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Kimberly Cullum signs up as Sammi-Jo for Quantum Leap: A Bold Leap Forward
2nd October 2004
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IMDB.com has today announced that Kimberly Cullum joining the cast of Quantum Leap: A Bold Leap Forward as the female leaper, Sammi-Jo Fuller. Fans of Quantum Leap will know that she is a familiar face in Quantum Leap, for she played the parts of Abigail Fuller in Trilogy: Part I and Sammi-Jo Fuller in Trilogy: Part III.


Kimberly has a very successful career in television. You may recognise her from such shows as Bless This House, Grace Under Fire, Home Improvements and Star Trek: TNG.

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Universal Studios Announced Quantum Leap Season 2 DVD release date
12th July 2004
TVShowsOnDVD.com
www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1868


At last the news all leapers have been waiting for, the release date of Quantum Leap: Season 2 onto DVD. Mark 26th October 2004 in your calenders everybody!


This 3 disc set (DVD-18) will carry a suggested retail price of $59.98, the same price as season 1, though season 1 only consisted of 8 episodes.


The information we received lists an English Stereo track, but season 1 contained Dolby Surround, so we expect this is just an error in the information we were supplied with. The set will also contain English, French and Spanish subtitles. No word on extras yet, but we expect that to come before the set ships. We'll have cover art available when it's released.

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Star Trek: Enterprise film announced at imdb.com
28th May 2004
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www.imdb.com/title/tt0408305/


IMDB.com have announced plans by Paramount Pictures to make a Star Trek: Enterprise film, starring Scott Bakula. This news has not been announced by Star Trek itself and recently they held a webchat with Scott Bakula. This was not mention there either.


IDBM.com stated that the film, so far has not got a title and due for release in 2006.


If this does appear to be true, then I do believe it will limit the chances of Scott Bakula appear in the new Quantum Leap telefilm - A Bold Leap Forward.

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Quantum Leap is 15 years old
26th March 2004
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Today marks the 15th anniversary of Genesis, the pilot epsiode of Quantum Leap.


I want to thank Donald P. Bellisario, Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell and all else who were involved with Quantum Leap for a wonderful 15 years. Quantum Leap instantly become my favourite programme from the moment I first saw the first episode, even though it took me several weeks to understand what was happening.


Even 15 years later, each episode is still as fresh and exciting as it was from the first time I saw them. I hope the new Quantum Leap will try on the tradition and in the same that The Next Generation carried on the tradition for Star Trek.

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Extra Features on the Quantum Leap Season 1 DVD are announced
19th March 2004
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www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1270


The extra features on the new Quantum Leap: Season One DVD, due for release in June, have been announced.

"A Kiss With History: Remembering Quantum Leap"

Series stars Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, along with creator Don Bellisario, share stories about creating their groundbreaking series. The featurette will take viewers behind the scenes of Quantum Leap's first year, including stories about Bakula's extensive and demanding training, Stockwell's wild wardrobe and fans' invaluable contribution to the show.

"Quantum Knowledge"

Scott Bakula introduces each episode with a bit of trivia (guest stars, special effects, training).

The set is now coming on three discs instead of two. They changed the disc configuration around, but the content remains the same. Look for it on June 8, at an SRP of $59.98.

Many thanks to Cathy Wolfe for supplying Quantum Leaping with this latest news on the Quantum Leap DVD. We are very grateful. :O)

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Universal Studios Announced Quantum Leap Season 1 DVD release date
17th February 2004
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http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/details.php?childId=34781


With the original DVD release of Quantum Leap - The Pilot Episode being long out-of-print, fans of the show have longed for Universal Home Entertainment to bring the beloved series back to DVD in season sets.

We knew something was in-the-works last November, when reports surfaced that Deborah Pratt - who was heavily involved in the show - had mentioned in an interview that she was called in to do some work on the new home video version.

Now the waiting is over, and the countdown to the street date begins. This morning, Universal Home Video announced that Quantum Leap - Season 1 will leap home on June 8th. The nine hours of program that made up the rookie season - including the pilot episode "Genesis" from the out-of-print item - will arrive on 2 DVDs, at a $59.98 SRP. You can purchase the DVDs directly from Universal Studios for just $39.98.

Right now details are thin, with no details on the specs, no extras mentioned so far (though we're sure there will be some, since Ms. Pratt participated on the release), and no cover art to show you yet. Still, it's great to know that Sam, Al, and Ziggy will be coming back home this summer, in one of the most-requested releases here at the site (in the top 10!). Stay tuned, and we'll be back just as soon as Universal circulates the remaining information about this box set.

