Tonight, Millennium and more importantly it's legion of fans and enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the show's 20th anniversary. The episode Pilot, sometimes referred to as '2000', was first broadcast on the 25th October, 1996.

For those who don't know, Millennium was a critically acclaimed, award winning hour-long apocalyptic drama series, which was produced by the Fox Television Network in the United States between 1996 and 1999. It was based on an original idea by Chris Carter, who of course also created The X-Files and was produced by Carter's Ten-Thirteen Productions.

Millennium's influence on the television industry has been discernible so often throughout the last two decades, especially in terms of what could and should get past the US network censors and the show has influenced many similary themed series and films about criminal profilers, serial killers and the nature of what we perceive to be evil.

For me personally, there will only ever be the original and best, the series that grabbed my attention and imagination, and of course that influenced me to start and run this website for the last fifteen years, which in itself has introduced me to so many wonderful people over the years.

However you choose to celebrate Millennium's twentieth anniversary, or whether you are just watching the series for the very first time, please do take a moment to let us know in our community forums.

Meanwhile, thank you Chris Carter, the incredibly talented cast and crew of Ten Thirteen Productions and of course Twentieth Century Fox for together creating one of the finest, most rewarding and in depth pieces of television ever to have been produced.

View the original article at Millennium-ThisIsWhoWeAre.net

Some information for those interested about our forthcoming software update, I've highlighted most relevant in bold...

Key Changes

In addition to many small bug fixes, this release includes:

• Performance improvements in: profile view, sitemap generator, posting replies, and Activity Streams
• More efficient license key checking to keep the keys from being checked too often which can slow the site down
• Admins - There is now a column in tasks view to show the last time it ran to help diagnostics
• When a member changes their email or password they now get an email confirmation
• If group promotion based on date is enable the system will now auto-promote even if a member does not login
• Admins - There is now a setting to change the number of topics per page in the forum view
• You can now press ctrl/cmd+enter in any editor window to submit the reply
• There is now logic to prevent double-posting when the initial post encounters an error on submit
• Moderators can now remove all followers from an item
• Contact Us is now configurable with various options
• Staff - Announcements can now be restricted by member group
• Admins now have a setting to have members automatically follow content they start or reply to. Members can optionally override this.
• The editor will now show a message if a link that can be embedded (image, video, etc.) failed to embed for some reason. Admins get more detailed error reasons.
• Admins - If our datastore (cache system) is not working properly the AdminCP will now show you a warning telling you that it needs attention.
• When a member is banned/suspended the system now shows a more friendly page with information on their ban. Previously it showed a permission denied page.
• Security Questions for account security

 

Security Questions

To enhance the security of our member's accounts we now have a new security questions feature where we can allow our members to put in their own, personal security questions. The member will then be prompted to answer those questions for account actions admins define.

Account Change Emails

Members will now receive confirmation emails when they change their email address or password.

Automatic Following

Our members can already choose to automatically follow content they start or reply to, but now we can define this as the default behavior for all members. Our members can of course override this to their own preference.

Embed Failure Message

To answer a frequent question "why didn't my media embed?" we now show you why. Regular members will just see a message indicating the Suite tried to embed but was not able to. Admins will get more information on what failed.

 

Suspended Member Page

If we banned/suspended a member previously they simply saw a generic permission denied message. We now show a more friendly page saying they were suspended and why.

The member can click to get the full information from the Warning System as well.

Announcements

Global announcements can now be restricted by member group (such as messages for Guests).

The following update after this one is still in development, but will include 

• Added quite a few new embed providers
  • codepen.io
  • coub.com
  • deviantart.com
  • docs.com
  • funnyordie.com
  • gettyimages.com
  • iFixit.com
  • kickstarter.com
  • meetup.com
  • mixcloud.com
  • mix.office.com
  • on.aol.com
  • reddit.com
  • reverbnation.com
  • screencast.com
  • screenr.com
  • slideshare.net
  • smugmug.com
  • ustream.tv
• Auto-saved content in the editor will now expire after 48 hours
• If you load an editor that has previous auto-saved content you will now be prompted to keep or remove it
• A batch of moderator improvements.

 

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Enthusiasts of Chris Carter's critically acclaimed Millennium television series will enjoy a new article entitled Millennium: A Return To Chris Carter's Cult Hit?, written by Matt Allair, owner of the excellent resource X-Files Lexicon. The feature forms part of a series on internet fandoms of the '90s, which also includes previous entries on X-Files.

