Your community television station is expanding! This month, the SCVTV Media Center is expanding to include 880 more square feet at our facility at the corner of 14th and Railroad in Newhall.

We've been knocking down walls, making new doorways and tearing up old carpet to be replaced with new flooring. The additional space will bring SCVTV's facilities to a grand total of 3,580 square feet, enabling us to be not only more efficient in producing local television, but also to become a real "go to" venue for production companies looking to rent studio and editing space and equipment. 

There's plenty more going on at SCVTV, too. We've freshly revived our popular hosted movie show, "SCV in the Movies," with two new hosts: E.J. Stephens of the SCV Historical Society and his pal Bill West, of the Friends of Hart Park. 

"SCV in the Movies" features movies with SCV connections, which could mean anything from film locations to cast and crew. This weekend, it's the latter: Who knew the schlock horror flick, "Plan 9 From Outer Space," had an SCV connection? It does. Its biggest star, pound for pound, was Tor Johnson, an "eternal" resident of Newhall. He's buried just down the hill from the mausoleum at Eternal Valley. He climbs out of the grave in Plan 9 to join Vampira in assisting some aliens in their quest to take over Planet Earth.

Or something like that.

It was Bela Lugosi's last film - he died during production - and E.J. and Bill go to Tor's house in Sylmar, where the principal Bela scene was shot.

Stay tuned! We have plenty more brewing at SCVTV, and as always you can catch it all on Time Warner Channel 20, AT&T U-Verse 99 and streaming and on demand at SCVTV.com, YouTube, Facebook and various other Social Media.