Sci-Fi Sunday: Watchmen, Transformers, Batman, Alien, Stargate, Doctor Who, BSG, Reaper + more

Our weekend round-up of genre news is back with a ton of news and clips for Watchmen and Transformers 2. We also have news updates on the next steps for the Batman, Superman, Iron Man, Alien and Twilight franchises, plus the more images and clips than you can handle. In the world of TV we have the latest on the new Stargate, the BSG movie, Doctor Who, the return of Reaper and more, plus previews galore, including Lost.

 

MOVIE NEWS

Watchmen Director’s Cut Length Revealed
After a screening of "Watchmen" in front of press and a lucky set of 300 fans, director Zack Snyder participated in a Q&A session and revealed some details about the two "Watchmen" director cuts of the film, including the length (via VH1):

“The director’s cut is three hours and 10 minutes and comes out in July,” Snyder revealed, calling his original edit “considerably more violent than this … and sexier” and explaining that if the movie does well, the director’s cut will get a theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York.

Following that, of course, will be the Watchmen DVD in the fall — which will include what he dubbed a “Crazy Ultimate Freaky Edition” boasting such time-omitted extras as Tales of the Black Freighter, Hollis Mason’s death, more Manhattan moments on Mars and dialogue-heavy scenes with the newsstand-bonding Bernies.

Collider reports that the "Crazy Ultimate Freaky Edition" will be 3 hours and 25 minutes in length.  In related news, io9 snagged an interview with Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Comedian).  Check it out here. 

Watchmen clips
Check out one of nine new clips from the film that have surfaced over at Collider (click to see the other eight)

More Watchmen Clips [10 more clips at Yahoo! Movies, and four more at MySpace, MSN, Sky and MTV]

Malin Akerman and Carla Gugino discussing their roles

TV Spot #6 [watch TV spot #5 here]

And rounding out the week’s "Watchmen" news, Snyder will have a cameo in the film which you can see in the image below (he’s the guy in the army fatigues standing in the background when the Comedian is burning the Vietnamese). [/Film]

And here’s a new viral video, Watchmen Viral: Who Watches the Watchmen? A Veidt Music Network (VMN) Special 1983

Transformers 2: "Bigger" "Epic" "Darker"  + more details
While on the red carpet for the "Friday the 13th" premiere "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" — now hitting conventional and IMAX theaters two days earlier on Wednesday, June 24th — director Michael Bay gave an interview with Collider discussing how he got access to filming at the Pyramids in Egypt, shooting 3 scenes in IMAX, the run time (currently at 2 hours and 20 minutes) and more.  Watch the five-minute interview embedded below.

In a little bit of spoiler news, well not really too spoilerish, TFW 2005 reports on an article in Toyfare magazine where producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura says that the movie’s villain, The Fallen, is one of 13 "original" Transformers:

Lorenzo said to think of the 13 as “apostles”. The Fallen is the one who turns and is the reason Transformers split into Autobots and Decepticons.

Also, in terms of the movie’s timeline, it takes place about one year after the first movie.  And if it wasn’t clear enough in the full teaser trailer (which you can watch embedded below) Devastator is going to be HUGE, 100-120 ft. tall huge.

By the way, Megatron is in the movie after all, so says writer Roberto Orci: "Megatron returns!", further adding "Keep it quiet!". And finally, MTV has a new featurette that includes new behind-the-scenes footage, which I’ve embedded below.

And here is a sneak-peek footage of the Autobot vehicles from Chevrolet [via Jalopnik]

Linda Hamilton In Talks to Reprise Role in Terminator Salvation
Linda Hamilton has confirmed to MTV that she is in negotiations with Warner Bros. to reprise her role as Sarah Connor in "Terminator Salvation".  Last month we reported when McG said they were considering an option to have Hamilton do a voice cameo, and that’s exactly the current plan:

I would probably be very happy to loan my voice depending on what the material is,” Hamilton told MTV. “Wait and see. They’re already writing it. We’ve been negotiating it.

