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J. Michael Straczynski has dropped a tidbit about the languishing CBC production I’m always whining about:
“another production entity has stepped in to pick up Apocalypse Al”
No word on who that entity is. Or what it means for listeners in Canada.
[via JMSNews.com]
eMusic.com is now selling down oadable audiobooks in the MP3 format! Only 52 Science Fiction and Fantasy titles are available at launch, mostly from Blackstone, Random House Audio and Naxos. Some users are complaining about the monthly fee being rather hard to find on the site (either $9.99 or $19.99 USD).
[via BoingBoing and their comment thread]
A new radio program, “That Sci-fi Show” premieres tomorrow (Friday night), September 14th at 10pm, EDT in the USA on WWNN-AM 1470 in Florida. This is a two hour program from the creator of Sci-fi Overdrive, Joey Donovan. Listeners outside of Florida can listen via the Streaming Audio feed on the station’s website. No word on whether this show will be podcast.
That Sci-fi Show will feature “news on developments in the
entertainment industry in regards to science fiction, fantasy, comics, collectibles, role playing games, Japanese animation, genre conventions, and also on news of spaceflight and hard science.” Live interviews will allow listeners to call in with questions (1-888-565-1470).
For more information on That Sci-fi Show, or to book guests, contact Joey Donovan at [email protected] or call 561-752-6986
Back in March we told you about the three new Douglas Adams radio series that will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, beginning with Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency in October 2007. We now have more info, English comedian Harry Enfield will be starring as the series lead, Dirk Gently, in the upcoming trilogy of radio dramas adapting the Adam’s series of Fantasy / Comedy / Mystery novels. The complete cast list and more details can be found HERE.
Sci-Fi Weekly, which used to have a fair number of audiobook reviews in their Cool Stuff section has returned to form with a review of the recently released Audio Renaissance unabridged FULL CAST recording of Dune by Frank Herbert. You can go read the review written by SF author Paul Di Filippo right HERE. Hopefully we’ll have one of our own sometime soon too. We also have a review of the Recorded Books version, a single voiced unabridged narration by the incomparable George Guidall.
Alas, my friends I bear sad tidings…. Seeing Ear Theatre is dead!
If you’d been putting off listening to the wonder that was Sci-Fi Channel (U.S.’s) bold experiment, Seeing Ear Theatre, you’ve made a horrible, irrevocable mistake. As we predicted, and dreaded, the long abandoned, much loved and now much missed Seeing Ear Theatre website is no longer offering their archives in the RealAudio format. If you click on any of the audio links now you’ll only hear an error message.
I’m really hoping for a reprieve here, but I’m afraid its not very likely. The site had been abandoned for so long, and we’d all gotten so used to the access to the comfy old shows that were still archived there. But, as the web-architecture for the site has been aging unattended for more than six years we really can’t say its was all that unexpected. Its still possible the files are on file somewhere, and just now inaccessible for some reason, but I don’t like our chances of seeing a fix.
Goodbye SET, you were the best of your kind, you were unique, ahead of your time, you will be sadly missed.