Terminator: Salvation:

Here's another new image from the fourth Terminator film. [IGN]

Star Trek:

So the villain of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot/requel, Nero, is supposed to be the leader of a merry band of Romulans. But you might have noticed, in the posters that came out the other day, that he has no pointy ears. And weird face tattoos. What gives? Co-writer Alex Kurtzman says Nero "isn't necessarily a Romulan," and that "It's all part of the plot." [Trek Web]

X-Files: I Want To Believe:

Is the new X-Files movie a shipper lovefest? Well, this smoochy new TV spot may give you a bit of a clue.

Monsters Vs. Aliens:

Some new trading cards give some more insights into the characters in Monsters Vs. Aliens, the 3-D animated movie that's just what it sounds like. Stephen Colbert is the president of the United States and Kiefer Sutherland is the crazy General W.R. Monger, who's been locked in Area 52 along with the monsters he caught. Insectosaurus is a grub who was exposed to radiation and grew to 350 feet, and Reese Witherspoon's Ginormica was hit by a meteor on her wedding day and grew to 49 feet, 11 inches. Dr. Cockroach, PhD (Hugh Laurie) was trying to combine the survival traits of cockroaches with humans, when he accidentally gave himself a cockroach head. And the Missing Link is pretty self-explanatory. [Film School Rejects and Slashfilm]

Repo! The Genetic Opera:

A new review gives some details about the organ-repossession musical. Buffy's Anthony Stewart Head plays Nathan, a blade-wielding scientist who's convinced he's responsible for the death of his wife and the illness of his goth daughter Shilo. Rotti Largo, owner of GeneCo, tricks Nathan into becoming his Repo man, collecting on debts and "the occasional kidney." Shilo is the emotional core of the film. Weird bits of casting include Paris Hilton and Phantom Of The Opera star Sarah Brightman. In a weird twist, the painkiller used in organ transplants can be harvested from the dead, and the operatic Grave Robber is the one who collects it. [Variety]

Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Here are a couple of new trailers for the Terminator TV show, which includes some new footage of crazy homicidal Summer Glau and resolute, gun-clicking Sarah Connor. Who takes a shower.

Battlestar Galactica (And Torchwood):

With both Jamie "Apollo" Bamber and Freema "Martha" Agyeman starring in Law And Order: UK, they may both be too busy to film other things. Which may mean no Lee Adama in a forthcoming BSG TV movie. And no Martha Jones in Torchwood? [Digital Spy]

Heroes:

The Petrelli brothers spend more time together this season. And Tim Kring told Milo Ventimiglia that anyone who dies this year stays dead for real. Really. No kidding. [Sci Fi Wire]

Knight Rider:

Here's a new preview of the smart-car show you're most excited for in the fall season. [Spoiler TV]

Land Of The Lost:

Here's a new still from Land Of The Lost, showing Will Ferrell and another glimpse of those naughty Sleestaks. Naughty! (Click to enlarge.) [MoviesOnline]

Dragonball:

The Japanese poster for Dragonball includes our first look at Justin Chatwin in full costume as Goku. [SuperheroFlix]

Watchmen:

And here are a couple of new pictures from the movie of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel Watchmen. One is a Vargas-esque pin-up illustration of Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter from the 1940s (possibly NSFW due to see-through top). And the other is a photo of the Minutemen superhero team in their prime.
[AintItCool News and Warner Bros.]

Virtuality:

Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore's new TV movie/pilot Virtuality, about astronauts stuck on a long-haul space voyage with only virtual reality headsets for company, is sort of like a late 21st century office show. It contrasts the claustrophobia of the deep-space ship Phaeton with the open expanses the astronauts can visit in virtual reality. There'll be three layers to the storytelling, each with its own visual style: the claustrophobic ship, the virtual world, and the reality TV show the astronauts are starring in. And there's a gay relationship (the bickering Manny and Val) that's as honest and multi-dimensional as anything on TV. [Chicago Tribune and AfterElton and Chicago Tribune again]

Battlestar Galactica:

Apollo spends some time running around with a bunch of extras, shooting people, in the final episode of Battlestar Galactica. (At least, that was the last thing he filmed.) [E! Online]

Fringe:

Here are a couple of new trailers for Fringe, J.J. Abrams' new evil-science show:

Lost:

Malcolm David Kelley, the no-longer-little kid who plays Walt on Lost, is not "on call" to appear as the character in season five. But he says he still could pop up next season, you never know. [Lost Spoilers]

Heroes:

The Heroes good guys will spend more time having their paths cross this season. We'll discover that there are people who are way worse than Sylar. We'll see the rise of a power that all our heroes have to band together to keep from running wild. Something scary happens to Claire, which changes her and sets up the possible future where she becomes evil bad-hair Claire. She's also becoming more of a rebellious teenager, and has reached that stage where you'd ask permission, but then go ahead and do whatever you wanted anyway. West is gone for good, and Claire has no new love interest in sight.

Peter is "not quite himself" in season three, and a newly introduced character has a lot to do with the change in him. And even though he's the most powerful of the Heroes doods, he's heading for a fall.

Ando and Hiro travel all over the planet in the first five episodes. Also, Ando is secretly Nathan and Peter's half-brother — but I think the actors might have been kidding about that. [E! Online]

Smallville:

As we've mentioned, Jimmy asks Chloe to marry him, and she eventually says yes. But not before her love life gets very complicated. She won't be wanting for a date, in any case. And while she'll still be there to save Clark when he's in trouble, there won't be any romance between Chloe and Clark. Jimmy also faces some major challenges.

Clark, meanwhile, is starting to realize he needs a "double identity" if he's going to move forward with his heroic destiny. We may see Clark get those trademark glasses, but not in the way you'd expect. We'll see less of Clark's Kryptonian heritage, although he can never fully escape it. [TV Guide]

Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Here's a new promo for season two of the Terminator spin-off TV show. Also, it sounds like the show may be adding a new regular character, a twenty-ish female resistance fighter who will do anything for the cause. [SarahConnorSociety via SpoilerTV]

Chuck:

And here's a new trailer for Chuck, the show about the minor-league nerd with the spy database in his brain.

Star Trek:

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams was willing to reveal a few scraps of info about his film. The sequences featuring baby Spock and kid Kirk are not "flashbacks." And Leonard Nimoy is a major presence in the film. [Coming Soon]

Outlander:

Are you excited about Outlander, the Vikings vs. alien monster movie, yet? How about if we show you a second trailer, featuring a voice-over narration from Sophia (Doctor Who) Myles? How now?

Watchmen:

As we've reported before, the movie of Alan Moore's celebrated Watchmen graphic novel remains the same as the original, squid and all. [MTV Movies]

Transformers 2:

In Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, as we mentioned before, Megan Fox's character Mikaela is left behind in L.A. when Sam Witwicky goes off to college. But the two do finally reunite. And there are some hair-raising scenes where they're zooming along in Bumblebee, and he's going 120 miles per hour without anyone driving him, and with no seatbelts. [Sci Fi Wire]

The Dark Knight:

World's most minor spoiler: good cop Jim Gordon has a daughter who looks about eight or nine years old in the new Batman movie, and she has a creepy encounter with a supervillain. Could she be Barbara Gordon, fated to become Batgirl? Nobody's saying, probably because that's an issue for the ninth or tenth movie in the series. [MTV Movies]

Also, here are even more message-board spoilers. The Joker pretends to kill Rachel in an explosion, but instead he ties her up and burns her to death. (It's mostly off-camera.) The Joker kills a ton of mobsters and cops in gruesome ways, and there's a broadcast of him torturing a fake Batman to death which is pretty horrifying. You think the Joker is going to die, but then he survives. But Harvey/Two-Face does die at the end. [Agony Booth]

Heroes:

Volume III of Heroes would have focused on the actual villains of the show if the writers' strike hadn't happened, but the retooled version this fall will be much more about the good guys facing the temptation of their powers. And romance. There'll be lots of romance. And weird murals. And a turtle. And when Adam/Kensei comes back from being buried in that coffin, he'll be pretty pissed at Hiro. [TV Guide]

Life On Mars:

Some changes to the American version of the British cult hit Life On Mars. The time-traveling cop will be in New York, not Los Angeles as in the earlier U.S. pilot. And whereas the earlier pilot made it very clear that Sam is actually in a coma, and not really transported back to the 1970s, the new version will be much murkier. It'll get more mysterious and confusing as to what's really going on with Sam, in each passing episode. (Although it will eventually make sense, promise the producers, who worked on Alias and are aware of the perils of too much confusion.) [TV Guide again]

Doctor Who:

Yes, it's true. There will be Doctor Who spoilers every day between now and Christmas, when the British time-travel programme actually returns. Today, some crazy rumors about the 2009 one-off specials. One of the Doctor's companions will be a "heroic cyberman" (named five of eight perhaps?). One of the special episodes will take place entirely within the TARDIS, so we'll finally see the massive scope of the Doctor's craft. And we're not done with the Time War, by any means. [Veidt.com]

Chuck:

So we were lucky enough to dig up some actual script pages from the fifth and sixth episodes of the new season of spy-database-brain comedy Chuck. They're "casting sides," which means they're for audition purposes. But they appear to be actual pages from the scripts.

In the fifth episode, we start off in 1983, where Jeff Barnes, sporting a mullet and mustache, has just won the Moto Industries Missile Command championship. He's asked what's next for him. Flanked by two bikini babes, he says: Why decide, when I've got so many tasty options? Then it's 25 years later, and he's working at the Buy More, wistfully muttering to himself about his "tasty options."

Some terrorists have taken over Moto Industries. Casey and Chuck show up to infiltrate the place, and Chuck tries to use his nerd skills to talk his way in with the geeks up front. But the PhDs at Moto Industries are not impressed with Chuck's paltry nerd-fu. "Why don't you help some old lady log onto AOL or something?" So Sarah has to go in and flash some cleavage to get the nerds' attention. The nerds fall all over each other to help fix her computer. Meanwhile, Casey decides to sneak around, leaving Chuck where it's safe — but as soon as Casey's gone, a terrorist turns up. But Chuck talks his way into Mauro Moto's penthouse.

A Moto Industries satellite is going to destroy everything unless Chuck can get the control codes, which can only be found on the last level of every Missile Command game, as we explained before. Maury Moto explains that the mathematics underlying Missile Command are too complex for anyone else to reach that level: "the music of the universe." "As much as I loved making games, I hated making weapons," he adds. The terrorists have forced Maury to play Missile Command, so they can access those codes. "How many will die for my weakness?" he asks. But Maury has to keep playing the game, or it'll explode. "The kill screen doesn't end," he explains. So Chuck and Casey have to escape, leaving Maury to explode.

Casey mistakenly believes that anybody who was into Missile Command would now be in their 30s and have jobs, wives and kids, but Chuck mouths: "No they don't." Meanwhile, he sees a TV broadcast about someone trying to beat the Missile Command high-score record, and "flashes" on the information. He realizes the terrorists are using the local TV station to control the satellite. Sarah heads over there.

Jeff explains the secret of Missile Command is "all about patterns. Heavy duty math. Before I play, I like to listen to Rush, and when I listen to Rush, I like to partake of a certain 100% natural, but not altogether legal, herbal enhancer... It's gotta be outta this world." Meanwhile, literally out of this world, the satellite is preparing to strike. Morgan is jealous of all the attention Chuck is paying to Jeff. It turns out Rush's music follows the exact same time signature as the game. And Rush's sheet music is in the "intersect," the spy database in Chuck's head. Because they're Canadian.

But Morgan gets over his jealousy enough to announce Chuck on-stage, with flashing lights, as "the King Of Sting, the Dancing Destroyer," etc. Chuck jumps up on stage and brandishes a single quarter. Chuck loses the first time, to the amusement of a crowd of jeering nerds who call him "king of the losers." But then he gets Morgan to play some Rush, and this time he beats the game, reaching the "kill screen" and then "beating the kill screen," finally getting to the satellite codes.

Meanwhile, Sarah takes out two terrorists holding the TV relay station, catching one unawares with a bag of chips in his mouth. She catches both their machine guns and brandishes them. Chuck gets her the codes just in time to stop the countdown, as Casey is preparing to try and shoot the satellite down.

And then episode six starts off with a flashback to 2003, with Chuck wearing a slightly different version of the Buy More uniform. He's at a Tri Delt sorority party at Stanford, and people are whispering about how he got kicked out for "stealing." He insists he didn't cheat. Then he throws a pebble at his ex-girlfriend Jill's window. Her bitchy friend Shari opens the window and says that if Jill wanted to talk to Chuck, she would have answered his 28 phone calls. Chuck says it's only 20 phone calls, because for eight of them, he hung up before her voice mail picked up.

A bunch of frat guys gather around, and it's getting embarrassing. Chuck says he drove 346 miles on his break from his purely temporary job because he loves Liz. She finally pokes her head out and says "it's over." Chuck hopes she means the public conversation is over, to be replaced with a private chat at Starbucks. But no. She's dating Bryce Larkin now. "Deal with it," says Shari.

In the present day, Chuck is in a hotel conference center, when he spots Jill. He hides under the desk, and begs the hotel clerk to pull the fire alarm as a distraction, so he can get away. Then Jill walks up and asks for help setting up her computer. The hotel clerk gives up Chuck's location.

Chuck takes Jill out for a stroll and a fancy dinner, where everybody else in the restaurant is CIA. Casey is the maitre d', and this gives Chuck a chance to act like a big shot, giving Casey a rolled up dollar bill and patting his cheek. Sarah is the waitress. Just when Chuck is trying to convince Jill he's a big shot now, the rest of his Nerd Herd coworkers show up. He tries to pretend they're his ex-coworkers who just won't let go. Then a valet shows up with a Ferrari, and Chuck tries to pretend its his. Lester bursts his bubble: "He makes eleven dollars an hour at the Buy More. Do the math."

Some time after that, Chuck is standing outside the door of Jill's hotel room, giving a long speech about his life, and the fact that he rented a car he couldn't drive, because of the transmission, and his ability to quote movies, and the fact that he still hasn't gotten over Jill. A middle aged woman across the hall is quite impressed and tells Chuck she has a bubble bath running. Chuck says he'll play this hand out first. Then Jill opens the door and asks if it's really true that Chuck hasn't gotten over her. He says yes and she invites him in. Casey and Sarah are watching the hotel room, and Casey owes Sarah ten bucks.