Nolan only Batman 3 + Directing Inception and TDK Reaches $1 Billion
As of right now, Christopher Nolan is the only screenwriter attached to the sequel to "The Dark Knight".  IGN reports that neither Jonathan Nolan or David Goyer are officially involved in the script phase currently.  In related news, Batman-on-Film reports that "Nolan’s recent deal with Warner Bros. for the film Inception, at least includes an agreement between the studio and the acclaimed director to helm his second sequel to Batman Begins."  Speaking of "Inception", THR reports the following about the "contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind", which Nolan hopes to shoot in the summer for release during summer 2010:

“Chris Nolan is a visionary filmmaker who continually raises the bar with each movie he makes,” Warner Bros. Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov said. “We are thrilled to be collaborating again with him and Emma on this exciting new motion picture.”

And rounding out this week’s Batman-related news, "The Dark Knight" reached a feat only three other films in the history of the box office — non-inflation adjusted — have.  The film’s re-release has pushed it’s worldwide box office tally to over $1 billion joining "Titanic" ($1.84B), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" ($1.12B) and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest" ($1.07B).  It’s unclear when "The Dark Knight" surpassed the milestone, but it’s current tally (with data as of Thursday, February 19th) sits at $1,001,082,160.  Other notables:

• Second-highest domestic grosser of all time ($533.1 million), behind only "Titanic" ($600.8 million.
• Largest 2D digitally re-mastered IMAX release in both domestic ($49.6 million) and overseas ($15.3 million) gross and worldwide ($64.9 million).

Signourney Weaver Thinks Alien Franchise Not Done
Sigourney Weaver has chimed in again on the prospects of there being another "Alien" film, telling MTV that she doesn’t feel the the franchise is "quite finished" yet.  According to MTV, Weaver wasn’t too interested in Joss Whedon’s script treatment for a fifth installment:

“You know, Fox was going to do another one,” Sigourney Weaver said to us recently while accepting Ripley’s honor. “They had it written. Joss Whedon wrote it.”

As Weaver remembered it, however, the script from the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” mastermind just didn’t rock her world. “It took place on earth,” she explained. “Which, I have to say, just really didn’t interest me. And I just felt that every time we went out there, we needed to have a really original piece.”

But the actress is still interested in revisiting her character in the future:

“Even in twenty years, if someone came to me and said, ‘This is the story, and it’s a really interesting story using that world’ [I’d do it]. I think it’s an amazing saga…I don’t sit around thinking, ‘Oh I want to do another Alien,’ but it does feel slightly unfinished to me.

“There have been lots of ‘Alien’ impersonators, but there is something about [that first] one,” she said of Ripley’s original film, as well as the franchise it spawned. “I just don’t feel that it’s quite finished.”

Branagh’s Thor To Be Faithful to Comics + Casting Notice for Lead Role
Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada promises that "Thor" (July 16, 2010) will be very faithful to the comics, recounting to Comic Book Resources a meeting he had with director Kenneth Branagh and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige:

[Branagh] has immersed himself in [the comics]… He was talking about characters and villains that even I was going, like, who was that?, y’know. But if you’re a Thor-head, you’re going to go, oh right… So it was wonderful to hear this stuff. He wasn’t just concerned about Thor, but he also understood going in, from the beginning – because we established very early on… Well, at the end of the Iron Man movie, but very early on [in the process], that there’s going to be other movies that become part of this tapestry. This is essentially our Star Wars, our universe is our Star Wars, and he understands that his Thor movie is one of the legs of this table that will interplay with an Iron Man movie down the road, or the Avengers movie down the road.

In related news, a casting notice for the lead role in the film has been released via Coming Attractions:

Male MUST BE MID-LATE 20′S and SIX FEET OR TALLER. LEAD.

Physically powerful, very handsome, occasionally egotistical, petulant, and wild. A natural warrior with a quick charming wit who must be genuinely and severely humbled before becoming the compassionate, mature hero of our film.

New Avatar Plot Synopsis
Here’s a new plot synopsis for James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi 3D epic "Avatar":

Unfolding in the distant future on an exotic alien planet called Pandora, it’s the story of paraplegic ex-Marine Jake Sully.

