This is a person who understands how we view things around here.

You can find more of Andre at blacknerdcomedy.com.  You can also find him on Twitter and Facebook.

Source Scifiwire

Syfy has  a short interview with Pounder on her Mrs. Fredric  from “Warehouse 13″   Here’s some of her thought’s on the character.   On a side note if they ever make a Justice League movie she has to play Amanda Waller. ( she has already done her voice on the Justice League animated series)

1) She is autonomous. “We don’t know who she answers to,” Pounder said. “They haven’t appeared yet.”

2) We don’t know what exactly Mrs. Frederic is. “We don’t know whether she’s flesh and blood, whether she’s a hologram, whether she’s been living 40 years, 60 years, a thousand years,” Pounder says. “Whether she has been at the very beginning of the first Warehouse or whether she’s part of the reincarnated 13th Warehouse, which is what this one is.”

3) We’ve never seen her enter a room. “She arrives, and she’s there, which always gives Artie trouble [and] freaks him out completely,” Pounder says. “Her leaving, her arriving; her comings and goings are always, ‘Oh, my God, she’s in the room.’ So it just sort of leaves one to believe that … Mrs. Frederic is some other kind of entity, but we don’t know.”

4) She hasn’t changed her look in 40 years. “She also has a remarkably ’60s look, so she seems to be stuck in a time warp of some kind,” Pounder says.

5) It’s unlikely we’ll learn more … at least for now “Any questions about Mrs. Frederic [are] off the table,” Pounder says about her relationship with the show’s writers. “It’s like a gag order until the script comes. So they have been keeping her [as] Madame Mystery, and it’s kind of fun for the actor. It’s kind of fun to not know any history about the woman until the script shows up and you can go, ‘Oh, that’s what I’ll be doing today.’”

6) Pounder has a theory. “I think she’s a hologram,” Pounder says. “That’s my theory. I think she’s a device from some higher place. … She has a lot of personality for not being real. … Maybe [she's] another entity that should be in the Warehouse that they’ve put to use. You never know.”

The fall schedule on TV has several new shows that have black actors in featured roles.  A couple of old shows have added a couple.  Here are a few faces to look for this fall on Television, and I think we should do our best to support their shows lest they fall victim to the ratings axe.

Katerina Graham has already started her role on the CW show Vampire Diaries as Bonnie Bennet.

L.L. Cool J is starring this fall in the NCIS spinoff, NCIS Los Angeles.  The show follows the undercover unit of NCIS stationed in L.A. He will play Sam Hanna, an ex-Navy SEAL and expert on Middle Eastern culture.

Courney B. Vance and Gabrielle Union will be starring in ABC’s Flash Forward, a highly anticipated series from Brannon Braga (Star Trek: TNG, Threshold) and David S. Goyer (Blade, Batman Begins).  A mysterious global event causes everyone to simultaneously experience for 2 minutes and 17 seconds their lives 6 months in the future.

Ernie Hudson and Rick Worthy are joining the cast of Heroes.  Ernie Hudson joins the cast as a Baltimore detective tracking down one of our Heroes.  Rick Worthy will be playing Mat Parkman’s partner in the LAPD.

Morris Chestnut will be starring in the highly anticipated re-imagining of “V”.

Source: Sci Fi Scoop

Lance Reddick (Agent Phillip Broyles) in ‘Fringe’

Hollywood The Write Way recently interviewed Fringe star Lance Reddick, aka Agent Phillip Broyles.

Reddick offers relatively spoiler free comments about his character arc in the upcoming second season, identifies his favorite season 1 episode, and explains with complete honesty that he devotes zero time and effort to Fringe fan sites.

So tell me about where your storyline goes in the new season of Fringe.

You definitely find out more about my personal life and who I was before Fringe.

Is that going to be done through flashbacks?

No, it’s more kind of how I’m referred to and what I do. In my personal life, you will find out why I’m divorced and what my relationship with my ex-wife is like.

What can you tell us about what we will see in the first few episodes of Fringe?

I’m not sure what I can say…hmmm…Olivia’s reemergence back into this universe will be shocking. The developments with Charlie will be mind blowing. You’ll find out just how deep my relationship with Nina goes.

Read the rest of the interveiw here

via Lance Reddick Talks ‘Fringe’ Season 2.

