Plans are already underway to turn Roland Emmerich's new "what if" disaster movie 2012 into a TV show. Today he offered details on what the TV show's all about while out promoting the movie.

The TV show will be called 2013 and as the title suggests, it takes place after the events of the movie. Emmerich specifically references Lost and District 9 as models for the show, which I guess means an endless series of questions without answers.

SPOILER ALERT! The survivors on the giant rescue boats you'll see at the end of the movie arrive in Africa, where a bunch of people survived the tidal wave and are pissed they weren't invited on the boats. Emmerich says it's about how it's "not the bright happy future everyone was imagining" when we last saw them at the end of the movie.

New episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars are back on television this Wednesday at 8:00pm with the debut of “The Landing at Point Rain” on Cartoon Network. Unless Lucas finally gets his ass in gear on that long-promised but little delivered live-action Star Wars TV show, or unless those wild rumors about a new trilogy turn out to be true, this is pretty much your only way to get a Star Wars fix. Eat it up.

“The Landing at Point Rain” sounds as if it’s more than just a standard Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode. Director Brian Kalin O’Connell says of it, “George [Lucas] wanted ‘Landing at Point Rain’ to be as intense as any live-action movie about the assault on Omaha Beach”

Below we have a clip from “The Landing at Point Rain”. Here’s a taste of what you’re in for after the jump. more...

ABC is resurrecting V and, on the surface, it doesn’t seem like a good decision. Sure V was a blockbuster miniseries back in the 80s but the subsequent spin-off television series never really went anywhere. Now ABC is skipping right over the miniseries, the component which worked best last time around, and going straight to the previously failed weekly one hour drama format. Not that they have any choice. The glory days of the made for television event is long over, with the miniseries’ relegated to barely watched deep cable.

So on the surface this may seem like an idea destined for failure but the truth is, having just watched the series premiere, I think they may be on to something.

The show’s one-hour format debut isn’t exactly inspired, but it’s economical and it gets right to the point. Within minutes the aliens have landed and from there it skips forward at a rapid pace which sets up the same intrigue fans of the first series are familiar with. The aliens, who call themselves Visitors and “Vs” for short, present themselves as human in appearance. Actually you might say they appear hyper-human. Imagine an entire ship full of mid-level runway models and you’ll have some idea of the hotness level they’ve brought into our atmosphere. The V’s loudly proclaim that they’ve come in peace and immediately set about curing all of mankind’s ills. This of course means they’re up to no good and if you’ve seen the original you already know what that no-good is. more...

I first tuned in to FlashForward, mostly out of desperation. With Battlestar Galactica gone, Doctor Who soon to lose the greatest doctor ever in David Tennant, and Lost becoming increasingly stupid, we need something to carry the sci-fi fire on television.

This past week FlashForward resorted to its first lesbian makeout session. It was also the first time I really remember enjoying the show since I first started watching it and, of course, I was enjoying it for utterly juvenile reasons. Once the frenching was over Flash Forward went right back to being the bore it's always been. It's a brain-dead science fiction show, it's time travel for 2-year-olds, a playschool version of Lost and it's time to let it go.

The mysteries are, plainly stated, a bore. In its very first episodes Lost gave us a mysterious plane crash, an insane monster lurking in the jungle, and the magical healing of a cripple. In Flash Forward the entire world took a brief nap and, though theoretically this caused global problems, a few days later everyone feels pretty much fine with it and everything goes on as normal. A few FBI agents still seem kind of hung up on it, but mostly the world seems to have moved on so why shouldn't the show's audience? more...

I've long been an Ewok defender. Sure they look like lame ass teddy bears, but they're actually vicious, cannibal teddy bears with a penchant for violence and a sick sense of humor. They murder storm troopers and then play the drums on their severed heads! They're subversive, fuzzy little bastards and I've never understood what's not to love.

Case in point, they invaded the Today Show this morning as part of the NBC morning staple's Halloween episode. They were apparently supposed to wander around and look cute during a cooking segment, but instead they started drinking martinis, moonwalking, airhumping, and engaging in food fights. You have to see it to believe it. Check out the entire, must see video after the jump: more...

This week's episode of Dollhouse, titled "Belonging", dropped Echo to focus almost entirely on the character of Sierra and in doing so solved everything that's been so horribly wrong with this show all along. What's wrong is Eliza Dushku who utterly can not act. For two seasons now they've tried to write around her flaws, to find creative ways of dealing with it and rather than fix the show that's turned the entire thing into one big, muddle. With "Belonging" they finally did the only thing that will ever really make Dollhouse work: Let Dushku's Echo fade into the background.

It's a shame really that Dushku is the show's lead when nearly everyone else in it is an absolutely brilliant as a performer. Given a full episode all her own, Diechen Lachman proved tonight beyond all shadow of a doubt what we've all suspected all along: Sierra, not Echo is the best doll in the Dollhouse.

Next episode we're sure to be back to wallowing around in Echo's mediocrity but for now, enjoy what Dollhouse could have been without Dushku to weight it down. more...

Tonight Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead, the first of four Doctor Who specials, David Tennant’s last appearances as the most iconic Doctor of all time, debuted on BBC America. It’s more than an episode but not quite a movie. Call it a mini-movie. In it, Tennant was as usual, brilliant. The writing? Maybe not so much.

The problem is they’ve done this story before, and done it better. The companionless Doctor trapped on a bus with nervous passengers as they face mortal peril was done fantastically in the not so long ago episode “Midnight”. This time the twist is that the peril is less mysterious and the humans less suspicious and as result the amazing tension which made “Midnight” so incredibly effective is utterly absent, replaced instead by those red-bereted dickheads with guns who call themselves “Unit”. more...

Torchwood: Children of the Earth has been airing for more than week now on BBC America and it debuted long ago in Great Britain. Word is, it's been such a big success that it's guaranteed a Torchwood season 4.

Dark Horizons attended the Doctor Who panel this weekend at the San Diego Comic Con where they got the details from showrunner Russell T. Davies:

Asked about a fourth season of "Torchwood", Davies wouldn't confirm any specifics but indicated the success of 'Children of Earth' means its a certainty and he sounded excited to be involved. Fans though hoping for the return of some previously deceased cast members should not hold out hope.

Last night in San Diego at Comic Con, Star Wars fans were given a sneak peek at the first ever trailer for the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Now we have it for you to watch at home, in your pajamas, the way trailers were meant to be watched by anyone without the wealth necessary for a lavish trip to California.

The second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars starts this fall on Cartoon Network. Watch the trailer after the jump: more...

This is going to take some getting used to. The new season of Doctor Who started production today and that means goodbye to David Tennant, who’s been replaced in the new season by a new actor. Matt Smith is the eleventh actor to play The Doctor and he’s accompanied by a new companion too. She’s Amy Pond, a redhead played by Scottish actress Karen Gillan.

Below we’ve got your first look at both actors in costume and on set together, as they prep for filming of their first scenes together as Doctor and companion. I’m going to miss David Tennant’s Chuck Taylors. I just hope this new Doctor keeps the trenchcoat. Check it out: