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AMC will remake the 1960’s Cold War paranoia TV show Prisoner. Ian McKellan will play Number Two and Jim Caviezel will play Number Six in the Bill Gallagher written and exec produced six part miniseries scheduled for 2009. The story is about a man (Caviezel) who wakes up in the Village and is renamed Number Six. Christina Wayne, another executive producer, says, "There will be nods and winks and references back to the original, but I don't think that they'll feel in any way that their [the fans'] original has been tarnished. Even though this would fall under sci-fi traditionally, this is a drama at its core." AMC says they’ll replace the Cold War metaphor with “21st-century stressors such as constant surveillance and the conflict between liberty and security.”

Tim Kring on the upcoming Villains “volume” of the next season of Heroes (the season will be divided into two volumes): "One of the things that this volume is going to do that, I think, is really going to be fun for the audience is that there were very initial sort of primal questions that the show asked. Who am I? What's happening to me? How am I connected? Where are these powers coming from? All of those questions get reframed and turned on their head in a very interesting way in this volume." … "You're going to see a lot of bad guys in this one. The idea, also, is we're playing off the idea of our characters as heroes or villains. So it's really the duality of good and evil. ... We're playing off of this duality of good and evil. All of our characters were given these powers and possess these powers, and at some point it becomes sort of free will and human nature as to what you're going to do with that. And all of us are given the choice to make decisions that lead us down very dark paths or towards heroic ends. And so, literally, every one of our characters gets faced with that dilemma." Also, while originally Zachary Quinto’s character Sylar was going to be written out in the second season because of his commitment to Star Trek XI, the Writer’s strike shortened it so much the point became moot, and Sylar will definitely be back.

Malik Yoba and Warren Cole will play detectives in Fox’s Inseparable pilot.

Eril Jensen, Jose Pablo Cantillo, and Clea DuVall have joined Fox’s Virtuality as the navigator, a mathematician, and the co-pilot and engineer, respectively.

The live action series adaptation of Yukie Nasu’s manga Here is Greenwood will premiere in Japan in July. The cast includes Yuuki Izawa, Kengo Ookuchi, Yukari Fukui, Hiroki Suzuki, Shun Kisaragi, Riki Kiura, Yuichi Suzuki. Izawa will play “Kazuya Hasukawa, the boy who moves into a dorm to escape a love triangle with his brother Kazuhiro and his brother's new wife Sumire - only to discover that the dorm houses an even more oddball cast of characters.” Voice actor Mitsuo Iwata (who played the anime version’s Mitsuru) will narrate, and Access will perform the opening theme "Dreamrunner."