Later, Chuck listens in on Jill's phone line in the spy van, and hears Jill talking to her bitchy friend Shari about how Chuck came to her hotel room to apologize, and she let him in. He's like a cute puppy that she couldn't turn away. Shari says Chuck is a loser who only makes $10 an hour, and Chuck can't resist piping up to say he actually makes $10.75. Jill is like, "Why are you on my phone line, Chuck?" Chuck tries to pass it off: "I just tried to call, I guess our wires got crossed. Is this a party line?"

Chuck spots an assassin named Fox Den getting into an elevator, and Casey and Sarah follow. It turns out the assassin is really named Rommell, and he kills someone named Guy Lafleur.

Sarah has to give a talk on toxicology at a scientific conference, pretending to be an Australian scientist named Dr. Eva Anderson. She stalls, talking about how great the buffet was. Meanwhile, a man named Rommell pulls out a vial of deadly virus, with a thin membrane covering it. The membrane starts smoking away. Casey thinks it's a wet dog, then realizes: "The virus has been released. Don't inhale!"

They find Rommell, who tells them he's really CIA and the mission is much more complex than they could have realized. Then Chuck runs up and announces that he's their only hope for survival. "Just when I thought things couldn't get worse," Casey gripes. [Casting sides]

Meanwhile, here's a new promo photo from the upcoming episode where Chuck goes to Sarah's 10th high school reunion. And here's a brief new clip about Nicole Richie appearing on the show, which includes a tiny amount of new footage. [Chuck Online]

In an upcoming episode, Casey answers a knock at the door from a man dressed in a FedEx uniform who gives the correct passcode. But then the man surprises Casey and leaves him coughing up blood. The man's partner tells him they have two more targets, and shows pictures of Chuck and Sarah. [TV Remote]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

John Connor flips over a car, says star Thomas Dekker. And something happens to John in the first episode to harden him, and he becomes more of a bad-ass out of rage. Also, if you care about his feelings on Hayden Panettiere's love life, he addresses that issue. [EW]

The Middleman:

Wendy has to put on high heels and pearls to go undercover at Omega Theta Nu sorority house, going against all of her moral fibers to track down a ghostly apparition. But she begins to suspect something other than a haunted sorority house is going on. Meanwhile, Tyler, the cute guy who lost his memory after the Lucha Libre attack, comes looking for the soulmate he met that day. But he mistakenly thinks it's Lacey, Wendy's roommate. [SpoilerTV]

Kyle XY:

Ally Sheedy's super-mom character will appear in the season opener of ABC Family's show about a teen with strange abilities. But then you probably won't see her again until the season finale. [TV Guide again]

Transformers 2:

The stakes will be higher in Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, and the bad guys will have a more coherent plan. Plus it'll be more science fictional, and we'll see way more of the giant robots, and less of the humans. (Yes!) Instead of building up to revealing the Transformers halfway through the film like the first movie, the sequel will start right out with some Transformer action, says writer Roberto Orci.

Arcee, the female Transformer who turns into one or three motorcycles, was in an early script draft, but may or may not be in the final movie. But Soundwave is definitely in the second movie, although he may not still turn into a tapedeck. And it's possible we'll spend some time on the Transformer homeworld of Cybertron, but Orci wouldn't say one way or the other. Which would be totally wild and awesome. More details at the link. [Sci Fi Wire]

As Transformers 2 begins, Shia and Megan Fox have been dating for two years, and they're like an old married couple, says Megan Fox. [JoBlo]

The Dark Knight:

Some more Dark Knight spoilers from some guy on a message board: Rachel does die. Harvey/Two-Face gets "closure," including a funeral scene at the end. And we don't really get to see what happens to the Joker at the end, after a SWAT team shows up and the Batman leaves. Does the Joker get arrested? He just sort of disappears from the movie. [ZGeek]

Star Trek:

In the new Star Trek movie, we'll see how Kirk and Spock became "so connected." And Spock will make you cry with his dense, rich performance. [KREN and E! Online]

Star Wars: Clone Wars:

Here are a couple of Clone Wars posters. Nothing much new, except maybe a glimpse of space-shippy action. [IESB]

Fringe:

In the course of solving the case that threatens the life of Olivia's partner John, Olivia discovers there's a whole branch of Homeland Security devoted to investigating the mysterious chain of events known as The Pattern, which call into question the nature of reality. We'll learn more about Olivia's complicated past as she tries to figure out if anybody is behind all these events, or if they're just natural occurrences.

Mad scientist Walter Bishop may have suffered a mental breakdown 20 years ago, as a result of the harm his oddball research was doing. And since then, he's been exposed to extreme therapies that may have damaged his mind further. Meanwhile, his former partner, William, is super-rich and runs a company called Massive Dynamics. William's chief operating officer, Nina Sharp, takes a maternal interest in Olivia and is aware of the Pattern. She may be trying to protect her company from it, or possibly harness it for profit or some other reason. [Newsarama]

Doctor Who:

Rumors for guest spots in the 2009 one-off specials include the Sea Devils, the Judoon, the Master, Winston Churchill, the eighth Doctor, 1980s companion Ace... and Brian Blessed, either playing the barbarian King Yrcanos or a new character. And here's a new trailer for the Sarah Jane Adventures season two, including a (shudder) clown. [Planet Gallifrey]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

The first episode of Sarah Connor Chronicles season two will make huge changes to every character. Sarah Connor will have massive biceps this time. John Connor will have a new love interest, Riley, who shows up in episode 2, and she won't know John's apocalyptic secret. She'll have a bit of a love triangle with John and Cameron. Also, Sarah Connor's war is "grander and more complicated" than she had believed. [Wired and TV Guide]

Smallville:

Remember Warrior Angel, that superhero movie they were filming at the Kent farm on Smallville? We get to see a fundraiser tying in with it in episode three of the new season ("Toxic"), but Green Arrow (Ollie) gets poisoned at the party, and Clark and Chloe are also there. Characters being cast for the episode include Marcos, Angelica, Megan, a guard, a reporter and a cop. And then the following episode will feature Maxima — the name of an alien queen who demanded to marry Superman in the comics — according to a casting call. But then the casting call changed the character's name to "Melissa." Hmm. [Kryptonsite]

The Middleman:

Wendy actually wears the black catsuit you can see her wearing in The Middleman's opening credits, in an upcoming episode. And the Middleman actually goes on a date with Wendy's roommate Lacey, which makes Wendy uncomfortable. We'll learn more about the mystery about Wendy's missing father, and we'll see more of Tyler, the guy who almost got Wendy's job but ended up with three-day amnesia instead. [New York Post]

Additional reporting by Lauren Davis.

X-Files: I Want To Believe:

Here are some new pics from the X-Files movie sequel. It looks like Mulder gets fucked up pretty good. A few more pics at the link. [Rope Of Silicon]

Journey To The Center Of The Earth:

Trevor (Brendan Fraser) is a science professor specializing in plate tectonics, whose brother Max went missing ten years ago while doing field research in Iceland. Max's son Sean shows up for a visit that Trevor has forgotten about, and Sean has a box of Max's old stuff, including a copy of Jules Verne's Journey To The Center Of The Earth with cryptic notes in it.

