Alex F wrote in to let us know about a rumor that there's a set in the works for
Tripping the Rift, a CGI show that airs on the Sci-Fi channel. While we don't know when it'll be released, we can confirm the rumor is true.
Anchor Bay will release the set later this year. You might wonder how Anchor Bay is involved in a show that airs on the Sci-Fi Channel. Well, Anchor Bay is owned by IDT Entertainment, which also owns MainFrame Entertainment (
ReBoot), and Film Roman. Film Roman is one of the companies behind
Tripping the Rift, and obviously retained home video rights to the series.
Tripping the Rift is based off the award-winning short of the same name. Here's some information about the show taken from the Sci-Fi website:
Tripping the Rift is the continuing comic saga of five misfits who live, work and play on the starship Jupiter 42, which is controlled by a neurotic A.I. known as Spaceship Bob. Bob's neuroses are kept in check by the verbally abusive pilot T'Nuk, and the ship's inner workings are tended by Gus, the depressive robotic chief engineer. No one's really sure what job, if any, is performed by teen slacker Whip, but everyone knows what kinds of jobs sexy android Six specializes in.
The captain, a walking purple blob of rancor named Chode, hates his crew and they hate him back, but they have bigger problems to worry about - namely, the corporate-minded Dark Clowns, who are bent on dominating the galaxy, and the hopelessly conformist Confederation, which will stop at nothing to bring our bumbling antiheroes to injustice.
The Dark Clowns and the Confederation, despite being more alike than different, clash constantly in their cold war to determine whose brand of oppression will dominate the universe. Each insists the other is the cause of all problems great and small, and their power struggle is basically a huge pain in the ass for sentient beings everywhere.
Chode and his crew - motivated by greed and survival instinct - have no desire to take sides in this pointless conflict, and so spend their time traveling (a.k.a. "tripping") the rift that separates the two great rivals.
The cast includes Stephen Root (Chode), Maurice LaMarche (Gus), 'Stuttering' John Melendez (Bob), and Gina Gershon, a sexbot named Six - a character voiced by Terry Farrell in the short film.
We'll keep you updated with any information we get.
