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Bonnie Franklin has passed away, at the age of 69, due to complications from pancreatic cancer. May she rest in peace. She was perhaps most famous for her role as the mother on One Day At A Time.

Peter David: 10 Weeks Later.

Cablevision Disconnects Persistent Pirates for 24 Hours

The Line it is Drawn #128 – Music Album Cover Homages

Comic Book Legends Revealed #408.

The Embarrassing Spider-Fans.

Will Halle Berry's Storm Return In X-Men: Days of Future Past? Gina Torres has always been my pick if they were to recast.

Joe Sinnott - With Great Power Extended Interviews

Newly unveiled March comic covers show a mourning Bat family

Ranking The Robins.

Image of the Day: Awkward 1950′s and 1960′s Batman Moments #5

The 10 Most Memorable Superhero Deaths

Doctor Who to Return with 'The Bells of St John' - First Official Picture

Fandom Manifesto: Leverage

Gary Oldman joins Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Tim Curry joins the cast of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, taking over the role of Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious.

From Think Geek: Little Damn Heroes: Inara.

10 Greatest Handguns in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy

90210 Canceled By The CW, Will End Its Run In May

Joe Wright to Direct Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’

The Hobbit: There And Back Again movie release moved from July to December 2014

Stellar cast announced for Adrian Hodges’ new BBC One drama series, The Musketeers

Random Roles: Mae Whitman on TMNT, blending into Arrested Development, and acting with Coach Taylor

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Tomb Of Ligeia

30 Greatest Sci-Fi Siblings.

Seven Things You Didn’t Know About…Exorcisms

Best Art Ever (This Week): March 1st.

Back Off, Man—I’m a Sequel: 8 Ways To Do Ghostbusters 3 Correctly

Appeals court rejects artist’s lawsuit against NBC’s ‘Heroes’

Don’t Touch That Dial: Midseason Comedies and Supernatural Dramas

New trailer for Orphan Black.

The Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Movie Isn’t Dead Yet.

Ask Chris #143: Death To All Nostalgia (Except Mine)

12 Aliens That Were Supposed to Be Cute But Are Actually Terrifying

Movie Issues Podcast: Help! (1965)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 132: Midnight Madness (1980).

Radiodrome, Episode 112

Killer POV: Ep. 3: Mike Mendez

Smodcast With Kevin Smith: Geoff Johns: Batman Beta.

A very short teaser for the American remake of Being Human.

The 10 Most Stylish Means Of Time Travel. Doctor Who (in two spots) and Back to the Future (also with two spots) are listed.

It’s official—Heroes is completely dead, and not mostly dead. There will not be a tv movie.

James Cameron is trying to get True Lies turned into a tv series.

The people behind The Wicker Man (the one with Christopher Lee—not the one with Nicholas Cage in a bear suit, punching a woman in the face before eventually being attacked by bees) are working on a sequel: The Wicker Tree.

It’s time for sign-ups at intoabar for the Walk Into A Bar Ficathon. The FAQ is here, and sign-ups are here. Last time around I was assigned the Tenth Doctor walking into a bar and meeting Winston Zeddemore.

Heroes will not be renewed. It’s official—it’s been cancelled. It’s good news, since the show had gone so far downhill since season 1. Spectacular news for Annalee, over at Io9—she was the one forced to endure episode after episode for reviews. The only thing I’ll miss that came from that show? heroes_meta. It was always funny. Here’s hoping the actors get better material to work with in the future.

The Literary Tastes of Joss Whedon Fans. More of a map with author’s names than a discussion, really. whedonesque discusses it here.

There’s a rumor going around that Nathan Fillion could be cast as Hank Pym in the Avengers movie. While I doubt it’s true, it would be interesting if it was. whedonesque discusses it here.

stormkpr is hosting an X-Men friending meme here.

Thanks to a comment over at Io9—in the article Great Moments In Alternate History: The Time Travelers Show Up—I just found this. Terminator: How It Should End. It crosses over with Back to the Future--if they actually made this movie, then I would go see it. The people that made that trailer did a fantastic job.

Io9 discusses movies (and a few tv shows) where someone being recast might have changed things. Riff Regan as Willow in the original Buffy pilot, Rebecca Gayheart as Inara, and Eric Stoltz as Marty in Back to the Future all get a mention. One I never knew about, however, was that Stuart Townsend was almost Aragorn. Judging by the picture, I don’t think he would have worked.

Batman is getting a live stage show. Reportedly, it won’t be a musical.

From Cracked: The 5 Worst Deaths Written For Great Characters (And Why).

Rumor has it Heroes will be renewed. However, the season will be cut down to 13 episodes, supposedly ending after that.

Livejournal is apparently doing something to links via a java script. An explanation of everything is in the link, along with the solution on how to quickly fix that via the LJ Admin Console.

A few days ago, I linked to a hysterical Highlander/Castle crossover. Now, strangevisitor7 has written a sequel that’s just as great. It’s The Great Pumpkin, Duncan Macleod.

6 Animated Films That Had Massive Upheaval Pre-Production. I already knew about The Black Cauldron.

Top 10 Vampire Deaths

Bryan Fuller has left Heroes again.

As of yesterday, it’s been 20 years since the Tim Burton version of Batman was released.

elisi posted a couple pages from a comic that shows what would happen if Lisa Simpson were a vampire slayer. Basically, going to the library for research means you start looking for more, while everyone and everything around you dies. I would probably do that, too.

No matter what happens with the third Ghostbusters movie, it looks like there’s not much of a chance for Sigourney Weaver to be involved in it.

There’s going to be another Ninja Turtles movie, with a tentative release date of 2011. Proof you’re now old? It’s their 25th anniversary.

NBC cut back on the number of episodes for season 4 of Heroes. This means that it goes from 25 episodes, down to 18-20.

