More news from Heroes' third season: Seth Green (Austin Powers) and Breckin Meyer (Garfield) are close to agreeing to join the show for a short period, as Atlanta-based comic-book geeks who advise one of the heroes.
The return of Ali Larter has also been explained: she'll be playing Tracy Strauss, advisor to the governor of New York -- a new identity created for her by Mr. Linderman. Yes, Malcolm McDowell is back, leading to speculation that he healed himself from his assumed death by brain-squashing in season 1. Yep, that creaking sound you can hear is "credibility", folks.
Doctor Who has won a prestigious Hugo award for the third time in a row. Steven Moffat's third season episode "Blink" won Best Dramatic Presentation in the Short Form category. The story beat Paul Cornell's Who episode "Human Nature" and Catherine Tregenna's first season Torchwood story "Captain Jack Harkness".
ABC have ordered a television pilot based on The Witches Of Eastwick, a novel by John Updike about a trio of small-town witches who accidentally conjure a womanising Satan into their lives. The novel has already been adapted into a hit 1987 film (starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher and Susan Sarandon), a 2000 stage play (starring Ian McShane) and was the basis of low-budget horror The Witches Of Breastwick. Ahem.
Interestingly, this isn't the first time The Witches Of Eastwick has tried to move into TV: a pre-Lost Carlton Cuse and Jeffrey Boam wrote a pilot script back in 1992, and in 2002 Fox developed a concept focusing on the daughters of the original witches (played by Lori Loughlin, Kelly Rutherford and a pre-Desperate Housewives Marcia Cross).