View the original article at Millennium-ThisIsWhoWeAre.net

Enthusiasts of Chris Carter's critically acclaimed Millennium television series will enjoy a new article entitled Millennium: A Return To Chris Carter's Cult Hit?, written by Matt Allair, owner of the excellent resource X-Files Lexicon. The feature forms part of a series on internet fandoms of the '90s, which also includes previous entries on X-Files.

View the original article at Millennium-ThisIsWhoWeAre.net

TIWWA Software Upgrade - Key Changes

For anyone interested...

(Much of the following are behind the scenes, technical improvements or areas relating to the administration/configuration of the software. I have highlighted in bold text the points of more relevance to our Members.)

This release fixes reported issues and adds refinement to existing features as well as some security upgrades.

New or Changed Features

• When your link auto-embeds in a post such as with an image, YouTube video, Twitter link, etc. an option will now display to revert the embed back to a plain text link if you do not want the embed.
• New setting to disable embedding.
• Facebook/Twitter integration improvements
• If you are an administrator and encounter a system error, additional debug output will now display. Regular members will see the normal error message.
• If an advertisement is set up with a main image, but not smaller images for tablets/mobiles, the ad would not show at all on tablets/mobiles. This has changed so the main image will display on all devices unless smaller images are provided.
• Topics scheduled to automatically lock or unlock will now reflect this in the topic listing and when viewing the topic.
• Placing a link to a Facebook status will embed when possible.
• When viewing a report, the container (for example, the forum) the content is from is displayed.
• Three character searches are now allowed in the Admin CP Live Search.
• The Account Settings page now uses vertical rather than horizontal tabs to prevent overflow.
• If Gravatar is enabled, and a user has not defined an profile photo, then their email address will be used to fetch from Gravatar unless explicitly set not to.
• Gfycat embeds now use their oEmbed endpoint rather than their JS API.
• Using Amazon CloudFront as https provider will now be recognized as valid secure connection.
• The member REST API endpoint will now return custom fields.
• The Developer Center for Plugins now shows the filename in the list of hooks, and when editing a hook, a breadcrumb includes a link back to the list.
• Inline notifications can now be dismissed
• Efficiency improvements to the search index
• You can now close a poll independently of the topic

 

Important Fixes

In addition to dozens of smaller fixes this release includes fixes for the follow items that impacted many clients:

• Several security enhancements.
• The posting parser has been made more efficient.
• Some BBCode does not parse correctly in version 4 and we have applied some fixes for this. In general BBCode is deprecated so we only provide basic support.
• Sitemaps could sometimes be blank if there was no content in a specific section.
• Certain URLs from version 3 were not redirecting properly to the new version 4 format.
• The timezone detection is now more robust and will more gracefully fail if it cannot determine a visitor's timezone.
• Permission matrices have been reworked to send less data to prevent exceeding server limitations.
• Decimal handling has been reworked in Commerce for more precise calculations.
• The database class now handles InnoDB deadlocks more gracefully, and some queries have been changed to reduce the likeliness of deadlocks.
• Performance improvements to areas which perform large updates on the members table (for example, when editing permissions).
• Pages 'number' custom fields previously had an upper limit for submitted values around 2 billion.
• Multiple fixes for tag searching

 

Activity Stream Improvements

The activity stream has a new toggle and filter bar that replaces the "Edit Form" link. It is now faster and easier to customize existing streams and to change the filtering options without having to create new streams.

Example of "un-embed" option

 

Facebook/Twitter integration improvements

 

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I've just upgraded the TIWWA software suite. As with any big update, if you are visiting soon after the upgrade, I strongly recommend that you do a hard refresh to make sure your browser loads the updated versions of the files and isn't using a mix of new and cached old ones which can cause odd things to happen to your experience of our site(!). To do this in Windows, simply hold down the CTRL key and then just press F5 then let go, and it will force your browser to reload all files on the page. There, you are seeing everything as it should be.

There are some minor maintenance fixes expected over the next few weeks, which will address any new bugs etc with this latest major update and may add some new features along the way.

What's New?!

The developers have added dozens of new features, enhancements to existing features, fixed the majority of 4.0 bugs, and made large performance gains.

Firstly New Content (some still call it View New Content) is now called Unread Content. There is also a handy link to it as shown below...

This will take you to one of the new Activity Streams, which is like a time-line of new content.

