Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/December/December 8

Film releases
 * 2005 - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Television series
 * 2003 - The reimagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries airs on the SciFi Channel

Births
 * 1930 - John Morressy (d. 2006), an American science fiction and fantasy writer

Deaths
 * 2005 - J. N. Williamson (b. 1932), an author and editor of horror stories