Two decades after first appearing on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the Oscar-winning actress is producing and starring in a new sci-fi series called "Stream" that premieres on January 15 on the horror website and video-on-demand network FEARnet.
The series comes just over a year after Goldberg, 53, said she was retiring from acting to concentrate on hosting the daytime chat show "The View," a gig she took over from Rosie O'Donnell in September 2007.
Goldberg said the idea of performing in a new medium really appealed to her, as did the chance to act in sci-fi and horror -- two of her favorite genres.
"I did retire. I hadn't made a movie in quite a while, and I lost my way with the things I was doing. It became entertainment by rote, and there wasn't a lot being done that I was interested in doing," Goldberg told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"But the idea that you can be at work and check out a webisode tickles me because that is the future. ... I can reinvent my way of acting so that I challenge myself and see where it takes me for the second half of my life."
This sounds like some desperate-ass Tara Reid shit that she's trying to spin, but why would Whoopi need a gig like this?
I have to admit, I absolutely loved Whoopi as Guinan in the Star Trek series, though. Yes, I'm a huge Trekkie dork. But I doubt I'll be tuning into an Internet horror series. I'd just as soon watch that horror spoof that the cast of Newsies made on-set. (I'm serious.)
Will you watch? />I can't quite make sense of this. She's still doing well on The View, but Whoopi Goldberg has announced she'll star in a new sci-fi series ... on the Internet.
Two decades after first appearing on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the Oscar-winning actress is producing and starring in a new sci-fi series called "Stream" that premieres on January 15 on the horror website and video-on-demand network FEARnet.
The series comes just over a year after Goldberg, 53, said she was retiring from acting...