InnerSPACE
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InnerSPACE is Space's leading Sci Fi genre news program holding an average audience of 52,000 during winter January 2010, up 27% from winter January 2009. Not to be confused with the Sci-Fi film Innerspace
Innerspace
Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage. It stars Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Robert Picardo and...

 (1987).

About

InnerSpace is a fast-paced, late night entertainment show featured on the Space Network. The program airs every Friday night at 11pm Eastern Standard Time. Join Space personalities Ajay Fry, Natasha Eloi and Teddy Wilsonweigh as they reveal the latest Science Fiction topics alongside special guests. Subjects include events, movies, books, video games, comics, and other similar matter in the Sci-Fi genre. Worldwide Sci-Fi fans have the opportunity to express their opinions regarding the show and featured products through e-mail, webcam, Facebook and Twitter.

History

The show has gone through many changes during its four year course but the goal has always been the same . Previously known as Hyperspace and later The Circuit, the show would keep itself in change to both keep updated with Sci Fi fans and to update it's format to that of a dialogue where instead of simply recapping Space (TV channel) programming - the programming would be discussed like a forum by InnerSPACE's hosts. After finding out through showing The Circuit that one weekly show was not enough to cover the vast content Space (TV channel) had to offer, the show was updated to InnerSPACE's thirty minute format to achieve a balance of quality and quantity .

Teddy Wilson

Teddy Wilson began his television career at a young age. Growing up in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

 he first starred in a series titled You Can't Do That on Television
You Can't Do That on Television
You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before ultimately airing internationally in 1981...

, in which Teddy and his fellow castmates performed skits based on a theme for each episode. Following high school Teddy pursued a Political Science degree. This encouraged him to follow a day job in Politics. It appears as though politics wasn’t enough for him as the entertainment industry still called his name. He began working as a TV producer for a Comedy Network show titled Popcultured with Elvira Kurt. Starting in 2005, Teddy worked for MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

, where he was a part of launching the infamous show MTV Live. Though in 2008, he left MTV to start a job as an on-air reporter with the Space Network. It wasn’t until the fall of 2009, that Teddy joined forces with Ajay Fry to co-host Innerspace. Teddy’s off air life includes playing drums in a four-piece indie rock band called Huddle
Huddle
In sport, a huddle is when a team gathers together, usually in a tight circle, to strategise, motivate or celebrate. It is a popular strategy for keeping opponents insulated from sensitive information, and acts as a form of insulation when the level of noise in the venue is such that normal...

. The band is centered in Toronto but was in Georgian Bay, Ontario. The bands first song is titled Islands (a piece about their roots in Georgian Bay). You can also find Teddy on his Twitter page, @TeddySPACE. .

Ajay Fry

Ajay Fry was born in Toronto, Ontario in the year 1985. His parents then moved their family to Ottawa where Ajay would spend most of his childhood. At a young age he began auditioning for TV gigs in Montreal. Several jobs arouse, including parts on YTV shows like Big Wolf On Campus and Are You Afraid of the Dark. His youthful voice was also behind several characters on child television shows like Arthur, and Caillou.
Teenage opportunities that enhanced Ajays interest in the industry included studying comedy under Second City
Second City
Second City or The Second City may refer to:* The second largest city in a country. See: List of largest cities and second largest cities by country...

 comedian Ken Godmere, as well as doing voice over work for educational programs in Beijing, China.
He continued his education in Comedy at Toronto’s Humber College and took part in The Second City conservatory program. Following his graduation Ajay took a job with YTV as the host of a show called Crunch, which aired Saturday mornings.
It was in 2008 that Ajay joined the Space Network, first working on a show titled The Circuit
The Circuit
The Circuit could refer to:*The Circuit , an Australian drama television series*The Circuit , an internet radio show produced by Card Player magazine...

, which would later be titled Innerspace. He now co-hosts Innerspace alongside Teddy Wilson. When off air Ajay can be found doing comedy work around Toronto’s local comedy clubs.

Natasha Eloi (Former Cast Member)

Natasha Eloi
Natasha Eloi
Natasha Eloi is a Canadian television personality and videographer. She is most often seen on the Space channel as a space, science and technology reporter and on The Circuit as the resident toy expert. She also hosts a show called It Came From The Basement! where she takes a look at people's...

 was one of the founding members of the InnerSPACE team and a host since September 2008 . Currently the InnerSPACE web page no longer acknowledges Natasha as an official host. No explanation is provided as a reason for this removal however her Blog posts still remain available. Natasha's last post was done 2:00pm EST on 6/24/11 .

On the show Natasha acted as On-Air Reporter and Segment Producer . Natasha was born in Hammersmith
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...