If you don't like the way a particular Stream looks, (eg. say you want a more condensed view without the content of the posts showing), you can toggle the display between the Expanded (normal) and Condensed Views.

 

The new Menu Bar

The new Menu Bar represents how most people use the software suite, by browsing through the existing content to spot or view items of interest or sections of the site such as the Forums, Gallery, etc, much like the old menu system, but it also now provides an easy way to see and catch up with new activity using the Activity menu tab. We can also customise the menu, so we'll soon add useful links to the main website, such as the Episode Guide, Music Guide etc.

The image below shows the new Activity tab where you can use the default Activity Streams, or Create or Edit your own streams....

 

Browser Notifications

If you choose to allow Browser Notifications, you will get a small pop up and sound effect to alert you when someone has say, replied to a topic you are following or created a new topic.

 

Smarter Pasting

When you paste content from say another website or page, if the editor detects it it is styled content (different font, size, contains HTML or images etc), you can choose to quickly paste it as plain text.

 

Selective Quoting

I've a feeling many will like this new feature. You can now hightlight part of a post, and selectively quote it using the pop-up option that appears. When ready, only the part of the post you highlighted will be quoted, which saves time and is much neater. It makes it easier to quote part of someone's post without quoting the whole things, especially if its from a long post when it will save lots of scrolling.

 

A list of changes and new features...

Some of the main changes and new features include (I've highlighted the main ones, and removed a lot of the internal stuff from this list):

• New menu structure and drag-and-drop menu manager
  • Ability to have two menu levels
  • Option to create both custom-link menu items and embed preconfigured menus
  • Preview before publishing
  • All menu items support group permissions
• Discovery system, a very powerful new feature that allows for both admin and user created Activity Streams
  • Admin-defined Streams always visible to users. Users can edit and save admin streams to create their own, custom copy if they would like to tweak them to suit themselves.
  • The main show-all stream automatically tells you when there is new activity
  • Users can now create their own custom streams
  • User streams can be shared but viewer will only see content based on their permissions
  • Filter options include:
    • All content or specific apps. Some apps support further refinement into categories or content-type.
    • Unread content
    • Ownership
      • Content I posted in
      • Content I started
      • Content by specific members (user can create a list)
    • Content I follow
      • Areas I follow
      • Specific content I follow
      • Posted by members I follow
    •  Time Period
      • Any time
      • Since my last visit
      • Specified number of days
      • Specific date range
  • Activity Streams that reference features not available to Guests such as unread tracking and follow system will auto-hide
• Selective quoting to highlight a bit of a post and quote just that
• Gallery application enhancements
  • New upload image process
  • Images and movies are submitted to the same upload field
  • Image reviews
• Editor updates
  • Uses div-mode which is much faster and more reliable. Clicking into the editor is now pretty much instant.
  • Auto-linking and member mentions to use new APIs for better reliability
  • Quotes, code boxes, and spoilers can be dragged and moved and there is no more "red line"
  • When cmd/ctrl right-clicking: options to remove or break-out of quotes, edit links and edit image properties
  • Pasting asks if you want to convert to plain text
  • Editor is responsive, and ability to have small editor show in areas with less space
  • Member @mentions in posts can now be selected by tab key
• Design and interface enhancements
  • Improve typography for titles
  • Better contrast for user-entered text (posts/comments/etc)
  • Brighten background colors
  • Pre-select text in when share popup is opened
  • Make positive/negative colors consistent across all uses
  • Better hover highlighting of 'blended' links
  • Better styling of mentions in posts (both the username, and the menu to select a user)
  • Better contrast for certain areas
  • Flatten the default photo image
  • Improve popular/selected post styles
  • Change popular post icon to heart for consistency with likes
  • Make date a permalink for sharing
  • Improve sidebar contrast and block styles
  • Improve attachments dialog
  • Add X to close mobile nav menu
  • Select messages for multiple deleting in messenger
  • Make leaving a conversation clearer
  • Improved warning panel in user profiles
  • Move content status icons (pinned, hidden etc.) to start of row
  • Improve cover photo so it automatically puts it into position mode after uploading
  • Android title bar inherits theme header color
  • Added date uploaded to Downloads version dropdown
• Browser notifications for completed actions (such as large file uploads)
• Search
  • The main search box defaults to the app you are currently browsing unless you are on home page where it searches all
  • New default interface
  • Results now highlight and skip to search term in preview
• Retina emoticons for Ipad/iPhone etc (where available)
• Instant Notifications
  • Receive notifications via your Browser Notifications of new Personal Messages and anything in the notifications menu
  • Intelligent auto-polling that only polls when needed to reduce server traffic
  • Browser local storage used, to allow for cross-communication if you have multiple tabs open to further reduce resource use

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Thanks to a very long awaited feature in our latest software version at TIWWA, which provides much better smiley/emoticon management by way of categories and drag and drop re-ordering, I've finally been able re-organise the very mixed up smilies at TIWWA.

