Zimbio.com has some images from the "Boston Legal" warp party, which took place Saturday Nov, 15 at the Cicada Restaurant in Los Angeles.

williamshatner.com has two images showing William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy in the new show. Thanks to Paul for that ;-)

There will be a lot of William Shatner appearances on TV next month. First: the big two-hour series finale of "Boston Legal" on December 8 with the episodes "Made in China" and "Last Call". As Paul wrote in his weekly newsletter, filming will be end next week. Second, there is the premiere of the new talk show "Shatner's Raw Nerve" on December, 2nd on Bio with, among others, Leonard Nimoy.

But thats not all. According to MTV Shatner will star as the voice of Santa Claus in the new animated "Gotta Catch Santa" which has been written and directed by Steven E. de Souza. It's called a 'Rankin-Bass-esque' project.

De Souza whose credits include the screenplays for movies like "Judge Dredd", "The Flintstones", "Die Hard", "8 Hours" and "Beverly Hills Cop III" described his new project in an interview with MTV: "You know the emails you always get around Christmas that explain why Santa Claus can’t really exist – not because there’s no such thing as Santa Claus – but because in order to carry that payload of toys on re-entry, the reindeers would burn up. And then there’s a formula that proves this. Or other messages say that the problem isn’t re-entry, but launch, and there’s a formula about the energy a healthy male reindeer would be able to produce?" ... "Well, we start with a bunch of brainy kids kicking this idea around, and they stumble upon the actual method Santa uses – which involves quantum mechanics and a lot of dialogue that only William Shatner can say". "And by attempting to get a photograph of Santa in order to win a contest or to prove his existence, they say, ‘We’ll just delay him for 10 se conds when he’s at our chimney.’ But we’re dealing with quantum physics here!"

„Gotta Catch Santa“ will air - according to IMDb on December, 11 - on a major network.

The Weinstein Company have released a new trailer for the upcoming comedy "Fanboys," in which William Shatner also makes a short appearance. The movie is about some hard-core "Star Wars" fans, who travel across the country to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch to steal a copy of "Episode I: The Phantom Menace". During their adventurous trip they get into some funny situations, including an outrageous brawl with some hard-core "Star Trek" fans and a secret meeting with William Shatner.

The movie is directed by Kyle Newman and starring Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel und Kristen Bell. One of the producers is Kevin Spacey. The film was originally to be released on August 17, 2007, but was pushed back several times. The final cut of the film was screened on July 24, 2008 at Comic-Con in San Diego.

The original Bio series, "Shatner's Raw Nerve" will premiere Tuesday, December 2nd at 10PM ET/PT. According to a Bio press release, Shatner continues to evolve his career as he headlines his own edgy and off-beat celebrity interview series, showcasing his unique sensibility, from the satirical to the serious to the sublime. The show will capture America's most intriguing people at their most unexpected.

In each 30 minute episode Shatner will attempt to probe his guest's most fascinating and sensitive subjects and touch upon a "Raw Nerve." Part of the fun will be waiting for the "Raw Nerve" moments that you know will be coming. Shatner will explore life's most intriguing questions, and unearth stories that are most surprising, revealing, funny, touching or bizarre. The show will be unpredictable, allowing Shatner to work his magic on each guest in his own unique way.

Guests will include Tim Allen, Drew Carey, Jimmy Kimmel, Howie Mandel, Judge Judy, Valerie Bertinelli, Kelsey Grammer, Jenna Jameson, Leonard Nimoy and Jon Voight.

"Shatner's Raw Nerve" is produced by Scott Sternberg Productions with Scott Sternberg as executive producer. Executive producers for Bio Channel are Robert Sharenow and Michael Morrison.

Website: www.biography.com/shatner/ (with a short video clip with Shatner and Nimoy)

Looks like fun :-) Thanks to boston-legal.org

The environmental organization Sierra Club has a new video clip with William Shatner up on YouTube:

The website TheBellinghamHerald.com has some more details about William Shatners new comic novels. So the "TekWar" novels, which are set to be released in March 2009 are expected to be a full series of 100 to 200 issues. The others - "Quest for Tomorrow" and "Man O' War" - will be mini-series.

Ion Television has published a new "Boston Legal" video clip with William Shatner.

In a new and very funny video clip "The Shatner Project" takes a look behind the scenes of the filming of the "World of Warcraft" and "Priceline" spots.

No Emmy for William Shatner. Zeljko Ivanek won "Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series" for his role in "Damages". All in all it wasn't a good evening for "Boston Legal": for the first time, the series couldn't win one award.

