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As part of Fox’s new "Remote-Free TV" strategy, both Fringe and Dollhouse will have fewer commercials and less promotional spots for other Fox shows. The idea, says Fox entertainment chairman Peter Liguori, is to have “Less reason for viewers to use the remote.” Fringe will have a two hour premiere August 26, and show on Tuesdays at 9 pm (ET/PT) after House. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be back this fall Mondays at 8 pm (ET/PT), with Dollhouse taking over the timeslot early 2009.

On Battlestar Galactica: There will be a set of webisodes to connect the beginning of the fourth season to the second half during the hiatus. Also three TV movies are in “early development” to see how feasible the budgets would be. If they are made they will all be about incidents that happen before the finale episode and have no impact on the show’s finale.

Moonlight fans have started a postcard and advertisement campaign to get the show back on the air.

Craig Horner and Bridget Regan will star in Sam Raimi's Wizard's First Rule, scheduled to premiere this fall. Horner will play woodsman turned magical leader Richard Cypher, and Regan will be Kahlan, a mysterious woman who joins him to stop a tyrant.

Allison Mack and Smallville have worked things out and she's signed through the eighth season. However, Laura Vandervoort who plays Kara will not be back as a regular, and, if she comes back at all, will probably be for only one or two episodes.

Cameron Daddo will play the Vice President on the upcoming season of 24.

Rob Estes has joined the CW's 90210. Along with Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling is the only cast member from the first show that is locked in, though Ian Ziering and Shannen Doherty have expressed interest in coming on board.

On Stargate: Atlantis, Robert Picardo and Jewel Staite will be made regulars, Paul McGillion will be returning, and Tori Higginson will not be returning.

Yūji Nishi and Terry Yamamoto’s pastry baking manga, Ando Natsu, will be turned into a live action drama series. Shihori Kanja, Jun Kunimura, Toshinori Omi, and Jun Fubuki will star.

Dean Devlin and John Harrison's TV movie Blank Slate, starring Eric Stoltz, Lisa Brenner, and Clancy Brown, will springboard a series pilot for TNT. It's about "an amnesiac, sentenced to Death Row for a murder she can’t remember committing, who is given a second chance at freedom by the FBI. Recruited as part of the secret experimental unit of the FBI’s unsolved crimes division, Huston is implanted with the final memories of murder victims. But while she pursues the leads of other peoples’ memories, she is haunted by the distant echoes of her own life ... A life she can’t remember."

Brian Levant will direct a TV movie prequel to the Scooby Doo movies. In it Daphne is a mystery writer, Fred's a football player who likes jigsaw puzzles, Shaggy is flunking school, and Velma is a teen U.S. ambassador for World Hunger, who sign on to work for the school paper and have to solve their first mystery. Filming starts August in Vancouver.