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A star from a beloved 1990s sci-fi show pitches a reboot idea, but with one caveat. The genre of science-fiction flourished on television during the 1990s, offering audiences imaginative explorations of futuristic technology and alien encounters. Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ended in 1994, set a high bar for sci-fi, while its spin-offs, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, expanded the franchise's universe. Meanwhile, The X-Files captivated viewers with its blend of government conspiracies, paranormal phenomena, and the chemistry between its two leads, Mulder and Scully, becoming a cultural phenomenon.

The era also saw the rise of more diverse sci-fi narratives, such as the epic storytelling of Babylon 5, which helped pioneer serialized television arcs. Stargate Sg-1 debuted in 1997, blending military drama with intergalactic adventure, while Farscape (1999) offered a darker and more surreal take on space exploration. Amid these series, Sliders stood out for its concept of parallel worlds, with each...

When it comes to 1990s science fiction television, there are heavyweight hits like Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X Files, or Babylon 5 – and then, there are the plucky underdogs like Sliders. The 1995 show followed Quinn Mallory (Jerry O’Connell), a brilliant physics graduate student who accidentally invents a device capable of opening "sliding" portals to parallel worlds.

Along with his biology professor Maximilian Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), his best friend Wade Wells (Sabrina Lloyd), and unwitting lounge-singer-turned-adventurer Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks), the group becomes trapped in the multiverse, sliding from one alternate Earth to another in a desperate attempt to find their way home. With five seasons and a premise that proved to be ahead of its time, Sliders is a forgotten gem of sci-fi television that deserves more recognition — and definitely another watch.

Sliders Is Overlooked Far Too Often, Despite Being A Great Sci-Fi TV Show Sliders Was Full...

Broadway fans in Los Angeles are in for a treat right now as Desi Oakley is reprising her acclaimed performance as Jenna in the musical Waitress!

The musical theatre star previously led the Waitress national touring production and performed in the show at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre back in 2018. She also saved the day in January 2020 when every Jenna actress in London’s West End production fell ill. Desi was flown across the pond to perform in the show for a full week after two performances had to be canceled.

Now, Desi is starring in a production of Waitress at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts in southeast Los Angeles County. The production, featuring music by Sara Bareilles, is as close as you can get to a replica of the Broadway version!

Desi is joined by Broadway talent like Ben Jacoby as Dr. Pomatter, Tony winner Cleavant Derricks as Joe,...

Unique parallel universe exploration in Dark Matter provides a captivating journey into different realities. Apple TV+ continues to impress with adaptations, showcasing the depth of the sci-fi genre. From Wizard of Oz to Sliders to Spider-Verse, the concept of multiverses has long fascinated audiences.

Apple TV+'s Dark Matter is one of the most unique TV shows of the year, telling the story of physicist Jason (Joel Edgerton) as he is kidnapped and transported into an alternate version of his life and fights to get back to his core universe. It's an entertaining journey that explores the idea of parallel universes, a concept that has been used in many movies and TV shows before.

While the idea of parallel universes has become more popular in the last few years with the releases of Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and the introduction of the Multiverse in the MCU,...

The actors from the current revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s “Merrily We Roll Along” have skyrocketed in Gold Derby’s combined odds for the 2024 Tony Awards nominations. The prediction center displays commanding leads for Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe to win their respective categories. This is an understandable result considering this revival is the hottest ticket in town and this trio of performers has been ever-present in the media. But how often does a trio of actors from the same production pull off three separate acting victories at the Tony Awards?

It’s quite common for a musical to grab two acting trophies, but three awards is much rarer. To date, only 15 musical productions have earned three acting wins. The first time this feat occurred was at the 1956 ceremony, which was ironically the first time the Tony Awards ever announced a slate of nominees (previously...

The Critics Choice Award for chutzpah goes to … the lady swathed in gold lamé, sporting a Mohawk fade hairstyle who, without so much as a by-your-leave, crashed past me and scooped up a bottle of Milagro Silver tequila that was part of the centerpiece on tables at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.

“Can I,” she asks, grabbing the booze.

Wasn’t my liquor.

The thing that made me jump up in my seat was that Mohawk Lady already had bottles under her arm.

Quick as a flash, she repeated the same move at neighboring tables.

By now she had a haul of five or six bottles. Crash! One of them fell to the ground, so she swiped a replacement.

Stirred the former crime reporter in me. Who was Mohawk Lady?

She’s an online critic, someone at another table tells me.

Later on I ask her directly but she mumbles,...

Tracy Tormé, a UFO expert and son of stylish crooner Mel Tormé who co-created the 1990s series Sliders and was hand-picked by Gene Roddenberry to serve as the head writer on Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died. He was 64.