The notes, plus some unusual geological phenomena that match the situation when Max went missing, are enough to send Trevor and Sean to Iceland, where they enlist the aid of a mountain guide named Hannah. Her father, like Max, was a Vernian, a believer that Jules Verne's works were based on fact. They end up going on a roller-coaster ride through a mountain, falling through "volcanic tubes" to the center of the Earth. Trevor and Sean bond, while the frosty Hannah finally warms up to Trevor. [Scripps News]

Star Wars: Clone Wars:

Here are some new (or higher res) pics from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars theatrical release. Including Asajj Ventress preparing to unleash some double-light-saber punishment on Obi-Wan and Anakin. [StarWars-Union.De]

Sarah Jane Smith Adventures:

Huge news about the Doctor Who spin-off series. Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, the military man who helped the Doctor save the world from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, will turn up in an episode. And he'll help Sarah Jane defeat the Sontarans. Not only that, but Miss Wormwood, the evil manager of the Bubbleshock corporation in the first Sarah Jane episode, will be back soon. Meanwhile, Maria Jackson and her dad will only be in one or two episodes of the new season, before they leave and a new Asian family moves in across the street from Sarah Jane. [Blogtor Who and Doctor Who Forum]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Here's a third promo for the second season of the Terminator TV show. Apparently Summer Glau's chip gets damaged in that explosion, and she reverts to her ebil programming and tries to kill John Connor. I love her tilty head and crazy-blank look.

Caprica:

A few new details about the Battlestar Galactica prequel. Zoe Graystone doesn't just upload her consciousness into cyberspace (allowing her dad to recreate her as a robot) she also spends a lot of time playing around in a holographic world with her friends Ben and Lacy. But they're not just having fun, they're seeking enlightenment and a "higher calling." Also, it's Tamara Adams' birthday when she and Zoe are both killed by Ben's suicide bombing.

Zoe's father Daniel is at the end of his rope, trying to finish a government project to create a robot warrior. He can't get his robotic soldier to think for itself. Meanwhile, Joseph Adams is trying to be a respectable lawyer but his Tauron roots keep getting in his way, especially since his brother Sam Adams is working for some bad people. And of course Daniel Graystone and Joseph Adams are brought together by their daughters' deaths... at least at first. [Collider]

Lost:

We may get to see more of Hurley's dad, played by Cheech Marin, in season five. [Spoilers Lost]

Stargate:

Stargate Atlantis executive producer Joseph Mallozzi teased some upcoming storylines. "Whisper" is a mini-horror movie, in which Shepherd and Beckett join up with an all-female team on an off-world adventure. The all-female team is designed to introduce some hopefully recurring female characters, but also to allow the audience to identify with some characters who might not survive the episode. The mid-season two-parter "First Contact" and "The Lost Tribe," is the story that features Jackson and McKay teaming up. [Cinemablend]

Chuck:

As you could have gleaned from the end of Chuck season one, the feds have created a new "intercept" database to replace the one that's in Chuck's head. Which makes Chuck surplus to requirements, so they order Casey (Adam Baldwin!!!) to kill him. Also, a new assistant manager at Buy More wants to get to the bottom of Chuck's mysterious absences. And John Larroquette's alcoholic ex-spy teaches Chuck how to seduce a black widow (Melinda Clarke), while Michael Clarke Duncan plays heavy-for-hire Mr. Colt. [Chuck Online]

Smallville:

Plastique, the explosive Quebec girl who shows up on Smallville in the second episode of season eight, has ties to Level 33.1 or something similar. [KryptonSite]

Gotham Knight:

I almost forgot to post these — here are some pictures of Anita Ramirez, a police officer in the Batman Gotham Knight animated anthology DVD. She's Crispus Allen's partner, standing in for Renee Montoya for some reason.

Knight Rider:

Are you pumped for the smart-car adventure show to come back this fall? No? Maybe the descriptions of the first few episodes will help prime your pump. In the first episode, someone from Mike's past, whom he has no memory of, hijacks "the package," the guy we mentioned whose DNA contains a valuable cipher. And then in episode two, a dangerous virus has to be stopped before it can cause chaos on the internet. (You really need a smart car to save the internet. You just do.) And in the third episode, Mike races KITT in an off-road race, and Sarah Graiman becomes concerned by Mike's bad judgment. There. Pumped yet? [SpoilerTV]

The Middleman:

In an upcoming episode of the best show on TV, Vlad the impaler, the foundation for the Dracula mythos, comes back seeking to raise the undead... and Wendy kills him in very short order. But he gets to have a narrative voice-over throughout the episode. And Vlad gets downloaded into a puppet, and has very, very complicated plans to come back to life. [SpoilerTV again]

We ranked each TV show and movie from 1 to 10 for how pre-spoiled they are, and how much people seem to care. For level of impossible-to-avoid spoilage, we looked at obvious factors: Is it based on a book that you may have already read? If so, how closely does it seem like it'll stick to the source material? Do the trailers give away tons of plot info? Has a particular character's appearance been announced everywhere? For the ranking of how much people seem to care, we pretty much just went with our guts.

Watchmen
How pre-spoiled is it? 10. It's based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave GIbbons that everybody has read. (Or if you haven't, we don't care about you.) The production has been releasing tons of official "production diaries" designed to convince everyone that it's very close to the original.
How much do people care? 10. Fans are asphyxiating on their tongues with anticipation for this one.

Star Trek
How pre-spoiled is it? 8. Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know that a certain veteran Trek actor will be in this movie. It's also not really much of a secret that it features Kirk, Spock and the others as youngsters, getting their space legs in Starfleet. When the movie's first full-length trailer comes out, it'll probably sell that idea at the very least. So it's not much of a spoiler to say Kirk probably ends up being captain of the Enterprise.
How much do people care? 10. Dude, it's Star Trek, done by J.J. Abrams.

The Spirit
How pre-spoiled is it? 8, maybe. It's based on a comic book by Will Eisner, and director Frank Miller will probably try to stick pretty close to the source material in many ways. Plus, you pretty much know what to expect from a Miller story at this point. There will be hawt babes, there will be guttural monologues, a rough-and-tumble guy will get beaten within an inch of his life but keep going. There'll probably be some corrupt cops, too.
How much do people care? 6. Frank Miller still has a huge following, and comics fans still love The Spirit.

The Dark Knight
How pre-spoiled is it? 7. Well, it's based on the comics, so when you meet a character named Harvey Dent you may have an inkling how things will turn out for this guy. ( But unlike Watchmen, we'll forgive you for not having read the Batman canon.) The official production has put out literally 100 clips, trailers and TV spots that dole out tons of key plot points, but the last third of the movie remains a mystery.
How much do people care? 10. People were excited about this movie a year ago, and their excitement has been building to a massive rupture in the space-time continuum. So yeah.

The Day The Earth Stood Still
How pre-spoiled is it? 7. We're going to assume you at least know something about the original 1951 movie, and have seen bits of it. So you know there's an alien named Klaatu, and his robot named Gort. And there's a plucky woman and a kid. And everything stops dead at one point, hence the title. The official trailer shows a few twists, like Klaatu being interrogated. It's a safe bet the remake will deviate from the original in some ways, but we don't know how for sure.
How much do people care? 3. It's Keanu Reeves, who's not as fun as he was back in the day. Some people are lukewarm about yet another remake. But the trailer looked cool.

