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Family Guy will have a Star Trek: TNG reunion next month (March 29).
The Next Generation crew, comprised of Patrick Stewart, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes, will lend their voices to the FOX show.

This reminds me a lot of Futurama‘s Where No Fan Has Gone Before albeit with a newer crew.

Meanwhile, we continue on our pilot news with The CW greenlighting the Melrose Place pilot, penned by Smallville‘s Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer and directed by Davis Guggenheim, who has previously directed episodes for, wait for it, 24, The Unit and Deadwood.
The first actor cast is Greek‘s Michael Rady.

Speaking of, no surprises there, but The CW renewed six of its shows, including 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Supernatural and Smallville.

ABC’s Ab Fab pilot also has some news, with Back To You‘s James Burrows set to direct the premiere episode (as well as NBC’s 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne‘s pilot), and The Unit‘s Zosia Mamet set to play Eddie’s teen daughter. Barbershop‘s Toni Trucks will also join the cast as Eddie’s assistant.

Lipstick Jungle‘s Lindsay Price joins Jaime Ray Newman on The Witches of Eastwick to play one of the three lead witches.

Numb3rs‘ Lou Diamond Phillips, Push‘s Ming-Na, Smallville‘s Elyse Levesque and Alaina Huffman will in the meantime star in Sci Fi’s Stargate Universe, slated to premiere in October.

Can you feel the rush?

UPDATE: I just learned that Pirates of the Caribbean‘s Gore Berbinski is set to direct a Universal live-action movie based on Hasbro’s Clue board game.
Oh please God, not again.

In and Out

TV Guide has dropped off of its sked grid The CW and MTV among others.
Ouch.
How the hell will I know now when Smallville premieres?

This morning FOX confirmed that Prison Break is canceled with the last epis being shown on Fridays (with Terminator and Dollhouse).
Virtuality was described as too “dense” by Kevin Reilly and the pilot is being recut to one hour instead of the two it should have been.

Meanwhile, NBC announced that 90% of the Super Bowl ads had already been sold.
Some of the movie trailers shown will be for Transformers 2, Up, Wolverine, G.I. Joe, Angels & Demons, Land of the Lost, The Fast and The Furious, Star Trek, and Monsters v. Aliens (with disappointing Red & Blue glasses).
As for the TV side of things, Heroes will have a special trailer made for the Super Bowl and Chuck will promote its 3-D episode.

And here’s for you a behind-the-scenes pic of Cameron’s Avatar.

Also, Bush wants his own 15 minutes of fame by asking fifteen minutes of airtime on each of the major nets next Thursday, to say goodbye.
Please make it quick.

Squid, or no Squid?

No Squid.

That’s the official word from Snyder himself.

Yep, there’s an all-new ending for the 2h42 Watchmen movie.

You can check the whole interview with Zack over here. It is pretty revealing on what made the cut, what didn’t, and what we should expect (and hear — music!) in the upcoming movie.

There’s a 3h30 ‘Black Freighter’ version that will be available on DVD!
Awesome.

In other Watchmen news, like with Star Trek earlier this month, Paramount seems to be doing a cross-website promotional thingy; releasing promo posters on various websites (thanks EW for that crappy thumbnail!).

I’m deeply troubled I wasn’t one of those websites but, what the heck.

The Comedian still rules.

Speaking of (Star Trek that is), am I the only one shocked at how lame all these Spock (and for that matter Kirk) promo pics are?



It’s like they’re not even trying to hide the fact that he’s wearing a wig, let alone fake eyebrows.
Even in the 60s, their make-up was much better!
And I know this because, I must confess… I’m currently in a ST: TOS marathon.