TV NEWS FOR AUGUST 16 PART 2: JEWEL STAITE, PATRICK STEWART ON PICARD AND MORE!

Jewel Staite talks about Firefly fights, her dream role and more

Source: blastr.com

If you like Jewel Staite as Kaylee from Firefly and Serenity and Dr. Jennifer Keller from Stargate: Atlantis, you’ll love the REAL Jewel Staite! That’s why we’re so pleased she’s agreed to join us regularly here at Blastr to answer your questions and share whatever happens to be on her mind.

Hello and welcome to my very first blog for Blastr! I’m absolutely thrilled to be blogging on this site, and even more thrilled that my ramblings will not have to be reduced to 140 characters or less!

However, as you know, we actors need constant inspiration, and so I called upon the creative minds of my Twitter followers (www.twitter.com/jewelstaite if you want to join the dark side—and yes, that was a shameless plug, don’t judge me) for some juicy questions to answer for my blog. And man, was I ever flooded with the juicy! Since my very first blog can’t exactly be 50,000 words (nobody likes a rambler. Oh, wait….), I’ve only picked 10 to answer for now.

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Patrick Stewart says his casting as Jean-Luc Picard made no sense

Source: blastr.com

Hiring Patrick Stewart for the role of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jean-Luc Picard was a brilliant move, right? Most people thought so. But there was at least one person who believed casting him as a starship captain was a stupid idea—Patrick Stewart himself.

In a recent interview, Stewart, who played the role from 1987 to 1994 on TV and then later in film, shared his initial doubts about the part:

“Why would they cast a middle-aged bald English Shakespearean actor in this iconic role as captain of the Enterprise? It made no sense.”

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12 Of The Worst TV Shows Based On Movies

Source: popcrunch.com

Sometimes, a successful movie will attempt to make the transition to the small screen, but rarely with success. Without the budget of a feature film, special effects are limited, third rate actors are hired, and stricter content controls mean that all the fun stuff from the films need to be cut. With a good director and some solid talent, a lucky few make it work. These are not them. These are the ones that should never have been okayed in the first place, and should definitely not have made it past the pilot episode. They are the worst television shows based on movies. Well, some of them anyway.

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Pushing Daisies creator to make The Lotus Caves for Syfy

Source: io9.com

Pushing Daisies’ Bryan Fuller is rumored to be adapting John Christopher’s novel The Lotus Caves for Syfy.

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Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard may not have ‘made sense’ – but I thought he was AWESOME. And that Jewel Staite blog was adorable. What movies-into-show do you think was awful?

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