Life On Mars
How pre-spoiled is it? 7. It's based very closely on a cult British show that aired on BBC America, but you may not have seen it. And since the pilot went back for a total reshoot and rethink, it's entirely possible we'll end up with something completely different. At the very least, the trailers want you to know the basic storyline: a cop gets knocked on the head in 2007 and wakes up in 1972, still a cop. It's a good bet that there will be more twists and turns, since the British version only lasted like 16 episodes total.
How much do people care? 1. Either you've never heard of the British version, or you're outraged they're desecrating it. I haven't talked to anyone who is jazzed for this, even before it went into the same kind of behind-the-scenes chaos that hit the Bionic Woman remake last year.

Death Race
How pre-spoiled is it? 6. It's very, very loosely based on a 1970s classic, so you may be able to guess there's a guy in a mask driving like a maniac. The trailers want you to know he's a prisoner who's forced to take part in a race that's broadcast online. Plus, it's an action movie starring Jason Statham. You pretty much know what's going to happen. Crazy stunts, punching, swearing, two and a half wisecracks, and maybe Statham will die at the end, like he did in Crank.
How much do people care? 4, maybe. It's got cars and shit blowing up. Statham is always fun to watch. If you don't think of it as a remake of Death Race — and really, you shouldn't — you can enjoy it for what it is.

Eleventh Hour
How pre-spoiled is it? 6. It's another show based on a cult British TV show, which almost nobody in America has seen. And the trailers give away at least the basic setup: Rufus Sewell is a scientist whom the government calls in to deal with abuses of science. Things like dead clone babies. Marley Shelton is his sexy bodyguard, because every scientist needs one of those.
How much do people care? 6. People like Sewell and Shelton, and there are vague predictions this will be one of the fall's big hits, along with Fringe. But so far, I don't hear people freaking out about this show as much as they are about Fringe. Maybe because it's Jerry Bruckheimer instead of J.J. Abrams?

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
How pre-spoiled is it? 6. You know Anakin and Obi-Wan can't die during this movie and TV series exploring the territory between Episodes II and III of the Star Wars prequels. Anybody who pops up for a split second in Episode III is safe. Only new character Ahsoka Tano has an unknown future. Also, the trailers for the August 15 theatrical release make some stuff clear: Jabba the Hutt's son has been kidnapped, and the Jedi have to find him. Meanwhile, the baddies want to use this to drive a wedge between the Jedi and the Hutts.
How much do people care? 4. People may go see the movie, because it's Star Wars. But it hasn't gotten the kind of buzz the live-action SW movies got.

Heroes
How pre-spoiled is it? 5. It's not based on any source material. But there have been some TV promos that give away the fact that some people you might have thought were dead aren't really dead. Plus, dude, it's Heroes. Nobody is ever dead, the latest dystopian future never comes to pass, and the family drama never stops.
How much do people care? 5. I don't hear from too many people who are crawling out of their skin to see Sylar do his dystopian Daniel Day-Lewis impression again, but the show still has lots of goodwill.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
How pre-spoiled is it? 4. The TV spots make it clear that a certain character didn't get destroyed in the season finale, which shouldn't surprise anyone. Plus, if you've ever watched any television show ever, you'll know that nobody named "Connor" is ever going to die on this show. And they're probably not going to destroy the evil future-cyber-overlord Skynet any time soon either.
How much do people care? 5. It had a good first season, and people liked it, but I don't hear that many people shouting to the rooftops about it.

Fringe
How pre-spoiled is it? 4. The first episode of J.J. Abrams' mad science/FBI show leaked online, and it seemed like a deliberate leak from the folks at Fox, to stir up excitement for the show. As with everything Abrams-related, there's a ton of viral marketing ramping up, which inadvertently will drop bits of info here and there. (There's something called the Pattern, and it's bad.) There have been officially released clips and trailers, which show that something bad happens to an airplane, and there's a crazy guy who dabbles in pseudo-science.
How much do people care? 8. It's early yet, but the show is starting to gather buzz. See above, re: Eleventh Hour. And again, it's J.J. Abrams, who is red-hot right now.

Chuck
How pre-spoiled is it? 4. It's Chuck. You pretty much know what's going to happen in almost every episode: the loveable micro-nerd with a spy computer in his brain has a flash of spy knowledge that drops him in the deep end, plus his crush on Sarah the spy goes nowhere and his Buy More coworkers are wacky. On the other hand, the return of the supposedly dead Bryce shook things up a bit, and there are hints season two will shake things up more.
How much do people care? 5. People like this show, but there isn't a raucous fan club for it, that I'm aware of.

Dollhouse
How pre-spoiled is it? 3. There's already a trailer and an officially released clip, which give a fair amount of the show's backstory away. Creator Joss Whedon would like people to go in understanding the show's basic format, because it makes his job easier. So you'll probably at least know that Echo (Eliza Dushku) is a mind-wiped puppet who can be programmed to have any personality or skillset for paying clients (or "pro bono" gigs), and an FBI agent is investigating this illegal operation. Any plot twists beyond the first half hour of the pilot are shrouded in mystery.
How much do people care? 9. It's Joss Whedon, man! The only reason it's not a 10 is because the premise seems to leave some people cold.

Smallville
How pre-spoiled is it? 4. Well, it's been widely reported that the Justice League will be back, and Lex won't. And all the promo stuff highlights the Lois-and-Clark dynamic coming to the fore. Plus, Smallville just isn't that surprising a show any more.
How much do people care? 3, maybe. It's not as popular as it once was.

Knight Rider
How pre-spoiled is it? 3, maybe. I mean, you know the basic format: it's a guy with a smart talking car, doing cool stuff and fighting baddies. But supposedly it's been totally revamped since the TV movie that aired at the start of the year, so there may be a whole new format. And if there's an arc other than "guy with car stops bad people," it's shrouded in mystery.
How much do people care? 2, maybe. The TV movie did surprisingly well, but nobody expects the ongoing series to set the world on fire.

Terminator Salvation
How pre-spoiled is it? 2. The first trailer is coming out soon, maybe with The Dark Knight. It seems likely that you'll be expected to know that John Connor is in it as a grown-up, and it's after the apocalypse, and he's fighting Skynet. And Sam Worthington is a new character, who's mysterious. It's likely that by next May, you'll have seen a million clips from this film though.
How much do people care? 7. It's yet another Terminator film, plus it's directed by non-fave McG. But it's Christian Bale, and chances are he'll make it worth watching.

X-Files: I Want To Believe
How pre-spoiled is it? 2. Not very. There are trailers that let you know Billy Connolly is a nutty guy who runs through the ice and digs for stuff. Mulder and Scully have issues. The actual plot of the movie has been kept very tightly under wraps.
How much do people care? 8. It's not the height of X-Files mania any more, but there are still plenty of people clamoring for this film.

Lost
How pre-spoiled is it? 1. At this point, it's not back until 2009 anyway. We know that "Jeremy Bentham" has to wind up in a coffin at some point, and it just makes logical sense that the Oceanic six get back to the island at some point — or there wouldn't be much of a show. But almost no details have come out officially, and it's a show that works to surprise people.
How much do people care? 10. The most recent season was a return to form, and a lot of people who'd checked out seem to have checked back in, thanks to the "flash forwards" and stuff.

