According to an Entertainment Weekly interview with David S. Goyer, Flash Forward isn’t coming back until March 2010! Previously it was reported that the show will come back in January with remaining 13 episodes for the season, but now it’s postponed until March. Previous, 10th Episode, called ‘A561984′ has aired on December 3, 2009.
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One of the ways in which Sci Fi Scoop continues to be able to bring you news day in and day out is through the support of sponsors.

One of our new sponsors is StoryForge Labs, an original online sci-fi entertainment production company created by Steve Lettieri, Rob King and Chris Conway.

If you’re a regular reader of Sci Fi Scoop then you’ll already be familiar with some of StoryForge’s productions.  They’re the guys behind the brilliant online web series Zerks Log and the new short-film series The Singularium.

Zerks Log is a sci-fi comedy web series that launched back in March.  It follows the mystery behind the disappearance of Captain Zerks Ganymedewski and his ship the Venturi 553 after the ships ‘black box’, containing Zerks’ log, is found drifting in space. Each episode unfolds as an entry form Zerks’ log in which he offers his hilarious thoughts on recent events aboard the Venturi.

Ben Alpi stars as Captain Zerks in StoryForge's 'Zerks Log'

The first season of Zerks Log wound up in May 09 but the entire series is still available for viewing online here.

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Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard in the 'Lost' Season 5 Finale

Word is the two-part season 5 finale of Lost is about the two craziest hours of television ever aired and will leave you chomping at the bit wondering ‘what the’ until season 6.

Here’s four sneak peek clips from what can only be described as the ‘possibly overhyped’ but much anticipated two-parter ‘The Incident’:

Good for Jack:

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Michael Emerson is Ben Linus in 'Lost'

Lost’s Michael Emerson (Ben Linus) has told E!Online that the two-part finale is just about the craziest two hours of television ever aired.

“Ours is a show that specializes in big shock endings, but I think season five…None of the other shock endings left me wondering how the show goes on,” Emerson said.  “We have two kinds of huge shocks at the end of this one. Each one alone would be enough to keep an audience eating its own soul for the whole hiatus, but with two, I don’t know what you can do with that.”

It seems Lost Executive Producers Damon Lindleof and Carlton Cuse have a good idea though with both telling the NY Post that they know exactly where it’s all headed.

“That was a conversation that started back between seasons one and two of the show,” says Lindelof. “We are following the plan pretty much to the letter, although there is room for improvisation.”

The final episode of Lost season 5 airs this Wednesday May 13 on ABC as a double episode titled ‘The Incident’.

*Spoiler below*

Damon Lindelof says that after the finale Lost will have come full circle in time for it sixth and final season.

“Season six will feel a lot like season one,” says Lindelof. “The focus comes back to the characters with whom we began. We’ve been winnowing away everyone else who came along. The Tailies are gone, only Miles [Ken Leung] is left of the Freighter Folk and only Juliet [Elizabeth Mitchell] is left of The Others. We’re getting down to the end now.”

Anna Torv as Agent Olivia Dunham in 'There's More Than One Of Everything'

There’s only one episode left to complete the excellent debut first season of J.J. Abrams’ Fringe.

The season finale is Fringe’s twentieth episode. Titled ‘There’s More Than One Of Everything’, it promises to answer many questions…and raise many more when it hits fans with a “mind blowing ending.”

In this article you can watch the trailer, check out eight promo images, and at the very end we’ve included a few spoilerific tidbits.

First, the official press release synopsis:  Setting the stage for the dramatic and revealing first season finale are a sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist David Robert Jones (Jared Harris) and the inexplicable disappearance of Walter. Find out more about the mysterious events surrounding our trio when questions are answered, observations made, loyalties are tested and the elusive William Bell (Leonard Nimoy) is finally introduced.

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Front Cover - Lost Season 4 Soundtrack

Fans of the music score to J.J. Abrams’ Lost will be pleased to know that soundtrack label Varese Sarabande will release a fourth CD of Michael Giacchino’s Lost score on May 12 – and it will contain over 75 minutes of music from Lost Season 4.

Unlike most series on television, every single episode of Lost is scored with a 34-piece orchestra.

“It gives a soul to the music,” says Giacchino. “When you write for an orchestra, the sky’s the limit. It has this raw, organic quality or an amazingly emotional, internal quality. If I were to do this show with a synthesizer or samples, it would have a hollow, dead feel.”

Amazingly, Giacchino has continued to score 30-plus minutes of music for each of Lost’s episodes despite a schedule that has seen him busy scoring Paramount’s Star Trek, Disney/Pixar’s Up, and Universal’s Land of the Lost.  How does he manage it?  He scores each episode of Lost in about two days – partly because after 100 episodes of the series he has amassed so many themes and character motifs that he can quickly adapt previously written material to new scenes.