Tormé died Thursday of complications from diabetes in Escondido, California, his sister and brother, actress Daisy Tormé (Superman & Lois) and recording artist James Tormé, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Tormé also was a writer on Saturday Night Live during its eighth season (1982-83); wrote and produced with Travis Walton the fantasy drama film Fire in the Sky (1993), starring D.B. Sweeney and Robert Patrick; and was a consultant on the acclaimed Robert Zemeckis sci-fi drama Contact (1997).

He wrote the original treatment for the Francis Lawrence-directed I Am Legend (2007) and received co-producer credit on that film, which grossed $585.4 million for Warner Bros. Smith battles mutants as the last human in New York...

When physics genius Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell), Wade Welles (Sabrina Lloyd), Professor Maximillian Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), and unwitting passer-by Rembrant Brown (Cleavant Derricks) travel to a parallel world via a device created by Quinn, they expect to return in five hours. With their lives in danger, they are forced to cut their journey to this alternate Earth short. They use the device to "slide" home early...only to find themselves in an alternate dimension that is clearly not their own.

See all new photos of the cast of Wicked on Broadway in action The current company includes Talia Suskauer as Elphaba,Brittney Johnson as Glinda, Sharon Sachs as Madame Morrible, Jordan Barrow as Boq, Tony Award winner Cleavant Derricks as The Wizard, James D. Gish as Fiyero, Tony Award nominee Clifton Davis as Doctor Dillamond, and Broadway newcomer Mikayla Renfrow as Nessarose.

Almost 30 years after earning his first Tony Awards nomination for portraying Jackie Robinson in the musical “The First,” David Alan Grier may finally take home his first trophy. Nominated this year for his work in the Broadway debut of Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “A Soldier’s Play,” Grier currently leads our odds in the Featured Actor category.

Grier earned some of the best notices of his career for his role in the revival, which ran at the American Airlines Theater from January to March 2020. Set on a segregated military base in Louisiana in 1944, the play starred Grier as the vicious Sergeant Vernon C. Waters, whose murder gives the play its central mystery and plot. Helen Shaw (Vulture) wrote that Grier “machines each of his scenes to the inch, developing his portrait from a comic tinpot bellower into villainy and then, remarkably, something more tragic,” while Vinson Cunningham (New Yorker) said,...

In 1992 Fox made a post-apocalyptic show based on Gilligan's Island called Woops! The series didn't live past one season, but you can check out the pilot below.

Synopsis:

After an innocent misunderstanding leads to nuclear Armageddon, the only six people left alive on Earth make their way to a farm in the middle of nowhere. There, in a series of hi-jinx adventures, the misfits must put aside their differences for the sake of the species.

The series starred Fred Applegate, Lane Davies, Cleavant Derricks and others.

Check it out!

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Do you remember Sliders making a comeback? According to FlickeringMyth, stars John Rhys-Davies and Jerry O'Connell are in talks to revive the Fox TV show.

The sci-fi series followed a group of "sliders," who travel between parallel universes and learn about alternate versions of Earth. The cast included Rhys-Davies, O'Connell, Cleavant Derricks, and Sabrina Lloyds. The show ran on from 1995 to 1997 and on from 1999 to 2000.

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The CW's The Flash was a surprise hit of the TV season, but sadly there will be no new episodes for a few months. Though the network will be reairing the first season in its entirety on Tuesday nights this summer, The Flash fans may be looking for something else to fill the void. Do you already miss the casual trips into reality-warping wormholes? Do you crave the intellectual stimulation of mind-bending alternate timelines? Do you like watching fresh-faced cast members engage in romantic entanglements and action-oriented plots while being mentored by older veterans of the craft? Then Sliders is the cure for what ails you. In a San Francisco basement... Created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé, Sliders was a sci-fi TV series that ran for five seasons from 1995 to 2000. Jerry O'Connell, in arguably his biggest role since his acting debut in Stand by Me, stars as physics genius graduate student Quinn Mallory,...

It gets harder and harder each and every year to find that perfect gift for the one you love. Thanksgiving is over, so its time to get a jump start on your Christmas shopping today! We've collected all of the biggest and best Blu-ray and DVD releases available this year in one convenient place. Whether you're hunting for Dad, Mom, a cousin, your kids or that long distant Aunt whose been living in a commune for the past three years, you simply can't go wrong with the gift of movies, or a favorite TV show. From the biggest Hollywood blockbusters to a few cult favorites, and even a very obscure release for that one snobby cinefile on your list, we have everyone covered...Even you! Take a look, and discover that finding the perfect gift really isn't that hard. Not when everyone loves a good film! Here is the best...