After undergoing an experiment to exist in the alien world as an avatar – a blue, 10ft-tall, genetically engineered biological body, controlled by his human mind – Sully finds himself torn in a fight for his own survival and that of Pandora’s indigenous people, the Na’vi.

Cameron’s script sets up an epic war between the native race of an incredible world and the humans who want to exploit it.

Total Film also has an interview with the director, which you can check out here and some promo images, some of which I’ve included below.

Promo images [nine more at Total Film]

Twilight Sequel New Moon Titled + Eclipse Set for 2010 and Synopsis Revealed
Here’s a little Twilight news to digest.  MTV has unveiled the logo and title for "The Twilight Saga’s New Moon" which hits theaters on November 20, 2009.  Check out the logo below:

In related news, Summit Entertainment has announced that the third film in the franchise, "The Twilight Saga’s Eclipse", will be hitting theaters seven months after ‘New Moon’ on Wednesday, June 30, 2010.  Here’s the plot synopsis for that film:

"As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death."

Mickey Rourke: In or Out of Iron Man 2?
Is Mickey Rourke playing a villain in "Iron Man 2"?  I guess it depends on who you ask.  Rourke himself told NYMag that he’s "not doing Iron Man 2".  Clear enough right?  Well, not so much actually.  Entertainment Weekly is now reporting that an "offer still stands, though nothing’s yet being negotiated".  Sounds to me like there’s still some salary issues that need to be worked out between Marvel and Rourke’s agents.  "Iron Man 2" hits theaters on May 7, 2010.

Is WB Prepping Superman Unleashed?
For a short period of time, a password-protected page of Legendary Pictures’ website (a WB partner on "Superman Returns") listed "Superman Unleashed" as one of their upcoming films in development with the following temporary plot synopsis:

“Ramping up the action of its esteemed predecessor, the sequel to ‘Superman Returns’ promises to raise the stakes and take the audience to heights of action that no other superhero movie can achieve.”

The company has since removed (via Alex Litel) the listing from their website.  In other Superman-related news, /Film has debunked AICN’s report last week that the Wachowski brothers had been offered to reboot the franchise.

NEW IMAGES

Astro Boy [three more at Newsarama]

Dragonball Evolution

Promo images of Bulma (Emmy Rossum) and Piccolo (James Marsters) [DB The Movie]

H2

New poster

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li [14 more at Cinema Blend]

Terminator Salvation

Action Figures of T600 and T700 [five more at /Film]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Devastator Transformer toy figure [41 images, including other Transformers toys, at TFormers]

New posters [Transformers Live]

Watchmen [31 more at /Film]

EW Collectible Covers [click the image below to read cover story]

MAD Magazine cover [/Film]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine [Latino Review and Coming Soon + two more at JoBlo and IGN]

NEW VIDEOS

Angels & Demons

Theatrical Trailer

The Descent 2

Movie trailer

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

Teaser trailer

The People vs. George Lucas

Teaser trailer

S. Darko

Movie trailer

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Five new clips [eight more clips at IGN]

Supercapers

Movie trailer

Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter [HD Version]

DVD/Blu-ray Trailer

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

60-second TV Spot #1: "Outcasts" [Click to watch: #2: "Brothers" and #3: "Legends"]

