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Oh, how the internets loves its casting rumors. Today, the nugget that caught my eye came from comingsoon.net , who not only floated the idea of Khan Noonien Singh being the villain in the next Star Trek flick, but that - "if they started filming today" - Lost 's Nestor Carbonell would be the deep-sleeping warlord who harries Kirk and Co.

Today Carrie Prejean, former Miss California. Good Morning America Stephen King, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood.

USA's "Facing Kate" has added a couple more faces. "Battlestar Galactica's" Michael Trucco and "How I Met Your Mother" actress Virginia Williams have joined Sarah Shahi for the USA pilot "Facing Kate," according to The Hollywood Reporter .

I dona t really hate Jay Leno. He seems like a nice guy and, once upon a time, a very good comedian.

ABC's "V" is the latest in a string of attempts by networks to capitalize on past successes by reinterpreting them in a new, updated version.

The pilot, produced by Universal Cable Prods., centers on Kate , a divorced San Francisco woman who leaves her job as a lawyer to become a mediator.

"General Hospital" bad guy Sebastian Roche will be doing evil in primetime on "Fringe." Roche, who's played Jerry Jacks on the ABC soap for the past couple years, has taken a recurring part on the FOX drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter .

Life season two: Donal Logue, Sarah Shahi, Brent Sexton, Damian Lewis and Adam Arkin.

This crime drama may have been running out of steam in the past few weeks because Sarah Shahi has been edged out of the picture , but Damian Lewis as the Zen-worshipping, kumquat-chewing, wrongly imprisoned tec Charlie Crews is ass ured of cult status.

Somehow, while alienating others week after week, she has managed to survive. Tonight, the teams get split between trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels .

The fall season shifted into high gear Wednesday with the first heated showdown between NBC's "Bionic Woman" and ABC's "Private Practice." NBC's sci-fi drama prevailed in the coveted adults 18-49 demo, but ABC won the night overall, noticeably in total viewers and by the slimmest of margins in the demo.

THE BAKER: THE BAKER stars Damian Lewis, who is the lead in the NBC show LIFE, and Michael Gambon .

WITH its not-cool-anymore, actually-was-always-bloody-annoying way of jamming the words of the title up against each other, I decided I hated FlashForward from the first glimpse in the telly listings.

FX is adding two more drama series to its lineup, a private-eye show called "Terriers" and a drama about a retired boxer called "Lights Out." The two pickups finish off a pretty remarkable development run for the cable channel: FX commissioned six pilots this year, and all six have now been ordered to series.

Struggling NBC is the first network to shake up its fall lineup, rebranding Wednesdays as a crime night.

"Fringe" continues its second season, and like all sophomores, the show is trying to find out who it is.

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A trip through 'time after time' making movies. That describes the scene at Village Books on Swarthmore last Thursday evening when filmmaker Nicholas Meyer discussed his memoir, 'The View From the Bridge: Memories of 'Star Trek' and a Life in Hollywood' , which recounts, with detail and humor, his perspective as a writer and director on the ...

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Boston Herald TV Critic Mark Perigard is the TV critic for the Boston Herald. "SONS OF ANARCHY": C K atey Sagal and husband Kurt Sutter must have some interesting talks at the breakfast table.