Millennium - This Is Who We Are

Kool TV takes a fresh look at Millennium Season Three

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Its not often these days that websites review or offer analysis of Millennium (probably since the show was gratefully released on DVD), but I recently heard from Scott Weller of the quite fascinating blog Kool TV, who kindly took the time to let me know about the final part of his insightful look at the third and ultimate season of Millennium which is now up and available to read online.

Steve has previously also looked at the first two seasons of Chris Carter's dark and evocative series, and you can find links to those articles here.

Millennium writer Kay Reindl launches her new book

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Kay Reindl, co-author of the much loved Millennium episodes Anamnesis and Midnight of the Century has launched a new book entitled 'In Obscura'. The e-book is designed for electronic reading devices such as the Kindle:

"Recruited by a mysterious spy to do a simple job, aimless Jordan Cole finds herself in the middle of a centuries-old apocalyptic mystery and is horrified to discover that she is the only person who can uncover the truth and save the world."

Using her popular blog Seriocity, Kay reveals much more about how the e-book came about:

"In Obscura is a book I started writing over a decade ago. I'd write, put it away, drag it out, change all the pop culture and technology, etc. It has a sprawling, ancient mythology that needed to be corralled. There's magic in it. But it doesn't feature a punkish, back-to-the-camera heroine covered in tramp stamps as she wields a sharpened weapon of some sort. It doesn't have the mainstream thriller fiction vibe either. It's not about a globe-trotting archaeologist, or a famous symbologist. There are no scenes of cardinals rending their garments at the Vatican. People, I DON'T EVEN MENTION OPUS DEI. The spine of this story is a secret history, created partly out of the inspiration I had when we were researching secret societies and black virgins and bloodlines on Millennium. And you can only fit so much ancient conspiracy into one hour of television."

Kay undertook 26 roles (writing 4 episodes and jointly story editing 22 episodes) whilst working on Chris Carter's Millennium television series. As well as co-writing the second season episodes A Single Blade of Grass, Anamnesis and Midnight of the Century with writing partner Erin Maher, Kay also took over from Michael Perry serving again alongside Erin as Executive Story Editors for Season 3 of the series. Kay and Erin also wrote their only season 3 episode Matryoshka together.

Amazon's Kindle is available as a handheld e-book reader and also available as a download for PC, iPhone, iPad and Android.

We wish Kay every success with In Obscura, which you can find at Amazon.com , Amazon.co.uk and Smashwords.

Lance Henriksen Biography Released - Not Bad For A Human

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The official Lance Henriksen Biography hardback book entitled Not Bad For A Human is now available and is published by Bloody Pulp Books.
Launched to coincide with Lance Henriksen's birthday (May 5th), the book is available in a limited edition 6 x 9 hardback with dust jacket. The 374 perfect-bound pages including original full-page artwork by Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra: Assassin), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Ashley Wood (Metal Gear Solid), Tim Bradstreet (The Punisher), Eric Powell (The Goon) and Tom Mandrake (The Spectre).

All copies ordered through the Not Bad For A Human website will be signed by Lance. Unfortunately they cannot take requests for personalised messages.

Visit the Not Bad For A Human website to order and view sample pages.

Happy Birthday Lance Henriksen!

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Congratulations are extended to actor Lance Henriksen who will soon be celebrating his 71st birthday on May 5th. To celebrate both his birthday and the long awaited release of his biography Not Bad For A Human, writers John Kenneth Muir and Joseph Maddrey are teaming up to do a week-long 'Blogathon' tribute to Lance at John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV.

If you are a member at Lance Henriksen Magic, feel free to append your birthday messages and greetings to this article: Lance Henriksen Magic.

TIWWA Member HighPlainsDrifter's challenge to raise $500 for Cancer Charity!

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

We're very proud to highlight on our news page that Joseph McBrayer (better known as HighPlainsDrifter), one of our highly popular and much-loved members on our This Is Who We Are (TIWWA) community forums has volunteered to help raise $500 of funds for children's cancer charity, St Baldricks, by shaving his head!