We now have a General Category (for small everyday small smilies), and brand new categories for seasonal, fun, holiday etc themed smilies including Halloween, Christmas, Food themed etc.

This should make it a lot easier to find your preferred smiley of choice to suit your post and mood, and.... Millennium drum roll.... I've added dozens of new themed smilies and emoticons, as well as removing some of the more boring ones.

Simply click on the Emoticon button when posting your content to bring up the Emoticon list. You can quickly jump to a specific category and your most recently used emoticons/smilies will show at the top of the list for convenience.

I hope the new categories and emoticons make for a better posting and reading experience here at TIWWA.

This Is Who We Are

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One of the great new features with our software is the ability to customise your profile with a cover photo. Cover photos can also be used to great effect in the Calendar when you create or edit an event, and in the Blog section where you can theme your Blog much more easily than before. I've increased the maximum file size of the profile cover images as of today, from 1MB to 2MB to make it easier to find and upload your favourite images. You can really add something to your profile by using a cover photo, it may be a favourite scene from Millennium or another TV series or film, perhaps something personal to you with a meaning that enhances your profile and allows other members to get a better impression of you, or part of a cool wallpaper or other image, your home, town or pets. Some images look better than others, generally wider rather than taller images work best as you get a letter box view of the image.

Cover photos/images have replaced the old customisation options in your profile, so your customisations don't break the layout or theme of the site. They're also a lot cooler and fun to upload, especially if you are using a mobile device such as an iPad, because it will let you smoothly slide the image around to where you want it just using your finger (well it turns me on anyway!).

This blog entry will cover member profile cover images, but the principle is the same when adding a cover image to a Calendar event or your Blog.

 

Adding a Profile Cover Image

Simply go to your profile, you can do this by clicking on your photo/avatar anywhere on the site or from your User Menu (normally top right).

If you haven't uploaded a cover image yet, you will just see a blank space where it would normally appear. Look for the Cover Photo options to the right of this space.

To upload your new cover photo or image, click on Upload Photo.

The uploader appears and you can choose to browse and upload a suitable image or perhaps a wallpaper background image, or you can drag and drop an image however you prefer.

Once uploaded the image may show as you would like. You can reposition the image/photo by choosing the Reposition Photo option, which lets you move the image to where you think it looks best. This repositioning step will appear automatically after we upgrade to v4.1 of the site, as its often needed.

Once you are happy with your cover image or photo, it will be now displayed whenever you or a member views your profile. You can use the relevant options to overwrite or completely remove your image at any time.

Our new software is now fully responsive by design, which means the website and your image will automatically look and work really well on all devices includes mobile/cell phones and tablets, as well as computers without needing a separate skin or theme for mobile devices that have smaller displays and therefore need smaller images.

(Member profiles will improve again with the next update to 4.1, so any gallery albums will be displayed better in your profile.)

We hope you found this tutorial/guide useful.

This is who we are.

 

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One of the great new features with our software is the ability to customise your profile with a cover photo. Cover photos can also be used to great effect in the Calendar when you create or edit an event, and in the Blog section where you can theme your Blog much more easily than before. I've increased the maximum file size of the profile cover images as of today, from 1MB to 2MB to make it easier to find and upload your favourite images. You can really add something to your profile by using a cover photo, it may be a favourite scene from Millennium or another TV series or film, perhaps something personal to you with a meaning that enhances your profile and allows other members to get a better impression of you, or part of a cool wallpaper or other image, your home, town or pets. Some images look better than others, generally wider rather than taller images work best as you get a letter box view of the image.

Cover photos/images have replaced the old customisation options in your profile, so your customisations don't break the layout or theme of the site. They're also a lot cooler and fun to upload, especially if you are using a mobile device such as an iPad, because it will let you smoothly slide the image around to where you want it just using your finger (well it turns me on anyway!).