Battlestar Galactica
How pre-spoiled is it? 1. Like Lost, it's not coming back until 2009. We saw a little trailer with some scenes from the rest of the final season, but it was mostly pretty mystifying. We know that "all will be revealed," because we've been told that over and over.
How much do people care? 9. It's not quite the flawless thrill-ride it once was, but it's still pretty addictive. And the last couple of episodes before the break were stellar. Plus, people want answers, dammit!

The Dark Knight:

Here's another Dark Knight trailer that includes a teeny amount of new footage, including the Joker with a rocket-launcher (I think that's new) and one new Joker-ism: "When the chips are down, these civilized people will eat each other alive." (I think it may have been quoted in articles before, not sure.)

Battlestar Galactica:

The reveal of Battlestar Galactica's final Cylon will feel organic, and he/she won't be some "day player from season one," promises a Sci Fi Channel exec. Meanwhile, here are the first two photos from the BSG prequel Caprica, which turns out to have a 1950s look and feel to it. Look at the outfits lawyer Joseph Adama and ubergeek Daniel Graystone are wearing. And then check out the diner, serving real Caprican and Gemenese food. Just like mama used to make. Also, there are some pics of the Athena Academy, where the Adama and Graystone daughters go to school. [Galactica Sitrep and The 13th Colony]

Also, there are more pics from the filming of that scene featuring President Roslin in what looked like Caprica. She actually walks into the (disgusting) pool and under the specialy added fountain. [Paulman]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

As you may have guessed, Summer Glau's Terminateen survived being blowed up at the end of the first season of Sarah Connor Chronicles. But she won't emerge unscathed, and Sarah, John and uncle Derek have to repair her. Plus there's a car flip, auto mayhem, lots of flames and and crazy stunts, according to TV Guide. Meanwhile the software exec that Shirley Manson plays may be involved in the creation of Skynet. And Uncle Derek starts discovering the pleasures of a pre-apocalyptic world, but he won't have any romance with Sarah. Plus, this season is all about the mission of preventing Judgment Day. And here's a new promo. [Spoiler TV]

Lost:

Jack's dead dad Christian and Penny's dad Charles Widmore will both be back as recurring characters in Lost season five. And there's talk that they may be series regulars in the show's final season. This may be because Widmore wants the island's magical-ish properties to stave off his own impending death, or because the ghostly Christian is clinging to half-life. Jack may have to end up convincing his dad and half-sister Claire to move on. [EW]

The Middleman:

In the Aug. 11 episode of superhero show The Middleman, the one where Kevin Sorbo shows up as a cryogenically frozen sexist 1960s Middleman, star Natalie Morales wears a white bikini. But her character, Wendy, doesn't have any romantic tension with the regular Middleman until at least season five. There will be sex in an upcoming episode, however. [SpoilerTV again]

Kyle XY:

I'm so bummed this teen-superhuman family drama isn't coming back this summer. It's an acquired taste, but actually pretty awesome once you check it out. When season three finally does start, we learn that mad-science group Latnok kidnapped Kyle's girlfriend Amanda, and he has to rescue her and try to shut Latnok down. In the process, Amanda may learn that Kyle's a superhero, and in general his secrets will start unraveling. Kyle may have to give up Amanda and his host family to become the person he needs to be, especially once he learns what Latnok chief Michael Cassidy has planned for him. [SpoilerTV]

Knight Rider:

The supercar show Knight Rider is back this fall after a successful TV movie, and there will be more smart car tricks. KITT's windshield turns into a touchscreen you can interact with while driving 300 miles per hour. We'll learn about Mike Tracer's past as an Iraq War veteran, and meet some new characters including techie Billy Morgan (Paul Campbell from Battlestar Galactica). Instead of ad-hoc calls for help, the gang will be pulling off missions as a team... just like on last year's Bionic Woman remake. [Spoiler TV yet again]

Heroes:

Here are a couple of new Heroes promos which show Mama Petrelli being very sweet to a bound Sylar. And Ali Larter in a sexy Playboy bunny-ish outfit. [Heroes The Series]

Smallville:

Oliver Queen, aka Green Arrow, turns out to have a surprising connection to Tess Mercer, the new CEO of Lex Luthor's company and the absent Lex's devoted acolyte. [Spoilergeeks]

Also, next season will feature a Chloe/Jimmy/Doomsday love triangle, in which the non-serial killer guy will win out in the end. Also, there will be a lot more comedy, as Lois and Clark get into wacky scrapes. Wacky! [EW]

Eureka:

That corporate fixer we mentioned who comes to the town of Eureka, Eva Thorne? Turns out she's there because the belt-tightening Global Dynamics is turning to making household gadgets for profit. She's nicknamed the Fixer and has some secrets about the founding of the super-smart town. Also, as we mentioned, Sheriff Carter's free-spirited sister shows up and is a bad influence on his daughter. There'll also be some three-way drama between the Sheriff, Allison and her ex Nathan Stark. Meanwhile, Carter has a new love interest on the way. Plus there'll be a contest to design the most flea-ridden dog, a drone who acts like a rebellious teen, and a "hapless superhero." [Spoiler TV again]

Stargate:

A few new Stargate Atlantis season five spoilers. The dying clone Dr. Carson Beckett gets thawed out to fight a deadly plague. SG-1's Daniel Jackson teams up with Rodney McKay to solve a mystery, Hardy Boys-style. And the Vegas episode (the hundredth?) finds Lt. Col. John Sheppard in the midst of a CSI-type investigation. [SpoilerTV]

Plus there are a few new pages of leaked script from SGA episode 15, "Remnants." They're pretty much as we described before. Commander Woolsey flirts awkwardly with Vanessa Conrad, a woman who turns out not to exist. (Including mentioning "Yahtzee.") Meanwhile, Sheppard gets tied up in the forest and has a run in with the evil Kolya.

Just when Woolsey starts to doubt himself and wonder if he's under an outside influence, Vanessa explains she's "the manifestation of your subconscious romantic and sexual ideals... You're not crazy. You're really seeing me." Meanwhile, "Kolya" explains to Sheppard that he was just distracting him, and it's the masochistic Sheppard's fault his mind went to the most horrendous situation possible.

They both explain that the race known as the Sekkari foresaw its own extinction tens of thousands of years ago, and launched over 50 genetic and cultural seed-carriers, equipped with subspace communicators. All 50 of them failed, and Conrad's unit malfunctioned after surviving reentry. Since the SGA crew woke the unit up, she's been studying Woolsey to figure out if he can help complete the seed carrier's mission. Now that Woolsey knows the truth, he has a decision to make. [ScribD via SpoilerTV]

Wolverine:

Here's a new promo picture of Wolverine from his upcoming solo movie. [Filmonic]

The Dark Knight:

A trailer for The Dark Knight, from Wizard World, showcases more of the film's action sequences and gives a glimpse at Two Face right at the end. Plus here's a new clip, which you may have seen the first few seconds of.

