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Jericho's executive producer, Carol Barbee, says that they've shot two different endings for the show's seven episode second season, which will focus on Jake Green, Robert Hawkins, and a new character. While either way will complete the season's story, which one'll be used will depend on if the show is picked up for a third season. "The second season is about saving the country and our way of life, our system of government. And then the natural progression is to have that be save the world for the third season." Here for the full interview.

Since the script for the pilot is completed, Sci Fi is taking a second look at Battlestar Galatica prequel Caprica.

Fringe has cast Kirk Acevedo, Tomas Arana, and Mark Valley.

Rick McCallum has confirmed that Boba Fett will be in the upcoming live action Star Wars TV series.

Starting in February, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will have its annual 31 Days of Oscar. Everyday of the week's primetime slot will be devoted to a decade(s): Mondays '20s and '30s, Tuesdays '40s, Wednesdays '50s, Thursdays '60s, Fridays '70s, Saturday '80s, and Sundays '90s to now.
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SciFi has given the official word: Battlestar Galatica will start it's fourth season April 4 with ten of its twenty-two planned episodes.

James Marsters will be in the premiere for Torchwood’s second season on January 26.

Starting February 1, fans of The 4400 will start a coordinated week long mail campaign to save the show using sunflower seeds.

Speaking of trying to bring shows back from the dead… Save Journeyman Streaming campaign.

An edited version of Showtime's Dexter will be on CBS beginning February 17.

In hopes of getting a head start, Fox has given the go ahead for casting on Shaun Cassidy's Inseparable, a Jekyll and Hyde story about a forensic psychiatrist, despite the fact the revised draft is unfinished, having been interrupted by the Writers' strike.

Val Lewton on TCM

To celebrate the premiere of Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows, Turner Classic Movies will then show a marathon of ten Val Lewton movies on January 14 starting at 8:00 PM (ET):

Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows
Cat People
I Walked With A Zombie
Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows (again)
The Leopard Man
The Seventh Victim
The Curse of the Cat People
The Body Snatcher
Isle Of The Dead
Bedlam
Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows (again, again)
Youth Runs Wild
Mademoiselle Fifi

Sarah Connor Chronicles early premiere online

Fox will put the first episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Yahoo! It’ll last for 24 hours beginning January 4 at 9 p.m. PT/12 a.m. ET, commercial free with an introduction by Lena Headey.

The show will premiere on Fox January 13 at 8 p.m., and 14 at 9 p.m. (ET/PT).

In programming news...

USA has canceled The 4400 and The Dead Zone. The official reasons are low ratings and making room for a new set of summer shows.

Illusion On Demand will now be broadcasting classic Doctor Who episodes, starting with “Tomb of the Cybermen”. So far it looks like they will start at the beginning and work chronologically.

Lost

ABC has announced the Lost's fourth season will begin January 31, 2008, with its new Thurday 9pm (ET/PT) timeslot. However it might be an abbreviated season as only eight scripts of sixteen episodes were completed before the, still ongoing, Writers' stike.

Following Lost at 10 pm will be new show Elis Stone. It's about a lawyer who either has a higher calling, or is just experiencing hallucinations.

It's Running Man, only no one dies. What’s the point?

"Run For Money is a fun, fast-paced thriller of a show," said Sci Fi’s Mark Stern. "[It] fits nicely with our reality agenda of putting ordinary people in wild, extraordinary situations. It's high-adrenaline fun, part sport, part real-life video game."

The premise of the upcoming reality TV show is contestants have 60 minutes to make it out of a location “alive” while performing tasks and avoiding hunters.

Production begins in January.

7 more for Jericho

The post nuclear apocolypse show Jericho will be back a seven episode second season. Depending on ratings and the writer's strike there may be more. Look for it February 12th, 10pm ET.

New J.J. Abrams TV Pilot "Fringe"

FOX has signed on for a two hour (and fairly expensive) pilot:

"Fringe centers on a young female FBI agent who, forced to confront the spread of powerful and unexplained phenomena, must work with an institutionalized scientist whose life's work might be at the center of the coming storm."

NBC shows...

NBC is keeping Chuck and Life.

However, Journeyman's long term future has yet to be decided. Short term it's guaranteed to go at least to its 12th episode. They will air: December 10th (ep. 10), 17th (ep. 11), and 19th (ep. 12).

Still no word on Bionic Woman.

Hey, BBC, the '70s just called...

Along with Doctor Who, the BBC now has plans to update another cult sci-fi show: Survivors. Starting in 1975, the original ran for three seasons and followed a group of survivors after a plague had decimated humanity. Adrian Hodges will write the new episodes.