TV News

On Sci Fi Channel: The Sarah Jane Adventures will premiere April 11, at 7:30 pm EST, (with a regular timeslot 8 pm EST), and the fourth season of Doctor Who on April 18, at 8:30 pm EST (regular 9 pm EST).

Sci Fi has green lit Battlestar Galactica two hour prequel/backdoor pilot Caprica.

Dollhouse will begin production in April. i09 has some script pages.

While NBC hasn’t officially said, Bionic Woman’s co-executive producer, David Eick, says the show is dead.

The CW has green lit Sam Raimi’s horror/reality show 13 (working title). Debuting this summer, the eight episode series takes contestants through horror movie like challenges and games that frighten them along the way. Executive producers are Jay Bienstock, Sam Raimi, and Robert Tapert. Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane will produce.

NBC is looking at Jason Smilovic’s untitled drama starring Christian Slater. “It is described as ‘The Bourne Identity’ meets ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ and centers on a mild-mannered suburban dad (Slater) who learns that his alter ego is a spy.”

Rob Thomas has been given the OK by ABC to do a “reinvention” of his 1998 comedy series Cupid. In the original, Jeremy Piven played a man who believes he’s a god sent by Zeus to bring together 100 couples.

While there aren’t many details, The CW and producer Rob Thomas is developing a Beverly Hills: 90210 spin off.

Yoko Kamio’s slice of life drama manga, Cat Street, will be adapted into a live action series to air this summer on Japan’s NHK public broadcasting. It’s about a former child actress who comes out of hiding when she enters a school for outsiders, aka “stray cats.”