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While exploring YouTube, I came across some videos made made by Charlie Jade fans who have a deep appreciation for 01 Boxer, and some of them are quite good.
This fan video uses a song by a band called Porno Graffitti, but I have no idea what the song title is.
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Over at The Signal, thanks to one of their listeners, they’re holding a giveaway for a copy of the Charlie Jade UK DVD set.
Head on over, listen to the latest episode (Season 5, Ep 18), read the show notes for the entry rules, follow the instructions, and good luck!
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According to the schedule listings at syfy.com, there will be a mini-marathon of 8 Charlie Jade episodes, airing on Monday, September 28, 2009 running from 8am through 4pm Eastern.
The episodes airing are:
Betrayal
Identity
Thicker Than Water
Choosing Sides
Through A Mirror Darkly
The Enemy of My Enemy
Things Unseen
The Shortening of the Way
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Kevin Bachelder also works on The Signal Podcast, a fine show about Firefly and Serenity that every Firefly fan and Browncoat should be listening to.
On the latest episode of The Signal, the Broadwaves segment is an overview of Charlie Jade, written by Jill Arroway and read by Kevin Bachelder.
The Signal Crew has graciously let us post that Broadwaves segment here for the Charlie Jade fans to enjoy.
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Get Your Charlie Jade Questions Answered by Show Creator
Robert Wertheimer
Charlie Jade co-creator Robert Wertheimer will be joining Kevin,
Summer and Richard for a very special edition of the Charlie Jade fan discussion podcast later this month.
This is a rare opportunity for you to get your Charlie Jade questions answered by Robert so please share any questions you may have about this outstanding scifi series.
You can submit your questions/comments via the website contact form: http://www.charliejade.net/contact/
You can also post any questions or comments on the discussion forums for our podcast which are located here: http://farpointforums.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=43
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Back in April, Charlie Jade fans noticed that Amazon.com had a sign up page for people who wanted to be notified when a DVD set of Charlie Jade would be announced for Region 1 viewers.
What are you waiting for? Head on over and sign up!
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SciFi Channel has scheduled a mini-marathon of Charlie Jade next month!
On Tuesday, March 10, 2009, we’re going to get a run of the first 8 episodes, starting at 8am Eastern/Pacific.
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?date=10-MAR-2009
If you missed recording any of these during the first run, now’s your chance. If you want to try to get a friend of yours hooked on the show, this is the time and place to start!
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No, we’re not getting any new Charlie Jade movies or anything like that, but there will be more content coming your way from CharlieJade.net and FarPoint Media.
So stay tuned, and stay subscribed to your feeds!
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There are far more Charlie Jade related videos on YouTube than I could have imagined, and this particular one is a gem.
It’s a music video montage created by CJ fan Sean, set to the song “Never Too Late” by Three Days Grace:
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Richard Porter informed me earlier today that the PopCritics website will be shutting down at the end of September.
While we will be losing what was fast becoming a fun site to frequent, Richard will continue with his Charlie Jade recaps being posted directly here.
The previous recaps and related interviews will also be posted here, in their entirety.
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Due to unforseen circumstances, the commentary for Episode 15 has been delayed.
When we have a commentary to post, we’ll get it into the feed ASAP.
Thanks for your support and understanding during this project!
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Denis McGrath’s commentary for Episode 110 “Identity” should now show up in your feeds as being available for download.
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EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Charlie Jade’s Michael Filipowich
Sometimes cool stuff happens when you’re not even looking for it. Like how Mike and Jason were looking for writers to expand the roster on Pop Critics just a couple weeks before one of my favorite shows was premiering. And how even though Sci Fi saw fit to bury Charlie Jade after two episodes, we’ve managed to keep a nice little group of fans coming back each week to talk about the show.
A couple weeks back, Mike forwarded me an email he’d gotten from someone who’d worked on the show and wanted to thank us for taking an interest in it: Michael Filipowich.
We weren’t actively looking for another interview, but if we had been, he would have been top of my list. His take on 01 Boxer is…well…crazy. But after exchanging a series of emails with him, I’ll tell you this is about the most carefully crafted, well-planned crazy I’ve seen in a long time. He knew exactly what 01 was doing, why he was doing it, and what his endgame was. He took a character who had initially been written as a one-dimensional psycho and fleshed him out into the crazy, funny, scary dimension hopper we know and love.
He was kind enough to answer a few questions for me, taking the time to provide some really thoughtful responses. His take on his character and the show are quite different from everyone else’s and very interesting. One of the great things about film and television is its collaborative nature. It’s that collaborative nature that lets great ideas about characters filter up from the actor to the creators.
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Due to technical difficulties, the commentary for “Identity” will be delayed, most likely until after the actual episode airs.
We apologize for this delay, and we hope to provide it before “Thicker Than Water” airs next week.
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Interview with Charlie Jade Headwriter Alex Epstein
It’s no mystery that I’m a huge Charlie Jade fan. I don’t write those insanely long and detailed recaps on a show relegated to the 2am time slot for fame and fortune, that’s for sure. What is a little surprising is how I came to know and love the show.
Like many others, I’m an aspiring screenwriter. In some ways it’s harder to break in today because there are more competitors for the few available slots; however, we have resources that weren’t available even five or ten years ago. There are dozens of accomplished writers blogging about their experiences as staff writers, writers’ assistants, and show runners. Some write from decades of experience and some give us play-by-play as they learn on the job. One of the longest-blogging writers out there is Alex Epstein, who keeps an ongoing conversation with fans, newbie writers, and others at Complications Ensue. I’ve been reading Alex’s blog for at least two years now and also own his book “Crafty TV Writing”. If you want to write for television, I highly recommend it.
Once I started reading Alex on craft, I realized this was a guy who not only could teach me a lot, but who had similar sensibilities to mine. Odds were high that stuff he did, I’d like. And having seen a decent-sized chunk of his work now, I can tell you my instinct was right. Alex frequently discusses Charlie Jade, even using it to demonstrate how to break and beat a story in “Crafty TV Writing”. I’ve got to tell you, when I read about Charlie hopping dimensions, I knew this was a show for me.
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