BSG season 4 dvds up for pre-order at Amazon.

Upcoming Scifi Movie Classics:

The deal includes basic cable rights for five new horror and thriller projects. Two of the films have already wrapped production on location in Romania, including Hellhounds, directed by Ricky Schroder (Andromeda Strain, 24). Set in 500 B.C., Hellhounds stars Scott Elrod (Men in Trees) as a Greek warrior who fights against the demonic hellhounds of Hades in order to rescue his bride (Amanda Brooks, My Best Friend's Girl) and bring her back to life.

Rise of the Gargoyle has also just completed production. It stars Eric Balfour (24, Six Feet Under) as a struggling author in Paris who finds himself face to face with a horrific monster a real live version of the stone gargoyles he's devoted his life to studying. Rise of the Gargoyle is directed by Bill Corcoran (Atomic Twister, Vipers).

Production on the following films, also to be shot on location in Romania, is set to begin shortly:

Alien Western - Set in an old west town in the 1890's, monstrous buglike machines from another world attack anyone who gets in their way;

Carney Based on the Jersey Devil legend, a fiendish carnival sideshow attraction, half-animal and half-devil, escapes and terrorizes the denizens of a Depression-era Mid-Atlantic town;

Sand Serpents - American combat soldiers in the Afghan desert must battle both the Taliban and a horde of giant carnivorous wormlike serpents awakened from under the earth.

The two-hour television movies are produced for RHI by Muse Entertainment Enterprises. Michael Prupas, President and CEO of Muse Entertainment, serves as executive producer, along with Robert Halmi, Sr. and Robert Halmi, Jr. of RHI Entertainment. RHI also will distribute these titles in key territories worldwide.

Sand Serpents - American combat soldiers in the Afghan desert must battle both the Taliban and a horde of giant carnivorous wormlike serpents awakened from under the earth.

Ha ha ha. That's Tremors meets Manticore !

Anyone watch the American Life on Mars last night? I didn't hate it, but I don't know if I'll be adding it to my roster. It was disconcerting to watch a show that looked very much like the show I knew, and followed very nearly the same exact script, but with (inconsistent) New York accents instead of Mancunian accents. Well, and with no John Simm or Philip Glenister.

The moment with the Twin Towers was pretty well done, I thought.

Yeah, I saw it. There's been a bit of discussion in the Procedurals thread (wasn't sure if the discussion should be there or here).

ETA - I liked it, but I only saw a couple of random episodes of the original.

I think people are discussing the american LoM in procedurals, Kate. my reaction to the Twin Towers seems to be the exact opposite of everyone else. it pulled me out of the show and made me meta about them only using it to possibly gain more viewers who would watch to spot the Towers. that could be the pessimist in me though...

See, I thought it was the perfect way to indicate "we are not in 2008 anymore, Toto".

Oh, thanks for the heads up about the Procedurals thread. Moving my comments over there.

V is returning:

Written by Emmy-nominated The 4400 co-creator and executive producer Scott Peters, the new V was sold to ABC as a spec script.

The original NBC television mini-series, produced during the golden age of that format and later leading to a second mini-series and a short-lived spin-off weekly series in the '84-'85 season, centered on a race of lizard-like aliens who come to Earth disguised as humans with seemingly with friendly intentions, but literally and figuratively masking a hidden agenda. The original series' story very bluntly served as allegory to Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, going so far as to have characters that lived through that era recognize the aliens' methods and intentions.

Peters told Variety he won’t duplicate that concept, but that the new V will still focus on what happens when "the masses have blind faith in their leaders".

The new V will focus on a female Homeland Security agent with an aimless, problematic son who "gloms" to aliens upon their arrival — causing tension within the family. But as in the original V, several storylines will be featured

Sciffy ran a mini-marathon of Haunted yesterday AND they're running two more episodes on the 15th AND another mini-marathon on November 11th.

I discovered this and (I'm sorry, Matt!) forgot to post the information.