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The A&E Television Network along with the BBC has announced plans to make a three-hour long TV movie based on the novel The Lost World by well known British author of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film will reportedly star Bob Hoskins and production is set to begin sometime this month in New Zealand and London. The film is tentatively slated to air on the BBC around Christmas time of this year and on A&E sometime in the year 2002. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Peter Falk, the actor best known for his portrayal of Lt. Columbo on the popular series Columbo, will make a cameo as Rev. Theo Kerr.

Star Trek: TOS' Captain Sulu, actor George Takei, told fans on his Official site that he will be making an appearance on an upcoming episode of the series V.I.P. or rather his voice will. The actor will be leading his voice to a supercomputer that was programmed by a Star Trek fan whose favourite of the Trek characters was Sulu. Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the wife of the late great Gene Roddenberry and executive producer of the new hit series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda and Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict amung other series, has reportedly told the Cinescape Online Web site that she is currently preparing two more series that are based on ideas created by her late husband.

One, Gene Roddenberry's Starship, is an animated Sci-Fi adventure with a slight twist to it. The other is Genesis II, which was an early '70s pilot about a 20th-century scientist who awakens from suspended animation in a future that is "post-apocalyptic", which Mrs. Roddenberry hopes to revisit.

According to the Star Trek Communicator, Rick Berman, who is currently developing the new Star Trek series with Brannon Braga, told the franchise's Official magazine that the new series may possibly be the first Star Trek series to leave off the words 'Star' and 'Trek' from it's title. Berman also told the magazine that the series could possibly debut in either September or October of this year, but that with the possible writers' and actors' strikes luming on the horrizon and where the series finds a home, that time frame may change.

WB Network has ordered an hour long Sci-Fi drama entitled Pern, which is based on the Dragonriders of Pern series of novels by noted Sci-Fi writer Anne McCaffrey. The series has been given the green light for a fall airing. The series will be produced by Star Trek and Roswell writer Ronald D. Moore. And CBS has picked up the hour long werewolf thriller, Wolf Lake, which is set in the Pacific Northwest.

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