“I treat it like an opera,” Giacchino says. “Every character has a theme; some have two or three versions. There are themes for the island, the smoke monster, the hatch. … It’s fun to go back to those.”

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Season 2 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has come to an end with an episode that many are referring to as “the best season finale ever” for a science fiction television show.  Whether you agree with that statement or not, what an amazing turn around the series has displayed!

There remain strong doubts that Fox intend to renew the show, but after the events of ‘Born to Run’ it seems a travesty not to continue what can now be argued as the best sci-fi show on television.

If one month ago you had asked our opinion as to what the top three sci-fi shows on television were, we would have had no hesitation in replying: Battlestar Galactica, Lost and Fringe. Now, however, we think it’s fair to say TSCC has edged ahead of its competition.  In our view the current top three sci-fi series on television are TSCC, Lost and Fringe – in that order.

There are some with the opinion that in addition to being a superb season finale, ‘Born to Run’ could quite easily be a great series finale.  We disagree, and feel that most would share our view that the events of the season finale raised far too many questions to be considered a clean series ending in any respect.  In fact, ‘Born to Run’ served to add more intrigue, mystery and compelling new story arc’s that if left incomplete, will effectively leave the story set up in TSCC unresolved – and a sour taste in the mouth of fans who have remained true to the series.

A quick roam around the internet and it is immediately evident that the final few episodes, and the finale in particular, have left viewers buzzing with conjecture and debate over the various possibilities that the series now has to offer.  It would be an insult to its viewers for Fox to allow these questions to go unanswered.  Likewise it would be an insult to the cast and crew of TSCC if the series were simply allowed to vanish without resolution.

Whilst the outlook is bleak, it isn’t over yet.  The Sarah Connor Society has posted the news that Fox will be looking at all the numbers – Nielsens, DVR, Live Plus DVR, HULU, Fox Online, ITunes and Amazon.  It is our hope that these numbers pan out, but if the sole decision on renewal of TSCC comes down to ratings, then RATINGS BE DAMNED.  As we have written numerous times, the ratings of this series as it stands now are not indicative of its future potential viewership – and a justifiable case for expected ratings performance improvement can easily be made.

Let’s not forget that prior to Fox shifting TSCC to Friday’s the series was enjoying an average 5 million viewership, a statistic that plummetted to a rough average of 3 million plus immediately following the move.  Let’s also not forget that preliminary ratings for the finale showed (according to pifeedback.com) that the episode achieved 3.56 million viewers, up from 3.35 million viewers the week before – without taking into account post premiere ratings such as DVR etc.  We’re willing to bet if Fox renew the series and shift it back to a more conducive screening time, such as Tuesday nights, then it would be reasonable to expect ratings for the first episode of season 3 to be at an all time high.  Come on Fox, put that to the test.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has become MUST WATCH television.

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Here’s the latest instalment of Lost Untangled:

Lost Untangled: Season 5, Episode 12 ‘Dead is Dead’

There might be question marks over the future of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles if you take ratings into account, but there’s no question that the series has continued to improve episode by episode throughout season 2.  If quality determined renewal, then TSCC would most certainly be high on Fox’s “must green-light a new season” list.

The series’ continuing improvement trend was very evident in the latest episode, ‘Adam Raised a Cain’, an episode which firmly solidifed TSCC as “absolutely must watch” genre television.

Charlie Jane Anders over at io9 had this to say in her review:

I’ve been a huge fan of T:SCC since its beginnings, but last night’s episode felt like a whole new level. It was the first time I really thought this show might go down in history as one of the best science fiction shows of all time. We’re approaching Battlestar Galactica/The Prisoner levels of greatness. If the show gets a third season – which seems unlikely, since its ratings took a dive again, after a few weeks of positive trends – we could be looking at a whole new era of brilliance.

I highly recommend reading Anders’ review ‘Sarah Connor’s Worst Nightmares All Come True‘.  She gets the show like few other reviewers.  However be aware that her review doesn’t hold back on spoilers.

Sadly, there is just one more episode left in the current, and hopefully not final season.  The 22′nd episode of season 2 is titled ‘Born To Run’.  Here’s the promo:

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Jon Gries (Roger Linus), Sterling Beaumon (young Ben), Horace Goodspeed (Doug Hutchison) in Lost

Lost’s Sterling Beaumon (aka young Ben) has offered TV Guide a few teasing hints relative to the time travel storyline and has answered two nagging questions that have been on many fans lips:  Can they change the future and how old is young Ben anyway?

If you haven’t seen last week’s episode of Lost (5.10 ‘He’s Our You’) then you probably won’t want to read on from here as this contains spoilers.  If you have seen it, then you’re safe to read on although there are some answers offered up that you might still consider to be spoilers (that’s a small warning right there – it might even be fair to say these are major spoilers). Anyway, you’ve been warned…

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