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Fox has put the two unaired episodes of Drive, “The Extra Mile” and “Rearview,” up on Amazon and iTunes. A year later. Huh.

Paula Malcomson will play surgeon/double agent Amanda in Battlestar Galatica prequel Caprica.

Series writer Melissa Rosenburg on the third season of Dexter, which premieres on Showtime in October: "I think we've come up with something that's going to be hopefully as good (as season two). I can't even hope to surpass it, but I can hope to do as well. It's going to be tough. But it's a challenge. ... We're kind of starting over, but it's not starting from scratch. The character of Dexter has evolved, and you want to be careful with that. I mean, his journey is sort of toward becoming human, but the minute he becomes human, the series is over."

With Michael Rosenbaum leaving Smallville, the show will bring in two new villains to replace Lex Luthor. Doomsday, and a female villain who is "intelligent, brilliantly manipulative and dangerously sinister, our gorgeous new villain has one more weapon in her arsenal: Her mutual attraction with Clark may prove to be as deadly as kryptonite for him."

Latest announced directors for NBC's Fear Itself: John Dahl, Larry Fessenden, and Rupert Wainwright.

ABC Family will bring back Kyle XY in January.

ABC Family has ordered 13 episodes of Javier Grillo-Marxuach's The Middleman to debut on June 16. Starring Natalie Morales, and based on a series of graphic novels, the show is about "a twentysomething woman who's recruited to fight criminals."

Also on ABC Family, six hour "event miniseries" Samurai Girl will air in one weekend, September 5-7.

Haruo Mizino's Hitchcock inspired cult suspense Siberia Chotokkkyu (Siberian Express) film series, will be turned into an anime series. Animated by Madhouse, it's planned to be an anthology that will work with several directors.

Warner Brothers will launch http://thewb.com/ which will stream original content and full episodes of shows including: Friends, Smallville, One Tree Hill, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, All of Us, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, The Wayans Bros., Veronica Mars, Everwood, and Roswell.