This blog entry will cover member profile cover images, but the principle is the same when adding a cover image to a Calendar event or your Blog.

 

Adding a Profile Cover Image

Simply go to your profile, you can do this by clicking on your photo/avatar anywhere on the site or from your User Menu (normally top right).

If you haven't uploaded a cover image yet, you will just see a blank space where it would normally appear. Look for the Cover Photo options to the right of this space.

To upload your new cover photo or image, click on Upload Photo.

The uploader appears and you can choose to browse and upload a suitable image or perhaps a wallpaper background image, or you can drag and drop an image however you prefer.

Once uploaded the image may show as you would like. You can reposition the image/photo by choosing the Reposition Photo option, which lets you move the image to where you think it looks best. This repositioning step will appear automatically after we upgrade to v4.1 of the site, as its often needed.

Once you are happy with your cover image or photo, it will be now displayed whenever you or a member views your profile. You can use the relevant options to overwrite or completely remove your image at any time.

Our new software is now fully responsive by design, which means the website and your image will automatically look and work really well on all devices includes mobile/cell phones and tablets, as well as computers without needing a separate skin or theme for mobile devices that have smaller displays and therefore need smaller images.

(Member profiles will improve again with the next update to 4.1, so any gallery albums will be displayed better in your profile.)

We hope you found this tutorial/guide useful.

This is who we are.

 

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V4.1 is on the way!

Key Changes

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IPS Community Suite 4.0.13

Released 08/31/2015

Key Changes

This release primarily focuses on stability with many bug fixes. In addition to dozens of fixes, important items include:

• When unflagging a member as a spammer, if any tasks are still queued to delete or hide the member's content the tasks will be cancelled.  This is useful if you flag a user as a spammer and then immediately change your mind and unflag the member.
• NO_STEP issue during upgrade should now be resolved
• Lists were not rebuilding correctly coming from 3.4.x
• Changed rebuild routines to not use internal embeds as it represents a change from the way content looked pre-upgrade
• There were some infinite redirect issues in some cases when Pages was used, particularly when the gateway file was used
• Fixed an issue related to core_cache and the task not running

 

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I think we've nailed all the really annoying things (bugs) since the upgrade now, like links in old posts being broken and reloading the same page instead of showing the actual linked website (all since rebuilt and working okay again).

This latest version of our software framework although more powerful, efficient and feature-laden in a lot of ways, does in some ways use a lot more system resources, something the developers possibly never really made clear (at least I wasn't aware of that and I do keep up to date daily with developments), and despite us moving to a much better web host with a newer more powerful servers and superfast SSD drives, the server resource usage has still been very high which has caused some issues we're trying to resolve.

I've blocked a few IP Addresses in Romania and elsewhere that were hitting the server hard and its helped, and made sure there's a 30 second delay for search bots, but 'bad bots' probably ignore that setting!

There isn't a fully released version of Shoutbox yet, its being rebuilt from the ground up in the developers spare time, but when we installed a recent pre-release candidate version it was hitting the server 50,000 times a day, despite only containing about 10 actual shots per day max and some tweaks applied by the developer. So we had to remove it before our web host suspended our account! Shoutbox may return one day if the developer addresses impact on system resources, and there is another similar program we can try called Chatbox. However, all these types of programs have major resource issues by definition, so it may be we re-install the official IPS Chat app, which runs off an external server. IPS Chat has a 5 user limit on the free version but the main issue is that when you exit the a Chatroom is doesn't keep the old messages visible, like the Shoutbox does. Therefore, when we used to have it installed in the last year or so, it was rarely if ever used as everyone seemed to love the Shoutbox. Perhaps if we charged optional membership subscriptions etc to raise funds, we could possibly pay for a managed VPS Virtual Private Server or even a Dedicated Server, but they are really expensive, and since I'm facing redundancy from work on October 31st, I'm reluctant to commit to that for now.

So for now we're trying to run the board at basic level without any third party add-ons to get a baseline on performance, which is still going way up to 150%-200% of available system resources during peak times of the day, but we're getting there!

As you can see, the chart is coming down over the last month.

I make a change and then see what the effect is over a few days, checking the system logs, so its a bit of a slow process but it could help nail down what's causing it, could be as simple as showing forthcoming calendar events, or latest topics on the main index page etc.

Each software update has seen a boost in system performance too, as well as fixing hundreds of bugs, many of which we never see or experience but I thank you for your patience and I'm please that things are improving and certainly are very stable!