Meanwhile, here's a picture of Harvey Dent as Two Face. I'm sort of thinking it's fake. What do you think? [Film Grenade]

Astro Boy:

The animated big-screen Astro Boy movie sticks pretty close to the source material. Dr. Tenma (Nicholas Cage) creates Astro Boy to replace his dead son, but then rejects him. We'll have a bit more sympathy for Dr. Tenma in this version than in the original, says director David Bowers. Astro Boy lives in a floating city, but then leaves to discover his place in the world. We meet characters from the manga, including HamEgg and Dr. Elefun, but also some new characters. And there are some cool robots. [Sci Fi Wire and Sci Fi Wire]

Heroes:

It sounds as though when Heroes' flying politician Nathan Petrelli recovers from his brush with death, he's able to see dead people, including Linderman. Or something. Meanwhile, more confirmation that Ali Larter will be playing a new character, with different powers. Also, hawt scientist Mohinder Suresh has a "love connection" with a hero we already know. And he may manifest actual superpowers at some point this season. There's more to Mohinder than meets the eye, but he may need to "scale back." (So he becomes a lizard Transformer??) [E! Online]

In the new TV Guide, Sylar actor Zachary Quinto suggests the new volume name, "Villains," might not be as clear-cut as you'd think. Claire's biological mom teaches her how to defend herself against Sylar. And the FutureClaire we meet early on is sick, dangerous and crazy. [Spoilerati]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Here's a new TV spot for Sarah Connor Chronicles season two, which hints at some new tensions around Summer Glau's mean-girl Terminator. [SpoilerTV]

Lost:

You know how Kevin Durand said his psychopathic character Keamy would never show up on Lost again? Durand is changing his tune now, apparently, and hints that Keamy is not the sort of guy who dies easily. [Mr. Eko Files]

Stargate:

More detailed spoilers for the direct-to-DVD Stargate Continuum movie showed up at DVD Talk. The alien Tok'ra are preparing to remove Ba'al's murderous symbiote, leaving his human host unharmed, but Ba'al says this isn't over and the original Ba'al is still alive. Just as Ba'al is about to be punished, people start disappearing in plain sight and buildings vanish as if they were never there.

The SG-1 crew runs to the Stargate and winds up in the icy hold of a freighter. The gang is rescued by a team that includes one former team-member who doesn't know them in this timeline. Because one member of the SG-1 gang is dead in this alternate timeline, their rescue is a huge deal, and they're taken to be interrogated. In the end, the team is split up and forced to live mundane lives, and warned not to associate with each other or attempt to change the timeline.

One year later, Ba'al shows up to conquer everything, and the SG-1 gang has a narrow window to stop him. [DVD Talk]

Life On Mars:

The first episode of the American version of time-travel head-injury cop show Life On Mars will be called "Out Here In The Fields." [SpoilerTV]

When the new season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles returns this fall, it'll be more than last season's cliffhanger explosion that'll bring about changes for Summer Glau's pouty Terminatrix. According to the cast and crew of the show, one of the things the Terminator will be battling this year will be the ol' green-eyed monster.

Executive producer Josh Friedman explained what kind of action we can expect from this year's model of unstoppable (anti-)killing machine:

"I think sometimes [Cameron does have a sense of her own sexuality] when it suits her. Last year she learned how to paint her nails, and she's learned how to wear miniskirts and exploit her legs for attention... I think if there were somebody else in John's life that could cause strategic problems, I think that's almost like jealousy, and she would work to eliminate that threat. I think we may see some of that this year.

Not that it's going to be all hot girl-on-robot action this season; Cameron herself, Summer Glau, was relatively more restrained when talking about what her character will be going through when the show returns, saying only:

Cameron definitely has some issues after the explosion.

Issues? Jealous? Looking to eliminate someone muscling in on her territory to avoid "strategic problems"? How long before we hear that the show will be changing its name to Single White Female Robot?

Terminator Cast Dishes on New Season [E! Online]

The Dark Knight:

The Orlando Sentinel posted the first five minutes of The Dark Knight, which director Christopher Nolan showed off a few months ago. The quality isn't that great, but much better than previous postings. Check out that gorgeous swooping shot into the window, right before it explodes afterwards. This sequence, involving the clown-masked baddies robbing a bank, will probably look fantastic in IMAX: The sense of scale makes Gotham City feel more real than it ever has. And I love the Joker's henchmen gossiping about him and mulling over double-crossing him, never realizing he's among them. And how you can tell which guy is the Joker just by his crazy loping gait. [Orlando Sentinel]

Heroes:

Heroes producers Joe Pokaski and Aron Colette spilled more of what's to come on their superhero soap opera. We'll learn who shot flying politician Nathan Petrelli right at the start of the season, but the first episode will actually start off four years in the future — alternating with a few minutes before Nathan is shot. We'll see more of clairvoyant artist Isaac's sketchbook around episodes 9-11, and we'll meet a new artist, with a familiar subject.

Also, since Claire share's Adam's healing abilities, she may also be immortal, like him. When Claire meets her mom again, they'll bond over being superpowered, even as Claire pushes her non-powered stepmom away. We'll see more of the contrast between Claire and Elle the electro girl, with Elle being like Claire's dark side, in season three. And Elle and Claire's uncle Peter will "kinda" meet again. As for Peter, he'll find his near-limitless power starting to corrupt him more.

When Hiro and Adam were in the Company's vault last season, we saw Adam grab a gold key, and there was a wooden horse figurine. The gold key will be super important in Heroes season seven. (If any.) And the wooden horse is full of tiny Greek men. Also, we may see something of the Company's files on the Petrelli family and Matt Parkman.

Claude the invisible guy is still alive, but we won't know for a while whom Claude was hiding from Noah when Noah shot him. Also, we'll learn more about the Haitian's life and character this year.

If there had been a second half to season two, we would have seen Peter try to rescue the plucky Irish barmaid Caitlin from the alternate future she was stranded in — but he'll be too busy in season three dealing with other problems. (Bros before hos, in other words.) In season three, we'll either learn what happened to Peter and Nathan's dad, or more about Linderman's wife. We will see Arthur Petrelli in a flashback by episode eight.

We'll continue to see Suresh trying to come up with technobabble terms for people's powers (which makes it sound like he won't actually die, as some have feared.) [Comic Book Resources

Papa HRG takes Claire to school in a new Heroes promo that just came out. [Heroes Spoilers]

Brea Grant, who plays Hiro's arch-nemesis speedster Joy, says she steals something Hiro needs for his quest. And her character will intersect with other main characters besides Hiro, and might actually do the right thing some of the time — even as some of our heroes will find themselves doing the wrong thing occasionally. Whenever she goes into a room, there's a blast of air blown onto everyone and then suddenly she's standing there. She sticks around at least as far as the sixth episode of the season. [Entertainment Weekly]

Doctor Who:

Here are a few more images from Saturday's Doctor Who season finale. Looking at these pics, I have one question: When Captain Jack meets Davros, is the immortal rogue going to hit on the Daleks' creator? (That would be so great!) [BlogtorWho]

And here's a snippet from the episode's script:
FRANCINE: What are all those numbers?
MARTHA stands, starts hoisting the Indigo Project
MARTHA: Grid reference. Now Jack's explained the base code, I know how this teleport works. I think. But you stay indoors, there's no Daleks on this street, you should be all right, just keep quiet. [Planet Gallifrey]

And here's a super brief clip from the episode, which follows on from the clip we showed earlier, of Sarah Jane, Jackie and Mickey in the clutches of the Daleks. [Spoiler TV]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

We may see more of Jonathan Jackson as Kyle Reese in the Terminator TV show. (He popped up in the future segments of the episode "Dungeons And Dragons.") [TV Guide]

Smallville:

The first two episode titles of Smallville season eight are "Odyssey" and "Plastique." That second title leads people to speculate we'll meet Plastique, a DC Universe villain from the Firestorm and Captain Atom comics. (Didn't she date Captain Atom for a while?) Plastique wore a very skintight costume made out of plastic explosive, which she could trigger at will — but later she gained the less-clunky power of projecting explosive blasts at people. Also, she was a Quebec separatist. Meanwhile, it sounds as though Lex's disappearance leaves a power vacuum in Metropolis, which a ton of new villains rush into. That brings both Oliver and Clark to Metropolis to sort things out. [Babettew54]

Meanwhile, remember how we told you that extraterrestrial powerhouse Doomsday, aka Davis Bloome, was going to be a sexy bartender who flirts with Lois? Apparently he's also a paramedic — or maybe the "bartender" thing was just for his audition scene. He's now being described as a charismatic paramedic who confronts the ominous darkness within himself in his spare time. Everybody needs a hobby, I guess. Also, Tess, the woman who takes care of the missing Lex Luthor's affairs, is actually acting CEO of LuthorCorp. [TVZine]

Also, the theme of this season is "double identities," and we'll see Clark evolving the "Superman" identity as he tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life while fighting baddies. [TV Guide]

Stargate Atlantis:

Stargate: Atlantis will revisit the Weir storyline that was left hanging in in season four's "Be All My Sins Remembered" — but will do it without Torri Higginson, who refused to come back. But that episode will also mark the return of Fran. We'll also be catching up with Jeanie. Also, new female characters in SGA season five include Nicole "Dax" DeBoer as Dr. Alison Porter, and Leela Savasta as Capt. Vega. [TV Squad]

In the fifth new SGA episode, Ronon undergoes a terrible ordeal when his former friend Tyre captures him and delivers him to the Wraith. It's up to Ronon's friends to plan a rescue mission. [Spoiler TV again]

Iron Man 2:

Thor won't be making a cameo in Iron Man 2, says director Jon Favreau. He also mentions he's seen early art from from the Captain America movie, and it looks great. [IESB]

Hellboy 2:

Variety also posted its review of Hellboy 2, and it includes some spoilers. As the movie starts, Hellboy's girlfriend Liz is pregnant, but he doesn't realize this at first. There's an early sequence where he battles a giant green forest deity, cradling a baby in his arms. We see a flashback to 1955, where Professor Broom (John Hurt) reads Hellboy more of that story about the making of the mechanical Golden Army to protect the Elves against the humans. The crown controlling the army gets split up, with one part going to the humans and two parts to the ancients.

Fifty years later, Hellboy is working for the Department of Paranormal Research and Defense. His boss wants Hellboy to be discreet and low-profile, so of course he gets thrown out of a burning building and onto a police car. It turns out the Elf Prince Nuada wants to reactivate the Golden Army, but his sister Princess Nuala hides her piece of the all-important crown. The army finally does get awakened, in Ireland, and Hellboy fights Nuada on top of a giant clockwork mechanism. [Variety]

Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3-D:

Variety also posted its early review of Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3-D, with more spoilers. Brendan Fraser plays Trevor, whose brother Max disappeared years ago. Max's bratty teenage son Sean shows up for a visit, bringing a box of Max's papers including a copy of Jules Verne's Journey To The Center Of The Earth. It turns out Max had a theory about volcanic "tubes" that could carry you past the Earth's magma layer into the planet's core. He takes Sean off to Iceland to discover the truth. They hook up with a mountain guide, Anita, who believes Verne was actually writing the truth. They ride a broken down mining rail, over a steep cliff, plummeting miles below sea level into a giant jewel-encrusted cave. They cope with carnivorous plants, Alien-like fish, and dinosaurs. [Variety]

Transformers 2:

Jon Voight (the Secretary of State in the first Transformers) says he won't be back for the sequel. [Collider]

Also, I totally missed the snippet towards the end of this article, where Michael Bay mentions a bit about the plot of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. Sam Witwicky goes off to college at an Ivy League-esque East Coast school, but Mikaela (Megan Fox) can't afford college. She travels from L.A. to visit him at his school. [NJ.com via TrekMovie]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Garret Dillahunt's Terminator, Cromartie, will be a regular in the second season of the Terminator movie spin-off show Sarah Connor Chronicles. Cameron (Summer Glau) has some issues after surviving that explosion at the end of season one, and everybody changes at the end of the first episode. We'll also see Cameron trying to eliminate other girls in John Connor's life, if she feels they pose a strategic threat. [E! Online]

Smallville:

Young-Superman show Smallville is casting three characters for the first episode of season eight: a guard, a scientist and a researcher, all of whose storylines relate to Chloe somehow. Also, Clark has a surprise for Lois when he returns to Metropolis. [Kryptonsite]

Doctor Who:

So what exactly happened at the end of Saturday's episode of time-travel soap Doctor Who, when the dying Doctor started to regenerate? Nobody knows, but there are a few theories:

1) The Doctor has a failed regeneration, with his severed hand involved somehow, and as a result he turns into two different Doctors, both played by David Tennant. (We showed some pics of Tennant wearing two different colored suits on the beach where he said goodbye to Rose in season two.)
2) The Doctor has a failed regeneration, which splits him into two Doctors, one played by David Tennant (thanks to the severed hand?) and the other played by David Morrissey (who's in the Christmas special later this year playing a character referred to as "the other Doctor" on the actors' trailers.)
3) The Doctor has a failed regeneration, which splits him into two Doctors — one of whom is actually Donna. (Not sure where this one comes from, actually.)
4) The Doctor "rolls back" his regenerations for a bit, and turns into Sylvester McCoy, the Doctor from the late 1980s. (The main evidence for this is that Syl was interviewed for Doctor Who Confidential, and was wearing a version of his old costume on camera.)
5) The Doctor's regenerations are tied to the Master's now, so he somehow turns into John Simm. (This has apparently been debunked. Simm won't be back this week, but the Master will show up sometime in 2009.)
6) Something different will happen.
All we do know for sure is that Tennant was filming the Christmas special a while back, so he's definitely not being gotten rid of — unless that was the most elaborate foiler ever. [Doctor Who Forum]

But if you really can't wait, here's someone's fanfic of what might happen on Saturday. [Yo-Mawari]

We do know that Sarah-Jane Smith won't die, because Elisabeth Sladen says she's in the middle of filming a second season of Sarah-Jane Adventures already. [Spoiler TV]

And here's a trailer for Saturday's episode, which reveals almost nothing, except that Davros wants to reduce the universe to atoms, which will become nothing. "The destruction of reality itself!" (What if Davros actually succeeds, and then reality reforms itself, because of nature abhorring a vacuum?) [Planet Gallifrey]

Heroes:

"Villains" is volume three, not season three, of superhero melodrama Heroes — the show's third season will consist of both volumes three and four. (Volume three is just 13 episodes.) The season doesn't introduce many new characters, but some new villains will show up. There's definitely more to Nathan's assassination than meets the eye. Also, we'll explore what will happen if "Sylar were only the tip of the iceberg" in terms of morally corrupt people with superpowers. [Collider again]

Incredible Hulk:

Some new clips from Incredible Hulk went up at IGN, and here they are — including a fair bit of new footage. [IGN]

Transformers 2:

Is Optimus Prime in mourning? Apparently the Transformers 2 shooting just included a scene at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Fairmoun