MOVIE BITES

• John Williams will be doing the score for "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn".  It’s unclear at the moment if Williams will also score the other two films in the upcoming planned trilogy. [Upcoming Film Scores]
• Director Brett Ratner wants the star of "Conan The Barbarian" to be an unknown: "It should be an unknown. Conan is kind of iconic. It’s kind of like when you do Superman…It’s difficult to fill those shoes but they came up with a new Batman, they came up with a new James Bond, you know?" [MTV]
• Robert Rodriquez is still developing his live-action "Jetsons" movie.  According to AICN, Rodriquez has shot some tests for the film and was "quite giddy about how it was coming together".
• Madonna won’t be appearing in "The Twilight Saga’s New Moon", but the actress/singer may provide some songs for the film. [EW]
• Platinum Dunes has tapped well known music video and commercial director, Samuel Bayer to direct the upcoming remake of "Nightmare on Elm Street". Bayer is best known for directing rock band Nirvana’s award-winning music video "Smells Like Teen Spirit. [Risky Business]
• Actor Breckin Meyer is writing a script for "Superguys", based on a story by Harry Elfont and Deb Kaplan.  The project is described as "Ocean’s 11 with idiots set at Comic-Con". [Production Weekly]
• Justin Marks has been brought on board to McG’s "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo".  Marks will be rewriting the remake, which is being fast-tracked by Disney. [Variety]
• Leonardo DiCaprio is working on a reboot to the 80s’ film "War Games" at MGM. [Production Weekly]
• Malcolm McDowell, who played Dr. Loomis in Rob Zombie’s 2007 "Halloween" remake, revealed that he’s still in discussions to reprise the role for the sequel and that the story "supposedly takes place two months after the finale of the first film." [AICN]
• Check out an extensive interview with Kristin Kreuk about "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" over at io9.
• The planned "Spider-Man" musical is hitting some major snags.  Rehearsals on the project were expected to begin in April, but now it’s being pushed back to fall.  The musical is now scheduled to open sometime in 2010. [JoBlo]
• SpoilerTV-Movies has casting call information for "Iron Man 2".
• According to "Dragonball Evolution" star Justin Chatwin, there’s already a script for a sequel: ""The second one goes more into the whole legacy and the genealogy of Dragonball. It goes more in-depth into a real Dragonball series, the kind of intergalactic world of Dragonball."  According to DB The Movie, the tentative title for the sequel is "Dragonball Reborn"…
• And here’s the the artwork and track list for the film’s soundtrack. [DB The Movie]

CASTING BITES

• Stephen Fry has confirmed that he is playing the Cheshire Cat in Tim Burton’s upcoming 3D film "Alice in Wonderland". [BBC]
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Watchmen") is in talks to star in "The Losers" for WB.  An adaptation of the Vertigo book, "The Losers" follows a special forces team betrayed by their handler and left for dead. The Losers regroup in the interest of revenge and the opportunity to remove their names from a secret CIA death list and to conduct covert operations against the CIA and its interests. [THR]
• Vanessa Hudgens is being pursued to star in producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s film adaptation of the "Dead @ 17" comic book. [Comics on Comics via /Film]
• The new Doctor Who, Matt Smith, will be co-starring with Eva Green for the upcoming clone horror movie "Womb". [Empire Online]
• Robert Downey Jr. and Reese Witherspoon are in talks to star in "The Days Before".  Timur Bekmambetov is in negotiations to direct the sci-fi film, which is about a time-travel based alien invasion. [Production Weekly]
• Scarlett Johansson is in talks to replace Emily Blunt as the Russian superspy Natasha Romanoff (aka Black Widow) in "Iron Man 2". [EW]
• John Malkovich has joined the cast of Warner Bros’ adaptation of the DC Comics property "Jonah Hex". Malkovich will play Turnbull, a wealthy Southern plantation owner whose son is killed by Union soldiers during the Civil War. [Variety]
• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Zac Efron have both signed on for an upcoming film adaptation of "Jonny Quest".  [Moviehole]
• Rumor has it that Neil Patrick Harris and Scott Porter are two rumored actors being looked at by Warner Bros. to play "The Flash". Porter was auditioned for George Miller’s now dead "Justice League: Mortal" and was supposedly a top candidate for the role of Superman. [Screenrant & ThinkMcFlyThink]

TV NEWS

Cartoon Network Renews Star Wars: The Clone Wars for Second Season
Cartoon Network has given a second season renewal to its hit animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars".  The show premiered with two back-to-back episodes on October 3rd, drawing an average of 3.96 million viewers over the hour, making it the most-watched premiere in the history of the network.  According to the official press release, the show was the #1 series across the entire basic cable landscape in 2008 and through 2009 with boys 6-11.