Meanwhile, IB Themes are busy getting the Halloween themes ready, which will brighten up the board again with an autumnal season feel - always the best time of the year to enjoy Millennium if you ask me!

This is who we are.

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We have recently applied a major software update to TIWWA, which has introduced many great new features and improvements both in terms of functionality and design.

New features include a new responsive layout that works great on mobile and touch devices as it does on a PC. Smarter profiles for members with the ability to upload and reposition your own cover images. You can now mention a member in a post by typing an @ sign and as you type their name it will autocomplete for you. The person will be notified they've been mentioned (depending on how they have set their notification options), which is a great way to attract someone's attention to something that might interest them.

We also have a brand new text editor, and now have the option to split up our smilies and emoticons into Categories and re-order them, which I'll be doing soon.

A completely re-written software project will always mean some issues and bugs, but a lot of hard work is being done to identify and address them. One of the biggest issue we have was caused by the text converter part of the upgrade which converted the database to UTF-8 character sets to improve support for international language characters and symbols. It seems many of our older posts which contained links, have had those links modified unintentionally and which now cause the page they are on to reload. This has happened on many other websites, and the developers are looking into why and how to fix it.

Many of you will be missing the Shoutbox, but this not an official add-on. It's made by a developer as a third party add-on, and there isn't currently a full release compatible with the new version of our software. We attempted to use a beta release candidate version but it was causing a massive spike in server resource usage taking us over 300-500% more than we are permitted on Shared Hosting, even with our recent move to a new web-host and more powerful server. Server usage remains high so we have reported this to the software developer to understand why and hopefully to prevent our account being suspended! There is now an alternative to Shoutbox, again a 3rd party app, which we can try out and which works the same, but I need to understand the high server use first.

The next software release primarily focuses on stability with many bug fixes, not all of which we may be experiencing. Amongst other important fixes, it will address:

• Some reports of issues with insert/embed images into posts

IPS are also working on big improvements to the Search system but, until those are ready, they have made two small changes to make search a bit more pleasant: date will be default sort order and words will be searched using AND logic rather than OR logic.

This is a list of items in progress but not yet assigned to a specific scheduled release. Items here are are coming very soon: usually within a month or so. Check back often as we update our roadmap!

Current estimated for this coming soon section: early September

• Gallery enhancements
  • User interface improvements to make what already works more friendly for the end user
  • Sorting/filtering improvements
  • Easier moderation
• Content discovery
  • Search system overhaul
  • View new content improvements
  • Activity stream improvements
  • Improvements to the followed content section to make it more useful
• Editor enhancements including native quote ability to remove annoyances dealing with quotes, we now use DIV rather than IFRAME mode for faster loading, and mobile experience is also greatly improved.
• Image proxy system so remotely linked images on SSL sites are routed through a local proxy to maintain a secure page.

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In case you've missed the news in our forums, lalalandrecords.com are now taking and shipping orders for the new second volume 2 CD set of the Millennium soundtrack. They've also re-released volume one as a limited 1000 availability for those who missed out on the original 2000 copy release.

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In case you've missed the news in our forums, lalalandrecords.com are now taking and shipping orders for the new second volume 2 CD set of the Millennium soundtrack. They've also re-released volume one as a limited 1000 availability for those who missed out on the original 2000 copy release!

View the original article at Millennium-ThisIsWhoWeAre.net

Millennium actor Lance Henriksen who recently turned 75, is scheduled to appear in Manchester, England this weekend at Showmaster's Film and Comic Con, May 30th and 31st.

Visit www.filmandcomicconmanchester.com for more information and event details.

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Millennium actor Lance Henriksen who recently turned 75, is scheduled to appear in Manchester, England this weekend at Showmaster's Film and Comic Con, May 30th and 31st.

Visit www.filmandcomicconmanchester.com for more information and event details.

View the original article at Millennium-ThisIsWhoWeAre.net

It's been over 2 years in the making, but the next major software update to our community software suite is coming soon! V4 of our software has been completely rewritten from the ground up for faster performance, great new features, improvements and functionality, as well as a new, fully responsive theme design, meaning it will scale automatically to fit computers, mobile devices and tablets without needing a separate plain mobile theme for smaller display devices.

There are a couple of important changes just to be aware of as Members.