Tired of seeing New York and Los Angeles get destroyed on film? Wish disaster movies could find a different metropolis to reduce to rubble? This weekend’s Swamp Volcano unleashes a lava storm on Miami. And then a month from now you can take a double-dip trip to the black forest of fairy tales in two back-to-back Syfy original premieres: Black Forest and Gretl: Witch Hunter.

Hollywood’s renewed fascination with fractured takes on classic fairy tales sure came out of nowhere, didn’t it? Now it’s everywhere on big and small screens. February 25th will see Syfy getting in on the craze with a pair of unhappily ever afters making their world premieres as part of a Saturday night double feature.

First up at 7/6 Cst is Black Forest from director Patrick Dinhut (Dead & Deader) and screenwriter Frank H. Woodward (Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown).

A group of...

Several movies from Bullet Films, a division of Active Entertainment, will grace television thanks to SyFy. This company is based in Lafayette, Louisiana and Bullet is developing a prehistoric thriller with Swamp Shark, a volcanic winter wonderland with Miami Magma and a world twisted upside down with Weather Wars. Each of these science fiction based films will be shown on the SyFy Network throughout 2011.

Now, a poster is available for each film, along with a plot summary. All three films envision a world in chaos and the trailer for Swamp Shark is sure to bring out surprise or at least a giggle in viewers. More details on all three films are below!

The synopsis for Swamp Shark is here:

"Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer, lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest.

That night an animal smuggling deal goes...

Producer John Breglio and the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. will bring Broadway uptown for four weeks only with Dreamgirls at the Apollo Theater, prior to the national tour of the new production of the groundbreaking musical. The national tour of Dreamgirls will kick-off at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater (253 West 125 Street) beginning previews Saturday, November 7, 2009, and opening Sunday, November 22, 2009, for 4 weeks only, through Sunday December, 6, 2009.

Dreamgirls is directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom with co-choreography by Shane Sparks, scenic design by Robin Wagner, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Ken Billington, sound design by Acme Sound Partners, and media design by Howard Werner for Lightswitch. With music direction by Sam Davis, orchestrations by Harold Wheeler, and Vocal Arrangements by David Chase & Cleavant Derricks, Dreamgirls is produced by John Breglio for Vienna Waits Productions in association with Chunsoo Shin, Jake Productions & Broadway Across America/TBS.

This brand-new production will...

Trying hard to be "Five Easy Pieces", Bart Freundlich's "World Traveler" is a meandering road movie that keeps getting stalled in gutters of self-importance. With an alienated anti-hero for a protagonist (Billy Crudup, ) the story summons up the kind of early 1970s counterculture films being made at the time by the likes of Bob Rafelson, Jerry Schatzberg and, of course, Dennis Hopper -- without bringing anything new or involving to the table.

Following the lead of its numerous pit stops, the picture's theatrical sojourn should be similarly brief.

When we first meet Crudup's Cal, it would appear he has it all -- including good looks, success as an architect and a very comfortable West Village apartment that he shares with his pretty wife and cute young son.

Appearances, of course, can be deceiving, which is why he abruptly ups and leaves it all behind (on the day of his son's birthday, no less), taking to the road to find meaning in his empty, pitiful life.

Along the way he meets up with a world-weary waitress (Karen Allen), a kind construction worker (Cleavant Derricks), a bubbly hitchhiker (Liane Balaban), a resentful school buddy (James LeGros) and, in the picture's only truly affecting sequence, a troubled mother (nicely played by Freundlich's better half, Julianne Moore), before sort of having it out with his neglectful dad (David Keith).

The fundamental problem here is that the viewer is being asked to care about a central character who, for most of the picture, fails to elicit a shred of sympathy. He goes along on his little journey, bedding some of the women who find him hopelessly irresistible and occasionally calling home to his perplexed wife but hanging up without saying anything.

Crudup can bring an interesting intensity to the right role, but here, his internalized brooding tends to come across as chilly indifference. As written by Freundlich, there admittedly isn't much else he can do with the character.

Working with cinematographer Terry Stacey, Freundlich establishes a soulful warmth missing from the script, while a jukebox full of Willie Nelson tunes provides a fitting soundtrack for Crudup's aimless excursion.

Ironically, "On the Road Again" isn't one of them.

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Credits:

Director-screenwriter: Bart Freundlich

Producers: Tim Perell, Bart Freundlich

Executive producers: Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan

Director of photography: Terry Stacey

Editor: Kate Sanford

Production designer: Kevin Thompson

Costume designer: Victorial Farrell

Music: Clint Mansell

Cast:

Cal: Billy Crudup

Dulcie: Julianne Moore

Carl: Cleavant Derricks

Richard: David Keith

Meg: Liane Balaban

Jack: James LeGros

Delores: Karen Allen

MPAA rating: R

Running time -- 104 minutes...