Huh? I'm talking the royalties they'd have to pay Mr. Glass. Are you talking about the royalties they'd make on selling the CD?

I did a search and couldn't find any mention of it, so I guess I'm the first to say anything about it.

Charlie Jade is a Canadian/South African co-production, filmed in Cape Town.

Charlie Jade (Jeffrey Pierce, The West Wing, JAG, Boston Public) is a rogue private detective in a world dominated by greedy multinational corporations. When Charlie sees the corpse of a beautiful young woman he realizes she embodies the impossible: she has no identity, something inconceivable in Charlie's world.

While tracking her suspected killer, the trail leads Charlie to a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him into a parallel universe, our own chaotic twenty-first century world where he is both baffled by its differences and seduced by its similarities. Charlie is soon drawn into a conflict that not only involves his home universe and the one he now inhabits but also includes another, a pristine pacifist universe with unsuspected terror at its heart.

Three worlds... One hope

Created by Robert Wertheimer (Due South, RoboCop: Prime Directives) and Chris Roland (Stander, Man to Man, The Bone Snatcher), the series is written by Guy Mullally (The Lost World, Little Men), David Cole (Cold Squad, Due South) and Stephen Zoller (Super Rupert, Anne of Green Gables). Executive Producers are Robert Wertheimer, Chris Roland, Izidore Codron (The Bone Snatcher, Stander), Robin Spry (Big Wolf on Campus, The Lost World), and Jacques Pettigrew (Galidor)

Bitmetv.org has the first 16 episodes to download. I've only seen the first episode so far but it is interesting enough to make me download the rest of them over the next few weeks.

Is it just me or does the guy that plays the Chief in BSG look like a young Brian Dennehy?

Is it just me or does the guy that plays the Chief in BSG look like a young Brian Dennehy?

A bit, yup.

There was also a string of announcements, including the introduction of James Marsters to the cast of "Smallville." He'll be playing the classic DC Comics villain Braniac, one of Superman's most formidable enemies.

Marsters is known to fans of The WB for his role as Spike, the vampire who first tried to kill, then fell in love with, Buffy on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel."

(now, I never was a huge spike fan or anything, but even I can say that he was SO much more than that.)

Also, veteran actor Tom Wopat will reunite with "Dukes of Hazzard" co-star John Schneider, who plays Jonathan Kent on the show, for one episode. Wopat will play a state senator who was a boyhood friend of Kent.

Huh. I don't know much of anything about Phillip Glass, but that piece was really nice.

I leanred (from a spoilery post at AICN) that BSG will air the first 10 episodes of season 2 this summer; the remaining 10 eposided of the season won't start to show until next Jan.

Boo. OTOH they're still making episodes, so I guess there has to be a break somewhere.

For what it's worth, that's the same schedule Sci-Fi's been using for its original shows for years, so don't worry that it's some comment on BSG's quality or prospects.

Well, that is the same schedule that SG1 and SGA are on.

so don't worry that it's some comment on BSG's quality or prospects.

Oh no, I wasn't worrying about that; I just want everything all at once. Or, you know, before January. But I'll live.

IOPerplexingN, there was a commercial for the season 1 DVDs of BSG. They said that the British versions of the DVDs will go on sale tomorrow (presumably region 1). The regular, US version will go on sale in Sept (20th, IIRC) with the US music and whatnot. The commercial gave the URL battlestargalacticadvd.com, but that redirects to a page about the original series DVDs, and I can't find any other info about this release.