, UK  and her interests include: Horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

, Sci-fi, fantasy, comics, graphic novels, movies that are not Chick flick
Chick flick
Chick flick is a slang term for a film mainly dealing with love and romance designed to appeal to a female target audience. Although many types of films may be directed toward the female gender, "chick flick" is typically used only in reference to films that are heavy with emotion or contain themes...

s, music, astronomy, photography, writing, and reading . It was not until Natasha joined Space did she realize her last name Eloi had an alien association from The Time Machine (1960 film)
The Time Machine (1960 film)
The Time Machine is a 1960 American science fiction film based on the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells in which a man in Victorian England constructs a time-travelling machine which he uses to travel to the future...

. Natasha also prefers that her style reflects her unique personality and prevents her from appearing like "a walking billboard".

Podcasts

InnerSPACE has offered 174 iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 podcasts which offer a weekly report on Sci Fi, Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 and Horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 featured on Space (TV channel)  InnerSPACE features popular podcasts from 2010 on their main page which are listed below (See External Links).

Podcast Date Hosts
William Gibson
William Gibson
William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:-Association football:*Will Gibson , Scottish footballer...

, Clone Wars
Clone Wars
-Star Wars:*Clone Wars , a series of simultaneous conflicts in the fictional Star Wars universe- Film :*Star Wars: The Clone Wars , a 2008 CGI animated science fiction/action film that takes place within the Star Wars saga, leading into the TV series of the same name- Television :*Star Wars: Clone...

, and the movie "Monsters"
29.10.2010 Mark Askwith, Natasha Eloi
TBBT, The Scream Awards, and William Gibson
William Gibson
William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:-Association football:*Will Gibson , Scottish footballer...

 at IFOA 
15.10.2010 Mark Askwith, Teddy Wilson
Supernatural
Supernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...

; Wes Craven's 'My Soul To Take'
08.10.2010 Mark Askwith, Natasha Eloi
John Hurt
John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE is an English actor, known for his leading roles as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal, Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York...

 on 'Alien
Alien (film)
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature which...

', The latest trends in horror
22.10.2010 Mark Askwith, John Hurt
John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE is an English actor, known for his leading roles as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal, Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York...

Hal-Con
Hal-Con
Hal-Con Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Comic Festival, commonly known as Hal-Con, was founded in the 1970s and revived in the 2010s. It is traditionally an annual weekend event held in Halifax, Nova Scotia in Atlantic Canada and held at the end of fall....

, Caprica
Caprica (TV series)
Caprica is a science fiction drama television series. It is a spin-off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, taking place about 58 years prior to the events of Battlestar Galactica. Caprica shows how humanity first created the robotic Cylons who would later plot to destroy humans in...

, SGU
Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way...

 LIVE
11.05.2010 Mark Askwith, Ajay Fry
SPACE-Mas, Reel Asian Film Fest,and More 12.11.2010 Mark Askwith, Natasha Elo
Your Holiday Comic Book Shopping List 19.11.2010 Mark Askwith, Christopher Butcher
Year-End entertainment review, interviews with Ryan Robbins
Ryan Robbins
Ryan Robbins is a Canadian actor. He was married to the actress Rebecca Reichert and they have one daughter.-Biography:...

 and Gavin Stephens
Gavin Stephens
Gavin Bernard Michael Stephens is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer and actor.In 1998, Gavin was nominated for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award. From 2003 to 2007, Gavin was a writer and performer on 5 seasons of CTV's Comedy Inc.. He has filmed two episodes of CTV's Comedy Now! both in...

 
24.12.10 Mark Askwith, Amy Pagnotta

Blogs

InnerSPACE cast and crew has been frequently blogging on the latest events in the Sci Fi community with their earliest archive being September 2009 . Recent events include spoilers on the seventh installment of the Harry Potter
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

 movie, a guide to the San Diego Comic Con, and information on Space (TV channel)'s winning commericals at the Promax Awards
Promax Awards
PromaxBDA Awards honor design and marketing work in the advertising and promotions business from a company or individual that is broadcast, published or released in their respective markets....

. Each Blog page maybe include links to related articles, links to articles by the same author, trailers of the featured content, and a comment box allowing for Anonymous
Anonymity
Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.There are many reasons why a...

 2000 character posts. Blog authors include Rob Moden, "Abelle", "The Crimson King", podcast host Mark Askwith, and finally the hosts of the show itself Teddy, Ajay, and Natasha.