Firstly, our current software has the option for Members to have separate Log-In User Names and Display Names. The User Name is what you enter to log into the website (or you can choose to enter your email address), the Display Name is what appears on the community website and in your profile which can be changed if/when you like.

V4 has done away with log-in names, so you just need to remember and to use your Display Name and TIWWA account password (or email address and TIWWA password) to log in to TIWWA after the community is upgraded.

Secondly, the concept of Friends in your profiles has been replaced with Followers, to make the feature more useful and social. So if want to Follow say Libby, you can do that from Libby's profile as you would have done before. You can then opt to keep up to date by receiving email or online notifications when the people you follow add new content, follow someone else, add a video, post a status update etc.

As some Members have lots of Friends, there is a consideration that those members may be receive too many Following Notifications, so when we upgrade the software we may opt not to convert Friends to Followers immediately as part of the upgrade process, in which case you can choose afterwards yourselves who to follow from new after the community has been updated. I'll give this some more thought to this but welcome any preferences from our Members.

I'll keep you all posted on progress, for the moment I'm waiting for the majority of issues or bugs to be discovered and fixed before we upgrade, and also for compatible Shoutbox to be released.

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Sarah-Jane Redmond will be joining the cast in season three of Hallmark Channels highly-rated Primetime Original Series, Debbie Macombers Cedar Cove. The primetime drama, starring Andie MacDowell and Dylan Neal, makes its anticipated return with a special two-hour season premiere July 2015.

Cedar Cove, based on the bestselling book series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber, takes viewers to a majestic and idyllic small seaside town of Cedar Cove, home to romance, relationships and drama. At the center of it all is Olivia Lockhart (MacDowell), the revered Cedar Cove Municipal Court judge, lifetime resident, loving mother and loyal friend to many. As Olivias romance with newspaper editor Jack (Neal) hangs in the balance following a shocking discovery, Olivia, along with her family and friends, will find her small town is bursting with more dramaand heartthan ever before.

Debbie Macombers Cedar Cove season three will be produced by Unity Pictures and distributed by Dan Wigutow Productions. Executive producers are Dan Wigutow, Sue Tenney, Ron French and Stephen Harmaty. Tenney is the show runner.

Visit the official Cedar Cove website to learn more and watch official video previews and clips.

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Sarah-Jane Redmond is currently appearing in the next three episodes of the television series, iZombie, an adaptation of the popular comic book series. iZombie premiered on The CW channel on March 17, 2015.

Visit the official CW iZombie website to learn more and watch official video previews and clips.

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Stay tuned to The CW Network this March for Sarah-Jane Redmond appearing in several episodes of the forthcoming television series, iZombie. The anticipated series is an adaptation of the comic book series created by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred, and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. iZombie will premiere on The CW on March 17, 2015.

Synopsis:- Rose McIver (Masters of Sex, Once Upon a Time) stars as Olivia 'Liv' Moore, a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. As one of the newly undead, Liv has devised a way to resist her baser urges to devour fresh human brains shes taken a job in the Seattle coroners office. In this appropriately dead-end job, she can secretly snack on the brains of the many Jane and John Doe corpses that make a final stop in the morgue.

Liv remains resigned to an eternity without hope or purpose, until she realizes that with every brain she consumes, she retains a portion of that persons memories...

Visit the official CW iZombie website to learn more and watch official video previews and clips.

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At the recent New York Comic Con, IDW Publishing announced an upcoming miniseries adaptation of cult Chris Carter TV show "Millennium". The stories will be written by Joe Harris, who also authors IDW's "X-Files: Season 10." The comic will feature interior art by Colin Lorimer and external covers by menton3, series creator Carter will reprise his "Season 10" role as executive producer.

Joe Harris has provided an interview with Comic Book Resources in which he says "I believe our plan is to start with a five-issue series and really re-establish Frank Black, the shadowy remnants of the Millennium Group he once belonged to that turned on him, and which, we think, was dissolved, then gauge the temperature."

Asked whether Chris Cartor will be involved, Joe responded "Chris has been our 'Executive Producer', trusting my vision to shepherd these stories and characters along. He seems comfortable with me, but he's reviewing what we do and I expect I'll know if he's not happy!"

Read the full length article at CBR.

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Look out for Sarah-Jane Redmond in the new trailer for R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour.

Sarah Jane Redmond will return to guest star in a second episode of R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour, an award winning horror-fantasy series broadcast on the The Hub Network. The Halloween themed episode will be broadcast in October 2014 and is titled 'Return of the Pumpkinheads'.

