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238 SciFi Diner Podcast Ep. 238 - Our Interview with Teryl Rothery (Dr. Janet Fraiser on Stargate SG-1 and Grace Sherman on Cedar Cove)

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Teryl Rothery

Teryl Rothery (born November 9, 1962) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Dr. Janet Fraiser on Stargate SG-1. Rothery first became interested in a performing career when she danced in the musical, Bye Bye Birdie, at the age of thirteen. Rothery knew that she belonged in front of the camera when she played in the CBC halloween special, Boo, at the age of eighteen. In her teens, being a talented dancer, singer and musician, she was a performer on a North Vancouver-shot TV variety show starring Tom Jones. She is best known for her starring role of Dr. Janet Fraiser on Stargate SG-1, which she played from the show's beginning in 1997 through 2004 (and again as a guest appearance in 2006). Rothery has appeared in many other sci-fi series, including The X-Files; The Outer Limits; First Wave; Stargate SG-1; Jeremiah; M.A.N.T.I.S.; Kyle XY; Eureka and many others. She played a small role in the Babylon 5 direct-to-DVD movie, Voices in the Dark, as ISN Reporter, Ms. Chambers. She played Lenore Molee in the 1994 TV movie, For the Love of Nancy; and has also done voice acting work. In 2010, she was on the Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, as Evelyn (the mother of Battlestar Galactica's Admiral William Adama). Her most recent work has been her role in A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, where she plays Mrs. Turner (Timmy Turner's mom). The movie premiered July 9, 2011, at 8 pm (ET/PT), on Nickelodeon. This was followed by A Fairly Odd Christmas on November 29, 2012. Most recently, Rothery has been acting in theater in her native Vancouver — appearing in Kiss Me, Kate and The Taming of the Shrew in March 2006. In March 2007 she appeared in A Delicate Balance, a play by Edward Albee, for which she was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award. Rothery starred in the Canadian premiere of Good Boys and True, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and directed by Jeff Hyslop. The play ran at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver in 2009. Rothery has been nominated for four Leo Awards. In 2004 she was nominated in two categories: Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for the Stargate SG-1 episode "Lifeboat", and Best Guest Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series on The Collector.[4] In 2008 she was nominated in the category: Best Performance by a Female in a Short Drama for her work in the short film Coffee Diva.[5] In 2009 she was nominated in the category: Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for the episode "Sound of Loneliness" from The Guard.
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237SciFi Diner Podcast Ep. 237 - Our Interview with Robert Picardo (The Holographic Doctor on Star Trek Voyager and Richard P. Woolsey from Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis) A Shore Leave 36 Interview

