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Remember when Heroes first started and it was like the best thing ever? People were saying, "Save the cheerleader, save the world" and wondering how they were going to stop Peter from exploding? But three years later, Heroes fizzled out, and now we're left wondering ... is it safe to get excited about another NBC superhero show?

Looking for a new show to get obsessed with now that Lost is over? We sure are. We've been hurt before though. FlashForward promised to be good to us but left us crying in a tub of Haagen Dazs. But come September, NBC will be offering The Event to viewers who are ready to take a chance on another big mystery.

Frank Miller's been talking up taking on Al-Qaeda for years. Or at least he's been talking up having the Dark Knight do the job for him, in a 120-page graphic novel that was going to be called Holy Terror, Batman! But now that he's almost done with his years-in-the-making revenge tale, it turns out Batman won't be the star of it.

Jamie Kennedy has moved to Eureka, and it looks like the Ghost Whisperer star, who appears as a scientist figuring out ways to colonize Mars, could end up destroying the entire town. (Though we're hoping he won't.) Get a taste of the trouble he causes during Eureka's space week festival.

Going to Comic-Con is a GOOD thing for Hollywood, right? After all, if filmmakers didn't get something out of it, we figure they wouldn't keep going. Unfortunately, according to research, all those screenings, panels and free merch might not always work. Because with only two exceptions, interest in movies with major presentations in San Diego DROPPED this week!

We can't wait to see what Andy Serkis will look like as the rebellious ape leader Caesar in Rise of the Apes—but we're going to have to, since the Lord of the Rings star will appear on screen with CGI fur. Until the film opens, all we're likely to see is him on set in his performance-capture suit. But we'll take what we can get!

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Did you know Patrick Stewart was making a Sinbad movie? If you did, why didn't you tell us? Because this is the first we've heard of it.

Let's face it, some of us never got over Linda Hamilton. Those biceps, those pull-ups, the first James Cameron heroine ... then she left us and stopped doing kick-ass parts. Now Hamilton is back, she's on Chuck, and she's playing Chuck's mom! And series creator Josh Schwartz promises she'll be right in the center of the action.

Forget the ab-flexing, over-stylized, waxed chests of 300. Those pretty boys would last about five seconds in the brutal battles of Centurion, the new action flick from bloodthirsty writer/director Neil Marshall (Doomsday, The Descent). Although the director has rarely shied from bloodshed, Centurion marks a new level of gritty, gory brutality, even for Marshall. Think Saving Private Ryan in the second century.

Were you at the San Diego Convention Center last weekend for the most important pop culture event of the year? No, not Comic-Con. According to Fringe's Joshua Jackson, what really brought us all together was—Pacey-Con! Who or what is Pacey? Come on! Do you really have to ask?

The Vampire Diaries producer Kevin Williamson wants to have a gay character on his show. It probably won't be Jeremy, Bonnie, Caroline, Matt or Jenna. And it couldn't be Stefan, Elena or Damon, even though that would be a really big twist, because it would kind of end that whole love triangle thing.

Ordinary citizens, extraordinary skills. That's what the pilot for Syfy's Alphas promises to deliver. But with today's announcements of two new cast members, it's clear that the acting skills will be extraordinary, too.

Now we know the real reason J.J. Abrams named his production company Bad Robot. It's so that when he eventually reached out to pick up the rights to Boilerplate, the story of a Victorian Age mechanical man who fought alongside Pancho Villa and Teddy Roosevelt before vanishing at the end of World War I, we could all make endless GOOD robot jokes. But don't worry. We'll try not to make too many.

That Americanized version of the BBC's Being Human just took one step closer to being real. The series, about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost who end up as roommates, started production today in Montreal.

Luke Skywalker may have had the Force on his side, but if you ask us, he had no imagination. He only used that lightsaber of his as a ... well ... as a lightsaber. If he'd had a lightsaber pool cue, for example, maybe he'd have been able to settle his differences with Dad over a game of nine-ball rather than lose that right hand of his in a duel.

We love Total Recall. We already told you the 10 reasons why, remember? But what we're wondering is—will we love the coming Total Recall reboot as well?

It wasn't Mark Ruffalo's fault, but the road to his getting cast as the new Bruce Banner was a bumpy one, with lots of bad blood between Marvel and Ed Norton, the last actor to portray the Hulk's alter ego. But now that he's a part of Joss Whedon's Avengers movie, what does Ruffalo make of the messy PR war that came before?

What happens next in the Caprica universe that will hook us up to the beginning of Battlestar Galactica? The season 1.5 trailer, which debuted at Comic-Con, gives us plenty of new footage to pore through in search of clues.

John Crichton on Farscape. Col. Cameron Mitchell in Stargate SG-1. That makes two iconic roles for Ben Browder. Now we hear we're soon going to see him as a noir detective in the year 2030 in the series Naught for Hire. Can the sci-fi lightning strike three times?