What with the casting going on for our show Quorum, we have secret societies on our mind, but what about the actual ones? As Jackie Mansky writes for Smithsonian magazine, actual secret societies are often centered around good causes (certainly as far as the members are concerned). Not only that, but these days, they’re not…
Read MoreA lot of us here in Deepest Springfield are obsessed with accents. How do we do a good Scouse accent so no one will think it’s Geordie? But with that obsession is also learning about the history of accents and how things shift. So we’re doing some research for some scripts that raise the question…
Read MoreWe posted about the upcoming TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s influential Foundation series just a little over a year ago. Well, we’ve got a date when the series premieres on its requisite streaming service (September 24th, 2021 on Apple TV+) and we have a brand new trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvOAA1U0li8 As a reminder, the Foundation series was…
Read MoreWe’d heard about species of radiation-loving fungus in relation to Chernobyl in the past, but this article by Stephen Johnson in Big Think explains how they’ve been testing it on the International Space Station. Specifically, they’ve been testing it with the idea that some form of this radiotrophic fungus could help shield astronauts bound for Mars….
Read MoreDisney’s animated films usually come with requisite musical numbers and, while there isn’t anything wrong with that, it’s not something we’ve done a lot of… yet. So it was nice to see this brief, six-minute piece that shows some of the voice actors behind one of Disney’s forays into a classic adventure yarn of a…
Read MoreWhat with our current production of “Prince Prigio” using many cast members to do about 50 different voices, we thought it’d be fun to share a video by one voice actor who could arguably do them all. Odds are, you’ve heard Rob Paulsen do voices in any of a number of shows. In this 20-minute…
Read MoreIf one is going to write about interstellar empires and civilizations that span centuries, you would be well served by reading Isaac Asimov’s celebrated Foundation series. At least, we know that the Foundation series was one of the things Bjorn Munson kept in mind when creating the Imperium for Rogue Tyger. He’s currently re-reading the…
Read MoreWhile we’re usually not a live theater experience, many of our actors work in the DC theater community… and we love it when we have been able to perform live. So this message has additional impact.
Read MoreWe had great fun adapting H.G. Wells’s sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds for radio last year, transporting the action from England to the outskirts of Washington, DC, and also to the present day with War of the Worlds 2018. In fact, many people have adapted it to times and places convenient for them….
Read MoreIn addition to working on our anthology series, we’re in research and writing mode here in Deepest Springfield. So this recent article in io9 by Lauren Davis about the origins of 31 different sci-fi terms (including “science fiction” itself) was a delight. Enjoy!
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