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Robert Picardo

Robert Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Dr. Dick Richards on ABC's China Beach, the Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH), also known as The Doctor, on UPN's Star Trek: Voyager, The Cowboy in Innerspace, Coach Cutlip on The Wonder Years (where he received an Emmy nomination), Ben Wheeler in Wagons East, and as Richard Woolsey in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe. Robert Picardo (nickname: Bob) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Joe Picardo. Robert is of Italian heritage, with his father's family originating from Montecorvino Rovella, Salerno and his mother's parents originally from Bomba in Abruzzo. Picardo claims that one of the highlights of his life was visiting both ancestral towns with his daughters and his brother Joe in the summer of 2011. He graduated from William Penn Charter School in 1971 and originally entered Yale University as a pre-medical student, but opted to act instead. He ended up graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Drama from Yale University. Picardo is an accomplished singer. While he was at Yale University, he was a member of The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, the second longest running undergraduate a cappella group in the United States. After his degree, he enrolled at the Circle in the Square Professional Theater Workshop. He waited tables for a few of years until his theatrical work started to take off around 1976. His first break was appearing in the David Mamet play “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” and with Diane Keaton in “The Primary English Class.” In 1977, he made his Broadway debut. He appeared in Gemini (1977) and Tribute (1978). During the 1988-1991 television seasons, Picardo was simultaneously seen on the ABC Vietnam series China Beach in the role of Dr. Dick Richard, as well as the ABC series The Wonder Years in the role of Coach Cutlip, and is among a small group of television actors to achieve notice on two television series at the same time. Picardo made his feature film debut as Eddie Quist, the serial killer werewolf in the Joe Dante film The Howling (1981). He also had a recurring role in the sitcom Alice. He played a number of roles in Dante's family science fiction film Explorers (1985), and later appeared in Dante's The 'Burbs, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Matinee, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Small Soldiers and Innerspace as the Cowboy. Picardo often plays roles under layers of prosthetic latex, having also played the swamp dwelling Meg Mucklebones in Ridley Scott's film Legend. He also had a small role as a funeral director in John Landis's Amazon Women on the Moon. He voices Pfish in two Pfish & Chip shorts as seen on Cartoon Network's What-A-Cartoon! Show. Picardo also portrays the voice of the robotic Johnny Cab in Total Recall. He appeared in one episode of ER in 1995 as Abraham Zimble (Season 2 - Episode 6 "Days Like This"). In the early 1990s, Picardo had a brief role as Joe "The Meat Man" Morton, a butcher and neighbor to Tim Allen's character on the popular sitcom Home Improvement. From 1995 to 2001, he played the role of the Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) and Emergency Command Hologram (ECH) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager. Before being accepted for this role, Picardo initially auditioned for the role of Neelix.[5] He later also directed two episodes. He also played additional versions of the role of the EMH in the 1996 motion picture Star Trek: First Contact and the 1997 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?". In 2001, he guest starred in 7 Days episode "Revelation", purporting to be a time traveler from seven years in the future. In 2004, he began playing the recurring role of International Oversight Advisory (IOA) member Richard Woolsey in both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, where he became a regular in the fifth season. His first appearance in those series was in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Heroes (Part 2)". In 2007, he played Principal White in Ben 10: Race Against Time. In 2007, he starred in the independent feature film by director Russ Emanuel, "P.J.", alongside John Heard and Vincent Pastore.[6] He also more recently starred in Russ Emanuel's "Chasing the Green" (2008), alongside William Devane, Jeremy London and Ryan Hurst. In 2007 and 2008, Star Trek: The Music was a multi-city tour with John de Lancie. Picardo and de Lancie narrated around the orchestral performance, explaining the history of the music in Star Trek. Picardo has also appeared on Kojak in a 1977 episode, E-Ring as a media rep in The Pentagon, as an enraged father in Cold Case, and as a police officer in CSI: NY. He also appeared as a recurring guest star in two episodes of Season 7 of Smallville. Away from acting, Picardo is a member of the Board of Directors' Advisory Council of The Planetary Society, where he has served since the late 1990s. In 2002, Picardo authored the book The Hologram's Handbook, published by Pocket Books. Other career highlights include performing in Leonard Bernstein's Mass in D during its European debut tour, performing with the Yale University Society of Orpheus & Bacchus a cappella singing group as an undergraduate, and appearing in dozens of other television and film roles, including the film Our Last Days as Children. On February 5, 2008, it was announced that Picardo would be joining the regular cast of Stargate Atlantis full-time for the series' fifth and final season. He will be taking over the role of mission commander of the Atlantis Expedition. Recently, Picardo performed the voice of Loki in the Xbox 360 video game Too Human. In 2009, he also appeared in Pushing Daisies, Chuck and Castle. Also in 2009, he played the lead role in the independent psychological thriller film Sensored. In 2010, Picardo had a cameo in the final episode of Persons Unknown, as a member of "the program"'s governing board. Picardo also voices Robert McNamara in Call of Duty: Black Ops in campaign and in the 'Zombie mode' after completing campaign on the one map, "FIVE". In 2012, Picardo appeared in a season 4 episode of The Mentalist as Jason Cooper, a lieutenant of cult leader Bret Styles. Picardo also appeared on a season 6 episode of Supernatural entitled "Clap Your Hands if You Believe" as a leprechaun. In May 2014, Cartoon Hangover announced Robert Picardo as a guest voice actor in the second season of Bravest Warriors, in the episode "The Parasox Pub".
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Greetings and welcome to the latest episode of The Dune Saga Podcast Listener Feedback Show.  On this episode we read quite a long list of notes sent in by our listeners, and hear a recording from a loyal listener.  We love hearing from you and whether you agree with us or not, will faithfully read your feedback on our show.  Join us as we wade through comments on Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah, as well as from other episodes.  Thank you to all of you that listen, and to those that make this show possible with your insights!