You can learn more about RL Stine's The Haunting Hour at the show's official website at hubnetwork.com or at the show's official Twitter page.

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Sarah-Jane Redmond has provided an on-set photo from Debbie Macomber's Mr. Miracle, in which she portrays character Sharon Folsom. The film, directed by Carl Bessai, is a further partnership between Hallmark Channel And New York Times Bestselling Author Debbie Macomber.

Debbie Macomber's Mr. Miracle stars Rob Morrow ("Northern Exposure," "Numb3rs"), with Michelle Harrison ("Continuum"), Britt Irvin ("Packages from Planet X"), Sarah-Jane Redmond ("Da Vinci's Inquest, The X-Files") and Andrew Francis ("Max Steel").

Additional information from the Press Release:

Hallmark Channel is pleased to announce that it is partnering once again with beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber to create its fourth Hallmark Channel Original Holiday Movie World Premiere "Debbie Macomber's Mr. Miracle," slated to debut Holiday 2014.

The movie and backdoor pilot will be part of the network's hugely popular "Countdown To Christmas," the #1 most treasured holiday destination by television viewers.

Previously, Hallmark Channel partnered with Macomber to bring the holiday movies "Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle," "Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle" and "Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas" to the small screen. Audiences fell in love with the film adaptations of Macomber's bestselling books, all of which were so successful that they became among the top rated holiday movies on the network.

In "Debbie Macomber's Mr. Miracle," heaven and earth collide when angel-in-training Harry Mills, A.K.A "Mr. Miracle" is sent down to a community college during Christmas for his first assignment: to help an insecure student realize her true purpose in life. Harry, living as a literature teacher, is also schooled in lessons of life and love as he realizes that dealing with humans is not as easy as it looks like from the clouds.

Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming available in high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) to a national audience of over 86 million subscribers.

You can learn more about Mr Miracle by Debbie Macomber here:
https://www.debbiemacomber.com/books/mr-miracle

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We recently heard from Tim Ferrante who kindly made us aware that two of Millennium's guest stars, Jon "Eddie Scarpino Giannini" Polito (Omerta) and Mike "Henry Dion" Starr (Paper Dove), are appearing together in Burbank, California later this summer along with numerous other great actors.

These accreddited actors will be helping to promote a new book by Scott Voisin entitled Character Kings 2. As Tim says, "It's a rare opportunity to meet and greet these two legendary Millennium guest performers."

Press release follows...

Celebrity Signing at Legendary Dark Delicacies Bookstore

In-person appearance by Character Kings 2 author Scott Voisin and well-known actors from TV and film

BURBANK, CA (July 22, 2014): Scott Voisin, author of the book Character Kings: Hollywood’s Familiar Faces Discuss The Art & Business Of Acting (BearManor Media, 2009), will appear with some of the actors featured in his new sequel, Character Kings 2 (BearManor Media, 2014), at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California on Saturday, September 6th at 2pm. In celebration of its release, interviewees from both Character Kings books will attend and autograph purchased copies.

Scheduled to appear are:

• Mike Starr (Goodfellas, Millennium, Ed Wood)
• Peter Jason (Deadwood, The Karate Kid, 48 HRS.)
• Raymond J. Barry (Justified, Born on the Fourth of July, The X-Files)
• Art LaFleur (The Blob, Field of Dreams, The Santa Clause 2)
• James Karen (Return of the Living Dead, Poltergeist, Wall Street)
• Jon Polito (The Crow, Miller’s Crossing, Millennium)
• Duane Whitaker (Pulp Fiction, Feast, Eddie Presley)

More character kings will be present if their working schedules permit.

About the Character King books Character Kings is Scott Voisin’s ongoing book series featuring exclusive interviews with today's most recognizable working actors. The insightful and entertaining conversations are filled with candid behind-the-scenes anecdotes and secrets for building and sustaining a successful career in Hollywood. Tim Lucas, editor of the award-winning Video Watchdog magazine, says, “Character actors are a prized species, and Scott Voisin selects the cream of today’s crop. The actors regale us with some marvelous stories of blood, sweat and fate.”

Contact Scott Voisin/Character Kings books: scott@scottvoisin.com /www.characterkingsbook.com Dark Delicacies: 3512 W. Magnolia, Burbank, CA 91505 www.darkdel.com BearManor Media: Tel. (682) 703-2676 www.bearmanormedia.com

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