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Exclusive Interview! Diving Deeper into Stargate Universe with Producer John G. Lenic!
So today was a particularly interesting day as I got to chat with one of the producers of SGU and longtime member of the Stargate production team John G. Lenic. He joined the team in 1996 as a production assistant and has remained with all incarnations of the franchise from SG-1, Atlantis and ...
INTERVIEW – Stargate Universe's David Blue
INTERVIEW – Stargate Universe's David Blue
tvovermind.com — Stargate: Universe's producers were tasked with a somewhat unorthodox mission: reach outside of the Stargate franchise's existing fan-base and bring in viewers who had never watched a single episode of 'Gate. In order to accomplish that, the SGU story had to quickly get these viewers up to ... (more) INTERVIEW – Stargate Universe's David Blue
Cable Ratings: Syfy top 10 – Stargate Universe still on par with Stargate Atlantis ratings
Cable Ratings: Syfy top 10 – Stargate Universe still on par with Stargate Atlantis ratings
tvbythenumbers.com — Alright all you Stargate Universe bashers (I caught up yesterday, it’s growing on me…kinda) and alienated Stargate Atlantis fans who are rooting for Stargate Universe to fail: it’s doing just as well as SGA did last year (actually ... (more) Cable Ratings: Syfy top 10 – Stargate Universe still on ...
Cable Ratings: Syfy top 10 – Stargate Universe still on par with Stargate Atlantis ratings
Cable Ratings: Syfy top 10 – Stargate Universe still on par with Stargate Atlantis ratings
tvbythenumbers.com — Alright all you Stargate Universe bashers (I caught up yesterday, it’s growing on me…kinda) and alienated Stargate Atlantis fans who are rooting for Stargate Universe to fail: it’s doing just as well as SGA did last year (actually ... (more) Cable Ratings: Syfy top 10 – Stargate Universe still on ...
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Stargate Universe - Interview with Producer John G. Lenic (2)
Spoiler TV — ... on a series but also in terms of moving up in career and position. Also find something that was going to give me a breadth of experience. No offense to shows with talking heads like Law and Order and NCIS but this was an opportunity to work on a show with visual affects, special effects, all those visual elements, huge costumes every single week will give you that great experience than just working in office buildings all day long.” Source: Full Interview at FusedFilm ...

John G. Lenic Interview
Stargate Universe — Stargate Universe producer John G. Lenic did an interview with Fused Film. Excerpt: “Basically we all talked about wanting to do something different. Something different from what we had been doing and go a another way that people would respond too and make it more “charactery” and slightly darker especially if we got the right cast (which we did.) People had been saving the day every episode and that was fun and there was that feel good response of being able to walk away from every episode. But also it was just wanting to go into a different look and ...

Stargate Friday (October 30, 2009)
Stargate SG-1 Solutions LJ Companion — ... Producer John G. Lenic did an interview with Fused Film in which he said, "We are trying to make a different show and in the essence of trying to do that. Yes we had Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks those were to get us off to a good start, pass the torch, they were all there for plausible reasons as well and they were not critical to the series. But also speaking bluntly having the Atlantis guys involved in anyway creates financial issues and is a heck of a lot of money after 5 seasons with that those actors get their quote up per ...

Producer John G Lenic Delves Deeper Into the Stargate Universe
Stargate Archive - Journal — ... them we are actually trying to do something differently but also its a look that goes across many different shows.” Yeah! that look in my opinion started with Firefly before BSG! “Oh yeah, Firefly and even Friday Night Lights. Robert Cooper, co-creator and executive producer, even said that his favorite shows on TV were the Shield and Friday Night Lights and if we can get one of those guys to DP the show. So with that the onset of the show was handled with a different perspective.” You can read the full interview here courtesy of FusedFilm » ...

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