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Here's an idea, let's talk dune with Jesse Destasio Toy Designer, Licensing Agent, and Co-Host of one of YouTube's best toy shows, Toy Pizza. Jesse was kind enough to take some time to talk with David about the toys of Dune. Having his hand on the pulse of the toy design world and a fan of the Dune line himself, Jesse was exactly the right person to fill us in on these collectables. He even shares about a prize of his collection, a one of a kind Dune figure. If you'd like to keep up with Jesse we encourage you to check out the fabulous Toy Pizza on YouTube or follow one of the links below to for a look at his collection and works.

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In this episode of The Dune Saga Podcast, your hosts, David, Scott, and Jim take a closer look at Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert.  We cover the plot from the beginning of the conspiracy to the final act of Paul Muad'Dib walking alone into the desert.  We also give our ratings of this book and the reasons for our likes and dislikes.  Join us for another fun and interesting episode of The Dune Saga Podcast.

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Welcome to another edition of Dune In Ten. This time around David brings you the story of Dune Messiah in roughly ten minuets. Great for a refresh if it's been awhile since you've read the book or if you didn't have time to read it and want to listen to the main show. Enjoy!

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SciFi Diner Rewind Ep. 236 - Firefly: The Final Three

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Welcome to the SciFi Rewind: Firefly

Firefly is an American space western drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things". The show explores the lives of a group of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and others who now make a living on the outskirts of society, as part of the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In this future, the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures. According to Whedon's vision, "nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today"

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235 SciFi Diner Podcast Ep. 235 - Our Interview with Hugo Award Winning Editor Ellen Datlow (Tor.com and Open Road Media)