In Sci Fi Promotion

InnerSPACE is involved in the promotion of new and old Sci-Fi television shows including the release of the new season of Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

 on April 23, 2011 . Other shows include Sanctuary (TV series), Primeval
Primeval
Primeval or primæval may refer to:* Primeval, a British science fiction television series.* Primeval , a 2007 film* Primeval , a score of music from the BBC TV series Doctor Who...

, and the all new show Being Human (North American TV series). . Most of their involvement includes over-views of these shows, highlights, and behind the scenes coverage. Sometimes however, InnerSPACE gets involved with live studio showings .

In Toronto

InnerSPACE has been very active in the Toronto Sci Fi community, particularly with their involvement in the public showing of Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way...

's special episode "The Greater Good" On November 12, 2010 some of Space (TV channel)'s loyal fans attended this public showing which was held at CTV Television Network
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...

's Masonic Temple
Masonic Temple
Masonic Temple is a term commonly used in Freemasonry with multiple but related meanings. It is used to describe an abstract spiritual goal, the conceptual ritualistic space formed when a Masonic Lodge meets, and the physical rooms and structures in which a Lodge meets...

 in Toronto, Canada. The event featured the cast of Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way...

 including Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle, OBE is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, Hamish Macbeth, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later...

, Louis Ferrira, Brian J. Smith
Brian J. Smith
Brian J. Smith is an American actor who is known for his role as Trey in the 2006 independent film Hate Crime and as series regular Lt. Matthew Scott in the military science fiction television series, Stargate Universe....

, Elyse Levesque
Elyse Levesque
Elyse Marie Levesque is a Canadian film and television actress. She recently played Chloe Armstrong in the TV series Stargate Universe.- Career :...

, David Blue
David Blue (actor)
David Blue is an American actor, writer, producer and director. He is best known for his portrayal of Cliff St. Paul on Ugly Betty and Eli Wallace on the Syfy series Stargate Universe.-Early life:...

, Alaina Huffman
Alaina Huffman
Alaina Huffman is a Canadian film and television actress, also known professionally as Alaina Kalanj ....

, Jamil Walker Smith
Jamil Walker Smith
Jamil Walker Smith is an American actor. His best known role is as the voice of Gerald, a fourth grader and Arnold's best friend in the Nickelodeon TV series Hey Arnold!. He also appeared on various shows like Sister, Sister, Girlfriends, Bones, The X-Files, and The Bernie Mac Show...

, Ming-Na
Ming-Na
Ming-Na is a Macanese-born American actress. She has been credited with and without her family name, but most credits since the late 1990s have been without it...

, Julia Benson, Patrick Gilmore
Patrick Gilmore
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was an Irish-born composer and bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848. Whilst serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Gilmore wrote the lyrics to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", the tune he took from an old Irish antiwar folk...

, Jennifer Spence
Jennifer Spence
Jennifer Spence is a Canadian actor. Her acting credits include playing the part of Dr. Lisa Park on the Stargate Universe television series...

, and Peter Kelamis
Peter Kelamis
Peter Kelamis is an Australian-born Canadian actor and comedian.-Life and career:Kelamis was born in Sydney, Australia of Greek origin. In 1985, Kelamis enrolled in the University of British Columbia...

. The creators of the show Brad Wright
Brad Wright
Brad Wright is a Canadian television producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known as the creator or co-creator of the television series Stargate SG-1 , Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe...

 and Robert C. Cooper
Robert C. Cooper
Robert C. Cooper is a Canadian writer and producer best known for his work in the Stargate franchise. He was formerly an executive producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis until both series conclusion and currently holds the same title on the third Stargate series Stargate Universe...

 were also present and as were the hosts of InnerSPACE. The goal of the event was to discuss the show Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way...

 and allow for fans to have an exclusive autograph session with some of the cast members . Thanks to InnerSPACE and Space (TV channel), those who could not make it to the live show in Toronto were given the chance to chat online with the featured cast following the broadcast of the episode.

Awards

Due to active Sci-Fi community involvement, InnerSPACE and its co-hosts Teddy and Ajay have been honoured by Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

's awards for excellence in science fiction film and television - The Constellation Awards. The two hosts received a high prestige award which was "Outstanding Contribution to Science Fiction Film or Television" on July 16, 2011 . Teddy and Ajay were nominated through popular fan response/submission and earned 39% of the vote over their competitors Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping is an English-born Canadian actress, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis...

 and Robin Dunne
Robin Dunne
Robin Dunne is a Canadian actor who is mainly known for having had numerous leading roles in sequels throughout his career, and lately for his role as Doctor Will Zimmerman in the cult Science fiction Television series, Sanctuary....

, and author Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer
Robert James Sawyer is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 20 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won over forty awards for his fiction, including the Nebula Award ,...

.

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