Grace Park on Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
Grace Park (Boomer/Athena on "Battlestar Galactica") talked with Galactica.TV and explains what happens in the upcoming TV movie ‘The Plan’:

It’s more about the Cylon perspective, and so we went back and we dealt a little bit more with Boomer and some with Cavil. And that kind of threw me for a huge loop because there are a lot of scenes that aren’t explained, so as actors we fill them in ourselves as best we can. And somewhere along the line, I think it was when I got the script for The Plan, they offered a bunch of new information that really didn’t fit with what I had sort of built everything else on for the last four or five years. So I kind of feel like I’ve built a stick house on a pile of rocks that can all just fall down.

SCI FI Channel Interested in Tin Man Series
Last year’s "Tin Man" miniseries was the most-watched program in the history of SCI FI, and now the network is looking to return to Oz.  According to io9, Neal McDonough (who played Tin Man in the miniseries) told reporters at a roundtable for "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" that SCI FI is planning to bring "Tin Man" back as a regular series:

Last year, I had the great fortune to play Wyatt Cain in Tin Man, that could have been my favorite performance of anything I’ve done. That was a character that was really close to me… I do enjoy playing villains, and I had a great run the last year or so doing it. I certainly would love to go back and visit a guy like Wyatt Cain, whteher its Tin Man the series, which wenve talked about, or just to explore the character [in some way.]

Asked specifically if a "Tin Man" series was a possibility, McDonough replied:

It is, yeah. Sci Fi and [producer] Robert Halmi are talking about it. We were going to start up when I got back from Street Fighter, and then [Desperate] Housewives came along, and we weren’t ready yet. So I said, let’s do some Housewives and let’s see if we can get Tin Man done when I come back. It’s definitely a possibility, they just talked about it a few days ago. They would like to do it.

Terminator and Dollhouse Struggling on Friday Nights
Two week’s ago the highly anticipated — at least among fans — premiere of the Terminator/Dollhouse pairing on Fox took place and the results were far from encouraging.  Opening at 8pm was the return of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles".  The show posted series lows, drawing just 3.71M viewers and a 1.4 rating in the key A18-49 demographic.  That was a decline of more than 25% from its midseason finale episode in December (5.07M, 1.9 A18-49 rating).  Joss Whedon’s new series "Dollhouse" premiered immediately after and while it did better than it’s lead-in, it failed to attract a wide audience managing just 4.76 million viewers.  While overall viewership was low, Fox trumpeted the show’s performance among key demos and its rating in the key A18-49 demo (2.0) was actually not so bad (#2 in the time period).  However, any hope of better days ahead were eliminated when the ratings for this past Friday’s episode came in.  According to preliminary fast affiliate data, "Dollhouse" fell another 15% in the demo to a 1.7 rating and averaged just 4.22 million viewers (-11%).  It still did better, proportionally speaking, in the demo for the hour (#t2), but it’s highly unlikely it’ll stick around with such low numbers unless of course Fox sees fit to give it a little boost elsewhere on its lineup.  Week two of ‘Terminator’ was flat from the week prior, drawing just 3.84 million viewers (+3.5%) and a 1.3 A18-49 rating (-7%)…

The Future of The Sarah Connor Chronicles
…Speaking of ‘The Sarah Connor Chronicles’, Thomas Dekker (John Connor) tells The TV Addict that his character "has a plan and had a plan" and hints that John may know there’s something up with Riley.  Also, the second half of the season will clear up the "three dots" mystery and the season ends with some closure on some of the questions, but it introduces some new stuff that fans will have to wait for season three to see what happens. It’s a shame that we may have to bid farewell to the series.  And on the spoiler front, EW reports that one of the show’s female stars (not Summer Glau) will be leaving the show on the March 6th episode.  And finally, Garret Dillahunt, who plays John Henry, tells SCI FI Wire what his character will do when he escapes his room in an upcoming episode:

He’s going to make a friend, yeah. He’s going to learn about fear, emotion, I guess. … They told me today I get in a big fight. I don’t know with whom; I’m anxious to find out. They said it’s a big learning experience for him.

