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Our big project for 2024 is Amanda Tapping’s Embracing Mental Health as a Fandom: The Book. In our first Gate to Gate Challenge in March to May, we had over 200 Companion participants (virtually) ...
Farscape Season 1 VFX supervisor Paul Butterworth on the creation of Moya, beating Star Wars at their own game, and inspiring Guardians of the Galaxy. “It was a very bizarre, very bizarre project,” ...
Farscape is anarchic and alien, sexy and savage – and that’s exactly how it sounds. The frantic stab of the first few seconds is like a needle scratch to shock you from your stupor: listen up, normal ...
ITV ‘dinosaur sci-fi’ show Primeval may have ended in 2011, but there is still an active Reddit community tossing back and forth theories about which season was best and why Cutter had to die. There’s ...
Last November 30, we awoke to the outwardly alarming news that a black hole was aimed right at Earth. “Earlier this year, astronomers at the Palomar Observatory detected an extraordinary flash in a ...
Wyvern Gaming’s Brad Ellis is no stranger to games design or crowdfunding. His company has produced five tabletop/card/deckbuilding games and all five were ...
During her interview with The Companion’s Rebecca Davis for Amanda Tapping: Embracing Mental Health as a Fandom, the actor-turned-producer/director was frank about the mental health challenges she ...
Amanda Tapping: Embracing Mental Health as a Fandom was a live interview hosted by The Companion’s Rebecca Davis, with breakout meet and greet sessions for groups of five held afterward on The ...
Orson Welles has a lot to answer for. After all, it was he, back in 1938, who pioneered the drama hoax with his radio version of War of the Worlds which scared half the wireless audience witless.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode ‘Captive Pursuit’ (S1, Ep5). Proceed with caution. Many fans can point to a moment when Star Trek helped them through ...
The strange story of afterschool special The Day After Tomorrow (aka Into Infinity), Gerry Anderson’s hoped-for 1975 follow-up to Space: 1999. The opening title for The Day After Tomorrow (1975). The ...
Let’s not forget, as we begin on what could be an esoteric and convoluted journey, that Ra was not originally going to be an alien in the Stargate (1994) movie. Jaye Davidson’s character was an ...