The St. Baldrick's Foundation is the world's largest volunteer-driven fund-raising event for childhood cancer research. At St. Baldrick's events all throughout the year, brave volunteers shave their heads, raising funds for research. Like runners in a marathon, "shavees" collect donations from family, friends and associates. The Foundation receives these funds and makes grants to research experts to find new and better treatments for fighting kids' cancer.

The Foundation funds local institutions and cooperative research on a national scale to help doctors work together to develop the best treatments for all children with cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation provides grants to over 230 institutions for laboratory research and to help make clinical trials available to more children than ever, giving those children treatment that offers the best chance for a cure and long-term survival.

Since 2000, St. Baldrick's has raised more than $69 million USD by hosting more than 2,500 events and shaving more than 108,000 heads in 24 countries and all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Joe's Donation page at St Baldricks's can be found here:
http://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/participantid/419084

Millennium fan Joe posts, "With having family members that had died from cancer and a close friend that survived cancer I have joined a great organization that helps the cause. They are called St.Baldricks. I am looking for donations to help children with cancer, I am shaving my head for this. If you can help by please donate to this cause."

We're hoping that you can help Joe achieve his goal of raising $500, its really easy to do, just go to his page and click on the Make a Donation button. I was able to make a donation from the UK in minutes, with no registration required. If you're a TIWWA Member, you may like to use the option to display your member name instead of your real name, its completely up to you!

TIWWA wishes Joe every success with this worthwhile challenge and is very proud to sponsor him!

The Christmas 2010 Lucy Butler Audio Competition winner, Star of Wonder by James P. Davies!

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Dear friends,

As all of you will know, we began our celebration of the festive season with a little something special from Sarah-Jane Redmond herself with an opportunity to have your words read aloud by Millennium's Lucy Butler. The challenge was to create a festive tale with just enough winter chill and more than a dash of Lucy Butler to ease our Millennium pangs. When we launched the competition I had no idea that it would be so warmly received and that the standard of entries would be so high and so many.

Sarah-Jane undertook the difficult task of reading the entries to select our winner and those in second and third places. I am extremely grateful to her for this as I would have found it impossible hard to do so myself given the standard of the entries and I am pleased to announce that Sarah-Jane has chosen her first, second and third places. In third place we have Ana Miraldo, in second place we have Heath Griner and the winner of the Lucy Butler Audio Competition 2010 is.....

James P. Davis with "Star Of Wonder"!

Congratulations to all of you. Our second and place winners will receive an exclusive signed photograph of Sarah-Jane Redmond as Lucy Butler and I want to congratulate the both of you on making Sarah-Jane's job so difficult when it came to selecting a winning entry. You both created something magical and it was by no means an easy task to pick between the finalists. As for our winner, he will hear his story read out in those devilish tones we love.

So here's to James on such a deserving win and for creating such a superb story for Lucy Butler to feature in. Take a bow Sir, you truly do deserve it.

Thank you to each and every one of you that entered. You are all winners and we truly appreciate the creativity, energy and passion you are willing to demonstrate in support of the show you love and it does not go unappreciated by the cast and crew I can promise you.

...

The time is now. Here's is the winning entry of our Lucy Butler Audio Competition 2010 written by the extremely talented James P. Davis and narrated by Sarah-Jane Redmond. All the entries were of a standard I couldn't hope to attain but I have to confess to being blown away by James' when I read it and I know Sarah-Jane was too hence the win. It is such a well written piece with lots of references and subtle touches and it is undoubtedly a Christmas story which is what we were looking for. I was particularly impressed with the sheer scope of it and how it seemed to have a mythology all of its own. I have also included a download link for those of you who like the opportunity to have a copy to listen to at their leisure. I wanted to take this opportunity to than all our entrants - the standard was exceptionally high and you all deserve a round of applause so take a box. Further congratulations to James for creating such a memorable entry and one that I am sure you will all agree deserved to win and last but by no means least my gratitude to Sarah-Jane Redmond for the considerable time, support and enthusiasm she afforded us this year to help make our festive season a Millennium festive season. Enjoy the story folks and be sure to leave your thoughts when you have heard it, I am sure James would appreciate that.

