Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles

• The release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is now Wednesday, July 15, two days earlier than originally planned. — ComingSoon
• Mark Wahlberg and James Franco are joining Steve Carell and Tina Fey in the comedy Date Night. — Zap2It
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is likely canceled. — TV.com
• Kristen Bell has been cast as the lead in Disney's You Again, a comedy about a girl who's horrified to find that her brother is marrying the very girl who made her life a living hell in high school. — Variety
• A former Daily Show writer is working on a comedy called Women's Studies for HBO. — The Hollywood Reporter
• Sally Hawkins and Charlotte Rampling have signed on to join Keira Knightley in Never Let Me Go. — Variety
• Pearl Jam is working on a new album, an upcoming tour, and a film directed by Cameron Crowe. — Billboard
• Adele will play herself in an upcoming episode of Ugly Betty. — TV Guide
• Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne, and Sean Combs are joining Jonah Hill and Russell Brand in the comedy Get Him to the Greek. — ComingSoon

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It's less than two weeks till Fox's Friday sci-fi lineup kicks off with a double feature of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Joss Whedon's highly anticipated Dollhouse. To mark the occasion, Fox has a new trailer for this weekly double feature, a gritty little video inspired by Grindhouse.

The purposefully grainy promo shows Terminator's Cameron (Summer Glau) and Dollhouse's Echo (Eliza Dushku) — Friday night's "Dames of Deception" — kicking ass, shooting guns, and generally wreaking havoc. Their new tagline: "Hotter than Hades, soulless, and smart." There's also a campy invitation to "el fuego your Fridays."

In all honesty, this is cooler than most TV promos I've seen. I'm getting a kick out of it; will you? To check it out, just read more

• Though many people thought The Soloist (and its lead actors, Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.) would be up for Oscars this year, Paramount has pushed the movie's release from Nov. 21, 2008 to March 13, 2009. — Variety
• Hugh Grant is bowing out of the romantic comedy Lost for Words due to differences of opinion on the script. — ComingSoon
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been picked up for a full second season. — Broadcasting and Cable
• Hope Davis and John Mahoney are joining the cast of In Treatment. — Zap2it
• The Grammys nominations announcement will be an hourlong TV special this year, airing Dec. 3 on CBS. — Billboard




• Survivor host Jeff Probst has created a new reality show in which dying people live out their final wishes. — Entertainment Weekly
• Liza Minelli is returning to Broadway for two weeks in December performing a show called Liza’s at the Palace. . ! — Variety
• Luke Grimes has been cast as Ryan on Brothers and Sisters. — E! Online

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which returns to start its second season tonight on Fox, is one of the more interesting stories of last TV season. The show premiered during the doldrums of the writers' strike, got a mixed critical reaction, and somehow by the end of the season became a buzzed-about show.

How? I'm not sure, but I think the show's innovative casting probably had something to do with it. I mean, Brian Austin Green as a badass? (Showrunner Josh Friedman told the very funny story behind that one back at Comic-Con, ending with him asking the onetime 90210 star "When did you get to be so hot?") This year's entry into the Annals of Improbable Casting is Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson, who's playing a technology company CEO.

But choosing interesting actors won't go too far if the story's not good, and Terminator: TSCC seems to be picking things up on that front as well: At the show's Comic-Con panel, producers announced that someone on the stage would die before the end of season two. The cast reacted with relative horror; it seemed they didn't even know which one of them was the goner. I guess that's one of those things we just have to watch and see.

After the jump, you can check out the trailer for the new season, which starts tonight at 8 p.m. EDT and PDT. Will you be watching? To talk about it, just read more

Raise your hand if you recognize this face! Yes, that is Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, the group that scored some hits in the '90s, including "I'm Only Happy When it Rains." There is intriguing news today that she is joining the cast of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles when it returns for a second season on Fox.

Manson will be a regular as "Catherine Weaver, the CEO of a cutting-edge high-tech company."

Last I heard, Manson had been looking to record a solo album but I don't think it's finished yet. Or rather, Wikipedia says it was supposed to release two days ago and it didn't. I wonder if that's still in the works or if she'll put it on hold to focus on acting. She is one of the coolest rocker women from that grunge era of yore and I'm excited to see what she can bring to the small screen.

So what do you think? Is this the weirdest casting news you've heard in awhile? Or totally perfect career progression for a rock star from the '90s?

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• It'll be back: Fox has renewed Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles for a second season, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
• One of James Bond's iconic cars plunged into a lake in Italy while shooting a scene, the AP reports.
• Jordin Sparks is suffering from a vocal cord hemorrhage and has dropped out of the Alicia Keys tour, writes Billboard.
• It's not just Britney — TV Guide reports that Sarah Chalke is also returning to How I Met Your Mother.
• Just in time for Earth Day, the LA Times reports that Disney has launched a new unit to make environmental and nature films.
• Variety reports that the Crank sequel has found its lead actors: Amy Smart and Clifton Collins, Jr. Bai Ling will also have a role in the movie.
• According to ABC News, President Bush will send an on-air good luck message to a contestant on Deal or No Deal tonight.
• Carnie Wilson and "Kid" from Kid 'N Play are among the "celebrities" who will be competing on a celebrity magic reality show on VH1; details are at The Futon Critic.

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• Cinematical has an interview with director Michel Gondry regarding his movie Be Kind, Rewind, which will open soon at Sundance.
• MTV Movies Blog digs into the past with a heartbreakingly adorable interview clip with Katie Holmes from back in April of 1998.
• TiFaux plots the Project Runway contestants on a graph comparing their ratios of talent to drama.
• Popwatch wonders if you ever acquired a nickname from a character on TV like, say, how Pa called Laura "Half-Pint" on Little House on the Prairie.
• TV Squad geeks out with some analysis of the Sarah Connor Chronicles timeline.
• Check out Stereogum for two new Counting Crows songs.
• TV Filter gleefully reports that while the show may be on hiatus, Gossip Girl herself is still blogging!
• TV Cocktail also admits to a slight obsession with the Real Housewives of Orange County.

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• The TV Addict tells us how to vote for the best fan poster for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
• According to the Popwatch Dictionary, a "mift" is a gift you give someone else with the hope that you will actually get to use it, or that it will eventually become your own. The Arrested Development DVD sets are examples of a mift.
• Cinematical has a lot of love for Extras, and especially can't seem to get through the special Christmas episode without crying.
• TV Squad has details on some cool-sounding new series coming to AMC following the success of Mad Men.
• Check out the MTV Movies Blog for an exclusive clip of Ice Cube's First Sunday.
• Aquarium Drunkard has so many Elvis holiday songs, you won't be able to get the swivel out of your hips.
• Vulture wonders: Will Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy hurt Juno's chances at the Oscars?
• Give Me My Remote just introduced me to the Jeannie Tate Show.

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I've never been much of a Terminator person, so I was a little surprised when I first heard about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the Fox series that picks up the Terminator story at the end of Terminator 2. The show focuses on Sarah Connor — played by Linda Hamilton in the movie and Lena Headey in the TV series — as she tries to keep her son (Thomas Dekker) safe from the ever-shifting army of cyborgs bent on taking his life.

Fox clearly has high hopes for the series, pairing it with 24 in January and promoting it with the Terminator name (it was originally just called The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Terminator was added later). The thing is, I'm wondering if any people who aren't already hooked into the Terminator franchise — like me — will be interested in watching. Then again, the three movies together made more than $390 million in U.S. theaters, so that might be all the audience Fox needs. Are you curious to check out this show? To watch a trailer and another clip, just read more