Ernie Hudson of Ghostbusters fame will be joining the cast of Heroes.    Hudson will be playing Captain Lubbock, a Baltimore cop who’s seeking to capture one of the other characters.   The new season premieres on Sept 21st

via Hudson Joins Heroes Cast.

Source: Sci-Fi Wire

In an article posted on Sci-Fi Wire, Gabrielle Union talks about the diversity on ABC’s new show FlashForward and her on-screen marriage to John Cho (Star Trek’s Sulu). You can read the interview by clicking here.  The last time we saw Union in a major TV role it was opposite Damian Lewis (Charlie Crews, Life) and before that it was with Stuart Townsend (Kolchak, The Night Stalker).  Its good to see minorities making a comeback on network television. I’m not as optimistic as she is about the future of minorities on TV.  Okay, she doesn’t actually address it, but she alludes to it in her comments about some networks giving lipservice to diversity and some actually doing something about it.  Personally, I don’t think networks care about minorities on television.  If they do care, its just to keep people from pointing it out.  Now they can say, “look we have John Cho and Gabrielle Union on a show.”  So, what other shows are there minorities on your network?  Do you have any other shows the center around minorities?  What about that commitment to diversity?  I think she’s a fine actress, but if I were her, I wouldn’t get too comfortable.

"A lot of people give lip service to ‘We want to increase diversity,’ and then you just never see any people of color. They actually really mean it. If one thing doesn’t work out, they come up with more opportunities. So they’re like, ‘We want you back in the family,’ and by chance, the next day the Goyers [executive producers Jessika Borsiczky Goyer and David Goyer] called them, and they were like, ‘Do you think Gabrielle would ever be interested in returning to television?’ They’re like, ‘Funny you should ask. We just talked to her about this.’"

Maybe David Goyer has a crush on you, Gabrielle.

Source:  Scifi Wire

“No flight, no tights.”  Those were the rules established at the beginning of Smallville’s run.  We have seen Clark fly (as Kal-El), and he’s been running around as the Red/Blue Blur.  Now it appears that they are going to put him in tights, well sort of.  Here it is.

Source: G4TV

True Blood is one of the best new shows on TV.  If you aren’t watching it then you should catch up.  Currently, its in Season 2 on HBO, Sunday nights at 9 PM.

If they take the same approach they did with the recently completed Battlestar Galactica this should be a success.    I’m actually very excited about this, I always thought the original series was canceled to soon.   It was on Fox so it shouldn’t have been a surprise.

Source: Variety

Sci Fi is developing a new take on “Alien Nation,” the 1988 feature that previously spawned a spin-off series on Fox.

“Angel” alum Tim Minear — no stranger to sci-fi tales, having worked on “The X-Files,” “Firefly” and “Strange World” — is penning the fresh take on the franchise. Fox 21, the alternative production arm of 20th Century Fox TV, will produce.

“Alien Nation” centers on the partnership between a veteran cop and his alien detective partner, set against the larger tale of alien “newcomers” who move to Earth and attempt to assimilate into society.

Fox 21 topper Chris Carlisle said he believed “Alien Nation” could rep the next franchise revival for Sci Fi, which found huge success in dusting off “Battlestar Galactica” and reworking it for today’s auds. Carlisle said “Alien Nation” works both as a sci-fi piece and a procedural drama.

“It’s absolute perfect timing for this type of show,” Carlisle said. “They’re looking for more grounded sci-fi and close-ended episodes, and at the heart of ‘Alien Nation,’ it’s a cop movie. It’s grounded. And it has a tremendous amount of dramatic possibilities and humor.”

The new “Alien Nation” would include a mythology that evolves over time and will also touch on some of the issues of the day, such as the immigrant experience and how society integrates an incoming culture.

Minear is currently busy outlining the “Alien Nation” script and mapping out the project’s mythology. The new “Alien Nation” will likely take place in the Pacific Northwest, and will take place about 20 years after the first ship of aliens – who have been banished as slaves – crash lands into Earth.

By the time the show begins, some time in the 2020s, the alien population has multiplied from a few thousand to 3.5 million. And much of the “newcomers” live their own segregated existence, in what Minear compares to the North African ghettos in France.

“You can take (the original ‘Alien Nation’) a step forward and really do a show that encompasses the clash of civilizations, and the idea of a ghettoized minority,” he said. “You can touch on racism, terrorism, assimilation, immigration. And there’s room for satire.”