Sarah-Jane Redmond presents James P Davis' "Star Of Wonder" from Mark Hayden on Vimeo.

You can also download this file from our Download Manager to keep...
DOWNLOAD HERE

Best wishes, Mark (Eth)

TIWWA Announces its Christmas Celebrations

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Dear friends,

We wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a truly wonderful festive season and in doing so invite you all to spend it in the company of fellow Millennium fans who have come together to extend a little warmth to each other and enjoy the show they love this Christmas.

From Wednesday 22nd December our 'Midnight Of The Century' celebrations begin and continue into the new year and we have a number of special events for fans to enjoy as the results of our Lucy Butler Audio Tale are revealed and the lucky winner will hear their Christmas chiller read exclusively by Lucy Butler herself, Sarah-Jane Redmond. Our celebrated vidder, Josef has created a stunning musical treat to celebrate the season, composer Steven Paul Katzenmoyer has created an exclusive composition to pay tribute to the episode ""Midnight Of The Century"" and our bloggers and writers, Darlene and Lisa have written a couple of superb articles on the subjects of Frank Black and the seasonal episode we are celebrating.

If that wasn't enough there is still ample time to make a purchase of the scent '"Midnight Of The Century"' which was created by perfumier Vajra Wright with permission from the episode's writer Kay Reindl with a donation made to charity for each and every purchase. Fans dropping by will also have an opportunity to win a signed copy of the festive horror film ""Black Christmas"" kindly donated by Millennium's luminaries Glen Morgan and Kristen Cloke, an opportunity to win a signed photograph of Tucker Smallwood as Millennium's Steven Kiley that he very kindly donated to our Killer Karaoke Competition and to put the cherry on the top we have the first Millennium comic strip created exclusively for www.tiwwa.info by artist and illustrator Barry Renshaw. Yep, Frank Black's back in action this Christmas and what a long time coming it has been.

As you can see we have plenty to get your teeth into and I do hope you will all drop by to partake of the fun.

So here's to the Midnight Of The Century and to all of you....

A Very Millennium Christmas.

Mark Hayden ethsnafu

This is who we are (TIWWA)

Merry Christmas From TIWWA - Frank Black vs Santa Claus

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Ho, Ho, Ho Sir Black......

I do hope you are all feeling festive and in the mood for some fun. Next week TIWWA (our community forums fully known as This is who we are) will unleash a little fun just to keep the Millennium-spirit alive at this festive time of the year and here's a little something to get you in the mood and whet your appetite. I wish I could claim to be the maker of this but I can't. That honour goes to Josef and I am sure you will all join with me in acknowledging his talent and thanking him for continuing to make some superb videos to keep us all entertained.

So here's to the Midnight of the Century folks. I hope you all enjoy the fun.

Mark (ethsnafu)

View on Vimeo.

The all new Lance Henriksen Magic - now open!

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Following a few months of hard work and some very late nights during which time I've been a bit of a recluse at TIWWA, and as previously mentioned in our staff blog, I'm pleased to announce that the newly overhauled Lance Henriksen Magic is now officially open, and which will make it all the more enjoyable and fun to take an interest in the career of the enigmatic Lance Henriksen.

I'm thrilled to say that Lance Henriksen Magic will now be brought to you with the kind assistance of Mark Hayden (aka ethsnafu) and Libby! Both Mark and Libby you may already know help me successfully run This is who we are.

Mark in particular will be helping me to bring you more news concerning Lance Henriksen and his career on a more frequent basis, whilst Libby will be helping oversee the brand new community forums section of the site. The new site is easier to navigate and use, contains the same classic archive of Lance goodness, but is now a new feature-laden social website where fans can discuss Lance's career, classic roles and his latest projects with like-minded individuals, who appreciate Lance's career and his amazing talent.

