The Phoenix Foundation, a tribute band who write and sing songs based on episodes from the 80’s and 90’s hit TV show MacGyver, are set to release their first album on Sept 10 of this year. As part of the promotion they are running a competition for fans of the show to come up with a name for their album. The band has enlisted the help of fan site MacGyver Online, who are hosting the competition page and using their various channels of communications to get the word out to as many MacGyver fans as possible.

The competition is relatively straight forward. The band wants fans to email their ideas for album names to them and the name they like the most will win. The winner of the contest receives an autographed CD copy of the album, along with a life-time pass to all of the bands concerts and will also have their name credited in the CD booklet. The competition runs until Aug 31.

You can find more details as well as enter the competition at the below link.

Enter the contest here

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MacGyver's houseboat as it is today

The owners of the original Lands End houseboat used to film scenes of the 80’s & 90’s hit TV show, MacGyver, have confirmed on their blog that they will be putting the float-home up for sale later this year.

Located in a private undisclosed marina in Vancouver, Canada, the husband and wife owners have been living on Lands End, the vessels registered name, since January 2005, but have now decided it’s time to move on and are currently in the process of renovating and repairing the houseboat to ready it for sale.
They haven’t set an exact date of sale yet, saying only that it will be “later this summer, maybe even early fall, depending upon how long it takes to spiffy it up.”

The houseboat was used for filming external scenes for the show from 1987 to 1990 in Vancouver, Canada, where MacGyver was filmed from it’s 3rd to 6th seasons. Although the other 3 seasons each respectively tried using a different housing situation for the shows title character, it was the Houseboat which seemed to fit best with the fans and has now become, in many fans eyes, an icon of the show; and it’s this icon status throughout much of the shows considerable fan base along with a continuing fascination with MacGyver by the wider public which may very well turn this little floating home into hot property.

Take a virtual tour of the houseboat and see how it looks today

Follow the owner’s blog.

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Richard Dean Anderson makes a blowgun in a Zaxby's commercial

MacGyver is helping to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the predominantly southeastern US fast food chicken franchise, Zaxby’s in 3 special anniversary commercials.

Richard Dean Anderson has stared in 3 of the 6 anniversary commercials where he plays on his MacGyver character as he makes a high intensity proton laser, get’s stuck in an elevator and builds a blow gun to help celebrate the restaurants 20th birthday and also the opening of their 5ooth store.

The other 3 commercials star John Ratzenberger in his Cliff Claven (the Mail-man from Cheers) Persona.

The first 3 commercials started airing in the first week of July 2010

Watch all 6 of the Zaxby’s 20th Anniversary Commercials

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MacGyver and Stargate SG-1 star, Richard Dean Anderson has, in his own words, “begun something I wasn’t sure I would ever begin” and has joined the Twitter social networking site.  On his web site he states that his daughter got so excited by twitter that he couldn’t deny her request for him to join the site.

Visit his Twitter page here.

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Richard Dean Anderson, known for MacGyver and Stargate SG-1, is reported to have a new recurring role on the USA Network series Facing Kate, where he will play David Smith, the secretive man in the life of litigator Kate Reed, played by Sarah Shahi.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show centers on Kate Reed, a divorced lawyer who leaves her job to become a mediator after realizing that “truth and justice are not always being found in the court room.”

Richard Dean himself reported on his website, rdanderson.com, that he is signed on for only 5 episodes, which will be dispersed over an 11-12 episode period.

Read the Hollywood Reporter article here

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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Jason Richman has been hired to pen the script for New Line’s upcoming MacGyver movie

Richman wrote the action comedy “Bad Company” along with other movies Bangkok Dangerous and Swing Vote and also worked on a draft of “Beverly Hills Cop 4.” as well as uncredited work on “Black Hawk Down” and “Rush Hour 3”

Maybe the release of the MacGruber movie was the kick in the pants needed to get the real MacGyver movie up and running. Lets hope it’s a good one.

Read the Hollywood Reporter article here

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The US iTunes store now has all seven seasons of MacGyver available for purchase. They have slowly been appearing over the past few weeks, one season at a time and now they have all seven seasons.

A single episode will cost you $1.99US or you can buy a full season for $12.99US, season 7 is only $8.99US due to it being shorter than the other seasons.

Got to the iTunes MacGyver channel

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CBS/paramount have changed the release date for the “MacGyver: The TV Movies” DVD release to June 15th; a week later than the original June 8th date.

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CBS/Paramount are set to release the two made-for-TV MacGyver movies, ‘Lost Treasure of Atlantis’ and ‘Trail to Doomsday’ on a single DVD this June 8th.

Previously these two movies have only been available as extras to the Full Series Box-set which was released after the individual seasons box-sets were completed. This has always been a point of contention amongst fans of the show who felt BS/Paramount were duping them. This will now be rectified as the single-disc release (185 minutes) will be available for separate purchase on June 8th.

There is no indication of any extra features or material being available on this release.

DVD Package art for MacGyver - The TV Movies

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In a recent interview for the Lifehacker website, MacGyver creator Lee David Zlutoff said that the MacGyver movie is still going ahead and is currently having a script written, for which he was “anxiously looking forward to seeing how it turns out.”

He also commented briefly about his lawsuit over the MacGruber movie, saying that while he found the MacGruber skits to be hysterical, he felt that the production of a movie was a step too far by entering the same market place as his movie: “it’s one thing to do a skit on Saturday Night Live, it’s another thing to enter the exact same marketplace, with a feature-length movie, while we’re in the process of trying to put together a real MacGyver movie.”

He went on to indicate that he perceived the difference between MacGruber and other “send up” movies such as Austin Powers to be that Austin Powers is a send up of the whole spy genre, while MacGruber is a send up of only one show, but again came back to the idea that the real problem is that the MacGruber movie is  “entering the same marketplace” as the MacGyver movie.

An interesting side note to come from the interview was that the production company backing the MacGruber movie, Reality Media, originally took an interest in Zlutoff’s MacGyver movie before they went with MacGruber.

Read full interview here

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