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Charlie Jade

June 5, 2008 -

SciFi Channel is starting to air a new series tomorrow night called Charlie Jade. Although I don't yet know a lot about the show, I've heard very good things about it, and I want to make sure to watch.

Charlie Jade 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, which is inconceivable in Charlie's world.

While tracking her suspected killer, Charlie discovers a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him into a parallel universe that seduces him with its similarities and baffles him with its differences.

Charlie is soon drawn into a conflict that involves his home universe, the one he now inhabits as well as a third universe. The third world is pristine and pacifist, with unsuspected terror at its heart.

So yeah, it sounds interesting. And I want you to remind me to set my Tivo when I get home so I don't miss it. Okay? It's on tomorrow night (Friday June 6th) at 8pm, 7 Central. Of course, for those of you who know how freakin' impossible it is to predict what time anything will show on Mountain Time, it could be on at 6pm or 10pm here. Never Know.

Comments on Charlie Jade
 
Comment Fri, June 6 - 9:05 AM by Keith
A NEW SERIES...Then this is gona be a very short series of 20 episodes that date back to the year 2005. 3 years out of date to be considered NEW.

REPEAT. is what my TV Guide says... But it does sound interesting the series.
So I will watch it since (GREG, THE TV GURU) says so.

Just don't want you (GREG) to get dis-appointed like when HEROE's or 4400 was cut too short for your liking.

 
Comment Fri, June 6 - 10:00 AM by Greg
Yeah - I did kinda know that it wasn't technically new, but it's new for the U.S.
 
Comment Fri, June 6 - 1:11 PM by tagger
The bible for this thing was written by Rob Sawyer (www.sfwriter.com), a Canadian hard SF writer who won a Hugo for _Hominids_ and a Nebula for _The Terminal Experiment_.

Of the creators, the only thing I know about Robert Wertheimer is that he worked on the "Friday the 13th" and "Robocop" TV series. The other guy, Chris Roland, produced "Lexx," which I didn't care for.

The production work was done jointly by the Canadians and in South Africa. It bombed largely because the average TV viewer, typically a passive learner who drinks whichever brand of kool-aid the talking heads are pushing, couldn't keep up with the dense, complicated story line. The fact that one of the characters is a "good guy terrorist" probably didn't help either.

I'm looking forward to seeing it again, though, and hope the SciFi people don't chop it up too badly when inserting the commercials.