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ellen_datlow_bio (1)Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the horror half of the long-running The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She currently acquires short stories for Tor.com. Ellen is currently tied with frequent co-editor Terri Windling as the winner of the most World Fantasy Awards in the organization’s history (nine). She has also won (with co-editor Windling) a Bram Stoker Award for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #13, and (with co-editors Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant) a Bram Stoker Award for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #17. She has also won theInternational Horror Guild Award for her anthologies The Dark and Inferno; theShirley Jackson Award for Inferno and Poe; the Locus Award for Best Editor annually from 2005 through 2013, and the Hugo Award for Best Editor 2002, 2005, and Best Editor Short Fiction 2008 and 2009. In addition, SCIFICTION won the Hugo Award for best Web site in 2005 as well as the Wooden Rocket Award as best online magazine for 2005.   She’s also won nine Fantasy awards, in order: The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, ed (St. Martin’s Press) The Year’s Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, ed (St. Martin’s Press) The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourth Annual Collection Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, ed (St. Martin’s Press) Ellen Datlow for editing, Special Award-professional Little Deaths, Ellen Datlow (Orion) Silver Birch Blood Moon Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling eds.(Avon) The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Editors (Viking) Salon Fantastique Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder’s Mouth) Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Ellen Datlow, Editor (Tor)Ellen Datlow Ellen was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre.” She lives in New York. Recent Honors and Awards
Hugo Award Best Editor Short Fiction 2010 Bram Stoker Award One with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #13 and one with Nick Mamatas for Haunted Legends International Horror Guild Award for her anthologies The Dark and Inferno Shirley Jackson Award for her anthologies Poe and Inferno Karl Edward Wagner Award by the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre.” Lifetime Achievement Award by The Horror Writer’s Association in recognition of the recipient’s overall body of work. Hugo Award Best Editor Short Fiction 2009 Locus Award by Locus Magazine voted Best Editor in 2011 Hugo Award Best Professional Editor 2005, 2002 Bibliography There are two useful indices for readers of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series:The SF List and The Sluice. The Science Fiction Foundation Collection at The University of Liverpool contains holdings of the Ellen Datlow Papers that include the correspondence files of Ellen Datlow in her capacity as fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online as well as some correspondence files from her role as editor of SciFiction. All material within the Ellen Datlow Papers is available only to researchers for consultation in the University of Liverpool Library’s Special Collections and Archives Reading Room. special arrangement must be made in order to use the collection. Teeth: Vampire Tales, with Terri Windling, HarperCollins (April 2011) Best Horror of the Year 3, Night Shade (June 2011) Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse (June 2011) Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, St. Martin’s Press (July 2011) Blood and Other Cravings, Tor (September 2011) Snow White, Blood Red, with Terri Windling, (reissue in hardcover) Fall River (B&N imprint) After: Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Tales, with Terri Windling, Hyperion (2012) “Year’s Best” Anthologies Sixteen Annual Volumes: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, with Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Press, Volume One through Sixteen, 1988-2002 Five Annual Volumes: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, with Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, St. Martin’s Press, Volumes Seventeen through Twenty-One (2004-2008)   Anthologies Omni Book of Science Fiction, Volumes One through Seven, Zebra Blood Is Not Enough, William Morrow, 1989 Alien Sex, Dutton, 1990 A Whisper of Blood, William Morrow, 1991 Omni Best Science Fiction One, Omni Books, 1991 Omni Best Science Fiction Two, Omni Books, 1992 Omni Best Science Fiction Three, Omni Books, 1993 Snow White, Blood Red, with Terri Windling, Morrow/Avon, 1993 OmniVisions One, Omni Books, 1993 OmniVisions Two, Omni Books, 1994 Black Thorn, White Rose, with Terri Windling, Morrow/Avon, 1994 Little Deaths, Millennium (UK), Dell (US), 1994 Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, with Terri Windling, AvoNova/Morrow, 1995 Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, St. Martin’s Press, 1996 Twists of the Tale: Stories of Cat Horror, Dell, 1996 Lethal Kisses–Revenge and Vengeance, Orion (UK), 1996 Black Swan, White Raven, with Terri Windling, Avon Books, 1997 Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, with Terri Windling, HarperPrism, 1998 Silver Birch, Blood Moon, with Terri Windling, Avon Books, 1999 Black Heart, Ivory Bones, with Terri Windling, Avon Books, 2000 Vanishing Acts,Tor Books, 2000 A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, with Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster, 2000 The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, with Terri Windling, Viking, 2002 Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, with Terri Windling (reissued in mass market paperback) Avon, fall 2002 Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, with Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2003 The Dark: New Ghost Stories, Tor,2003 The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight Realm, with Terri Windling, Viking (August 2004) Salon Fantastique, with Terri Windling, Thunder’s Mouth Press (October 2006) The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, with Terri Windling, Viking (September 2007) Black Thorn, White Rose, with Terri Windling (reissued in trade paperback), Prime Books (November 2007) Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Tor (December 2007) The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction’s Finest Voices, Del Rey (April 2008) Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, with Terri Windling, (reissued in trade paperback) Prime Books (April 2008) Black Swan, White Raven, with Terri Windling (reissued in trade paperback), Prime Books (April 2008) A Whisper of Blood: A Collection of Modern Vampire Stories (reissue of Blood is Not Enough and A Whisper of Blood), Fall River (B&N Imprint) (August 2008) Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Solaris (January 2009) Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror, (reissued in trade paperback) Wildside Press (March 2009) Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, Roc (March 2009) Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, with Terri Windling, Viking Children (April 2009) Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse Comics (October 2009) Best Horror of the Year 1, Night Shade (October 2009) Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Tachyon (February 2010) Tails of Wonder and Imagination, Night Shade (February 2010) Best Horror of the Year 2, Night Shade (April 2010) The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, with Terri Windling, Viking Children (April 2010) Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Prime (May 2010) Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas), Tor Books (September 2010) Teeth: Vampire Tales, with Terri Windling, HarperCollins (April 2011) Best Horror of the Year 3, Night Shade (June 2011) Best Horror of the Year 4, Night Shade (May 2102) After: Nineteen stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia with Terri Windling, Hyperion (October 2012) Blood and Other Cravings, Tor (October 2012) Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, with Terri Windling, Tor (March 2013) Hauntings, Tachyon (March 2013) Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology, Hydra House (July 2013) Best Horror of the Year 5, Night Shade (September, 2013) Lovecraft’s Monsters, Tachyon (April, 2014) Fearful Symmetries, Chizine (May 2014) Best Horror of the Year 6, Night Shade (June 2014) Nightmare Carnival, Dark Horse (October 2014) The Cutting Room, Tachyon (October 2014)
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