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Quantum Leap Director, David Hemmings, dies
4th December 2003
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Actor David Hemmings, star of cult 1960s films Blow-Up and Barbarella, has died aged 62, his agent has said.

He suffered a heart attack at the end of a day filming a new movie called Samantha's Child in Romania.

Hemmings became one of the icons of the swinging 60s but later focused on directing and producing TV shows like A-Team, Quantum Leap and Airwolf.

Hemmings directed Genesis and The Leap Between the States.

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IMDB.com lists Quantum Leap telefilm with hints of what's to follow.
23rd October 2003
IMDB - The Internet Movie Database
www.imdb.com/title/tt0383588/


IMDB.com. the widely respected on-line database of television and film information, today listed the new Quantum Leap Telefilm on it's website. The title of the telefilm is Quantum Leap: A Bold Leap Forward and will be premiered in the US sometime in 2004.

After reading the following plotline:

" Twenty years after the original series left Dr. Sam Beckett "leaping" into the great unknown, Sam is finally reunited with Al, his old mentor and "partner in time." But when circumstances beyond their control send Sam away once more, Al must recruit his lost friend's daughter to pick up where her father left off and hopefully help find Sam again in the process."

After reading the previous plotline, I am quite certain of the following details.

1. Scott Bakula will be in the new Quantum Leap, but only as a camero / guest star. It will show him returning home. Prehaps a little interact at home before he gets lost in time. After that Scott Bakula will step out of the Quantum Leap franchise. Who knows, he might return at a later date if the long await sixth season gets the go ahead.

2. Dean Stockwell will return to Quantum Leap as a Al Calavicci. I feel that he will be remain in the telefilm as the hologram to the new leapee and also in the sixth season if the telefilm is successful.

3. Most importantly, the new leapee. After a year of speculation, the new female leapee will be Sammi-Jo Fuller, Sam Beckett's daughter, as many people hoped and wished for. No word yet as to who will play Sammi-Jo. Prehaps it could be Melora Hardin, who played Abgail Fuller in Trilogy II and III.

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'JAG' Star Found Dead at Home, Suicide Suspected
10th June 2003
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Australian actor Trevor Goddard, 37, featured on the CBS television series 'JAG,' was found dead June 8, 2003 in his North Hollywood home near Los Angeles and may have committed suicide, according to the Los Angeles coroner's office. A preliminary investigation indicates the death was a ``possible suicide by drug overdose.' He is shown in this undated publicity photograph.

JAG was created by Donald P. Bellisario, the creator of Quantum Leap.

Please visit Trevor's official website and leave your messages. www.trevorgoddard.com

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Quantum Leaping supports the Shut Sellafield Campaign
7th June 2003
Shut Sellafield
www.shutsellafield.com

Sellafield is now more dangerous than ever. If it is hit by terrorist attack, or if an accident occurs, Dublin, Dundalk and Belfast will be uninhabitable. Depending on which way the wind is blowing, England, Scotland and Wales will also be badly affected. Like Belarus, which received 70% of the fallout from Chernobyl, Ireland did not ask for this nuclear power base to be built beside us. It’s up to us all to try to shut Sellafield down.

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Quantum Leap 10 year anniversary of Mirror Image
5th May 2003
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the first showing of Mirror Image on television anywhere in the world. As you all know, Mirror Image was the final episode of Quantum Leap ever made. Up to this point, Quantum Leap won many awards, including Emmys and Golden Globes, and was riding high in the ratings. Then Universal Studios decided to pull the plug with short notice. Mirror Image was the result of the short notice. We were left with an episode, which created more questions than it answered. Prehaps this is what Donald P. Bellisario intended. The good news is that Quantum Leap IS coming back and hopefully these questions will be answered!

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Quantum Leaping featured in one of Ireland's National Sunday Papers
13th April 2003
Ireland on Sunday
www.irelandonsunday.com

Quantum Leaping was featured in Ireland on Sunday, one of the leading Sunday Newspapers in Ireland. In the Questions and Answers page last week a person queried about whatever happened to Sam Beckett as they never seen the final episode. I wrote in during the week detailing what Quantum Leap was and what happened to Sam. I also noted that a new series is in the pipeline. To my surprise when I opened the paper this morning, not only was the letter printed, but it was the letter they used to Headline the Page. "Leaps of Fantasy". To read article Click Here.