New promo images from episode 16, "Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep" [three more at Sarah Connor Society]

Stargate Universe Begins Production
Principal photography on "Stargate Universe" began this past Wednesday, February 18th, GateWorld.net reports.  The series is shooting at The Bridge Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Producer Joseph Mallozzi tells About that the show will be more arc-based and won’t focus too much on going to Earth-like planets and meeting English-speaking aliens.  Mallozzi instead promises that it’ll be more in the style of "Lost" and "BSG":

“I want to liken it to something on TV,” Mallozzi said, “but I can’t really — I guess you can liken it to Battlestar Galactica, in that it’s science fiction and it’s more arc-driven. But in terms of tone, in terms of situation, in fact in terms of the story it is very unlike Battlestar. I’d say it’s more Lost than Battlestar, but even then I’m reluctant to make that comparison.”

Final Unaired Episodes of Pushing Daisies Will Be Shown This Spring
The final unseen episodes of Bryan Fuller’s "Pushing Daisies" will finally be seen this spring, but unfortunately, you’ll have to get yourself to the Paley Television Festival in Los Angeles in April to watch them.  According to TV Guide, the canceled series’ three remaining episodes will be presented during a screening set for Sunday, April 19th at Hollywood’s ArcLight Cinema.  Series creator/executive producer Bryan Fuller will be on hand to introduce the event. The festival will also feature panels for "Battlestar Galactica", "Dollhouse" and "Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog".  Check out the full scheduled here.  In a separate article, TV Guide reports that ABC may broadcast the final episodes sometime this summer in an effort to spur DVD sales.

Doctor Who Planet of the Dead Rewritten|
As we reported in a previous edition of SFS, a double-decker bus that was to be used for filming of "Doctor Who" special "Planet of the Dead" got damaged en route to a set in Dubai.  Now comes news, via 7 Days, of how they worked around the problem.  7 Days reports that the episode was rewritten [SPOILERS] "so that Dr Who’s bus collides with another craft while travelling through space and then crash-lands on an uninhabited planet – in real life, the desert around Dubai."

New Images and Videos

Set images from the Dubai set [three more at Planet Gallifrey]

Mini video diary [Planet Gallifrey]

Terminator’s Summer Glau Guest-Starring on The Big Bang Theory
Summer Glau (Cameron on "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") will be making a cameo on the March 9th episode of CBS’s "The Big Bang Theory".  Michael Ausiello of EW describes the episode like this:

"A train trip to San Francisco takes a major detour when Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz, and Raj discover that their favorite scifi actress in all the land is on board. But the fanboy frenzy quickly gives way to a heated mass debate when they realize one of them will have to approach her – but who?"

"The Big Bang Theory" — always chock-full of references to sci-fi shows and movies including "Star Trek" — airs Monday night’s at 8:00 pm.  It’s currently on hiatus until March 2nd.

Reaper Season 2 Synopsis + Episode Title List and Schedule
Here’s what the upcoming season of "Reaper" will be about (courtesy ReaperSite):

Season two finds Sam wrestling with the recent discovery that he may be the son of the Devil. But Sam quickly learns that getting groomed to take over the "family business" comes with a whole new litany of headaches. The demon rebellion he once collaborated with is now out to kill him – a conflict further complicated when Ben starts dating the demon assassin (Jenny Wade, "Feast," "No Reservations") tasked with the job Sam also finds he’s not the Devil’s only son and that one in particular (Armie Hammer, "Billy," "Veronica Mars") is Hell-bent on taking Sam’s place at the Devil’s side. Plus, Sam must decide whether to reveal any of this news to his girlfriend Andi (Missy Perergrym, "Heroes") who’s already wary of his extracurricular activities for Hell. But a chance encounter with an elusive soul (Sean Patrick Thomas, "Save the Last Dance," "A Raisin in the Sun") who claims to have gotten out of his own deal with the Devil, offers Sam a glimmer of hope that he may not be stuck working for the Devil forever. Getting him to reveal exactly how he did it, however, will be easier said than done.

