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Big Finish Productions releases the second Doctor Who audio drama in its Companion Chronicles range (short stories performed audiobook style with one or two actors). Wendy Padbury and Nicholas Briggs star. (more…)

BBC Radio 7 airs the sixth episode of a new series of Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor, with Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller. The new eighth Doctor adventures are produced by, and will later get a CD release from, Big Finish Productions. (more…)

ABC airs the 54th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Guest star Nestor Carbonell makes his first appearance as Richard Alpert. (more…)

BBC Radio 7 airs the seventh episode of a new series of Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor, with Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller. The new eighth Doctor adventures are produced by, and will later get a CD release from, Big Finish Productions. (more…)

The 15th episode of Tim Kring’s sci-fi/superhero series Heroes airs on NBC, starring Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, and Milo Ventimiglia. Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) guest stars. (more…)

ITV premieres the second episode of the science fiction series Primeval. (more…)

Sci-Fi Channel airs the 48th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. (more…)

Epic Records releases a remastered and expanded edition of the Electric Light Orchestra album Out Of The Blue. (more…)

The fan-made internet series Starship Farragut releases its first episode, following the crew of a sister ship of the Kirk-era Enterprise. (more…)

ESA’s unmanned Rosetta space probe, carrying the Philae lander bound for a 2014 rendezvous with Comet 67/P Churyumov–Gerasimenko, makes a gravity-assist flyby of planet Mars to alter its trajectory. As Rosetta will be only 160 miles from the Martian surface at its closest approach, the spacecraft is put into a safe mode for this critical part of its trip, and emerges unscathed. Its next gravity assist will come from Earth itself later in the year.

The 17th episode of Tim Kring’s sci-fi/superhero series Heroes airs on NBC, starring Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, and Milo Ventimiglia. George Takei (Star Trek), Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who) and Eric Roberts (Doctor Who) guest star. (more…)

NASA’s New Horizons probe, on a one-way trip to become the first probe to swing past distant Pluto, picks up speed dramatically as it slingshots past Jupiter. New Horizons sensors are trained on the giant planet to get the first look at Jupiter since Galileo swan-dived into its crushing atmosphere. New Horizons gains nearly 9,000 miles per hour as it swings past Jupiter, which will put it at Pluto in July 2015. New Horizons’ camera catches an erupting volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, spewing material 200 miles above the surface.

ITV premieres the fourth episode of the science fiction series Primeval. (more…)

The 18th episode of Tim Kring’s sci-fi/superhero series Heroes airs on NBC, starring Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, and Milo Ventimiglia. Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) guest star. (more…)

Epic Records releases a remastered edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1985 album Vulture Culture, featuring demos and previously unreleased material from the recording of the original album. (more…)

Sci-Fi Channel airs the 51st episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Mark Sheppard guest stars. (more…)

ITV premieres the sixth episode of the science fiction series Primeval, bringing the show’s first season to a close. (more…)