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Pleased with the first six episodes of the upcoming second season of Chuck, NBC has picked up the back nine episodes.

"Massive Heroes Spoilers Ahead!"

Ted Raimi will appear in the fourth episode of Legend of the Seeker as Sebastian, a maker of enchanted maps.

SciFi Channel says despite rumors, Battlestar Galatica "is still slated to return January 2009."

Star Wars: The Clone Wars will premiere with an hour long episode on Cartoon Network October 3 9 pm ET/PT.

Mark Steven Johnson on Preacher:"We were budgeting and everything and it was getting really close to going. But the new head of HBO felt it was just too dark and too violent and too controversial. Which, of course, is kind of the point! It was a very faithful adaptation of the first few books, nearly word for word. They offered me the chance to redevelop it but I refused. I've learned my lesson on that front and I won't do it again. So I'm afraid it's dead at HBO. I've heard someone is in the process of getting the rights to turn it into a feature film."

HBO's comedy pilot Bored To Death will be directed by Alan Taylor, written by Jonathan Ames, and star Jason Schwartzman and Ted Danson. It has "Schwartzman as a struggling Brooklyn writer with a drinking problem who pretends to be a private detective in the vein of his heroes from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett novels. Danson will play Jonathan's friend and quasi-mentor, a pompous but articulate magazine editor."