of Victoria in later Doctor Who projects such as Dimensions In Time (1993) and Downtime (1995).
8-Bit Weapon releases the album Class Apples, renditions of classical music played entirely on vintage Apple II computers.
The non-fiction book Fallen Down: Heartache & Compassion in Undertale by Joel Couture is published as party of a StoryBundle release.
Streaming service Amazon Prime Video premieres the second episode of the second live-action adaptation of Ben Edlund’s comic The Tick, starring Peter Serafinowicz, Griffin Newman (Gravity) and Jackie Earle Haley (The Bad News Bears, Preacher), as part of the first season (all dropped on the same day). The new episodes make up only the first half of the first season, the rest of which will be released in 2018.