Do you know if BBC America hacks-up Doctor Who less than Sci-Fi does? I make arrangements to tape (for my own personal home enjoyment, of course) if it does.

I like Robert Rodriguez and trust him to handle a horror genre film, but remaking Alien? I'm just not sure --- a great deal of the attractiveness of Alien (if it can be called that) was that the strong, gun-toting, not-afraid-to-blow-stuff-up protagonist was a female (which, if I remember correctly, was a last minute decision because they wanted a man --- like the Governor (i.e. Ahh-nold S. --- to play Ripley; now, it's been done, and we'd probably get stuck with a man anyway).