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ABC has ordered a pilot for a TV adaptation of 1987’s The Witches of Eastwick, written by Maggie Friedman. It’ll be the third try for a series (Warner Brothers/NBC made an attempt in 1992, and Fox and WB in 2002).

SciFi Channel’s exec vice president of original programming Mark Stern says it is undecided whether Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica will be a movie or the pilot of a proposed series.

SciFi Channel has announced another, as yet untitled, Battlestar Galactica prequel. Edward James Olmos directind and Jane Espenson writing, the two hour TV movie that will focus on Cylons: Number One (aka Cavil), resistance leader Sam T. Anders, and Chief Galen Tyrol, played by Dean Stockwell, Michael Trucco, and Aaron Douglas. “In the beginning, the Cylons had a plan, but it didn't account for one thing: survivors. During the chaotic aftermath of the nuclear destruction, two powerful Cylon agents struggle with plots and priorities on the human ships that got away and among the resistance fighters who were left behind.” It’ll start shooting in Vancouver late summer and premiere 2009.

David Carradine and Darryl Hannah will star in Spike TV’s Kung Fu Killer. The two part miniseries, which premieres August 17 and 18, is set in 1920s China and “tells the story of White Crane (Carradine), an orphaned son of Western missionaries who was raised as a Wudang monk to become a spiritual leader and master in martial arts, and his ultimate journey for revenge and justice. Beginning in the Shanghai underworld, Crane encounters Jane Marshall (Hannah) a lounge singer from Brooklyn, who is on a mission of her own to find her lost brother.

Cartoon Network has announced that Robot Chicken will premiere Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II November 16 during the Adult Swim block. Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams are onboard along with Ahmed Best, Seth MacFarlaine, Breckin Meyer, Conan O’Brien, and Donald Faison. Seth Green will direct, “We’re thrilled to get to make ‘Episode II;’ it doesn’t even seem real—getting to make ‘Star Wars’ twice! We’re so excited and bursting with joy.”

Creator Kevin Falls reveals what would’ve happened on Journeyman.