We look forward to chatting with you on the new site, we hope you enjoy the facilities it has to offer and we look forward to you sharing your favourite Lance video's fan tributes/art/video compilations and clips of Lance's film moments with a potentially much larger audience that we currently have here as TIWWA is solely focussed on Lance's work on Millennium.

http://www.lancehenriksen.info/

Regards,
Graham, Libby and Mark.

Exclusive Dean Haglund interview and Lone Gunmen 2010 Soundtrack Competition

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Just a reminder folks, that we currently have an exclusive interview with 'Lone Gunmen' Dean Haglund in our forums which is an absolute pleasure to read and not to be missed. The interview also contains details of our competition to win a signed copy of the brand new Lone Gunmen Soundtrack by the wonderful composer Mark Snow. All entries must be in by 00:00 GMT on Sunday 29th August and the winner (chosen by yours truly) will be announced shortly after. Details in the interview topic:

Dean Haglund and Mark Snow come to TIWWA

Our grateful thanks to Dean Haglund, Mark Snow, La La Land Records and Mark Hayden for their kind support.

TIWWA Announces our Lance Henriksen's 70th Birthday Celebrations

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wednesday May 5th sees Lance Henriksen reach the grand age of 70 years young and as this is a milestone birthday the Millennium Fan Community (thanks to the inspiration of our founder, Graham P Smith) decided it was right and proper to mark the occasion in style and bring as many people together at www.tiwwa.info to celebrate the continuing career of one of the acting profession's brightest luminaries. To help the occasion go with a "boom boom" we have some super articles and videos looking back over Lance's stellar career and celebrating his achievements in various roles with a special emphasis on Frank Black. We have an exclusive comic strip bringing "Frank Black" back in his first adventure for over a decade (courtesy of artist and writer, Barry Renshaw with an ongoing series to follow), contributions from Millennium cast and crew members, Mark Snow, Peter Outerbridge, Robert McLachlan and Marshall Bell and from Movie Director and Writer, Brett Hart and Author M R Sellars. In addition to which we have games, an especially commissioned birthday anthem, seventy reasons why we love Lance Henriksen and much, more more.

Special thanks must be afforded to Matt Allair of www.x-fileslexicon.com and Laura and Frank of http://www.spooktalkular.com/ for their contributions and as the week unfolds we expect more surprises and fun. Our thanks is also extended to Frank Spotnitiz and his team at Big Light and Steven's Millennium Facebook Group for the coverage and support.

As we look forward to celebrating Lance Henriksen's 70th Birthday, with the great and the good assembled, it is also time to announce the third outing of our Millennium Skype Chat Group, "Millennium: The Family". We are inviting each and every one of you to join us on Friday May 7th 8:00 GMT as we take a look back at the continuing career of Lance Henriksen and the plethora of roles he has become famous for creating (with a little more emphasis on Frank Black of course).

As always, we endeavour to keep the flame alive and hope that you will all join us on Wednesday May 5th to do so but, more importantly, we hope you will raise a glass to Lance Henriksen.

Happy Birthday Lance, long may you reign.

Mark Hayden

The TIWWA Blackcoats Present: The Millennium Easter TV Weekend!

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ladies and gentlemen, as you may already know, Mark Hayden (our beloved community forum Elder ethsnafu) has been extremely busy along with a fine and generous group of our finest and chocolatey members, to band together with the intention of bringing you a weekend of themed fun to help us celebrate Easter. Our 'TIWWA Blackcoats' have done this in the form of a virtual weekend of televised Millennium events. Over the next two days, on a number of virtual channels, they aim to bring you plenty of entertainment and hope you will get involved and leave some thoughts for those good folk who have worked hard to make this all possible. To whet your appetite, here is a list of what's on offer so grab those Easter eggs, log into the forum tomorrow and prepare to be entertained!

Saturday April 3rd

SYFY CHANNEL: The Launderama of The Soul - A Selfosophy Inspired Game.

GOOD FOOD CHANNEL: The Importance of Being Chocolate - A look into the deeper aspects of what we are stuffing our faces with this Easter.