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Universal to Release Quantum Leap onto DVD
22nd August 2002
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www.videobusiness.com/article.asp?articleID=3701&catType=NEWS

Joining the parade of studios exploiting their libraries of TV series on DVD, Universal Studios Home Video has announced that it is preparing DVDs of Law & Order and Baretta for release in October. The latter has extra heat given the high-profile murder case involving Baretta star Robert Blake.

In an indication of the pressure to capitalise on this hot new market that has seen everything from The Jeffersons to The Simpsons come to DVD, Universal took the unusual step Wednesday of announcing eight other series that it is hurriedly preparing for DVD. Amongst the new releases is Quantum Leap.

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Quantum Leap gets an Official Website
23rd July 2002
Quantum Leap @ Sci-Fi
www.scifi.com/quantum/

Quantum Leap has finally got what it deserves after all these years and that is an official website. The website was launched on 23rd July 2002. A BBoard was available at this address for Quantum Leaps fans across the world for many years as the show was broadcasted on this channel. Since Sci-Fi aquired the rights to Quantum Leap on 9th July 2002, this give them the opportunity to update the BBoard and turn the site into an official website with many new features.

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Will Scott Leap to New Quantum?
11th July 2002
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www.tvguide.com/newsgossip/inthenews/020710.asp#D

www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Television&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270355&obj_id=35365

Since Sci-Fi Wire announced on the 9th July that Quantum Leap is being revived, the big question everyone has been asking - "Is Scott Bakula coming back as Sam Beckett?" Today Bonnie Hammer, President of Sci-Fi Channel give the strongest hint that he would. When asked she smiled and said "You never know, You never know!"

She also revealed that there could be a new leapers in the series and that the leaper would be female. Many people suspect that this leaper could be Sammi-Jo Fuller [Sam's Daughter] or Alia [Evil Leaper].

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Sci Fi USA has announced the return of Quantum Leap
9th July 2002
SciFi Wire
www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-07/09/12.30.sfc

The news that all Quantum Leap fans, Leapers, have been waiting for was finally announced. The return of Quantum Leap! Universal Studios recently brought Sci Fi USA. This give Sci Fi the opportunity to continue on the stories of some of Universal's classic television shows. Quantum Leap was one show they couldn't ignore.

Sci Fi is currently in post-production of a two-hour television movie, which they hope will pave the way to Quantum Leap: Season 6. So far Donald P. Bellisario has signed up as Executive Producer and is currently working on a script. It is not known yet whether or not Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell are reprising their roles as Sam Beckett and Al Calavicci. It is widely believed that they will as only last year Scott went to Paramount Studios with a Quantum Leap revival idea and Dean Stockwell publicly criticised Universal Studios for not coming up with a Quantum Leap Reunion sooner last April.

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Scott rumoured to be leaving Enterprise to make Quantum Trilogy
4th July 2002
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The rumour mill is spinning again about a possible Quantum Leap Trilogy Movies being made. It is said that when Scott Bakula's runs out on Enterprise at the end of the third season, Scott will bow out of the most popular television series and opt to revival the role of Sam Beckett, with Dean Stockwell coming back as Al Calavicci.

This is the very news that many leapers have been waiting, but are treating the news with caution as we have come so close before and nothing materialising. Maybe people have said that if Scott does revive Sam Beckett again, there is nothing to stop him from continuing Enterprise as the movie could be filmed in his Enterprise hiatus. The revival is on! I say, keep the pressure on Universal.

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Dean Stockwell Blasts Universal Over Quantum Leap
21st April 2002
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http://tv.zap2it.com/sciencefiction/otherworlds.html?25211

Oscar Nominated Dean Stockwell has been the center of attention again lately because he and Scott Bakula are teaming up again on Star Trek: Enterprise since Quantum Leap ended nine years ago. Dean has used this occasion to highlight the campaign to have Quantum Leap again. He has branded Universal as idiots because in that nine years, they have never commissioned the revival of Quantum Leap. Dean also says that it is not too late for them to do so. He says that he and Donald would do it in a second and he knows that Scott would also love to do it.

On working with Dean again, Scott says it was awesome. "We had so much fun. We just picked up where we left off. That was a blast. It was so great, having him here. He had a mouthful of stuff to say. He's cross-eyed, looking at me, like, 'What is this? How do you do this?'" Dean also added, "We took up exactly where we left off. We had a way of working on 'Quantum Leap' for five years. As a result, in the first hour, the crew was falling on the floor, laughing."

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