At the Comic-Con Alphas panel yesterday, the show's producers revealed that Summer Glau, Brent Spiner, Garret Dillahunt, and the Bionic Woman herself, Lindsay Wagner, would guest-star on SyFy's new superhuman crimesolving drama. After this reveal, we went behind the scenes with the show's team to learn about what's…

SyFy's new genetic misfit crimestoppers show Alphas will inevitably bring to mind the X-Men and Heroes, but the program has some quirks that could differentiate itself from the superhuman pack. Namely, a Machiavellian granola leader who loves glam rock.

Syfy has picked up the pilot for Alphas, a show about a team of superpowered people whose enhanced neurological abilities come at a crippling price. But can a great show come from the man who wrote X-Men: The Last Stand?

Despite being burnt by experiences writing the last two X-Men movies, screenwriter Zak Penn told an audience at the Los Angeles Film Festival that he's excited to be writing the upcoming Avengers movie. The big difference? Guest-stars and co-operation, apparently.