In Doctor Who related news, I’ve been hearing that a certain villain from the older series has been cast. However, as these spoilers seem have tabloids as their sources, I won’t believe them until it actually happens. If anyone wants to read a potential spoiler (which is probably not true) you can go to this Io9 article.

Found via whedonesque: An interview with Felicia Day.

For those that use Geocities for hosting fanfic or anything else, it turns out they will be shutting down all accounts (both free and paid) at the end of 2009. Found out via various links on my friends list. I’ve never used Geocities, but I know some people might have.

By the way, does anyone on my friends list know how to download a movie from Youtube, and then piece it back together so they can watch it later without having to keep stopping to look for the next part? If anyone needs to know the movie, it’s Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, and part 1 is here. Just curious, since I’ve never found it anywhere else. Or, if that's not possible, if anyone knows where I can find a torrent or download of it.

Looks like USA is showing Serenity today, for anyone out there that’s interested. It started at 1:30 PM CST.

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The best thing I’ve seen on April Fool’s Day so far? Fox Cancels Joss Whedon. That is the best one I've stumbled across, as of this moment.

And now, a couple of items that aren't an April Fool's Joke. First? The Anita Blake books are being adapted into a tv movie. Possibly a series of tv movies, going by what I heard elsewhere. That can’t end well...

Bryan Fuller agreed that Heroes needed to be fixed, and almost wasn’t sure if it was even possible.

Which (since Fuller made the show) reminds me--I need to try to give Pushing Daisies another shot, by downloading an episode or two.

( This first link is cut for a major Heroes casting spoiler that should thrill people. )

Alan Tudyk joins the cast of V.

Looks like Donna making a pie is currently in first place in the prompt poll, with Martha as an Immortal in a close second--and Jack in a monastery in a close third. People have until the weekend to vote if they haven’t already.

There might be a Riverworld series in the works for The Sci-Fi Channel (once they change their name). Didn’t they already do a tv movie a few years back, starring the late Kevin Smith? (The one from Hercules and Xena, not the comic writer) And, randomly, the person doing the Io9 article posted a screencap of Whoopi Goldberg as The Cheshire Cat. Which, judging by the comments, triggered memories of this version of Alice in Wonderland.

26 Great TV Shows That Got A Quick Hook. A lot of these I have either never heard of before, or have heard of, but never seen. A good example of the latter would be My So-Called Life and Wonderfalls. Good news is that Firefly gets a mention.

Heroes will get a fourth season. However, the season will be slightly shorter, with 18-20 episodes, rather than the usual number of around 23. NBC also wants them to have a set ending.

And for those interested in Dancing With The Stars, it seems that the infamous Heather Mills Curse has struck again. First, for those that hadn’t heard, Jewel was forced to withdraw from the show due to fractured tibas in both legs. Her replacement was (to my everlasting horror) announced to be Holly Madison. And now, I’ve heard that Nancy O’Dell is withdrawing due to tearing something in her knee. I don’t know who will be replacing her yet.

Someone really needs to do an exorcism of that studio, or something.

ETA: Okay, this is getting insane. Now another contestant on Dancing With The Stars has been struck down. This time, it's Gilles Marini, due to being diagnosed with tendonitis in his left shoulder and groin area. He thinks he might be able to dance despite the pain, but it doesn't sound good. I wonder if there will be any survivors by the time the show actually premieres?

Top 10 Reasons To Make Batman 3

Chuck and Heroes will be going on hiatus for the entirety of January, so that a new reality show can be aired. I don’t watch either (never watched Chuck, and dropped Heroes this season) show, but I know that some on my friends list do.

Cartoon Network managed to RickRoll the Macey’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, apparently. I don’t watch parades, so I didn’t see it then. However, you can watch it on Youtube here.

And now, a meme, taken from kindkit.

1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

In other news, I’ll be getting started on my fanfic for the doctor_donna ficathon very soon. Any volunteers for beta reading when I do finish it? Preferably, nobody that also signed up for that ficathon.

I'm watching an episode of Charmed (yeah, anything to get away from the election) and I just spotted Zachary Quinto. His first scene, he gets attacked by a herd of cats. He then stalks one in an attempt to kill it for the rest of the episode.

...And he acts exactly like Sylar, too. Except for the fact he doesn't do anything to anybody's brains, of course. The character doesn't seem to have a name, according to IMDB. He's just a random warlock.

23 Unusual Vampire Variations

From Entertainment Weekly: Heroes: Five Ways To Fix It

And lastly, on a non-fannish note, there’s the tragedy of Jennifer Hudson’s family. On Friday, Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother were murdered, and apparently the 7 year old nephew witnessed it all and was abducted soon after. On The View this morning, they said that a van had been found, and a body matching the boy’s description was found inside. My thoughts go out to her and her family.

I just thought I would mention for those that are interested, that the Doctor Who History Fic-fest is currently taking prompts. The post in question can be found here.

trollprincess linked to this earlier: Seven Things Heroes Needs To Do To Stop Being So Bad. It’s a good list, and basically lists all the reasons why I stopped watching with this season.

And, last but not least, I was accepted as Meggan over at x_journal. I’m about to start working on adding a few more things I’ve thought of to the Wiki over there. At the moment, I’ve just posted the reintroduction log, where Meggan meets up with Amanda at the airport, and they head back to the school.

Edit: Okay, I've changed Meggan's picture to Carey Mulligan over on the Wiki. Does it look okay to everyone? Or does this picture look better?

Bruce Boxleitner will apparently be joining the cast of Heroes.

And just out of curiosity, I’ve made a poll for who works best for a Catseye PB. I’ve linked to images where I’ve changed each person’s hair and eye color to purple. If you think more than one works best, then vote for more than one.

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