ReaperSite also has an episode title list for the complete 13-episode season, including air dates:

3/03 – #2.1 "Episode IV: A New Hope"
3/10 – #2.2 "Dirty Sexy Mongol"
3/17 – #2.3 "The Sweet Science"
3/24 – #2.4 "The Favorite"
3/31 – #2.5 "I Want My Baby Back"
4/07 – #2.6 "Underbelly"
4/14 – #2.7 "The Good Soil"
4/21 – #2.8 "The Home Stretch"
4/28 – #2.9 "No Reaper Left Behind"
5/05 – #2.10 "My Brother’s Reaper"
5/12 – #2.11 "To Sprong, With Love"
5/19 – #2.12 "Business Casualty"
5/26 – #2.13 "The Devil & Sam Oliver"

New Images and Videos

Promo images for the new season [ReaperSite and 24 more images at ReaperSite]

Promo for season two [click here to watch an interview with Ray Wise ]

TV IMAGES

Dollhouse

Promo images from episode 3, "Stage Fright" [four more at Dollhouse Fans]

Heroes

Promo images from episode 17, "Cold Wars" [six more images at The ODI]

Kings

Promo images from the series premiere, "Goliath" [nine more at io9]

Lost

Promo images from episode five, "LaFleur" [one more at SpoilerTV and 12 more at The ODI]

Promo images from episode 14, "The Variable" [SpoilerTV]

On the set with Matthew Fox [15 more at SpoilerTV]

More set images [15 more at Hawaii Blog and eight more at The ODI]

Smallville

Cast promo images [six more at OSCK]

Supernatural

Promo images from episode 15, "Death Takes a Holiday" [one more at io9]

Torchwood

Poster and promo image [Fearnet]

Set images [four more at AVForums]

TV VIDEOS

Heroes

Sneak peak at Monday’s episode, "Cold Wars"

Lost

Promo for Wednesday’s episode, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"

Smallville

Trailer for episode 15, "Infamous"

TV BITES

• Last Wednesday’s episode of "Lost" (which I think had one of the better WTF moments of its run) drew a season-high 5.2 A18-49 rating and 11.41 million viewers.  That was an increase of 16% among viewers and 18% among A18-49 rating from the episode prior (9.82M, 4.4 A18-49 rating). The improvement could be short-lived, however, as Fox has announced they’re moving "American Idol" into the 9:00pm time slot against "Lost" starting on March 11th.
• Cartoon Network has ordered 26 episodes of the "Marvel Super Hero Squad", a new half-hour animated series targeted at kids.  The series will feature Captain America, Silver Surfer, Hulk, Wolverine and Iron Man. [Variety]
• ABC’s pilot for a remake of the 80’s TV series "V" will film in Vancouver, Canada beginning in March. [Cinemaspy]
• The British superhero sitcom "No Heroes" is heading to the U.S. courtesy ABC.  Original creator Drew Pearce will be involved with the new version which will stay true to the U.K. version. [EW]
• Eliza Dushku talks about Joss Whedon’s five-year plan for "Dollhouse" and more in a new interview. [io9]
• In the event that "Eleventh Hour" gets renewed for a second season, there are rumors that Marley Shelton will be out. [TV Guide]
• Episode 17 of "Fringe", which will air on April 21st, is called "Bad Dreams" and was written and directed by Akiva Goldsman ("I Am Legend", "The Da Vinci Code")… [Fringe Television]
• …We also might be meeting Olivia’s stepfather on by the end of the season [EW]
• The second half of the season of "Chuck" will get more into what Fulcrum is and will lead to a showdown at the end of the season.  Jonathan Cake’s character Cole Barker will also be returning as a recurring character. [SCI FI Wire]
• The 24th episode of "Heroes" this season will be called "I Am Sylar!". [SpoilerTV]
• Look for the third season/series finale of ABC Family’s "Kyle XY" to provide some relationship closure, but the final 20 seconds are a major cliffhanger. [TV Guide]

MISC IMAGES

Torchwood Magazine #14

Preview images [four more images, including the cover, at io9]

Watchmensch

Parody Watchmen comic [two more images at io9]

MISC VIDEOS

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Abridged [Seven years of ‘Buffy’ in under 3 1/2 minutes — via io9]

Dead Rising 2

Teaser trailer

Watchmen

Motion Comic version of the teaser trailer

SCI FI RATINGS (1/19/2008 to 1/25/2009)

Source: The Nielsen Company

SCI FI RATINGS (1/26/2008 to 2/1/2009)

Source: The Nielsen Company