Check HipCelebrity for two nice pictures of William Shatner and his wife Elizabeth ariving at Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

The New York Times published a very interesting article about the premiere of the 5. "Boston Legal" season. You find it here. There are also some audio clips of the talk with William Shatner.

Yesterday the long awaited Shatner Project premiered on YouTube with three video clips - a welcome, some thoughts on the legendary "Rocketman" and an answer to "Star Trek"-director J. J. Abrams, who made a comment last week that Captain Kirk was originally written into the new film (shatner-news reportet), but Shatner refused to do a cameo. According to Shatner neither Abrams nor anybody else offered him such a cameo:

QTV had a very interesting and extensive conversation with William Shatner, in which he talked about his live and his career:

Bluewater Productions has announced a partnership with William Shatner. The Washington based comic book company has contracted to do four titles with Shatner based on his science fiction novels "The TekWar Chronicles", "Quest for Tomorrow", "Man O’War" and an exclusive new title that Shatner will create specifically for the publisher. Read more on bluewaterprod.com

According to Paul, "The Shatner Project" on YouTube will start Thursday with three clips: a welcome one, a classic one and a response to something in the news. The new project will be somewhat different to ShatnerVision. There will be only about 2 or 3 videos a week, but the goal is to go "more in depth" into the life of Shatner, as Paul told TrekMovie: "You will get more of a 360 picture instead of just a peek of Bill’s live and adventures".

www.YouTube.com/WilliamShatner

William Shatner talked to the Los Angeles Times about his new comic project, which will be released in March 2009, "Boston Legal" and - of course ;-) - the new "Star Trek" movie.

No, William Shatner isn’t in the new Star Trek movie. But as director J.J. Abrams now told AMC, there was indeed a flashback scene specifically written for him:

"It was very tricky. We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing, but the truth is, it didn't quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn't want to do a cameo. We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves. The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling. It's funny -- a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that."

In the comments section on TrekMovie.com Star Trek co-writer Roberto Orci confirmed that he and Alex Kurtzman indeed came up with a scene for Shatner but he also said, that it "technically … wasn’t a flashback".

There's only 14 days left till the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards. The event will be especially exciting for Shatner-fans, after all, William Shatner has been nominated as "Best Supporting Actor" for his portrayal of Denny Crane again.

But what are the odds that he'll win this year? Emmy guru Chris "Boomer" Beachum and Robert "Rob L" Licuria have given this some thought - and from Beachum's viewpoint it doesn't look bad: He sees a very tight race between William Shatner and Michael Emerson ("Lost") - with a slight edge to Shatner:

„Both have showcase episodes built around their characters and seize the opportunity with excellent performances. In addition to some nice action scenes, Emerson gets two powerful scenes in his episode (witnessing the murder of his daughter and then a revenge showdown with his nemesis at the end). Shatner is as ham-bone as ever in his episode, but he gets some terrific courtroom scenes that are both comedic and dramatic, plus this is probably his best submission yet in terms of screen time, plot and range. I am giving the slight edge to Shatner since his episode seems to be a little more accessible to non-viewers of the show and has the viewer pulling for him at the end.”

Robert Licuria, on the other hand, sees Shatner only on fourth place: "I don't buy that William Shatner is the front-runner in this category. I think that maybe Denny Crane's time in the Emmy spotlight might be over." His favourites are Zeljko Ivanek ("Damages") and Michael Emerson.

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards will be broadcasted on September 21 on ABC.

Source: The Envelope / L. A. Times

boston-legal.org posted two "Boston Legal"-promos with William Shatner, which actually can be seen on TV. Thanks. :-)


Denny Rallies the Troops


Boston Legal on ION Network

In an interview with the British newspaper Times William Shatner described a day in his life. You can find it here

The South African newspaper "The Times" published an interview with William Shatner: Link

According to williamshatner.com the new talkshow "Shatner's Raw Nerve", which was supposed to start on Bio next Tuesday (August 19), was moved to later in the year.

The Winnipeg Free Press published a review of "Up Till Now" titled "To bravely go where Shatner has gone". And check the Vancouver Courier for another review: "Shatner... opens... up... and... gets... personal".

William Shatner recently has partnered with the environmental organization Sierra Club to fight Global Warming. The actor created a series of three Public Service Announcements (PSA’s) for the so called "2% Solution Campaign" which promotes cutting carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050, or 2 percent a year.

"We need to take action now," says Shatner. "We don’t need to change everything in one day, but there are changes we can make today that will add up to big differences tomorrow. That is what the 2% Solution is about - getting started."

You can see the first two PSA’s here: http://www.sierraclub.org/twopercent/shatner/

More on the partnership and the campaign: http://action.sierraclub.org