RADIO ONE: Millennium: The Family - An online Skype meeting of TIWWA members to discuss 'Owls', 'Roosters' and more besides (this will be made available for download shortly after.)

NICK: Frank Black Cottentail - A hidden Easter Egg somewhere on the forum, see if you can find it folks.

CHALLENGE TV: Millennium Trivial Pursuits Part One - A two season quiz with a copy of Millennium Apocalypse for the winner.

BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL: Exclusive to TIWWA: Interview with Tracy Middendorf - a look behind the scenes of 'Darwin's Eye' with Cass herself.

MTV: Darwin's Eye Music Montage to tie in with Tracy's Interview

Sunday

ABC: The Millennium Academy Awards - A Celebrity Deathmatch styled after the Oscars.

HISTORY CHANNEL: Easter - An article looking at the deeper, spiritual significance of Easter.

CHALLENGE TV: Millennium Trivial Pursuits Part Two- A two season quiz with a copy of Millennium Apocalypse for the winner.

BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL: Exclusive to TIWWA - Interview with Shae Popovich - A look behind the scenes of Forcing The End with Rachel Levinson herself.

MTV: A Forcing The End Music Montage to tie in with Shae's interview.

SKY PREMIÈRE: Exclusive VS6 Webisode - a brief prologue to the new virtual series.

My sincere gratitude is extended to Mark for his hard work, considerable talent and ever amazing sense of humor, together with that of his kind, talented and generous team of Blackcoats who consist of the following regular contributors and we hope friends within our Millennium community, Earthnut (Darlene), Walkabout (Randee), tyd7u (Josef), and SpooktalkGiGi (Laura) with additional contributions from Baz and Joe.

Mark and myself would also like to thank Big Light for their help in promoting this Easter fun and madness, and all of you who take the time to share the word.

This is who we are!

Advanced screening and Q&A of The Penitent Man

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Nicholas Gyeney, the director of the highly anticipated film The Penitent Man has been in touch with a message for followers and fans of Lance Henriksen which we're only too happy to share:

Hi There, this is Nicholas Gyeney, the director of "The Penitent Man".

I wanted to send a quick message to let you know that the film has been picked up, and will be released theatrically beginning May 28, 2010 in a limited release that will expand.

As a special bonus, to those [of you] who are in the L.A. area...

Lance and myself will be screening the film at The Method Fest in Calabasas, CA on March 29th @ 7pm. We will be having a Q & A after the film. If you want to come see Lance talk about the performance of his career, this is your chance.

You can buy tickets for the Method Fest screening here.

We will also be screening the film at The Seattle International Film Festival in May.

Thanks again, I hope to see some of you at the screening.
Nick.

Millennium - This is who we are extends its gratitude to Nicholas for helping keep our visitors up to date.

The Penitent Man Trailer:

Back to Frank Black hit the airwaves

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BackToFrankBlack.com have published a recording of their recent participation in the Lance Feltman Radio show at Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM - The Music That Matters. Both James and Troy (a downright veritable comedy double-act in anyone's book) took part and did a grand ol' job in promoting their campaign to see the return of Millennium.

Be sure to keep up to date with their news blog for the latest campaign news, interviews and order a fantastic, non-copyright infringing Millennium themed t-shirt whilst you are there. By doing so, you'll help Jim and Troy get one step closer to ordering a advert in Variety or other respected trade publication to promote the campaign.

BacktoFrankBlack launches Morgan and Wong Week

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Our friends over at BacktoFrankBlack.com, the campaign headquarters working tirelessly to bring about the return of Millennium criminal profiler Frank Black, have launched the latest in their special and well received theme weeks.

'Morgan and Wong' week has kicked off with a tribute to the Season 2 opening episode The Beginning and the End, with yet another quality fan made video and a superb postcard that you can download and send off to Fox to demonstrate the demand for a return of Frank Black.

Be sure to return to Back to Frank Black throughout the week to see what else they have in store and whilst you are there, please take some time to leave your feedback.