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Two recent tweets from Rockne O’Bannon:

July 3rd:

Big mtg this Weds w/ B Henson, me, and ******* – oops, can’t say. Just earliest beginning-but cautiously very excited. Things are a’brewin’.

Today:

So yesterday’s mtg was AMAZING. Teasing is a form of torture I know – but big moves r happening. BIG moves. (Just call me Stanley Milgram).

Something is very  definitely going on.  But what?  Seems bigger than just webisodes, don’t it?

And what’s up the the Stanley Milgram reference? is that Stanley Milgram from the Obedience to Authority experiment? Or the Small World Experiment? The Lost Letter Experiment?  Or is it just because of his general willingness to afflict us with anguish? Or is it his seeming capricious perversity?  Heck, I don’t care.  Just so we gets us some more Farscape on some damn screen or another.

The city goes wild after the Blackhawks win their first Stanley Cup since 1961.

The Jim Henson Company has opened up its own on-line merchandising store.  You can get Fraggle Rock, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and most important of all, Farscape stuff directly from The Jim Henson Company’s website.  iPod, iPhone, and Nano skins, postcards, notebooks, and you can even design your own stuff. 

I think I want a customized Farscape poster … 

Get a load of this amazing, jaw-dropping, eye-brow raising, drop dead gorgeous picture of Virginia Hey.  She is one smoking hot babe!

If you’re a fan of smoking hot babes, I think you owe it to yourself to get your own copy of that picture.

Ben Browder has apparently decided not to continue the gig with CW’s Hellcats.  According to his manager:

After long discussions with the Producers, Ben has decided not to do the series as he has a couple of films that he would like to do and if he went ahead with the series, he would not be able to do them. It was a difficult decision as you can understand.

So, the bad news is we won’t be seeing Ben in a weekly show on broadcast TV.  The good news is we won’t have to sit through a deadly dull juvenile series just to catch a glimpse of a  Farscape alumnus.  (Most fans seem to agree that sitting through an episode of this show would be like spending time in “the seventh circle of hell”.)  Whew!

The news was posted at Terra Firma, by longtime Farscape fan LAScaper, who runs BenBrowderPortal.com.  No word on if he at least appears in the pilot, or if his role will be re-cast and re-shot, or even if the pilot will air.  (I’m betting on re-casting and re-shooting.)

5/22/2010 – Edited to add:

Confirmation of recasting from the Deadline Hollywood site.

The CW must have just wrapped up their Upfronts presentation because suddenly there’s news from all over that CW has picked up Hellcats.  (”Upfronts” is the name for the presentations that all the networks make to their advertisers about their upcoming fall schedule.)   You may recall that this is the TV series pilot that had Farscape alumnus Ben Browder in the cast.

Does this mean that Mr. Browder has landed in a series?  Maybe.  There is still a possibility that the network may want his character dropped, or re-cast, or perhaps Mr. Browder will have other commitments.  But so far the series pilot has succesfully navigated one of many hurdles in making it on to a network’s fall schedule.

Let’s all wish Ben good luck with this.

As far as I know, the only authentic Farscape alumnus Facebook pages are for David Franklin (Lt. Braca), Lani Tupu (Capt. Crais), and Jonathan Hardy (Rygel).  All others are fakes.

Just thought you’d want to know.

A few hours ago Rockne twittered this:

Great conf call with B Henson yesterday, and we’re meeting next week. Can’t say a word about it. New and exciting. Oops, I said something.

WHAT CAN IT MEAN??!!?  It’s driving me MAD!!

From Tubefilter News comes the word that Ben Browder will appear as Nick Naught, in “Naught For Hire”, a new web series that will be … uh … broadcast — or should that be *webcast* –  on the web beginning this December.  Based on a novel called “All for Naught”, the series begins production this summer, and will consist of thirteen 6-minute episodes.  The show features Nick Naught as a noir-type private dick, but is set 20 years in the future, where common objects are embedded with Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). 

There is a fun, interactive website, where you can sign up for email updates (click on the file cabinets), and you can also follow the show’s Twitter feeds.

In preparation, I will be listening to my old vinyl LPs of Firesign Theater’s Nick Danger: Third Eye (When Two Aren’t Enough), and Garrison Keiler’s Guy Noir stories. 

Young hipsters may also want to check out the originals:

Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, and Phillip Marlow in Murder My Sweet.