The SF Site: Babylon 5.1 by Rick Norwood

Babylon 5.1
by Rick Norwood

SF on TV

Websites
Other Babylon 5.1 Columns
For more information, you can try the following sites:
Rick Norwood's Website
Worldwide TV Schedule
The Official Babylon 5 Website
The X-Files
Pocket Books: Star Trek
Paramount Star Trek

Ratings
Ratings are based on a four star system.
One star means that the commercials are more entertaining than the program.
Two stars watch if you have nothing better to do.
Three stars is good solid entertainment.
Four stars means you never dreamed television could be this good.

The big news in April is the beginning of the new HBO series Game of Thrones, based on the best-selling fantasy series by George R.R. Martin. I've only read a little of the books. I hesitate to get hooked on a never-ending fantasy series, and what I have read by Martin has been too mundane for my taste -- too much bread and not enough meat, but HBO has a good reputation for doing things right, and fans of the books can be thankful that HBO bought them instead of SyFy.

SF on TV in April 2011

Friday, April 1
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "Panawan Lost" by Bonnie Mark
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "Wookie Hunt" by Bonnie Mark, featuring Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca

Monday, April 4
Stargate Universe, "Seizure"
Being Human, "You're the One that I Haunt"

Thursday, April 7
The Vampire Diaries, "Know Thy Enemy"

Monday, April 11
Stargate Universe, "The Hunt"
Being Human, "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Me Killing You"

Friday, April 15
Smallville, "Kent" by Kelly Souders and Brian Pederson from a story by Genevieve Sparling
Supernatural, "My Heart Will Go On" by Brett Matthews
Fringe, "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"

Sunday, April 17
Game of Thrones, "Winter is Coming", by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss

Monday, April 18
Stargate Universe, "Common Descent"

Friday, April 22
Smallville, "Booster" by Geoff Johns
Supernatural, "Frontierland"
Fringe, "6:02 am"

Smallville Sunday, April 24
Game of Thrones, "The Kingsroad", by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss

Monday, April 25
Stargate Universe, "Epilogue"

Friday, April 29
Smallville, "Dominion"
Fringe, "The Last Sam Weiss"

Much of the Stargate Universe cast will appear in the pilot for a proposed new series about an Earth devastated by a war between two alien races.

Fringe has been renewed for a fourth season.

Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon.