From November, here are the unlocked Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• wish_upon_a_meme is a gifting event modeled on insmallpackages. Requests through 12/31/23, fills through 1/14/24.
• fandomtrees is a gifting fest modeled on fandom_stocking. Sign-ups through 12/06/23, fills through 1/10/24, reveals 1/11/24.
• genprompt_bingo has opened sign-ups for a new round. As always, while all prompts are gen, fills may be any type.
• trope_of_the_month's December theme is "holidays and celebrations."
• allbingo's December theme is an amnesty, meaning filling out extra squares from previous cards.
• fancake's December theme is an amnesty, meaning recommendations for past themes.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive Of Our Own (AO3) Summary: 4 of the 1,322 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "Respice Finem" by TheFruitBat (WIP) (T, multi, ~45K words)
• "Hours into Days, Days into Years" by SwitchbladeEyes (T, gen, ~12K words)
• "…do (it like) a Torontonian" by TheFruitBat (xover) (part 2 of a series) (E, m/m, ~9K words)
• "On the Edge" by TheFruitBat (E, m/m, 100 words)

FK news & conversation
11/04: pj1228 let us know that FK season 3 will finally be released on DVD in Germany. (As a reminder, only season one has extra footage in the German release.) Read the post.

This newsletter is reportage only. Inclusion is not endorsement. Omission is not disrecommendation.

Wow! How is it October already? Well, for the month of September, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• comment_bingo, a bingo challenge where you comment (rather than create), has opened its second round, which runs through January 2023.
• ladiesbingo, a bingo fic challenge focused on female characters' relationships, has opened its tenth round, with posting through March 2023.
• womansplace, a prompt fest focused on women characters, is open for prompts through October 30 and fills through November 4.
• multifandompostcardexchange, a Tumblr/snail-mail community, has opened its annual "Holiday Cheer" event with recipient sign-ups through October 15 and sender sign-ups and submissions through November 7.
• allbingo's October theme is "Fall Fest," to "celebrate the motifs of autumn."
• fancake's October theme is "politics."

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 6 of the 1,212 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "Time heals..." by QueenNutHouse (WIP) (T, gen, ~2K words)
• "Five Years On" by ErebusBeck (part 11 of a series) (M, multi, ~25K words)
• "In the City of New Orleans" by ErebusBeck (part 12 of a series) (M, m/m, ~13K words)
• "Alyce and the Cave of Mysteries" by ErebusBeck (part 13 of a series) (T, multi, ~9K words)
• "Respice Finem" by TheFruitBat (WIP) (G, multi, ~9K words)
• "Dwelling in Infinity" by Celestial_Alignment (WIP) (xover w/HL) (part 6 of a series) (E, multi, ~39K words)

FK news & conversation

• 9/08: nicholas_lucien let us know that FK's first two seasons are currently streaming free on Amazon. Read the post.
• 9/18: greerwatson included FK in her Trick-or-Treat exchange letter. Read the post.

For the month of July, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest shared 7 new stories answering the "10 years" challenge.
• Belated Treatmas is a prompt fest addressing old, unfilled exchange or fest requests. Open through 12/25.
• fancake is running one-week rounds in August, starting with "sex pollen."
• prompt_dump is a new community for collecting and filling themed prompts.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 12 of the 985 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• FKFicFest:
  • "A Worthwhile Diversion" by dlyt (G, gen) (~4K words)
  • "Know Why I Cry" by greerwatson (Teen, gen) (~2K words)
  • "Unexpected Alliance" by PJ1228 (Teen, gen) (~8K words)
  • "Fill in the Blanks" by Brightknightie (Teen, gen) (~4K words)
  • "a reminiscence sing" by abby82 (G, gen) (~2K words)
  • "How To Spend The Next Ten Years" by Nicholas_Lucien (Mature, gen) (~10K words)
  • "Knight Shift" by dlyt (Not rated, gen) (~4K words)
• More:
  • "10 Years" by Merfilly (G, gen) (200 words)
  • "Alphabet Requests" (Chapter 10: Transfusion) by Merfilly (G, gen) (200 words)
  • "Hunter or Hunted?" by Ariyana (Mature, m/f) (~1K words) (Crossover w/Blood Rayne)
  • "Similar But Not" by Ariyana (Mature, multi) (~1K words) (Crossover w/Blood Rayne)
  • "Passing Through" by Ariyana (Teen, m/f) (~3K words) (Crossover w/HP & BtVS)

FK news & conversation

• 7/23: pj1228 recapped FKFicFest and described her approach to it. Read the post.
• 7/19: nicholas_lucien shared a 404 page from the Stratford Festival site, featuring GWD in a recent role. See the post.
• 7/09: abby82 unboxed the new FK DVDs, with an in-depth review and photos. Read the post.
• 7/04: senmut observed that her chocolate was from Brabant. :-) Read the post.
• 8/03: pj1228, on her 25th anniversary as an FK fan, reminisced about her first viewing, and everything since. Read the post.

For the month of April, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest 2019 should finally get its schedule and such posted later tonight. Really. Due date mid-July. Challenge prompt "ten years" (or "ten" & "years"). [Update: Posted.]
• story_works is hosting a "Spring Cleaning" challenge through 05/31.
• justmarriedexchange is a marriage-themed multifandom exchange, with nominations through 5/13, sign-ups 5/15-26, and stories due 7/28.
• sunshine_challenge will be a July off-shoot of the familiar January snowflake_challenge.
• Not Prime Time opened its "Madness" collection and prompts on 5/05. Assigned stories are due 7/03.
• genprompt_bingo is in its 16th round. Prompts are gen; fills may be anything.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 3 of the 971 FK works on the AO3 show a posting date in this period.

• "Just a Little Bite" by Nicholas_Lucien (G, gen, 620 words) (Nick & Natalie)
• "A Vampire Wedding" by Nicholas_Lucien (PG, m/f, 5K words) (Nick/Janette)
• "Arabian Knight" by MacFran2018 (PG-13, gen, 60K words) (Nick/Natalie)

FK news & conversation

• 4/26: nicholas_lucien let us know about the FK DVD re-release! It will be a boxed set (all 3 seasons) shipping in July. This is the first chance in many years to get the third season on DVD. Presumably, this will be the same footage as the previous US and Canada DVDs (still lacking the extra first-season footage available on the German DVDs), but hope springs eternal. Currently, it's just $35.16 USD. Read her post or order on Amazon.
• 4/19: nicholas_lucien shared an FK-heavy "Dear Author" post. Read it.

A used copy of FK's season three DVDs is currently available on Amazon for $29.95 + tax & shipping (or $33.43 all-included with Prime).

(As you know, season three often goes for ~$80. It went out of print early, sold fewer copies before it did, and isn't available for new streaming.)

For the month of November, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests & communities that welcome FK

• fandom_stocking, the no-commitments, no-limits, gifting fest is in progress. The last day to "hang" a stocking is 12/15; reveals start 01/06.
  • See the stockings wishing for FK (3 so far this year).
  • See the sign-up post and timelines and guidelines.
  • You can fill stockings without signing up.
• holiday_wishes seems similar to fandom_stocking, but it's new to me. The last day to post a wish is 12/31; the collection closes 01/07.
• yuletide, the massive annual small-fandoms exchange, is in progress.
• genprompt_bingo's Round 13 is open through March.

FK fanfiction & other fanworks
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 2 of the 799 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in November.

• "A Series of Encounters" by Merfilly (~2K words) (G, f/f)
• "Adventures of a She-Wolf: Triple Threads" by HypatiaTheGunslinger (WIP) (~32K words) (R, multi) (Crossover with HL, BtVS, PtL, and Wolf Lake)

News & conversation:

• Actors & productions
  • 11/01: nicholas_lucien discussed the first released "demo scene" from the in-production movie.
  • 11/02: nicholas_lucien reported that all 3 seasons are presently available from iTunes! 3rd hasn't been available for new-purchase in years, so I'd strongly recommend snapping it up if you use iTunes and don't yet have it. (I personally have 3rd season streaming via Amazon, bought before they pulled it.)
  • 11/19: nicholas_lucien wished Nigel Bennett a happy birthday.
  • 11/25: abby82 relayed that the Chiller cable network — which picked up FK after SyFy (back when it was still spelled Sci-Fi) and once ran the original US CBS '92 cut of first season (which is shorter than any other cut but nevertheless includes some scenes lacking from other cuts, most conspicuously in "False Witness") — is defunct.
  • 12/01: nicholas_lucien announced a sold-out Geraint Wyn Davies appearance with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra on 12/10.
• Analysis & chat
  • 11/02: nicholas_lucien introduced her project to invigorate plot bunnies through a series rewatch with commentary.
  • 11/05: nicholas_lucien reviewed some of the characters from the first two seasons who aren't vampires.
  • 11/05: nicholas_lucien recapped the original Rick Springfield Nick Knight made-for-TV movie/not-picked-up pilot.

Amazon.com (US) is currently selling seasons one and two of FK for under $6 (US) per season.

• Season one (22 episodes on 5 discs) $5.99


• Season two (26 episodes on 6 discs) $5.62

(As you know, season three has been out of print for several years now.)

In a conversation elsewhere, sholio was surprised to learn that FK's German first-season DVDs have more footage (~1-6* minutes/episode) than the North American DVDs. They do.

Before North American fans got access to the German cuts — this was before international online fandom as we know it today — the rumor was that the German versions were "racy" (with nudity) because the cast and crew told us that they'd filmed some such scenes. But when we saw the German cuts, we discovered that the extra footage was mostly longer establishing shots (panning down a street, up a building, across the desks in the precinct, around a crime scene, Nick stuck in his loft in the daytime, the Caddy on the road). There is a little extra dialogue, but only a little. My favorite extra scene is Nick with a book. (We don't know what happened to the "racy" footage.)

FK being FK, though, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Not only did FK's first season air at different lengths in different places, but sometimes the shortest cuts included footage that doesn't appear in the longest cuts! For example, the original CBS airing of "False Witness" (as eventually repeated on the Chiller cable channel) is the shortest version of all, but it has two (2!) extra scenes with the rookie cop who toasts Nick, scenes which do not appear in any of the other cuts. And of course the "ghost!Erica in the Caddy" scene in "Last Act" was in some versions and not others, as well as the rape in the "Dead Issue" flashback, off the top of my head. The "False Witness" exchange between Nick and Lacroix about music and souls isn't on the North American DVDs but was on the original US airing. In VHS days, people might argue interpretations for a long time before realizing that they had actually seen slightly different stories.

First-season, from the longest cut to the shortest:

1. original German airing / German DVDs
2. original Canadian airing (in some locations) / North American DVDs
3. later Canadian airings (in some locations)
4. SciFi Channel airing
5. original CBS US airing / Chiller airing

When first season first aired in the US, the "Crimetime After Primetime" rotation had a weird, truncated time slot after the late-night news (this was before they hired David Letterman; Letterman displaced "Crimetime," leading to FK's first cancellation and hiatus). That's why those episodes were so short that they sometimes "patched" the omissions with other scenes. The SciFi Channel airings were trimmed to fit in more commercials.

Here's my post from when I first got the German DVDs: 2010-04-23: "An Incredible Gift: The German DVDs."

* Numbers amended to include "Dark Knight," both halves of which are longer in German than any other episodes.

Due to both connectivity issues and personal issues, I haven't been reading here since mid-October.  (I hope to be back to normal on both fronts starting... now!) Thus, this list is merely what I found tonight, with a heavy reliance on tags (e.g. "fk," "forever knight") to locate relevant material; if I've missed something, please hook me up! It looks to have been a fairly quiet month, FK-wise.

For October, in Forever Knight, in my corners of social journaling, here's what I spotted:

Ficathons, Fests and Communities

• fandomaid is raising funds in support of victims of Superstorm Sandy.
• festivids assignments went out on 10/16.
• I still can't believe that FK is not eligible for smallfandomfest. But fic_promptly will accept us for commentfic!
• Many people posted Yuletide "Dear Author" letters. FK appears in only Greer's, as far as I saw [Addendum: Also in Twilight2000's]. (BTW, thanks to sholio for confirming that you don't have to be signed up for Yuletide to give treats or pick up pinch-hits. Anyone can still play through those avenues!)

Fanfiction
3 FK works on AO3 currently show October 2012 as their publication dates. All three are new-to-me crossovers; two are by the same author.

Meta (Essays, Analysis, Discussion)

• 10/27: pj1228 described her future FK-related fanfic and website plans.
• 10/26: greerwatson announced a page of her website dedicated to her FK faction userpic icons.
• 10/17: [Locked] listed "10 Things to Do in Toronto" (which is totally unrelated to FK, unless you're an FK fan).
• 10/15: greerwatson discussed posting five FK ficlets (from the final days of fkcommentfic 2012) to her website.
• 10/13: melissatreglia noted that 36 of her 64 AO3 stories are FK.
• 10/05: automaton11 invoked Lacroix in a post about plagiarism.
• greerwatson continued sharing faction userpic icons, and brought her long-running project to a close: 10/22, 10/17 and 10/16.

Actors:
10/16: [Locked] shared that in 2013, the Stratford Festival (which has apparently dropped the "Shakespeare" from its name) will boast GWD in Measure for Measure and Mary Stuart, plus NB in Thrill (official press release PDF).

Airings:
Chiller will next air FK on Friday 11/23 (6AM-5PM, DK-FIHS). In the US, that's "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving; if you'll have that day off work, tune in!

In August, in Forever Knight, in my corners of social journaling, here's what I saw:

Ficathons, Fests and Communities

• fkficfest/fkficfest 2012 stories finished releasing on 8/07! Yay!
• fkcommentfic accepted prompts 8/08-8/31; fills continue through 9/30. All are invited.

Fanfiction

• FKFicFest 2012:
  • 8/01: "Some Friendly Advice" by hearts_blood (G, gen, ~1K words; Cohen, Stonetree)
  • 8/01: "The Ties That Bind" by melissatreglia (PG, gen, ~4K; Nick, Tracy, Fleur, Lacroix)
  • 8/02: "Tinkers to Evers to Chances to Play" by twilight2000 (PG13, m/f, ~5K words; Nick/Janette, Schanke, Natalie, Cohen, Lacroix)
  • 8/02: "Mandatory Training" by natmerc (G, gen, ~2K words; Nick, Schanke, Natalie)
  • 8/03: "Chante à Nouveau" by brightknightie (PG13, m/f, ~10K words; Urs, Lacroix, Fleur, Nick, Vachon)
  • 8/04: "Knight Down" by foxy11814 (PG13, m/f, ~12K words; Nick/Natalie, Reese, Tracy)
  • 8/05: "Generations" by pj1228 (PG13, m/f, ~12K words; Nick/Natalie, Lacroix, Tracy)
  • 8/06: "Renovation" by waltd (G, gen, ~2K words; Nick, Natalie, Lacroix)
  • 8/06: "Circumstances Unforeseen" by amilyn (PG, gen, ~5K words; Natalie, Nick, Lacroix)
  • 8/07: "Party Favors 2012" by amilyn, brightknightie, skieswideopen (assorted, 14x100 words)
• FKCommentFic 2012:
  • 8/10: "Our Nature to Possess" by brightknightie (PG, m/m, 100 words; Nick, Vachon)
  • 8/11: "Yearning Desire" by foxy11814 (PG, m/m, m/f, 100 words; Nick, Lacroix, Janette)
  • 8/12: "At That End of History" by brightknightie (PG, m/f, 100 words; Nick, Natalie)
  • 8/13: "Waiting on Perfect" by brightknightie (PG, m/f, 100 words; Natalie, Nick, Urs, Grace)
  • 8/14: "Fangs in Paradise" by greerwatson (PG, gen, 100 words; Nick, Feliks)
  • 8/14: "Conflict of Interest" by brightknightie (PG, gen, 100 words; Nick, Cohen, Schanke)
  • 8/18: "Ingratitude" by pj1228 (PG13, m/m, ~1K words; Nick/Lacroix)
• Other:
  • 8/28: "On the Doorstep" by greerwatson
  • 7 FK works on AO3 currently show August 2012 publication dates. (4 are not from FKFicFest 2012; 3 are the fest "party favors;" 1 is FK/HL.)

Meta (Essays, Analysis, Discussion)

• 8/01: [Locked] discussed much-disliked episodes.
• 8/09: gnosticdiva shared where she had been during the FKFicFest reveal.
• 8/18: melissatreglia shared an idea for herding plotbunnies.
• 8/20: greerwatson described designing her FKFicFest 2012 story's presentation on her website.
• 8/21: hearts_blood kindly recommended "Chante à Nouveau" (my FKFicFest 2012 story).
• 8/22: greerwatson announced posting a new story to her website (no link provided), and spoke again about her faction icons project.
• 8/24: [Locked] mentioned writing an FK ficlet for a "fem-centric fic" game.
• 8/27: greerwatson announced posting two recent pieces to her website (one is available in FKCommentFic; one is not), and discussed designing their presentations on her website.
• 8/02, 8/04, 8/05, 8/13, 8/19: Assorted [Locked]s mentioned FKFicFest and its stories. One [Locked] recommended "We'll Always Have New Orleans."
• greerwatson continues to share FK faction userpic icons: 08/07, 08/10, 08/15, 08/17, 08/23, 08/25, 08/27 and 08/30.

Actors:

• 8/03: [Locked] shared John Kapelos links: article on upcoming Psych appearance, recent interview, drama clips, comedy clips.
• 8/07: [Locked] reviewed this year's Stratford production of Cymbeline, in which both GWD and NB appear.
• 8/09: pj1228 and [Locked] both linked to a video of GWD talking about his role in The Matchmaker at Stratford this year.
• 8/12: wiliqueen shared the highlight of her Wizard World attendance: dancing with James Hong (Dr. Chung in "Cherry Blossoms")! Links to ONTD photos.

Airings:

• US: Chiller has scheduled a mini-marathon for Thursday 09/20 (9AM-5PM, DK-CB). [Chiller has historically shown the original CBS cuts of first season! Different from the DVDs! Mostly just shorter, but some different shots.]
• Germany: As reported by pj1228, FK is back on German TV beginning 09/05, airing daily at 3:55AM.